Obama classmate blows lid off of scandalous secrets

Critics of the so-called "birthers" who believe that President Obama was not born in Hawaii and thus is not a U.S. citizens often point to the most outlandish of the allegations against the president by persons of questionable repute. But suppose a person whose credibility is beyond reproach makes charges that are difficult if not impossible to refute?

And suppose at least some of that person's allegations are supported by dozens of others not only whose credibility is fully reliable but who can provide a significant body of evidence to support those allegations?

Two significant bodies of evidence have emerged within the last 24 hours that appear to corroborate, at least on the surface, some of the charges made by Obama opponents who question his qualifications for the presidential office.

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The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Monday, August 6, 2012

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

David Codrea says that a gun control program from 2009 went unreported in the media. But a news agency has released the info today.

WRSA has an interesting read on "rendering the state null and void."

Karl Denninger comments on the explosive news issued today that chemotherapy can actually CAUSE cancer to spread in some people...something the medical authorities told you all about, I'm sure.

Way Up North provides the quote of the day from Founding Father James Madison.

Nicki unleashes some characteristic vitriol, this time aimed at a Chick-fil-A protester.

Standing By posts some must-read commentary titled, "The Long War."

John Jacob H has a reminder from an August past, a day that will live in infamy. Take a look.

Brigid, in case you haven't read it, has a goody titled, "Unto the Breach."

Days of our Trailers points to some more examples of blood dancing--the activity in which the Left engages whenever there is a shooting.

Alphecca says that a lot more education is needed on the various gun laws around the country.

Gibson Guitars hit with $300,000 fine by Justice

In order to settle an ongoing dispute with the Obama administration over the materials used to make its world famous musical instruments, Gibson Guitars has agreed to settle with the Justice Department by paying a fine of $300,000.

As part of the terms of the settlement, Gibson will also pay $50,000 to a federal conservation fund and agree to withdraw its claims to multiple thousands of dollars' worth of fingerboards the Obama administration seized from the company.

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Army colonel ignites firestorm with article on crushing a 'tea party insurgency'

A retired U.S. Army colonel who now teaches modern warfare to soldiers at the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas has co-written an article with a Civil War expert that has ignited a firestorm today among those increasingly concerned about what some say is a distinct anti-civilian tone that has infected much of the military and Homeland Security since 2009.

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Congressmen invite Chick-fil-A to open restaurants in their districts

In a move designed to counter the suggestion by the mayors of Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco that the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain be disallowed from locating in their cities, a group of congressmen drafted a letter to the chain Friday, inviting Chick-fil-A to open restaurants in their districts.

The mayors in question suggested that Chick-fil-A is not welcome in their cities due to statements made by the company's president Dan Cathy that he supports the "Biblical view of marriage" between and man and a woman.

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Agents say 'DOJ is hanging ATF out to dry' in Fast and Furious

Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) who post anonymously on their special complaint forum at CleanUpATF.org are claiming today that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is hanging the ATF out to dry in the Fast and Furious scandal.

At issue is the special congressional report released Monday by U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., that names five top ATF officials as perpetrators in the scandal but fails to mention top level DOJ officials who likely ordered the entire scheme.

In fairness to Grassley and Issa, however, only part one of the final report has been released. Two more sections are to be released shortly. The other two sections are expected to include officials in the DOJ due to the deep level of involvement of Attorney General Eric Holder in the scandal.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Thursday, August 2, 2012

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

David Codrea exposes the agenda of the mainstream media in the manner in which they are covering the final congressional Fast and Furious report.

Kurt Hofmann reports that the Governor of Illinois has violated both the U.S. and the Illinois Constitutions.

Mike Vanderboegh points to a report on election stealing.

Standing By declares that Obama agrees with the Chinese Communists on gun control.

WRSA presents the latest from Ann Barnhardt on "cowardice."

The Smallest Minority has the must-read quote of the day.

Tam points to an example of what happens when criminals and crazies get their guns taken away by outlawing firearms. Well, hold your breath, they, err, like, uh, find another way to perpetrate mayhem.

Days of our Trailers contrasts surviving an assault in Texas vs. Illinois.

Pamela Geller follows up on her previous report on the silence of conservative bloggers on the Jihad. Here she provides a roll call of those of us who DO report about it. My name is on that list, I am glad to say.

Denise Simon at Stand Up America reviews a new movie that exposes the United Nations for the utter sham and danger that it is. Must reading.

'White House fingerprints all over' final Fast and Furious report

On Monday of this week the final congressional report on the Fast and Furious scandal was released to the public. The report is in three parts, two of which have not yet been released. Part One alone contains 211 pages of information.

Now that reporters have had the chance to sift through the information contained in the report, a central fact has come into clear focus today. To quote one of the original reporters who first broke the Fast and Furious story in December of 2010, Mike Vanderboegh, "...the fingerprints of the White House are certainly all over Part One of the report..."

The key piece of information leading to Vanderboegh's observation is the fact that in the congressional report it is clear that Kevin O'Reilly is a key figure in the entire fiasco that has implicated many of the top officials in the Obama administration in at least three Cabinet level agencies.

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Tea party says Texas Senate race a bellwether for nation

U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz, R-Texas, defeated opponent Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in a landslide in a Republican runoff election Tuesday. The tea party, which backs Cruz, stated that the race is a bellwether for the nation, indicating that the tea party is alive and well in the run up to the November general election.

Tea Party Express Chair Amy Kremer stated that a narrative has been written in the mainstream media that maintains the tea party is dead. "But the tea party is alive and ready to own 2012," she said.

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The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Tuesday, July 31, 2012

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

The New York Liberty Report warns that although the original small arms treaty at the U.N. failed, get set. Round 2 is about to begin on attempting to get the thing passed.

Alphecca posts a must-read on the latest news concerning an ammo control bill that Lautenberg and McCarthy are pushing through Congress.

Roberta X has a few choice words about the attempt at ammo control.

Mike McCarville reports that a federal court has found that Holder's Department of Justice is riddled with political interference in the due process of law.

GunRights4US notes a stunning admission from the New York Times concerning the Obama and Romney campaigns.

Stand Up America provides an update to the Syrian story posted yesterday and highlights the Russian connection.

Nicki reports on an ongoing controversy involving the Second Amendment going on over at Facebook.

The Stiletto calls our attention to a report delineating the various ways Fox viewers and MSNBC viewers differ in the manner in which they see the world.

From Kurt Hofmann: "Gun Rights--Of Rights, Needs, and Sporting Purposes."

Oleg Volk presents his latest gun rights masterpiece. Take a look.

Issa ignores original reporters in release of final Fast and Furious report

Congressional Republicans on Monday released their official report on the Fast and Furious scandal which concluded that five top ATF officials and their supervisors in the Department of Justice, including the attorney general himself, are culpable in the scheme which placed 2,500 guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

The full Congressional report can be accessed here.

The choices made by the Congressional leadership of the specific news outlets that would break the story of the report, however, exclude the original reporters who first discovered, investigated, and then broke the story in December of 2010. These reporters also relentlessly badgered Congress into investigating the scandal when there was little desire to do so.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Musings After Midnight--With All of THIS Going On, It's Enough to Make a Normal Person Become a Conspiracy Theorist

Good evening, my friends, and here we are again for another evening of Musings After Midnight. Welcome.

This evening I thought I would present some thoughts for your consideration that may well bother you, and, to be frank, that bother me. Nonetheless, there is a certain price to be paid for being fully awake and aware, cognizant of the dangers we face in this age, and in full possession of the facts.

An old professor of mine used to say, "The price of a real education, and the realism it entails, is a certain measure of existential angst."

And another person I knew, a psychiatrist with whom I worked closely in mental health chaplaincy, once told me, "In a certain sense, the depressed person is the one who is fully aware and fully realistic. They have looked into the abyss of modern existence and come to the honest conclusion that things don't look very good."

While I do not consider myself to be totally cynical or perpetually hopeless, there are those times when I admit that the present situation in the country, and in the world, does not look good and lends itself to a certain degree of healthy skepticism, which can lead me at times to suffer for a few days in my "existential angst."

But, being a Christian I cannot allow myself to stay there for long. I do believe that things can change even when they appear insurmountably hopeless. So, there is hope. I am the first to admit, however, that such hope is at times very difficult to come by except for that hope that comes from the promises of God, many of which are not fulfilled in this life but the next.

Be that as it may, my assessment at present is that the situation in America and the world is dire. That is just the plain truth, and I would be derelict in my duty if I did not tell you this truth, and I would be lying to myself if I did not admit it.

Several events over the past few weeks have been for me such a disappointment, and frankly, such an unexpected twist, that I have considered things that before now I would not allow myself to entertain in my mind. I have never considered myself to be a conspiracy theorist nor adhered to what I consider to be the more outlandish of these theories, which to me push the envelope of sanity.

And while I still find some of these conspiracy theories to be beyond the pale, I have been forced of late to take a new look at the subject of political conspiracy from the standpoint of the current climate in the U.S. today and some of the behaviors and statements of people that I thought knew better but for some reason have thrown their weight behind the ideology of the present leadership structure in Washington as represented by the current occupant of the White House and the Democratic leadership in the U.S. Senate.

First, in spite of the overwhelming opposition of the American people, a laughably bumbling defense before the Supreme Court by Administration attorneys, and the near unanimous consensus among conservatives and Constitutional originalists that ObamaCare is not only unconstitutional but a horrid joke, the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who claims to be an originalist, ruled in favor of the law against all odds and in the face of simple logic and rationality. Not only did he damage the reputation of the Court but he probably permanently damaged his own reputation as a jurist by making such a flimsy argument in favor of the healthcare law.

Roberts stated that it is not up to him to correct the political choices of the electorate. While there is some modicum of truth to that statement, it IS his responsibility to decide if the laws passed by the "political choices of the electorate" pass the constitutional muster.

But I have already written extensively about the Roberts ruling and its indefensible disregard for the Constitution, mainly in that although the Chief Justice says the Commerce Clause cannot be used to force citizens to make purchases, that is precisely what he decided that Congress has the power to do. It does not matter that Roberts reached into thin air to call it a tax. The fact is, Commerce Clause or not, Congress now has the power to force Americans to make purchases against their will, and if they don't they can be punished by the IRS.

This is the type of doublespeak we have come to expect from the Obama Administration. Keep this in mind as we go forward.

Second, although the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly with bipartisan support to repeal ObamaCare, the House leadership stated last week that it intends to fully fund the healthcare initiative. This they have done without input from the members, the rank and file Republicans who form the majority.

Here again, doublespeak and a vast disconnect. One day the House leadership supports the repeal of ObamaCare. The next day the House leadership says it will fully fund ObamaCare although they just voted to repeal it.

What the hell gives here?

And to be specific, here I am talking about the House leadership only and not most Republicans in the House. This means specifically Speaker Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy.

If the vote in the House was to repeal ObamaCare, then wouldn't it naturally follow that the ones who voted in favor of the repeal would also vote against funding the very law they abhor?

Odd. Very odd.

Third, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wades into the gun control controversy by suggesting in an interview on Fox with Chris Wallace that the Court may well issue restrictions on the gun rights of citizens. Only days before, Barack Obama stated that he wants to ban so-called "assault weapons" by quipping that "AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers and not criminals," no matter that soldiers do not use AK-47s and the overwhelming majority of citizens who own them are not criminals. If criminals have them, they got them illegally off the street since it is illegal for criminals to have them.

So why would a conservative Supreme Court justice offer commentary on the issue in the aftermath of the Colorado shooting only days after Obama calls for more gun control and a gun ban?

I know that Scalia has suggested in the past that he believes there are "reasonable restrictions' on the Second Amendment--a statement with which I strongly disagree. But the fact is he WAS one of the YES votes over the past few years when the Supreme Court affirmed the individual right to own guns, including handguns, and when the Court struck down gun control laws in D.C.

I simply find it odd that he would insert himself into this issue at the present time. Why now? What does he know that's coming down the pike which suggests that Americans should brace themselves for more gun control, in spite of the fact that literally hundreds of laws already on the books restrict the scope of the Second Amendment?

In my view there has been a most disturbing trend over the past four years among the opposition to the current Administration to roll over and play dead in the face of the most overt, barefaced onslaught against our liberties in the history of this Republic. The Republican leadership in the House has been wimpy at best. The Supreme Court has seemingly bent over backwards, almost breaking their weak spines, in order to avoid doing anything at all to raise the ire of the bully in the Oval Office.

WHY?

It is almost as if somebody, somewhere, is holding something over their heads. But what? And who?

Is our government being held hostage by someone or a group of someones?

I can tell you that those that I would think would have been much more ferocious in their condemnation of this regime have acted strangely. It's out of character. It's almost incredible to me.

Why else would Speaker John Boehner call out a member of his own Party, Michelle Bachmann, for simply stating the TRUTH about a freakin' Democrat, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has known ties to organizations that have been implicated in terrorism? A chorus of Republican voices quickly came to Bachmann's defense in the wake of such a despicable tongue lashing on Boehner's part. For this I was most gratified.

But the more important issue is why would Boehner do such a thing to begin with? What the hell is he afraid of? It is as if someone, somewhere behind the scenes has the major power brokers in this government by the gonads, daring them to make one move that could put radical Islam, or George Soros, or SEIU, or any of the progressive sacred cows in a negative light.

And all of this has occurred against the backdrop of a treaty at the U.N. that would directly threaten the Second Amendment rights of average citizens. Although that treaty appears to be doomed to failure, Senate Democrats moved quickly to insert a gun control amendment into a cybersecurity bill--an amendment that would place restrictions on citizens, ban certain weapons, and limit ammunition purchases.

In the midst of all of this, Scalia opens his mouth and strikes fear in the minds of ALL conservatives who value their freedoms when it comes to firearms rights.

These factors have led me to stop dead in my tracks and ask myself, "What the hell is going on? What are these people doing? What in God's name is happening to this country right before our very eyes, by the day? And why are some of those on our side rolling over and playing dead, essentially allowing the dismantling of the Republic?"

Now, spare me the nutcase conspiracies, please. Israel and its bankers are not behind it. I consider those who hold that view to be freaks, nutcases, lunatics. I feel the same way about the so-called 9/11 truthers who believe that the 9/11 attacks were "an inside job." Take your loony 'toons crap elsewhere. If you try to post that stuff here, I will delete it immediately.

But just because I summarily reject most of the more outlandish conspiracy theories does not mean I am not capable of recognizing a conspiracy when there IS one! And in this case, the circumstances at the very least suggest that something is terribly amiss.

My friends, I know that people in both political parties are culpable in this period of distress. I have regularly taken to task the RINOS as much as I have the Democrats. And I have castigated George W. Bush for his excesses as well.

But let me be absolutely clear about this so that no one misunderstands me. Bush is the Angel Gabriel when compared to Barack Obama. And as much as I detest a lot of what Boehner has done as Speaker of the House, he is the prophet Elijah when compared to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

In order to change the situation we have to send packing the worst offenders first. Thus, our first order of business is to get rid of Barack Obama in November and make sure the Democrats no longer control the Senate or the House.

Now, no matter what that means for you in terms of who you vote for, there is one thing on which we can ALL agree--we need to send Obama packing and we need to rid Congress of his enablers, most of whom are Democrats.

This cannot go on as it stands now.

If in getting rid of Obama, Reid, and company we also get rid of a few RINOS as well, replacing them with solid conservatives, then great. But beware. Do not assume that just because we may defeat Scott Brown in Massachusetts we will get someone better. In fact, if you have been following that Senate race up there then you know the alternative is much worse, a bona fide nutcase.

If you want to vote for Libertarian candidates, then have at it, but I will also remind you that I have seen some Libertarians that I would no more support than I would Jerry Brown, another bona fide nutcase.

The issue is not the Party. The issue is the candidate and the broader issue of getting rid of the current leadership structure that is dominated by Democrats.

This has to be the starting point.

And don't ever forget, my friends, that if Obama wins again, hold onto your gonads because if you think the current Supreme Court is bad, just wait till Obama appoints two or three more justices. We may as well pack it up and haul it in as soon as he is elected in November. It will be time to bury the United States of America which we will have killed with our deplorable political choices.

The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Monday, July 30, 2012

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

David Codrea has an important update on the gun smuggling case in New Mexico where a family has been falsely accused and imprisoned by the Feds.

Mike Vanderboegh points to a great read by a Patriot who says, "I carry a gun, get over it."

Way Up North provides the quote of the day on the nature American liberty.

Brigid posts excellent reading on the care and cleaning of your firearm.

From WRSA: "Your Future: Unidentified Oppressors in Uniform."

Tam has an interesting post on the phenomenon called "fanbois." Take a look.

Days of our Trailers reports on his firing range outing yesterday.

CLO provides a great read on the hidden agenda of the Obama regime regarding gun control. It's not hidden anymore, though.

Every Blade of Grass says he's interested in getting involved with reloading--something I am hearing a lot about as it appears the Leviathans are intent on limiting ammunition.

Pamela Geller notes that the major conservative commentators have stopped writing about the Jihad and the intent on the part of extremist Muslims to implement Sharia Law. I urge you to read this with an open mind and carefully consider her argument. Something is not right here.

Covert Iranian plan to seize Iraq exposed

A team of investigators headed by retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, a former senior Fox News military analyst, has exposed a covert plan being initiated by Iran to seize the Baghdad government, placing Iraq under Iranian control.

A news release was sent to this reporter Sunday concerning the developments, and the full report is provided at Vallely's website, Stand Up America.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Scalia's gun remarks outrage conservatives

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia outraged conservatives with his remarks on gun control and the Second Amendment this morning in a Fox News interview with Chris Wallace.

Scalia stated that the court may issue gun control rulings in the future due to "precedent' indicating that within the context of the 18th century the Framers of the Constitution allowed for local restrictions on guns and bans on certain types of weapons.

Conservatives immediately cried foul.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly becomes gun control advocate

Gun rights activists have noted that for the past three nights in a row Fox News' Bill O'Reilly has advocated gun control, calling for a national database of gun owners who buy what he calls "heavy weapons," including the registration of ammunition sales. Such a database is specifically prohibited by law.

The three night assault on the Second Amendment rights of citizens led one activist to refer to O'Reilly as a "faux conservative" and another to call for a boycott of The O'Reilly Factor and a coordinated effort to contact the sponsors of the show expressing their deep discontent.

With O'Reilly's new anti-gun initiative he joins the ranks of other well known gun control activists such as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, CNN's Piers Morgan, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., all of whom are considered extremists by those who are involved in the movement to protect the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Democrats slip gun control into cybersecurity bill

Senate Democrats slipped in a gun control amendment to a cybersecurity bill Friday, claiming that it is time to impose "reasonable gun control measures," according to The Hill.

The cybersecurity bill has advanced to the stage in the process when amendments can be attached. Amendments to bills often have nothing to do with the issue being addressed in the bill itself.

Senators Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., sponsored bill S.A. 2575 which would make it illegal to possess or transfer large capacity magazines, belts, feed stripes, or drums holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Thursday, July 26, 2012

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

David Codrea notes that Obama's call for new gun bans now places his ulterior motives above the radar.

Mike Vanderboegh points to an editorial writer who has called for the outright repeal of the Second Amendment.

Stand Up America alerts us to evidence that we are getting closer to a much broader war in the Middle East by the moment.

Brigid blogs on gunsmithing and other items of interest.

Tam has a few choice words for Fox's Bill O'Reilly over his tirade concerning "too much ammo." I am about to label him as a "bastard' along with Bloomberg.

Standing By provides a must read on "the fundamental principle of self-defense."

Way Up North presents a thoughtful, heartfelt read that contains a million lessons applicable to a variety of situations. I suggest you read it.

WRSA notes that Barack Obama is now squarely in the same company with Hitler, Stalin, and a gazillion other government monsters who claimed that weapons "belong in the hands of soldiers" alone. He also has a pictorial showing exactly what happens when only soldiers have AK-47s.

Karl Denninger posts another excellent one entitled, "Rahm Emanuel, Dictator."

Every Blade of Grass found a good rebuttal to a CNN hit piece against guns.

DOJ inspector meets with congressmen on Fast and Furious

On Wednesday U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. disclosed to the Washington Times that he and a colleague had met with the inspector general of the Department of Justice (DOJ) last week to discuss a pending report of an investigation into the Fast and Furious scandal.

Gowdy and U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, met with the newly appointed inspector general for the DOJ, Michael Horowitz, last week to discuss when he planned on releasing the report of his internal investigation into scandal that has encompassed at least three cabinet level agencies of the Obama administration.

The inspector general works for the DOJ and cannot be considered independent. However, the report is expected to include information on the failure of the Fast and Furious program and who authorized its implementation.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Investigators expose gun control in UN small arms treaty

A team of investigative reporters for Ammoland have exposed previously unpublished documents showing that the controversial U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), also known as the "small arms treaty," includes gun control for private "small arms and light weapons" as U.S. gun owners feared.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been negotiating the treaty at the United Nations on behalf of the Obama administration.

Clinton had assured the public that the treaty would include language prohibiting the treaty from mandating restrictions on U.S. gun sales. But the documents uncovered by Ammoland indicate otherwise.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

The 2A News Roundup: Top Ten for Tuesday, July 24, 2012

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

Mike Vanderboegh reports that he and David Codrea will be back on Lou Dobbs on Fox Business Network tonight to discuss Fast and Furious.

GunRights4US comments on Obama's notion that government should take the credit for just about everything.

The Wandering Minstrel has re-named ABC news based upon their recent debacles concerning the Colorado shooting.

The Smallest Minority has an analysis of the notion that gun control makes us safer.

The New York Liberty Report highlights the fact that the U.S. has billions of barrels of oil representing millions of jobs, but Obama and the Democrats won't allow drilling for it.

Stand Up America reports a rather disturbing story of the creation and expansion of a Marine Corp Police Force...yes, you read that right, a law enforcement arm that can be used right here at home on our own soil.

Days of our Trailers notes the abject failure of gun control.

Mike McCarville says that a legislator has been honored by a 2nd Amendment rights group for his work in protecting gun rights and spearheading the successful passage of an open carry bill.

Pamela Geller reports that the Obama Administration has suppressed a report on Afghanistan that the public needs to see.

Roberta X opines on the mantra that many anti-gun bigots use that some people have "too much ammunition." Well, how much is too much? Who is to decide? Why is it anyone's business but the ones who buy it???

Gun sales spike 41 percent after Colorado shooting

The Denver Post is reporting today that gun sales in Colorado have spiked 41 percent since the shooting at the Century 16 theater in Aurora last Friday. And the Colorado Bureau of Investigation reports that its approval of background checks for new firearms purchasers jumped 43 percent within the last four days.

In spite of claims by high profile news media personalities such as Piers Morgan and politicians such as U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., that the nation's "lax gun laws" cause such massacres, American citizens do not seem to be buying it.

Instead, Americans appear to believe that owning and carrying a gun is the best protection a citizen can be afforded in this era in which criminals find a way to get grenades, explosives, and other weaponry in spite of strict gun control laws like those in Aurora, Colo.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Monday, July 23, 2012

All guns and politics, from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

David Codrea questions the claims of Philippines police that Colorado-style mass shootings are rare in that country due to strict gun control laws.

WRSA entirely discredits the notion that "only the police and military need guns."

Gun Owners of America offers sane solutions to the shootings such as the one in Aurora, Colo. which fly in the face of the "let's ban guns" mantra of the anti-gun bigots.

Way Up North posts the quote of the day from Noah Webster. Do yourself a favor and read it.

Tam calls attention to Roger Ebert's insanity in purporting to address an issue about which he has little or no insight.

Standing By says that the federal government now thinks it owns us. Yep. We are now officially slaves. Now, just wait till they start treating us like it, up close and personal.

Nicki illustrates the mantra of "never let a crisis go to waste" as applied to the Colorado shooting.

Brigid writes masterful commentary on so-called "gun free zones."

Alphecca cites a study showing that the most common precipitating factor in rampage shootings is the loss of a job.

Stand Up America reports that terrorism and terrorist threats are rising sharply, and it's all connected. The Colorado shooting is part of it.

Gun owners outraged at television station over database

Gun owners are expressing outrage toward a television station in Raleigh, N.C. that linked to a database that allows any reader to access the number of concealed carry permit holders in the station's viewing area.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Democrats double down on demands for gun control

In a renewed onslaught only one day after they called for more gun control in the wake of the Colorado shooting, Democrats in Washington today doubled down on their demands that average American citizens relinquish some or all of their firearms rights in order to prevent criminals from getting guns.

U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., and U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., claimed Saturday that lax gun laws led to the mass shooting that killed 12 movie goers in Aurora, Colorado early Friday morning just after midnight.

Today the two Democrats were joined by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who stated that "weapons of war don't belong on the streets." Feinstein renewed her call to reinstate the so-called "assault weapons ban" that would prohibit citizens from purchasing semi-automatic weapons with high capacity magazines.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Democrats call for strict gun control after Colorado shootings

As expected, Democrats in Congress today are calling for strict gun control measures in the aftermath of the Colorado shootings in which a deranged assailant claiming to be "the Joker" killed 12 people and wounded 58 in a crowded movie theater during a screening of the new "Dark Knight" film.

The alleged shooter, James Holmes, was incorrectly identified by Brian Ross of ABC News as a member of the Tea Party. Ross later issued an apology and a correction.

Gun control proponents in the media immediately jumped into action to use the shootings as a tool for pushing the anti-gun agenda. But as this reporter predicted in an article Friday, if past incidents such as these are any indication, it would not be long until the usual firearms critics in Congress would begin to issue calls for strict gun control measures.

Right on cue, those critics did exactly that today.

Click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Media exploits Colorado shooting to push gun control

No sooner had alleged shooter James Holmes pulled the trigger killing 12 movie goers at the new Batman film in Colorado this morning than the mainstream media had jumped into action blaming gun owners and pushing for new gun control laws.

The incident took place in Aurora, Colorado at a cinema that was introducing the new film at a special midnight showing.

CNN's Piers Morgan tweeted that the shooting illustrates that "America has got to do something about it's gun laws" and that it should be 100,000 times harder to buy a gun.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has a reputation of being a gun control fanatic, asked, "What are Obama and Romney going to do about guns?"

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The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Thursday, July 19, 2012

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

David Codrea reports that the ATF is in damage control mode in the aftermath of new info on retaliation against whistleblowers.

Mike Vanderboegh has a must-read on what the elitists now think of the rest of America. And the thing is, these supposed "intellectuals" are so ignorant of the thinking of the Founders, the Bible, and other pillars of western civilization that they are impossible to reason with.

Standing By says that John Sununu does not need to apologize for suggesting that Obama needs to "learn to be an American." Agreed. Obama DOES need to learn that!

WRSA reminds us of someone I have not thought about in a long time but who was a major thinker of the 20th century and a Russian dissident who blew the lid on the ugly truth about Soviet Communism--Alexandor Solzhenitsyn. Follow the links to immerse yourself into some great truths and their application to America today.

Market Guru Karl Denninger has all of the ugly truth on the economy, if you are interested in the real truth and not the spin of the MSM and Barack Obama.

Tam provides another report from the firing range during her trip to Portland, Oregon.

Nicki declares that "Schumer is a d**khead." It seems Little Chucky has yet again pulled some gory horror by stating on the Senate floor that there needs to be more restrictions on free speech! How much longer are we going to put up with these outright Commie-Fascists (yes, they are basically the same thing with minor differences) who have infiltrated this government!!??

CLO further blows the whistle on the anti-free speech crowd in Congress that wants to shove the Disclose Act down our throats. I am seriously thinking it is time to change the law to allow law enforcement to march down the middle of the aisle of the House and Senate and place the Commie-Nazis in cuffs, and haul them straight to jail pending trial for treason.

Alphecca notes a controversy in Rochester, NY concerning an ad on a bus for a gun store that has at least one resident in an uproar.

Pamela Geller reports the enraging news that the Bulgarian Jihadist who murdered all of those Israeli kids on that bus had once been in Gitmo.

Republicans say new ATF video threatens whistleblowers

The ATF has issued a new video designed to warn agency whistleblowers not to go "outside the chain of command" to report alleged illegal activity by the agency. The warning contains a strongly worded caution that there will be "consequences" for those who fail to obey the new directive.

According to Fox News today, ATF Acting Director B. Todd Jones issued a stern warning to whistleblower agents about going straight to Congress with their charges. The film, and the warning from the director, are said to be having a chilling effect on the willingness of ATF agents to come forward with their knowledge of illegal activity.

Republicans in Congress immediately jumped into action, charging that the Jones warning is a "threat." Federal law prohibits agencies of the government from threatening retaliation against employees who blow the whistle on illegal or unethical activity.

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Justice Department withheld key Fast and Furious memo

A report on Tuesday in the Washington Guardian indicates that the Justice Department (DOJ) withheld key Fast and Furious memos from Congress concerning ATF whistleblowers who alerted reporters of deep corruption revolving around the scheme to place U.S. guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

The memos date back to February of 2011 when DOJ officials notified ATF supervisors, warning them not to retaliate against agents who blow the whistle on illegal activity.

But as the memos were being circulated the DOJ was informing Congress that no illegal activity had occurred and that no "gunwalking" had taken place in the Fast and Furious operation...

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The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Tuesday, July 17, 2012

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

Stand Up America says that the Obamanoids are using Bain Capital to deflect attention away from their own felonies, which are numerous.

The New York Liberty Report provides more info on the Democrats' threat to drive the U.S. off of the financial cliff unless Republicans agree to a major tax increase.

Roberta X has a suggestion for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Read it and see what you think.

Every Blade of Grass posts "20 reasons why it's good to be Barack Obama." Good comic relief.

The Wandering Minstrel has guns in a 3D photo cube. Neat!

The War on Guns notes that there is growing publicity being given to the ethics complaint against Eric Holder at the D.C. Bar.

The Stiletto asks, "Does being rich make you a jerk?"

Squeaks says she's starting a new channel on YouTube for her video logs.

Bloviating Zeppelin announces he's ending his blog after 8 years. But there is good news within the announcement. Take a look.

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership has an important read on Hillary's "small arms treaty" at the U.N. A must read.

Law of the Sea Treaty is dead for this year

U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., announced Monday evening on Twitter that the controversial Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) being pushed by the United Nations, President Obama, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is officially dead for this year.

DeMint stated that two more senators had declared against the treaty, bringing the total number of those opposed to 34. LOST needed 67 votes to be approved by the Senate.

Read all of the details by clicking here to go to Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Monday, July 16, 2012

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

David Codrea reports that a cold wind has blown through the ranks of whistleblower ATF agents as they report heightened fears of retaliation, preventing some from coming forward. This is a felony. Thus, the DOJ is a lawless agency.

Kurt Hofmann says that anti-gun bigots who are rampant in California are up to more shenanigans, this time mounting an effort to sue the California Attorney General.

Mike Vanderboegh asks, "Do Obama's Executive Orders Reveal a Pattern?"

Way Up North points to a hard lesson in "She Wished She Had a Gun."

Tam provides a firing range report from Portland, Oregon.

WRSA posts a sermon to the governor and legislature of Idaho, and asks that we listen with an open mind.

Alphecca says that Wisconsin police chiefs are hoping someone will introduce federal legislation to require background checks on all gun sales.

Days of our Trailers has a news story showing that idiotic people often call for idiotic laws. Maybe there is a lesson somewhere in that.

Pamela Geller confronts the Huffington Post for refusing to allow her to respond to yet another hit piece the leftwing rag has published against her.

Mike McCarville is running a piece written by Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole on why the U.N. Small Arms Treaty is such a grave danger.

Obama tells CBS News he expected more Republican cooperation

During a comprehensive interview that CBS News has gradually broadcast over several days, President Obama stated that he expected more cooperation from Republicans than he got when he took office.

The segment of the interview in which Obama lamented the supposed lack of GOP cooperation was aired today on CBS This Morning.

"My expectation was that we would see more cooperation," Obama stated.

However, as this reporter noted in a fact check article Sunday, the president did not exactly come to Washington in a bipartisan mood, ready to meet Republicans halfway...

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Obama says Washington 'feels as broken as it did 4 years ago'

In an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning today, President Obama stated that Washington "feels just as broken as it did four years ago" when he first assumed the presidency.

Admitting that he feels "frustrated" by his inability to change the atmosphere in the nation's capital, Obama stated that there is "enough blame to go around for that."

Digging deeper into the dynamics of Washington politics over the last six years, it is difficult to find factual justification for Obama's contention that there is shared blame for the gridlock and hyper partisanship.

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More Republicans go on the record to oppose UN treaty

As the Obama administration continues to engage in negotiations on two controversial U.N. treaties, more Republicans have now gone on the record to oppose the measures that critics say will encroach upon U.S. sovereignty.

On Friday U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., added his name to the growing list of Republican senators who oppose the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).

To read the names of other senators who have joined Johanns, plus a statement by a key Democratic senator, click here to continue reading at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Friday, July 13, 2012

I had to miss yesterday's Roundup due to a family emergency. So, I decided I would present the Roundup on Friday, which I never do. But a lot has been happening of late, and I wanted you to be up to snuff.

So, here is the roundup of guns and politics news from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

David Codrea reports that the DOJ has downplayed the ethics complaint against Eric Holder, referring to it as "specious" and "frivolous."

Mike Vanderboegh says that those who oppose government monopoly of violence are now referred to as "nullifiers." Actually it is THEY who wish to "nullify" us!

Stand Up America provides late breaking news on the testimony before Congress of Col. Allard on government leaks and media bias.

WRSA has a very important read titled, "Pay It Forward," which highlights one citizen's intention to help others in the coming collapse.

Way Up North posts commentary of interest to patriots who like to keep up with the news.

Standing By issues "a little truth about 'fair share' and taxes." Read it!

Brigid has the quote of the day.

Nicki posts a brief example that can easily be used to describe those with the excessive fear of guns.

Roberta X says she is sick today. Here's good thoughts and wishes for a quick recovery!

Alphecca provides some gun rights stuff you may be interested in seeing!

Lou Dobbs interviews Vanderboegh and Codrea on Fast and Furious

Veteran news anchor Lou Dobbs featured an interview Thursday evening with Mike Vanderboegh and David Codrea concerning the Fast and Furious scandal that has engulfed the Obama administration.

The interview aired on Dobbs' regular program which is featured on the Fox Business Network.

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Vanderboegh warns of civil war if UN small arms treaty enforced

The continually developing story of the two U.N. treaties that President Obama intends to sign continues to provoke controversy around the country today. The two treaties, the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) and the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) or "small arms treaty," have created a firestorm of protest among citizens who see both as a threat to American freedom and U.S. sovereignty.

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Obama administration faces increasing ire over UN treaties

Two controversial treaties originating at the United Nations have created a firestorm of controversy this week resulting in demands that senators go on the record declaring how they will vote.

Citizens have expressed their ire, and outright rage, at the Obama Administration for even considering such treaties. Yet at the urging of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Obama has confirmed that he will sign both treaties.

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The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Tuesday, July 10, 2012

All guns and politics from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

Brigid provides commentary on some items in the news of late involving guns and violence in streets.

David Codrea states that unsealing the indictments against the Brian Terry murder suspects could endanger their lives. And remember, we are dealing with the Obama-Holder DOJ. Are these indictments designed as red herrings to draw attention away from the real perpetrators? Don't put it past them!

Alphecca has news about an important court ruling involving stolen guns that were used in crimes. Are the gun owners liable? The court said no! Take a look.

Mike McCarville reports that Romney's main hope of winning the White House is the fact that voters now see the many failures of Barack Obama.

Pamela Geller notes that yet again Obama has snubbed Israel, refusing to include the nation in an international counterterrorism forum.

CLO has more info on the UN small arms treaty, as provided by Gun Owners of America.

The New York Liberty Report quotes a CBS reporter who declared, "The Supreme Court's conservatives are mad as hell at Chief Justice Roberts."

GunRights4US writes an interesting story about some events occurring at a local cemetery regarding the hiding of guns and ammo.

Nicki provides the 'spit take of the day.'

The Wandering Minstrel shows us some neat new holsters.

Senators clarify stance on UN treaty

In the 24 hours since this reporter's first news story was published Monday on the controversial U.N. treaties, the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) and the so-called "small arms treaty," several U.S. senators have clarified their position on LOST.

The small arms treaty has garnered very little support, but LOST has a chance of being approved.

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McConnell says no to UN treaty

In a breaking development in the progression of the controversial Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) in the U.S. Senate, this reporter was contacted today by John Ashbrook, staff director of the Senate Republican Communications Center of the office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to state that the Senator will vote no on the treaty.

More breaking news on LOST and the small arms treaty can be found at Anthony G. Martin's National Gun Rights Examiner.

The 2A News Roundup--Top Ten for Monday, July 9. 2012

All politics and guns from the best gun rights and liberty bloggers on the Internet.

Stand Up America has the photos and the complete story on the 5 who are charged with killing Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in the Fast and Furious scandal.

Kurt Hofmann reports that the New York Times is hosting a nationwide call to get rid of the right to keep and bear arms! So, it has come down to this.

Mike Vanderboegh sounds the alarm about something called "The Little Blue Book" which serves as a guide to collectivists on how to think and talk. Get familiar with it. We MUST know what the enemy is thinking.

The War on Guns displays the evidence of Vanderboegh and Codrea's latest work in going after Eric Holder.

Way Up North always shares neat photos from his trips. He has some for today.

WRSA says this is the time to focus only on the things that matter. The time is short.

Tam posts an important entry about ammo. Take a look.

Standing By has a must-read on the faux "reporter" who claims no gun walking took place in Fast and Furious. She even wrote a book on these lies and has peddled her fantasies on CNN.

Days of our Trailers asks, "What is an extremist?"

Brigid provides a review of the Dragon Leatherworks holster for your firearm.

20 Republicans set to uphold controversial UN treaty

Upon the advice of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Obama has confirmed his intention to sign two controversial U.N. treaties -- the Law of the Sea and the so called "small arms" treaty.

Although many citizens and elected representatives are sounding the alarm about the small arms treaty, such as this entry Sunday at the Daily Paul, some political observers note that the treaty is unlikely to pass the Senate. But a very different scenario is developing for the Law of the Sea (LOST).

Twenty Republican senators are set to join with Democrats in upholding LOST.

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McConnell says GOP has even odds of taking Senate

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., stated in an interview on CNN Sunday that Republicans have a 50-50 chance of regaining the Senate majority in the November elections, as reported by The Hill.

"I think it is going to be a very close, competitive election," McConnell said.

In spite of the oft-repeated references to the "Republican Congress" by the Obama campaign and even many in mainstream media outlets, Republicans have not held the majority in the U.S. Senate since 2006, when a Democratic Party sweep placed Democrats in firm control of both the House and Senate with supermajorities.

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More retaliation reported against ATF agents

In the days and months after whistleblower agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) went public with their explosive charges of corruption and illegal activity by those within the agency and the Justice Department as a whole, supervisory agents immediately went to work to retaliate against those who exposed the chicanery.

The numerous instances of retaliation, some of which turned potentially deadly, were widely reported.

Today, however, ATF agents report that even more retaliation is being conducted by supervisors within the agency, in spite of the fact that the ATF has been warned repeatedly by U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., that such actions are illegal and are to be stopped immediately.

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Senate set to approve controversial UN gun treaty

As the United Nations prepares its final push to ratify a controversial gun treaty, the U.S. Senate is set to approve the measure which critics say will not only give away U.S. sovereignty but directly attack the individual gun rights of American citizens, according to a report published Thursday at Stand Up America.

Democrats still hold the majority in the Senate.

Known as "the U.N. small arms treaty," the measure would regulate private gun ownership, according to firearms rights watchdog groups.

Retired Lt. Gen. William Boykin, who has been at the forefront of citizen opposition to the treaty, stated...

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Concerned citizens declare 'we are all terrorists now'

In a panoramic scan of conservative talk radio shows on Independence Day, this reporter noticed that while some programming was pre-taped for the holiday, most were presented live, particularly those that originate locally.

One show in particular allows local residents to call in with their questions and viewpoints. Apparently the hot topic of the day was a new study funded in part by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which declared that citizens who are concerned about individual liberty and are suspicious of centralized government authority are "extreme right wing terrorists."

This prompted one caller to declare, "We are all terrorists now."

He wasn't the only one.

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Tuesday memo reveals more trouble for Holder

Late Tuesday afternoon U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed a memo in his possession showing that one day prior to the infamous letter of Feb. 4, 2011, in which the Justice Department falsely informed Congress that no illegal activity had taken place in the Fast and Furious operation, it appears that several top level Justice officials were well aware of the illegal practice known as "gunwalking."

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Happy Independence Day

I wish you all a Happy Independence Day.
Although I celebrate the liberty we claimed on that day in 1776, I admit that ours is a nation in deep distress.
Thus, in my heart I fly the American flag upside down--the classic distress signal.
We are, indeed, under heavy attack from within.
Pray for our great country. God bless.

Reporters file ethics complaint against Holder

The two reporters who first broke the Fast and Furious story in December of 2010, Mike Vanderboegh and David Codrea, announced today that they have filed an ethics complaint against Attorney General Eric Holder with the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

PLUS! More breaking news on the Fast and Furious scandal!

Click here to read it all at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.

Professor traces Obama healthcare views to Communist mentor

A new book which is scheduled for release on July 17 traces Barack Obama's views on government controlled healthcare to a Communist mentor that had significant influence on the president when he was growing up in Hawaii, according to a new article today at American Thinker.

Paul Kengor, a professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pa., has written a book titled, "The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor." The book focuses on Obama's formative years in Hawaii during the 1970s and identifies Davis as one who had significant influence on Obama at a time when his political views were being developed.

Kengor states that he has evidence proving that Obama was mentored by Davis from the time Obama was eight years old until he was 18.

Davis was a card carrying member of the Communist Party, a pro-Stalin, pro-Soviet, and pro-Mao "statist" who described himself as a "progressive."

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CBS News offers an opinion about the Roberts opinion

If the CBS News analysis is correct, the Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare is even worse than I thought because it presumes that while Roberts did, in fact, change his mind to support the liberals in the ruling, he did so fairly early--by June 1--and for more rational reasons.

The piece also says that the four conservative justices who held firm against the law were so angry with Roberts that they refused to engage with him at all in debate. Their dissent is joint and unsigned, and never mentions the Chief Justice by name.

If you accept this explanation, and I do NOT, although I can see where parts of it are probably true, then in reality Roberts' decision bodes much more ill for the country that we had initially thought, for it presupposes that he actually believes along with the Constitution-killers that Congress has the power to tax human existence and non-behavior.

Of course, as usual, CBS is suspect automatically because it has a penchant for bias toward liberal positions along with NBC, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC (with the exception of Sharyl Atkkisson's exceptional work on the Fast and Furious scandal).

For what it is worth, here is the CBS piece.

Musings After Midnight--So What Was Roberts REALLY Up To in the ObamaCare Ruling?

Good evening my dear friends. Some of you are reading this in the afternoon on a hot day during which you are staying indoors, as I am, enjoying the coolness of that God-sent invention, air conditioning.

These are supposed to be musings that I post after midnight on sleepless nights. But in this case, sleep overcame me before I was able to finish and get it posted.

But you can rest assured that the framework and direction for this post was laid well after midnight last night, lest I be accused of "lying" as some of my detractors are always quick to charge.

I would not under any circumstance wish to give them any more fodder for propagating that charge, although if I do, in fact, lie, as we all are prone to do at least on occasion, I am quite certain that my monitors will hop all over it in an attempt to discredit every single word that proceeds from my mouth.

So, I will make a sincere and proactive attempt to refrain from lying, especially now that I have so many out there who carefully parse every single word I write. Heck, I am probably the most honest person on the Internet now. I don't like to be called out for every little thing.

On a more serious note, and I do hope you caught the subtle humor in the discourse above, I have a few things to say in light of the Supreme Court ruling this week on ObamaCare.

I was quoted by both Yahoo News and the Atlantic Wire in resoundingly condemning Chief Justice John Roberts for issuing such a blatantly indefensible and incomprehensible majority opinion. I still condemn him for it, and I stand by what I originally said about him. He has betrayed us and is no more fit for the Court than the other Constitution killers who sit on the bench--Kagan, Sotomayor, Breyer, and Ginsberg.

Now, I am fully aware of the nuggets within the Roberts ruling that can work to our benefit in the future. For one, the ruling robs the Obama campaign of an important rallying cry in the run up to the November election. Obama can no longer talk about those evil conservatives on the court who took away healthcare from granny after the law passed both the House and the Senate (while Democrats held supermajorities in both chambers I might add).

Obama, further, can no longer claim that those stingy, mean Republicans are intent on forcing citizens to suffer because of their greedy inability to show compassion for those who cannot afford insurance.

But wait a minute. The ObamaCare bill forces the poor to buy insurance they cannot afford, or else they get penalized for it by the IRS. Funny as to who turns out to be "mean," isn't it.

Nevermind, though. Facts are not pertinent to any argument made by progressives.

Obama would have, indeed, turned such a claim into a big campaign issue and probably would have gotten significant traction out of it. This he can no longer do because a Bush appointee on the court, a Republican, a self-described conservative who believes in strictly interpreting the Constitution, has allowed his healthcare reform bill to stand.

Further, I am well aware that Roberts has left us a gift within his ruling. By ruling ObamaCare to be a tax he has made it possible for Republicans to more easily repeal the law in Congress. By a simple majority vote Congress can repeal ObamaCare using a rule known as "budget reconciliation." Thus, rather than needing the usual supermajority to repeal ObamaCare, which would mean 60 votes in the Senate, Republicans now only need 51 votes to repeal.

And then of course there is the rather strongly worded statement by Roberts that the commerce clause can NOT be used to justify forcing citizens to purchase healthcare insurance or any other item or entity. This is a very important move, given that Roberts wrote the majority opinion for the court. In the ruling Roberts made it abundantly clear that Congress does not have the authority to force citizens to buy anything, and they certainly cannot use the commerce clause as an excuse to do so.

This one statement alone restores original intent to the interpretation of the commerce clause--something which the nation has not seen since the early 1930s.

In the years to come conservatives will thank Chief Justice Roberts for that gift that is tucked into the ruling.

Some conservatives have suggested that Roberts worded his ruling in the manner in which he did precisely so that liberals would be robbed of an important campaign issue thus making it easier for the Republican candidate to win the White House in November. Some have also suggested that Roberts ruled this way in order to make it easier for Republicans in the Congress to repeal the law. Still others have said he wished to protect the reputation of the court so that he would not be open to the charge of making highly partisan decisions, such as the Bush v. Gore ruling of 2000 under Chief Justice William Renquist.

While there are definitely some benefits to be gleaned from the ruling, as delineated above, none of them make sense from the standpoint of arguing intent on the part of Roberts. In order to accept the premise that the ruling was designed specifically to benefit conservatives, then one must accept the premise that Roberts intentionally went along with a very bad law, using very bad reasoning as justification for doing so, just so that our side can benefit down the road.

Such reasoning is sheer folly, my friends.

As the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Roberts is not only the guardian of the court's reputation, but he is generally viewed as the quintessential jurist, a person of exceptional legal skills who is uniquely qualified for the role. To believe that Roberts would risk his reputation as a jurist just to satisfy some progressive's vision of what the court's reputation should be defies all rationality.

Even Charles Krauthammer, who normally submits well reasoned, detailed explanations for these types of issues, fell into this trap of illogic by stating that as Chief Justice, Roberts felt he was forced to protect the court's reputation from the criticism that a ruling against ObamaCare was purely politically motivated.

Rubbish!

Jurists like Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy, and others like them, are not charged with the task of considering political ramifications when making a ruling. Their only task is to determine the constitutionality of a law placed before them, regardless of the political fallout.

If Roberts made his decision based upon a perception that progressives would hammer the court hard over a ruling against ObamaCare, then he has failed miserably to fulfill his duty as a jurist, especially since he is viewed as an originalist who is primarily concerned with the original intent of the Framers.

Further, a mere cursory scan of the Roberts decision is a lesson in Twilight Zone styled fantasy. The bill as presented before him was never presented as a tax in its written form, in spite of the fact that Obama lawyers argued in their oral presentations that it is, indeed, a tax. But oral arguments aside, the Justices are charged with dealing with the actual law that is presented in writing before them.

This is where Roberts veered off into the Twilight Zone.

As if to reach up and grab it out of thin air, Roberts focused on ObamaCare as a tax and ruled on it as a tax.

Where did such a notion come from? It is not in the bill. The bill is a mandate forcing citizens to buy health insurance. And if they refuse, they will be penalized through the IRS.

The fact that the IRS happens to be the agency charged with the task of assessing penalties does NOT automatically make it a tax. In order to qualify as a tax, ObamaCare would have to withhold a certain amount of money from our paychecks to pay for the program. THAT is a tax. A penalty for failing to obey some government body in buying health insurance is NOT a tax. It simply means you are being punished for failing to bow down to the masters in Congress who have had the audacity to tell you that you must purchase a health insurance policy whether you can afford it or not.

And this is where Roberts goes so far off the rail as to suggest mental instability. His reasoning is deeply flawed. He accepted the bumbling, laughable arguments of Obama lawyers who sounded more like Keystone cops than attorneys, when they argued one day that ObamaCare is a tax and argued the next day it is not a tax.

Any competent jurist who is worth his salt would have rejected such a display outright, and forthrightly at that.

This is why the dissenting Justices were entirely nonplussed over the Roberts drivel. Anthony Kennedy stated that what the court did was illegal. Antonin Scalia stated that there is no way rationally to conclude that a mandate to buy insurance is a tax.

In short, they too questioned Roberts' sanity in this ruling, even charging that the Chief Justice went as far as to engage in illegal activity by approving the law.

THAT does NOT "protect the reputation of the court" as Krauthammer laughingly claimed the day of the ruling. At the very least it damages not only the reputation of the court in accepting a law that is so preposterous that it would be hilarious were it not reality, but damages the reputation of the Chief Justice himself who is now open to having his fitness for the Court called into question.

However, there is another explanation that lurks beneath the surface here that warrants careful consideration, one that could potentially absolve Roberts from his sins but at the same time pose a dire and dangerous scenario for the country.

This President is known for bullying the court. We saw it in his first State of the Union speech, which was so outrageous that Justice Samuel Alito shook his head and said "NO!" under his breath. Millions of Americans saw it on TV as it happened.

When the ObamaCare law finally reached the Supreme Court, Obama continued with the bullying, threatening the court with all sort of highly questionable activity for a president--including the threat of writing an Executive Order to force the law on us even if the court ruled against it.

We have no way of knowing for certain what took place behind the scenes in the days leading up to the ruling.

But what we DO know is that at first, late last week and early this week, it appeared that the court was set to rule against the law. And some legal scholars have noted that in Antonin Scalia's dissent, he writes as if his is the majority opinion and Ginsberg's is the dissenting opinion, suggesting that Roberts only changed his mind and decided to throw in with the liberals at the very last minute.

This is most unusual.

But why did it happen?

It is no secret that Roberts was under intense pressure. This was widely reported in most major news outlets. But what, exactly, was the nature of that pressure?

A jurist with the exceptional skills and flawless reputation of Roberts would not under any circumstance deliberately damage that reputation with such a flimsy majority argument, UNLESS something happened behind the scenes that forced his hand.

We know that Antonin Scalia has received death threats during this session. Was Roberts threatened as well? And by whom?

Consider the background of the Obama team. Rahm Emanuel looms large. Remember he is known for sending the Mafia symbol of a dead fish wrapped in newspaper to a pollster in Chicago who wrote a critical piece about him in the newspapers.

Obama, Rahm, and a host of others in the Administration are widely known to bully critics, reporters, and others unless they fall into lockstep and march to the orders of "the One."

And remember that this very week Obama issued yet another threat to the court about the ObamaCare ruling. It was after that last threat that Roberts was said to change his mind and vote for the law.

This goes back to my last entry in this series, Musings After Midnight, a post I entitled, "A Dire Warning from the Ground," in which I relayed a disturbing warning I received by keeping my ear close to the ground, a warning that had to do directly with a lethal attack against this Republic by evil forces with malevolent intent.

As one good friend of mine who has been in politics all his life told me, "I don't put anything at all past these people. Nothing. Keep that in mind going forward. We are in real and imminent danger."

Thus, it is time for the multi-millions of citizens who engaged in the Tea Party and other rallies to take to the streets yet again between now and election day. This nation is under attack from within. And real Patriots are sorely needed to step up to the plate to defend it.

Issa quietly drops major bombshell into the record

During the Thursday afternoon debate in the U.S. House of Representatives on the resolution to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., quietly dropped a major bombshell into the official record.

The bombshell was a letter containing information about the Fast and Furious scandal, and who knew about it and approved it, as detailed in a series of secret wiretap applications submitted to the Justice Department in March of 2010, fully a year before Holder or anyone else at Justice claimed they knew about the Fast and Furious operation.

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Conservative fallout from ObamaCare ruling mixed

Thursday's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the healthcare reform law known as "ObamaCare" was met with mixed reaction from conservatives. While most conservatives uniformly condemned the ruling, some pointed out some hidden gifts with the decision that could greatly benefit conservatives in the long run.

Yahoo News published an article by The Atlantic Wire that cited a prior story on the Roberts court and a quote by this writer at the blog The Liberty Sphere Thursday:

In July 2010, Conservative Examiner's Anthony Martin posted the headline, "Sources Say Smackdown of Obama by Supreme Court May Be Inevitable." Why? Roberts was mad at Obama -- he was even suspicious that Obama might not have been born in America. "The Roberts Court has signaled, in a very subtle manner, of course, that it intends to address the issues about which Obama critics have been screaming to high heaven," Martin wrote. Today? Martin has no more faith in the chief justice. The Obama administration's defense of Obamacare made no sense, Martin writes, so Roberts' upholding the law "is tantamount to the Court making law out of thin air, something that Roberts as a so-called 'conservative' claimed he rejects. Thus, at best Roberts is insane. At worst he is not a conservative at all but a plant, a closet liberal who is no more worthy of serving on the Court than the other Constitution killers--Kagan, Sotomayor, Ginsberg, and Breyer."

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Holder held in contempt of Congress

As expected, the U.S. House of Representatives has voted today to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress due to his refusal to turn over subpoenaed documents to the House that are pertinent to the investigation into the Fast and Furious scandal.

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Roberts' sanity in question

The ruling today on ObamaCare by SCOTUS has led me to question the sanity of Chief Justice John Roberts, a Bush appointee. Roberts sided with the liberals on the court to uphold a tax that the Obama Administration argued was not a tax.

And this leads me to my point.

Obama lawyers before the Court displayed a hilarious conglomeration of contradictions, misstatements, and hubris that was more consistent with the Keystone Cops than government attorneys.

One day they argued ObamaCare was a tax. The next day they argued it was not a tax. In the end, the bumbling buffoon of a Chief Justice accepted this chicanery, deciding as if to flip a coin that ObamaCare is, in fact, a tax, which Congress never decided nor placed in the bill.

This is tantamount to the Court making law out of thin air, something that Roberts as a so-called 'conservative' claimed he rejects.

Thus, at best Roberts is insane. At worst he is not a conservative at all but a plant, a closet liberal who is no more worthy of serving on the Court than the other Constitution killers--Kagan, Sotomayor, Ginsberg, and Breyer.

Second Childhood

Well, the asthma has flared up again, and that is why I have only done the minimum this week with my writing. The good news is I think this time I can keep from getting another lung infection from it due to the inhalers I now use.

Now, the unanswered question is, why would I now be beset with this ailment?

I had what was called "childhood asthma" when I was very young. I grew out of it at age 13. Now, here I am getting close to my senior years and I have it again.

My explanation? Second childhood.

That should explain a LOT of things.

Democrats defect to vote for contempt against Holder

A growing number of Democrats are defecting from the ranks to vote in favor of a contempt of Congress citation against Attorney General Eric Holder, according to several news reports published late this afternoon.

Holder's problems began to mount when an attempt by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to strike a deal with Holder that would ditch the contempt citation in exchange for subpoenaed documents failed.

Once it became clear that Holder and the White House would not cooperate on the documents, Boehner announced today that the full House vote on contempt will proceed Thursday as planned.

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Jindal, Rubio top choices for Romney running mate

In a survey conducted and published by one of the top political blogs in the nation, Hot Air, Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., are the top choices of respondents for Mitt Romney's running mate in the 2012 presidential election.

The survey, published Saturday, shows Jindal topping the list with 594 votes, with Rubio coming in second with 509 votes.

Other top choices include Allen West, Paul Ryan, Condoleeza Rice, and Tim Pawlenty.

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Sealed records of Brain Terry murder may contain highly embarrassing facts

When U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered in December of 2010 while investigating illegal gun and drug smuggling that turned out to be part of the Obama Administration scandal known as Fast and Furious, all records concerning the murder were sealed by the courts.

But in a bombshell revelation made by author and reporter Katie Pavlich on C-SPAN2's Book TV series Sunday evening, Pavlich told National Journal reporter Major Garrett that all of the evidence suggests that the reason the records are sealed is to prevent the public from finding out highly embarrassing information about the Obama Administration.

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