Category Archives: Constitution

Obamnesty: A Tyrant’s Tool to Transform America

Saturday, 28 February 2015 16:54

This article was just published in the latest subscribers-only issue of the McAlvany Intelligence Advisor newsletter:

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This writer has frequently noted the accuracy of John Adams’ summary and dangers of the Founders’ Constitution when he said that it “was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” It was designed, as Thomas Jefferson noted, to keep criminals like Barack Obama from taking control:

The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.

During the Constitutional convention there was little debate over the issue of immigration and so those chains were not forged with the result that the states, up until 1808, were to determine their own immigration policies, and afterwards to defer to the national government.

Consequently, when Obama asked his henchmen, Jeh Johnson and Eric Holder, to find ways he could implement the DREAM Act without having to wait for Congress to enact it, they succeeded, using the president’s discretion allowed by the Constitution under Article I, Section 4, that “he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

One of the tools of a tyrant is using language to hide his true intents. For years Obama has disclaimed any such powers as he is now exercising. As a candidate back in March, 2008, he said:

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Florida Court Rules Open Carry Illegal

Tuesday, 24 February 2015 06:25

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, February 23, 2015:

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Within hours of the ruling by the Fourth District Court in Florida that the state’s prohibition of open carry is constitutional, at least two groups have come out against the ruling, with one of them announcing its intention to file an appeal.

At issue was the arrest in February 2012 of one Dale Norman as he was walking down the streets of Fort Pierce sporting a holstered handgun outside his tank top shirt. The initial investigation revealed that Norman held a newly issued concealed carry permit, but

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Ruling Imminent on California’s Anti-gun Microstamping Law

Friday, 20 February 2015 05:08

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, February 19, 2015:

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A Browning 9x19mm Hi-Power

The ruling on a lawsuit brought against the state of California in January 2014 opposing implementation of the state’s “microstamping” law is expected momentarily. If enforcement of the law is permanently banned, it will be cause for rejoicing in a victory of logic and constitutional rights over irrational and emotional hoplophobia (fear of guns).

California’s Eastern District Judge Kimberly Mueller will rule shortly on whether California’s microstamping law makes such unreasonable demands upon gun makers that for all practical purposes they are unable to comply with them:

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Patriot Act’s Illegal Section 215 due to Expire June 1

Wednesday, 18 February 2015 16:03

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, February 18, 2015:

Section 215 of the Patriot Act is set to expire June 1, and each side in the upcoming battle to renew, reform, or let expire this unconstitutional abridgement of freedoms is rolling out its arguments.

Section 215 is often referred to as the Patriot Act’s “library records” provision because it allows the FBI to order a library or any other source to produce, without a warrant showing probable cause (as required under the Fourth Amendment), all “tangible things” belonging to its target of interest including “books, records, papers, documents, and other items.” That includes books borrowed and websites visited by the target while at the library. Niceties demanded by the Fourth Amendment are ignored in Section 215 as long as the FBI “specifies” that its order is “for an authorized investigation … to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities.”

One of those favoring renewal of Section 215 is Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee:

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ATF Bans Popular Rifle Ammunition It Says Is “Armor-Piercing”

Tuesday, 17 February 2015 05:41

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, February 16, 2015:

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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters in Washington, D.C.

On Friday night President Obama was out on the hustings, raising money for Democrats and confirming that his mandate to change America remains in place. He told those attending a DNC fundraiser at the home of Sandy and Jeanne Robertson in San Francisco — each of whom contributed at least $10,000 to hear the man — that he plans to be very busy during the final two years of his second term:

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Obama’s ATF bans “green tip” 5.56 mm ball Ammunition

Tuesday, 17 February 2015 05:15

This article first appeared at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, February 16, 2015:

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A collection of 5.56mm caliber ammunition.

All the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (commonly called the ATF) needed was an excuse. With President Obama’s promise that he would, during the remaining two years of his second term, continue his efforts to transform America, and the growing popularity of handguns chambered for the 5.56mm “green tip” NATO ball ammunition, the ATF had two. Although the ATF has been working on banning this inexpensive and consequently very popular round for more than two years, the agency’s announcement on Thursday coincided nicely with Obama’s speech at a Democrat fundraiser in San Francisco the very next day.

Said Obama:

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Modest Government Retrenchment Called “Dramatic”

Monday, 02 February 2015 05:33

This article first appeared at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Saturday, January 31, 2015:

Kelsey Harkness, a journalist at The Daily Signal, let her enthusiasm for modest retrenchments at the FDIC override her good judgment, calling them “dramatic.” She was referring to the measures the chairman and the vice chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) promised to make in their efforts to enforce Operation Choke Point. In a phone conversation she had with Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer on Wednesday morning, she heard him say:

We’re very pleased they’ve acknowledged their wrongdoing and they’ve accept our suggestions to put in place measures to stop this activity.

What suggestions, exactly?

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A Billion Dollars to Elect Good Conservatives?

Saturday, 31 January 2015 05:14

This article first appeared at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Thursday, January 29, 2015:

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The assumption behind raising and spending a billion dollars, as the Koch brothers Charles and David seem to support, is that with enough money, enough grassroots action, and sufficiently elegant voter software, election successes like that of last November can be repeated in 2016. This past weekend, Freedom Partners, the Koch’s equivalent to a chamber of commerce for wealthy conservatives (each of its 200 members pays a minimum of $100,000 in annual dues), announced at its Palm Springs winter meeting that it was going to raise $900 million to pour into the upcoming presidential election.

Part of the money would go into advertising,

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Small Victory in Congressional War Against Operation Chokepoint

Friday, 30 January 2015 05:54

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, January 29, 2015:

Following a meeting between Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) and the chairman and vice-chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Wednesday morning, the FDIC issued some changes in how it will enforce Operation Chokepoint.

Luetkemeyer, a member of the House Financial Services Committee, and Representative Darrel Issa (R-Calif.) who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, have focused on the abuses, intimidation, and blackmail tactics used in the Operation Chokepoint program to shut down retail gun shops, along with payday lenders and other businesses suffering from what the Obama administration calls “reputational” risks.

In what Kelsey Harkness, a journalist at the Daily Signal, called “dramatic steps” in the battle to dismantle the program, she said that Luetkemeyer told her in a telephone conversation:

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Questions Senators Won’t Be Asking Loretta Lynch, Obama’s Attorney General Nominee

Thursday, 29 January 2015 04:40

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, January 28, 2015:

Today and tomorrow, President Obama’s nominee to replace Eric Holder as attorney general, Loretta Lynch (shown), will face questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It’s highly unlikely that any of those questions will focus on how her office handled the case of Felix Sater while she was U.S. district attorney in New York (details on the Sater case further down). Without that information being obtained, however, her confirmation hearings will miss a vital part of understanding just how Lynch is likely to handle the job as attorney general.

Instead, she is more likely to be asked about Obama’s policies using executive privilege not only to impose delays on deporting illegal immigrants, but also to mark up ObamaCare according to his own views, and to launch a war in Libya.

She may well waffle when

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Koch Brothers’ Network to Spend $900 Million on 2016 Elections

Wednesday, 28 January 2015 06:07

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, January 27, 2015:

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Spokesmen for Freedom Partners, the Koch Brothers-funded “chamber of commerce” and sponsor of their annual winter meeting in Palm Springs, announced last weekend that its network of over 200 wealthy conservatives is planning on raising nearly $900 million to invest in the 2016 elections. This is more than double what the network raised and spent during the 2012 presidential campaign, and exceeds what both political parties spent that year put together.

Freedom Partners is building on the momentum from the November elections that gave Republicans control of the Senate and expanded their majority in the House of Representatives. As Freedom Partners President Marc Short remarked, “2014 was nice but there’s a long way to go.” He noted that his group’s ultimate goal is to make the ideals of a free market “central” in American society, adding, “Politics is a necessary means to that end.” Freedom Partners invested more than $400 million in those midterm elections.

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Obama to Put Alaska’s Wildlife Refuge Off Limits to Drilling

Monday, 26 January 2015 12:02

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, January 26, 2015:

On Sunday the White House released a 58-second-long YouTube video of President Obama announcing that his Interior Department was about to present a “comprehensive plan” to “make sure that this amazing wonder [the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — ANWR] is preserved for future generations.” That designation concerns the 1.5-million acre coastal plain of the ANWR, precisely the area that has been the focus of controversy since the late 1970s. It is said to have more than 10 billion barrels of recoverable oil beneath its surface, and has served as a political football between the oil industry and environmentalists ever since.

The reaction by Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski was instant:

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Obama shuts down Oil Drilling in Alaska’s ANWR

Monday, 26 January 2015 11:46

This article first appeared at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, January 26, 2015:

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There’s no way, of course, that Thomas Jefferson could have known that President Obama would do everything he could to advance his unconstitutional agenda through audacious moves that challenged legitimate authority. But he knew that someone like him would show up, sooner or later. Wrote Jefferson:

The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.

On Sunday the White House released a YouTube video of the president doing precisely what Jefferson was worried about: doing an end run around Congress and imposing a “comprehensive plan” from his Interior Department to prohibit forever any kind of energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). He even had the audacity to invite Congress to ratify his actions by inviting it to designate that part of the coast where oil developers would drill as a Protected Wilderness Area. Knowing in advance that the Republican-controlled Congress would deep-six his suggestion, he made it plain that his Interior Department would accomplish the task for him without the necessity of Congressional approval. Said Obama, in his 58-second announcement:

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New York State County Sheriff Trashes State’s Handgun Renewals

Friday, 23 January 2015 16:57

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, January 23, 2015:

Map of New York highlighting Fulton County

Map of New York highlighting Fulton County

The sheriff of Fulton County, New York, Thomas Lorey, made a presentation to some Second Amendment supporters on Friday, January 16. The next day seven minutes of it was posted on YouTube. He told them that Fulton County has been targeted by New York’s state capital, Albany, for a “pilot program” to see if those owning handguns in his county would desire to renew their permits to possess them early, for a small fee of $15. (In New York, one must have a permit to even own a handgun.) He was very against renewing the permits early, or renewing them at all, for that matter. He explained:

I want to set the record straight. Fulton County is one of the pilot counties.… They are going to send out 500 invitations to my county and that’s all they are … invitations.

I’m asking everyone that gets those invitations to throw them in the trash because that is where they belong.

Mike Piccone, the Guns & Gear editor for the conservative blog The Daily Caller, gave a bit of background to the circumstances:

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Police Have for Years Used Radar Scanners to See Into Homes

Wednesday, 21 January 2015 14:15

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, January 21, 2015:

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After serving jail time for committing an armed robbery, Steven Denson was out on parole. When he failed to report to his parole officer, authorities, after an intensive search, were about to conclude that Denson was gone for good.

Eventually, however, they found that Denson had opened an account for utilities services in Wichita, Kansas. Police obtained an arrest warrant and went out to see if he was home. It had just snowed and they noted footprints in the backyard and the utility meter spinning, giving them reasonable cause to believe that Denson was home.

Just to make sure, however, one of the officers pulled out his

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Anti-gun Groups Seeking to Build on Washington State’s “Victory”

Sunday, 04 January 2015 05:52

Jeff Foxworthy

Jeff Foxworthy

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, January 2, 2015:

Apparently the anti-gun group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America didn’t get the memo from November: You lost big in the midterms. Instead, MDA just announced it is targeting country music star Alan Jackson and comedian Jeff Foxworthy for agreeing to open the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, in April. In its Facebook announcement, MDA criticized the two for accepting the invitation from the NRA — the group which, according to the MDA, “pushed to arm convicted criminals, blocked federal gun violence research and [their] board members promoted armed insurrection.”

MDA then urged its members to “educate these celebrities on the dangerous and irresponsible policies of the [NRA].”

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John Lott Is No Longer Alone: More Guns Do Mean Less Crime

Thursday, 01 January 2015 07:57

This article first appeared at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, December 31, 2014:

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Recent Status of Shall Issue Laws in America

With degrees from the University of Chicago, Yale, the Wharton School and UCLA in economics, it was clear from the beginning that John Lott wanted to become an academic, burying himself in esoteric econometric modeling for a narrow audience.

It was not to be. Lott became interested in how anti-gunners were using statistical analysis to prove that more guns would mean more crime, which analysis was then used to buttress political agendas to emasculate the Second Amendment.

He decided, in 1998, to write a small book entitled More Guns, Less Crime, to refute that analysis and present his own. As far as gun ownership was concerned, Lott was an agnostic.

When it was published in June, 1998, his book ignited such a firestorm of protest and indignation among the anti-gunners that he was forced to

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More Proof That as Gun Ownership Increases, Violent Crime Decreases

Wednesday, 31 December 2014 06:22

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, December 30, 2014:

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Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe raised the ire of conservatives on Monday by proposing a package of gun control measures for the upcoming General Assembly. What irritated them most was that the governor claimed that these measures are designed to “keep people safe” from criminals. McAuliffe might better spend his time perusing the latest update from John Lott, showing that people are keeping themselves safe from criminals by obtaining their concealed carry permits.

Lott, the author of More Guns, Less Crime noted in a July 9 report for Crime Prevention Research Center that the number of citizens now permitted to carry concealed exceeds 11 million, up from eight million just three years ago. And even that number may be far too conservative:

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Court Rejects Attempt to “Regulate” Bullets & Shot

Tuesday, 30 December 2014 06:35

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, December 29, 2014:

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A 12 gauge shotgun shell in a transparent plastic hull, allowing the contents to be seen. From left to right: gunpowder, over-powder wad, shot wad, #8 birdshot, and over-shot wad

On Tuesday, December 23 Judge David Tatel of the District of Columbia’s Circuit Court of Appeals rejected another attempt to force the EPA to regulate bullets and shotgun shells out of existence.

It wasn’t even close. The first time the environmentalist groups sued back in 2010 it was a frontal attack, demanding that the EPA prohibit the “manufacture, processing and distribution in commerce of lead shot [and] bullets.” The petition was thrown out on the basis that the EPA’s rules expressly and unambiguously prohibited the agency from making any such rules regarding bullets and shotgun shells.

While the lawsuit was portrayed as “concern” for the Trumpeter swan and other creatures that might ingest the highly toxic lead bullets or shot lying on the ground left behind by hunters and shooting sportsmen, many saw it as a backdoor attack on the Second Amendment.

Tatel had to wade through all the underbrush in order to reach his conclusion:

The EPA had no such power.

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Sign Discrimination Case Headed to Supreme Court

Saturday, 27 December 2014 06:41

This article first appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, December 26, 2014:

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Because his church changes its location fairly often, Pastor Clyde Reed in Gilbert, Arizona, puts up four directional signs for his parishioners to follow in getting to church on Sundays. Under Gilbert’s rule, the signs may not exceed six square feet, may not be placed before 10:00 p.m. Saturday night, and must be removed by noon on Sunday.

However, those wanting to make an ideological statement may put up signs up to 20 square feet in size and leave them up permanently. Those seeking to make a political statement, urging Gilbertians to vote, may have signs up to 32 square feet that are allowed to stay up four and a half months before an election and 15 days afterwards. If a homeowner association wants to announce an event, it’s allowed a sign up to 80 square feet in size for 30 days before the event and 48 hours afterward.

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