Geez, the next thing you know they will be forcing us to buy health insurance. Oh, wait………

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591642,00.html

Ten for ‘10: Winning Washington by Empowering Americans

If you would like to express your support for this issue, please go to her site, fill in the signature boxes and press the “Sign the Petition” button.

1. Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights (TABOR). Limit federal spending growth to the percentage in population growth plus the rate of inflation; provide taxpayers the option of filing a post-card sized return using a low, flat tax rate of 15%

2. End Tax-funded abortions. Stop federal payments to Planned Parenthood and prohibit any taxpayer-subsidized health insurance plan from covering abortion

3. Defend American Borders. Complete America’s border-protection initiatives using remaining funds from the so-called stimulus bill

4. King Dollar. Preserve a strong dollar so that Americans’ savings aren’t wiped out by inflation and the U.S. dollar remains the world’s reserve currency

5. Empower American Business. Immediately slash corporate tax rates to 15% and scrap the capital-gains tax altogether

6. Defend America. Strengthen America to defend our homeland and fully fund an operational, layered missile-defense system

7. Statism Exit Plan. De-fund czars; immediately cease bailout payments to failed companies; ban future bailouts

8. End Generational Theft. As few believe America’s entitlement programs will be able to pay benefits to future generations, provide younger workers the choice of diverting payroll/Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts

9. Restore America’s System of Justice. Introduce penalties for frivolous lawsuits, where those who launch unsuccessful lawsuits are liable for the defendants’ legal bills

10. American Energy Independence. All-of-the-Above strategy that embraces alternatives, expands and accelerates exploration and production of oil and natural gas, and jumpstarts dramatic increases in nuclear power

Backers/Signatories

- Tom Price (R-GA), chairman of the Republican Study Committee
- Michael Williams, Texas Railroad Commissioner & Republican candidate for Senate
- Rep. Jep Hensarling (R-TX), member of the Republican Study Committee
- Rick Crawford, Republican congressional candidate, Arkansas 1st district
- Marco Rubio, Florida Republican senatorial candidate
- Michelle Malkin, author of “Culture of Corruption”
- Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-TX), member of the Republican Study Committee
- Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), member of the Republican Study Committee
- Erick Erickson, editor of RedState.com
- Rob Curnock, Republican congressional candidate, Texas 17th district
- Sen. Jim DeMint, author of “Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America’s Slide Into Socialism”
- Adam Andrzejewski, Republican gubernatorial candidate in Illinois
- Chuck DeVore, California assemblyman & Republican senatorial candidate
- Craig Shirley, author of “Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America”
- Steve Forbes, former Republican presidential candidate and CEO of Forbes Inc.

Show your support by signing Laura’s petition.

Total Number of Signers as of today: 20931

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“Wave of Debt Payments Facing US Government” by Edmund L. Andrews

The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true.

But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer.

Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and interest rates that are sure to climb back to normal as soon as the Federal Reserve decides that the emergency has passed.

Even as Treasury officials are racing to lock in today’s low rates by exchanging short-term borrowings for long-term bonds, the government faces a payment shock similar to those that sent legions of overstretched homeowners into default on their mortgages.

With the national debt now topping $12 trillion, the White House estimates that the government’s tab for servicing the debt will exceed $700 billion a year in 2019, up from $202 billion this year, even if annual budget deficits shrink drastically. Other forecasters say the figure could be much higher.

In concrete terms, an additional $500 billion a year in interest expense would total more than the combined federal budgets this year for education, energy, homeland security and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

See the article: http://www.cnbc.com/id/34104722

Technorati Tags: Edmund L. Andrews, Glenn Beck, national debt, New York Times

Moments ago, Planned Parenthood sent out a mass e-mail blast to abortion supporters calling it an EMERGENCY …

… Here’s what they’re terrified of:

Late last night, the House leadership — realizing their health care reform bill didn’t have the needed votes while containing an abortion mandate — agreed to allow a vote today on the bi-partisan pro-life amendment offered by Rep. Bart Stupak and Rep. Joe Pitts that explicitly excludes government funding of
abortion in health care reform.

Your calls and e-mails made the difference to allow for this amendment which could help to save millions
of lives from abortion — and prevent Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion industry from receiving a massive government funded bailout!

Now, everything comes down to what’s happening on the House floor right now.

Planned Parenthood is begging abortion advocates to call Congress now and “reject this attack…” by demanding opposition to the Stupak/Pitts amendment.

If they succeed and the abortion mandate is not removed from health care reform, Planned Parenthood will be sending out a victory e-mail tomorrow — and preparing to ramp up its operations to handle the largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade.

Even if you have called before, it is critical that you pick up the phone RIGHT NOW and tell your U.S. Representative: “Remove abortion funding and mandates from health care reform!”

If you know your Representative’s name, call him or her through the House switchboard at:
(202) 224-3121

If you need to look up your Representative’s information, go to:

http://tinyurl.com/yg6jot5

You’ve already demonstrated that the pro-life voice can make a powerful impact.

Now, everything depends on today.

PLEASE CALL NOW!

For Life,

Stop the Abortion Mandate Coalition
http://www.StopTheAbortionMandate.com

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Watch a clip of the presentation:

Click here to view the embedded video.

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In God Fortuna Trusts
John Driscoll/The Times-Standard

The Fortuna City Council on Monday adopted the motto “In God We Trust,” which will likely be displayed in the council chambers in the near future.

The council voted 5-0 to display the motto, and answered some concerns over whether the city should pay to have the sign or plaque made. Councilman Dean Glaser, who brought the motion, said that he has offered to pay for the display and that fellow Councilman Mel Berti also offered financial support.

”This was a long time coming,” Glaser said.

Glaser said that it is a freedom of speech issue, and that the council is in no way trying to force religion onto people. Glaser said he believes that previous councils thought it was politically incorrect to post such a motto, but now a nonprofit group promoting the motto’s display has offered to provide free legal support to any city who does.

Glaser introduced the motion after attending a League of California Cities conference in San Jose that hosted a booth by “In God We Trust-America, Inc.” The group asks elected officials to display the national motto “In God We Trust” in city halls.

The motto has been displayed on some U.S. currency since 1866 and was approved for all U.S. currency in 1955.

While one could try to argue that posting the motto is unconstitutional under the 1st Amendment’s establishment of religion clause, said University of California at Berkeley constitutional law expert Jesse
Advertisement Choper, it’s unlikely the courts would take up such a challenge — especially given that it’s the national motto. He said that unless the council were to feature the motto so prominently as to make it overwhelming, any legal challenge to it “would face a severe uphill battle.”

Fortuna City Manager Duane Rigge said that while the motion was amended to remove any reference about where the motto would be displayed, it’s envisioned that it will be placed on the back wall of the chambers on a redwood burl similar to the one that holds the city’s mission statement.

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Click here to view the embedded video.

This was filmed at the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, NJ and uploaded to YouTube on June 19, 2009.

Lyrics
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Song 1:
Mm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

Yes!
Mmm, mmm, mm
Barack Hussein Obama

Song 2:
Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say “hooray!”

Hooray, Mr. President! You’re number one!
The first black American to lead this great nation!

Hooray, Mr. President we honor your great plans
To make this country’s economy number one again!

Hooray Mr. President, we’re really proud of you!
And we stand for all Americans under the great Red, White, and Blue!

So continue —- Mr. President we know you’ll do the trick
So here’s a hearty hip-hooray —-

Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!

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Here is an excerpt from a CNSNews article:

Administration Will Cut Border Patrol Deployed on U.S-Mexico Border
by Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief

(CNSNews.com) – Even though the Border Patrol now reports that almost 1,300 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border is not under effective control, and the Department of Justice says that vast stretches of the border are “easily breached,” and the Government Accountability Office has revealed that three persons “linked to terrorism” and 530 aliens from “special interest countries” were intercepted at Border Patrol checkpoints last year, the administration is nonetheless now planning to decrease the number of Border Patrol agents deployed on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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See how well you do on the Naturalization test from the National Constitution Center: http://constitutioncenter.org/naturalization-test/

I took it and got 100%, although I had to think about who the President was during World War I.

It’s easy to forget the things you learned in High School Civics class, but this is information worth reviewing and remembering.

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The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America

We the People of the United States,
in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defence,
promote the general Welfare,
and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,
do ordain and establish this Constitution
for the United States of America.

Here is the Schoolhouse Rock version. If you are too young to remember it, you have really missed out! Encourage your children and grandchildren to memorize the Preamble, not because they are required to in school, but because  we all need to understand the principles upon which our great country was established. Our rights are being taken away from us on a daily basis, underneath are noses, and so many people are too blind to see.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Americans need to stand up for our Constitution.  We must keep it in our hearts and know what it says. We must elect goverment officials that use the Constitution to guide their thoughts and decisions. Take time today to express gratitude to God for the blessings He has given us and ask for His divine help in knowing how we can work to preserve the Constitution in our own circles of influence.

May God bless us all!

Technorati Tags: Constitution Day, document, founding fathers, gratitude, inspired, Preamble, September 17