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		<title>Attorney General of S.C. suspects voter fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joy Bischoff</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">Recently, I blogged about voter fraud. Through the years, I have noticed that most Americans look like deer in the headlights when voter fraud is mentioned; deer that really wish they could run from the crazy, dangerous car. Is this because we live in such an honest society where no person or group desires power or to influence political outcome?</span></h3>
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<h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">Political reality dictates that if a candidate suspects and suggests voter fraud, they are laughed out of voter support. There is a culture of silence, shame, and disdain surrounding this subject, even with normally strong and courageous people. With sophisticated technology, voter fraud is not that hard. I have conclusively documented several cases in the past. I am happy to see the attorney general of South Carolina is taking this subject seriously.</span></h3>
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<h3>South Carolina&#8217;s Attorney General detects voter fraud during primaries</h3>
<p>Already, there has been some question into folks who cast their ballots on Saturday.<br />
South Carolina&#8217;s Attorney General, Alan Wilson has notified the U.S. Justice Department of potential voter fraud.<br />
Wilson says an analysis found 953 ballots cast by voters were people who are listed as dead. He has asked the State Law Enforcement Division to investigate.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wtoc.com/story/16571904/south-carolinas-attorney-general-detects-voter-fraud-for-primaries">http://www.wtoc.com/story/16571904/south-carolinas-attorney-general-detects-voter-fraud-for-primaries</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Beat the Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joy Bischoff</dc:creator>
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<p>We have seen Meet the Press&#8230;and we have watched over the years as political agendas have controlled the press. What we wonder now is, can a decent political candidate beat the press?</p>
<p>For months, the main stream media has ignored Ron Paul and very carefully, and subtly campaigned against Romney. This week, Rush Limbaugh began finally waking up to how badly the media is trying to pull down Romney. The gloves are beginning to come off because the liberal media is determined to make sure that Gingrich is the nominee.</p>
<p>I watched four years ago when suddenly, all within a couple of days of each other, large media outlets all over the country endorsed John McCain who had been lagging badly in the polls. With careful planning, including the help of Mike Huckabee, Romney was ousted. McCain was thrilled with the positive media attention. In the general election, McCain became angry and outspoken about the press who turned around and betrayed him. They had orchestrated a candidate with baggage being the opponent of their golden boy, Obama.</p>
<p>Knowing that the American public is in general very easily manipulated and oblivious, they are trying it again. Many insiders have told us that the Obama camp is scared of Romney. They want Gingrich, a man with so much baggage, that like McCain, they will be able to easily destroy him.</p>
<p>I have watched for weeks as Gingrich, an unorganized, erratic man, without sufficient funds, has been interviewed by all the major press, on a daily basis. They play his anti-Romney ads over and over. After the CNN South Carolina Debate, with Santorum and then Gingrich was interviewed so they could trash on Romney without rebuttal and spin the results.</p>
<p>Today on his show, Limbaugh shared his belief that the media has been viciously attacking Romney all week even to the point of inviting a malpractice suit. He maintains that they are determined to bring down Romney so that Gingrich will be the nominee, and will prove an easy target for Obama.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/01/19/">http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/01/19/</a></p>
<p>Finally, someone with a national voice is starting to say what has been so obvious to many of us for some time. Even the rhetoric that Romney has been favored by the press has worked against Mitt and is blatantly untrue.</p>
<p><a href="http://ingodwetrustblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/government-vote.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4584" title="government-vote" src="http://ingodwetrustblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/government-vote-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>I also believe that the Iowa GOP has been compromised. The night of that election, in the wee hours, I watched Fox commentators announce inside information that the votes had not come in from Story County. There has not been a word about it since. Karl Rove said this county was heavily populated and had been polling very strongly for Romney. Those votes never appeared. I do not believe Santorum won, but feel Romney would have won by hundreds of votes if there had not been voter fraud. I proved voter fraud a few times in the 2008 race.</p>
<p>Can Romney beat Gingrich, the press, and voter fraud, even before he ever comes up against the Obama machine? We shall see.</p>
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		<title>My take on the GOP race</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joy Bischoff</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Four years ago, I wrote a lot about the dangerous and growing divisiveness in America. For some reason, I seem to have a good memory from my childhood. Therefore, I can confidently report that our society has changed in many ways, and I want to discuss one of the most critical changes&#8230;vicious polarization.</p>
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<p>Polarization has been a goal of conservatives and liberals alike for many years and they have succeeded. The swinging pendulum has swept so far from right to left now, that most people can no longer relate to or communicate with those who have differing opinions. Decades ago, the general attitude was to treat those you disagree with respectfully even though you can politely disagree.</p>
<p>A friend of mine recently lost a facebook contact because he had a different political opinion. The woman told him that if he disagreed with her, then he basically did not deserve to be her friend and she would try to encourage others to dislike him. What has happened to our reasoning powers? How to we have a decent future as a country with attitudes like this?</p>
<p>With this premise, I come to my main point. I am closely following the GOP race for the nomination. Never have I seen the attitude; &#8220;if I find anything I disagree with, or discover any imperfection in a candidate, I will hate him and could never support him&#8221;. Really America?</p>
<p>I want to fight this destabilization and ask you to join me&#8230;no matter which candidate you support. Okay, after I have gone after Gingrich, maybe his supporters will not listen, but the reason I did that is because I believe he is part of the inside group working to destroy the Constitution, and this I cannot support.</p>
<p>So if I say I like Ron Paul, do some of you throw out anything good I say? When I say I like Mitt Romney do I lose the other side?</p>
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<p>This is a year of hate and we need to be sane and not join that kind of thinking. Because Romney likes to work from inside the system is he evil? I do not think so. Because Ron Paul has been against the war is he a bad person? I sent out an email before we went to war describing exactly what I believed would happen based on my years of studying the Middle East which is my college major. Everything I wrote happened exactly as I predicted. So do I agree with Mitt or Ron? Neither and both. I will describe my position in another post but for my current purpose, I want to point out that although I disagree with some of the positions of each man, I respect them. They do not have to be perfect. I also respect most of what I see from Rick Santorum even though I disagree with his big government positions. He is not evil.</p>
<p>Could you join me in jumping off the political pendulum and spreading a different message this political season? We do not need to become a nation of hate and we can respect people even if we do not agree with every position they espouse.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s WTF Moments from the State of the Union Address</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terrie Soberg</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hate this politically correct world we live in today.</p>
<p>As I was writing this post, I tried to think of a phrase that describes how Sarah Palin is able to speak so directly to issues and events without mincing words. The phrase that came to my mind is &#8220;to call a spade a spade.&#8221; My next thought was, &#8220;Uh oh, I could never get away with using that phrase in conjunction with President Obama.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4364" style="border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px 5px;" title="obama-biden-boehner-sotu2011" src="http://ingodwetrustblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/obama-biden-boehner-sotu2011.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="313" />I decided to do a quick Google search on the meaning of &#8220;to call a spade a spade.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_call_a_spade_a_spade" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">To &#8220;<strong>call a spade a spade</strong>&#8221; is to speak honestly and directly about a topic, specifically topics that others may avoid speaking about due to their sensitivity or embarrassing nature. <a title="Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer%E2%80%99s_Dictionary_of_Phrase_and_Fable"></a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a title="Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer%E2%80%99s_Dictionary_of_Phrase_and_Fable">Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable</a> (1913) defines it as To be outspoken, blunt, even to the point of rudeness; to call things by their proper names without any &#8220;beating about the bush.&#8221;</p>
<p>Maven&#8217;s <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19970115" target="_blank">Word of the Day</a> site says:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Let&#8217;s get two things straight here: first, the expression <strong>to call a spade a spade</strong> is thousands of years old and etymologically has nothing whatsoever to do with any racial sentiment. The second is that in spite of this, some people <strong>think</strong> it is a racial statement, and therefore it should be treated with some caution.</p>
<p>It appears that using that term is perfectly appropriate for the point I am trying to get across, so here goes!</p>
<p><span>Sarah Palin is known for her ability to call a spade a spade. She made an appearance on Fox News yesterday, and spoke about President Obama&#8217;s State of the Union Address:<em></em></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span><em>&#8220;His theme last night was  WTF, Winning the Future. I thought, okay, that acronym &#8211; spot on. There were a  lot of WTF moments throughout that speech.&#8221; </em></span></p>
<p>Now, I&#8217;ve got a bunch of teenagers and I&#8217;ve been on Facebook long enough to know another meaning of WTF &#8211; not a very uplifting acronym at all. I believe that we should all be trying to work together to solve the problems of our country, reaching across party lines, and all that &#8211; but I&#8217;ve got to say, Palin&#8217;s comment did rather amuse me. I&#8217;ll never think about this latest Obama Initiative the same way again!</p>
<p><span> See Sarah Palin in action <a title="http://www.dat-e-baseonline.com/front/a.asp?arg=8F7D995F927E756461737881628B73798C6D7370867873" href="http://www.dat-e-baseonline.com/front/a.asp?arg=8F7D995F927E756461737881628B73798C6D7370867873">HERE</a>.</span></p>
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		<title>Arrogance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joy Bischoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some time I have been bothered by the arrogance and condescension I have seen occasionally from President Obama toward those who disagree with him. He needs to be careful about his ego getting out of hand because this is the quality of a dictator, and I&#8217;m sure he does not want to be a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><em>For some time I have been bothered by the arrogance and condescension I have seen occasionally from President Obama toward those who disagree with him. He needs to be careful about his ego getting out of hand because this is the quality of a dictator, and I&#8217;m sure he does not want to be a dictator&#8230;(I hope).</em></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>BEWARE THE OBAMA &#8216;EVIL EYE&#8217;<br />
Tue Jun 30 2009 07:43:56 ET</strong></p>
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<p><strong>As the summer begins, White House watchers have spotted a new look by President Obama:  The Evil Eye!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Staffers have joked about the menacing glance, which comes when the president meets with world leaders who are not aligned with his progressive view.</strong></p>
<p><strong>White House photographers have captured the &#8220;evil eye&#8221; in recent weeks, during sessions with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Colombia&#8217;s Alvaro Uribev.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi got hit with the commander&#8217;s malocchio last week in the Oval office.</strong></p>
<p><strong>And at least one White House reporter has been on the receiving end of the daggers during a press conference.</strong></p>
<p>(this is from the Drudge Report on Monday, June 29, 2009)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.drudgereport.com/flashoe.htm" target="_blank">http://www.drudgereport.com/flashoe.htm </a></p>
<blockquote><p><em>Below is a photograph from the G20 summit a couple of months ago. The assault on our freedoms that went on at the summit was disturbing and it is unpleasant to see the undignified, triumphal celebrating going on by those who are dragging the world toward global socialism.</em></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Legislating from the Bench</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 16:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joy Bischoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a pastor guiding his congregation through his own philosophies and not bothering to use the scriptures as a touchstone for truth. A pastor needs to have a conviction gained through study and pondering of God and the truths that He teaches or that pastor has no business acting in that capacity. With the same [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imagine a pastor guiding his congregation through his own philosophies and not bothering to use the scriptures as a touchstone for truth. A pastor needs to have a conviction gained through study and pondering of God and the truths that He teaches or that pastor has no business acting in that capacity. With the same concept in mind, imagine a judge who guides his/her court through his/her own philosophies, not bothering to use the Constitution as a touchstone for political truths. A judge needs to have a conviction through study and pondering that the Constitution embodies timeless political truths or that judge has no business acting in that capacity. Judges are to interpret law within the bounds legally set by the Constitution.</p>
<p>Activist judges, since FDR, have illegally tossed aside their duty and have been tossed to and fro with every wind of political doctrine and allowed our nation to become unanchored.   In reading the selections I&#8217;ve shared of the article below, notice how the new Supreme Court nominee makes no reference to judging within the parameters of the Constitution but instead by personal whim according to her own experience. What she is saying is that a white man cannot judge properly and that is astonishing prejudice. Imagine a white man saying that about a Hispanic woman.Reverse prejudice is tearing this country apart.</p>
<p>We are a Republic which means we are to be governed by the rule of law and not the current opinion.</p>
<p>How brilliant of our president to pick a liberal who will do his biding by legislating from the bench that is someone many Republicans will fear to tackle because they will not want to be seen attacking women or Hispanics.  And on it goes&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>A Judge’s View of Judging Is on the Record </strong></em></p>
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<p class="byline"><em>By Charlie Savage</em></p>
<p class="timestamp"><em>Published: May 14, 2009</em></p>
<p><em>               WASHINGTON — In 2001, Sonia Sotomayer, an appeals court judge, gave a speech declaring that the ethnicity and sex of a judge “may and will make a difference in our judging.”</em></p>
<p><em>In her speech, Judge Sotomayor questioned the famous notion  — often invoked by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her retired Supreme Court colleague, Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor — that a wise old man and a wise old woman would reach the same conclusion when deciding cases.</em></p>
<p><em>“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” said Judge Sotomayor, who is now considered to be near the top of President Obama&#8217;s list of potential Supreme Court nominees. . .</em></p>
<p><em>This month, for example, a video surfaced of Judge Sotomayor asserting in 2005 that a “court of appeals is where policy is made.” She then immediately adds: “And I know — I know this is on tape, and I should never say that because we don’t make law. I know. O.K. I know. I’m not promoting it. I’m not advocating it. I’m — you know.” . . .</em></p>
<p><em>Republicans have signaled that they intend to put the eventual nominee under a microscope, and they say they were put on guard by Mr. Obama’s statement that judges should have “empathy,” a word they suggest could be code for injecting liberal ideology into the law.</em></p>
<p><em>Judge Sotomayor has given several speeches about the importance of diversity. But her 2001 remarks at Berkeley, which were published by the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, went further, asserting that judges’ identities will affect legal outcomes.</em></p>
<p><em>“Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences,” she said, for jurists who are women and nonwhite, “our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.”. . .</em></p>
<p><em>She also approvingly quoted several law professors who said that “to judge is an exercise of power” and that “there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives.”</em></p>
<p><em>“Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see,” she said.</em></p>
<p><em>Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a Harvard law professor and an adviser to Mr. Obama, said Judge Sotomayor’s remarks were appropriate. Professor Ogletree said it was “obvious that people’s life experiences will inform their judgments in life as lawyers and judges” because law is more than “a technical exercise,” citing Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s famous aphorism: “The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”</em></p>
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		<title>The Shocking Race Card Accusation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joy Bischoff</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The video on this is weird with slow moving pictures but it is jaw dropping to hear the accusations from  Janeane Garofalo regarding the Tea Parties.</p>
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		<title>State Sovereignty Hits Mainstream</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joy Bischoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(I just noticed this article is gone and I can&#8217;t find anything referring to this subject on any mainstream news.)
It finally hit the mainstream media. There has been such an outcry among citizens and states, that the press was at last forced to give the light of day to states declaring sovereignty. We hope that [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p><em>It finally hit the mainstream media. There has been such an outcry among citizens and states, that the press was at last forced to give the light of day to states declaring sovereignty. We hope that things do not spiral out of control, but it is only through the joint raising of oppositional voices that we have any hope of stemming the socialist tide. Hopefully Ghandi will be our example. This isn&#8217;t a fight against a nation across the sea, this is our own countrymen. Civil war in today&#8217;s climate would destroy our union. President Obama is no Lincoln and is, in fact, on the wrong side. Civil discourse, loud and determined, is what we hope to see.</em></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>For those of you who wonder why I keep referring to peaceful resistance to socialism instead of violence, I am keeping tabs with the pulse of the conservative and independent commentaries, and in the past two weeks I have seen a startling change. Everything is changing beneath the surface, and the rumblings of resistance are gaining momentum.  This is good if the pendulum doesn&#8217;t swing too far into mindless, violent response. That would only hurt the cause of protecting the Constitution. It is our job to use logic and reason to help others see the danger to freedom. Fanaticism will turn people away who otherwise may see the light. An amazing amount of Americans have awakened but we need more to do so.</em></p></blockquote>
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<h1>Some state lawmakers fighting federal stimulus</h1>
<p><cite class="vcard">By TRAVIS ANDERSEN, Associated Press Writer</cite>CONCORD, N.H. – For small-government die-hards, the $787 billion <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236027401_0">economic stimulus bill</span> recently passed by Congress isn&#8217;t a life saver. It&#8217;s the last straw.</p>
<p>Lawmakers across the country are sponsoring resolutions — most of them only symbolic — asserting state sovereignty, in effect the right to ignore any federal law or policies they deem unconstitutional, including the stimulus bill, the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236027401_1">No Child Left Behind Act</span> and any new assault rifle ban.</p>
<p>In <span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236027401_2">New Hampshire</span>, the House is scheduled to vote on Republican state Rep. Daniel Itse&#8217;s resolution Wednesday. Supporters are planning a rally at the Statehouse before the vote.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think that the specter of some assaults on our liberty have become so real and immediate that there is a reaction,&#8221; Itse said.</p>
<p>Lawmakers in at least 15 states are sponsoring similar resolutions. They say they&#8217;re fighting back against decades of federal overreach, culminating in the <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236027401_3">stimulus package</span>.</p>
<p>&#8220;This has been a progression from (the New Deal) days to today, with the only break being <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236027401_4">Ronald Reagan</span>,&#8221; <span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236027401_5">South Carolina state Rep</span>. Michael Pitts said by e-mail. Pitts, a Republican, has a resolution pending in the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236027401_6">South Carolina House</span>. &#8220;The stimulus bill is simply propellant for the resistance.&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>Two lawmakers say they have received hundreds of calls from constituents supporting their resolutions. <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236027401_7">Michigan state Rep. Paul Opsommer</span>, a Republican, said about 250 people have called or e-mailed to say thank you, whereas most of his bills draw fewer than 10 messages.</p>
<p>Missouri Republican state Rep. Cynthia Davis, whose resolution is pending in the House, said she has received at least 200 supportive messages from constituents and residents in other states.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m getting letters from all over the country,&#8221; Davis said. &#8220;It&#8217;s really a beautiful thing, watching the spirit of the American Revolution come back.&#8221;</p>
<p>Resolution sponsors cite the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236027401_8">10th Amendment</span>, which says the federal government has no authority beyond the powers granted to it under the Constitution.</p>
<p>Several governors — mainly Republican — have threatened to reject some of the stimulus money, claiming it would raise taxes in their states. Some analysts see the revolt as partisan posturing.</p>
<p>But Opsommer, who thinks the stimulus has spurred many of the resolutions, said in an e-mail that the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236027401_9">states&#8217; rights movement</span> transcends party politics.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some Democrats feel it is an attack on Obama until I explain I also introduced it last year,&#8221; said Opsommer, whose resolution is pending in the Michigan House. &#8220;This is about the rights of the states and the people, not anything to do with Republicans or Democrats.&#8221;</p>
<p>A Democrat in Kentucky, state Rep. John Will Stacy, is the prime sponsor of a sovereignty resolution in that state. He did not immediately return calls&#8230;.</p>
<p>Karl Kurtz, a policy analyst at the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236027401_10">National Conference of State Legislatures</span>, couldn&#8217;t say how many sovereignty resolutions Congress has received in prior years, but he suspects the current craze is no accident.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the case of the sovereignty resolutions it appears to be an organized campaign,&#8221; Kurtz said, adding that <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236027401_11">states&#8217; rights</span> activists may have influenced the sponsors.</p>
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		<title>A Time to Choose</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joy Bischoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest reasons we are now losing our freedoms is the powerful label &#8220;conspiracy theorist&#8221;. It was instigated in the 80s quite brilliantly, to corral Americans right where the socialists wanted us to be. They were then able to hide in plain sight and further their agenda because any who tried to expose [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the greatest reasons we are now losing our freedoms is the powerful label &#8220;conspiracy theorist&#8221;. It was instigated in the 80s quite brilliantly, to corral Americans right where the socialists wanted us to be. They were then able to hide in plain sight and further their agenda because any who tried to expose them were called conspiracy theorists. Are there crazy, fanatical conspiracy theories out there? Absolutely! Yet assuming that conspiracies do not exist demands we ignore thousands of examples from history, unless we have become so pure that there is no more deceit.</p>
<p>For years, I occasionally tried to show people what was going on by showing material straight from the government itself. Most people refused to listen and said they did not believe those things. When offered conclusive evidence straight from official sources, they would actually refuse to look. The fear of being labeled kept the majority of Americans in willful ignorance. Now we are reaping the reward of refusing to be vigilant in watching our freedoms.</p>
<p>What is the solution? If you still are allowing yourself to be manipulated by fear, acknowledge it and cast it out. Faith and fear cannot exist together. Faith is a principle of action and it is action we all need to take now to prepare for the consequences of our past inaction. Action is what we need to take in educating ourselves on a firm foundation of Constitutional principles. Any left who cannot see where we are being driven are as blind as a person who would see this albino dolphin and assume it was gray or black because there are no pink dolphins. Wake up, see what is before your eyes.</p>
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<p>I knew this year would mark the time when there was a separation between moral issues, but I am surprised to see that we are also going to see a dramatic separation between those who choose socialism and those who choose freedom. By the end of this year, I predict that people will have had to make a conscience choice in the matter&#8230;no more fence sitting.</p>
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		<title>What is Really Behind the Curtain?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joy Bischoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitution in Peril]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rejecting Herd Mentality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talk Show Observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Blog by Sharon Anderson 
I appreciate what Glenn Beck is trying to accomplish.  Like the hosts of ingodwetrustblog.com, he wants to empower Americans and help us identify areas where we can agree.  We don&#8217;t have to agree on EVERYTHING in order to find common ground where we can unitedly stand together to make a difference.  If YOU are concerned [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guest Blog by Sharon Anderson<strong> </strong></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234390222_1"></span>I appreciate what <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234390222_2">Glenn Beck</span> is trying to accomplish.  Like the hosts of <a href="http://ingodwetrustblog.com//" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234390222_3">ingodwetrustblog.com</span></a>, he wants to empower Americans and help us identify areas where we can agree.  We don&#8217;t have to agree on EVERYTHING in order to find common ground where we can unitedly stand together to make a difference.  If YOU are concerned about America and the direction we are going, read on&#8230;.</p></blockquote>
<p><img src="http://ingodwetrustblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/wizardofoz1.JPG" alt="wizardofoz1.JPG" align="left" border="4" vspace="5" width="287" height="230" hspace="5" /></p>
<p>From <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.glennbeck. com:</a></p>
<p>Do you watch the direction that America is being taken in and feel powerless to stop it?</p>
<p>Do you believe that your voice isn&#8217;t loud enough to be heard above the noise anymore?</p>
<p>Do you read the headlines everyday and feel an empty pit in your stomach…as if you&#8217;re completely alone?</p>
<p>If so, then you&#8217;ve fallen for the <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234390222_4">Wizard of Oz</span> lie. While the voices you hear in the distance may sound intimidating, as if they surround us from all sides—the reality is very different. Once you pull the curtain away you realize that there are only a few people pressing the buttons, and their voices are weak. The truth is that they don&#8217;t surround us at all.</p>
<p><em><strong>We surround them.</strong></em></p>
<p>So, how do we show America what&#8217;s really behind the curtain? Below are nine simple principles. If you believe in at least seven of them, then we have something in common. I urge you to read the instructions at the end for how to help make your voice heard.</p>
<p><strong>The Nine Principles</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>America is good.</li>
<li>I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.</li>
<li>I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.</li>
<li>The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.</li>
<li>If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.</li>
<li>I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.</li>
<li>I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.</li>
<li>It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.</li>
<li>The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234390222_5">You Are Not Alone</span></strong></p>
<p>If you agree with at least seven of those principles, then you are not alone. Please send a digital version of your picture to: <a href="http://us.mc01g.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=wesurroundthem@foxnews.com" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:wesurroundthem@foxnews.com" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234390222_6">wesurroundthem@ foxnews.com</span></a> and then stay tuned to the radio and television shows over the coming weeks to see how we intend to pull back the curtain.</p>
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