Should there be a basic test on the constitution before a congressman is allowed to take an oath to uphold it? | At the House Rules Committee meeting, Democrats desperate to pass their national health care plan are running into the barrier of basic civics. |
| Congress can amend the law — it does so all the time — but can it amend something that isn’t law? |
| Passage of their HCR proposal should be very simple: Senate passes it, House passes it, president signs it. |
| they will vote, not for the bill, but for a rule that both deems the Senate bill to have passed and, in the same vote, passes the package of amendments |
| Henry Waxman said, “We’re not going to ‘deem’ the bill passed. We’re going to pass the Senate bill…I would be against the idea of ‘deeming’ something — we either pass it or we don’t.” |
| Other Democrats jumped in to say that no, there would not be a direct vote on the Senate bill. |
| Waxman added, “We change current law, and the current law will be the Senate bill once it’s voted on in the House.” |
| But it won’t be law until the president signs it. |
Black and White photography is among one of the most striking forms. Photos sans color require an enhanced use of lighting, shadows, and subject focus. Black and white photography brings out details usually overlooked in standard color photos. Subject studies is the discipline of concentration on one particular subject. Not quite still-lifes, though they share some similar qualities, subject studies focus on one particular object in view. |
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I really love those old, classic churches. It might be a tiny one in a village, or it might be a gigantic one that took many, many years to be completed. No matter what kind it is, I just know that some of these are so beautiful that they deserve to be appreciated by everyone. |
So I went looking for some great pictures of beautiful churches… both in and outside, and got to see amazing shots of these beauties. Here’s my selection… I hope you all enjoy these. To check out the location of each, simply click at the picture to go the author’s flickrstream. Don’t forget to check their portfolio, also. Cheers!  |
| U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Obama’s State of the Union address was “very troubling” and the annual speech has “degenerated to a political pep rally.” |
Responding to a University of Alabama law student’s question, Roberts said anyone was free to criticize the court, and some have an obligation to do so because of their positions. |
“So I have no problems with that,” he said. “On the other hand, there is the issue of the setting, the circumstances and the decorum. |
“The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering while the court — according the requirements of protocol — has to sit there expressionless, I think is very troubling.” |
| “I’m not sure why we’re there,” |
| Justice Antonin Scalia once said he no longer goes to the annual speech because the justices “sit there like bumps on a log” in an otherwise highly partisan atmosphere.Read more at www.foxnews.com |
It’s up to us to educate ourselves and those around us if we wish to take back this nation from the Washington insiders infesting the two big name parties. It’s not often that someone turns in his membership card to the most exclusive club in the land. But when Evan Bayh decided to give up his seat in the U.S. Senate last month, he sparked a trend continued by Rep. Eric Massa this week. The departing legislators, citing partisan politics, give inside-the-beltway confirmation to something Americans have felt for years - Washington is broken. |
| According to data from our users in 50 states, a quarter of the U.S. Senate votes along with its constituents only 30 percent of the time. |
| What’s more, half of the Senate votes against those back home more than 50 percent of the time. |
| Remarkably, there is often no link between the way a member Senate votes and how people think of him back home. |
| Part of the problem is that voting records are so difficult to dig up, even in an era of open government, and politicians have learned that a good campaign can trump an out-of-touch voting record. |
“Government Health Care is not about health care; It’s about Government.” So reads the last line of Mark Steyn’s latest brilliant article, which I strongly suggest that everyone read. He’s right, of course, but I’d go even a step further. It’s not just about government, it’s about a mindset and a freedom-squashed way of life. Once the government becomes more than just a safety net, becomes instead a catch-all stifling protective bubble, it kills freedom and the individual. At it’s core, freedom is meant to be risky. It isn’t safe; it’s just free. |
| Erick Erickson is correct when he calls Democrats, willing to throw themselves on the proverbial grenade by voting for the health care bill, “health care suicide bombers.” It’s accurate because, to them, it isn’t about health care itself; it’s about ideology and statist utopian dreams. Hopeandchange ™ sounded pretty and all, but it was really about fundamental change of our entire Country and the principles upon which it was founded. Read more at www.redstate.com |
All the talk of reconciliation is nothing more than a smoke screen to make people believe the bill will somehow be ‘fixed’ after the house vote when the truth is the president can sign the bill into law once approved by the house without ever bothering to take it back to the senate. Americans need to understand the devastating significance of the House vote on the Senate health care bill set for March 18th. The Democrats have–by design–created the perfect storm to take over the US healthcare system, while providing an ideal distraction–reconciliation. |
| Democrats talk of “reconciliation” or the nuclear option is nothing more than a diversion from what the real goal is–to pass the Senate version through the House and then have Obama sign it into law. |
And once signed into law, does anyone really think that Obama will keep his promises of the “fixes” through the reconciliation process after he got what he wanted via the Senate bill? Seriously, he will have the healthcare takeover he wants, so why make the House and Senate suffer more. |
| House Democrats have a choice: either stand with the American people and kill the bill or endorse the deception, betrayal, and bribes of Harry Reid, Obama, Pelosi, and the Senate DemocratsRead more at www.redstate.com |
From an emailed PRESS RELEASE on March 5, 2010 |
Dr. Jones asserted that the weather services of several countries, including Sweden, Canada and Poland, had refused to allow their data to be released, to explain his reluctance to comply with Freedom of Information requests. |
This statement is false and misleading in regards to the Swedish data.  |
All Swedish climate data are available in the public domain. As is demonstrated in the attached correspondence between SMHI (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute), the UK Met Office and Dr. Jones (the last correspondence dated yesterday March 4), this has been clearly explained to Dr. Jones. What is also clear is that SMHI is reluctant to be connected to data that has undergone “processing” by the East Anglia research unit. |
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Göran Ahlgren, secretary general
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Thought Update: Is health care a right? Let's say it is. That brings up the question, "Is government obligated to pay for your rights?" There is a right to a free press, does that mean the government should fund the media? There is a right to religious freedom, does that mean the government should fund religious organizations? There is the right to keep and bear arms, does that mean the government should buy guns for all Americans? Being a right does not mean being government funded.
| Chicago-style politics once again coming home to roost. The Weekly Standard is reporting that Obama is now selling judgeships for health care votes: |
Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he’s obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson’s brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. |
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