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As November 2nd comes closer, candidates are starting to become more and more aggressive.  “President” Obama, in a speech in Seattle, still blames Bush for the current economic disaster: “The biggest mistake we could make is to go back to the very same policies that caused all this hurt in the first place.”

Obama has been in office for two years.  Since then, the national debt has hit an all-time high, tripling what it was before.  This statement was made by the Obama administration, and not “right-wing” conservatives.

Every democratic politician says that they are proud of what they accomplished, such as a healthcare bill that nobody wants.  What’s funny about this is that democratic congressmen aren’t calling it “healthcare bill”.  They are calling it “making insurance affordable to everyone” or “taking control away from insurance companies.”

Poll after poll show Americans viewing the current state of politics negatively.  But Obama and his comrades are intent on lying to the electorate by saying things are getting better.  Unemployment is still at 10%, despite promises made by every democratic Tom, Dick, and Harry.  Even after controlling the House AND Senate for four years, things have gotten worse, not better.
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During her confirmation hearings, VT Senator Patrick Leahy asked Judge Sonya Sotomayor many questions having to do with her beliefs and various rulings already made by the Supreme Court.  Many conservatives voted her down because of how slippery her answers were.  And now that she is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, one must ask: was she being truthful in her testimony?

In their monthly magazine, the NRA cited how Justice Sotomayor stated one thing about gun rights and then dissented in the recent McDonald v. Chicago decision.

Sen. Leahy: Is it safe to say that you accept the Supreme Court’s decision as establishing that the Second Amendment right is an individual right? Is that correct?

Judge Sotomayor: Yes, sir.

Leahy: Thank you. And in the Second Circuit decision, Maloney v. Cuomo, you, in fact, recognized the Supreme Court decided in Heller that the personal right to bear arms is guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the Constitution against federal law restrictions. Is that correct?

Sotomayor: It is.

Leahy: And you accept and applied the Heller decision when you decided Maloney?

Sotomayor: Completely, sir. I accepted and applied established Supreme Court precedent that the Supreme Court in its own opinion in Heller acknowledged, answered the — a different question.

The NRA points out that in the McDonald v. Chicago decision, she dissented and agreed with her liberal colleague Justice Breyer.  He states in his dissenting opinion (pg. 210), “In sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self-defense.”

If Sotomayor recognized that the “personal right to bear arms is guaranteed by the Second Amendment”, why did she agree with Breyer?  Normally, if a justice agrees in part, they will provide their own dissent.  Sotomayor did not do this.  Stevens, who also dissented with the majority opinion, filed his own dissent.  Sotomayor has filed her own dissents before.  So why not in this case?

Somewhere, she lied.  She either lied during her confirmation hearings or she lied on the bench.  Either way, Congress should investigate and find out.  Hopefully, if the Republicans retake the House in November, they will start impeachment proceedings.

I’ve always said that peace cannot exist without justice.  Peace without justice is anarchy.  It is justice that allows peace to prosper.  Without justice, those who wish to do harm can do so without regard to its consequences.  Furthermore, justice provides the people with knowing that actions against them will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

The Attorney General of the United States recently dropped all charges against the Black Panthers for voter intimidation.  YouTube has a few videos of the voter intimidation.  Justice Department did not release an official statement but simply dropped the charges.  Most charges are dropped when there is not enough evidence to move forward with a trial, but with the video evidence, it seems like this is not the case.

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Original letter (in reply to Virginia cannot allow offshore oil drilling):

Kellen Lauer is misguided in opting to support so-called clean energy in lieu of oil.  Citing the gulf disaster only furthers this point.  The technology behind clean energy is still developing.  Furthermore, the energy transformation for many “green” sources is so low that they are not yet economically viable.  For example, solar power only converts less than 10% of the energy it receives.

I agree with the fact that we must continue to develop renewable energy sources.  But until they meet or exceed the power outputs of oil, we must continue to find sources of oil.  We don’t stop driving cars because we see accidents everyday.  Neither should we stop drilling because of an oil spill.

If Senator Jon Kyl’s story is true, congress should seriously start considering articles of impeachment on Obama.  The President’s sworn duty is to protect this country first and foremost.  If Obama is using political manuvering to not secure our borders, he is neglecting the job that people have voted him to do.  The Chief Executive is to execute the laws of the land, not write them.  If he wanted to do that, he should have stayed a senator.

Impeachment is not meant to be an easy process but when the President refuses to do his job, congress needs to get the courage to do the right thing and begin impeachment proceedings.  However, time has shown that courage is something that both the executive and legislative branch seem to lack.

With the Republican primary coming up, I had to do some research to find out who I would be supporting to run against the idiotic Jim Moran, who has been “representing” the eighth district of VA since 1991. If elected again, it would be his eleventh term. If there was a better poster child for term limits, I don’t know him.

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