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All over America, concerned citizens are showing up at Town Hall meetings and showing their disapproval of their elected lawmakers.  Many of them are switching venues so they can hide behind “human shields” to avoid these citizens.  Nancy Pelosi even pulled the “Nazi Card” by claiming she saw “swastikas” at these Town Hall meetings.

The White House wants people to report “disinformation” to flag@whitehouse.com.  Barack Obama has even said he doesn’t want people who disagree with him to “do a whole lot of talking“.

This is nothing short of a desperate “President” trying to scare his critics into backing down.  But, hey, if he wants to get a whole bunch of e-mails, that’s his business.  I think We the People should report our neighbors for spreading disinformation.  And I say we start with the Obama supporters.

No doubt that this community activist has enlisted a large army of kool-aid drinkers into doing his bidding.  To level the playing field, we should do the same.  In the next week, I’ll be debuting a website where fellow conservatives can report Obama supporters.  Upload pictures of their bumper stickers (including license plates).  Use the Freedom of Information Act in your state to obtain their address, phone number, and any other identifying information.  That information will be publicly displayed for people to see.

Unlike the White House, this list will not be illegal since the information is publicly available.  What people decide to do with the information is not up for the state to decide.

Once I have the website up and running, I’ll make another announcement on this site and on Twitter.

This past year, the VA assembly wasted their limited time together to pass a bill that ultimately was going to do nothing to help safety.  The only thing the bill did was to give the appearance of safety.

On July 1, a new law came into effect that made reading or writing a text message while driving illegal.  According to the statute, this is a secondary offense, meaning that as long as you’re not speeding, driving drunk, or doing anything else that would normally get you pulled over, you can’t be ticketed for reading or writing a text message.  Furthermore, the law is written such that it is next to impossible to enforce.  While it’s illegal to read a text message, it’s not illegal to read a news article on your iPhone.  It’s illegal to “manually enter multiple letters or text in the device as a means of communicating with another person” but nto illegal to look for a song on your iPod.

Even if you got pulled over, ticketed, and proven to have written or read a text message, the fine is only $20 for the first offense and $50 for any subsequent offenses.

Why did the VA assembly waste their time on a law that would do absolutely nothing?  Because it absolves them from doing nothing.  Parents worried that their little snowflakes will get killed by someone text messaging are now glad that there’s a law in place that makes this act illegal.  Nevermind the fact that it’s not going to be enforced.  When these politicians go up for re-election, they have something on their resume that says, “Hey, I care!”

Yeah, but you didn’t care enough to actually protect anyone.

My parents weren’t rich growing up.  In fact, we lived in poverty.  Things are different now, of course, but they made it through without government help because, quite frankly, they didn’t know who to ask or what was available.

They didn’t take food stamps, or WIC, or anything like that.  They just worked hard to raise my sister and me.  Save as much money as they could, bought a house in the suburbs, and sent us to college.

This is the American dream that I know.  You come from nothing and raise a family.

I don’t understand why people see the government as someone to take care of them.  My parents didn’t have to get help from the government.  Why should anyone else?

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The lawsuit brought against CA when voters approved a constitutional amendment should have been thrown out on it’s merits.  But the court took it the case and finally ruled on it today.  (Full opinion)

Despite what you’ll hear from either the libs or the conservatives, the case is about the constitutional right of the people amending their own constitution.  It was not about gay marriage.

The court decision to uphold the initiative is the correct one.  The court, ruling 6-1, said:

In a sense, petitioners’ and the attorney general’s complaint is that it is just too easy to amend the California Constitution through the initiative process. But it is not a proper function of this court to curtail that process; we are constitutionally bound to uphold it.

This brings integrety to the constitution.  It means that any measure approved by the people would be amended as voted.

Consider the opposite: let’s say that the court ruled that the constition cannot be ammended by the people.  Prop 8 is void.  So what if the LGBT community wanted to pass an amendment saying that marriage is for anyone and everyone?  Because the court ruled that amendments by the people must first be approved by the court, people can say that amendment isn’t really the will of the people, fosters racism, insensitivity, etc.

This was a good decision not because it protects marriage, but because it protects the constitution of California.