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I made one misassumption in my introduction--the guns found at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry traced back to Lone Wolf Trading Company in Glendale, AZ, not Dallas, TX, as Gun Rights Examiner demonstrated in a Feb. 9, 2011 post, presenting--at the time--an exclusive on a detailed document obtained from a confidential source that included traced purchase information. The confusion over Texas is understandable, as that's where the gun that killed ICE Agent Jaime Zapata was traced back to, and indeed, as we've seen time and again here at Gun Rights Examiner and at Mike Vanderboegh's Sipsey Street Irregulars blog,

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TAX, SPEND, CUT, SLASH THE AMERICAN DREAM

  

As I sit here watching the Sunday Morning Political Talk Shows I just have to shake my head with disbelief!

Now maybe I'm just lost but I can't understand how you can raise the debt but not adjust your spending, better yet if you cut the spending you should not have to raise the debt!

The U.S. Government CAN cut spending with out raising taxes and cutting social programs.

First here are things we can CUT

1.TSA'S budget - instead of cutting we are allowing The TSA to start working in train stations REALLY!

2.The Department Of Education - each State has a DOE so why do we need a federal version of the same do nothing thing.

3.THE ATF - This corrupt agency should have been gone WHAT A JOKE SERIOUSLY!

4. CUT RESEARCH FUNDING - I'm not talking about Cancer or health Research. I'm talking about Research like the mating habits of the shrew or what ever the animal you want to put in it's place CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHY WE NEED TO KNOW HOW ANIMALS MATE? IF YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW JUST GET A FEMALE AND A MALE DOG AND SIT BACK WITH A CUP OF COFFEE AND YOU WILL KNOW!

5. Let's look at all of the PET PROJECTS that Congress has and cut stuff like BRIDGES TO NO WHERE!

This is just a few things that we can start with.

I Keep hearing the PROGRESSIVE LEFT MEDIA say tax the rich ($250,000) rich they want you to believe that if you make $250,000 or more you should be taxed more. And in the same newscast I hear we need to produce new job's!

BUT YET THE SAME PEOPLE CHEERED WHEN THE HEALTHCARE PLAN WAS PASSED!

How do you except new JOBS when companies have to pay for Healthcare for the employees they have on the payroll let alone new hires.

Very few companies will hire until the healthcare bill is in place so they can factor in the cost that is just good business sense.

Bottom line is that President Obama talked about people having to cut back a sacrifice with turning up the thermostat and not driving SUV's well he needs to take his on advise.

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We will start blogging about the 2010 Election and ways to stop THE LIBERAL agenda!
The WE THE PEOPLE PROJECT is about solutions and action! The only way to stop everything that is wrong with our Country is to let Congress and The Liberal's know that WE THE PEOPLE decide how this Country is run!

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In my opinion this was done to take the eye off of the Health Care debate. Liberal's are great at 2 things 1. distortion of the facts and 2. Political propaganda. This is a great example of what they are good at, you see in my opinion they had already decided that this probe was going to be done way before Pres. Obama was elected. They just waited to for the right "opportunity"!

I like to call it Political Chess, keep your opponent all base so you can make you're move to win the game. Right now H.R. 3200 is a hot topic and Americans are up in arms about this Bill. The Conservative Media including myself have shine the light on how bad this Bill is and keep the hammer on how bad it is so people will continue to go to the Town hall meetings and voice their opposition against this Bill.


What's the best way to take the heat off of H.R. 3200?

Start doing something that the Conservative Media will go nuts over and start talking about "how can they or It's not right" ect... Now I know this is a important subject that could put our Country in harm, but the Conservative Media will start harping on this for the next week and will forget about The Health Care Bill and people will start to get lacked on the issue and everything will calm down. Then the LIBERAL Media will report more about this probe which will drive the Conservative Media to Shot louder, have it analyze, asking question about, and loss their minds over. By the time Capital Hill comes back from break, H.R. 3200 will be at our door step and the heat will have died down!

I'm not saying that it should not be a part of the conversation I just hope it does not become the whole conversation for the next 2 weeks. I just have one question for everybody!

How can we stop it? Until we as Conservatives have the Power "VOTES" there is nothing we can do and if the Conservative Media think the Libs care then we are in trouble! It time to come together as one voice work hard at getting the people in office that will GIVE US TO VOTES TO STOP this group from moving forward with it's agenda!

I could be wrong about this but I've seen this happen more than once.

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Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. Gambling away hard-earned money while the cupboard is bare. Siphoning funds from one account to bankroll a preposterously wasteful investment. People who do this end up broke, in prison—or up for reelection.

Author and businessman Denison Smith believes Americans deserve more than what they get out of their public servants. He’s worked on the Hill and he’s seen the kind of wasteful glad handing that occurs there. While the president and the Democrats continue pouring borrowed money into half-baked programs, Denison suggests simple solutions to the financial crises that could hobble American business and cripple the world economy.

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This we talk about the Federal Reserve, banking ,the economy, Cap & Trade, and Obamacare.

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Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) addressed an intimate group of Netroots activists during their annual Netroots Nation gathering in Pittsburgh this weekend. Mr. Massa reiterated his support for a single-payer health care bill. He discussed the risks he takes for wanting to support such a measure in his "right-wing Republican district."

According to Swing State Project, Mr. Massa won his 2008 race by 2 percentage points. The district's voting pattern index (PVI) is a Republican +5 seat. The National Republican Congressional Committee has the upstate New York congressman in their sights for 2010 along with 69 other House Democrats as reported by Politico. The transcript is below, and check out the corresponding video above.

MASSA: I’m not going to vote for 3200 as it’s currently written. Step one, I will vote for a single payer option or a bill that does have a medicare coupled public option, which we don’t have right now. If my town hall meetings turn into the same media frenzies and ridiculousness, because every time that happens we lose. We lose another three million people in America. They see that happening and negate us.

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Black man's killing by police shakes La. town

April 10, 2009

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and MARY FOSTER
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For 73 years before his killing by a white police officer, Bernard Monroe led a life in this northern Louisiana town as peaceful as they come — five kids with his wife of five decades, all raised in the same house, supported by the same job.

The black man's shooting death is attracting far more attention than he ever did, raising racial tensions between the black community and Homer's police department.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who helped organize a massive 2007 civil rights demonstration in Jena after six black teenagers were charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate, led a peaceful march Friday afternoon in Homer to protest the killing.

"No justice, no peace!" demonstrators chanted. "We shall overcome!"

About 150 demonstrators marched near the neighborhood where Monroe, a 73-year-old retired power company lineman, was gunned down by police last February outside his home during a family cookout.

The half-mile march ended without incident at a park where the longtime civil rights activist told an even larger crowd of almost 400 people that "to shoot an unarmed, innocent man ... is a disgrace."

"We didn't come to the city to start trouble. We came to the city to stop trouble," Sharpton told the crowd. "Let (police) explain why they broke the peace and took the life of this innocent man."

Some white Homer residents said they feared Sharpton's visit would deepen tensions.

Linda Volentine, whose 1971 graduating class at Homer High School was the first to be fully integrated, said the town's race relations have had "ups and downs" in recent years.

"I'm hoping Rev. Sharpton can unite us again," said Volentine, who is white. "But if it's something that is supposed to drive a wedge, it will be harmful to the community, which we don't need."

Sharpton said afterward that he wants a thorough investigation of the killing. The FBI and State Police are investigating.

"We're going to keep coming to Homer until we get justice," Sharpton said without elaborating.

Rendered mute after losing his larynx to cancer, Monroe was outside his home on mild Friday afternoon in February when events unfolded during a cookout. A barbecue cooker smoked beside a picnic table in the yard. A dozen or so family members talked and played nearby.

All seemed calm, until two Homer police officers drove up.

In a report to state authorities, Homer police said Officer Tim Cox and another officer they have refused to identify chased Monroe's son, Shaun, 38, from a suspected drug deal blocks away to his father's house.

Witnesses dispute that account, saying the younger Monroe was talking to his sister-in-law in a truck outside the house when officers arrived.

All agree Shaun Monroe, who had an arrest record for assault and battery but no current warrants, drove up the driveway and went into the house. Two white police officers followed him. Within minutes, he ran back outside, followed by an unidentified officer who Tasered him in the front yard.

Seeing the commotion, Bernard Monroe confronted the officer. Police said that he advanced on them with a pistol and that Cox, who was still inside the house, shot at him through a screen door.

Monroe fell dead. How many shots were fired isn't clear; the coroner has refused to release an autopsy report, citing the active investigation.

Police said Monroe was shot after he pointed a gun at them, though no one claims Monroe fired shots. Friends and family said he was holding a bottle of sports water. They accuse police of planting a gun he owned next to his body.

"Mr. Ben didn't have a gun," said 32-year-old neighbor Marcus Frazier, who was there that day. "I saw that other officer pick up the gun from out of a chair on the porch and put it by him."

Frazier said Monroe was known to keep a gun for protection because of local drug activity.

Despite the chase and Tasering, Shaun Monroe was not arrested.

Monroe's gun is being DNA-tested by state police. The findings of their investigation will be given to District Attorney Jonathan Stewart, who would decide whether to file charges.

"We've had a good relationship, blacks and whites, but this thing has done a lot of damage," said Michael Wade, one of three blacks on the five-member town council. "To shoot down a family man that had never done any harm, had no police record, caused no trouble. Suddenly everyone is looking around wondering why it happened and if race was the reason."

Homer, a town of 3,800 about 45 miles northwest of Shreveport, is in piney woods just south of the Arkansas state line. Many people work in the oil or timber industries. In the old downtown, shops line streets near the antebellum Claiborne Parish courthouse on the town square.

The easygoing climate, blacks say, masked police harassment.

The black community has focused its anger on Police Chief Russell Mills, who is white. They say he's directed a policy of harassment toward them.

The FBI and State Police said they received no complaints about Homer police before the shooting.

Mills declined interview requests, saying he retained a lawyer and feared losing his job.

He and several Homer police officers stood alongside a road as marchers filed by Friday. In a town where many know each other, he shook the hands of several people.

Several Justice Department mediators accompanied Sharpton and the other marchers.

The Rev. Willie Young, pastor of the Baptist church where the march began, said "things begin to happen" when Sharpton lends his time to a cause.

"I want you to meet the new South," he said at the rally. "Things will never be the same. Homer will never be the same."

Shaun Monroe holds a program from the funeral of his father Bernard Monroe Wednesday, March 18, 2009, at his fathers house in Homer, La. For 73 years before his killing by a white police officer, Bernard Monroe's life in this little town was as quiet as they come. Rendered mute after losing his larynx to cancer, the black man's death is making far more noise than he ever did, and raising racial tensions between the black community and the police department. (AP Photo/ Judi Bottoni)

The town square in Homer, La. is pictured Wednesday, March 18, 2009. A police shooting has raised racial tensions in this north Louisiana Town. For 73 years before his killing by a white police officer, Bernard Monroe's life in this little town was as quiet as they come. Rendered mute after losing his larynx to cancer, the black man's death is making far more noise than he ever did, and raising racial tensions between the black community and the police department. (AP Photo/ Judi Bottoni)

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(3) SALARY- The Director shall be paid at a rate determined by the Chairperson with the approval of the Commission, except that the rate may not exceed the rate of basic pay for GS-15 of the General Schedule.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink


(b) Staff- With the approval of the Chairperson, the Director may appoint and fix the pay of additional qualified personnel as the Director considers appropriate.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink



(c) Experts and Consultants- With the approval of the Commission, the Director may procure temporary and intermittent services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United States Code, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the daily equivalent of the maximum annual rate of basic pay for GS-15 of the General Schedule.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink



(d) Staff of Federal Agencies- Upon request of the Commission, Chairperson, or Director, the head of any Federal department or agency may detail, on a reimbursable basis, any of the personnel of that department or agency to the Commission to assist it in carrying out its duties under this Act.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 7. POWERS OF COMMISSION.

(a) Hearings and Sessions- The Commission may, for the purpose of carrying out this Act, hold public hearings, sit and act at times and places, take testimony, and receive evidence as the Commission considers appropriate.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink



(b) Powers of Members and Agents- Any member or agent of the Commission may, if authorized by the Commission, take any action which the Commission is authorized to take by this section.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink



(c) Obtaining Official Data- Upon request of the Chairperson, the head of any department or agency shall furnish information to the Commission that the Commission deems necessary to enable it to carry out this Act.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink



(d) Physical Facilities and Equipment- The Architect of the Capitol, in consultation with the appropriate entities in the legislative branch, shall locate and provide suitable facilities and equipment for the operation of the Commission on a nonreimbursable basis.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink



(e) Administrative Support Services- Upon the request of the Commission, the Architect of the Capitol and the Administrator of General Services shall provide to the Commission on a nonreimbursable basis such administrative support services as the Commission may request in order for the Commission to carry out its responsibilities under this Act.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 8. REPORTS.

(a) Interim Report- The Commission shall submit an interim report on its activities to Congress not later than 20 months after the date of the enactment of this Act.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink



(b) Final Report-CommentsClose CommentsPermalink



(1) DEADLINE- The Commission shall submit a final report on its activities to Congress not later than 120 days after the submission of the interim report under subsection (a).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink



(2) CONTENTS- The final report shall contain a detailed statement of the findings and conclusions of the Commission, together with its recommendations for proposed legislation.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

SEC. 9. TERMINATION.

The Commission shall terminate not later than 30 days after submitting its final report under section 8(b)(1)