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MUST READ: Why Liberals Should Oppose the Immigration Bill

FTA: Why Liberals Should Oppose the Immigration Bill: It’s about low-wage American workers, by T.A. Frank, New Republic

Most of America’s college-educated elites are little affected by illegal immigration. In fact, it’s often a benefit to us in terms of childcare, household help, dinners out, and other staples of upper-middle-class life. Many therefore view the problem as akin, in severity, to marijuana use—common but benign, helpful to the immigrants and minimal in its effects on Americans or anyone else. I know, because it used to be my own view.

Immigration Supporters: What They Said Before

H/T: Red State Blog, “The Stories They Told.”

Here are the Republican and Red State Democrat Senators who ran for election against amnesty and are about to vote for the ruinous Gang of Eight bill. Liars and cowards, trembling before the liberal press, listening to out of touch “republican” advisors, and betraying those that voted them into office.

THEY HAVEN’T READ THE BILL, and don’t care about the damage it will do. They are this generation’s “Useful Idiots” being played by the anti-American left.

Rubio: “I would vote against anything that grants amnesty because I think it destroys your ability to enforce the existing law and I think it’s unfair to the people who are standing in line and waiting to come in legally. I would vote against anything that has amnesty in it.”

Ayotte: “For the people who are here illegally, I don’t support amnesty; it’s wrong. It’s wrong to the people who are waiting in line here, who have waited for so long. And we need to stop that because I think that’s where the Administration is heading next.”

Read the entire post here.

Liberal Keynesian Economists Recommend Tax and Entitlement Reform Similar to Tea Party Positions

Liberal economists recommend a flat tax with no loopholes and reform of the unsustainable entitlement programs, social security, medicare and medicade. These economists who support the Obama administration recommend these reforms in order to save Obama’s presidency. Liberals denounced the TEA Parties’ recommendations for tax and entitlement reform as right wing extremism. Now liberals are beginning to openly proclaim these reforms as necessary in order to preserve their power.

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Council Member Helena Brown: Ask Houston Council – Increase Senior Exemption!

Hi! This is Council Member Helena Brown.

It was my pleasure sharing an evening with the Kingwood Tea Party! I got goosebumps when I saw the crowded room rise in mass, and stand and say the pledge of allegiance! What a great group of patriots! Is there hope for the future, or what?!!!

I promised this information about the upcoming Budget vote this Wednesday morning.

Fixed Income Seniors are constantly being squeezed by higher costs, such as the drainage fee and higher water rates, and it concerns me that the City of Houston does not allow Senior Citizens the same exemption on their Property Taxes as Harris County.  This week,* two other Council Members and I have joined is proposing a Budget Amendment that would allow Seniors the tax break that they deserve.*

Now to garner support for this Amendment, *we need the Mayor and Other Council Members to hear your voice. *

*Please call the Mayor’s Office & City Council Members and ask them to support the Burks, Bradford, & Brown Amendment to Increase the Senior Exemption.*

• Mayor’s Office
• 832-393-1000
• Council Member Dave Martin
• 832-393-3008
• Council Member Costello
• 832.393.3014
• Council Member Noriega
• 832.393.3005
• Council Member Christie
• 832.393.3017

Together we can fight for fairness for our Seniors!

If you are able, support our re-election campaign with a small contribution by mailing a check to

Helena Brown Campaign
P.O.Box 430292
Houston, TX 77243

Or you could contribute online by visiting www.helenabrown.com

Please forward this message.

Thank you! God bless!

Helena

VIDEO: Sarah Palin: Inspired… Inspiring…

Thoughts on Power by Robin

Lord Acton, a British historian, once said: “All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

The dangers of giving absolute power to an individual or branch of government for use to protect out Nation cannot be overemphasized. Back when all citizens learned History, it was common knowledge that time and time again well-meaning men forgot why they wielded the power and used it for their own purposes or agendas. That was how the great Roman Republic metamorphosed into an Empire headed by men who were considered as gods and then fell to barbarian hordes as those leaders became dissolute, corrupt, and power-crazed.

With good reason, those who have studied history felt deep shudders of unease when candidate Obama became known as the One. As scandal after scandal emerges within his Administration, as the People’s trust in the American government shrinks away, it is understandable why the People are rising up to fight back against the conditions which have made America ripe for a fall.

Are these trends reversible? Have the People awakened too late?

Only God knows, and time will tell.

Do Tax Increases Raise More Revenue: Prager Univ. on the Laffer Curve

Easy-to-understand explanation of the Laffer Curve with historical evidence and research that shows that once tax rates exceed 33%, revenues begin to decrease. Pres. Kennedy knew this, but today’s big government progressives refuse to admit it.

Oil and gas from the fracking of U.S. shale will end OPEC’s dominance

After years of dismissing U.S. energy production as insignificant and expensive, OPEC suddenly said it would “study” the growth in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, a deceptively bland response to the biggest challenge the cartel has ever faced on its monopoly.

African nations sounded the sharpest warnings because they have been the first to see the impact of our fracking revolution on their exports, which fell 41% in 2012 from 2011. Not a single one of these oil cartel members, nor any country with a state-owned oil company, faces a bright future as U.S. fracking goes on.

What all this shows is that the private sector, operating in a free society, sensitive to consumer demand and innovating a solution, is an even more powerful engine for upending a corrupt global monopoly status quo than even U.S. military might. All signs show that fracking is ending the power of these cartel states.

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MUST READ: We Need More “Extremists” Like Chris Kyle

Via NRO “The Corner” by David French

Read the entire article here.

I’ve recounted the atrocities in my unit’s Area of Operations before – raping women to shame them into suicide bombing, blowing up restaurants then blowing up first responders, hiding bombs in the backpacks of unsuspecting children, shooting infants then shooting the mothers as they cradled the remains of their dead child, shrieking “Allahu Akhbar” as they saw the heads off old women (while filming the deed and spreading the DVDs around town) — and such atrocities cause right-thinking, rational, compassionate human beings to feel, well, rage. Since he was “outside the wire” vastly more than I ever was (I could not even begin to compare my meager efforts to Kyle’s), I’m sure that he saw much worse, and saw it up close. These atrocities cause those of us in uniform who believe in God and follow Christ to understand that part of our calling on this Earth is to oppose that vile and vicious evil. If that morally responsible response makes us “extremists,” then I wear that badge with great pride. Heck, if I could pull it off (sadly, I don’t have the forearms for a good tattoo), I’d put a cross on my arm as well.

How Gov’t Regulations Began as Corporate Cronyism

Crony Capitalism is NOT Capitalism!

AEI Feb. 2013 Panel: Big Government and Big Food vs. Food Trucks, Foodies, and Farmers Markets – click here.

Earlier this year, KWTP attended a local Chamber Taste of the Town event where I met a couple who made the local areas Farmers Markets circuit. They explained to me how new regulations and fees were forcing them out of the market. They had to purchase expensive equipment they did not need for the produce and home-made soaps and lotions they produced. Then had to pay large fees to all three counties the FMs they attended were in. This was one of those small businesses that used to crop up and grow, hiring more Americans as they did so. But now, regulations and laws passed by our local and state governments at the behest of large dairies and farms intent on pushing little men businesses out of the market were strangling them into bankruptcy.

It is simply un-American and antithetical to the level playing field competition and free market ideology that made this nation great.

The vise is long, and a little boring to those who don’t care about the philosophy and history of current legislation, but given where our country is today, it is something every one of us needs to see. I urge you to follow the link and watch the video of this panel discussion.

And for the record, I have tried to get local media interested in the plight of some of our small farmers and businessmen at our local Farmers Markets to no avail BEFORE I ever found this link.