Like most of you, I’ve bought insurance policies over the years. My understanding is that you are covered after you fill out an application and pass some kind of underwriting. Most importantly, your application does not go to underwriting until you present the agent or company with a payment, usually the first month’s premium. We […]
Archives for December 2013
‘Today is a good day for the freedoms of speech and religious liberty’
December 27, 2013 by
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal lauded A&E for its decision to reverse the suspension of Phil Robertson, the patriarch of the family who stars in the reality show “Duck Dynasty,” calling it a victory for “the freedoms of speech and religious liberty.” “Duck Dynasty” is filmed in Louisiana, and it has been the […]
Forbes: ‘President Obama’s Top 10 Constitutional Violations of 2013′
December 27, 2013 by
In an op-ed for Forbes.com, Ilya Shapiro outlines President Barack Obama’s “top 10 constitutional violations of 2013.” The list includes everything from the the delay of Obamacare’s “out-of-pocket caps” to political profiling by the IRS. “Unfortunately, the president fomented this upswing in civic interest not by talking up the constitutional aspects of his policy agenda, […]
ATF Agent Sends Shockwaves Across Internet With Explosive Allegations About ‘Fast and Furious’ and Brian Terry’s Death
December 27, 2013 by
John Dodson, the federal agent who blew the lid off the Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious” gun-walking scandal, claims the FBI had ties to the men who killed U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in 2010 near Nogales, Ariz. In fact, Dodson says the Mexican bandits who gunned down Terry were working for FBI operatives […]
General calls for massive march on Washington
December 27, 2013 by
‘We need to get off our derrieres. … Hope is not a strategy’ The retired American military commander who earlier said in a statement released to WND that Americans need to confront Barack Obama’s tyranny now is recommending the Egyptian model through which to do that. The Egyptian model, Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely explained […]
Speaking on the Common Core of Standards
December 27, 2013 by
An Interview with Beverly Eakman: Speaking on the Common Core of Standards Michael F. Shaughnessy Eastern New Mexico University 1) I understand that you have been making speaking, radio and TV appearances recently regarding the Common Core of Standards (or CCS). Tell us about them! The Common Core of Standards, or CCS, for […]
US Retirement Accounts at Risk
December 27, 2013 by
Retirees, investors, business owners, and countless others are becoming increasingly concerned by the growing debts of governments worldwide. As Japan slips into its third decade of an ever-deepening recession, observers also point to the United States, whose national government indebtedness is now the largest of any in human history. Consider these facts: In 2001, the […]
WHERE IS YOUR SPINE, AMERICA?
December 27, 2013 by
There is a reason that the only times communism has really been tried have been after wars, revolutions, or coups d’état. You have to have complete chaos for people to be willing to accept the garbage that centralized planning produces. Take the Soviet Union, for example. After two wars, famine, and the collapse of the […]
Victory for Religious Freedom in Public Schools
December 26, 2013 by
Over the last 12 months, Liberty Counsel has worked with many parents and students to advance religious liberty in public schools. Through your generous support, we successfully scored many victories for Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) in numerous states. In some cases, CEF’s Good News Clubs were not allowed to meet. In others, the club could […]
Obamacare Is Falling Apart Before Our Eyes
December 26, 2013 by
The wrecking ball swung again toward the crumbling Obamacare edifice yesterday. Ironically, it continues to be the Obama administration that is operating the heavy machinery. Barack Obama Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced, in the form of a letter to Democratic senators, that Obamacare’s individual mandate tax will be waived in 2014 for persons who had their policies canceled in 2013 due to Obamacare. At this point, after months of on-the-fly pronouncements, delays, and exemptions (often announced, not coincidentally, in the days just before a major national holiday), perhaps nothing should surprise us anymore about Obamacare’s disastrous […]
What President Obama and Cuba’s Raul Castro Have in Common
December 26, 2013 by
You may not have seen the article about Communist Cuba leader Raul Castro and the comment he made about entrepreneurship. Cuba is so bad off economically that the pure Marxist ideological dystopia is a test case for why Communism is inherently self-destructive for those it claims to help but beneficial for its administrators. But Raul, […]
The Unaffordable Care Act: Obamacare Drives Up Premiums Nationwide
December 26, 2013 by
Another day, another terrible headline for Obamacare. Under the banner “Lack aid? Many counties have only pricey plans,” USA Today repots: More than half of the counties in 34 states using the federal health insurance exchange lack even a bronze plan that’s affordable — by the government’s own definition — for 40-year-old couples who make […]
Bigger Badder NDAA 2014 Quietly Passed the House and Senate On the Way to Obamas Desk
December 26, 2013 by
While everyone is distracted with the holiday festivities, Congress has been hard at work, screwing us over in the name of national security. It authorizes massive spending, including $527 billion in base defense spending for the current fiscal year, funding for the war in Afghanistan, and funding for nuclear weapons programs. The indefinite detention […]
Defeating the West Via the Womb – the Islamic Invasion
December 25, 2013 by
While the citizens of Western civilizations have been preoccupied with their own selfish interests, those of the Islamic world have been busy populating a world their children and grandchildren will control. In America, Canada, and Europe, the citizens have been limiting the number of children in their families. Personally, I believe the reasons they chose […]
US Embassy in Kabul attacked on Christmas Day
December 25, 2013 by
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Kabul was hit by indirect fire before dawn on Christmas Day but no Americans were hurt, as attacks elsewhere in Afghanistan killed at least six people Wednesday, officials said. Two rounds struck the sprawling embassy compound but it was not immediately clear which part of the […]
Obama´s Violations of our Constitution and Election Fraud
December 25, 2013 by
Barack Obama is a rogue president who has used tyrannical executive orders and government regulations to bypass Congress. He has no respect of our Constitution. In 2001 Obama said that “the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties full of constrains imposed upon us by our Founding Fathers.” Obama hates those “constraints” since he wants […]
Like Nixon, Obama Must Be Forced to Resign
December 25, 2013 by
“President Barack Obama is ending his fifth year in office with the lowest approval ratings at this point in the presidency since President Richard Nixon, according to a new Washington Post/ABC poll released Tuesday.” A December 17 Reuters article was titled, “Obama’s Current Approval Rating Is The Ugliest Since Nixon.” Nixon was forced to resign […]
Saudi Arabia an enemy of the United States?
December 25, 2013 by
In 2001/2002 we hit Afghanistan and overthrew the Taliban for aiding and abetting Al Qaida and for hosting Osama Bin Laden after the attacks on New York City, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania on September 11th 2001. We then went on to invade Iraq. This Iraq invasion had no constitutional reasoning and in my […]
GREETINGS FROM THE WELFARE STATE
December 25, 2013 by
I attended a round-table presentation given by a local doctor on expanding Medicare to cover ever more Americans. A member of the group during the discussion asked everyone around that table about their personal health care coverage. Everyone said the federal government was at least in part subsidizing their coverage. I want to use the example of […]
A Soldier’s Christmas
December 25, 2013 by
This video courtesy of W.B. Ward who wrote: I have seen the text version of this floating around the Internet, and it was so beautifully written I could not help but produce the narrative. It is my wish that this touches you in ways that would cause you to share this message. Merry Christmas. I […]
SEND OUT THE CLOWNS
December 24, 2013 by
Obama signs order for federal worker pay raises in 2014
December 24, 2013 by
HONOLULU (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, as signaled earlier in the year, signed an executive order on Monday setting federal civilian and military pay rates for 2014, and including the first raise for civilian workers in four years. Military and civilian employees will get a 1 percent raise in the new year, consistent with the […]
Don’t say “Christmas,” soldier
December 24, 2013 by
Maybe it was about time to get the Army involved in the War On Christmas – a long march through every corner of American life by the anti-religious, collectivist Left, designed to scour this prime patch of emotional and intellectual real estate clean of all religious significance. You’ll lose this holiday, Christians, even if they […]
Outrage as Army bans word ‘Christmas’: ‘Treats pornography better than it does Christmas’
December 24, 2013 by
The Army got a stern warning from a Defense Department representative recently. Avoid the word “Christmas” under all circumstances. An equal opportunity officer delivered the message to leaders of the 158th Infantry Brigade at Mississippi’s Camp Shelby, according to Fox News. An unidentified soldier attending the meeting said that when the subject of the upcoming […]
Christmas Day: A&E Runs ‘Duck Dynasty’ Super Marathon
December 24, 2013 by
Starting at 3:30pm Christmas Day, A&E will broadcast a super marathon of 25 “Duck Dynasty” episodes. The marathon will run until 4am. This will be the second “Duck Dynasty” marathon the network has broadcast after indefinitely suspending Phil Robertson, the series’ star, for the crime of discussing Biblical sin, including homosexuality, with GQ Magazine. The […]
Christmas and its lessons in humility
December 24, 2013 by
Comparing King Jesus to King Herod As we revisit the Christmas story this holiday season, the Gospel narratives invariably take us back to the humble setting of Christ’s birth. Indeed, the Hebrew prophets had foretold that the coming of Israel’s promised Messiah-King, the Son of David, would be marked by meekness. “Rejoice greatly, O […]
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
December 24, 2013 by