4/29/10, 2:45pm URGENT UPDATE ON HB 2569 and OK-SAFE Action Alert dated 4/29/10 OK-SAFE just received word that Governor Brad Henry has vetoed HB 2569, the bill prohibiting RFID tags in the OK DL/ID cards. House author Rep. Paul Wesselhoft needs help asking for a veto override on this bill before Monday, [...]
ENGLISH FIRST WILL NEGATIVELY SCORE THE BURTON/YOUNG AMENDMENT ALLOWING BILINGUALISM. The Burton/Don Young destructive amendment is meant to give cover to bilingualism. Congressman Burton is reprising his role as spoiler on the English is...
Look, I think it’s a funny picture; little old ladies with police wearing riot gear standing behind them. As if the ladies are a threat to national security? I get that. What I’m not getting is some of the ratcheted up rhetoric I’m hearing from some supposedly on the right, using terms such as “Obama’s [...]
(Joint post by Linda & Shelli) The first day of April is, of course known as the day of pranks and jokes…it’s “April Fool’s Day”. Unfortunately, too many of our news headlines read like they are pranks and jokes everyday of the year. And also, unfortunately, too many of our elected officials and too man y [...]
Quit backing losers and squishes or get out of the way Doubt he will, as Erick Erickson writes, Crist blew that wad already; Charlie Crist will not only run as an independent in Florida, but he has also reserved all of his air time in Florida through November, or as much as he can. Why? [...]
At one level, this is petty but it’s indicative of a bigger problem. Have you made a reservation at a hotel, and found out at the last minute that instead of the quoted price, you’re paying an additional $20 a day because of a “resort fee?” Why can’t they be honest and simply show the [...]
To the degree that these elites will use the financial crisis to further concentrate power and wealth, we think that increased, monetary chaos is a possibility. If, on the other hand, national economic elites allow a semblance of a marketplace for money to operate, perhaps the situation can be salvaged. A private gold and silver standard would be most useful in this regard. Further consolidation of the money system under, say, an IMF regime, would not be.
We agree with Eric Sprott about gold, or at least as his comments are reported in the above excerpted article. And of course we take into account that his optimism is colored by his launch of a gold hedge fund with a perceived superiority because investors can redeem their shares for physical gold. We would only point out that one might think of buying physical gold to begin with and taking delivery - thus short-circuiting the necessity of buying an ETF at all.
When campaigning for the presidency, Obama promised us that if elected, he'd move America away from fascism, by ending the Bush policies of torture and fanatic militarism in two important ways: First, he'd terminate the practice of sending the so-called "enemy non-combatants" to over 170 foreign military bases for torture, and end the notorious military tribunals that deny detainees basic rights. It was change most of us believed in, but has never come.
OKLAHOMA CITY – State Sen. Randy Brogdon said he was disappointed to learn that Gov. Brad Henry had vetoed Senate Bill 1685, the Oklahoma Firearms Freedom Act. The bill was designed to stop further encroachment of the federal government on Second Amendment rights by exempting firearms and ammunition manufactured in Oklahoma from regulations handed down from Washington D.C.