HELENA, Mont. (April 10, 2017) – After initially tabling it, a Montana Senate committee reversed course and passed a bill late last week that would legalize limited raw milk sales in the state. Despite the victory in committee, the bill still faces an uphill fight in the full Senate. Rep. Nancy Ballance (R-Hamilton) introduced House…
AUSTIN, Texas (April 10, 2017) – A Texas bill to prohibit state expenditures on enforcement of any federal action not authorized by state law has received a committee assignment. This legislation would set the stage to effectively block some federal laws in the Lone Star State. Rep. Valoree Swanson (R-Spring) introduced House Bill 2808 (HB2808)…
Remember, liberty is our right, freedom our responsibility.
A large numbers of memes presenting our Pledge of Allegiance and the American Creed have been crossing my path on social media lately. We are expected to dutifully salute, like, and share. Patriotism tugs at our hearts, and helps sell us on the needs of our military and more. We pledge and give honor to our creeds and oaths while being ruled from experts far away. This old VFW Dude takes pause each time he hears, sees or says the pledge, or reads the creed, simply due to the history behind both.
Most living in the U.S. know our pledge, symbolized through our respect of the American flag. Fewer know the American Creed. It is time we revisit it before reciting it faithfully or liking it, sharing it and applauding our patriotic spirit in doing so.
Remember, liberty is our right, freedom our responsibility.
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"The real story—and scandal—of intelligence surveillance and incidental collection is the mass incidental collection and use of Americans’ communications without a warrant. Under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), countless Americans are subject to the same incidental collection that President Trump now thinks is a serious problem, and the rules for accessing and using those communications are far more lax than the Susan Rice process, and totally unrelated to foreign intelligence and national security." Continue reading →
"In the wake of the terror attacks in England, France, Germany and elsewhere, can we finally admit that the war on terror is an utter and complete failure? So if the war on terror has failed, what should we do to stop terrorists?" Continue reading →
"Indeed, the U.S. has carried out regime change in the Middle East and North Africa for six decades." Continue reading →
"With President Trump’s undeclared attack on Syria, a sovereign and independent nation, he has confirmed, once and for all, that he is just another foreign interventionist, no different from his predecessors Barack Obama and George W. Bush. That means, of course, another four years of war, bombings, assassinations, shootings, terrorism, war on terrorism, travel restrictions, walls, surveillance, incarceration, POW camps, torture, out of control federal spending and debt, and everything else that comes with an imperialist and interventionist national security state." Continue reading →
"The Trump administration's justification for its airstrikes on Syria manages somehow to be even weaker than Obama's Libya arguments. The time to push back is running out for Congress. If they can't do it with a deeply, widely unpopular president who in his first three months in office has antagonized not just members of the opposition party but members of his own as well, they may never be able to." Continue reading →
"In October, Trump blasted then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's position on Syria — that the U.S. military should take out al-Assad's airfields, the exact type of strike Trump ordered Thursday — by saying attacking a Russian-backed government could start World War III." Continue reading →
"At least one of the strikes appears to have been a deliberate attack on a boatload of civilians attempting to cross the Euphrates River. The boat was carrying about 40 people, and NGOs say that at least seven bodies, six of them children, have been recovered so far, with more missing. The US has dropped leaflets in the area urging civilians to flee toward the Euphrates, but apparently dropped a second leaflet warning them not to try to cross the river or they’d be attacked. The biggest target in the Hanida strikes was an Internet cafe, with the US strikke destroying the site, killing 14 people within, including four children. The US is so far not offering any justification for any of the attacks in the area." Continue reading →