Joe Miller has no Plans to Run in 2012 but is Busier than Ever Fighting for Freedom

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Fairbanks, Alaska. December 31, 2011 – Yesterday, Joe Miller tweeted a link to an article entitled, “Judicial Watch’s Top 10 Corrupt
Politicians: Alaska’s Don Young worse than Charles Rangel, Barney Frank & John Edwards.”  In response, a number of press inquiries were made about whether Mr. Miller has decided to run for the House seat for “all Alaska” in 2012.

Mr. Miller’s position on Alaska’s 2012 congressional race remains unchanged:  although he is disappointed in the Congressman’s record absenteeism over the last year and is concerned about continuing allegations of Mr. Young’s corrupt activity, Mr. Miller currently has no plans to run for Mr. Young’s seat.  Nevertheless, Mr. Miller is keeping all of his options open regarding elective office.

Mr. Miller is continuing his speaking engagements with political groups throughout the country.  He was recently the featured speaker at an iCaucus (Independent Caucus) event in San Diego this month and is scheduled to speak at the Yale Political Union in January.  Additionally, Mr. Miller is staying active in educational efforts, spreading the message of constitutional conservatism through his state PAC, Restoring Liberty Alaska, as well as through commentary and interviews with publications such as the Harvard Political Review (December 2011).

As of July of this year, Mr. Miller ended his Chairmanship of the Western Representation PAC to focus his efforts on expanding the Restoring Liberty Action Committee, a not-for-profit group organized to advance constitutional conservatism at a national level.  As chairman, he continues to be active with RLAC, hosting weekly conferences that have featured a number of political activists including Sharron Angle (former Republican nominee for US Senate from Nevada), Dwight Kehoe (TPATH, Conservative Alliance), Richard Faulkner (Blue Ridge Forum), Peter Howe (former Field Director, Americans for Prosperity), Stephanie Jahn (iCaucus), Jere Beery (Operation Firing for Effect), and others.  Mr. Miller looks forward to continuing his work with the political activists across the country to Restore Liberty.

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Safety Belts Please: 2012 Is Going To Be Rough

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The first of every year, we encourage you to look around, set some goals and live intentionally. As a family we meet together early in the year, devour some quality Chinese Food and set our goals for the year.

As part of the process, we look around and take inventory of what we see. Part of the process is our annual predictions column. We have some big predictions for 2012, but first let’s review the record of what we said in early 2011.

Last year we said, “Economic growth will remain sluggish at best. Housing prices have not yet hit bottom and will definitely continue falling. Foreclosures will continue unabated and this will pressure the banking system.”

I don’t think we were far off the mark. We continued with, “The Federal Reserve, under the leadership of Ben Bernanke, has run out of tools to boost the economy. Continued quantitative easing will increase inflation while barely budging the unemployment numbers.”

Again we hit a bulls-eye. The Fed is out of ammunition. They risk serious inflation if they pump much more cash into the system. The only factor currently protecting us from inflation is the deflation in housing and real estate. All the money destroyed in the housing crisis is being restored by the Fed, but it isn’t circulating with us common folk because it is all being used to rescue insolvent banks and governments.

 Read More at Townhall By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, Townhall

2012: The Year of the Sixth Party Candidate?

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The 2012 election threatens to be the first to feature six presidential contenders — five of them Republicans. If even the one who has already left the flock does well, it could assure the re-election of Barack Obama.
On Wednesday, Republicans may have gotten a glimpse of what lies ahead next fall, as former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson bolted the GOP to seek the Libertarian Party presidential nomination.

He is not the first and will not likely be the last Republican to seek another party’s nomination. This year’s contest offers an unprecedented vista of opportunities for also-rans to become standard-bearers.

If Mitt Romney is the nominee, Ron Paul may run on a fusion Libertarian-Constitution Party ticket. Paul has pointedly refused to rule out a third party run. That could spell serious trouble for the GOP. Paul currently polls 21 percent in a three-way race against Obama and Romney, tipping an evenly contested race decidedly toward the incumbent. Nonetheless, Commentary magazine insists the “GOP Shouldn’t Fear a [Ron] Paul Third Party Run.”

If Paul snubs the Constitution Party — or chooses the pro-choice Gary Johnson as his running-mate — the CP will probably nominate former Virginia Congressman Virgil Goode, a onetime Republican who joined the Constitution Party last year. (Under no circumstances will party founder Howard Phillips allow the party’s ballot line to go vacant, even if a political ally is running in another party, a fact he proved in 2000.) The party’s national committee took the unusual step of urging Goode to seek its presidential nomination in April. So, enter Republican candidate number three.

 Read More at Floyd Reports By Ben Johnson, The White House Watch

Mitt and Gay Marriage

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By Deroy Murdock.  As a gay-marriage proponent, I was pleased to learn that, as governor, Willard “Mitt” Romney (R., Mass.) issued at least 189 special-issue, one-day marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2005 alone. These documents let 378 people enjoy nuptials administered by relatives, friends, and others who normally do not perform weddings, as judges and clergy routinely do.

This boost for gay marriage surprised me, given Romney’s numerous contrary pronouncements on the matter.

“I agree with 3,000 years of recorded history,” Romney announced eight years ago as governor. “Marriage is an institution between a man and a woman.”

“I oppose same-sex marriage,” Romney declared at Iowa’s GOP debate two weeks ago. “That’s been my position from the beginning.”

Romney’s statements, however, conflict with his gubernatorial behavior.

 

Read More at National Review By Deroy Murdock, National Review

Maryland Abortion Doctors Charged With Murder

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Authorities say two doctors accused of performing late-term abortions in Maryland have been arrested and charged with murder.

At least one case involved a woman who was critically injured during the procedure.

The Cecil Whig reports that police say Dr. Steven Brigham, of Voorhees, N.J., was arrested Wednesday night in New Jersey. Brigham remained in the Camden County Jail on Thursday, awaiting an extradition hearing (https://tinyurl.com/6oh6zpo).

Authorities also arrested Dr. Nicola Irene Riley, of Salt Lake City, Utah, on Wednesday night. Riley was being held the Salt Lake City Jail, where she too was awaiting an extradition hearing.

Police say Brigham and Riley face charges of first- and second-degree murder.

Read More at OfficialWire AP and OfficialWire

Individual mandates are not conservative

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With the top contenders for the GOP nomination fighting over who’s a conservative, I thought it might be appropriate to talk about the individual mandate, a provision in Obamacare and Romneycare mandating that individuals purchase a minimum level of health-care coverage or pay a stiff fine.

Republican candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have both argued at one time or another that individual mandates within health-care reform reflect conservatism. They have both suggested that individual mandates bring about personal responsibility, but I’m at a loss for how government-dictated policy brings that about. Romney still defends this approach, Gingrich has since backed off of it.

Frankly, it seems that “technocrat,” rather than “conservative,” might be a good label for both candidates, because it seems that each of them are competing to be the best manager of efficient government rather than a leader in reversing the outrageous growth of the federal government and its deficits. In fact, their approach to government seems pretty similar to what the so-called “conservatives” advocate for in many Western European nations.

Conservatism is basic in its philosophical basis: achieving the proper balance between liberty and government. There is no logical way one can connect individual mandates within health-care reform to principles of conservatism. However, both Gingrich and Romney have tried to do just that. Compelling a citizen to purchase health insurance under the penalty of law is certainly not personal responsibility, and it is definitely not conservatism in action. Only activist judges with contempt for the founders’ vision of the Constitution could consider such a law constitutional.

With so few health insurance companies in the market today because of extreme regulatory burden (welcomed by these same corporations to prevent competition), the only winners via the individual mandate favored by Romney, and formerly by Gingrich, will be the multi-billion dollar health-care providers. Not surprisingly, these conglomerates donate lavishly to candidates from both parties and spend millions of dollars lobbying lawmakers at all levels.

Typical Crony Capitalism. And you can thank the Ruling Class for that.

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Judicial Watch’s Top 10 Corrupt Politicians: Alaska’s Don Young worse than Charles Rangel, Barney Frank & John Edwards

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Don Young may have achieved a new level of corruption in 2011. The House Ethics Committee announced just before Christmas that the Alaska Republican Congressman was cleared of allegations by the House Ethics Committee that he exceeded the limit on campaign donations to his legal defense fund – which was set up to defend Young against an entirely different set of corruption charges! There was good reason the House Ethics Committee released this decision after most of official Washington left for the Christmas holiday: because the Committee’s “exoneration” is a joke.

House ethics rules prohibit contributions from any single source that exceed $5,000. Young received $63,000 from “twelve companies that…were in fact owned by Gary Chouest, his wife, and his five children, or some combination of those seven individuals.” Despite an independent analysis by the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) that the shell-game was a rather transparent violation of the contribution limit, the House Ethics Committee gave Young a free pass because the 12 companies controlled by essentially one individual were “separate legal entities”!

On July 24, 2007, the Wall Street Journal reported that Young was under federal investigation for taking bribes, illegal gratuities, and unreported gifts from VECO Corporation, an Anchorage, Alaska- based company. Two executives in the company, including former company CEO Bill Allen, had already pled guilty to bribing members of the Alaska legislature. Reportedly, Young received $157,000 from VECO.

Rep. Young has developed a legendary reputation for steering federal dollars to Alaska. As The New Republic put it, Rep. Young is “well known for his sharp elbows and generous appetite for legislative pork,” including the $223 million he secured to build the so-called “Bridge to Nowhere.” Eventually, lawmakers responded to the mounting criticism and the bridge was defunded.

Over the years, Rep. Young has been linked to lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s illegal efforts to lease government property, and he has been criticized for adding a $10 million earmark to a transportation bill for a short piece of road in Florida near Fort Myers, called Coconut Road. The local real estate developer who owned 4,000 acres along the road helped raise $40,000 for Young’s campaign, which might go a long way toward explaining why the Alaska congressman aggressively pushed to build a road in Florida.

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Read more at Judicial Watch HERE.

Tweet About Illegal Aliens or Oil Drilling? Obama is Watching You

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The Obama administration is using fake FaceBook and Twitter accounts to monitor anyone who mentions such mundane political issues as illegal immigration, oil drilling, or even the word “recovery.” The newest invasion of conservatives’ privacy comes courtesy of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Rob Waugh of the UK Daily Mail reports:

The DHS outlined plans to scans blogs, Twitter and Facebook for words such as ‘illegal immigrant’, ‘outbreak’, ‘drill’, ‘strain’, ‘virus’, ‘recovery’, ‘deaths’, ‘collapse’, ‘human to animal’ and ‘trojan’, according to an ‘impact asssessment’ document filed by the agency.

When its search tools net an account using the phrases, they record personal information.

It’s still not clear how this information is used – and who the DHS shares it with.

The president and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano seem interested in assuring no one finds out, either. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), which promotes online privacy, states the Obama administration is stonewalling its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about the program. (Perhaps Obama’s bureaucrats learned their lesson. In June, EPIC received e-mails from administration officials proving that the Obama administration lied about the safety of airport scanners.)

Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY, revealed some guidelines for identifying potential terrorists include anyone who has more than seven days of food in his home, anyone who is missing fingers, and anyone who possesses multiple firearms or weather-proof ammunition. This category is so broad it would include extreme couponers and hunters.

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 Read More at Floyd Reports By Ben Johnson, The White House Watch