Karl Rove Backing Repeal of the Second Amendment?

/39 Comments/in , /by

After [Chris] Wallace brought up the Charleston tragedy, he asked, “How do we stop the violence?

Rove replied: . . .

We saw an act of evil. Racist, bigoted evil, and to me the amazing thing is that it was met with grief and love. Think about how far we’ve come since 1963. The whole weight of the government throughout the South was to impede finding and holding and bringing to justice the men who perpetrated the [Birmingham] bombing.

And here, we saw an entire state, an entire community, an entire nation come together, grieving as one and united in the belief that this was an evil act, so we’ve come a long way.

Now maybe there’s some magic law that will keep us from having more of these. I mean basically the only way to guarantee that we will dramatically reduce acts of violence involving guns is to basically remove guns from society, and until somebody gets enough “oomph” to repeal the Second Amendment, that’s not going to happen.

(Read more from “Karl Rove Suggests Repeal of the Second Amendment?” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Gov. Mike Huckabee Calls on All GOP Candidates To “Reject Judicial Tyranny and Fight for Religious Liberty”

/18 Comments/in , /by

In a powerful open letter to conservative leaders, Mike Huckabee says the United States is moving inexorably toward the “criminalization of Christianity” due to the “false god of judicial supremacy.” He explains:

Under the U.S. Constitution, we have three, co-equal branches of government. The Supreme Court is not the Supreme Branch, and it is certainly not the Supreme Being. Throughout our nation’s history, the court has delivered backwards, broken rulings. These nine, unelected Supreme Court justices have rationalized the destruction of human life, defined African Americans as property and justified Japanese-American internment camps.

Along with many other pro-family activists, Gov. Huckabee is worried that the Supreme Court will redefine “the institution of marriage, which has existed for thousands and thousands of years, would overturn the will of American citizens in more than 30 states who have passed constitutional amendments defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.”

The 2016 presidential candidate holds nothing back on the High Court, noting how it has rebelled against its Constitutional boundaries over the last fifty years:

The notion that the Supreme Court is an exclusive entity empowered to interpret the Constitution is a modern myth, which has flourished since the 1960s. I reject this idea as just another flawed, failed feature of big government, inconsistent with what our founders fought a revolution to establish.

Gov. Huckabee concludes by directly calling “on all GOP candidates to join me in this fight to defend the Constitution. If you lack the backbone to reject judicial tyranny and fight for religious liberty, you have no business serving our nation as President of the United States.”

Here is the full text of the letter along with the conservative leaders it was sent to:


Dear conservative leaders and pro-family activists,

I share your concerns regarding the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. As you mentioned, any decision that redefines the institution of marriage, which has existed for thousands and thousands of years, would overturn the will of American citizens in more than 30 states who have passed constitutional amendments defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

Under the U.S. Constitution, we have three, co-equal branches of government. The Supreme Court is not the Supreme Branch, and it is certainly not the Supreme Being. Throughout our nation’s history, the court has delivered backwards, broken rulings. These nine, unelected Supreme Court justices have rationalized the destruction of human life, defined African Americans as property and justified Japanese-American internment camps.

The notion that the Supreme Court is an exclusive entity empowered to interpret the Constitution is a modern myth, which has flourished since the 1960s. I reject this idea as just another flawed, failed feature of big government, inconsistent with what our founders fought a revolution to establish.

As both an American and a candidate for president, I will never forget who I serve: my God, my country, and the U.S. Constitution.

I refuse to sit silently as politically driven interest groups threaten the foundation of religious liberty, criminalize Christianity, and demand that Americans abandon Biblical principles of natural marriage. I will fight to defend religious liberty at all costs.

I also refuse to surrender to the false god of judicial supremacy, which would allow black-robed and unelected judges the power to make law and enforce it, which upends the separation of powers so very central to our Constitution. Too much power concentrated in the courts is a threat to our Republic. I will fight judicial tyranny and return power to the people.

I call on all GOP candidates to join me in this fight to defend the Constitution. If you lack the backbone to reject judicial tyranny and fight for religious liberty, you have no business serving our nation as President of the United States.

Respectfully,

Governor Mike Huckabee

cc: Cathy Adams – President, Eagle Forum
Kerby Anderson – Host, Point of View radio talk show
Tad Armstrong – President, ELL Constitution Clubs
Ted Baehr – Publisher, www.movieguide.org
Brenda Baller
David Barton – President, WallBuilders
Gary Bauer – President, American Values
Jeffrey K. Beene – Colonel, USAF (retired)
Hon. J. Kenneth Blackwell – Visiting Professor, Liberty School of Law
Floyd Brown – President Western Center for Journalism
Brian Burch – President, CatholicVote.org Phil Burress – President, Citizens for Community Values Action
Joe R. Calvert – President, Rabon Calvert Interests, Inc.
Larry Cirignano – American Catholic Citizens
Clint Cline – President, Design4
Chaplain (COL) Ron Crews – Executive Director Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty
Hon. Ken Cuccinelli – President, Senate Conservatives Fund
Bill Dallas – CEO, United in Purpose
Steve Deace – USA Radio Network & Conservative Review
Tom DeLay – Former Congressman
Penna Dexter – Co-Host, Point of View Radio Show
James C. Dobson, Ph.D. – Founder and President, Family Talk
Tim Von Dohlen – President, St. John Paul II Life Center
Ken and Roberta Eldred – Living Stones Foundation
Bob Ellis – CEO, Dakota Voice LLC
Tricia Erickson – President, Angel Pictures & Publicity Publisher
William A. Estrada – Director of Federal Relations, Home School Legal Defense Association
Carol Everett – Chief Executive Officer, The Heidi Group
Kristin Fecteau – Co-Founder, Campaign to Free America
William J. Federer
Robert K. Fischer – Meeting Coordinator, Conservatives of Faith
Mark Fitzgibbons – President of Corporate Affairs, American Target Advertising, Inc.
Richard Ford – President, Heritage Alliance
Kevin Freeman
Dr. Jim Garlow – Pastor, Skyline Church
Gina Gleason – Executive Director, Faith and Public Policy
Thomas A. Glessner – President, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates
Kristan Hawkins – President, Students for Life of America
Kirk Hays
Donna Hearne – Constitutional Coalition
Dr. Carl Herbster – AdvanceUSA
Chuck Hurley, J.D. – Vice-president and Chief Counsel, The Family Leader
Harry R. Jackson Jr. – Hope Christian Church and The High Impact Leadership Coalition
Jerry A. Johnson, Ph.D. – President and CEO, National Religious Broadcasters
Finn Laursen – Executive Director, Christian Educators Association International
Dr. Richard Lee – There’s Hope America
Dr. Richard Land – Southern Evangelical Seminary
Tim LeFever – Chairman, Capitol Resource Institute
Loren Leman – Former Legislator and Lieutenant Governor, Alaska
Matt Mackowiak – Fight For Tomorrow
Joseph Mattera
Bradley Mattes – President, Life Issues Institute
Kevin McGary – Chairman and President, Frederick Douglass Foundation of Ca.
Joe Miller – President, Restoring Liberty
Tom Minnery – President & CEO, Citizenlink
Len Munsil, J.D. – President, Arizona Christian University
William J. Murray – Chairman, Religious Freedom Coalition
Penny Nance – President and CEO, Concerned Women for America
Rev. Dean Nelson – Chairman, Frederick Douglass Foundation
Troy Newman – President, Operation Rescue and ProLife Nation
C. Preston Noell, III – President, Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
Paige Patterson, PhD – President, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Bob Pearle – Birchman Baptist Church
Tony Perkins – President, Family Research Council President, Council for National Policy
Judson Phillips – Tea Party Nation
Everett Piper – President, Oklahoma Wesleyan University
Bob Vander Plaats – President/CEO, The FAMiLY LEADER
Janet (Folger) Porter – Producer and Documentarian
Dr. Robert (Bob) Reccord – Former Executive Director, Council for National Policy
Elizabeth B. Rex, Ph.D., MBA – President, The Children First Foundation
Richard Rios – Christian Coalition, California Chairman
Rabbi Yaakov Rosenblatt – Congregation Ohr Ha Torah, Dallas, TX
Austin Ruse – President, Center for Family & Human Rights
Nancy Schulze – Founder, Republican Congressional Wives Speakers
Mat Staver – Founder and Chairman, Liberty Counsel
Steve Strang – CEO/Founder, Charisma Media
Frank & Sarah Teed – Arkansas Eye Surgery
Eric Teetsel – Executive Director, Manhattan Declaration
Mark Tooley – President, Institute on Religion and Democracy
Patrick A. Trueman – Attorney at Law, Washington, DC
Richard A Viguerie – Chairman, ConservativeHQ.com
Eric M. Wallace, PhD – President & Co-founder, Freedom’s Journal Institute
Jennifer L. Wallace – Co-founder, Freedom’s Journal Institute
C. Richard Wells – President, John Witherspoon College Rapid City, South Dakota
C. Frederick Wehba – Founder, Bentley Forbes
Dr. Donald E. Wildmon – Founder and Chairman Emeritus, American Family Association
Tim Wildmon – President, American Family Association
Walt Wilson – Founder & Chairman, Global Media Outreach

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

‘It’s Time to Hold Physical Cash,’ Says Senior Fund Manager

/0 Comments/in , /by

The manager of one of Britain’s biggest bond funds has urged investors to keep cash under the mattress.

Ian Spreadbury, who invests more than £4bn of investors’ money across a handful of bond funds for Fidelity, including the flagship Moneybuilder Income fund, is concerned that a “systemic event” could rock markets, possibly similar in magnitude to the financial crisis of 2008, which began in Britain with a run on Northern Rock . . .

The best strategy to deal with this, he said, was for investors to spread their money widely into different assets, including gold and silver, as well as cash in savings accounts. But he went further, suggesting it was wise to hold some “physical cash”, an unusual suggestion from a mainstream fund manager.

His concern is that global debt – particularly mortgage debt – has been pumped up to record levels, made possible by exceptionally low interest rates that could soon end, and he is unsure how well banks could cope with the shocks that may await.

He pointed out that a saver was covered only up to £85,000 per bank under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme – which is effectively unfunded – and that the Government has said it will not rescue banks in future, hence his suggestion that some money should be held in physical cash. (Read more from “‘It’s Time to Hold Physical Cash,’ Says Senior Fund Manager” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Conservative Rep: It Takes ‘Moral Courage’ to Stand up to GOP Leadership; Levin: Open Warfare with Boehner [+video]

/2 Comments/in , /by

By Ginni Thomas. Scott Perry, 53, is a sophomore congressman from Dillsburg, Penn. Exuding a humble intensity and a mindfulness of his oath to the U.S. Constitution, his daily orientation in public office means he takes no vote for granted . . .

This interview was filmed June 10, prior to a series of divisive trade votes in the House. Perry, believing his leadership was mistaken on what was best for America on these votes, felt the wrath of opposing the Republican leadership. He was one of the 34, 54, 158 and 50 Republicans who challenged the prevailing pressure by GOP leaders to grant President Obama new trade powers at the risk of eroding national sovereignty.

His phones were ringing off the hook in support of his vote from his district and nationwide after he cast these trade votes.

Yet, Republican leaders, increasingly governing by fear, risk continuing dissension and disarray. Evidence is building that Republicans, who are failing to persuade those members with differing opinions, and catering to monied interests in Washington, are alienating Americans who voted for them.

Perry has seen worse. In Congress, it takes only “moral courage” to be “separate from the herd” when you think you are right and the leaders are wrong. (Read more from “Conservative Rep: It Takes ‘Moral Courage’ to Stand up to GOP Leadership” HERE)

________________________________________________________________

Mark Levin: Boehner’s Retaliation Against Conservatives Means Open Warfare, Time to Take Him Down

By Matthew Boyle. It’s time for conservatives to take out House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)35% and all of his comrades in primaries, nationally syndicated radio host, New York Times bestselling author, and conservative movement thought leader Mark Levin argues in an exclusive comment to Breitbart News.

Levin’s comments come after Boehner’s retaliation against conservatives hit a new low this weekend, with a report from Politico about how House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)80% —playing along with Boehner’s scheme to attack Republicans for voting their conscience—removed Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)96% as the chairman of a subcommittee on his full committee. Levin even compared Boehner to 20th century Communist Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and how he cleansed his government of all dissent.

“Speaker Boehner’s and Congressman Chaffetz’s removal of Meadows is the latest in a series of ideologically-driven attacks on conservatives. Boehner seems to think he’s Stalin cleaning out all opposition in the Kremlin,” Levin said. “No Republican Speaker in recent times has behaved with less integrity in his wielding of power.”

Levin said that Boehner, House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)45% , and Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA)74% —and more—each need to be removed by Republicans across the country in primaries in 2016. He says this is because the leadership has failed to learn the proper lessons from the astronomical defeat of now former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in 2014 in a primary against now Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA), the first time in U.S. history a sitting House Majority Leader was defeated in a primary. The position of majority leader was created in the late 1800s, so that means this never happened for more than a century—and Levin is calling out GOP leadership for failing to learn from the unprecedented event.

“Obviously, the lessons of Eric Cantor’s humiliating loss have not resonated with Boehner, McCarthy, and Scalise,” Levin said. “The only solution is for Conservatives to husband their resources and target these three in the coming Republican primaries. Conservatives need to find serious candidates and raise funds nationwide to defeat them. Let them fight for their political careers as our response to their disgusting and pathetic behavior.” (Read more from this story HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Senator Sessions: Slow Fast-Track Now, Before It’s Too Late

/1 Comment/in , /by

Fast-Track, or Trade Promotion Authority, will receive a final cloture vote in the Senate on Tuesday morning. This is the bill that passed the House. If cloture is invoked, the bill will pass the Senate and go to the President’s desk.

More than four weeks have passed since the Senate first voted on whether to grant the Executive six years of fast-track authority. In that time, an enormous amount has been discovered about how the President plans to use this authority – information that was either not known or understood when the vote was held. This includes the Administration’s pledge to use the agreement to impose “environmental governance.”

It has become increasingly clear that the President’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is far more than a trade deal. It forms an enduring, self-governing political entity with vast regulatory power. Yet fast-track – which has led without fail to the adoption of every covered agreement since its inception – would rush it through with less legislative scrutiny than a Post Office reform bill.

Second chances do not come often. We now have new information and a new vote. Which means the Senate has a second chance to slow down and demand answers about the President’s plans before agreeing to fast-track their adoption.

The President has refused to answer the most simple but crucial questions about how he plans to use fast-track powers. He will not even answer whether he believes his plan will increase or reduce the trade deficit, increase or reduce manufacturing jobs, or increase or reduce wages. Concerns raised about how this new Pacific Union will impact our sovereignty have been met with only a continued unwillingness to reply to any questions about the limits of its reach and power. (Read more from “Senator Sessions: Slow Fast-Track Now, Before It’s Too Late” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

‘No Obama. No Sharpton.’ Charleston Rejects Racial Hatemongers With This Campaign

/2 Comments/in , /by

Wherever racial divisiveness rears its ugly head, you can be sure DeRay Mckesson is not far away . . .

Few have bothered to dig into who’s financing his traveling road show, which last stopped on Roosevelt Island in New York, after the Hillary Clinton campaign invited him to attend last week’s relaunch, although the odds of George Soros’ name cropping up are high.

Mckesson wasted little time pushing his message of hate, condemning an atmosphere of forgiveness in Charleston as being a result of “whiteness,” even though family of the nine African-Americans killed were the first to speak of forgiveness . . .

In fact, the push back against the race provocateur recently featured in The New York Times has been so pervasive, a #GoHomeDeRay hashtag is now trending.

(Read more from “‘No Obama. No Sharpton.’ Charleston Rejects Racial Hatemongers With This Campaign” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

The Gathering Storm: Global Terror Explodes along with Surge of Refugees, Slavery, Militants

/1 Comment/in , /by

By John J. Xenaxis. This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com

The Gathering Storm

The sudden accelerating growth in refugees and displaced persons

Human slavery at the highest level in human history

State Dept: Dramatic rise in terrorism from 2013 to 2014

When Winston Churchill wrote his monumental six-volume history of World War II, he titled the first volume The Gathering Storm, and described the signs that a world war was approaching. He particularly focused on the Nazis in Germany and their massive increase in military power, particularly in air power, which Churchill foresaw would put Britain at existential risk.

I have written many articles about China’s massive growth in military power, particularly in ballistic and hypersonic missiles, whose only purpose is to destroy American cities, military bases, and aircraft carriers. China is preparing to launch a war against the United States today, just as Hitler was preparing to attack Britain, and that’s part of the Gathering Storm today.

But there is another aspect to the gathering storm — the sudden accelerating world growth in refugees, slaves and terrorists. This is a major trend that is destabilizing the world, and brings us closer to the beginning of the Clash of Civilizations world war. (Read more from “The Gathering Storm: Global Terror Explodes along with Surge of Refugees, Slavery, Militants” HERE)


____________________________________________________________________

Global Islamic Terror Is Spreading

By Breitbart News. Terrorist attacks worldwide surged by more than a third and fatalities soared by 81 percent in 2014, a year that also saw Islamic State eclipse al Qaeda as the leading jihadist militant group, the U.S. State Department said on Friday.

In its annual report on terrorism, the department also charts an unprecedented flow of foreign fighters to Syria, often lured by Islamic State’s use of social media and drawn from diverse social backgrounds. (Read more from “Global Islamic Terror Is Spreading” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Florida Sheriff Will Continue to Preach in Uniform Amidst Complaint

/3 Comments/in , /by

Despite a letter sent to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd in protest to his preaching in uniform, Judd will speak at another church on Sunday, reports The Tampa Tribune.

The letter, sent by the Freedom From Religion Foundation on June 15, criticized Judd’s use of his sheriff position to promote his religion.

The FFRF points out an April 19 sermon at Lakeland’s First Baptist Church at the Mall, where a uniformed Judd advocated faith-based jailing and said that law-breaking individuals can best be reformed through Jesus.

In his sermon, Judd also told the Christian audience that they “are the majority.”

“In your personal capacity you can freely exercise your religion as you see fit,” reads part of the letter to Judd. “In your official capacity as an officer of the government, you are bound by the Establishment Clause and cannot abuse that office to promote your personal religious choices.” (Read more from “Florida Sheriff Will Continue to Preach in Uniform Amidst Complaint” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

High School Athlete Dies From Rare Case of Plague

/1 Comment/in , /by

A Fort Collins, Colorado, high school athlete died from the rare septicemic plague the day after he turned 16.

Taylor Thomas Gaes was a sophomore at Poudre High School. He was a pitcher for the baseball team and the football team’s quarterback. With his 6-foot-4, 210-pound frame, he reportedly had the potential for a “brilliant sports career.”

“We often talk about Taylor’s potential as an athlete, but he was much more than that,” Poudre Varsity Baseball Coach Russell Haigh said. “He was a good friend to all of our players. He was a special young man.”

Gaes died on June 8 of septicemic plague, a fast-moving form of the bacterial infection, according to Larimer County Department of Health and Environment spokesperson Katie O’Donnell, The Denver Post reports . . .

O’Donnell said Gaes did not show the typical symptom of the plague — swollen lymph nodes — but instead had muscle aches and pains, reports The Daily Mail. For this reason, authorities were not made aware of the danger of the infection sooner. (Read more from “High School Athlete Dies From Rare Case of Plague” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.

Charleston Shooting Sparks Outpouring of Prayer, Demonstrations of Unity Across US

/2 Comments/in , /by

The brutal massacre of nine worshipers at Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church by 21-year-old Dylann Roof on Wednesday night has prompted an outpouring of prayer and demonstrations of unity both in Charleston, N.C. and across the United States.

Chris and Camryn, the children of Sharonda Singleton, one of those killed in the shooting, revealed that while they are mourning the loss of their mother, their Christian faith has enabled them to forgive her killer–less than 24 hours after her death.

“This is a tragedy,” Chris told the BBC during a memorial service for the victims, adding that he wants his mother to be remembered as a “God-fearing woman who loved everyone with all her heart.”

“We already forgive [Roof] for what he’s done, and there’s nothing but love from our side of the family…Love is stronger than hate, and that’s all I have to say,” he told the reporter . . .

Police have described the murders as a hate crime and arrested Roof, who was pictured on his Facebook page with the flags of apartheid South Africa and white government-era Rhodesia adorned on his jacket. Upon his capture, Roof admitted to killing his victims in an attempt to “start a race war.” (Read more from “Charleston Shooting Sparks Outpouring of Prayer, Demonstrations of Unity Across US” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE.