Alaska Media Announces that AK likely to lose “significant” Federal Revenue

The same media conglomerates that repeatedly published false stories about me during the election are now reporting what we predicted throughout the campaign: “Alaska [is] likely to lose significant federal revenue in any budget deficit deal.”  Take a look at what the notoriously biased Dispatch reported yesterday:

“Experts say Alaska may well feel the pinch more than other states because it depends so much on federal money. Not only will Alaskans face the same fate as other Americans when it comes to car loans and home mortgages, but they can also expect a huge drop in the flow of federal dollars that helps keep the state economically sound.”

Sound familiar?  Or how about the earmark debate last fall.  Again, the same media conglomerates lambasted our observation that, no matter who was elected, “earmarks are dead.”  When, in fact, earmarks were killed shortly after the election, none of these so-called news outlets even skipped a beat in their reporting.

The ADN Ear reported earlier this month the possibility that the Dispatch was looking into the purchase of a number of Alaska newspapers.  It couldn’t get much worse.

 

The RNC’s ‘change direction’ deception

Some Republicans, and not just those supporting Mitt Romney for president, have questioned my “Stop Romney” campaign, announced by the Western Representation PAC several weeks ago. Given the likelihood that Romney will be the GOP’s next nominee, they believe my work will ultimately hurt Republicans’ efforts to retake the White House in 2012.

My perspective is that another Bush-like presidency, particularly in terms of big government growth, would be devastating to the country. We’d be in the same bankrupt position that another four years of Obama would bring us. If we’re going to avoid the catastrophes lurking around the corner, more of the same – even with a Republican label – is not the answer.

Some of my critics don’t understand that many in the GOP have played an active role in our nation’s self-destruction. We’ll call these the “ill-informed followers.” Others fully recognize that Republicans have been in the driver’s seat during much of our drive toward socialism, but they and their cronies enjoy the fruits of this largesse. These are the “crony capitalists.” Still others are simply progressives who see the Republican Party as yet another means of imposing their leftist vision on the U.S. and the world at large. They are the RINOs – Republicans in Name Only.

Of course, there are varying shades and mixtures of the above players. For example, even where a Republican, like Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, is driven by a progressive agenda that includes support for federal funding to Planned Parenthood, homosexuals in the military, activist judges and internationalism, she finds herself surrounded by the crony capitalists: multibillion dollar Alaska Native Corporations that directly benefit from Murkowski’s vigorous support for their no-bid federal contracting.

I have little to say to these crony capitalists and progressives who dominate the leadership of the GOP; they are a lost cause and will continue to support establishment incumbents over constitutional conservatives trying to rescue the country. In future battles, they will always pick a Murkowski and a Reid over a Miller and an Angle. Consequently, my energies are focused on reaching the ill-informed patriots who, by their vote, literally allow these destructive forces to remain in power.

Read the rest of this article at World Net Daily here.

The Duopoly vs. the Patriots

 

The Obama administration’s Timothy Geithner admitted on “Meet the Press” Sunday that the U.S. economy is likely to crater to a point that’s worse than many have ever “experienced in their lifetime.” He also said to expect the hard times to “continue for a long time to come.” Wow. Finally, some truth from the big-government-loving socialists.

 

Geithner’s surprisingly frank comments followed Friday’s abysmal jobs report showing that the national unemployment rate actually climbed to 9.2 percent, confounding the predictions of Keynesian economists. Combined with the long-term unemployed who no longer register on the roles and the underemployed, our nation faces a staggering employment problem for well over 20 percent of the population. And it’s getting worse. Perhaps much worse.

 

More big government is obviously not the answer. We heard last week that Obama’s stimulus package managed to squeak out one job for every $278,000 spent. Pathetic. But this is by no means the only federal outrage; everything D.C. has done over the past three years to revive the economy has failed. From expansion of the central government’s socialistic programs to pumping trillions of federal dollars into the economy through quantitative easing, nothing has worked. Virtually all economic indicators are still headed south.

 

This extreme federal incompetency is the backdrop to the current debt-ceiling debate. On the one side, we have members of both parties – the Duopoly – saying, “Trust us, we know what’s best for you – the debt ceiling must be raised.” Facing off against this Establishment is the last hope for America: the tea party. These patriots are saying, “Decades of federal growth under both parties is destroying the country. It stops now.” And, assuming Obama doesn’t take the fascist bait by unilaterally increasing the debt ceiling himself, the tea-party coalition has the literal power to match words to action.

 

Why the necessity of the line in the sand? The Ruling Class simply does not have the willpower to act in the nation’s best interest. Both parties are beholden to interests that benefit from an increasingly powerful central government and its accompanying largess. Bought and paid for. And they are desperate to preserve this power. There’s an absolute vacuum of real leadership in the structure of each party.

 

The tea party and its representatives in Congress recognize these big-government elites are driving us straight over the fiscal cliff. It doesn’t take an advanced degree in economics to realize that as more and more money is borrowed and printed by the government, inflation and interest rates will increase. For every extra point in interest, we pay an additional $145 billion annually on our $14.5 trillion debt.

 

Just one or two extra points could be devastating. Already, federal entitlements and interest on the national debt exceed 100 percent of federal revenues. In other words, all constitutional functions of government such as defense, border security and immigration are paid for entirely by borrowed money. Every extra point of interest goes into the debt column. If we return to the inflation and interest rates of the late ’70s, our government will have one of two options: 1) print more money to meet obligations, ultimately creating hyperinflation, or 2) default on its debt obligations, losing the ability to finance government and leading to an abrupt end of 50 percent of government functions.

 

Either result will be catastrophic to U.S. stability. America will be faced with a crisis approaching that of the Civil War. Urban areas deprived of entitlements will see riots on an unprecedented scale. Our borders will collapse. The military will be cut off at its knees, unable to protect against real threats to our nation. Yet the Duopoly doesn’t seem to give a damn. But the tea party does. That’s why we must stand with those patriots in Congress who refuse to increase the debt ceiling despite the never-ending threats of the self-aggrandizing Ruling Class.

 

The tea party recognizes that opportunity for orderly transition to smaller government is today; tomorrow may be too late. And for those congressmen who continue to fiddle and drink $300 wine as Rome burns, it’s time to let them know that your vote will never again be co-opted by supposedly “conservative” politicians having more in common with Marx than our founders.

 

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Joe Miller: Happy Birthday America

On the Fourth of July, many of us are used to the typical written fare, celebrations of the undeniably extraordinary birth of our great Republic.  We read motivating patriotic themes of sacrifice, democracy, and love of country.

But what we hear less frequently is the hard truth of our contemporary crisis, and how the sacrifices of yesterday are on the verge of being forever lost to the excesses of today.

Although I’m tempted to diverge into a litany of federal excesses that are killing the country, I’m not going to take my own bait.  Rather, let’s take a little stroll down memory lane and consider where we’ve come from and try to stoke the embers left from the greatest Revolution on earth.

Our Founders hailed from countries with tyrannical central governments that had little regard for fundamental freedoms.  Driven by a desire to worship free of persecution, many of our ancestors were willing to suffer incredibly high mortality rates rather than the heavy hand of government.  Jamestown lost about 80% of its original inhabitants.  Their descendants formed the backbone of the Revolution.

The Founders were not ignorant of this history.  They were intimately familiar with the extreme sacrifices of their ancestors and why they sought out this special land.  So when the heavy hand of Britain began to squeeze ever so tightly, these exceptional families made the only moral choice:  confront the evil no matter the cost.

When you hear the stories of bare-footed patriots barely surviving through the vicious winter in Valley Forge and wonder what motivated them, think back through the history, and thousands that sacrificed before them.  They knew the motto, “Live free or die.”  Their ancestors lived the motto.  As did ours.

Why, then, do we seem so complacent?  Perhaps we’re the frog in the pot that’s been slowly heated to a catastrophic boiling point, not recognizing the tyranny until it’s almost too late.

But there’s hope.  The same freedom-loving spirit that drove persecuted thousands to our shores, and motivated the sacrifices of life, liberty, and property in our Founders’ pursuit of Independence has not disappeared.  Join a local tea party and catch the Spirit.  We will save this nation.

Happy Birthday, America!

Joe’s Blog: Ruling Class Tyranny

If you’re like me, you’re terribly concerned about the direction of our nation.  Whether it’s impending national bankruptcy, eroding personal liberties, or the incessant attacks against the traditional family, the bedrock of civilization, it seems everything is falling apart.

So what do we do?  We throw everything aside and immerse our efforts and finances into democratic change.  We identify elected leaders that are co-conspirators in our national destruction and target them for defeat.  We work day and night, shoulder-to-shoulder with other grassroots activists to upend the establishment with constitutional conservatives.

Sometimes, these Tea Party insurgencies elect patriots to office.Other times, the reform movement loses a race but manages, in the process, to drive the dark, bipartisan forces controlling much of our political processes into the light.  When that happens, we have the exceptional opportunity to discover answers to why the U.S. political system, no matter the party controlling the White House or Congress, continues to move us in the same direction.

A great example is my 2010 US Senate race where the NRSC, under Senator John Cornyn’s leadership, raised literally hundreds of thousands of dollars under my banner but then promptly spent the money attacking Democratic candidate Scott McAdams, knowing full well that every vote peeled from ultra-liberal McAdams would go to almost-as-liberal Murkowksi.  The end result? McAdams’ candidacycollapsed to the direct benefit of Murkowski.

All along Senator Cornyn falsely promised to do everything possible to ensure my victory. But he recently “insisted” in an interview with Politico that “the NRSC ‘did not go after [Murkowski]’ last cycle, since it stayed away from direct attacks on her campaign.”  He concluded that the 2010 race “turned out well. It had a happy ending.”

Senator Cornyn is part of the Ruling Class that intended to perpetuate the membership of his colleague, Lisa Murkowski.  Both Cornyn and Murkowski embrace the model of government that we’ve grown accustomed to in DC: ever-expanding bureaucracies, a federal government that knows no constitutional limits.  I explicitly threatened this model, having the gall to suggest that the Constitution be followed as it was intended.

What’s the solution?  Understand that compromise is killing the country and that your 2012 vote can only be cast for constitutional conservatives who embrace the Founders’ vision of limited government.

 

Joe Says: Get Engaged; the Time is Short

For most of us, reviewing the news out of Washington or our local capitol inevitably leads to higher blood pressure or maybe even a recurrent nervous twitch.  It seems that no matter whom we elect, government is inexorably moving into every nook and cranny of our lives.  From dictating what light bulbs we can read by at night to requiring us to buy health care coverage, the scope of government seems unlimited.  And when we look up and down the political spectrum,our legislators appear to be walking in lock step, simply arguing around the fringes rather than challenging the proper role of government.

So what is a Constitution-loving patriot to do in the face of this increasing tyranny?  Get engaged!!!  What do I mean by that?  Instead of sitting idly by in your easy chair, forwarding an occasional Tea Party e-mail here and there, take a step outside of your comfort zone and put some skin in the game.

So how exactly is that done?  How can you make a difference?  Frankly,the sky is the limit in this political climate.  Using my 2010 U.S.Senate race in Alaska as a model, first recognize that someone apart from the political establishment, born into average circumstances, can stand up and effectively challenge the status quo.  That means you.

Yes, there are risks involved.  If you speak Truth about what your current elected officials are doing, expect lots of grassroots support but significant ruling class backlash.  The establishment will use every tool in their arsenal against you if they view you as a real threat.  Using my Alaska Senate race as an example, don’t be surprised if every newspaper, television station, and political leader attacks you, telling lie after lie to undercut your support amongst the undecided.  The more vicious the attack, the closer your message is resonating with middle-America.  Keep the faith.

And that means keep fighting even when we lose some of our battles.The Tea Party movement is exceptionally young – two or three years inmost states – but we have had exceptional impact; the House’s refusalto rubber-stamp a debt ceiling increase is one of several examples of our strength.

Yes, we have lost some high-profile races in 2010 but, given our ever-increasing numbers, refusal to be co-opted, and common-sense solutions, there is little question that we are well-positioned to rescue our country from approaching calamity.  Please answer the call of our Founders; you owe it to their sacrifice and the freedom of future generations.

 

Joe’s Blog- Montana’s Firearms Freedom Act

As a constitutional conservative, I’ve fought in both the political and legal arenas in defense of our Founders’ interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.  This past week, I joined forces with the Gun Owners of America to defend the Second Amendment and Montana’s Firearms Freedom Act (MFFA) from the most recent assault by President Obama’s BATF and DOJ.

The MFFA is an extraordinary piece of state legislation.  It provides that any firearm manufactured entirely in Montana and retained within that state is not subject to federal regulation.  Penned by a patriot, this legislation arises directly from what our Founders intended through the 10th Amendment:  “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

At least seven other states have adopted similar legislation, but the patriots in Montana were the first.  And they were the first to step up and challenge the BATF in federal court when it sent a letter to all gun dealers in Montana telling them that they must ignore the new state law.

The federal district court judge that heard the case ruled against the MFFA.  Last week, we filed our amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit in hopes that it will follow the law and reverse the trial court.  If it doesn’t, we’re prepared to help Montana’s patriots in their fight before the U.S. Supreme Court.  We the People must never give up in our fight for states’ rights.

Memorial Day Reflections


Dear Fellow Patriots,

All of us recognize that our nation faces grave challenges.  Whether it’s the crushing national debt, unemployment, an upside down housing market, or the extreme crisis of leadership in D.C., it’s easy to despair of these formidable problems.  No elected official or candidate has the apparent courage and ability to lead us back to our constitutional foundations of limited government.

But on this Memorial Day, I encourage you to think back to the other challenges our great nation has confronted.  Our extraordinary people have stood up to a world super power with a fledgling, ragtag army in the Revolutionary War.  Only several decades later, we faced down that same power again in the War of 1812.  In the next half a century, Americans fought a devastating Civil War that threatened to rip us apart.  Other exceptional challenges followed, including World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War.

At each challenge, our nation’s veterans answered the call.  From the patriots of Lexington-Concord to the Greatest Generation, it was our military that selflessly sacrificed their blood to protect the God-given freedoms that our sacred Constitution was designed to protect.

On this 2011 Memorial Day, please remember that this same Patriot spirit is alive and well, represented by the hundreds of thousands serving in the U.S. armed services.  Endless deployments, constant danger, and spilled blood mark their exceptional sacrifice.

Let us join together in seeking God’s Providence for their protection.  Let us be encouraged that this warrior spirit will see this nation through its current struggles.  And let us never forget that the United States is the bright Shining City on a Hill, exceptional amongst the nations.

Warmest Regards,

Joe Miller

Joe Miller: My Latest Plans and Activities

I am pleased to announce to my core support group several new ventures that I am involved in. Although a press release will issue next week, I wanted you to hear about these endeavors from me first. What follows is a quick overview of where we’re going.

First, though, let me thank you again for your support during the campaign last year. That support was – and remains – one of the most gratifying aspects of the election. I hope that you will continue to support our efforts to restore liberty through any or all of the following organizations:

Restoring Liberty Alaska PAC

This PAC is dedicated to impacting elections across the state to benefit all Alaskans directly, and the nation at large by extension.

We will fight to get state and local officials elected who are dedicated to the principles of limited government and assert states’ rights under the 10th Amendment. Educating the public on the foundation of our nation – the Constitution – will also be a top priority.

We will work to restore vote integrity across the state, closely monitoring the recommendations made to the state legislature and the Division of Elections.

And we remain unwavering in our support of the pro-life movement.

Please visit us here:

We would love to have you join us at a fundraiser in Fairbanks on June 3 for the launch of the PAC.

Restoring Liberty Action Committee

Restoring Liberty Action Committee (RLAC) is an organization designed to have nationwide impact by educating the public and elected officials about the original intent of the Constitution, public policy matters, and other matters of national concern through public discussions, research and analysis, and legal work. RLAC recently filed a brief before the US Supreme Court urging the Court to return to the Founders’ vision of the Fourth Amendment.

You can read the brief here:

RLAC is a 501c(4) tax-exempt organization.

Talk Radio

I have been in discussions with several radio stations regarding a daily broadcast program. It is likely that a contract will be concluded within the next several weeks. My intent is to touch on issues that affect Alaska, which as we all know, is greatly affected by what happens across the nation and, in particular, by the shenanigans in Washington, DC.

We’re expecting an announcement within the next month once details are finalized.

Western Representation PAC

As many of you know, I am the Chairman of the Western Representation PAC, based in Sparks, Nevada. This is a leading Tea Party organization that is passionate about restoring liberty to our nation.

Beginning with no financial or political backing, Western Representation PAC has become one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing political organizations thanks to over 250,000 supporters across the country.

You can follow us here:

A New Beginning

Joe Miller LogoWe have exciting news. The campaign for US Senate may be in the rear-view mirror, but Kathleen and I intend to stay as active as ever in the debate over the future of America.

I wanted you to be one of the first to visit the completely redesigned and re-purposed JoeMiller.us website. It is here that I will post my writings and share with you articles that I believe are essential reading for Americans working hard to restore liberty.

So if you liked the ideas I advocated in the campaign, I know you will want to make visiting JoeMiller.us a regular part of your daily reading.

We will focus on the latest Tea Party initiatives, critiquing the effectiveness of our leaders in Washington, and censored news about the dire straits of the budgetary mess caused by decades of malfeasance on the part of both political parties.

Also you will be able to hear my latest speeches, media appearances and events.

I want to thank you again for your support during the campaign, and let you know that I personally appreciate your interest in our future activities.

Yours truly,
Joe Miller