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Monday, February 15
Why Obama is Wrong about Net Neutrality and His Scheme Must Be Defeated
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 15 Feb 2010 11:33 AM EST
As noted in the video (above), produced by The Heartland Institute, government isn’t in the business of preserving freedom, but of exercising power to regulate industries and control people. And this is an important thing to keep in mind — especially since President Obama recently reiterated his commitment to have government enforce a net neutrality regime on your Internet. More>>> Sunday, January 17
Dems threaten "nuclear option" on health care debacle
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 17 Jan 2010 07:05 AM EST
Bloomberg reports that Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, stated that despite the special election in Massachusetts, the Dems have been preparing to use a process called "reconciliation" to pass their wildly unpopular "health care reform" bill, literally changing the rule requiring a 60 vote requirement to pass the legislation to only requiring a simple 51 vote majority. More>>> RELATED: In a direct affront to the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, Obama promises that unions will be EXEMPTED from the planned new tax on so-called "cadillac" healthcare plans. More>>> Sunday, December 27
Bizarre Baucus Behavior on Senate Floor Ignored by MSM
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 27 Dec 2009 03:03 PM EST
How can one explain this incredibly bizarre performance by Max Baucus on the Senate floor? Was Baucus so intoxicated by the sound of his own voice that he went off the deep end? Or perhaps he was so drunk with power over shaping the Senate health care bill that it explains his strange rant. In any event, if a conservative such as Jim DeMint or Jeff Sessions had acted this way in the Senate, the mainstream media would have featured the video over and over and over again. Instead, since this was Democrat Max Baucus, this video was almost completely ignored by the MSM. More>>> Monday, December 21
Health Care Nullification: Things have just gotten underway
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 21 Dec 2009 04:59 PM EST
“The several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government.” –Thomas Jefferson For the past few days, I’ve received loads of emails urging me to get active regarding the healthcare vote – most of which had a subject line similar to: “Last Chance to Stop National Healthcare!” Well, if you believe the only way to protect your rights is by begging federal politicians to do what you want, then these emails are certainly right. The vote went as expected, and so will the next More>>> Sunday, November 15
Tuesday, November 10
BigGovernment.com Exclusive: Audio From ACORN Claims Jerry Brown Will Whitewash Investigation
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 10 Nov 2009 08:29 PM EST
On October 15th, local ACORN spokesman David Lagstein was the special guest of the East County Democrat Club in El Cajon, CA. Lagstein is ACORN’s chief organizer in the San Diego area. The meeting was held at Coco’s Restaurant, a very public venue. Because of ACORN’s close ties to the Democrat party, Mr. Lagstein clearly felt he was among friends. These two clips suggest the investigation of ACORN announced by California Attorney General Jerry Brown already has a pre-determined outcome. More>>> Wednesday, November 4
Election 2009: Change I Can Believe In!
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:42 PM EST
The biggest loser was President Obama, who campaigned tirelessly for Corzine, even giving up golf on several occasions and skipping a quarter-million-dollar "date night" with Michelle to stump for the Democrat. Just two days before the election, Obama was at a rally in New Jersey assuring voters that Corzine was "one of the best partners I have in the White House. We work together. ... Jon Corzine helped get this done." Except the problem is that voting for Obama a year ago was a fashion statement, much like it was once a fad to buy Beanie Babies, pet rocks and Cabbage Patch Kids. But instead of ending up with a ridiculous dust-collector at the bottom of your closet, the Obama fad leaves you with higher taxes, a reduced retirement fund, no job and a one-year wait for an MRI. More>>>
Obama and the Liberal Paradigm
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 04 Nov 2009 08:55 AM EST
Monday, November 2
The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the GOP’s Soul
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 02 Nov 2009 09:17 AM EST
The withdrawal of Dede Scozzafava from the special election for Congress in upstate New York has predictably set off another wave of media-led hand-wringing about the health of the GOP. These stories are like crack for reporters, especially those with a hard-left slant. It is always framed as a battle between ‘conservatives’ and ‘moderates,’ but the focus is actually much narrower. More>>> Thursday, October 29
ALERT: Private insurance premiums could TRIPLE under ObamaCare
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 29 Oct 2009 03:38 AM EDT
In all of the 14 states WellPoint scrutinized, ObamaCare would drive up premiums for the small businesses and individuals who are most of WellPoint's customers. (Other big insurers, like Aetna, focus on the market among large businesses.) Young and healthy consumers will see the largest increases—their premiums would more than triple in some states—though average middle-class buyers will pay more too. Not even two hours after Wellpoint had presented its materials on the Hill, Democrats were already trashing it—which, considering that it runs to some 238 pages and took weeks to prepare, must have required remarkable powers of digestion and analysis. More>>> Saturday, October 24
Top-notch Steyn: Obama a tough guy, at least with Fox News
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 24 Oct 2009 07:33 PM EDT
The most recent whine – the anti-Fox campaign – is, apart from anything else, unbecoming to the office. President Obama is the chief of state of one of the oldest free societies in the world, but his official White House Web site runs teasers such as: "For even more Fox lies, check out the latest 'Truth-O-Meter.'" It gives off the air of somebody only marginally less paranoid than this week's president-for-life in some basket-case banana republic ranting on the palace balcony because his interior security chief isn't doing a fast-enough job of disappearing his enemies. More>>> Thursday, October 22
Eroding the Bill of Rights: FCC votes to begin crafting `net neutrality' rules
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 22 Oct 2009 02:02 PM EDT
Republican Commissioner Robert McDowell said he remains unconvinced that broadband providers are engaging in widespread anticompetitive behavior that requires government intervention. "I do not share the majority's view that the Internet is showing breaks and cracks, nor do I believe that the government is the best tool to fix it," he said. Next up for the FCC is to actually craft the rules, with a vote on whether to adopt them expected to come by next summer. More>>> Wednesday, October 14
Pro-Obamacare Republicans in the pay of the health industry
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 14 Oct 2009 07:56 PM EDT
As the White House dismissed the insurance lobby's critiques of the Senate health care bill as self-serving corporate disinformation, President Obama used his weekly radio address to laud four former Republican officials for supporting the push for "reform." But Obama failed to mention that these pro-"reform" Republicans -- whom he lauded for "ris[ing] above the politics of the moment" -- are all in the pay of the health care industry and could personally profit from "reform." More>>> Friday, October 9
Common Decency Suggests We Should Not Have to Deal With This, But We Must Now Confront A White House Supportive of NAMBLA
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 09 Oct 2009 02:16 PM EDT
Obama's "safe schools"...that's right, SAFE SCHOOLS...czar, Kevin Jennings When I was a teenager, my friends and I joked about NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association. Until I was in my twenties, I thought my friends had just made it up. Surely there was no such organization that campaigned to allow open sexual relations between boys and men — a concept that did not just involve statutory rape, but offended the profound decency of a moral public. Sadly, NAMBLA is very real and today steps right out of the darkest pits of immoral human behavior and straight into the White House. Sean Hannity has been all over this story and we are just now coming to terms with how sick and demented the thinkings and associations of White House Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings are. More>>> Tuesday, October 6
IBD: The Public Will Pay
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 06 Oct 2009 01:59 AM EDT
Reform: It took a Senate panel two days to approve a public option plan after rejecting a pair of public option proposals earlier in the week. Thursday's vote moved the country one step closer to a deep sea of problems. Within the space of a few hours last Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee canned two public option amendments to the Baucus health care overhaul bill. Both had bipartisan opposition. More>>> Monday, September 21
Jake Tapper: A Secret Cap and Trade Tax of $1,761 Per Family?
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 21 Sep 2009 04:00 PM EDT
At the Values Voter Summit Saturday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said of cap and trade legislation that "the Obama team had secretly calculated that his plan would cost the average American family $1,761 a year, the equivalent to a 15 percent income tax hike." $1,761?? The Congressional Budget Office has concluded that the cap and trade legislation in the House would only cost the average taxpayer $160 dollars a year. More>>> Friday, September 18
Obama: Legalize illegals to get them health care: Republicans see a backdoor move toward 'amnesty'
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 18 Sep 2009 12:27 PM EDT
President Obama said this week that his health care plan won't cover illegal immigrants, but argued that's all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage. (We at the Saloon think the President owes Congressman Joe Wilson one BIG apology! - Roland) More>>> Thursday, September 17
Government in action: Illegal double voting in Indiana House
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 17 Sep 2009 10:34 AM EDT
The Federal Government's Shell Game With America's Money
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 17 Sep 2009 10:21 AM EDT
Tuesday, September 15
Pledge of Confusion? Schools Wrestle With Flag Policy in Classroom
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 15 Sep 2009 05:01 PM EDT
It's a new school year, but an old fight is brewing in American classrooms. Teachers and administrators around the country are scratching their heads once again over the Pledge of Allegiance. The courts have consistently ruled that students have the right not to recite the pledge in public schools. But now some First Amendment advocates are taking it one step further, arguing that the law compels educators to inform kids at the beginning of school that the decision is entirely up to them. They're advocating a "Miranda warning" for the Pledge -- an administrative notice to students that they have the right to remain silent. More>>>
Massive crowd at the 9-12 March on Washington: 1.5 to 2 million marchers!
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 15 Sep 2009 12:29 PM EDT
White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod dismisses: "First of all, Bob, I don't think (the turnout) is indicative of the nation's mood..." "I don't think we ought to be distracted by that..." "My message (to the marchers) is 'They're wrong'..." Monday, September 14
Fact-Checking the President on Health Insurance: His tales of abuse don't stand scrutiny
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 14 Sep 2009 05:50 PM EDT
In his speech to Congress last week, President Barack Obama attempted to sell a reform agenda by demonizing the private health-insurance industry, which many people love to hate. He opened the attack by asserting: "More and more Americans pay their premiums, only to discover that their insurance company has dropped their coverage when they get sick, or won't pay the full cost of care. It happens every day." Clearly, this should never happen to anyone who is in good standing with his insurance company and has abided by the terms of the policy. But the president's examples of people "dropped" by their insurance companies involve the rescission of policies based on misrepresentation or concealment of information in applications for coverage. Private health insurance cannot function if people buy insurance only after they become seriously ill, or if they knowingly conceal health conditions that might affect their policy. More>>> Sunday, September 13
Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest against Obama's spending in 'tea-party' demonstration
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 13 Sep 2009 01:00 PM EDT
Demonstrators waved U.S. flags and held signs reading "Go Green Recycle Congress" and "I'm Not Your ATM." Men wore colonial costumes as they listened to speakers who warned of "judgment day" - Election Day 2010. Richard Brigle, 57, a Vietnam War veteran and former Teamster, came from Michigan. He said health care needs to be reformed - but not according to President Barack Obama's plan. "My grandkids are going to be paying for this. It's going to cost too much money that we don't have," he said while marching, bracing himself with a wooden cane as he walked. (Astro-turf? I don't think so! We're the American people and we're the boss...not the Congress...not even the President. We are! - Roland) More>>>
Barack and Me
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 13 Sep 2009 12:26 PM EDT
I've been a committed conservative and, with the exception of one year where I listed myself as an independent, a registered Republican since 1978. What makes that rather unremarkable statement more intriguing is that I'm an American who happens to be black...Until February 10, 2007, most of my black friends and associates tolerated my status as a conservative and Republican, dismissing me as a novelty or something less flattering but essentially harmless. After that date, and especially after the Iowa caucuses in the 2008 Presidential election, I became an enemy and someone who needed to be silenced at all costs. What changed? The emergence of Barack Hussein Obama as the first viable black candidate for the Presidency, an occasion that called for racial solidarity over ideological purity or party loyalty. I know I didn't change. I saw in Barack Obama not a black man but another liberal Democrat out to convince Americans to surrender their liberty for the benevolent dictatorship of government. More>>>
Let freedom ring! Videos from yesterday's march on Washington
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 13 Sep 2009 04:12 AM EDT
Many thanks to Lucianne.com and the Ldotters that participated in the march! Thursday, September 10
ACORN Officials Videotaped Telling 'Pimp,' 'Prostitute' How to Lie to IRS
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 10 Sep 2009 04:39 PM EDT
Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents. The videotape was made public Thursday on BigGovernment.com, a political blog launched by Andrew Breitbart as a companion site to his BigHollywood.breitbart.com blog. In the videotape, made on July 24, James O'Keefe, a 25-year-old independent filmmaker, posed as a pimp with a 20-year-old woman named "Kenya" who posed as a prostitute while visiting ACORN's office in Baltimore. The couple told ACORN staffers they wanted to secure housing where the woman could continue to maintain a prostitution business. More>>> Monday, September 7
Warning: The Deficits Are Coming! The former head of the Government Accountability Office is on a crusade to alert taxpayers to their true obligations
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 07 Sep 2009 05:26 AM EDT
David Walker sounds like a modern-day Paul Revere as he warns about the country's perilous future. "We suffer from a fiscal cancer," he tells a meeting of the National Taxpayers Union, the nation's oldest anti-tax lobby. "Our off balance sheet obligations associated with Social Security and Medicare put us in a $56 trillion financial hole—and that's before the recession was officially declared last year. America now owes more than Americans are worth—and the gap is growing!" More>>> Wednesday, September 2
Obama's communist "green jobs czar": The racist rants of Van Jones
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Wed 02 Sep 2009 04:53 PM EDT
Tuesday, September 1
The Coming Deposit Insurance Bailout: Another lesson that federal guarantees aren't free
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Tue 01 Sep 2009 01:18 PM EDT
Americans are about to re-learn that bank deposit insurance isn't free, even as Washington is doing its best to delay the coming bailout. The banking system and the federal fisc would both be better off in the long run if the political class owned up to the reality. We're referring to the federal deposit insurance fund, which has been shrinking faster than reservoirs in the California drought. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported late last week that the fund that insures some $4.5 trillion in U.S. bank deposits fell to $10.4 billion at the end of June, as the list of failing banks continues to grow. The fund was $45.2 billion a year ago, when regulators told us all was well and there was no need to take precautions to shore up the fund. More>>> Monday, August 31
Gore sez we have a "moral duty" to pass health care reform now
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Mon 31 Aug 2009 01:25 PM EDT
“I’m not a very good politician any more; I just say what I think,” Clinton said. “But I have been waiting for this for 40 years ... to recreate the American dream.” Gore, in a much shorter set of remarks, was loose-limbed and noticeably thinner than in recent years — and he seemed to elicit the night’s most emotional moment. Playing off the focus of the Kennedy funeral on the Gospel of Matthew’s parable of Jesus taking care of “the least of us,” Gore thundered that the country has “a moral duty to pass health care reform. This year.” (The very last people I want to hear from about "moral duty" are pro-abortion Democrats. Especially ones that have been working hard for years to bilk the world out of billions selling a snake oil scam like global warming and carbon offsets. Period. - Roland) More>>> Saturday, August 29
"Isn't this America?" "Not no more"
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 29 Aug 2009 04:10 AM EDT
Police officer doesn't like protester's anti-Obama sign
Glenn Beck: Reasonable Questions For Unreasonable Times, Finale Day 5
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 29 Aug 2009 02:18 AM EDT
Friday, August 28
Congressman demands ID from town hall questioner
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 28 Aug 2009 07:14 PM EDT
Glenn Beck: Reasonable Questions For Unreasonable Times, Day 4
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Fri 28 Aug 2009 01:13 AM EDT
Thursday, August 27
Glenn Beck: Reasonable Questions For Unreasonable Times, Day 3
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 27 Aug 2009 01:10 AM EDT
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