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POPSSupport the JUSTICE Act to Amend PATRIOT ACT Abuses This is about the Constitution and freedom for Americans from government intrusion. Read this and consider contacting your Congressmen immediately. This is a non-partisan issue. If conservative republicans in particular really support the Constitution they need to man-up and support this to really "defend freedom", instead of paying lip service to our liberties! What do you think 1776 was all about anyway? It was about restraining government from tyranny, in particular from the more conservative Tories under King George! Obama wants to continue the same Bush provisions...is that good....to sacrifice your precious liberties for "security"? You ought to know better than that: Those Who Would Sacrifice Liberty for Security Deserve Neither -- Ben Franklin "In short, the JUSTICE Act would give government agents powerful tools to spy on suspected terrorists, while preventing them from spying on YOU."
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POPSInsights Into Matters From a Free-Market Perspective Until the very end, willing foreign buyers could always be found for paper marks, so the Republic could still obtain the hard currency needed to meet Allied reparation demands. At the same time, the inflation created a capital goods boom that rapidly replaced the seized ships and rolling stock. Businesses had to choose between immediately reinvesting (and of course, malinvesting) profits in capital goods, or watching their funds evaporate overnight (literally, by late 1923). Starting with a gold mark worth about a dollar in 1920, Germans ended up with a worthless paper mark that, in November 1923 was replaced by a new gold-backed mark, at the rate of 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) old paper marks to one new gold mark. As a comparison, the worst inflation experienced in the United States (so far) was the collapse of the Continental Dollar. From 1776 through 1787 . . .
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POPSThis Thread "has been invaded by a small militia and is now know as the Democratic Republic of this thread."
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POPSACORN Teams Up With ACLU to Throw Out Penn Voter Law The statute says, "A person may not give, solicit or accept payment or financial incentive to obtain voter registration if the payment or incentive is based upon the number of registrations or applications obtained." During the voter drive, ACORN set quotas for workers that ended up seeing that quotes were met by creating fake voter registration cards. ACORN and the ACLU, it seems, couldn't care less about the integrity of elections and the legality of voter registrations. One thing that this ACLU lawsuit seems to prove, however, is that ACORN admits its guilt in the matter. If it were not guilty of falsifying thousands of Pennsylvania voter registration cards, why then would it need to get rid of the statute in question? ACORN is... issuing an admission of guilt. ACORN knows it perpetrated vote fraud and now wants to go back and change the law to paper over its guilt.
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POPSGeorge Washington Goes Postal Franklin served in the position until late 1776 (when he was sent to France) and while in office, he did much of the initial work, setting up postal routes and rate charges. Fifteen years later, the Revolution had ended, the Constitution had been written and ratified, and States were joining the Union. And the Constitutional Post was there, well-established and functional and growing with the size of the country. The Postal Service Act simply gave Postmaster General more power to organize and standardize the postal system. Timothy Pickering would be the first official U.S. Post Office Postmaster General (he held the position when the President signed the legislation), and the Post Office would remain a part of the Federal Government until 1971, when it became an independent government agency called the United States Postal Service.
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POPSA Declaration of Independence from Big Government
At every turn, the British Crown had concentrated political power and decision-making in its own hands, leaving the American colonists with little ability to manage their own affairs through local and state governments. Laws and rules were imposed without the consent of the governed; local laws and procedures meant to limit abusive or arbitrary government were abrogated or ignored. The king also had attempted to manipulate the legal system by arbitrarily appointing judges that shared his power-lusting purposes or were open to being influenced to serve the monarch’s policy goals. The king’s officials unjustly placed colonists under arrest in violation of writ of habeas corpus, and sentenced them to prison without trial by jury. Colonists often were violently conscripted to serve in the king’s armed forces and made to fight in foreign wars. But what was at the heart of many of their complaints and grievances against King George III were the economic controls that limited . . .
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POPSA New 4th of July Declaration of Independence They propose, for specious, scientistic purposes, to destroy major mining and manufacturing industries. A political party of foreign ideology such as the Democrat/Socialists, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. The Democrat/Socialist welfare-nanny-state is imposing burdensome new taxes, strangling regulations governing our every-day lives, takeovers of private businesses, and the highest levels of deficit spending and public debt ever imagined in human history. From this will flow either, or both, ravaging inflation and economic stagnation. If we do not revolt and stop this ideological madness, the United States will not survive. We shall become, like present-day California and New York City in 1975, the ward of outside creditors. China, Japan, and other creditor nations will not forever finance our heedless, self-indulgent profligacy. The wages of socialism is economic death.
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POPS Obama Flunks Global Warming 101 on Fargo In this case it is flooding and people living in naturally high-risk areas. Former colleague Professor Bill Carlyle told me the Red River valley in Canada and the US was the largest most densely drained agricultural region in the world. Despite this there is no evidence that flooding has increased. Massive floods in 1776, 1826, 1950, and 1997 are maximum events of the natural pattern for the region. The 1826 flood was 3 times larger than 1950 and indications are 1776 was even worse. Each spring the snow melts first in the southern end of the Red River valley then drains to the river which flows north (Tell the Washington bureaucrat). This creates a problem because the river is still frozen and ice jams frequently block drainage causing more severe flooding. It is not a “no risk” world. We can reduce but not eliminate risk. Insurance and government assistance offset but do not eliminate risk. In fact, you can argue they aggravate the problem.
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POPS Happy Tax Day TP event at Columbus Park on Boston Harbor sounds like a winner, by Long Wharf, where the Brits departed Boston March 17, 1776, dumping cannon and baggage into the harbor on their way out … and just up from Fort Point Channel where the first Tea Party was staged in 1773 … it took a while but Tea Parties get results! Government agents and other interested parties are encouraged to monitor these and other events nationwide via running updates at Instapundit, Malkin, who’s also got Tea Party Twitter livefeeds, Hot Air, Gateway, Powerline and many many others. (At the latter link, Memorandum, you can also check in on what the pro-tax left has to say.) Your Massachusetts listings here with links to other states.
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POPSfox's glenn beck announces comedy tour when i first read the headline? i thought this was an offering from the onion....or something of a joke in itself! OMG!!! this is not the case though- he actually IS taking his show on the road- and doing a comedy tour.....WTF??? and then of course i have to wonder? at the last quote of his clipped..."I know my thoughts but i can see their reaction to things" and am dumbfounded by this admission i think if i could have even slightly influenced a man to go on a shooting spree? i would #1 first make humble apologies to all and any i could - then i would go sit in the corner and reflect on learning how to be vocally appropriate in all situations and not shoot from the hip-so to speak ... in an effort to fuel ratings....to guard against causing any future grievous events...and basically just shut the f**k up!
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POPSDeath of The Declaration of Independence The Europeans have been trying to get their hands on our financial system for decades. It is essential to them that they rein in American free enterprise so that their socialist heaven will not be polluted by vices such as the profit motive. Now, with President Obama's approval, they have done it.
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POPSMedia Hype on Climate Change Is Nothing New "America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-year Rise" stated an article in the New York Times on March 27, 1933. The media of yesteryear was also not above injecting large amounts of fear and alarmism into their climate articles. An August 9, 1923 front page article in the Chicago Tribune declared: "Scientist Says Arctic Ice Will Wipe Out Canada." The article quoted a Yale University professor who predicted large parts of Europe and Asia would be "wiped out" and Switzerland would be "entirely obliterated." December 29, 1974 New York Times article on global cooling reported that climatologists believed "the facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure in a decade."
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POPSMass UK Rally Against Big Brother Planned The wisdom of 1776 finally strikes the Brits who are finally hating the Surveillance State. It's high time for Americans to fight for the 4th amendment too, through legal action, as well as speaking loud and clear against the Security State. The article here calls for the equivalent of the 4th amendment for Britain. It's a shame that the U.S. has one but is letting government trample it, particularly since 9/11. (But after all, that was the real purpose of 9/11 and 7/7).
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