Victims of the Global Commie Unionist Corporate Criminal Regimes ;

The political opportunists will use a
worsening disaster as capital to impede
oil exploration efforts, when their very
interference forced exploration so far
offshore and so deep as to make drilling
so difficult and risky.

The governor has said
he will start the dredging,
even if it means going to jail
himself.

If he really offers leadership like that,
there are probably a hundred thousand
watermen, shrimpers, fishermen, and
assorted bayou boys in Louisiana who
would gladly take his place at the Bastille.

The State of Arizona
also faces two enemies :

The army of intruders crossing an
unsecured border is one, and the
federal government that refuses to
secure it is the other.

One enemy has many faces,
drug running, human trafficking, ruined
desert habitats, crime, kidnapping, and
national security concerns among them.

When the crime and cost resulting from
that unsecured border became too grave
and the federal government steadfastly
refused to do its duty to secure the border
and protect the citizens of Arizona, the state
rightfully took matters into its own hands.

It is now beginning to feel
the wrath of the second enemy.

The courts will play out decisions
of constitutionality and supremacy
of federal law, but the reality on the
ground is that a dangerous situation
existed, one that threatened the life,
liberty, and property of Americans,
and something had to be done.

Again, the federal government is
willfully obstructionist and incompetent
when it comes to securing the border.

Border patrol agents need to wait for
the Parks Service before they can enter
the parkland and preserve what makes
up the vast majority of the Arizona border
area, leaving huge gaps where drugs and
people swarm north.

Most recently, John Morton, the assistant
secretary of homeland security for U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
has stated that his agency may not even
process illegal immigrants referred by the
state of Arizona due to the controversial
law, a position backed by Janet Napolitano,
Secretary of Homeland Security.

Few of the political elite have any interest
in securing the border ; many of them are
pandering for votes and voters, and their
campaign donors want an inexhaustible
supply of cheap labor.

Just as in Louisiana,
the people on the ground -- the ranchers,
business owners, and citizens of Arizona --
will reap the consequences of Federal
indifference and irresponsibility
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/enemy_of_the_states.html

How did we get there?

That is the question posed by
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)
to Supreme Court Justice
Nominee Sonia Sotomayor
during her confirmation hearing.

The "there" Senator Coburn was
asking about is the situation where the
individual's right to bear arms is explicit
in the Constitution yet unsettled in law,
while a woman's right to privacy
(to an abortion), not mentioned at all
in the Constitution, is settled in law.

Thus, the perfectly reasonable
question, "How did we get there?"

The problem we face is that
there are a lot of "theres" out there.

From an early age,
we Americans are taught
that ours is a government with
limited powers designed to protect
the liberty of the individual from
powerful individuals, special interest
groups, and tyranny of the majority
imposed by government itself -- that
the brilliance of our founders was in
crafting a constitution that enumerates
the powers of the federal government
and that any power not specifically given
to that government cannot be usurped
from the states or the people.

Today, it is estimated that two-thirds
to three-fourths of federal government
expenditures do not have a foundation
in its enumerated powers, and nearly all
of the regulatory agencies are without
any Constitutional foundation.

How did we get there?

Since 1789, forty-three
presidents have taken an
oath "to preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution
of the United States."

Since 1789,
every Senator and Representative,
every member of the several state
legislatures, every executive and judicial
officer, whether of the United States or
of the several States, was or is bound
by an oath or affirmation to support
the Constitution of the United States.

Still, we have gone from a government
intended to be small and unintrusive in
our economy to one that is so bloated
that its direct expenditures account for
25 percent of total output -- but that is
only a fraction of the true cost of government
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/how_did_we_get_there.html