FBI, dragging feet on IRS probe, finally contacts tea party groups Contacts were due 7 months ago

The Washington Times, by Stephan Dinan, January 9, 2014

The FBI finally has begun to contact some of the tea party groups targeted by the Internal Revenue Service for inappropriate scrutiny in the first public signs that the administration’s criminal investigation is progressing.

A lawyer representing some of the tea party groups that battled the IRS for tax-exempt status told The Washington Times that a “small number” of his clients were recently contacted, seven months after the investigation was supposed to have begun.

The progress was revealed a day after The Times reported that the Justice Department lawyer who is leading the investigation into the IRS, Barbara Kay Bosserman, has donated more than $6,000 to President Obama’s presidential campaigns — a move that, for many Republicans, has called into question the entire investigation.

“They say the fox isn’t good to guard the henhouse; the fox is probably not good to investigate the henhouse, either,” said Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican. “I think these investigations need to be done by independent people outside of the administration.”

Read more.  

Obamacare: A death panel for the rule of law

NetRight Daily, December 16, 2013

By Bill Wilson

Barack Obama is in a box: He repeatedly promised “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan,” but his socialized medicine monstrosity has cost millions of people their coverage. It’s also become painfully clear Obama knew this was going to happen as early as March 2010 — yet kept regurgitating his false promise.

Obamacare also has a bigger problem: As written, the law’s key mechanism for issuing subsidies to state exchanges is legally enforceable in only one third of the country — meaning the only way to pay for its nationwide dependency expansion is new deficit spending. This would clearly violate another oft-repeated Obama promise: That his law would not “add one dime” to the federal deficit (well, beyond the $6.2 trillion identified in this 2013 GAO report).

What’s an administration to do, right?

That’s easy: Change the law.

“As we implement this law, we have and will continue to make changes as needed,” senior administration official Valerie Jarrett wrote this summer.

And so Obama has shredded the Constitution in favor of the “Easy Button,” arbitrarily remaking entire sections of the health care law that deal with its employer mandate, its deductible and co-payment limits, its coverage requirements and — more disturbingly — its power to subsidize health insurance in more than thirty states.

Consider this: Obamacare itself contains 906 pages and approximately 380,000 words. But the regulations promulgated in support of the law total 10,535 pages and approximately 11,588,500 words.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) hit the nail on the head earlier this year in responding to this systematic obliteration of our nation’s constitutionally prescribed separation of powers.

“The president doesn’t get to write legislation, and its illegal and unconstitutional for him to try and change legislation by himself,” Paul told Fox News.

Read more:    http://netrightdaily.com/2013/12/obamacare-death-panel-rule-law/#ixzz2nfoklIOx

Get the Great Speeches from the 2013 Values Voter Summit!

Did you miss the Values Voter Summit happenings? We were joined by Senators Mike Lee, Marco Rubio;, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Tim Scott.  Also speaking were Mark Levin, Michelle Bachmann, Dr. Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, Lt. Col. Allen West, Glenn Beck and more. The atmosphere was electric.

Log on to valuesvotersummit.org, and click play on the media player to watch the stream today. We'll be joined by The Duggar Family, Glenn Beck, and many more

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Rule of the Republicrats

AMERICAN THINKER

If there was any lingering doubt that Americans live under one-party statist rule, the events of the past several weeks should have removed them.  When it was revealed that the federal government has been illegally spying on every American's telephone call records and emails, members of both parties expressed their enthusiastic support of the program.  Now, Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has publicly attacked Republican Senator Rand Paul -- one of the few members of the US Congress that still believes in the America of our revolution.

For a century and a half we have been ruled by these same Republicans and Democrats, who compete with one another for the seats of power.  As the power of the central government has grown to unimagined proportions, the two parties have merged into one political cartel.  True, the two factions have competing plans for how to exercise that power -- but they mean to exercise it.  The conflicting talking points and talking heads on cable news keep up the veneer of a competing vision for America between Republicans and Democrats, but fundamentally -- where it really counts -- the two parties are identical.

READ MORE:  Rule of the Republicrats

Tea Party Issues Scathing Rebuttal to State of Union Twelve Hours Before Speech

February 12, 2013
POSTED BY ANDY BOROWITZ

In a break with tradition, Tea Party Republicans issued their official rebuttal to tonight’s State of the Union address a full twelve hours before President Obama was scheduled to deliver it.


Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) appeared on Fox News Channel at 9 A.M. (E.T.) to read the rebuttal, which some historians called the most brutal response ever to a Presidential speech that had not yet been made.

Calling Mr. Obama’s speech “full of the same empty promises and bald-faced lies we’ve come to expect,” Sen. Paul added that “tonight Barack Obama made his case: for his own impeachment.”

Laced with sarcasm and invective, Sen. Paul’s rebuttal eviscerated Mr. Obama’s not-yet-given speech, ending with a call for the President to be tried for treason and banished from the U.S.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/02/tea-party-issues-scathing-rebuttal-to-state-of-union-twelve-hours-before-speech.html#ixzz2KhzPD3At

Rand Paul Amendment to 2013 NDAA Does Nothing

U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is proposing to amend S. 3254, the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Before we get too excited about Senator Rand Paul’s amendment, due diligence must be given as to what it does and doesn’t do.

Senator Paul’s amendment is ineffectual for several reasons including, but not limited to:

1. It only applies to citizens, and ignores the rights of non-citizens, regardless of immigration status.

2. The use of the term “captured” implies full spectrum military operations against U.S. citizens within the United States, yet it is unclear what this authority is based upon. Does Senator Paul accept the pretense that America is part of the “battlefield,” and as such, is under the “law of war” and martial law?   3. Senator Paul’s amendment only references detention of U.S. citizens by the Armed Forces of the United States, but does not apply to

a. “any other foreign country,” or

b. b. “ any other foreign entity,” (See 2012 NDAA, Section 1021(c)(4))

4. By Senator Paul tying his amendment to the AUMF, the amendment only applies to that part of the 2012 NDAA targeting profile that reaffirmed the AUMF, but does not cover the second half of the 2012 NDAA targeting profile, which is the larger of the two.

Senator Paul’s proposed amendment would add the following section to the 2013 NDAA:   CONTINUE READING HERE PLEASE! http://theintolerableacts.org/docs/Rand-Paul-Amendment.pdf

Campain for Liberty—Reclaim the Republic, Restore the Constitution

This September, the movers and shakers of the liberty movement will gather at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia, for the second annual Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC)!


From September 13-15, LPAC will bring together hundreds of freedom-loving grassroots activists from all across the nation for 3 exciting days of speakers, training, receptions, and more!

Confirmed speakers include:
Senator Rand Paul
Senator Mike Lee
Senator Jim DeMint
Congressman Justin Amash
Congressman Scott Garrett
Joel Salatin
Mike Church
Jerry Doyle
And many more!

Campaign for Liberty’s own Donna Holt (State Director, VA C4L), Shawn Dow (State Coordinator, AZ C4L), and Tony DeMott (State Coordinator, MI C4L) will share their experiences and successes as state leaders. Dave Pridgeon, C4L county leader and State Operations volunteer, will share his many successes in the local arena.

Of course, LPAC would not be complete without Congressman Ron Paul, who has confirmed he will be in attendance.

Congressman Paul has stood up in defense of the Constitution and individual freedom for over 30 years, and his founding of C4L in 2008 ensured a continuing grassroots impact on the political landscape by liberty-minded activists.

LPAC 2012 is guaranteed to be an exciting, motivating, and encouraging weekend for all those desiring to reclaim the Republic and restore the Constitution.

And our grassroots training will equip you with the tools you need to turn your passion into effective action.

If you are serious about reclaiming the Republic, you simply must be at this Conference.

You can purchase your tickets and reserve a room at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia, by clicking here.

When you purchase your tickets, make sure to enter Donation Referral Code NCLPAC2012 to be entered into a drawing to win a free VIP pass to the Conference!

Please visit www.LPAC.com to learn more about our Conference activities and reserve your ticket(s) today!

Don’t miss this opportunity to gather with like-minded patriots from across the nation who share your commitment to winning our country back.

LPAC 2012 will equip you for legislative battles and capture the excitement and enthusiasm of a movement ready to make its mark on history!

I look forward to seeing you there.

In Liberty,
Adam Love
State Coordinator
North Carolina Campaign For Liberty

P.S. LPAC 2012 will be held at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia, on September 13-15. Click here to order your tickets and reserve your room. Enter Donation Referral Code NCLPAC2012 for a chance to win a free VIP pass to the Conference!

Federal Watchdog & Tea Party Report—March 20, 2012

Defend Property Rights Against EPA 'Navigable Waters' Overreach
The notorious Clean Water Act of 1972 has been used by both the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers to curtail mining, control land use in agricultural zones, stop expansion of energy companies, and bring an end to construction projects. The ‘navigable waters’ authority is one of the many dangerous avenues that have allowed the agency to engage in enormous unconstitutional assaults on the rights of property owners. Farmers, ranchers, homeowners, business owners, and municipalities have been forced to abide by costly, and sometimes impossible-to-achieve, EPA mandates that have little or nothing to do with protecting the environment and even less to do with exercising legitimate federal authority.

Legislation introduced by Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) would target these abuses by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers. The Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2012, S. 2122, with seven cosponsors so far, would rein in the EPA's regulatory overreach over "navigable waters" on private property that has destroyed the American dream of home building for many Americans. A companion bill will soon be introduced in the House. EPA could actually track the flow of water up a pipe and into your house, and call that a navigable water.

H.R. 452: Medicare Decisions Accountability Act of 2011: To repeal the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act providing for the Independent Payment Advisory Board. Sponsor: Rep. Phil Roe [R-TN1]. Status: Reported by Committee. The committees assigned to this bill or resolution sent it to the House or Senate as a whole for consideration on March 8, 2012. This bill would repeal the so called “Death Panel” which would have 15 bureaucrats appointed by Obama with only 1 person from the healthcare arena allowed. Rep. Roe says this bill has bipartisan support, but will likely be merged with HR 5 Malpractice Reform Bill which does not have bipartisan support.

Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Act: The U.S. Senate has approved of a $109 billion bill that provides two years of funding for transportation and transit projects around the country. The bill may or may not be taken up by the U.S. House Representatives depending on if they choose to write a separate House bill, but hopefully what will be left out of any final version is an amendment by Montana U.S. Sen. Max Baucus. His amendment funds the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) to the tune of $1.4 billion for fiscal years 2013 and 2014 — quite a jump from the $323 million it is currently receiving in FY 2012. This Fund helps purchase and protects lands across the country. Evidently the line of thinking within the Senate is more U.S. lands are in need of being purchased and protected by the federal government. (Sen. Burr voted against this bill and Sen. Hagan voted for it.)

UPCOMING VOTES
Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act - H.R.3606: The Senate is scheduled to take up this House-passed bill that is intended to make it easier for small and mid-sized companies to go public.

Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011 - H.R.5: This House bill would place caps on damages in certain medical malpractice lawsuits. Heritage Foundation Opposes Federal Tort Reform Bill. The problem with most of the proposed reforms in H.R. 5 is that the law governing medical malpractice claims is a state issue, not a federal issue. Despite H.R. 5's reliance on the Commerce Clause, Congress has no business (and no authority under the Constitution) telling states what the rules should be governing medical malpractice claims.

Republican and Democratic Congressmen are trying to amend H.R. 5 to protect states' and individual rights before the House votes on it later this week. Americans who cherish their God-given rights should call the U.S.Capitol switchboard at 202-225-3121, ask to speak with their Congressman and insist that he/she oppose that bill unless the unconstitutional language is removed.

Two important rallies coming up as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear the case on the constitutionality of Obamacare:

March 24, 2012: Tea Party Patriots, Road to Repeal Rally, 12:00 Noon, Washington, DC https://www.roadtorepeal.com/

March 27, 2012: Americans for Prosperity, Hands Off Our Healthcare Rally, Upper Senate Park, Washington D.C. http://www.americansforprosperity.org/north-carolina#ixzz1nAcbtEO3

Please read below about this important bill and then call your Senators!!

Defend Property Rights Against EPA 'Navigable Waters' Overreach


The notorious Clean Water Act of 1972 has been used by both the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers to curtail mining, control land use in agricultural zones, stop expansion of energy companies, and bring an end to construction projects. As The New American Senior Editor William F. Jasper stated, “The ‘navigable waters’ authority is one of the many dangerous avenues that have allowed the agency to engage in enormous unconstitutional assaults on the rights of property owners. Farmers, ranchers, homeowners, business owners, and municipalities have been forced to abide by costly, and sometimes impossible-to-achieve, EPA mandates that have little or nothing to do with protecting the environment and even less to do with exercising legitimate federal authority.”

Legislation introduced by Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) would target these abuses by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers. The Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2012, S. 2122, with seven cosponsors so far, would rein in the EPA's regulatory overreach over "navigable waters" on private property that has destroyed the American dream of home building for many Americans. A companion bill will soon be introduced in the House.


"Environmental protection must be balanced with the fundamental American right to private property,” Sen. Paul has said, adding, "It is time to bring common sense to federal water policy, and I do so on behalf of the thousands of property owners across the country who have been met with aggression from the EPA and Army Corps for wetlands issues."

From Sen. Paul’s website are these provisions in The Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2012:

•Redefine "navigable waters" to explicitly clarify that waters must actually be navigable in fact, or "permanent, standing, or continuously flowing bodies of water that form geographical features commonly known as streams, oceans, rivers and lakes that are connected to waters that are navigable-in-fact."
•Excludes ephemeral or intermittent streams -- the streams that sometimes form when rain falls -- from federal jurisdiction.
•Restrains the EPA and the Army Corps from regulating or "interpreting" the definition of a navigable water without Congressional authorization.
•Protects the rights of states to have primary authority over the land and water within their borders.
•Prohibits federal agents from entering private property without the express consent of the landowner. [Emphasis added.]
•Requires the government to pay double the value of the land to any landowner whose property value is diminished by a wetlands designation.

Passage of this bill would result in less regulatory heavy-handedness by the EPA and the Corps of Engineers in their dealings with property owners and businesses by ending their authority over truly non-navigable waters. However, this bill is stuck in the Senate Committee for Environment and Public Works, chaired by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) who has a pattern of opposing any attempts to rein in the EPA’s out-of-control powers. Here is a list of the Senate Majority and Minority leaders of the Committee that you can call immediately and ask for their support to get this bill reported out of committee and passed by the Senate:

Senate Majority Members

Barbara Boxer (202) 224-3553
Max Baucus (202) 224-2651
Thomas R. Carper (202) 224-2441
Frank R. Lautenberg (202) 224-3224
Benjamin L. Cardin (202) 224-4524
Bernard Sanders (202) 224-5141
Sheldon Whitehouse (202) 224-2921
Tom Udall (202) 224-6621
Jeff Merkley (202) 224-3753
Kirsten Gillibrand (202) 224-4451

Senate Minority Members
James M. Inhofe (202) 224-4721
David Vitter (202) 224-4623
John Barrasso 202-224-6441
Jeff Sessions (202) 224-4124
Mike Crapo (202) 224-6142
Lamar Alexander (202) 224-4944
Mike Johanns (202) 224-4224
John Boozman 202) 224-4843

When graded from a constitutional perspective, this is an A+ bill. It should help tremendously to rein in the EPA's and the Corps of Engineers' aggressive regulatory tactics that harm American businesses and families.


Urge your Representative and Senators to cosponsor, support, promote and pass this important bill today using our prewritten, editable email message.

Thanks.
Your friends at The John Birch Society

Obama: TSA Trumps the Constitution

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS RELEASED A STATEMENT SUPPORTING THE ACTIONS OF THE TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION TODAY REGARDING THE DETAINMENT OF SENATOR RAND PAUL IN NASHVILLE, TN.

ARTICLE I, SECTION 6 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION IS CLEAR ON DETAINING ANY SENATOR OR REPRESENTATIVE "IN GOING TO AND RETURNING FROM" CONGRESSIONAL SESSIONS.

CONTINUED:
http://www.teapartynation.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3355873%3ABlogPost%3A1802485&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

MESSAGE FROM SENATOR RAND PAUL

January 17, 2012

Dear Friend,


For 38 years, nine unelected men and women on the Supreme Court have played God with innocent human life.

They have invented laws that condemned to painful deaths without trial more than 56 million babies for the crime of being "inconvenient."

In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling forced abortion-on-demand down our nation's throat.

In the past, many in the pro-life movement have felt limited to protecting a life here and there -- passing some limited law to slightly control abortion in the more outrageous cases.

But some pro-lifers always seem to tiptoe around the Supreme Court, hoping they won't be offended.

Now the time to grovel before the Supreme Court is over.

Working from what the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade, pro-life lawmakers can pass a Life at Conception Act and end abortion using the Constitution instead of amending it.

That is why it's so urgent you sign the petition to your Senators and Congressman that I will link to in a moment.

You see, while the national media has talked a lot about the impact of economic issues on this past election, the untold story is just how well pro-life candidates did.


So it is vital every Member of Congress be put on record.

And your petition will help do just that.

Signing the Life at Conception Act petition will help break through the opposition clinging to abortion-on-demand and get a vote on this life-saving bill to overturn Roe v. Wade.

A Life at Conception Act declares unborn children "persons" as defined by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, entitled to legal protection.

This is the one thing the Supreme Court admitted in Roe v. Wade that would cause the case for legal abortion to "collapse."

When the Supreme Court handed down its now-infamous Roe v. Wade decision, it did so based on a new, previously undefined "right of privacy" which it "discovered" in so-called "emanations" of "penumbrae" of the Constitution.

Of course, as constitutional law it was a disaster.


But never once did the Supreme Court declare abortion itself to be a constitutional right.

Instead the Supreme Court said:

"We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins . . . the judiciary at this point in the development of man's knowledge is not in a position to speculate as to the answer."

Then the High Court made a key admission:

"If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case [i.e., "Roe" who sought an abortion], of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment."

The fact is, the 14th Amendment couldn't be clearer:

". . . nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law."

Furthermore, the 14th Amendment says:  "Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."


That's exactly what a Life at Conception Act would do.

But this simple, logical and obviously right legislation will not become law without a fight.  And that's where your help is critical.

You see, it will be a tough fight, but I believe with your signed petition it is one we can win.

Please click here to sign your petition right away.

http://nationalprolifealliance.com/rlac_petition.aspx?pid=pu2&npla=I1ABAC12I

BREAKING: Dems Walk Away from Super Committee

November 10, 2011


Latest update on the lack of progress for Dems and Republicans to reach a tax deal. Yesterday Democrats of the Super Committee rejected Republicans’ offer to “raise federal tax collections by nearly $300 billion over the next decade.”


Senator Rand Paul exclusively has JUST told Sean that not only are Democrats rejecting offers put on the table, but now they won’t even continue to negotiate and have “walked away from the table…refusing to talk to the Republicans.”

Paul warns the American people that this is all about Obama’s reelection, and the taxpayers livelihood is of no concern to Obama and the Democrats.

CONTINUED:  http://patriotupdate.com/14435/breaking-dems-walk-away-from-super-committee

Sen. Rand Paul on Senate Floor regarding Debt Ceiling Negotiations - 07/05/11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMw1ncy2F_Y