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Legally, There is No Such Thing as a Federal Death Penalty
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will seek the death penalty for the suspect in the June 2015 Charleston Church Shootings. Dylann Roof is charged in the South Carolina attack that killed nine people. “The nature of the alleged crime and the resulting harm compelled this decision,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch said. While I personally…
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Reasonably Be Consumed
It is stuff like this leaves my blood boiling. In yet another federal overreach, we are seeing our God-given sovereignty and liberties eroded and not one federal representative has a single word to say against such encroachment. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration 21 CFR Part 10 Docket No. FDA-2004-N-0258 (formerly…
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Slow Lines and Missed Flights to Cost Taxpayers
Back in September 2013, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was accused of colluding to create traffic jams by closing lanes at a main toll plaza for the upper level of the George Washington Bridge. The same-stream Progressive media jumped on the story claiming the resulting lines of backed-up traffic were a result of a political…
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Lukewarm
“I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm — neither hot nor cold — I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a…
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The Redemption of Ridenhour
Ridenhour slid from the bar stool and stumbled outside onto the sidewalk. The street was empty and the early morning air bit into his exposed face as he staggered homeward. He had become the town drunk in less than three years. That was the same amount of time he’d spent trying to drown his sorrow…
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The Fallacy of the ‘Federal Abortion Law’
This is a great learning moment that came shortly after I posted this ‘news item’ to my Facebook page: “Oklahoma’s legislature has passed a bill criminalizing abortion procedures in the state. The bill would penalize anyone found to have performed an abortion with up to three years in prison and revoke the licenses of doctors…
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Obama’s Executive Overreach is Tyranny
The Department of Labor (DOL) has announced a new regulation that increases the salary threshold for paid overtime from less than $455 per week to $913 per week. Currently, salaried workers are only entitled to overtime pay if they make less than $23,660 annually. Employees who earn yearly salaries of $47,476 or less will be…
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The Constitutional Problems of ‘Interpretation,’ Opinion’ and ‘Bureaucracy’
We to start calling our Congressmen and women ‘Representatives’ because they ‘only represent us,’ they are not our Lords and Masters, that the supreme Court IS a branch of government, subject to checks and balances, to the dismissal of judges, that ‘supreme’ at the front of their office is an adjective while Court is the…
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Supreme Court Creates Itself a New Authority
The supreme Court is seeking a compromise that allows religious non-profits who argue that the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate violates religious freedom, to opt out of coverage while guaranteeing free birth control for employees. They’re doing this by not making a decision but by sending the challenges to the contraception mandate back to the…
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The Murphy Twins
Based on an old Irish joke my dad loved to tell… Two men were sitting next to each other at a pub in London. After a while, one bloke looks at the other and says, ‘I can’t help but think, from listening to you, that you’re from Ireland’ The other bloke responds proudly, ‘Yes, that…