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Excerpts from “Time for the Tar and Feathers” by Robert Tracinski

dukeoveramerica@rfcradio.com (T. LaDuke) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:05:05 +0000

Excerpts from “Time for the Tar and Feathers” by Robert Tracinski:

* “So far, the tea parties have been a polite warning. For all of the left’s smears about how the tea party movement is driven by “hate”—another rehearsal of the left’s favorite racism smear—the rallies have actually had something of a festive mood. In the enlightened free society that we still live in, the tea partiers have had the sense that if enough of us raise our voices, our political leaders will have to listen. Well, they didn’t. So now the tea party is over—and it’s time for the tar and feathers. No, I’m not advocating violence against anyone…”

* “But what I really mean is that the time for polite warnings is over. It’s time to instill in the Democratic establishment in Washington a healthy fear and respect for the American people.”

* “The message we’ve gotten in return has also been crystal clear. A writer at The New Republic put it most brazenly, in his title for an article praising the president’s new campaign: ‘Americans Aren’t Enthused About Obama’s Agenda. Screw ‘Em.’ That’s the essence of the president’s message, too, though he puts it a little more politely.”

* “It has become clear that the Democrats won’t be stopped by fear of losing this fall’s election. Indeed, they have already taken such a loss into account. So we need to raise the pressure to a new level. To heck with whether or not they win re-election; we need to make Democrats afraid that if they support this bill they will never be able to move back to their home districts. They need to be afraid that they won’t be able to go out in public without being harangued—that every audience they address from now on will be an angry mob—that they will become lifelong pariahs for defying the will of the people. We need to make a vow that every Democrat who goes along with this bill will be a marked man for the rest of his life—or at least until the health care bill is repealed.”

* “…if [the socialized medicine bill] passes… the Republicans need to draft up a repeal bill in the simplest possible terms — one sentence will do: “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is hereby repealed.” They must then declare that this repeal will be their first act as a congressional majority in 2011 and that it will be the first bill they send to a Republican president in 2013. The Republicans must make it clear that if the Democrats are going to sacrifice everything for this bill — their offices, their reputations, their peace and sanity — they will be sacrificing for nothing.”

* “In short, the Republicans should take their cue from a sign carried by one of the patriots at the giant September 12 tea party rally: ‘I’m not with the party of no. I’m with the party of hell, no.’”

– Mark Kalinowski
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights

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Poland Spring vs. Bottled-Water Consumers

dukeoveramerica@rfcradio.com (T. LaDuke) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:57:15 +0000

Recently, bottled-water company Poland Spring reduced the size of its bottle caps by about 20%, citing environmental mumbo-jumbo: “This is part of our ongoing effort to reduce our impact on the environment… Be Green.” That’s too bad, as I have not shrunk by 20% — which means the caps which once fit my normal-sized human hand are now far to small for me to easily use. As such, I have instituted (ahem) my own effort to reduce my impact on the environment: never buying Poland Spring bottled water ever again, since Poland Spring cares far less than they should about the folks who actually use their product.

– Mark Kalinowski
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights

By the way, I encourage ALL liberty-minded folks to “friend me” on Facebook,

and also to join the official Facebook page for the North New Jersey Tea Party Group

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Democrats Hated the Nuclear Option in 2005

dukeoveramerica@rfcradio.com (T. LaDuke) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:48:48 +0000

Pointing out Democratic politicians’ hypocrisy remains easy sport. Today, the Democrats threaten to use the nuclear option in order to enact a move toward much more socialized medicine. But in 2005, when the Democrats were out of power, they hated the nuclear option. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called the use of this power a “constitutional crisis,” and wailed against its “evaporation” of the government’s “checks and balances.” Then-Senator (and current Vice President) Joe Biden (D-DE) considered using the nuclear option “a naked power grab” and “an example of the arrogance of power.” Then-Senator (and current President) Barack Obama (D-IL) worried against the “absolute power” involved in such a move, noting that it was “not what the Founders intended.” Funny how these supposedly strident concerns completely disappear now that those who voiced them are in power.

– Mark Kalinowski
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights

By the way, I encourage ALL liberty-minded folks to “friend me” on Facebook,

and also to join the official Facebook page for the North New Jersey Tea Party Group

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Walking the Walk in Hati

dukeoveramerica@rfcradio.com (T. LaDuke) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:34:10 +0000

There are days that I want to MURDER Tabitha Hale. Not Murder, MURDER mind you, but maybe send her off on a long walk on a short pier. If you have ever worked with her and butted heads, I’m sure you know what I mean.

At the end of the day though, she is one of the reasons why this country is the most generous and sought after places to be on the face of God’s big blue marble still. She has volunteered to go down to Hati and help out with getting supplies and doing whatever else her and the group she is with, can do. It is no small task to drop the comforts of one’s life in this country, to go and help a people in a already impoverished land devastated by a natural disaster.

But it is what Americans have always done in the face of disaster. Lend a hand to help. It is part of what has made this country special for over 200 years.

America will continue to be great as long as we have people such as Tabitha and the group she is with, willing to lend a hand to God’s other children in need.

Thank God ,for each and everyone of them!!!

Here is Tabitha’s blog on Day one in Haiti……HERE

No, I Don’t Miss George W. Bush

dukeoveramerica@rfcradio.com (T. LaDuke) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:07:11 +0000

U.S. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has distinguished herself favorably in multiple ways over the last year. But at her recent appearance at conservative gathering CPAC, she promoted a poster of former president George W. Bush featuring the message “Miss me yet?” No, Ms. Bachmann, I do not at all miss George W. Bush. On the other hand, I do miss the U.S. Constitution, and I do miss when the federal government strove to fulfill its proper purpose: to protect each American’s unalienable moral rights.

– Mark Kalinowski
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights

By the way, I encourage ALL liberty-minded folks to “friend me” on Facebook,

and also to join the official Facebook page for the North New Jersey Tea Party Group

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Hey, Marvel: Bring Back the REAL Captain America!

dukeoveramerica@rfcradio.com (T. LaDuke) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:02:29 +0000

Issue #602 of Captain America — published by Marvel Comics — goes out of its way to insult the tea party movement. For example, Captain America’s sidekick The Falcon erroneously slams tea partiers as a “hate the government” movement, when most of us do not hate the government at all. We simply want limited government — meaning, the government constitutionally restricted to activities which protect every individual’s moral rights, which is the proper purpose of government — rather than to live under tyranny.

Even worse, The Falcon judges folks by their skin color, snidely remarking “I don’t exactly see a black man from Harlem [meaning, The Falcon] fitting in with a bunch of angry white folks.” Since when does Marvel Comics think that there’s something wrong with folks having a certain skin color, no matter what skin color that is? How repulsive.

When Captain America made his first appearance, in March 1941, he was depicted on the front cover of his comic punching out Adolf Hitler. I say bring back this real Captain America — the one with moral certainty and the courage to act upon righteous principles — the one who today would be punching out Osama bin Laden, rather than siding against peaceful Americans for having the audacity to value their unalienable rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.

Note: For more information about the current Marvel Comics/Captain America fiasco — and no, I do not for one second buy Marvel’s explanation of what happened — please click on the following link:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100211/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1129

– Mark Kalinowski
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights

By the way, I encourage ALL liberty-minded folks to “friend me” on Facebook,

and also to join the official Facebook page for the North New Jersey Tea Party Group

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Obama’s Audacious Lack of Integrity

dukeoveramerica@rfcradio.com (T. LaDuke) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:28:40 +0000

Obama’s deeply troubled relationship with the truth continues. During his presidential campaign, he pledged — countless times — that he would not raise taxes on families making less than $250,000 per year. For example, on September 12, 2008, Obama promised “I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” Obama broke this promise on April 1, 2009 when he signed into law a tax increase on tobacco products, which happen to be disproportionately purchased by the poor. And of course, this won’t be the last time Obama breaks that particular promise of his. In an interview published in the February 22, 2010 edition of Business Week, Obama now admits that he is “agnostic” about possible tax increases on families earning less than $250,000 per year. Obama attempts to explain away his broken promise as such: he wants to “make sure that all ideas are on the table.” All ideas? Even bad ideas that run counter to a central campaign promise of yours? Let us hope that in 2012, Americans have the audacity to elect a president who has the bare minimum of integrity necessary to actually attempt to keep his or her campaign promises. Let us also hope that more voters in 2012 find themselves immune to the dangerous charms of classless snake-oil salesmen.

– Mark Kalinowski
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights

By the way, I encourage ALL liberty-minded folks to “friend me” on Facebook,

and also to join the official Facebook page for the North New Jersey Tea Party Group

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Ayn Rand was Right; Socialists Falsely Blame Capitalism

dukeoveramerica@rfcradio.com (T. LaDuke) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:08:48 +0000

With a straight face, socialists seek to blame free-market capitalism for this nation’s housing-related economic challenges. They must think Americans are stupid, because it doesn’t take much sense to realize that our country’s current economy is far from a free market — it’s actually a mixed economy, with some capitalist (good) elements and some socialist/fascist (bad) elements. In a truly capitalist economy, politicians like Congressman Barney Frank would have no power over the economy. But in today’s mixed economy, Frank can proclaim (as he did on September 25, 2003) “I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing,” and then go about (as he did) using the iron fist of government to get housing in the hands of people who couldn’t afford housing. And Frank was far from the only harmful leftist politician to do so. Another example is Andrew Cuomo, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from 1997-2001. On the HUD website today is a mention of the “accomplishments under the leadership of Secretary Andrew Cuomo, who took office in January 1997.” What accomplishments? According to the website, in 1999, “Secretary Cuomo established new Affordable Housing Goals requiring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — two government sponsored enterprises involved in housing finance — to buy $2.4 trillion in mortgages in the next 10 years. This will mean new affordable housing for about 28.1 million low- and moderate-income families.” Translation: Andrew Cuomo used the iron fist of government to force lenders to place mortgages in the hands of millions of folks, many of whom couldn’t afford (or could only barely afford) mortgages. All of this reminds me of one of my favorite Ayn Rand quotes: “Every dictatorship or potential dictatorship needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation’s troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany it was the Jewish people; in America it is the businessman.”

– Mark Kalinowski
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights

By the way, I encourage ALL liberty-minded folks to “friend me” on Facebook,

and also to join the official Facebook page for the North New Jersey Tea Party Group

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What the British Museum Should Say to Iran

dukeoveramerica@rfcradio.com (T. LaDuke) — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:07:27 +0000

Iran has cut ties with the British Museum, because the museum has delayed a planned loan to that government of an ancient cultural artifact owned by the museum. My suggestion to the British Museum: firmly and unapologetically say that there will be no loan of any artifacts to Iran until the crackpot, illegitimate, terrorist-filled Iranian government is completely out of power, fully replaced by a government that has the audacity to protect and defend every Iranian citizens’ unalienable individual rights.

– Mark Kalinowski
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights

By the way, I encourage ALL liberty-minded folks to “friend me” on Facebook,

and also to join the official Facebook page for the North New Jersey Tea Party Group

For folks not on Facebook, please add your name to our e-mail distribution list by contacting us at nnjteaparty@gmail.com

What Part of “No” Do Democrats Not Understand?

dukeoveramerica@rfcradio.com (T. LaDuke) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:46:27 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down parts of a law which infringed upon free-speech rights. This was proper, as the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution reads in part: “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” In response to this most welcome Supreme Court ruling, many Democratic politicians have openly expressed their contempt for free speech. Some of the most thoroughly awful politicians — such as Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senator John Kerry (D-MA), and Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) — have gone so far as to propose amending the Constitution so that free-speech rights can be legally violated by the federal government. The best response to these anti-free speech hysterics is provided by political commentator (and TIA Daily editor) Robert Tracinski: “What part of ‘no’ do the Democrats not understand?”

– Mark Kalinowski
North New Jersey Tea Party Group
Liberty, Free Markets, and Individual Rights

By the way, I encourage ALL liberty-minded folks to “friend me” on Facebook,

and also to join the official Facebook page for the North New Jersey Tea Party Group

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