The President tells the troops that “each of us is here because somebody, somewhere, had our back”, and launched into his usual big government rhetoric. It’s dishonest, and disgusting. Listen to the audio.

[pullquote]the President had no family[/pullquote]For most of us, they who had our back were family. The President thinks that government is supposed to have our back. This is because the President had no family. He is a person whose early life vulnerability made him an easy mark for co-opting by statist masters. A family would have saved Mr. Obama from the Marxists. He has no faith in anything other than government; not God, not family, not community. In his view, if government does not do it, it is suspect.

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[pullquote]no honor in sabotage[/pullquote]This is a tough one, folks.  I confess, I am writing this after the 5x primary loss but before any announcement from the Newt campaign.  I have always said that I will support the nominee, and I meant it.  Now I have been careful to couch that in artful terms while promoting Cain and later Gingrich, but it has always been true.  For many, the difficulty will be felt as a matter of honor, but there is no honor in sabotaging your own team just because you do not get everything you want.

I always tried to keep my ironclad nominee support on the down-low, because I never liked the default nominee.  Unlike that chump Boehner, I do not open proceedings by surrendering the only … Continue reading →

The following is a post by Jennifer Abel, retrieved from the Guardian.  I am keeping a local copy, not for publication.

The TSA’s mission creep is making the US a police state

The out-of-control Transportation Security Administration is past patdowns at airports – now it’s checkpoints and roadblocks

• Jennifer Abel
• guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 April 2012 15.42 BST
• Article history

Ever since 2010, when the Transportation Security Administration startedrequiring that travelers in American airports submit to sexually intrusive gropings based on the apparent anti-terrorism principle that “If we can’t feel your nipples, they must be a bomb”, the agency’s craven apologists have shouted down all constitutional or human rights objections with the mantra “If you don’t like it, … Continue reading →

The Washington Post has a good article about Secret Service protection of candidates.

Campaign trail security dates back to 1968, when Congress authorized protection of major presidential candidates after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in California, according to the government official, who provided the following information on behalf of the Secret Service but wasn’t authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

By law, major-party presidential nominees and their running mates receive Secret Service protection during the general election, but candidates may seek protection earlier in the cycle if they meet a series of polling and fundraising thresholds.  —Washington Post, 11/18/2011

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