States Shooting Themselves in the Foot on Health Care Court Challenges?

If you really want to fix health care, I propose these three things:  (1) repeal ObamaScare, (2) DON’T replace it with the Republicans' plan, and (3) pass massive TORT reform.  True lowering of health care costs won’t happen until you get lawyers out of the health care industry.  Health care costs also won’t be contained until we bridle the onerous cost cutting measures of insurance companies that interfere with the patient/doctor relationship.  I’m not adverse to legitimate malpractice and negligence claims.  I do oppose the “get rich at others’ expense” mentality that permeates our legal industry today.

I question whether bringing these challenges in the U.S. District Court system is really constitutional.  Article III §2 Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution clearly says that all cases in which a state may be a party have ORIGINAL jurisdiction in the U.S. Supreme Court.  At the time the Constitution was drafted and ratified, the states were the sovereigns.  Under Article III the states retained the vast rights they had regarding being sued and to sue.  Through Article III, the states consented to being sued in the U.S. Supreme Court and only in the U.S. Supreme Court.  Again, I believe the language in Article III is plain and unambiguous, needing no interpretation.

No federal courts inferior to the U.S. Supreme Court were given “subject matter jurisdiction” over the States.  Without subject matter jurisdiction, a court has absolutely no authority to act on a case, and any action the court takes is absolutely null and void from inception.  (The same is true regarding laws passed in contravention of the Constitution and for the same reason.)  This authority may not be taken by the court itself and the parties cannot consent or otherwise give the court this authority.  The court either has it or it does not, period.  The federal district courts do not have subject matter jurisdiction over the states.

In 1821, the U.S. Supreme Court stated:

It is most true that this Court [the Supreme Court] will not take jurisdiction if it should not; but it is equally true that it must take jurisdiction if it should. ... We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given than to usurp that which is not given.  The one or the other would be treason to the Constitution.  Questions may occur which we [the Supreme Court] would gladly avoid, but we cannot avoid them.  [Emphasis mine. 19 U.S. 264, 404 (1821).]

Thus, in my humble opinion, Obama’s suit against the state of Arizona in the U.S. District Court in Phoenix was filed in the wrong court.  The judge who accepted jurisdiction committed treason by accepting jurisdiction and all rulings made by this judge are null and void.  The same can be said of the Virginia and Florida suits regarding ObamaScare.

Article III was altered by the Eleventh Amendment, but not in a manner that changed the original jurisdiction provision of Article III §2 Clause 2.  I note with some amusement that the U.S. Supreme Court has no part whatsoever in the amendment process.

I’ve had all kinds of people tell me that Congress and/or the U.S. Supreme Court (through precedent) has changed the judicial hierarchy specified in the Constitution.  Really?  Congress is expressly forbidden from enacting legislation that contradicts the U.S. Constitution.  Likewise, the judiciary is prohibited from issuing decisions that contradict the Constitution.

In the 1970’s, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that it could dispense and hand out its original jurisdiction via judicial discretion.  The Court further stated that it needed to do so, as the times and society had changed and it was incompetent to handle original jurisdiction cases.  Even if all the Court said was true, one thing had not changed:  the means to amend the Constitution.  Instead of appealing to Congress or the citizens, the Court took it upon itself to redefine its role.  In so doing, it attacked the very sovereignty of each state in the union and committed “treason to the Constitution.”  Our federal and state legislators violated their oath of office and their duty to the citizens by not supporting and defending the Constitution against this judicial attack.  We The People violated our own duty by not demanding strict adherence to the Constitution.

Today many states actively participate in undermining their own sovereignty (and ours) by filing law suits in the federal district courts regarding “Obama care.”  OR they defend themselves in lawsuits erroneously filed—as is Arizona by participating in the federal district court case filed against it over SB1070.  The states have an absolute sovereign right to file their actions in the U.S. Supreme Court and may only be sued in the U.S. Supreme Court.  By adhering to statutes which deny the sovereign status of the states, and which are repugnant to the Constitution, the states concede, acquiesce, and give implied consent to the validity of such statutes and precedent that undermines their sovereignty.

It is time to re-educate the public regarding their sovereignty.  It is time to re-educate state legislators regarding state sovereignty.  It is time to re-educate Congress regarding state sovereignty.  And...it is time to reign in the U.S. Supreme Court.  The U.S. Supreme Court simply cannot summarily decide (without the intervention of Congress and the People) to change the Constitution.

I know these opinions are “out of the norm,” for we have been so conditioned to do whatever the U.S. Supreme Court says that we never challenge their conclusions.  It is time for this mindset to change, as well.

A Different Christmas Poem

A Different Christmas Poem

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,

I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.

My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,

My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,

Transforming the yard to a winter delight.

The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,

Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,

Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.

In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,

So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,

But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear...

Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the

sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.

My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,

And I crept to the door just to see who was near.

Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,

A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.

A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,

Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.

Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,

Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,

"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!

Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,

You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"

For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,

Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts...

To the window that danced with a warm fire's light

Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,

I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."

"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,

That separates you from the darkest of times.

No one had to ask or beg or implore me,

I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.

My Gramps died at 'Pearl' on that day in December,"

Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."

My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam,'

And now it is my turn and so, here I am.

I've not seen my own son in more than a while,

But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.

Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,

The red, white, and blue...an American flag.

I can live through the cold and the being alone,

Away from my family, my house and my home.

I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,

I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.

I can carry the weight of killing another,

Or lay down my life with my sister and brother...

Who stand at the front against any and all,

To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall..."

"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,

Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."

"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,

"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?

It seems all too little for all that you've done,

For being away from your wife and your son."

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,

"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.

To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,

To stand your own watch, no matter how long.

For when we come home, either standing or dead,

To know you remember we fought and we bled.

Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,

That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."

[Editor's note: I would gladly give credit for this poem, but I do not know who composed it. Whomever it is, thank you for a job well done.]

The Other Side of Illegal Immigration

[Editor's note: This story was told to me by my new friend, Julia.] Just another example of illegal aliens working jobs that Americans won't lower themselves to do, right? BULL! These people cross the border because THEY DON'T WANT TO WORK!! They want the freebies!

When my oldest son was 13, he was hit by a hit/run driver inside our apartment complex. They found the woman, hiding in her boyfriend's apartment, pretending to have been asleep in a back bedroom. She was illegal, but had 3 anchor babies & was getting subsidized rent, welfare w/food stamps & Medi-Cal, utilities assistance & more, while not having bothered to even TRY to learn English, and of course, having no driver's license or, heaven forbid, CAR insurance. It wasn't even her car, and the owner wasn't who was last registered, either. That owner also had a Hispanic surname, and also had no insurance or current registration. I was at every court hearing for her, and her attorney tried to say, "Well, you have insurance, so why should she be liable for medical bills?" GRRR!! She ended up w/a slap on the wrist; only having to pay back a restitution of 3k over 3 years, and if she missed a payment, she was supposed to be remanded to jail for her sentence. She DID miss payments, but she was never put in jail.

This happened 17 years ago, and her kids have since grown up to become members of La Raza or Mencha or whatever, I'm sure. My son, who's 30 now, had to be Life-Flighted to Children's Hospital in San Diego. I couldn't go with him, so my brother had to come and get me to drive me to the hospital. When I got there, and got to him, he still had glass slivers sticking out of his face, including his lips, which were so dry! He wanted a drink, but he couldn't have one. But due to the glass in his face/lips, I couldn't even use a lemon swab on his mouth. I pulled the glass I could get out of his face with my fingers. He'd had a CT scan, and they found he was very fortunate; he had a bruised/swollen/leaky spleen, but though it came close, it didn't rupture. He had a concussion, a broken wrist, and multiple abrasions/contusions. He was able to recover completely. I don't know that I have, though!

Too Big to Fail? ~David Jeremiah

Friday, October 22 Too Big to Fail? For the money has failed. Genesis 47:15b Recommended Reading 1 Kings 8:55-58 When the economy of Egypt collapsed during the days of Joseph, the inhabitants came to him and cried, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For the money has failed." Nothing in this world is "too big to fail." Both countries and companies can collapse. Leaders can fall. Economies can crater. Our most revered institutions can and will one day collapse. No single individual can control his or her own ultimate financial destiny. What cannot fail? Joshua told the Israelites "Not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you" (Joshua 23:14). According to 1 Kings 8:56, "There has not failed one word of all His good promise." The psalmist said, "My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." The Lord never fails (Isaiah 42:4) nor do His compassions. They fail not, they are new every morning (Lamentations 3:22-23). Heaven and earth may pass away, but Jesus never fails. Tell them I have proved it now in my own experience: the world fails, and friends fail, and the body fails, and the mind fails, and everything fails, but Jesus never fails. This is my testimony.--deathbed testimony of the Scottish saint Hay Macdowall Grant Read-Thru-the-Bible John 12:20-14:31

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Operation Black Storm: The Refounding Begins!

Like most of you, I am tired of being called a racist simply because I'm a tea partier, or because I think the federal government has far exceeded its bounds, or because I think folks on welfare ought to work for their benefits and pass a drug test before they get their checks and/or food stamps. They call me mean spirited. Well, if you think even a little bit like me then I have a big treat you!  Operation Black Storm will absolutely have you standing at attention and saluting every U.S. flag you see!  They are supporting 16 tea party conservative candidates who all need your help.  Watch this introductory video, then visit their website to donate, volunteer, and to see how YOU can get involved.  As my friend Emery says, "Freedom and Liberty, use them or lose them!"  I say, "remember in November=donate & volunteer in October."

Mary Ann Hartzler
Conservative Chick

http://www.operationblackstorm.com/

What Is The "General Welfare Clause?"--John Albert Dummett, Jr.

It’s a wonder why this nation has not descended into total and complete anarchy considering that the original form of government we all signed up for only exists in name only and not in actuality.

The Founding Fathers of this nation, in their wisdom knew that an all powerful government would limit the freedoms and liberties of its citizens. As such they carefully decided what powers that the federal government would have over the union of individual States. There are eighteen such powers listed in the United States Constitution that limit the federal government. All other laws not specifically granted to the federal government belong only to the States.

Most people in America today actually think that it is the federal government that has the last word when it comes to the law, but nothing could be further from the truth. Any school aged child should be able to tell you that this nation was originally comprised of thirteen colonies. Each one of these colonies went by their own rules and regulations and had their own charters or Constitutions. Many had their own form or worshiping God as well. When those original colonies grew to the point to where they were able to carry on trade with the other colonies, a standardized method was needed to help conduct business effectively and to promote harmonious feelings between the different colonies.

It became crystal clear to the individual colonies that they needed outside help to facilitate trade between them. As an example of what they faced many toll roads were built, each with their own rules regulations and provisions. Disputes arose between the colonies where these roads intersected and they realized that they needed a central authority that would regulate trade between the colonies reasonably and fairly. When the colonies decided to relinquish some of their sovereignty to foster prosperity between all the colonies, they gave over some very limited powers to the central government. Each colony codified laws and regulations that governed the day to day business of that colony.

By forming a central government that made rules and regulations to carry out commerce between the States, many of the antagonisms between the States were thwarted. These new States however in no way wanted the newly formed federal government to ever exercise complete and total control over the individual colonies. Before any of the colonies would agree to form a nation they made absolutely sure that the central government created to oversee things, such as trade between the States and defense of the States, would never have absolute power to determine the fate of any State. The States gave to the federal government eighteen enumerated powers that were never to be exceeded without a Constitutional Convention.

Many folks today have been conditioned to think that the government in Washington D.C. has the last word when it comes to running this nation. The many generations of Congressmen who hold office in Washington have hoodwinked us to think they get the authority to implement any law they wish and apply it to the States based upon the General Welfare Clause. They dictate, and we blindly accept, that there is nothing in the Constitution that says they can’t exercise any power not granted specifically to it. There are historical documents that explain the General Welfare clause and the limits placed on Congress, but the people we elect don’t feel the rules in any of those documents apply to them. They think the Constitution, which everyone knows places limits on government, gives Congress unlimited powers. Even Thomas Jefferson feared a strong central government when he said "Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."

What will dumbfound people is when they examine for them selves the actual powers granted to the Federal government as they are spelled out in the Constitution. One wonders how it could have been so easy to usurp the powers belonging only to the States. The Federal Government continues to usurp the powers of the States to this very day. Now they even stoop to extorting States by denying them federal grants and monies if they do not accept the dictates of the central government.

Here are the 18 powers listed in the Constitution as being granted to the federal government. All other laws not specifically granted to the federal government belong only to the States. The General Welfare clause that the federal government always cites when they exert control over the States, includes the below six items. These were agreed upon in the Constitutional Convention when this nation was formed and were written of in Federalist Paper 41 to pacify the people of New York because they were astute enough to know if you give any strong central government an inch they will take a mile. The six powers of the General Welfare Clause are:

1. Security against foreign danger.
2. Regulation of the intercourse with foreign nations.
3. Maintenance of harmony and proper intercourse among the States.
4. Certain miscellaneous objects of general utility.
5. Restraint of the States from certain injurious acts.
6. Provisions for giving due efficacy to all these powers.

No where in the list does it mention that the Federal Government was to incorporate into our nation’s psyche the idea that there would be huge government welfare programs that would take care of everyone and everything. What we need to do is pound it into every person who is running for public office that the six items mentioned in the General Welfare Clause and the eighteen enumerated powers in the Constitution lets congress know it has limits on what it can and can’t do. If I am elected President of the United States I will beat them over the head with it every day until they get it through their thick skulls and I will not sign any bill into law that is contrary to the powers granted to the federal government.

The specific powers granted to the federal government are defined in Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution:

1. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
2. To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
3. To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
4. To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
5. To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
6. To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
7. To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
8. To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
9. To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
10. To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
11. To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
12. To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
13. To provide and maintain a Navy;
14. To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
15. To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
17. To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And
18. To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Please go to my campaign site if you want to see America restored. We do not need change because all we get is a change in faces. We need to restore America to the way it was meant to be instead of what it has become.

John Albert Dummett, Jr.

(785) 783-0554

johndummettjr@gmail.com

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A lesson that should be taught in all schools and colleges

I like this teacher.

A lesson that should be taught in all schools and colleges....

Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.

When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.

"Ms. Cothren, where're our desks?"

She replied, "You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk."

They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades."

"No," she said.

"Maybe it's our behavior."

She told them, "No, it's not even your behavior."

And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom.

By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms. Cothren's classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.

The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the deskless classroom, Martha Cothren said, "Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you."

At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it.

Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.

Martha said, "You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it."

The Death of a Corrupt Senator

HEAVEN AND HELL

While walking down the street one day a Corrupt Senator was tragically hit by a car and died.

His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.

"Welcome to heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you."

"No problem, just let me in," says the Senator..

"Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from the higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity."

"Really? I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven," says the Senator.

"I'm sorry, but we have our rules."

And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.

The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.

Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people.

They played a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and the finest champagne.

Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who is having a good time dancing and telling jokes.

They are all having such a good time that before the Senator realizes it, it is time to go.

Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises...

The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens in heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him, "Now it's time to visit heaven."

So, 24 hours passed with the Senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.

"Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity."

The Senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: "Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell."

So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell..

Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage. He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.

The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulders.

"I don't understand," stammers the Senator. "Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?"

The devil smiles at him and says,

"Yesterday we were campaigning. Today, you voted."

Vote wisely on November 2, 2010.

Specks and Planks

Tuesday, September 14 Specks and Planks Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. Matthew 7:5 Recommended Reading Luke 6:37-42 Early in the film version of the near-disastrous Apollo 13 space flight, astronaut Jim Lovell is in his backyard, looking up at the moon that hangs small in the night sky. He holds up his thumb and it blocks out the entire moon from his sight. How could something so large be obscured from view by something so small? It's all a matter of perspective. Things aren't often as they seem; sometimes a small thing can obscure something larger and more important. For instance, we may see a sin in the life of another person but fail to see our own giant, judgmental attitude. The small sin of another has blocked our view of our own larger problem. Jesus put it this way: Don't worry about the speck in another's eye until you've removed the plank from your own eye. Until our own eye is clear from a judgmental spirit, we are unqualified to judge the sins of another. Yes, the other person may have sinned, but God has not appointed us the judge of him. Of all the sins in the world, God calls us to be concerned about only one before any other: our own. Once we have removed our plank, we can help our brother remove his speck. No man's conscience is to be a judge for another. C. H. Spurgeon Read-Thru-the-Bible Malachi 1:1-Matthew 1:25

We Read The Constitution!

Press Release

September 6, 2010
Mary Ann Hartzler, Event Organizer
mahunt100@yahoo.com
http://www.wereadtheconstitution.com/
Local Residents to Gather on Sept. 18
for Public Reading of U.S. Constitution

Topeka Residents Take Part in Nationwide Readings of the Entire United States Constitution

When: September 18, 2010, 3:00 p.m.
Where: South Lawn, Kansas State Capitol Building

In an effort to help revitalize the nation’s civic culture, residents of Topeka, Kansas will come together at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 18, 2010, at the Kansas Capitol for a public reading of the U.S. Constitution.

The event will feature Vicki Tiahrt, wife of Congressman Todd Tiahrt, Patricia Stoneking, President of the Kansas State Rifle Association, ordinary citizens and other distinguished guests as public readers. It is one of hundreds of celebrations to be held on the same day in cities and towns all across the United States.

Event Organizer Mary Ann Hartzler said, “This event, and the hundreds like it across the country, is our way of expressing our respect and reverence for the importance of the nation’s founding charter and its relevance today.”

“This is a real grassroots effort, of ordinary Americans talking to each other on the Internet, to show there are people who think the nation’s civic culture is important. No matter what your political party affiliation, people should be able to rally around a celebration of the signing of our founding charter. Everyone should be familiar with the Constitution and what it says. We happen to think it is time for it to be read aloud,” Hartzler said.

In addition to local organizers, the We Read the Constitution Project is backed by national groups including Let Freedom Ring, Constituting America, Americans for Prosperity, The Heritage Foundation, and many others.

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History of Islam and how they build VICTORY MOSQUES

History of Islam and how they build VICTORY MOSQUES...

by Pamela Kafir Liner on Monday, September 6, 2010 at 3:46pm

The HISTORY OF ISLAM may hold answers to WHY it is so important for Moslems to build that GROUND ZERO MOSQUE.

In 630, Muhammad led 10,000 Muslim soldiers into Mecca and turned the pagans' most prominent spot, the Ka'aba, into the Masjid al-Haram Mosque.

In 634, Rightly Guided Caliph Umar conquered Syria and turned the Christians' most prominent spot, the Church of Job, famous for being visited by Saint Silva in the fourth century, into the Mosque of Job.

In 637, Caliph Umar conquered Hebron and turned the second-most prominent spot in Judaism, the Cave of the Patriarchs, into the Ibrahimi Mosque. (This was repeated by Saladin in 1188.)

In 638, Muslim generals Amr ibn al-As and Khalid ibn al-Walid conquered Gaza and turned the prominent fifth-century Byzantine church into the Great Mosque of Gaza.

In 638, Caliph Umar conquered Jerusalem.

In 691, Caliph Al-Malik ordered the _Dome of the Rock_ built on the most prominent spot in Judaism, the Temple Mount, followed by Caliph Al-Walid building the Al-Aqsa Mosque there in 705.

In 651, Muslims conquered Persia and turned Zoroastrian temples in Bukhara and Istakhr into mosques.

In 706, after Muslims took Damascus from the Byzantine Empire, Caliph Al-Walid turned the prominent Orthodox Church of St. John the Baptist into the Umayyad Mosque.

In 710, Gen. Muhammad bin Qasim conquered Pakistan, defiled the prominent Sun Temple in Multan, which house the great idol "sanam," and erected a mosque.

In 784, after the conquest of Spain, Emir Abd ar-Rahman turned the prominent Visigothic Christian Church of Saint Vincent into the Great Aljama Mosque of Cordoba. After the conquest of Egypt, Caliphs al-Mamun (813-833) and al-Hakim (996-1021) turned prominent Coptic Christian churches and Jewish synagogues in Cairo into mosques.

In 831, Muslims conquered Palermo, Sicily, and Asad ibn al-Furat turned the prominent Church of Saint Mary of the Assumption into the Great Mosque of Bal'harm. In 1193, Muslims conquered Delhi, India, and Qutbuddin Aibak turned the Red Citadel in Dhillika, the most prominent spot of the last Hindu rulers, into the Qutb Minar Mosque.

From 1250-1517, Mamluk Muslims controlled the Golan Heights and used the ancient Synagogue of Katzrin as a mosque.

In 1387, Turkish Muslims conquered Thessaloniki and turned the Katholikon Monastery and the Church of Aghia Sophia, which housed the relics of Saint Gregorios Palamas, into mosques, as Symeon of Thessaloniki recorded: "The greatest number of the buildings of the churches fell to them, of which _the first_ was the Holy Church of the Savior. … These were trampled underfoot and the infidels rejoiced in them. … Most of thhe religious buildings in the city were despoiled, while altars were demolished and sacred things profaned."

On May 29, 1453, Sultan Mehmet II conquered Constantinople and turned the great Byzantine church, Hagia Sophia, into the Ayasofya Mosque. The _largest_ church in Christendom for a thousand years, the church's four acres of gold mosaics were covered with whitewash and Quran verses.

In 1458, Sultan Mehmet II conquered Athens and turned the Greeks' most prominent spot, the Parthenon on Acropolis hill, into a mosque. When Venetian Gen. Francesco Morosini drove the Muslims out in 1687, a cannonball hit the gunpowder stored in the mosque, blowing it up. In the 15th century, Ottoman invaders turned Saint Clement's Macedonian Orthodox Monastery in Plaosnik, Balkans, into the Imater Mosque.

From 1519-1858, Muslim Mughal rulers gained control of India and turned over 2,000 Hindu temples into mosques, including demolishing the Temple of Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya, the birthplace of Rama, and replacing it with the Babri Mosque. India's Mughal Muslim ruler, Jahangir (1605-1627), wrote in Tujuk-i-Jahangiri: "At the city of Banaras [was] a temple. … I made it my plea for thhrowing down the temple … and on the spot, with the very same materials,, I erected the great mosque."

In 1543, Hayreddin Barbarossa's 30,000 Muslim troops wintered in Toulon, France, and turned the prominent Toulon Cathedral into a mosque.

In 1570, under Sultan Selim II Khan, Muslims conquered Paphos, Cyprus, and Gov. Mehmet Bey Ebubkir turned the prominent Christian church into the Great Mosque of Paphos.

In 1571, Muslims invaded Famagusta, Cyprus, and turned Saint Nicolas Cathedral, a rare Gothic church, into the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque, and Saint Sophia Cathedral in Nicosia, constructed in 1228, into the Selimiye Mosque.

In 1588, Sultan Murat III turned the Eastern Orthodox Church of Saint John the Forerunner in Constantinople into the Hirami Ahmet Pasha Mosque.

In 1781, after having conquered the Old City of Acre, Ottoman Muslims turned the Roman Catholic church built by Crusaders into the Jezzar Ahmet Pasha Mosque, where a hair from Muhammad's beard is preserved.

In 1923, Muslims expelled Greeks from Turkey and turned Orthodox churches into mosques. In World War II, Nazis allied with Bosnians and turned the prominent Artists' Gallery Museum in Zagreb, Croatia, into a mosque.

In the 1950s, Muslims expelled Jews from Arab lands and turned synagogues into mosques. Algerian Muslims warred against French colonial rule till France pulled out in 1962, after which the Cathedral of St. Philippe was turned into the Ketchaoua Mosque. Violence against Jews caused 30,000 to flee and the Great Synagogue of Oran was turned into the Mosque Abdellah Ben Salem.

In 1974, Turkish Muslims invaded northern Cyprus, and prominent Greek Orthodox churches were turned into mosques. In 1981, Muslim immigrants to the Netherlands converted Amsterdam's historic Catholic Sint-Ignatiuskerk into the Fatih Mosque, and a synagogue in The Hague into the Aksa Mosque.

William J. Federer is the author of: "What Every American Needs to Know About the Quran: A History of Islam and the United States."

The Invincible Sword: The Sword Can Go Anywhere

Weekend, September 11 & 12 The Invincible Sword: The Sword Can Go Anywhere I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even to the point of chains; but the word of God is not chained. Recommended Reading Psalm 119:9-1 2 Timothy 2:9 Two women were recently arrested in Louisiana for bringing a Bible to jail. The problem was the version. The Bible they carried with them was the NMV--the New Methamphetamine Version. The women had hollowed the book out and were using it to smuggle crystal methamphetamine to an inmate. While it's foolish to smuggle drugs into a prison, the greater tragedy was discarding the contents of God's Book. What the inmate really needed was the Sword of the Spirit. That's a sword no metal detector will stop. The Word of God is unchained; it can go anywhere we can go, particularly if it's hidden in our hearts.  Scripture memory makes the Bible portable; you can take it with you everywhere without packing it in a purse or briefcase. It makes Scripture accessible day and night. It allows God's words to sink into your brain and permeate your subconscious and even your unconscious thoughts. It gives you a word to say to anyone, in season and out of season. Stockpile the armory of your mind with God's Word today. We must go to heaven sword in hand, all the way. Charles H. Spurgeon Read-Thru-the-Bible Haggai 1:1-Zechariah 9:17

GOD’S PHARMACY

It’s been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish.... All before making a human. He made and provided what we’d need before we were born. These are best and more powerful when eaten raw. We’re such slow learners.... God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body! God’s Pharmacy! Amazing!

 A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye.... And YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopene and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neocortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

 Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocados, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body’s cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

Principle Eight: Men Are Endowed by Their Creator With Certain Unalienable Rights

By John Dummett Jr.

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In William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, he said, “Rights that God has established natural, like life and liberty, do not need human laws to be vested in all men.” No legislature on Earth has the power or the ability to destroy them unless a person, who commits an act that forfeits them, does. (Commentaries 1:93) If someone attempts to deny our God given rights in this life, that person will have to answer to God’s Justice in the next.

Vested rights created by the community, state or the nation, for the protection of one’s self, unlike God’s rights, can be changed at the whim of lawmakers, but in no uncertain terms can those lawmakers destroy the right to life and liberty. For example, the state can make a law where it is legal to hunt on certain lands during certain times or the state can make laws that imprison men for crimes committed against the community. However if lawmakers attempt to make a law to destroy babies in the womb or incarcerate someone just because of the way they look or think, those laws would be against God’s Laws. In one case because it denies a person the unalienable right to life and the other case it destroys the unalienable right to liberty. The only way a person forfeits his or her right to life and liberty is if they do something to forfeit those rights.

Property rights are essential to the pursuit of happiness. Like usual, people have often guessed at what our Founding Fathers meant by what they wrote in the Constitution concerning almost everything. When the Constitution was written, the concepts written down were well understood by everyone. There was no ambiguity or confusion at all. John Adams said, “All men are born free and independent and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights, many of which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing and protecting property; in fine that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. (George A Peek Jr. ed. The Political Writings of John Adams [New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1954], p.96.)

William Blackstone boiled natural rights down to three important ones. He called these “Great Natural Rights.” The right of personal security, the right of personal liberty and the right of personal property. (Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1:219-20; emphasis added.)

The protection of unalienable rights was inserted into the individual State Constitutions as well as the Federal Constitution. Most importantly all unalienable rights are founded upon the protection of life. Unalienable rights relate to life itself and the preservation of these rights are directly related to one’s self preservation. God has given man all the needed characteristics to preserve, develop and perfect life. God’s gift of natural rights precedes all human laws and is superior to them. Life, liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed beforehand that caused man to make laws for the protection of them in the first place. (Frederick Bastiat, The Law [Irvington-on Hudson, N.Y.: The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., 1974], pp.5-6.)

Principle Seven: The Principle Role of Government is to Protect Equal Rights and Not Equal Things

By John Dummett Jr.

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There are a lot of Americans out there who think it is the duty of the federal government to take from the haves and give it to the have nots. In this nation the government has no right to do such a thing.

The Founding Fathers believed the government did not have the power to do anything that the people themselves could not do. For instance, since everyone is entitled to protection of life and property it was alright for the government to set up a police force to protect the lives and property of the people. However, if it is determined that someone has too much property nobody, especially the government, has the right to take that excess property and give it to someone who has less or none. A person is entitled to his property. Nobody can help themselves to the property of others and give it to anyone else and neither can the federal government. To own property is a natural right and therefore property is to be protected.

Our Founding Fathers realized that the second the government attempts to level the playing field by taking away from the haves to give to the have nots the government will then have the power to deprive people from any or all of their other rights to justify their government action. This is not equal justice because you deprive the haves of their equal rights.

The Founding Fathers determined that everyone has the right to prosper and that being rich is not such a bad thing. In fact it was to be encouraged and the more the merrier. Being rich was not to be penalized. By allowing people to become as rich as they can, depending upon the effort they expend, would lead to a nation dominated by a prosperous Middle Class. As long as there is liberty, the ability to prosper is permitted for everyone. By using government to provide equal rights for all and not equal things, the people would work harder to prosper to get the things they need and want.

The framers of the Constitution had a deep concern for the less fortunate though. What they feared the most was by taking from the haves and giving it to the have nots would only encourage idleness, as many of the liberal welfare programs have proved time and time again. When something is given, instead of earned, the will to work for something is diminished. What this creates is a society that becomes dependent upon the public

dole. The have nots who have the right to vote will constantly vote for the candidate that will give them the most with the least effort. This is human nature. For a society to be healthy it must be comprised of individuals who strive to prosper rather than have things given to them.

There are times however when the have nots really and truly need help, so the Founding Fathers came up with a concept to deal with this called "Calculated Compassion."

1. Do not help the needy completely, help them to help themselves.
2. Give to the poor the satisfaction of "earned achievement." You don't reward without achievement.
3. Allow the poor to climb the success ladder.
4. Where emergency help is provided, don't prolong it to where it becomes habitual.
5. Strictly enforce the scale of "fixed responsibility" from individual, to the church, to the community, then to the State when helping individuals in need.

The framers of the Constitution wanted a level playing field, but this field was to be equal for every citizen to play on. However, to protect the equal rights of all citizens it would never be the duty of the federal government to become involved in charity or public welfare.