O'Malley Violating State Constitution

As of July 1st the state of Maryland is $389 Million in the red due to O'Malley and the democrats that tried to use gimmicks and chicanery instead of passing a realistic budget that did not rely on a hoped for federal bailout. The bailout isn't here, and now our state government is breaking the law. The Maryland state constitution (Article III, Subsection 5a) does not allow for a running deficit and requires a balanced budget.

Even though these liberal politicians have raised our taxes, their unending spending continues unabated and now we are in the red. Now we will hear how firefighters, police, and teachers will loose their jobs if we don't accept new tax increases, rather than curbing the rampant waste elsewhere in the budget.

Every delegate, state senator, that voted for this budget, as well as Owe'Malley need to be held accountable and voted out of office. They have violated their oath of office to uphold the constitution, and should not be allowed to serve citizens that have to balance household budgets.

Memorial Day, Who are we Celebrating?

Americans today will celebrate Memorial Day at parades, by raising the United States Flag in front of their homes, and in countless other ways. But, why even bother celebrating this Memorial Day holiday, what is the point? Who are we celebrating?


On the 4th of July we celebrate American Independence, the birth of our nation. It is the day The Declaration of Independence was signed, and it is our national WHY? Why our forefathers broke from the King of England and embarked upon the creation of a new nation. In it, we declared to the world that: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

On September 17th some, though very few any more, celebrate our national HOW, The United States Constitution. After achieving a most unlikely victory over the most powerful nation on earth, how were these thirteen loosely tied colonies to form a lasting bond and not devolve into separated nation states? We the people created a system of Federal government in order to provide and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.

In schools across the country children recite The Pledge of Allegiance, our national WHAT? I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for all. Thirty-one simple, powerful words that encompass what we, as Americans, strive to achieve.

On Memorial Day, we celebrate the WHO, those that have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country, in order that we might be able to still enjoy the freedom and liberty enshrined in the Pledge of Allegiance, The Declaration of Independence, and The United States Constitution. Without those that have been willing to serve and protect our country from enemies, foreign and domestic; without the WHO, we would no longer be able to celebrate the WHAT, WHY, and HOW. That is why we celebrate Memorial Day.

On this Memorial Day, let us not forget to remember that those WHO serve our country do so, WHEN and WHERE they are required without complaint or hesitation. It is right and good that we honor and celebrate those that have, and those that are serving our country.

George F. Will Address at the Cato Institute

I've listened to this over and over again. George Will is both topical and quite on target.

Liberals just don't KNOW!

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined.

James Madison - The Federalist No. 45

Governor Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts, speaking during a forum at Suffolk Law School's Rappaport Center on Monday commented on Republican opposition to President Obama’s agenda saying, "on my worst day, when I’m most frustrated about folks who seem to rooting for failure," he doesn't face anything like the opposition faced by the president. "It seems like child’s play compared to what is going on in Washington, where it is almost at the level of sedition”


Opposition and saying "NO" are quite the inverse of sedition. They are enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The Preamble to The Bill of Rights: "THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and ***RESTRICTIVE CLAUSES*** should be added:"

Amendment I: Congress shall make *** NO *** law
Amendment II: *** SHALL NOT *** be infringed
Amendment III: *** NO *** Soldier shall
Amendment IV: shall *** NOT *** be violated
Amendment V: *** NO *** person shall be held
Amendment VII: *** NO *** fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined
Amendment VIII: Excessive bail shall *** NOT *** be required
Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall *** NOT *** be construed
Amendment X: The powers *** NOT *** delegated

Our Constitution and Bill of Rights were designed to limit the Federal Government, slow and restrict the political process through a system of checks and balances, create gridlock, and give those saying NO the upper hand. The left thinks that calling Republicans the party of NO is an insult, when in fact it is high praise. Liberals just don't KNOW!


P.S. Today in history, May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia.

Why Everyone in the Civilized World Must Support ‘Everybody Draw Muhammad Day’

This is copied in full from http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bthor/2010/05/19/why-everyone-in-the-civilized-world-must-support-everybody-draw-muhammad-day/

I just couldn't have said it any better. (I might have left out the Star Trek stuff.)

Why Everyone in the Civilized World Must Support ‘Everybody Draw Muhammad Day’
by Brad Thor

Many people have asked if I am supporting “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” tomorrow, May 20th. I am and two of the most moving arguments of why you should too come from the Huffington Post and Reason Magazine.

In response to Islamic reaction over the movie Fitna, which juxtaposes images of Muslim violence with passages from the Qur’an (the same passages Islamic terrorists cite as justification for their violence), writer Sam Harris at the Huffington Post penned one of the best critiques of Islam (and our refusal to engage it) I have ever read: Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks. In it, Harris rightly points out:

The controversy over Fitna, like all such controversies, renders one fact about our world especially salient: Muslims appear to be far more concerned about perceived slights to their religion than about the atrocities committed daily in its name. Our accommodation of this psychopathic skewing of priorities has, more and more, taken the form of craven and blinkered acquiescence.

There is an uncanny irony here that many have noticed. The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn’t, we will kill you. Of course, the truth is often more nuanced, but this is about as nuanced as it ever gets: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn’t, we peaceful Muslims cannot be held responsible for what our less peaceful brothers and sisters do. When they burn your embassies or kidnap and slaughter your journalists, know that we will hold you primarily responsible and will spend the bulk of our energies criticizing you for “racism” and “Islamophobia.”

Our capitulations in the face of these threats have had what is often called “a chilling effect” on our exercise of free speech.

In Mark Goldblatt’s Reason Magazine article this week The Poet Versus the Prophet he expands on many of Harris’ arguments and states:

[O]ur tip-toeing around Islamic sensibilities is nothing more than plain, old-fashioned cowardice…. We lack the moral courage to walk the walk, to put our individual lives on the line in order to defend the principles of free thought and free expression—the very principles that allowed the Judeo-Christian West to leave the Islamic East in the dust, literally and figuratively, three centuries ago.

Goldblatt makes multiple excellent points throughout his piece and closes with:

Since 2001, many Americans have asked how they can contribute in a direct way to the war against totalitarian Islam. Now we have an answer. If it’s legal, and likely to offend the radicals, just do it. That seems straightforward enough. But how many of us will have the nerve to stand up to a million or so Muslim dirtbags, and to scores of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, of their fellow travelers and psychic enablers, and say in unison, “You want to kill the Enlightenment, you’re going to have to come through me.

Islam is not above question, criticism, critique, or examination. In fact, Islam is fourteen centuries overdue for some serious questioning, criticism, critiquing, and examination. People the world over need to be reminded that the freedom of speech most certainly includes the freedom to offend. The right of non-Muslims to draw pictures of Muhammad is equaled by a right just as powerful, the right of Muslims to ignore pictures they find offensive.

Though I can’t believe I am going to quote Captain Jean Luc- Picard, there is no better way to express why tomorrow’s world-wide event is so important:

“We’ve made too many compromises already, too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no farther!”

While Picard goes on to say that he will “make them [the Borg] pay,” that’s not our job. Our job is to stand and defend free speech. No more outrageous outrage and Muslim grievance theater over cartoons, operas, and videos.

We will no longer retreat. We will no longer fall back. We will no longer demand from every other community on the face of the planet that they meet us on the playing field of civilized, rational discourse, yet carve out a special, protected, no-holds-barred zone for Islam.

It’s over. This far and no farther. No more special treatment. It is time for Islam to come into the 21st century.
This is why I support “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day.”

I Need A Spiritual Bailout -

This morning I went to a friend's house to meet up with him and go to a juvenile detention facility to mentor teens in need. My friend got sick last night and was unable to go. Since this was to be my first trip, we agreed it would be better to not go by myself.

As I was returning home I was pulled over for not wearing my seat belt. I also have expired tags on the car, as I am still unemployed since returning from Iraq and can't afford to pay DMV what is owed. I also found out that I have an unpaid ticket from 2007 that I was honestly unaware of, thinking that I had paid the speeding ticket, and therefore my licence is suspended.

The officers were very kind and courteous. I was very respectful to them, and they to me. I told them the truth, and they were kind enough not to haul me off to jail. They told me what to do in order to get this taken care of. The only issue is I still do not have the money to do the right thing.

At the end of my time in Iraq I became very depressed, almost suicidal. This didn't get better as soon as I arrived home, but has been an ongoing process. I've had my ups and downs.

Two weeks after I arrived home a 17 year old attempted to rape my 12 year old daughter while she was babysitting at a home in our neighborhood. We decided for the safety of our children we had to move, and move NOW. As it turns out, the boy was not punished by the legal system, only getting probation.

Just over a month after we moved, this same boy and another broke into our then empty house and did thousands in vandalism. The officers were not able to prove anything, as they couldn't get any usable fingerprints. This was payback for having reporting him to the authorities.

We were finally able to sell the house last month, but 14 years of equity are gone, and we emerged owing nothing, but having nothing to show either.

Meanwhile I've been going to counseling for the depression, continue with AA, and things in general were looking up. I had a promising job interview and was told that the company is going to hire me, as long as I can get and keep a top secret clearance. Now with our credit mangled from the house, and now this issue with my licence, that seems more and more unlikely.

I'm trying to remain positive, keep active and continue my sobriety. Today is one of THOSE days, and it is tough. I think I am a good man, but a flawed and imperfect man. I know that life isn't fair, and it never will be. I do sincerely want to do the next right thing, but feel overwhelmed at the moment. I'm not asking for pity, nor do I expect it, but I sure could use some encouragement.

My beautiful wife has been sympathetic, and more than patient as I try to overcome my problems. I worry that I have become a horrible example for our children. It's hard to say if in dealing with my depression that I have done all I can do to the best of my ability. So I might be in denial, or I might be doing the best I can with what I have at the moment. I'm usually the last person to KNOW something about myself.

SCOTUS Nominee Kagan & Thurgood Marshall, Birds of a Feather

SCOTUS Nominee Elena Kagan doesn't have much of a paper trail, having never been a federal judge. This doesn't mean we have no insight on how she would interpret the US Constitution.

As a former clerk to Associate Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall it may be rightly inferred that Kagan agrees with, and has in fact never tried to distance herself from his views on judicial activism. Marshall said:

"You do what you think is right and let the law catch up." Stanford Law Review, summer 1992

This is the same Marshall that was known for being lazy, skipping deliberation to watch "Days of our Lives". He once told his friend Justice Brennan that there was a "lot to be learned about life" from soap operas. Apparently not so much about law was to be learned from the US Constitution.

Kagan has already shown her own willingness to invalidate the plain meaning of texts in her time at Harvard. As Dean of Harvard Law School in 2004 and 2005 she gave two professors (Larry Tribe and Charles Ogletree) a smack on the wrist when they were outed for plagiarism. Well no, not even that. Kagan said "Nevertheless, we regard the error in question as a significant lapse in proper academic practice." Any student would have been suspended at the very least, if not expelled, as per Harvard's written policies. Tribe and Ogletree were not suspended or fired, as leftist lawyers they are above such rules in Kagan's world.

Kagan will not interpret the Constitution as written nor even try to, but will in fact do all in her power to make it a nullity as she legislates from the bench in order to push an ideology that would never be accomplished by legal means through the legislature.