Arrogant Lisa Murkowski – You Lost! television ad for Alaska. Spot on:
Florida 2010 Amendment Voting Recommendations
Florida 2010 Amendment Voting recommendations
Amendment 1: Repeal of public campaign financing requirement.
Sponsor: Legislature.
Summary: Voters approved using public funds for campaigns in 1998, to hold down costs. In 2005, the Legislature more than tripled the spending limits. It turned out to be an incumbent protection measure.
Amendment 2: Property tax credit for deployed military personnel.
Sponsor: Legislature.
Summary: Cost about $13 million in property taxes across the state for 2009.
Amendment 4: Votes required for changes to land-use plans.
Sponsor: Florida Hometown Democracy.
Summary: Requires voter approval of development proposals that would change local growth plans.
Amendment 5-6: New state and federal redistricting standards.
Sponsor: Fair Districts Florida.
Summary: Changes how legislative and congressional districts are drawn to make sure they are compact, contiguous, and don’t favor one political party.
Amendment 8: Revising class-size limits.
Sponsor: Legislature.
Summary: The 2002 class-size amendment puts a limit on how many students can be in a class. The new amendment increases the cap and would base the limits on an average by grade.
They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.
Olmstead vs. United States (1928):
Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, with means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet. … The progress of science Continue reading They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.
Affirmative action as we know it and as it is applied is actually nothing more than American apartheid.
“Affirmative action as we know it and as it is applied
is actually nothing more than American apartheid.”
~ Richard B. Boddie
“acceleration of the agrarian revolution.”
“acceleration of the agrarian revolution.” – Hugo Chavez. (see this)
When the socialist dictator Hugo Chavez is finished, “agrarian” peasants will be all that is left. His revolution is an anti-industrial revolution.
Kerry, Obama, Biden attack electorate
“We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.” – John Kerry
Vice President Joe Biden recently urged the party’s base to “stop whining” and “buck up.” President Obama also urged the party to “buck up.”
Wiretap charges dismissed in videotaping of trooper
A judge threw out criminal charges Monday against a Maryland man who videotaped his traffic stop by a plainclothes state trooper and posted the video on YouTube.
Harford County Circuit Judge Emory A Plitt Jr wrote in his ruling: “In this rapid information technology era in which we live, it is hard to imagine that either an offender or an officer would have any reasonable expectation of privacy with regard to what is said between them in a traffic stop on a public highway.”
MyFoxDC has the details.
Obama argues Assassination of United States Citizens is state secret.
“The Obama administration urged a federal judge early Saturday to dismiss a lawsuit over its targeting of a U.S. citizen for killing overseas, saying that the case would reveal state secrets.” from Washington Post. For more, “not only does the President have the right to sentence Americans to death with no due process or charges of any kind, but his decisions as to who will be killed and why he wants them dead are “state secrets,” and thus no court may adjudicate their legality.” see Salon.
FBI Agents cheat on exam
FBI agents and several supervisors cheated on an exam about new rules for terrorism and criminal investigations and for collecting foreign intelligence, according to a U.S. Justice Department report released on Monday. According to Reuters
Obama Admin wants to Wiretap the Internet
Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations of the Internet…the Obama administration plans to submit [the Legislation] to Congress next year.