June 26, 2006

Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization

JPFO ALERT: CCW Trojan Horse

Supporter Mark recently sent in a link to this blog entry by Andy Barniskis, in which he makes a very reasoned argument against a national conceal carry law.

We already know that we all have a G-D given right to defend our lives. We should NEVER trade it for a revocable state-granted privilege for which you must:

- Pay
- Get registered
- Get photographed
- Get fingerprinted
- And are restricted in its use (Read the rest here)

Mainstream Moves Toward Freedom
By Lady Liberty

Father's Day has come and gone, but that doesn't mean we should stop honoring good fathers.

Many years ago (never you mind how many), I wanted to get my ears pierced. My mother wasn't keen on the idea. My grandmother, however, was horrified. With a sniff, she informed me that, "Only prostitutes have pierced ears!" Now, while that may have been true once upon a time, it certainly wasn't the case when many of my little girlfriends had pierced ears and I felt like I was the only one who didn't. In the end, I got my ears pierced, and Grandma died (I trust the two events weren't related) still disdaining my jewelry.

The response to the request for pierced ears was positively staid in comparison to my stated desire a couple of years later to get a tattoo. Plenty of words were exchanged, many at high volume, but the gist of them all was, "Only criminals have tattoos!" and "You're getting a tattoo over my dead body!" (Actually, if I'd gone ahead and gotten the tattoo, I'm pretty sure it would have been my dead body, but you get the point.) Eventually - and long after I needed anybody's permission to do so - I did get my first tattoo (of which my parents still disapproved, but when your "child" is pushing 30, grounding him or her is sort of out of the question). (Read the rest here)

Attention, Doctors: Drug-Free Acupressure Technique Relieves Insomnia
From the World Center for EFT

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) Thirty-two million Americans suffer from chronic insomnia and sleep deprivation. Their search for sleep has made prescription drugs, special mattresses, aromatherapy products, herbs, nutritional supplements, and other strategies popular -- but for most, a good night’s sleep followed by an alert, productive day remains elusive.

Now a simple acupressure technique called EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is relieving insomnia without drugs or special equipment by addressing its underlying cause. The process can be learned free by downloading the EFT Manual. (Read the rest here)

A Very Fractured Fairy Tale
by Bob Wallace

Here's a story with which everyone is familiar, even unto a four-year-old child: a village is menaced by a dragon, so the hero rides out, slays it and saves the village.

True, it's a simple story, but, in different versions, it's the basis of many stories all over the world. Look at the great Japanese film, The Seven Samuri: the village is menaced by bandits, so the villagers hire samuri to slay the attackers. Village, Dragon, Hero. (Read the rest here)

3^rd Political Parties: Unite Constitutionally! Or Be Damned!
By Ed Ward, MD

The 3^rd parties, leadership, members and non affiliated citizens, must heed the words of Thomas Jefferson, "...to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love of our country soar above all minor passions,...."

The three most likely to be Constitutionally compatible and largest 3^rd parties, the Libertarian, Green and Reform Parties all have their conventions set for July of this year. Their speakers are likely set, as well as their individual agendas. Despite significant cooperation between the Libertarian presidential candidate, Badnarik, and the Green presidential candidate, Cobb, in the end game of 2004 election . Enough cooperation to land them both in jail for daring to try and take their rightful places in a presidential debate. Despite needless duplication of minimal precious resources; money, members, media and the simple, basic perception that the party is significant enough to make a difference. Despite surveys which show 53% of citizens that claim they want a new major 3^rd party. (Read the rest here)

Congress Rejects UN Taxes
by Congressman Ron Paul - R - TX

Let me ask you a question: Do you think you pay enough taxes? Throughout the year you paid federal taxes through withholding, including Social Security payroll taxes. You also paid state income taxes, unless you’re fortunate enough to live in Texas or another state without an income tax. You paid local property taxes. You paid local sales taxes every time you bought something, and you paid numerous miscellaneous taxes such as vehicle license fees and federal gas taxes. Like most people, you probably feel taxed to death by all these city, county, state, and federal taxes. Well, hold on to your wallets, because the United Nations now wants to impose a whole new level of global taxes on us. (Read the rest here)

Win One for the Gipper (Ayatollah Khameini)
By Ivan Eland

Although on the surface, things have been going well lately for President Bush on Iraq—the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the installing at long last of a permanent government in Iraq, and a vote of support in the U.S. House of Representatives for the President’s Iraq policy—it is easy to forget that even if the United States wins the war in Iraq, it loses. Even if the Bush administration eventually creates, in the words of the House resolution, a “sovereign, free, secure and united Iraq,” the big winner there will be Iran.

The real driver behind U.S. policy in Iraq still remains murky. It certainly wasn’t to enshrine the will of the people in Iraq. If that were the case, the administration would have agreed to the proposal of some Democrats to set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country. The president and vice president of Iraq have requested one, and 80 percent of Iraqis want U.S. troops to go home. (Read the rest here)

A Message from Jacob G. Hornberger
by Jacob G. Hornberger

Dear Friend of Freedom:

The ideas and principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution brought into existence the greatest, freest, and most prosperous nation in history. It is to the restoration of those principles of liberty that The Future of Freedom Foundation is committed.

Our country is headed in a bad direction with respect to our rights and freedoms. Under the war on terrorism, the executive branch of the federal government, with the acquiescence of a submissive Congress, now wields the power: (Read the rest here)

VDay: Until The Hysteria Stops
By Carey Roberts

If you happened to take in a Yankees game last week, you probably saw the message flashing on the stadium's giant screen: "Until the Violence Stops: NYC." Next Tuesday you can trot over to Prospect Park and "Run Until the Violence Stops." And the colorful posters dotting the subways constantly remind us to "make New York City the safest place on the earth for girls and women."

What's going on? An invasion of the New Jersey purse-snatchers?

Well, if you haven't heard, Eve Ensler, that nice lady who brought us The Vagina Monologues, decided it wasn't enough to get college girls to ritualistically chant that three-syllable word that starts with a 'V.' "When I started this 10 years ago, no one said the word 'vagina,'" Ensler notes with satisfaction. "Something has shifted in people." (Read the rest here)

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