My Personal Rants, Raves, and Ramblings

HTC Droid Incredible 2 on Verizon

2011-04-18T10:14:00.000-04:00

I was purchasing a new phone for work, and saw that Verizon has the new HTC Incredible 2 listed as an option, if you want to pay $99,999.99 for it! :)

We Won Wisconsin - But the Fight Goes On

2011-03-17T17:28:00.002-04:00

Government Spending

2011-01-31T22:56:00.002-05:00

Sen. Rand Paul’s SOTU Response

2011-01-27T12:29:00.000-05:00

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2010-12-31T01:45:00.000-05:00

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What You Ought to Know About the TSA Screening Procedures

2010-12-08T17:36:00.000-05:00

How to Ensure Your Child Gets a Good Education

2010-12-07T16:17:00.000-05:00

Don't send them to a U.S. Public School, instead send them to the Chinese Communists....

Fifteen-year-olds in the U.S. ranked 25th among peers from 34 countries on a math test and scored in the middle in science and reading, while China’s Shanghai topped the charts, raising concern that the U.S. isn’t prepared to succeed in the global economy.

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, which represents 34 countries, today released the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment. For the first time, the test broke out the performance of China’s Shanghai region, which topped every country in all academic categories. The U.S. government considers the test one of the most comprehensive measures of international achievement.

The results show that U.S. students must improve to compete in a global economy, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said yesterday in a telephone interview. President Barack Obama’s administration is promoting national curriculum standards and a revamping of teacher pay that stresses performance rather than credentials and seniority.

“The brutal fact here is there are many countries that are far ahead of us and improving more rapidly than we are,” Duncan said. “This should be a massive wake-up call to the entire country.”

Full article

Bill Cosby: "...the revolution is in the home!”

2010-11-24T19:22:00.000-05:00

"I want you all to understand the value of your children,” Cosby said. “Your children happen to be helpless. They need you."

He says too many parents expect too much of the schools and that pouring more money into them won't solve all of the community's problems.

"To try to get the adults to seriously throw off the apathy and recognize that the revolution is in the home,” the actor, producer and activist continued.

European MP: ‘Who the Hell Do You Think You Are? The Euro Game Is Up!’

2010-11-24T19:16:00.000-05:00

Nigel Farage: "You are very, very dangerous people indeed. Your obsession with creating this Euro-State means that you're happy to destroy democracy. You appear to be happy for millions and millions of people to be unemployed and to be poor. Untold millions must suffer so that your Euro-Dream can continue.

We don't want that flag, we don't want the anthem, we don't want this political class. We want the whole thing consigned to the dustbin of history."

Why Can't Chuck Get His Business Off the Ground?

2010-11-11T17:17:00.002-05:00

And we wonder why we have high unemployment???

Jim DeMint: GOP Must Change or I'm Gone!

2010-10-21T16:38:00.002-04:00

The Forgotten Man

2010-09-08T15:09:00.003-04:00

Long Island Man Arrested For Defending Home With AK-47

2010-09-08T08:59:00.000-04:00

Guess he should have waited for them to get inside with his family before shooting...

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (CBS 2) — He was arrested for protecting his property and family.

But it’s how the Long Island man did it that police say crossed the line.
He got an AK-47 assault rifle, pulled the trigger and he ended up in jail, reports CBS 2’s Pablo Guzman.

George Grier said he had to use his rifle on Sunday night to stop what he thought was going to be an invasion of his Uniondale home by a gang he thought might have been the vicious “MS-13.” He said the whole deal happened as he was about to drive his cousin home.

“I went around and went into the house, ran upstairs and told my wife to call the police. I get the gun and I go outside and I come into the doorway and now, by this time, they are in the driveway, back here near the house. I tell them, you know, ‘Can you please leave?’ Grier said.
Grier said the five men dared him to use the gun; and that their shouts brought another larger group of gang members in front of his house.

“He starts threatening my family, my life. ‘Oh you’re dead. I’m gonna kill your family and your babies. You’re dead.’ So when he says that, 20 others guys come rushing around the corner. And so I fired four warning shots into the grass,” Grier said.

Grier was later arrested. John Lewis is Grier’s attorney.

“What he’s initially charged with – A D felony reckless endangerment — requires a depraved indifference to human life, creating a risk that someone’s going to die. Shooting into a lawn doesn’t create a risk of anybody dying,” Lewis said.

- click here for the full article

Homeowner Shoots and Kills Intruder

2010-09-03T18:42:00.000-04:00

Another would-be victim saved by the "evil" gun.

A would-be home invasion victim shot and killed an intruder in northwest Atlanta Thursday night, police said.

The shooting happened shortly before midnight at a home on Abner Place.

Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones told the AJC that arriving officers found a man with a gunshot wound to the chest.

"Officers were advised that the victim attempted to break into the home and the person at the home shot the intruder," Jones said.

Click here for the full story

Who Is the New Guy?

2010-08-25T11:06:00.002-04:00

LOL, love this "Where's my Congressman?" video from the Heritage Foundation.

I Want Your Money

2010-08-23T10:41:00.002-04:00

"Those Voices Don't Speak for the Rest of Us"

2010-08-16T23:02:00.000-04:00

Great video by Tom Price and the RSC

Man kills home invasion suspect, injures woman

2010-08-03T23:15:00.000-04:00

A Henry County man shot two people trying to break into his home Monday, police said, killing a man and injuring a woman.

Police found the body of 27-year-old John David Griffen of Clanton, Ala., in the front yard of a home located on the the 6000 block of Ga. 155, according to a press release issued by the Henry County Police Department Tuesday.

Approximately two hours later, Monica Johnson Allen, 40, called 911 from her Covington home and said she had been shot, the news release said. Newton County police transported her to Atlanta Medical Center where she was treated. She was later taken to the Henry County Jail and charged with robbery.

Police have not identified the shooter.

Just before noon Monday, Henry County police responded to an emergency call from a man who told police he had shot a home invasion suspect.

The victim told police he heard loud banging on his front door. The victim told police he grabbed his shotgun, and, as he approached the door, a man and woman came barging through. The victim said he fired one shot at the man and woman as they ran toward their car. The man fell to the ground, and the female fled the scene in a vehicle.

Police said they found a crow bar dropped by one of the suspects at the front door.

- AJC Article

Police Repeatedly Tase Woman Who Called Them for Help

2010-07-13T17:46:00.000-04:00

Unbelievable!!! Glad these two are gone, however one is already employed at another Sheriff's department!

Janice Wells called the Richland Police Department when she feared a prowler was outside her clapboard house in the rural west Georgia town.

The third-grade teacher had phoned for help. But within minutes of an officer coming to her backdoor, she was screaming in pain and begging not to be shocked again with a Taser. With each scream and cry, the officer threatened her with more shocks.

"All of it's just unreal to me. I was scared to death," Wells said in an interview with the AJC. "He kept tasing me and tasing me. My fingernails are still burned. My leg, back and my butt had a long scar on it for days."

The officer in question is Ryan Smith of the Lumpkin Police Department. Smith was called to back up an officer from the Richland Police Department because the sheriff's office in the county, Stewart, had no deputies to send.

Smith resigned as a result of the incident. The other officer involved, Tim Murphy of Richland PD, was fired for using pepper spray while trying to arrest Wells.

- click here for the full article

11 Reasons to Vote for Democrats in November

2010-07-01T15:51:00.000-04:00

Rick Santelli to Government: STOP SPENDING! STOP SPENDING! STOP SPENDING!

2010-06-29T12:17:00.000-04:00

Go Rick!

AZ Police Threatened by Mexican Drug Cartels

2010-06-25T13:06:00.000-04:00

Maybe the lady in the previous post would care to go discuss this issue with the folks down at the Nogales police department. I mean "AZ isn't on the border or anything" so what's up with these threats!?

Product of Public Education?

2010-06-25T12:05:00.001-04:00

I believe this would fall under the category of why I DON'T send my kids to public schools.

Democrat County Supervisor Peggy West of Milwaukee is proud to be the "first Latino/Hispanic American to be elected to the Milwaukee County Board". During the debate on a measure boycotting the state of Arizona she asserts an uneasy knowledge of US geography.

NYC Police Officer Beats Iraqi War Veteran

2010-06-25T10:21:00.001-04:00

Guys like this need to be put away for a long time! It would serve as a good example to other officers not to abuse their power.

A NYC Cop Officer David London, Beat an Iraqi War Veteran Walter Harvin, Senseless for not showing him his ID. Prosecutors have released potentially explosive evidence against an NYPD officer on trial for beating a man with his baton.

The video taken from security cameras shows the 45-year-old housing cop beating an Iraq war veteran with is baton.
It happened at an Upper West Side public housi More..ng development. The victim, 28-year-old Walter Harvin had just returned from Iraq and was at his mom's apartment complex.
The video is high quality and crystal clear that Housing Officer David London led an unprovoked attack on the Iraqi war veteran.Even beating the ex-soldier after he's cuffed.

The officer is charged with 2nd degree assault and filing false records. Prosecutors say London tried to cover-up the July 2007 assault by lying on official documents.Right now the Manhattan criminal jury is tackling the question on whether London committed an act of police brutality or used necessary force to subdue a suspect.

The Iraq veteran suffers from PTSD. If the officer is convicted, he faces 7 years in prison

Happy Birthday William!

2010-06-22T15:27:00.004-04:00

Today was William's (and Christie's!) birthday - so as usual I took him out for breakfast to celebrate :). It's amazing how big he has gotten over the past year... you can see some pictures of him growing on Christie's blog.

Do You Believe In The IRS?

2010-06-19T11:50:00.000-04:00

Grandpa Vanderhof doesn't :)

This is a great clip from the classic 1938 movie "You Can't Take It With You", by Frank Capra with Lionel Barrymore and Jimmy Stewart.

CNBC Analyst: ‘President Has Created His Own Sense of Legal System’

2010-06-17T13:09:00.001-04:00

"There's a thing called 'Due Process', my friends!"

Chris Matthews Profiles 'Rise of the New Right' on Hardball

2010-06-17T01:45:00.001-04:00

Very interesting show... he goes through a lot of the history of the "Right" in America - from McCarthy to the Tea Party movement. However his analysis and commentary on it is incredibly ignorant.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6 (final)

Happy Birthday Davina!

2010-06-15T22:33:00.002-04:00

Today was Davina's 6th Birthday (hard to believe!). I took her out to breakfast at Cracker Barrel to celebrate and we had a grand time! :) Here are a few pic's

NC Democrat Congressman Assaults Student on DC Sidewalk

2010-06-14T13:38:00.003-04:00

Watch out for those angry liberal Democrats, they are on every street corner! :)

Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC) attacks student

Andrea Bocelli's Profound Pro-Life Message

2010-06-11T09:39:00.000-04:00

Wow! Very inspiring and moving... I had no idea he had a story like this.

Barney Frank Pleads for "More Authority"

2010-06-09T15:24:00.000-04:00

Nice!

"You can reach out to your fellow young people, and make it clear to them that, where they may not be satisfied with everything we've done... the way to cure that is to give us more authority and more ability"

Former Marine Stuns Crowd at Georgia Tea Party Event

2010-06-07T15:18:00.000-04:00

We raise'em right down here in the south! ;)

William Likes Starbucks!

2010-06-05T22:17:00.002-04:00

William and I had some guy time today... and to kick things off we enjoyed Starbucks together :)

Quote of the Day: John Adams

2010-05-28T08:27:00.000-04:00

"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives." - John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756

Border Security, Terrorists Crossing the Border?

2010-05-26T07:15:00.000-04:00

More Alabama Goodness

2010-05-26T07:11:00.001-04:00

Euro Bailouts and Economics

2010-05-25T23:28:00.002-04:00

Finally explained for the little person like me :)

Another Great Alabama Political Video

2010-05-25T22:19:00.002-04:00

Why does Alabama get all the great political video's and candidates?? :)

Tom McClintock on Mexican President's Address to Congress

2010-05-21T12:37:00.001-04:00

He also addresses the AZ immigration law. He does an incredible job on both issues, and even throws in a great Teddy Roosevelt quote.

And to think that California could have had this man as their Governor, instead of the Governator! But alas folks like Hannity didn't have the guts to stand up Arnold and support the real conservative, Tom McClintock.

Sweet Home Alabama!

2010-05-17T09:17:00.000-04:00

Texas is getting a run for their money for having the most "conservative" politicians, and or candidates. Dale Peterson rocks! :) If I lived in Alabama, he'd definitely get my vote for Ag Commissioner.

La Revolution!

2010-05-15T21:25:00.000-04:00

Or so says this self described Socialist and Anti-Capitalist public high school history teacher... I guess I could have filed this under "Why Not to Send Your Kids to Public School", but we've had enough of those for one week.

Watch this interview and then imagine what outrage there would be if a white history teacher were promoting "revolution" against Hispanic immigration, which is akin to what he is promoting and what the group that he supports promotes, La Raza (Wikipedia definition). Note that they are upset with Obama and the Democrats for not having pushed through "immigration reform".

Sweet! Gold to Go!

2010-05-14T10:24:00.000-04:00

Next time I'm in that neck of the woods I'll have to stop by :)

Abu Dhabi Hotel Unveils Vending Machines That Dispenses Gold

Gov Christie: Thin-Skinned Reporter

2010-05-14T10:03:00.000-04:00

I love it! :)

Gov Christie calls S-L columnist thin-skinned for inquiring about his 'confrontational tone'

Reason # 132,562,675 Not to Send Your Kid to Public University

2010-05-12T10:07:00.003-04:00

While we're on the education theme :)

Reason # 132,562,675 Not to Send Your Kid to Public School

2010-05-12T08:57:00.000-04:00

Unbelievable!

No Arms, No Legs... No Worries - Nick Vujicic

2010-05-10T09:11:00.002-04:00

Incredible Ride on Wall Street Today

2010-05-06T22:11:00.000-04:00

Watch Cramer as he called it live...

Jeff Chapman: Renew Georgia Video

2010-05-04T08:20:00.000-04:00

Impressive video from Senator Chapman.

Nashville Flood

2010-05-04T08:13:00.002-04:00

Incredible video of the Nashville floods.

Say Goodbye National Defense

2010-04-25T20:59:00.001-04:00

Incredible graphs showing Federal Government spending - and how in 2052 ALL Federal taxes (IF historic taxation levels are kept) will be spent on entitlement programs. So I guess that means we all need to buy a tank or fighter jet to defend ourselves from foreign enemies, because obviously we won't be able to rely on the Federal government to do so.

Check out this graph, and the others on Heritage's website:

If future taxes are held at the historical average, spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will consume all revenues by 2052. Because entitlement spending is funded on autopilot, no revenue will be left to pay for other government spending, including constitutional functions such as defense.

Offensive Play of the Year?

2010-04-22T00:50:00.000-04:00

A Fordham baseball player leaps headfirst over Iona's catcher to score during the team's 9-run eighth inning.

Sedition?

2010-04-20T11:45:00.001-04:00

You have to wonder about the intelligence level of some of the people in the mainstream media, namely Joe Klein, Chris Matthews, and John Heilemann. How absurd can you get!? ESPECIALLY considering all of their pasts concerning Bush bashing and "regime" name calling. Incredible!

Here's the original and full clip.

Joe Morecraft Tea Party Speech

2010-04-16T16:47:00.002-04:00

Great speech!

Princess Rosie and her caterpillar

2010-04-15T17:15:00.002-04:00

More Cops on a Power Trip

2010-04-07T23:41:00.002-04:00

Unbelievable!

America, I give you the oPad!

2010-04-07T17:45:00.002-04:00

AKA, the Obama Pad

The Obama Sphere - Obama Flip-Flops

2010-04-07T08:10:00.000-04:00

Law Enforcement Illegally Enter and Search Home

2010-04-05T19:39:00.000-04:00

Apparently law enforcement officers (Sheriff's Deputies) don't have to abide by the laws that they are sworn to uphold. Unbelievable!

Related: Sheriff's department launches internal investigation after deputies enter woman's home

Rep Hare (D-IL): 'I Don't Worry About the Constitution'

2010-04-01T21:39:00.001-04:00

I wish that this was an April Fools joke, but it isn't. Most liberals try to deceive people into believing that they care about the Constitution, while at the same time trying to destroy it. However Rep. Hare doesn't appear to be that concerned with people knowing his true thoughts on the Constitution and how it affects his job. So, since he doesn't seem to care for the "policies" that have been in place for over 200 years at his current employer (i.e. The United States of America), let's encourage him to look for new employment come his next election.

Related: Congressman Phil Hare meets angry crowd

A Message from the NRSC on April 1st

2010-04-01T10:22:00.001-04:00

Could Guam Tip Over?

2010-03-31T23:02:00.000-04:00

Yes, that's right, we need to worry about whether an additional 25,000 people on Guam will "cause it to tip over". So says one U.S. Congressman. And I'm sorry to say that he is one of Georgia's Congressmen, from the 4th district, Hank Johnson.

The Politicians Must GOOOH!

2010-03-31T09:52:00.000-04:00

Time to tell the politicians to Get Out of Our House (GOOOH)

Police Car vs Dog, Dog Wins

2010-03-30T23:47:00.000-04:00

Unbelievable!

Why Pay for the Care of the Careless?

2010-03-25T10:21:00.000-04:00

This is a letter to the Mississippi Clarion Ledger, published on August 23rd, 2009 by Dr. Roger Starner Jones. Very good and short summary of the main issue we have with health care in this country, and the world.

During my last shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos, and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ring tone.

Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid.

She smokes a costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer.

And our president expects me to pay for this woman's health care?

Our nation's health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture - a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance.

Life is really not that hard. Most of us reap what we sow.

Starner Jones, MD

Click here to review the Snopes.com overview of the article

Another Great Video from Price and the RSC

2010-03-24T15:28:00.003-04:00

Healthcare Bill Will 'Control the People' According to Rep Dingell

2010-03-24T14:06:00.000-04:00

As if we didn't already know this!

John Boehner on the House Floor before Healthcare Vote

2010-03-22T10:20:00.000-04:00

Obama Grilled on Healthcare

2010-03-17T22:34:00.000-04:00

Bret Baier with Fox News did a great job asking the real questions and trying to get the President to answer direct questions about the tricks and sleazy way that the healthcare bill is being handled. He was well prepared and knew the details and what to ask.

Video 1:

Video 2:

Gibbs Dodging Deem and Pass Question by NBC

2010-03-17T22:00:00.001-04:00

NRSC: "Broken Promises"

2010-03-17T17:37:00.002-04:00

RSC Talking Babies Ad Take on Obamacare

2010-03-16T03:13:00.002-04:00

LOL

True Cost of Public Schools

2010-03-10T20:51:00.000-05:00

And people have the nerve to get upset when I suggest that people start being responsible for their own children's education!? If we truly believed (Republicans and "Conservatives") in the free market, capitalism, and limited government then parents would be responsible for the education of their own children and this INCREDIBLE waste of money would be eliminated. I can assure you that Private and Christian schools do NOT have these "hidden" costs! Whatever it cost for the school is what the parents pay - like it should be. Instead we are spending billions of dollars for Public schools, when we could get a higher quality education for less money by privatizing the whole system. Yet who are the chief opponents? Republicans and "Conservatives".

Obama on Abortion - His Real Views from 2003

2010-03-08T10:10:00.000-05:00

As if anyone thought otherwise.

Healthcare Summit in Two Minutes: CNN Condenses Seven-Hours into Two Minutes

2010-03-01T09:26:00.000-05:00

Pelosi: ‘A Bill Can Be Bipartisan Without Bipartisan Votes’

2010-03-01T09:11:00.000-05:00

Just like you can "vote for something before you voted not for something". :)

Want A Jetpack?

2010-02-26T20:50:00.000-05:00

It's Now Available for only $76k! Next time I'm in Christchurch I'll have to see if I can get a ride on one :)

New Zealand Company brings first personal jetpack to market

"Oreck Man" Scales Wall Using Only Vacuum Cleaner Suctions

2010-02-22T08:51:00.000-05:00

David Oreck would be proud :)

Happy Birthday Tea Party Movement!

2010-02-19T00:00:00.001-05:00

Thanks to Rick Santelli for getting us started last year by having the courage to stand up and speak the truth! Good job Mr Santelli! Keep up the good work.

And Happy Birthday Tea Party!!

Mexico Close to becoming 'Narco-State'?

2010-02-15T14:34:00.000-05:00

Wow... I don't think that many of us Americans understand how dire the situation is down there in Mexico - or how it's infiltrating into our country as well in some places.

Drug cartels tighten grip; Mexico becoming 'narco-state'

MEXICO CITY - For months, the leaders of Tancitaro had held firm against the drug lords battling for control of this central Mexican town.

Then one morning, after months of threats and violence from the traffickers, they finally surrendered.

Before dawn, gunmen kidnapped the elderly fathers of the town administrator and the secretary of the City Council. Within hours, both officials resigned along with the mayor, the entire seven-member City Council, two department heads, the police chief and all 60 police officers. Tancitaro had fallen to the enemy.

Across Mexico
, the continuing ability of traffickers to topple governments like Tancitaro's, intimidate police and keep drug shipments flowing is raising doubts about the Mexican government's 3-year-old, U.S.-backed war on the drug cartels.

Far from eliminating the gangs, the battle has exposed criminal networks more ingrained than most Americans could imagine: Hidden economies that employ up to one-fifth of the people in some Mexican states. Business empires that include holdings as everyday as gyms and a day-care center.

And the death toll continues to mount: Mexico saw 6,587 drug-related murders in 2009, up from 5,207 in 2008 and 2,275 in 2007, according to an unofficial tally by the respected newspaper Reforma.

Cartels have multiplied, improved their armament and are perfecting simultaneous, terrorist-style attacks.

Some analysts are warning that Mexico is on the verge of becoming a "narco-state" like 1990s-era Colombia.

"We are approaching that red zone," said Edgardo Buscaglia, an expert on organized crime at the Autonomous Technological University of Mexico. "There are pockets of ungovernability in the country, and they will expand."

For the past decade, he said, parts of Mexico have been sliding toward the lawlessness that Colombia experienced, in which traffickers in league with left-wing rebels controlled small towns and large parts of the interior through drug-funded bribery and gun-barrel intimidation.

In the latest sign of the cartels' grip, on Wednesday the National Action Party of President Felipe Calderón announced it was calling off primary elections in the northern state of Tamaulipas because drug traffickers had infiltrated politics.

And in Chihuahua, the government is redeploying troops from the embattled city of Juarez to the countryside because of fears that the cartels are cementing their control in smaller border towns.

Even Calderón, who a year ago angrily rebutted suggestions that Mexico was becoming a "failed state," is now describing his crackdown as a fight for territory and "the very authority of the state."

"The crime has stopped being a low-profile activity and has become defiant . . . . plainly visible and based on co-opting or intimidating the authorities," he told a group of Mexican ambassadors last month. "It's the law of the 'bribe or the bullet.' "

Towns on the ropes

In places like Tancitaro, population 26,000, the battle already may be lost.

In the past year, gunmen killed seven police officers, murdered a top town administrator and kidnapped others, said Martin Urbina, a city official. The reasons were unclear - most of the town leaders are in hiding and could not be reached for comment - but the drug traffickers were apparently demanding the removal of certain police officers, Urbina said.

When the traffickers kidnapped the two officials' fathers on Nov. 30, it was the last straw.

"If someone comes and puts a pistol to your head, what are you going to do?" said Gustavo Sánchez, who was appointed by the Michoacan state governor as interim mayor after the mass resignation. "It's happening in all of the states, not just here."

In Vicente Guerrero, in Durango state, 34 of 38 police resigned after the police chief and four officers were kidnapped. The victims have not been found.

In the border town of Puerto Palomas, the police chief fled to the United States and asked for asylum in March, saying Mexican officials could not protect him. In October, traffickers killed the town administrator in Puerto Palomas.

In the northern town of Namiquipa, traffickers killed the mayor and two top town officials last year. Police there are woefully outgunned, police Chief Jesus Hinojosa said. There are only 15 weapons for 39 police officers.

Often the cartels target city officials they believe are cooperating with federal authorities, said Juan Manuel Bautista, the City Council secretary in the western town of Novolato, where traffickers have killed 25 police, two city councilmen and a town administrator in the past two years.

Other times, they are simply lashing back at the most convenient targets, he said.

"In these small-town governments, everyone knows your business and who you are," Bautista said. "If they want to take revenge on you, it's easy."

Even when governments replace police chiefs, mayors and town councils, it's often only a matter of time before the replacements are bribed, intimidated at the barrel of a gun or killed, and the scenario repeats itself, said Bernardo Gonzalez Arechiga, an expert on crime at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Advanced Studies.

In May, federal officials arrested 10 mayors in Michoacan state on charges of protecting smugglers.

In June, Mauricio Fernández, a mayoral candidate in the wealthy Monterrey suburb of San Pedro Garza Garcia, was recorded telling a meeting of supporters that he had negotiated a truce with the Beltrán Leyva gang as a way of guaranteeing security in the town. Fernández later denied any contact with the gang. He easily won the July 2 election.

Click here to read the rest of the article.

Democrats: We're Burning Up! We Must Act Now!

2010-02-10T18:57:00.001-05:00

They have been trying to hype global warming for years now and attempting to promote mass-hysteria in order to promote their socialistic agendas. And then yesterday they had to postpone a "Global Warming Impacts, Including Public Health, in the United States" committee hearing in the Senate "due to inclement weather". LOL! Got to love that!

I have to wonder, do they not feel ANY shame or embarrassment over their obvious ignorance on the matter? And how the whole world now see's that it's a fraud and hoax? The latest blizzard in the northeast has got to be pretty embarrassing for them! :)

Related:

Haitian Man Rescued After 27 Days!

2010-02-09T00:21:00.000-05:00

And while this man, and others, remain trapped under rubble... the Haitian government is jailing and prosecuting American Christian missionaries trying to help orphan and needy children. Insane!

Geraldo Rivera on Haitian Missionaries in Jail

2010-02-09T00:17:00.000-05:00

This story is incredible! It shows you exactly what a corrupt and socialistic government is capable of... it removes all reason, logic, and good sense from the equation.

Rep. Tom Price on DeKalb County Schools Using Stimulus Dollars for Vacations

2010-02-05T19:11:00.000-05:00

Make you mad? It should. But does it also make you mad that this type of confiscation and misuse of our wealth goes on ever day and you say nothing about it? Rather you encourage and applaud it? What you ask is this? It's called the school tax - every penny of our taxes spent on schools is confiscated and redistributed to someone else - and that my friends is the ultimate definition of socialism. And that is what 99% of "Conservative Republicans" wholeheartedly support... time for us to start thinking a little deeper about what we truly believe.

Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration

2010-02-05T16:39:00.000-05:00

Great video... though weird section towards the end - I guess it was their tribute to some big hair 80's band. :)

It's Ok to Trust Women... to Kill their Children?

2010-02-05T15:52:00.000-05:00

Or something like that...

This is really a bizarre video in "response" to the upcoming Tim Tebow pro-life commercial with his mother during the super bowl.

Some outtakes -

"I want my daughter to live in a world where EVERYONE'S decisions are respected."

So does that mean if someone wants to abuse animals (or any other crime) that we should just "respect" that decision and move on (nothing to see here)? I'm sure Michael Vick would have appreciated that attitude a few years ago... wonder where these two were when everyone was hating on Vick?

"My mom showed me that women are strong and wise. She taught me that ONLY women can make the best decisions about their health and their future."

I agree with this one completely! So let's not murder the unborn baby in the womb and allow these "women-to-be" to make their own decisions about their health and their FUTURE, not some 'other woman' outside the womb. Let's not eliminate their health and their future all in one abortion clinic visit - let's allow them to grow and to make these life or death decisions themselves. Sound good?

Cavuto Takes on Obama and Cable News

2010-02-02T23:39:00.001-05:00

Quote of the Day: Samuel Adams

2010-02-01T07:46:00.002-05:00

"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." - Samuel Adams, 1749 - Essay in The Public Advertiser

Tom Price and Obama Debate Healthcare

2010-01-29T22:29:00.002-05:00

Great job by Rep. Price!

Kent Conrad Flip Flop on Senate Reconciliation for Healthcare Bill

2010-01-29T15:54:00.000-05:00

LOL... typical politician.

"It is dead wrong. An Absolute Abuse!"

Nick Gillespie and John Stossel Take on the Nanny State

2010-01-25T21:01:00.002-05:00

Saul Alinsky's 'No Rules for Radicals' Video

2010-01-25T18:46:00.001-05:00

The Love of a Brother and Sister

2010-01-24T19:38:00.001-05:00

Watching the Mysterious Islands together... Rosie rubbing her brother William's head and enjoying the movie together.

Quote of the Day: Thomas Jefferson

2010-01-22T08:48:00.000-05:00

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson, Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774

Chris Matthews vs Howard Dean on Healthcare and Mass Election

2010-01-20T23:25:00.000-05:00

LOL... Matthews nails Dean on his lunatic statement that Massachusetts voters wanted MORE Obamacare, not less! What a moron! :)

When Cops Aren't Around

2010-01-20T17:56:00.003-05:00

Wall Climbing Robots

2010-01-20T10:46:00.000-05:00

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Great Video

2010-01-16T18:51:00.000-05:00

Don't know that much about Scott Brown, but let's hope that he is the freedom fighter and lover of liberty as this video portrays.

Media Tries to Get Gibbs to Address Transparency Issue

2010-01-16T18:31:00.002-05:00

Keep trying fella's... it ain't gonna happen. Obama does what Obama wants to do, regardless of what his prior promises were.

Would Be Victim Puts Beat Down on Burglary Suspect with Staple Gun

2010-01-13T13:06:00.001-05:00

I love this guy! A real John Wayne type of guy...