A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States. An individual mandate would have two features that, in combination, would make it unique. First, it would impose a duty on individuals as members of society. Second, it would require people to purchase a specific service that would be heavily regulated by the federal government.

As much as Speaker Pelosi may wish otherwise, the CBO is dead on: the Supreme Court has never validated a federal power as intrusive as forcing all Americans to purchase a service due to their very existence. Sure, the Supreme Court has said that Congress may regulate a farmer’s production of wheat even if he never plans to distribute it off of his farm, and the Supreme Court has said Congress may ban the possession of Marijuana even if it is for personal use, but never before has the Supreme Court said the power to regulate commerce enabled Congress to force an individual to do something just because he existed.

In fact, the Supreme Court has always been clear that the Commerce clause must have some limits. In United States v. Lopez (1995), the Court struck down the Gun-Free School Zones Act, which attempted to reach the activity of possessing a gun within a thousand feet of a school. In United States v. Morrison, it invalidated part of the Violence Against Women Act, which regulated gender-motivated violence. In both cases, the Court found the regulated activity in each case to be noneconomic; it was outside the reach of Congress’s Commerce power, regardless of its effect on interstate commerce. The case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate is far weaker than either of these two cases. Congress was at least trying to regulate an individual’s activity in the cases above. But the mandate does not purport to regulate or prohibit activity of any kind, whether economic or noneconomic. To the contrary, it purports to “regulate” inactivity.

If the individual mandate is Constitutional, then Congress could do anything. They could: require us to buy a new Chevy Impala each year to support the government-supported auto industry; require us to buy war bonds to pay for the Iraq and Afghan wars; require us to grow wheat (10 bushels each), or pay someone else to grow your share; require us to buy whatever they want.

Many on the left immediately point to state mandates that drivers purchase car insurance as proof of a mandate that all Americans buy health insurance is not new. But car insurance mandates are distinguishable in at least four ways: 1) they are state requirements and states have broader constitutional authority than the federal government; 2) they apply to drivers only, not all Americans (e.g. passengers are not required to carry insurance); 3) drivers use public roads; 4) states only require drivers to insure against injury to other drivers, not to insure themselves against personal injury.

Yesterday The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies released a Legal Memorandum written in conjunction with Georgetown University Law Center Professor Randy Barnett and Nathaniel Stewart explaining: Why the Personal Mandate to Buy Health Insurance Is Unprecedented and Unconstitutional. Introducing the paper, Sen. Orrin Hatch noted:

James Madison said that if men were angels, no government would be necessary and if angels governed men, no limits on government would be necessary. Because neither men nor the governments they create are angelic, government and limits on government are both necessary for ordered liberty. Politics may tell us what we want to do, but the Constitution tells us what we may do and we must keep those separate. The ends do not justify the means for one simple reason – liberty. Liberty requires limits on government power, it always has and it always will.

Do they not understand that senior citizens VOTE in this country? The sheer audacity and arrogance of the liberals to propose that senior citizens should be on the chopping block but not TORT reform shows their true colors. This is Socialism pure and simple! Old people and handicapped folks are non-contributors to a Socialist state and thus expendable. This is why the bill includes mandatory end of life counseling, i.e. let us send in Dr. Death to end your life so that you won't be a drain on "the government."

They forget that they will be old, and many of them are already old, but this does not seem to register in their small minds. There is a story I heard a number of years ago about an oriental family whose grandfather had become too old and sick to work so the father was going to take him in the wheelbarrow to the place that old people are dumped off to die. The father's young son asked if he might go with his father to take his grandfather to the place of death. The father asked his son why he wanted to go. The boy replied, "I need to know where the place is so I will know where to take you when you get old."

We need to remember that our senior citizens are the folks that built America into the powerhouse that she has become and we owe them a great debt of appreciation and a responsibility to take care of them until death. They have earned this place of honor. 

Why won't the liberals set loose a team of investigators to get to the bottom of Medicare scam artists? Here is one reason that this program is about to go bankrupt but they don't seem to care about this since many of their cronies are up to their ears in corruption and they want to protect them.

We need a thousand Sarah Palins turned lose in our government to root out corruption and throw the criminals into jail. Can we imagine how much money is wasted each year by corruption? Al Gore is worth over 100 million dollars as a result of the global warming scam and he needs to be prosecuted for lying to the American public and bilking them of millions.

Have you noticed that psychiatrists have come up with excuses for everyone who does gross things? Tiger Woods, the up to now Mr. Clean of the sports world, has suddenly been found out and his wife rightly went after him with a golf club. He has been immoral and committed adultery countless times with everything from show girls to prostitutes and now we hear that he has an addictive personality and is addicted to sex. Give me a break! He is just a man with too much money and has too much availability to immoral women who will sleep with him or anyone else who comes along. Can you imagine his wife's anger at finding out that he has had sex with every sleazy woman around and yet came home to her bed and has spread who knows what disease to her? She should have him castrated and help him get over his "sex addiction." This seems to work on Tom cats and horses, so why not on a Tiger?

We have tried to sanitize adultery and fornication by giving it a tame name like "an affair." An affair used to be a party with friends but now it is the sanitized version of having sex with someone not your spouse. I am sure that Tiger took vows when he married that he would be sexually exclusive to his wife so I guess that this simply adds LIAR to his list of sins.

"Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."   Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865

It is always too soon to quit. We cannot afford to give up this fight and we must prevail or we will hand our children and grandchildren over to Socialism under the most cruel masters. They will never know the America that we have known.

Are we willing to go soft and let this happen or will we have the tenacity of a junkyard dog?

An Open Letter to the Scientific Community
cosmologystatement.org

(Published in New Scientist, May 22, 2004)

The big bang today relies on a growing number of hypothetical entities, things that we have never observed-- inflation, dark matter and dark energy are the most prominent examples. Without them, there would be a fatal contradiction between the observations made by astronomers and the predictions of the big bang theory. In no other field of physics would this continual recourse to new hypothetical objects be accepted as a way of bridging the gap between theory and observation. It would, at the least, raise serious questions about the validity of the underlying theory.

But the big bang theory can't survive without these fudge factors. Without the hypothetical inflation field, the big bang does not predict the smooth, isotropic cosmic background radiation that is observed, because there would be no way for parts of the universe that are now more than a few degrees away in the sky to come to the same temperature and thus emit the same amount of microwave radiation.

Without some kind of dark matter, unlike any that we have observed on Earth despite 20 years of experiments, big-bang theory makes contradictory predictions for the density of matter in the universe. Inflation requires a density 20 times larger than that implied by big bang nucleosynthesis, the theory's explanation of the origin of the light elements. And without dark energy, the theory predicts that the universe is only about 8 billion years old, which is billions of years younger than the age of many stars in our galaxy.

What is more, the big bang theory can boast of no quantitative predictions that have subsequently been validated by observation. The successes claimed by the theory's supporters consist of its ability to retrospectively fit observations with a steadily increasing array of adjustable parameters, just as the old Earth-centered cosmology of Ptolemy needed layer upon layer of epicycles.

Yet the big bang is not the only framework available for understanding the history of the universe. Plasma cosmology and the steady-state model both hypothesize an evolving universe without beginning or end. These and other alternative approaches can also explain the basic phenomena of the cosmos, including the abundances of light elements, the generation of large-scale structure, the cosmic background radiation, and how the redshift of far-away galaxies increases with distance. They have even predicted new phenomena that were subsequently observed, something the big bang has failed to do.

Supporters of the big bang theory may retort that these theories do not explain every cosmological observation. But that is scarcely surprising, as their development has been severely hampered by a complete lack of funding. Indeed, such questions and alternatives cannot even now be freely discussed and examined. An open exchange of ideas is lacking in most mainstream conferences. Whereas Richard Feynman could say that "science is the culture of doubt", in cosmology today doubt and dissent are not tolerated, and young scientists learn to remain silent if they have something negative to say about the standard big bang model. Those who doubt the big bang fear that saying so will cost them their funding.

Even observations are now interpreted through this biased filter, judged right or wrong depending on whether or not they support the big bang. So discordant data on red shifts, lithium and helium abundances, and galaxy distribution, among other topics, are ignored or ridiculed. This reflects a growing dogmatic mindset that is alien to the spirit of free scientific inquiry.

Today, virtually all financial and experimental resources in cosmology are devoted to big bang studies. Funding comes from only a few sources, and all the peer-review committees that control them are dominated by supporters of the big bang. As a result, the dominance of the big bang within the field has become self-sustaining, irrespective of the scientific validity of the theory.

Giving support only to projects within the big bang framework undermines a fundamental element of the scientific method -- the constant testing of theory against observation. Such a restriction makes unbiased discussion and research impossible. To redress this, we urge those agencies that fund work in cosmology to set aside a significant fraction of their funding for investigations into alternative theories and observational contradictions of the big bang. To avoid bias, the peer review committee that allocates such funds could be composed of astronomers and physicists from outside the field of cosmology.

Allocating funding to investigations into the big bang's validity, and its alternatives, would allow the scientific process to determine our most accurate model of the history of the universe.

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You see, all of the atheistic drive to push truth out the door is linked together. Everything from global warming to evolution itself is based on lies and distortion. Even in the abortion issue, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton were totally based on lies and the Supreme Court justices knew it. Neither woman wanted an abortion and they are now Christians and are telling their stories all the way back to the Supreme Court. Planned Parenthood saw the need for two straw women to set up their heinous arguments to legalize the murder of the unborn. If one looks into the beginnings of Planned Parenthood you will find ETHNIC CLEANSING at the root of it. Harry Reid, this week, accused conservatives of holding up healthcare just like those who tried to stop the freeing of the slaves. You see, he did not say specifically who these folks were as he knew that it was the Democrats who tried to keep the black man in slavery and they are still trying to keep the blacks, Asians and other "human weeds," as Margaret Sanger called them, from becoming the dominant ethnicity. She hated these people groups and made no bones about it. She managed to get black preachers in the south to sell her plan as a good thing for their people. Notice that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are still fighting to keep abortion mills killing black babies. I wonder how much kick back money these men get from Planned Parenthood to keep the lie going? The number one group of aborted babies is from the black community.  (Search The N-gro Project for yourself and you will see the truth about Margaret Sanger. Blog won't let me spell out word.)

So you see that the whole liberal/Democratic platform is based on lies. They think the rest of us are stupid and this is why Al Gore was interviewed today by Andria Mitchell and allowed to preach his lies without anyone challenging him face to face. He is a coward and refuses to debate anyone on the other side. He told her that the polar ice cap is melting and will soon be GONE. Are you kidding me? Does he have a clue as to how thick this ice cap is? Just like his Photoshopped picture of the earth and the hacked release of information from Great Britain on the whole attempt to keep the facts covered up, the liberal media has become the government run media lap dogs who will say and do anything to keep the lies flowing.

Evolution is based on the same lies and cover-ups as all the rest. The theory has long since fallen apart and this is why, as this summer here in Texas, the evolutionists fought tooth and toenail to keep evolution taught in public schools as fact and that NO EVIDENCE that exposes the huge flaws could not be taught. Thankfully the board of education did not let them get away with this.

It is time to expose the whole lot of them as frauds and Socialists whose aim is to remove all traces of anything that can stand in their way of taking over this nation. There are still too many godly, decent people who have their heads in the sand. It is time to wake up! We have seen treasonous things done and very few are getting in their faces about it.

This is just as logical as the ignorant reasonings from anti-gun lobbies. You see, the only way that the Socialist takeover of America can happen is for all Americans to be disarmed, by any and all means. You and I are in the crosshairs of Obama and his Czars and our freedom of speech, right to keep and bear arms and our freedom of religion are most on the forefront. Why? Because these are the greatest obstacles to Socialism's takeover. We are in dangerous times and this leaves the whole world vulnerable to Socialism. It seems that Christianity is the only 'religion' that is in their crosshairs. Why? Because Christianity is like a Republic, it is rule of law all the way. God sets laws into place for the good of mankind and liberals hate laws because they restrict their plans to dominate 305,000,000 people. It is time for all patriots to wake up and stand in lockstep against Obama, Reid, Pelosi and all the rest of the evil people who desire America's demise. The whole thing is based on lies and this house of cards must be destroyed.

In every immoral war of aggression, there has been a deliberate attempt to silence the freedom loving people and true Christian believers of the land so that the lies necessary for domination could take root and grow. A few stood tall regardless of the consequences as they answered to the Ultimate Judge of all, the LORD God of the Bible. Such were those who stood tall against Adolph Hitler, our most recent and well known villain of modern time. Note the method of attack used in WWII. 

When Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, he laid out his strategy, to his inner circle, for the Church and her pastors to make them an irrelevant force which ultimately would pose no threat to the Nazi agenda for that great nation. Hitler made the following statement about church leaders. 

“I promise you that if I wish to, I could destroy the Church in just a few years. It is hollow, it is rotten and false through and through. One push and the whole structure would collapse. We should trap the preachers by their notorious greed and self-indulgence. We shall thus be able to settle everything with them in perfect peace and harmony. I shall give them a few years’ reprieve. Why should we quarrel? They will swallow anything in order to keep their material advantage. The parsons will be made to dig their own graves; they will betray their God for us. They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable jobs and incomes.”

The church in America has today, 2009, become very much like the church in Germany in the 1930’s. The gospel of Jesus Christ has been so watered down by those seeking their own fame and fortune that it is no longer recognizable. Compromise is rampant as pastors search for a new strategy to get and hold the large crowds so that empires may be built to their own glory. Wealth and fame have replaced God in the lives of many of today’s preachers. This has resulted in what is referred to by many as a ‘Feel Good Gospel.’ Only those passages that make the attenders feel good about themselves are used. Missing is the warning of eternal hell, repentance from sin, accountability, judgment, maturity, responsibility, obedience and a host of other like terms. I have been greatly grieved at hearing a steady diet of such messages over the past few years from most preachers that I have heard. I have not heard the word hell used in a number of years. I strongly urge my readers to look up a great preacher from the Second Great Awakening in America, Charles Finney, and read his sermon entitled: “Preaching So As To Convert Nobody.” In this he lists 67 things to do so that you won’t offend your listeners, but also assure that they will not become Christians.

In Scripture we see John the Baptist rebuking King Herod for having his brother Philip’s wife and it cost him his head. All who stand against tyrants risk being imprisoned or killed for their stand.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer denounced the church’s failure to speak out against the evil. In 1940 that lonely voice of truth proclaimed,

 “We, the Church, must confess that we have not proclaimed often or clearly enough the message of the one God, who has revealed Himself for all time in Christ Jesus and Who will tolerate no other gods beside Himself. She must confess her timidity, her cowardice, her evasiveness and her dangerous concessions. She was silent when she should have cried out, because the blood of the innocent was crying aloud to heaven. The Church must confess that she has witnessed the lawless application of brutal force, the physical and spiritual suffering of countless innocent people, oppression, hatred, and murder, and that she has not raised her voice on behalf of the victims and has not found ways to hasten to their aid. The Church is guilty of the deaths of the weakest and most defenseless brothers of Jesus Christ. The Church must confess that she has desired security and peace, quiet, possessions and honor, to which she has no right. She has not borne witness to the truth of God. And by her silence, she has rendered herself guilty because of her unwillingness to suffer for what she knows to be right.”

Today, the blood of fifty million aborted babies cries out to God and very few pastors will dare mention it from their pulpits for fear that it might offend someone in the congregation who has killed their unborn baby. This is murder and should be noted as such. Thankfully, God will forgive even murder if we confess it and forsake it. I have known women in churches who have had multiple abortions and think that they have done nothing wrong.

Today in America only a hand full of heroes stand boldly in their pulpits to proclaim that “God is my President!” Many voices within the Christian church cry out this message of compromise and charge these heroes with being out of fellowship with God because of their bold stand against evil. These preachers hide in the walls of their church buildings and pretend that all is well in America, while outside America is in grave danger of being taken over by Socialism. This is not an idle threat, daily our elected and dominating leaders are moving America into this hellish ideology. The government is seeking to take over the nation’s most powerful assets and the latest is our health care system. This entity represents one sixth of our GDP/gross domestic product and is in the crosshairs of Mr. Obama and his cronies. Slander should never be a part of our rhetoric but truth should never cease to be at the center of it. The liberals have used Political Correctness to silence the church and it has done a great job of doing this. The multiplied millions of Christians and other religious and moral citizens sit silently by while evil moves in to Change America drastically. There is a groundswell of opposition that is on the move today but it MUST have the pulpits and the pastors/preachers of this nation to wake up this sleeping giant. Most refuse to get involved, much like the people who stood by and did nothing as they watched a girl gang raped in New York recently.

Dr. D. James Kennedy, Dr. James Dobson, Dr. Jerry Falwell are but three of our recent heroes. These men gave, and Dobson is still giving, their utmost to wake up the church. If this sleeping giant was taught the whole truth and were challenged to speak out, America could be transformed in a month. Dr. Kennedy preached the most fiery message I ever heard him deliver entitled: “Will The Church Forget?” In it he referred to many of today’s moral and social sins and each time ended with, “And 300,000 pulpits in America are silent!” There are approximately 400,000 Christian churches in America and sadly three quarters of these churches are playing Bingo, having teas and socials, BBQ’s and a number of other really important events while America is being destroyed.

Unbelievable! This is the only way I can describe the blatant lies being told in Copenhagen. The latest is pictures of a polar bear eating a young one. The caption used is, "Polar bears starving and turning to cannibalism." The thing that they fail to tell is that male polar bears are known to eat their young if given the chance. Cannibalism is really stretching it to the limits.

These folks must think that the rest of humanity are idiots and will believe anything. Well, we aren't and we won't! Give it up before you deal a death blow to this area of science. Evolutionists have already dealt a death blow to this theory by the numerous hoaxes and bogus statistics and claims.