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12 Simple Things You Can Start Doing Right Now To Prepare For The Coming Financial Apocalypse

December 9th, 2010 · Comments Off

Via The American Dream: It is becoming increasingly apparent that the U.S. economy is heading for complete and total disaster. State and local governments across the nation are uncontrollably bleeding red ink. The federal government has accumulated the largest debt in world history. Every year we buy hundreds of billions of dollars more from the [...]

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Tags: Government · Money · The US

Anyone Paying Attention?

December 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment

“I don’t want to scare anyone but I am considering investing in barbed wire and guns, things are not looking good and rates are heading higher.” – Anthony Fry, senior managing director at Evercore Partners, discussing America’s current economic situation. http://www.cnbc.com/id/37549417 Anthony FrySpread The Word:

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Government · Money · The US

Never Forget

December 7th, 2010 · Comments Off

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed it “a date which will live in infamy“. 2,386 Americans died, 1,139 wounded. Pearl Harbor, December 7, [...]

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Japan · Military · The US · War

Islam vs. The US

November 29th, 2010 · Comments Off

To those of you that still think the war between Islam and the US is a recent event, and one that we caused: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, then serving as American ambassadors to France and Britain, respectively, met in 1786 in London with the Tripolitan Ambassador to Britain, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja. These [...]

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Tags: Dhimmitude · Freedom/Independence · Islamofascism · Military · Muslim/Islam · The US · War

The 25 Best Ann Coulter Quotes About Liberals

November 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off

I found this over at Right Wing News: 25) Liberals seem to have hit upon a reverse Christ story as their belief system. He suffered and died for our sins; liberals make the rest of us suffer for sins we didn’t commit. Their claims of how awful ‘we’ are never seems to encompass themselves in [...]

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Tags: Media · The Left · The Right · The US

Veterans Day

November 11th, 2010 · Comments Off

Veterans Day is an annual United States holiday honoring military veterans, observed on November 11. Specifically the date and time are 11/11 @ 11:00am. World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” – officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles [...]

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Military · The US

235 Ooh-Rahs, Devil Dogs

November 10th, 2010 · Comments Off

From Marines.com: During the American Revolution, many important political discussions took place in the inns and taverns of Philadelphia, including the founding of the Marine Corps. A committee of the Continental Congress met at Tun Tavern to draft a resolution calling for two battalions of Marines able to fight for independence at sea and on [...]

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Military · The US

Evil In Atlanta

November 8th, 2010 · Comments Off

What started out as a small party at a home this weekend ended up with between 60 and 80 people. The parents asked the party-goers to leave, and a fight began between two girls outside the home. One of the females hit a male, who said he wouldn’t hit a girl but would hit the [...]

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Tags: Atlanta · Crime/Law · Guns

UN Points Finger at US?

November 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments

WTF? The United Nations Human Rights Council, a conclave of 47 nations that includes such notorious human rights violators as China, Cuba, Libya and Saudi Arabia, met in Geneva on Friday, to question the United States about its human rights failings. It heard, among other things, that the U.S. discriminates against Muslims, that its police [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Freedom/Independence · The UN · The US

Back in 1938 …

November 4th, 2010 · Comments Off

FDR was emboldened by his 1936 landslide reelection to expand his agenda and consolidate his control of government. Obama was emboldened by his 2008 landslide election to expand his agenda and consolidate his control of government. Prior to Tuesday night, the largest midterm shift against the party in power was in 1938, and it effectively [...]

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Tags: Election · Freedom/Independence · Socialism · The Left · The Right · The US

A Happy Ending

November 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Years ago I found the blog “mAss Backwards“. mAss Backwards was run by a freedom-lover called Bruce, and it was a daily stop in my reading journeys. The title of the blog was a play on the concept of his home state of Massachusetts being completely backwards in regard to freedom. Like me, Bruce “started [...]

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Tags: Election · Freedom/Independence · Government · Massachusetts · The Right

I Should Be Happy

November 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off

This poor blog as been running on auto-pilot recently. I’ve been spending a great deal of time with my local candidates and elections. We The People starts in the local community and spreads all the way to Washington, not the other way around. So here I sit the day after a historic election. I should [...]

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Tags: Election · Georgia · The Left

The Last Best Hope

October 17th, 2010 · Comments Off

In Europe the people have historically been content with being ruled subjects. Not here. This government has abused its tax authority, usurped unconstitutional governing and financial powers, created massive budgets, then bought constituencies and distributed privileges to its allies. This government has created a new class, a new aristocracy. We must take America back. There [...]

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Government · Taxes · The Left · The Right · The US

The Socialist

October 7th, 2010 · Comments Off

This is the Hope And Change 67 million people voted for in November 2008. In less than 30 days will you allow those 67 million votes to go un-answered? Do you want Socialism for your children and grandchildren? We The People can take this country back, but only if you vote … and bring a [...]

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Government · Socialism · The Left · The Right · The US

Are Things Better Today Than In January 2007?

September 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Found at Newsbusters: * In January 2007 before the Democrats took over Congress, unemployment was 4.6 percent; now it’s 9.6 percent. * In January 2007 there were 7.1 million unemployed people in America; now there are 14.9 million. * In January 2007 the median home price was $210,600; today it’s $179,300. * In January 2007 [...]

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Tags: Government · Money · Taxes · The Left · The US