The Liberty Tree Lantern

What are GOPUSA’s feelings on compelling the U.S. Government to comprehensively comply, in its entirety, with full force and effect, the Laws written in The Constitution of The United States of America, with the very word, spirit, intent and meaning as it was meant on the day of its ratification?

Are there any laws in The Constitution that GOPUSA doesn’t feel the U.S. Government shouldn’t have to comply with?

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One blue-collar Delphi worker interviewed by the Detroit News makes $103,000 a year operating a forklift and fears the consequences if his pay is drastically reduced. But many Americans will ask how a forklift operator felt entitled to a six-figure income in the first place (according to Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average forklift operator wage in the U.S. is $26,000).

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Despite the fact that Americans just elected one of the most liberal presidents in history, they also voted to uphold traditional marriage in every state where it was on the ballot.

Gay activists (and a few Episcopal bishops) would have you believe that votes against gay “marriage” are a result of bigotry, the equivalent of racism or sexism. After all, they argue, what’s wrong with two people loving each other and wanting to publicly proclaim it? Doesn’t the world need more committed love, not less?

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The American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections, or AMT, is an umbrella organization that includes 11 other Islamic groups, including the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. Recently they gathered at the National Press Club to report on the electoral preferences of Muslim voters and their level of participation.

AMT commissioned a poll which revealed almost 90 percent of Muslims supported Barack Obama, while only two percent supported John McCain. Brigitte Gabriel is founder and president of ACT! for America and the author of They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It. She says Muslim voters overlooked key differences they had with Obama on social issues — like abortion and marriage.

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According to Kris Klicka of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), a social worker in Miami, Florida, overstepped the boundary of law when she demanded to interview a home schooler’s children. He says the social worker showed up at the family’s home when the father was at work — and out of fear and intimidation, the mother let the social worker into the home to interview her children, even though the worker neither had a warrant nor would disclose why she was there.

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November 18th, 2008, Fairfax, VA –In a letter sent to top Congressional leadership today, ALG president Bill Wilson strongly urged Congress to reject the controversial taxpayer bailout for the U.S. automotive industry, specifically citing “union excesses” as a primary cause of the automotive collapse.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Republican Leader John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and President-Elect Barack Obama all received the letter regarding the potential bailout which Wilson has condemned as “a betrayal of the American taxpayer.”

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America needs more and better sources of energy. That’s not up for discussion. But what a firestorm has erupted over what those sources should be!

Despite public opinion (e.g. with prices down, support for offshore drilling remains high—at 68%), America’s energy solutions continue to be dictated and repressed by Hard Left environmentalist groups—and they are increasingly turning to the courts to enforce their liberal, anti-energy agenda.

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The utter hate of the Left Liberals is very scary. Whether you reading this blog are Liberal, Moderate, or Conservative, you know and have witnessed for yourselves, at least in the news, if not in person, the intense power of the violent or near violent irrational hate and personal verbal and physical attacks by the liberals of Conservative commentators and public officials such as Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney

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“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. … A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never [...]

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There were 59,616 students enrolled in the D.C. public schools in 2006, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. If McCain’s plan to increase by 2,000 the number of vouchers available in the District were enacted, taxpayers would still be spending $15,798 per student per year to send more than 55,000 kids through a school system where about nine out of 10 students do not learn to read or do math at grade-level proficiency by the time they ‘graduate’ from elementary school. What is Obama’s plan to deal with this? Spend $18 billion more in federal tax dollars on public education (as he promised in his campaign) — and send his own kids to extremely expensive private schools.

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