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Amendment II

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Liberals in general and Democrats in particular are about to lose big on the issue of gun control. It’s not because it’s impossible to create and pass reasonable regulations on firearms; it has been done and can be done. It’s not because “the gun lobby” is too powerful. Yes, the NRA is influential, but if they’re so powerful, why are restrictive laws still in force for many states?

The reason Democrats are going to lose on this issue is because they’ll try to go too far. Senator Feinstein has already proposed a vast expansion to the 1994 assault weapons ban, NY Governor, Andrew Cuomo is talking confiscation of certain weapons, and Biden said just today the White House is considering “executive orders” and “executive action” on the part of the president.
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So long Current TV and thanks for all the fish! Or perhaps salam alikom might be more appropriate considering the low rated, hard-left station has just been purchased by Al Jazeera, a Middle East news giant owned by the government of Qatar.

For those who have never heard of Current TV (the vast majority of you no doubt), this was the television channel originally founded by Al Gore, who appeared often on various broadcasts to spout liberal nonsense to all 23 of its regular viewers. The MediaDecoder Blog of this NY Times had this to say of the now-defunct station:

Current was conceived in 2005 after Mr. Gore and another co-founder, Joel Hyatt, bought the small cable news channel Newsworld International. After several years in obscurity showing viewer-submitted videos and documentaries, Current tacked to the left in 2011 with the hiring of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. A year later, Mr. Olbermann was fired, but a channel made in his image remained, with Mr. Spitzer, Jennifer Granholm and other liberal pundits as hosts. But on a typical night last year, just 42,000 people watched their shows, according to Nielsen.

First, I think it would be pertinent to point to the fact that Gore rushed to close the sale to Al Jazeera before year-end. The goal of course was to avoid paying higher taxes. While Gore, along with the vast majority of other Democratic leaders, has many times decried those “tax cuts for the rich,” it certainly has not hindered him, as it has other wealthy liberal politicians, from enjoying the benefits of Bush-era rates. Of course, most of the tax cuts went to the middle class, as even President Obama has admitted, which is why those rates are about to be made permanent for 99% of the country. But I digress.

The real question is, what’s next for Al Gore after this epic fail? Rumor has it (from at least one unknown source) that Gore will take that $100 million (gained, no doubt, through the sale of Qatari oil) and start his own jam company, “Current Currants.” Okay, perhaps not, but you have to admit, it’s a great idea.
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Al Gore has sold his failing cable network, Current TV, to Al-Jazeera yesterday for a reported sum of $400 Million dollars. The news service funded by the Emir of Qatar has been seeking a way to crash into America′s television market. Current TV has been available in some 60 million American homes, though audiences average less than 1% of that, about 42,000 viewers. Time Warner Cable has announced that it will drop the network from their service, scratching some 9 million homes off the list. Al-Jazeera, known for providing Al Qaeda and other radical Islamic groups and mullahs a voice, may clean house discarding the ultra-Left Wing line up of Current TV hosts like Joy Behar, Jennifer Granholm, Eliot Spitzer, Bill Press and Stephanie Miller. Gore, along with his partners, Joel Hyatt and Ron Burkle, may walk away with a cool $100 Million in profit. Glenn Beck tried to buy Current TV, but his offer was rejected.

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Out of the blue and into the black
They give you this, but you pay for that
Once you’re gone, you can’t come back
When you’re out of the blue and into the black
~ Neil Young – Into The Black

Let’s be honest. In a little over one day, we’re going over the fiscal cliff. But what that means and what will happen next is anyone’s guess. How we got there is not quite so abstract.
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Union protesters turned violent at the Capitol Building in Lansing as Gov. Rick Snyder signed the Michigan Right To Work 2012 bill into law. Steven Crowder, a contributor to the Fox News Channel, was among those assaulted as a group of union thugs tore down two tents occupied by women and handicapped seniors who support the new law. Video of the event clearly shows that Crowder was sucker-punched. Unions and their Democrat allies claim that the new law is unfair as it gives workers the option of joining a union and paying dues. They say it gives non-union workers a ′free ride′ to enjoy the benefits which unions claim to have negotiated. Of course, this argument falls on deaf ears when it comes to the 47% who pay no income tax yet enjoy the benefits of being an American citizen. Michigan now becomes the 24th state to have a right-to-work.

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There is growing pressure on the White House, now that the elections are over, for Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. The project would bring Canadian tar sands-oil down through the States to refineries on our Gulf Coast. One fly in the ointment for the Obama administration is after UN Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on Capitol Hill, a review of her finances shows that she is invested in TransCanada, the company behind the pipeline. How this might impact her promotion to head the State Department is just one question to be answered? Another is Obama’s dilemma between two core constituency groups, labor unions, who favor the construction jobs the Keystone pipeline would provide, and environmentalists who oppose it.

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As Democrats so often like to remind Republicans, the election 0f 2012 is over and, basically, they won. In actuality, it was not the Republicans who lost, it was the Democrats who managed not to lose. At the same time, for the past four years, the American people have been losing under Democratic policies. What happens in the next four years will be largely decided in the next six months. Of most concern to us, as it should be to every American, is the vast “fiscal gap” which opened up in 2009 and remains today, virtually undiminished. It is that gap which could potentially swallow the entire country. It is that gap which makes the coming “Fiscal Cliff” look like a minor bump in the road.
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Plans for a Hostess bankruptcy in 2012 may be premature as a federal court puts a hold on Hostess closing its plants. Judge Robert Drain ruled yesterday, blocking Hostess Brands from beginning liquidation and ordering management of the White Plains company and the unions back to the negotiating table. Much has been made recently about CEO Gregory Rayburn getting a huge raise earlier this year as the makers of Twinkies, Ding Dongs, and Ho Hos battles with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union. Hostess cupcakes and Wonder Bread would still be flowing into stores as other unions, such as the Teamsters, had already agreed to concessions. So is this latest move merely prolonging the agony?

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