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Video:  Judge Napolitano on New Regulations and Ruling by FIAT through Executive Orders

Originally Posted December 31, 2010

Stealth Education in America
If your family suddenly watched a stranger enter the house with a manual of new rules describing how a family should be run, everyone would notice. Well, for at least a century, the federal government has been expanding its power and control over the lives of citizens. With each quantum leap, stories and reasons and excuses have been invented to justify this fungal growth. Only a brain-dead observer would fail to recognize that federal government has vastly exceeded its constitutional limits......
http://www.newswithviews.com/Rappoport/jon126.htm
by Jon Rappoport

IRA and 401k’s
http://www.goldworth.com/newswithviews.html 

Media Matters is for (Gay) Lovers
The Washington Blade, a gay newspaper, was also enthusiastic about Equality Matters, saying, “We have gone way too long without a coherent and immediate response to the often false and derogatory messages about the gay community, and what they call our agenda, from the likes of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.”.......
http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff480.htm
by Cliff Kincaid

Passage of START, Betrayal and Danger to America
As predicted the ship of fools have passed the dangerous and Un-American START treaty on Dec 21st 2010. Just in time for Christmas cheer. I am still throwing up my Wassail as I contemplate what they have done. The main guts of this Treaty is that Russia and the US have agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenals to fewer than 1,550 warheads in seven years time. As it is now we have 1,950 deployed strategic warheads and 798 launchers. Russia has 2,540 deployed strategic warheads and 574 launchers...
http://www.newswithviews.com/Roth/laurie247.htm
by Laurie Roth

Forbidden Gates, Part 26
Earlier in this series, we pointed out how the English theologian George Hawkins Pember, in his 1876 masterpiece, Earth’s Earliest Ages, studied the book of Matthew—where Jesus in answering His disciples concerning the signs of His coming and of the end of the world said it would be “as the days of Noah were”—and concluded from it that the most fearful sign of the end times would be the reappearance upon earth “of beings from the Principality of the Air, and their unlawful intercourse with the....”.....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Horn/thomas162.htm
by Tom Horn

Power Grabs by FIAT, Executive Orders, or Without Authority

There are 3 overt situations where the EPA, the FCC and Burdick are grabbing power that they are not authorized to do over matters where the Congress and or Courts have already decided that they they were not going to take up the matter, taking of the power in unconstitutional or that the agency or the person (office) involved do not have the power to rule over or enforce:  the FCC Regulating the Internet, the EPA regulating Carbon Emissions and Burdick Reinstating the Death Panel Provision under his rule.

Death Panels Are Back - After the Congress took the Death Panel Provisions out of the ObamaCare Bill last December to get it passed, they have re-emerged.  Video: Judge Napolitano  Death Panels are Back! Dr. Donald Berwick has re-established them and Obama has embraced the concept.  -  http://knowledgecreatespower.blogspot.com/2010/12/obama-embraces-panel-concept-in_27.html

The EPA Makes Its Move on Implementing Cap and Trade Through Dictate - the EPA, they are moving forward with a plan to implement Barack Obama’s cap and trade policy because the Congress was unable to pass these burdensome regulations. Barack Obama supports this move by the EPA because in his opinion the end justifies the means and if it takes a dictate to implement his policies he has no concern about the fact that the constitution is supposed to be a limiting document that assures the federal government does not get too powerful.  -  http://americaswatchtower.com/2010/12/25/the-epa-makes-its-move-on-implementing-cap-and-trade-through-dictate/

And the Week before Christmas the FCC gave itself the authority to regulate the Internet as well as talk radio, in essence net-neutrality that the Congress voted against.  -  Please call your Senators and Congresspeople as the the New Congress comes to Washington this week and tell them to take up this matter and vote against this takeover, in the new Congress See video by Judge Napolitano: Video:  Net Neutrality  -  http://knowledgecreatespower.blogspot.com/2010/12/judge-napolitano-on-net-neutrality.html 

There Oughta Be a Law: Californians Getting 725 New Ones in 2011  -  http://lamesa.patch.com/articles/there-outta-be-a-law-californians-getting-725-new-ones-in-2011

There are a list of issues that new tea party republicans along with the returning GOP and their new leadership will be taking up the debt, the debt ceiling, the repeal of ObamaCare, and hopefully the reversal of the FCC’s self given power to regulate the Internet.  We must also encourage them to take another look at the disastrous Food Safety Bill that they just passed… just to start.

Car Designer In Chief

WASHINGTON -- The Constitution enumerates three requirements of those who would be president (they must be natural-born citizens, at least 35 and a resident within the country for 14 years) and now the government's thrashing about in the economy imposes a fourth: Presidents must be able to speak pluperfect nonsense with a straight face, lest the country understand what the government is doing. Obfuscation serves political salvation when what the government is doing includes promising that if Chrysler will sell itself to Fiat, U.S. taxpayers will lend that Italian firm $6 billion. (Will someone please explain to me how we are saving the U.S. auto industry by having Chrysler sell itself Fiat and then lending Fiat $6billion???  Why aren't we retaining Chrysler as a U.S. company, help them find, not appoint, new innovative management and then lend them another $6 billion of U.S. taxpayer money, if we insist on going on this auto bailout route?)

Barack Obama displayed reality-denying virtuosity last week when, announcing the cashiering of General Motors' CEO, and naming his replacement, and as the government was prompting selection of a new majority of GM's board of directors, and as the government announced the next deadline for GM to submit a more satisfactory viability plan than it submitted at the last faux deadline, and as the government kept the billions flowing to tide GM over until, well, whenever, the president said: "The United States government has no interest in running GM."

Actually, his administration prefers to do that rather than allow bankruptcy to infuriate the United Auto Workers union, which was pre-emptively grateful to Obama's administration with lavish contributions to candidate Obama. The president supposedly showed "toughness" in sacking a conspicuous member of a particularly unpopular little cohort, CEOs of big corporations. He will need more grit if, as his administration hints, this time it is serious, that its patience is wearing thin, that someday GM could face "controlled" or "prepackaged" or "surgical" bankruptcy. One suspects that those adjectives intimate that it will be faux bankruptcy, gentle in dealing with the UAW.

Last November, five months and $17.4 billion in auto bailouts ago, this column noted: "Some opponents of bankruptcy say: GM must not be allowed to fail before it perfects batteries for its electric-powered Volt, which supposedly is a key to the company's resurrection. This vehicle was concocted to serve GM's prolonged attempt to ingratiate itself with the few hundred environmentally obsessed automotive engineers in Congress. They have already voted tax credits of up to $7,500 for purchasers of such cars -- bribes that reveal doubts about consumer enthusiasm for them at a price that would reflect cost."

In December, GM, by then a mendicant groveling before its congressional masters, ran a full-page newspaper ad apologizing for having "disappointed" everyone, vowing to stop selling so many "pickups and SUVs" (which were 11 of GM's 20 most profitable products in 2008), and promising "revolutionary new products like the Chevrolet Volt." Another ad, which appeared before December and is still running, features a car attached to an electric cord, and says the Volt amounts to "reinventing the automobile."

Last week, in an unenthralled summary of GM's "viability" plan, Obama's administration said: "GM earns a large share of its profits from high-margin trucks and SUVs, which are vulnerable to a continuing shift in consumer preference to smaller vehicles. Additionally, while the Chevy Volt holds promise, it will likely be too expensive to be commercially successful in the short term."

The stunning shift in consumer preferences that should make the White House's freshly minted auto experts feel vulnerable has been reported under headlines such as "Like a Rock: Hybrid Car Sales Plummet" (Wall Street Journal, Dec. 9) and "Hybrid Car Sales Go from 60 to 0 at Breakneck Speed" (Los Angeles Times, March 17). Absent $4 gasoline, customers, those nuisances with their insufferable preferences, do not want the vehicles the politicians want them to want, even with manufacturers now offering large rebates and other incentives.

The two best-selling vehicles in America this year are large pickup trucks (Ford F-Series and Chevy Silverado). In February, Toyota sold 13,600 Tundra and Tacoma pickups and 7,232 Priuses. It sells the Prius at a loss, which it can afford to do because it makes pots of money selling pickups. Has the Car Designer in Chief, aka the president, considered the possibility that what he calls "the cars of tomorrow" will forever be that?

His administration cannot be faulted for failing to do well what cannot be done well -- industrial policy, wherein the political class, with negligible experience in commerce, flounders. The administration can, however, be faulted for trying. The government's wallow in the automobile industry, under this and the previous administration, merits a hockey coach's evaluation of his team: "Everyday you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow."

 By George Will, a 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner whose columns are syndicated in more than 400 magazines and newspapers worldwide. - Posted: TOWNHALL DAILY.com

A black Chevy Suburban SUV, manufactured by financially threatened General Motors Corporation, stands ready to transport high-ranking government officials at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 1, 2009. A GM bankruptcy would be one of the most complicated court-overseen restructurings ever undertaken. The imposing black Suburban has evolved as the archetype government security vehicle and is the standard for presidential motorcades and VIP's. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)