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Exposed: Wisconsin Democrats’ Plan to Smear Conservatives and Governor Walker [Slideshow]

June 3, 2012 by John Malcolm Leave a Comment

Exposed: Wisconsin Democrats’ Plan to Smear Conservatives and Governor Walker

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Unlike Obama, Scott Walker delivers

June 1, 2012 by John Malcolm 3 Comments

By Sen. Ron Johnson | May 31, 2012 | Politico

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is shown here. | AP Photo

Scott Walker has lived up to his campaign promises, author says. | AP Photo

Starting Wednesday, most of the folks I know in Wisconsin will be looking forward to a well-earned respite from what seems like a permanent campaign.

Instead of taking a break from politics between elections, Wisconsin has for months been dealing with fugitive legislators, ugly protests, legal challenges and a series of recall contests allegedly aimed at overturning Gov. Scott Walker’s legislative agenda. There’s virtually no possibility that his successful reforms will be overturned, so one has to wonder: What exactly is the point of Tuesday’s recall vote?

The simple facts are the governor’s reforms have worked, and Wisconsin is open for business.

Anybody But Obama 2012 [Infographic]

May 27, 2012 by John Malcolm 1 Comment

Source: Roger Kimball

Citizen Bloggers Present the Facts about Obama that the Main Stream Media Tries to Hide! (votingamerican.wordpress.com)
How Obama had managed to become the president of the Harvard Law Review Without Publishing Anything Of His Own (theobamahustle.wordpress.com)
The Biggest Hustle in Human History (atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com)
Vetting Barack: The Case for Obama’s Missing And Sealed Records, or Where is the Media? (ireporters.wordpress.com)
Is Anyone Going to Vette the President This Time? See the list of his Sealed and Missing Records! (twighlightslastgleaming.wordpress.com)
Investigation Reveals Numerous Bogus Claims on Obama Resume (theobamahustle.wordpress.com)
Obliterating the past with the help of a compliant press (twawki.com)
Exclusive: The Vetting – Did Obama Have Lower SAT Scores Than George W. Bush? (johnmalcolm.me)
Vetting Obama: An Adviser to a Saudi Prince Paid for Obama’s Harvard Law School Tuition (johnmalcolm.me)
British Media Provides Better Obama Coverage Than American MSM (johnmalcolm.me)
The Vetting: Exclusive – Obama’s Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: ‘Born in Kenya and Raised in Indonesia and Hawaii’ (johnmalcolm.me)
Exclusive: The Vetting – Barack Obama, the First Tea Partier (johnmalcolm.me)
Hannity Tonight: Vetting Obama (spectator.org)
The Vetting: Obama 1995: ‘Scapegoat’ The ‘Top 5%’ (johnmalcolm.me)
Can We Learn Something from the Classics about Vetting Obama? (johnmalcolm.me)
The Vetting – Exclusive: Obama Letter to Bell to Blurb ‘Dreams From My Father’ (johnmalcolm.me)
WND’s Aaron Klein: Obama Spoke at Socialist Conference (spectator.org)
Defending the Breitbart Vetting (commentarymagazine.com)

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Wisconsin Teachers Union Threatens Parent for Challenging Union Abuses

April 26, 2012 by John Malcolm Leave a Comment

By Education Action Group | April 25, 2012 | Breitbart

RACINE, Wis. – Former Racine Unified school district board member Brian Dey has had his fair share of run-ins with the district’s teachers union.

He proposed Act 10-style cuts when he served on the board between 2005 and 2008. More recently, he pressed school officials to launch an investigation into the union’s allegedly illegal campaigning on school property.

But it was the outspoken education reformer’s comments about the apparent union connection to a “Student Bill of Rights” that prompted a Wisconsin Education Association Council attorney to threaten a defamation lawsuit to shut him up.

It didn’t work.

In an interview with EAGnews.org, Dey said he was somewhat surprised by the threatening letter he received from the WEAC earlier this month, but the experience has only strengthened his resolve to speak out about union abuses and the benefits of Act 10 in Wisconsin’s public schools.

“Initially I laughed because it’s similar to threats (from the union) in districts across the state against those who come out … for Act 10 and Scott Walker,” Dey said. “I’m not intimidated, nor am I going to be quiet about it.

“I don’t agree with collective bargaining for professionals, I just don’t.”

Collective bargaining for teachers is somehow at the center of a “Student Bill of Rights” allegedly drafted by students in Milwaukee and Racine, most of whom have been inducted into the radical group Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES).

YES is led by left-wing Horlick High School teacher Al Levie, who is prone to dragging his students with him to protest and heckle lawmakers he doesn’t agree with. YES and Levie are also tied to Voces de la Frontera, an organization that advocates for extremely liberal immigration policies and collective bargaining privileges.

Teachers involved with YES are WEAC members, and a central issue of the “Student Bill of Rights” conveniently mirrors the union’s top priority – collective bargaining. The fact that students introduced the document after marching from Big Labor headquarters in Racine has convinced Dey that WEAC likely is involved with the “student effort.” He has spoken up about the issue on blogs and online news forums.

Now, WEAC’s high-dollar attorney wants Dey to shut his mouth about the situation, and to stop talking about union abuses he has highlighted for taxpayers in the past.

Cease and desist

Here are some excerpts from WEAC’s cease and desist letter, sent to Dey by union attorney Jina Jonen:

“I have received information that you have made defamatory and other false statements about the Racine Education Association (REA), Mr. Jack Bernfeld (REA Executive Director) and Mr. Pete Knotek (REA President) to the public, and in particular, on your blog and in the press.

“To give a few examples, contrary to your statements, the REA and/or its representatives:

– Did not draft or participate in drafting the student bill of rights;
– Did not organize any “sick out” last year when Governor Walker and his legislature stripped teachers of their right to have a voice in making educational decisions that drastically impact students and our schools;
– Did not advocate for or participate in any illegal actions regarding political campaigns, Act 10 or any other matters.”

Jonen then threatened Dey with a lawsuit if he doesn’t keep quiet.

Read the full article here.

We Equivocate in All Circumstances (steveprestegard.com)
WEAC Caught Hiding Pro-Walker Evidence (thecheeseheadconservative.wordpress.com)
Democrat Barrett has momentum in recall primary (fox6now.com)
The cost of teacher unions (steveprestegard.com)
Democratic gubernatorial candidates hold forum in Whitewater (fox6now.com)
Democrat Barrett has momentum in recall primary (heraldonline.com)
Weekly Update: A teacher on unions, a tribute to a Parents Across America member and Mis-Education Nation (seattleducation2010.wordpress.com)
Teacher unions vs. taxpayers: “The Bad Old Days” (steveprestegard.com)

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Judicial Review v. Judicial Activism

April 14, 2012 by John Malcolm 4 Comments

By Mark Alexander | April 12, 2012 | The Patriot Post

SCOTUS and Constitutional Authority

“No legislative act … contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.” –Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78 (1787)

Last week, seeing that his signature legislative achievement was in jeopardy, Barack Hussein Obama fired a shot across the bow of the Supreme Court as it considered the constitutionality of his so-called “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (a.k.a., ObamaCare). Obama warned the court against “judicial activism.”

“I am confident,” proclaimed Obama, “that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress. I just remind conservative commentators that for years what we have heard the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint. That an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well, this is a good example and I am pretty confident that this Court will recognize that and not take that step. … [T]hat’s not just my opinion, that’s the opinion of a whole lot of constitutional law professors and academics and judges and lawyers who have examined this law.”

Actually, as Obama knows well, the Supreme Court’s consideration of ObamaCare is not an example of judicial activism as Obama erroneously claims, unless the Court actually upheld the institution of socialized medicine as constitutionally compliant.

In fact, SCOTUS is exercising appropriate judicial review as outlined in Article III of our Constitution, and established as precedent in 1803 with the Court’s Marbury v. Madison decision under Chief Justice John Marshall. In that fundamental case, Marshall wrote, “The powers of the legislature are defined, and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. … [T]he framers of the constitution contemplated that instrument, as a rule for the government of courts, as well as of the legislature.”

Marbury v. Madison is often derided as the beginning of the end of Liberty. However, it certainly was consistent with our Framers’ intent, as Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 78: “[T]he courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority. The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges as, a fundamental law. It, therefore, belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.”

The unfortunate consequence of the Marbury precedent is that it rendered the Constitution vulnerable to broad extra-constitutional interpretation, should the courts ever become highly politicized — as indeed they did in the 20th century, from FDR forward.

Judicial review was and remains a foundational component of republican federalism and was instituted to preserve Liberty. However, as Thomas Jefferson feared when warning the judiciary could become the “despotic branch,” the federal court’s checks and balances have been adulterated by judicial activists who, in the words of the venerable Senator Sam Ervin, “interpret the Constitution to mean what it would have said if [they], instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it.”

Thus, now, as Jefferson warned, “The Constitution [will be] a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please.”

Read the full article here.