Common Core redefines 2nd Amendment

Redefining our protections FROM government.
One baby step at a time.

The boom in smuggling to avoid cigarette taxes

The boom in smuggling to avoid cigarette taxes - CBS News:

"More than half of the cigarettes sold in New York State are smuggled in from other places to avoid the Empire State's taxes on smokes, which have soared nearly 200 percent since 2006, according to a report issued by the conservative Tax Foundation."

Nancy Pelosi Describes Obama As One Of The Most Non-Partisan Presidents Eve

Nancy Pelosi Describes Obama As One Of The Most Non-Partisan Presidents Ever | The Federalist Papers:
"I think either Nancy Pelosi consumes very powerful mind altering drugs on a daily basis, or she deliberatly lies, I’m not sure which it is!

Via the Washington Times:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that President Obama is the least partisan president she has worked with during her extensive time in Washington, and said the problem lies with the GOP.

“This is as non-partisan a president as I’ve ever served with,” the California Democrat said at her weekly press briefing.

Watch the video:"'

Middle Schooler Suspended For Taking Razor Away From Student Who Was Cutting Himself

Middle Schooler Suspended For Taking Razor Away From Student Who Was Cutting Himself:

"In this case, a 6th grade girl, Adrionna Harris, has been suspended because she took a razor blade away from another student was using it to cut himself and threw it away.
The girl then told school officials what happened.
Harris was then suspended.
Interestingly, Harris was only suspended because she related what happened to a teacher. According to local media reports,"

USDA Spends $5 Million on ‘Obesity Prevention’

USDA Spends $5 Million on ‘Obesity Prevention’ | Washington Free Beacon:
"The Department of Agriculture is spending $5 million for colleges to develop pilot “obesity prevention” programs, the agency said last week.
The majority of the funding will go to the University of Tennessee for its “Get Fruved” study.
“The term ‘fruved’ alludes to fruits and vegetables,” the school explained on its website.
The project is a “peer-led, train-the-trainer social marketing intervention to increase fruit and vegetable intake and prevent childhood obesity,” the USDA said in a press release on March 12."

What Two Words Do Those ‘Seeking to Increase Tyranny and Totalitarianism’ Tend to Use? | TheBlaze.com

What Two Words Do Those ‘Seeking to Increase Tyranny and Totalitarianism’ Tend to Use? | TheBlaze.com:

"Rabbi Daniel Lapin of the American Alliance of Jews and Christians said Thursday that there are two words often used by those “seeking to increase tyranny and totalitarianism.”

Speaking with guest host Stu Burguiere on the Glenn Beck Program, Lapin explained: “For those seeking to increase tyranny and totalitarianism, fairness and equality is a great thing to work people up about, because you essentially get a population — particularly a docile population — to agree to almost anything in the name of equality and fairness.”"

The Washington Post Gets Around to Reviewing an Obama ‘Zinger’ From the 2012 Presidential Debates | Video | TheBlaze.com

The Washington Post Gets Around to Reviewing an Obama ‘Zinger’ From the 2012 Presidential Debates | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Recent events in Ukraine and Crimea have apparently convinced the Washington Post fact checker that it’s worth going back and finally reviewing an Obama “zinger” from a 2012 presidential debate.

“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years,” President Obama told former Massachusetts Mitt Romney on Oct. 22, 2012.

The remark was universally hailed as a solid blow against Romney. However, a few years out and with Russia ignoring the international community in its actions against Ukraine, perhaps that line isn’t so clever after all."

History for March 21 - On-This-Day.com

History for March 21 - On-This-Day.com:

Birth anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).

Happy Birthday! Matthew Broderick, Timothy Dalton, Gary Oldman, 

1928 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge gave the Congressional Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh for his first trans-Atlantic flight. 

1965 - More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began a march from Selma to Montgomery, AL. 

1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not require one year of residency for voting eligibility. 

1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic Team that they would not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. 

1980 - On the TV show "Dallas", J.R. Ewing was shot. 

1994 - Dudley Moore was arrested for hitting his girlfriend. 

1995 - New Jersey officially dedicated the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295. 

2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had overstepped its regulatory authority when it attempted to restrict the marketing of cigarettes to youngsters. 

Best & Worst States to be a Taxpayer

Best & Worst States to be a Taxpayer | WalletHub®:

"Economic mobility – that is, our ability to climb the proverbial ladder – has a strong correlation to where we live.  
Children from Seattle whose families are in the 25th percentile in terms of income, for example, end up at roughly the same economic stature as kids from the median family in Atlanta.
Why? 
State and local taxes.  
At least that’s what a group of Harvard and Berkeley researchers collaborating on The Equality of Opportunity Project have to say.
They “found a significant correlation between both measures of mobility and local tax rates.”

Want to know which states have the most and least burdensome taxes?"

Government Agency Warns If 9 Substations Are Destroyed, The Power Grid Could Be Down For 18 Months

Government Agency Warns If 9 Substations Are Destroyed, The Power Grid Could Be Down For 18 Months | Zero Hedge:

Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,

What would you do if the Internet or the power grid went down for over a year?  Our key infrastructure, including the Internet and the power grid, is far more vulnerable than most people would dare to imagine.  These days, most people simply take for granted that the lights will always be on and that the Internet will always function properly.  But what if all that changed someday in the blink of an eye?  According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's latest report, all it would take to plunge the entire nation into darkness for more than a year would be to knock out a transformer manufacturer and just 9 of our 55,000 electrical substations on a really hot summer day.  The reality of the matter is that our power grid is in desperate need of updating, and there is very little or no physical security at most of these substations. 

If terrorists, or saboteurs, or special operations forces wanted to take down our power grid, it would not be very difficult.  And as you will read about later in this article, the Internet is extremely vulnerable as well.

When I read the following statement from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's latest report, I was absolutely floored...

"Destroy nine interconnection substations and a transformer manufacturer and the entire United States grid would be down for at least 18 months, probably longer."

Wow.

What would you do without power for 18 months?

Soooo, the libs are caught in another lie------Study: Top Donor Groups Mostly Fund Democratic Campaigns

Study: Top Donor Groups Mostly Fund Democratic Campaigns

A study of donations that corporations have made to political candidates in the last 25 years finds that most of the groups at the top of the list either exclusively fund Democrats or are mostly left-leaning. 

The study, from OpenSecrets.org, places Democratic funding organization ActBlue at the top of a list that only includes groups that donate individually to candidates or to organizations that make public the money they receive. They are also all "organizations that have historically qualified as 'heavy hitters'--groups that lobby and spend big." OpenSecrets explains that the advent of super PACs has made it easier for individuals to donate large sums of money in a way historically reserved for corporations, and the data is too new to reflect this. The group uses casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who alone would make it to second place on the list, as an example of someone who does not fit their definition of "heavy hitter" and has too little history to be placed on the list, as well as former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

With that caveat, the group released a list of the donors who have contributed the most in American politics since the beginning of the first Bush administration. Every organization in the top ten, with the exceptions of AT&T and the National Association of Realtors, either leans left or exclusively donates to Democrats:

Watch as 1000 years of European borders change

Watch as 1000 years of European borders change | loiter.co: "

Boy’s Suspension Over Finger Gun Is Upheld – But the Family Is Not Done Fighting

Boy’s Suspension Over Finger Gun Is Upheld – But the Family Is Not Done Fighting | TheBlaze.com

The suspension of a fifth-grader who pretended like his finger — a “level 2 lookalike firearm” — was a gun has been upheld by a Columbus, Ohio, schools hearing officer.

Nathan Entingh, 10, was previously suspended for three days from Devonshire Elementary School under a no-tolerance policy after he pointed his finger like a gun while “playing.” The school district was pelted with criticism after claiming the boy exposed other children to a “level 2 lookalike firearm.”

Screengrab via the Columbus Dispatch

On Monday, a hearing officer upheld the suspension and also reportedly offered to change the offense to committing a “volatile act,” school district spokesman Jeff Warner told the Columbus Dispatch. The offer was reportedly turned down by the boy’s grandfather, Bill Entingh, who said the family plans to appeal the ruling.

If the appeal is unsuccessful, the family will take the case to court, he said.

Because Bill Entingh is not Nathan’s legal guardian, Warner said the district doesn’t recognize his authority to make those types of decisions.

“I think it’s a huge leap to call a finger a gun and I think it’s terrible to suspend a 10-year-old for three days for playing,” the grandfather told the New York Daily News on Tuesday. “The principal made it look as bad as possible.”

It wasn’t immediately clear where Paul Entingh, the boy’s father, was during the hearing.

Michigan State's Branden Dawson changed his approach after injury, and it's working

Michigan State's Branden Dawson changed his approach after injury, and it's working | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
SPOKANE, WASH. — It’s a little early for nostalgia, what with an NCAA tournament to play and likely another year ahead at Michigan State, but Branden Dawson took a moment Sunday evening to indulge his sentimental side.

He posted a picture of himself and Tom Izzo from earlier that day, hands clasped and sharing a moment on the stage at midcourt after a 69-55 win over Michigan to win the Big Ten tournament — and after Dawson was named most outstanding player of the tournament.

Here is what Dawson wrote to go with the picture: “Me and one of the greatest coaches I’ve ever played for. This man has pushed me through so much and not only is he a great coach but he’s a Leader, A Father figure, Motivator, Teacher, and a Mentor. He believed in me even when I didn’t believe in myself. I remember when I was ready to transfer after my freshman year but he was not going to let that happen. Thankful to have a great coach like Coach.”

It has been a three-year transformation for Dawson, accelerated during the junior forward’s nine-game absence with a broken right hand, then put on display for all to see during his beastly run through the conference tournament. His difference-making play is a primary reason East Regional No. 4 seed MSU (26-8) is a tournament favorite entering today’s opener against No. 13 seed Delaware (25-9).

And it made him think back to that freshman season and all those nights in MSU’s Wonders Hall with fellow freshmen Travis Trice and Brandan Kearney. They all talked about transferring, Dawson said Wednesday in Spokane, and Kearney ended up bolting to Arizona State midway through the following season.

It was “something every freshmen goes through,” Dawson said, and he didn’t get as far as contacting other schools. But the year was “a lot of frustration,” he said, compounded when he tore the anterior-cruciate ligament in his left knee in the regular-season finale.

“I just felt like I should have been getting more (playing time),” Dawson said, “even though I was starting. ... We weren’t used to coach (Izzo) and how he coaches, and how he was just always on edge all the time. We weren’t used to that coming out of high school and it was just a huge adjustment.”

OMG, the NYT gets it....sort of...........The Changing Face Of The Low-Wage Worker In America

The Changing Face Of The Low-Wage Worker In America | Zero Hedge:
"Climbing above the poverty line has become more daunting in recent years.
NY Times reports that the composition of the nation’s low-wage work force has been transformed by the Great Recession, shifting demographics and other factors."

How much are Michigan, Michigan State basketball teams worth?

How much are Michigan, Michigan State basketball teams worth? | Crain's Detroit Business:
"On the off chance that Michigan and Michigan State fans need any additional fuel for their internecine bickering, the fine folks at Forbes.com this week published a valuation of the nation's top college basketball teams.
Much like the conference tournament, MSU wins this one, too.
Using a variety of data sets, the financial news site determined that the Spartans are the 11th most valuable team at $17.1 million, with the Wolverines coming in at No. 14 at $14.2 million.
Louisville topped the list at $39.5 million, and the usual-suspect college basketball industrial-complex schools follow. Among Big Ten schools, Ohio State came in seventh at $22.9 million, followed immediately by Wisconsin at $21.1 million."

Drudge today-another important vacation plan

History for March 20

History for March 20 - On-This-Day.com:
Birth anniversaries of children’s educator and entertainer Fred Rogers (1928-2003), psychologist B.F. Skinner (1904-90), scientific management theorist Frederick Taylor (1856-1915).

Happy Birthday! Holly Hunter, William Hurt

1792 - In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approved the use of the guillotine. 



1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," subtitled "Life Among the Lowly," was first published. 


1865 - A plan by John Wilkes Booth to abduct U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was ruined when Lincoln changed his plans and did not appear at the Soldier’s Home near Washington,DC. 


1885 - John Matzeliger of Suriname patented the shoe lacing machine. 


1922 - The USS Langley was commissioned. It was the first aircraft carrier for the U.S. Navy. 








1933 - The first German concentration camp was completed at Dachau. 


1967 - Twiggy arrived in the U.S. for a one-week stay. 


1981 - Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron was sentenced to eight years in a convent. 



1990 - Imelda Marcos, widow of ex-Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos, went on trial for racketeering, embezzlement and bribery. 


1995 - In Tokyo, 12 people were killed and more than 5,500 others were sickened when packages containing the nerve gas Sarin was released on five separate subway trains. The terrorists belonged to a doomsday cult in Japan. 


1996 - In Los Angeles, Erik and Lyle Menendez were found guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of their parents. 

1996 - The U.K. announced that humans could catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease).
 

Principal who told kids not to speak Spanish will lose job

Principal who told kids not to speak Spanish will lose job - Houston Chronicle:
"HEMPSTEAD - The Hempstead school board won't renew the contract of a principal who instructed her students not to speak Spanish, in a rapidly-evolving district where more than half of the students, like many Texas schools, are now Hispanic.
Hempstead Middle School Principal Amy Lacey was placed on paid administrative leave in December after reportedly announcing, via intercom, that students were not to speak Spanish on the school's campus. The Hispanic population of the rural area, roughly 50 miles northwest of Houston, is growing quickly, and Latino advocates say that it's important to allow Spanish in public schools.
"When you start banning aspects of ethnicity or cultural identity," says Augustin Pinedo, director of the League of United Latin American Citizens Region 18, "it sends the message that the child is not wanted: 'We don't want your color. We don't want your kind.' They then tend to drop out early.""