What will our government do to us next? 526,421 family farms threatened by new death tax

Washington Examiner

"If President Obama and Senate Democrats do not act, the federal government will begin taking more than half the value of family farm estates exceeding $1 million beginning next year. This summer, Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Democrats passed legislation (S.3412) on a party-line vote that allows Washington to take up to 55 percent, a huge increase over today's top rate of 35 percent, and drop the tax's exemption from $5.1 million to $1 million. The lower exemption -- combined with soaring farm real estate values -- could put more than 420,000 additional farm estates at risk from the death tax."

Forget corporate greed. It's my government's greed I fear!

Leading economic indicator

http://terrellaftermath.com/

UPDATED: Violence and anger over the Michigan Right-to-Work Law

UPDATE: Networks Skip Union Violence in Mich., Insist Protesters Are Simply 'Voicing Their Anger'  (Video)"This is quite a contrast for World News. On March 21, 2010, anchor Diane Sawyer fretted about Tea party protesters marching against ObamaCare: "Opponents of the bill have been out today, and some of them pulled out all the stops. Protesters roaming Washington, some of them increasingly emotional, yelling slurs and epithets."
"That, it should be reminded, was a peaceful protest."

Weasel Zippers has it covered from several angles Below:

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Signs Right-To-Work Bill Into Law…  "At a news conference at the George W. Romney Building steps away from the state Capitol, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) announced that he’d signed the contentious right-to-work measures that have sparked protests in the state.
"Before dozens of reporters assembled inside a conference room on the building’s second floor, Snyder defended his move as one that would lead to ”more jobs coming to Michigan.” "

Classic: Michigan Union Teacher Poses In Front Of Misspelled “Synder” Sign During Right-To-Work Protest…

Video: After Union Goons Destroy Conservative Group’s Tent, Teamster Thug Cuts Up Tent And Hands Out Pieces As Souvenirs…  Video of attack on AFP’s tent here.

Union Thug Attacks Conservative Activist Steven Crowder… …

Meanwhile, our president-of-all-the-people has this to say:  "President Barack Obama sharply criticized efforts in Michigan to make the state the second right-to-work state in the Midwest in speech Monday in Redford, Mich.
" “What we shouldn’t do–I just gotta say this–what we shouldn’t be doing is trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages and working conditions,” Obama said in the speech, which was meant to be on fiscal cliff issues. “We shouldn’t be doing that.”
" “You know, these so-called right-to-work laws don’t have to do with economics, they have to do with politics,” Obama continued. “What they’re really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money.”".

"Choose Life" Out in North Carolina

American Thinker  "Providing another example of why judicial review needs to be reviewed is U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox, who just ruled that North Carolina may not offer its "Choose Life" license plates. And wait till you hear his reasoning (if you can call it that). "

Picture at right from choose-life.org

The Royal Presidency; Obama lives better than kings.

Mark Steyn  "So, while the lovely Duchess of Cambridge nurses her baby bump, the equally radiant president of the United States nurses his ever more swollen debt belly. He and his family are about to jet off on their Christmas vacation to watch America slide off the fiscal cliff from the luxury beach resort of Kailua. The cost to taxpayers of flying one man, his wife, two daughters, and a dog to Hawaii is estimated at $3,639,622. For purposes of comparison, the total bill for flying the entire royal family (Queen, princes, dukes, the works) around the world for a year is £4.7 million — or about enough for two Obama vacations."

...."In the Brokest Nation in History, it would be unreasonable to expect the president to pretend to have a regular all-American family Christmas for less than five million bucks.

"As Ben Franklin famously said: “A republic, if you can keep it in the style to which it’s become accustomed.” "
Tell me again about this "likeability" factor Obama has.

http://obamacartoon.blogspot.com/2011_12_01_archive.html

How the UN really works

Why I am an armed pastor

Sense of Events  "I will not put my life at risk to protect property. Nothing I own is worth risking death for. Nor is it worth killing for. So I will not shoot someone just to protect property. But if someone attempts to rob me or invade my home, my default setting is that they also mean to do me and/or my family harm.
"I have thought pretty hard and long about going armed in light of my pastoral vocation. Back in 2003, I posted a long piece exploring the issues related to a controversy in the Battle of Baghdad when a US Army chaplain took over firing a .50-caliber machine gun during an intense firefight. The bearing of arms by chaplains is strictly forbidden in the US military, admitting of no exceptions. I explored not only the military considerations but mainly the theology of why this is so, dating back to Thomas Aquinas.
"According to Prof. Darrell Cole in "Good Wars," Aquinas reasoned that..." Read more...

The author also made this ominous statement: "... Peter... is a combat veteran turned Catholic priest, now retired, who goes armed, too. He spent some time as a full-time prison chaplain and told me, "If you begin prison ministry on Monday, by Friday you'll be getting a carry permit." "

COEXIST! Or else!

http://www.barenakedislam.com/

So, what does a Pakistani Muslim do when a Black Muslim pushes a Korean man onto the NYC subway tracks?
"You know the answer, he takes pictures. This NY Post Muslim freelance photographer doesn’t try to help the man, but takes pictures as the Korean is run over and killed by the oncoming subway train. Where are the ‘racist hate crime’ charges? The Muslim pusher has been charged with second degree murder, but the Muslim photographer gets a free pass."

 

Video: Bill Ayers explains the left's power is in schools and classrooms

JAWA Report    "NEW YORK – Terrorist turned teacher Bill Ayers appeared at a recent Big Apple gathering of “Change the Stakes,” an anti-testing group comprised mostly of teachers and parents. At least two employees of the New York City Board of Education were there as well.
"EAGnews obtained exclusive video of the event and will be releasing more clips in the coming days.
"But first we would like to present Ayers’ statement on the power of radical socialist educators in today’s public schools. It should send chills down every parent’s spine."
Full article here.
"Ayers is not an educator. He’s an unconvicted terrorist who wants to use our tax money to further his goal of destroying the greatest nation in the history of the world. And he’s calling on the people teaching your children to assist him.
"If we are smart, we will use our leverage as taxpayers to stop this nonsense in its tracks, before it becomes an even bigger problem."

Of Doctors and Diplomats: Decisions on Death in Benghazi

ConservativeReport.org  (Hardly an unbiased source I admit, but neither is MSNBC, also known as "Obama's Pravda")

"In what is being termed a “fierce gun battle”, a team of special ops experts freed the doctor and spirited him back to Bagram Air Force Base. In the gun battle, one Navy SEAL was wounded and ultimately succumbed to his wounds. The SEAL was identified as Petty Officer 1st Class Nicholas D. Checque, 28 of Monroesville, PA. No reports are coming out about other casualties."

.... "Does this sound different from Benghazi? Not one iota. Then, we need to ask ourselves why this doctor’s life was worth more than an ambassador, one CIA computer expert, and two Navy SEALS to this administration.

"The answer was contained in that CIA compound…and that answer led to the US weapons supplied to the very people who attacked the facility."
Having said that, we are glad this doctor is safe and that our men went in there to get him. My regret is that nobody in Benghazi paid a price for what they did to our embassy and our ambassador.
Hat tip to Chip Jones at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook\

150th Anniversary of the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg

Did you know that you can get an app to help you tour the battlefield? The Civil War Trust has this on Fredericksburg and other battlefields.  More on maps and apps:
Apps for other battlefields.  Maps of battlefields.

Other links from the Civil War Trust
See the battlefield. "Wander the battlefield digitally and explore clickable details." This downloaded a bit slowly on my old laptop.

The Tunnel Wall posted this on the battle one year ago.  Be sure to run the interactive map with details and time lines running throughout the animation. Numerous other links on the battle, the officers, and the battlefield, then and now.

Commemoration booklet to show you what we missed at the occasion (pdf)  Some events are still going on at this time.

You expected this, didn't you? Zero Dark Thirty blasts torture by giving us plenty of it to watch

Danger Room  "One scene features a bloodied, disoriented and humiliated man strapped to a wall with his pants around his ankles. A second scene depicts the same man having liquid forcibly poured down his throat; later, he’s shoved into a box that could barely hold your stereo. And all of this takes place in the first 45 minutes or so of Zero Dark Thirty, the new movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. It’s enough to make you wretch. It’s arguably the best and most important part of the movie."
Typical of Hollywood, those being victims of actions it disapproves are pictured as sympathetic, pitiful people. The movie people's take on the subject:

"Kathryn Bigelow’s new film about the decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden begins with an unsparing, nauseating and frighteningly realistic look at how the CIA tortured many people and reaped very little intelligence. "
...."At the same time, the film makes viewers come to grips with what Dick Cheney euphemistically called the “dark side” of post-9/11 counterterrorism. Meanwhile, former Bush administration aide Philip Zelikow, who termed the torture a “war crime” in a recent Danger Room interview, will probably find the movie more amenable than Cheney will. What endures on the screen are scenes that can make a viewer ashamed to be American, in the context of a movie whose ending scene makes viewers very, very proud to be American."
But Hollywood will do all it can to make sure you are not too proud.

Speaking of guys who advocate torture, this guy was a guest of honor at the Obama White House.
"The guy who made a poor quality video about Muhammad sits in jail.
"The guy who advocat[ed] the torture and painful, slow deaths of the U.S. military and their families…HE got to perform at the president’s Christmas party.
"It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD world."