Civil disobedience beginning to sprout? (UPDATED)

Is it time to consider civil disobedience?  "Americans can sit by and watch government ignore the Constitution and all the principles that made the country great.
"Or they can take action, like they did in 2010.
"Americans can get out into the streets and let the government know, in no uncertain terms, they will not accept the imposition of Obamacare, they will not accept the endless spiraling debt, they will not accept unlimited government, they will not accept intrusions into our personal liberties, they will not accept rogue government doing what it pleases, when it pleases and to whom it pleases."

Hobby Lobby to defy Obamacare mandate  "Hobby Lobby, the Christian-owned company that provides hobby, arts and crafts supplies to tens of millions of customers across America, will defy the Obamacare mandate that health insurance for its employees cover “abortion-inducing drugs.”

"The confirmation is from a statement released by an attorney, Kyle Duncan, who said in a website statement that, “The company will continue to provide health insurance to all qualified employees. To remain true to their faith, it is not their intention, as a company, to pay for abortion-inducing drugs.”"

Update, Sun, Dec 30: Obama Administration: We Can and Will Force Christians to Act Against Their Faith  "The first argument the administration makes against the owners of Hobby Lobby is that Americans lose their First Amendment right to freely exercise their religion when they form a corporation and engage in commerce. A person’s Christianity, the administration argues, cannot be carried out through activities he engages in through an incorporated business."
...."The second argument the administration makes to justify forcing Christians to act against their faith is more sweeping. Here the administration argues it can force a person to act against his religion so long as the coercion is done under the authority of a law that is neutral and generally applicable—in other words, as long as the law was not written specifically to persecute Christians as Christians, the government can use that law to persecute Christians."

Hobby Lobby and the Loss of America's Soul  "Sounds like Hobby Lobby's David Green believes verbatim the Scripture verse that asks "What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?""  Read more...

Great American Reading List

Some of these links have videos with them, but this computer goes bananas if I paste imbed codes in a post. This issue will be addressed as soon as my new Windows 8 laptop has an email program installed, should that ever happen. TD

Filed under schadenfreude :  ASPCA Pays Circus to Settle Suit  "An animal rights group will pay Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus $9.3 million to settle a lawsuit the circus filed after courts found that activists paid a former circus worker for his help in claiming the circus abused elephants."

Worst Reporters Of Year - The Obamagasm Award!  I prefer Obagasm, but...
"Watching Tingles have an Obamagasm makes me want [to] barf. Blaaaa!!!"

C-SPAN Caller - Can Constitution be Fixed so Obama Runs 3 Terms?  "Unfortunately for the caller, Doherty said, "I don't see any grassroots support to let a president serve a third term." He also answered Lawrence's second question in the negative, telling him he believed chances were "slim" for Democrats to "take the House back." "

Hot Air’s Top 40 for 2012: 31-40 " Every year at this time, we like to look back at our most-read posts and take a trip down Memory Lane. Which topics got the most traction? What really burned up the wires? As one might imagine, the top 40 posts in terms of traffic include a number of election topics, but it wasn’t just the election that kept Hot Air readers riveted in 2012. We’ll take a look over the next few days at the top 40 most-viewed posts, starting with slots 40-31 today:"..

This Is What Teachers Learning to Shoot Guns Look Like  "If only this had been the last thing the Newtown shooter saw before he entered that office and first classroom."  Related:

BEST WORDS EVER SAID Regarding Gun Control and the 2nd Amendment -Ted Nugent

Video at this link.

The Rainmaker: Occupy Wall Street lawyer in dash for Sandy Hook cash   "An attorney seeking to sue Connecticut for $100 million on behalf of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting survivor who heard Adam Lanza’s murderous rampage on a loudspeaker also serves as the official lawyer for Occupy New Haven, WND has found"
Newtown First Grader Seeks $100 Million Compensation 
His lawyer claims he was traumatized by the sounds over the loudspeaker. I hope this lawyer doesn't get one dime. How many lives were saved because that loudspeaker was turned on to warn students? One more argument for tort reform!

But remember, our president is not only petulant and juvenile but is obtuse as well; French court rejects 75% millionaires' tax  "France’s Constitutional Council on Saturday rejected a 75 percent upper income tax rate to be introduced in 2013 in a setback to Socialist President Francois Hollande’s push to make the rich contribute more to cutting the public deficit."

Catastrophic Obamacare Welcomes in the New Year  "The taxes, such as the insane medical device taxes (on every imaginable device, including canes, wheelchairs, everything), will hit before us before many of the services are launched. (Emphasis added) 

"The taxes were timed to launch after Obama’s re-election.
"It takes 10 years of taxes to pay for six years of services (Obama math).
"This year will begin with the unrolling of the 13,000 pages of rules and regulations which our insurance companies are supposed to instantly figure out. The costs of plowing through this morass of a mess and implementing it will bring premiums up for some by 20%, 30%, 50%, and as much as 100%."

Is it time to consider civil disobedience?  "While I’d like to see millions of tea-party activists back out in the street as we saw in 2010, perhaps we need to do more than hold placards and sing songs. Maybe we need to stage sit-ins like Martin Luther King did. Maybe we need to submit ourselves to arrest by the tens of thousands, overwhelming the injustice system."
This deserves a stand-alone post instead of disappearing into a reading list.

Obama asked to retaliate over Russia adoption ban

Obama only retaliates against Americans who disagree with him. He will give the shirt off his back to the Arab world and America's enemies, but at the same time just watch Obama's attempts to crush Republicans and Fox News.

Jewish World Review   "Tens of thousands of petitioners are urging President Barack Obama to respond in kind to Moscow's plan to bar Americans from adopting Russian children, amid a diplomatic tiff sparked by US adoption of the so-called Magnitsky Act.

Minneapolis Star Tribune.

"At least three petitions on the White House website are calling for US sanctions against Russian lawmakers who backed a bill that one of the documents says will "jeopardize lives and well-being of thousands of Russian orphans."
"Moscow sees the ban on adoptions as retaliation for a US human rights law that allows the seizure of assets from Russian officials implicated in the 2009 death of a Russian lawyer."....More...

Krauthammer on The roots of mass murder

Charles Krauthammer   "Every mass shooting has three elements: the killer, the weapon and the cultural climate. As soon as the shooting stops, partisans immediately pick their preferred root cause with corresponding pet panacea. Names are hurled, scapegoats paraded, prejudices vented. The argument goes nowhere."
"Let’s be serious:"....
...."That’s a lot of impingement, a lot of amendments. But there’s no free lunch. Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.
"We made that trade after 9/11. We make it every time the Transportation Security Administration invades your body at an airport. How much are we prepared to trade away after Newtown?"

Ben Garrison

Republicans Set to Cave?

Power Line  "Byron York passes on what he is hearing from Senate Republicans on the fiscal negotiations in DC. What he is hearing isn’t good:

The word among some Senate Republicans is that a fiscal cliff deal is likely to be struck by Sunday, or Monday at the latest. …

Those Senate Republicans hope the final deal will make permanent current tax levels — Bush tax cut levels — for everyone who makes below $500,000.

The $500,000 figure is not set in stone. It could be $400,000, as President Obama is reportedly willing to agree to, or it could be higher, as some Senate Democrats have suggested in the past. … In addition, big spending cuts, the sequestration cuts scheduled to go into effect in the new year, would not be affected and would go forward as planned.

"Conversation": a word signifying nothing, as in "we need to have a national conversation on this"

Robert J. Mack  "So, next time you hear a politician or a news analyst use the word "conversation," be very afraid. That word has become the weapon of choice used by the propaganda specialists in politics and media to bamboozle the American people. You will know that in that "conversation" no one won the debate with a vigorous defense of the facts, no minds were changed, and nothing of significance happened. Oh, and by the way, the bamboozled went away happy."  Read more: American Thinker

For example: How to Have an Unconventional National Conversation about Guns and then there is this: Labor Becomes Part of the National Conversation: The Best and Worst of 2012.

You could call this a national conversation about the use of the term "national conversation".

The New Yorker

Liberal racism made manifest

Big Hollywood; Boston Globe Says 'Django Unchained' Conjures House Negroes like Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain  "Critic Wesley Morris clearly spent hours crafting his thoughts, likely in tribute to the film's artistic excellence. Yet Morris' column contains a paragraph that could be considered even uglier than the violence pulsating through director Quentin Tarantino's genre mashup."  H/T to John LaRosa

Samuel L. Jackson plays crusty, waxen Stephen as a vision of depraved loyalty and bombastic jive that cuts right past the obvious association with Uncle Tom. The movie is too modern for what Jackson is doing to be limited to 1853. He’s conjuring the house Negro, yes, but playing him as though he were Clarence Thomas or Alan Keyes or Herman Cain or Michael Steele, men whom some black people find embarrassing. Emphasis mine, TD 

More at Big Hollywood: "Where many movies about black bondage are diluted by liberal hankie-wringing, this one feels fueled by a black rage that still simmers today. It might be the most savage cinematic depiction of slavery ever made."  Then there is this at Wake Up, Black America: Jamie Foxx gets to live out his fantasy of killing white people in his film. "Tyrone", the author of this site calls the NAACP the "National Association for the Advancement of Colored Progressives". Hey, he said it, not me.

Star Jones Plays Race Card Against GOP  "Former "View" co-host Star Jones is playing the race card against the GOP for daring to disagree with President Barack Obama."

Democrat Racism Against Black Republicans (pdf)   "The following are just a few of the disgusting images of black Republicans produced by Democrats that caused no more than a yawn from the NAACP and other people who self-righteously hurl condemnations at Republicans over real or perceived racial stereotyping ." Images herein are racist and vile in the extreme, but acceptable because they are created by Democrats. As is this quote from a famous black liberal:

"In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and [there] were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master ... exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture." Harry Belafonte

And this cartoon of Condoleeza Rice by Oliphant:

A book by Kevin Jackson, blogging at The Black Sphere:   The BIG Black Lie "This book helps Americans understand how the Left has wrongly defined our country. It helps parents understand that it’s the little things that can affect their children and build patriotic warriors."

If you are tired of being called a racist, and you need the ammunition to battle the Left, then The BIG Black Lie is a must for your literary collection. Readers will become empowered by The BIG Black Lie, and they will find it a truly enjoyable read!

From Larry Elder: Robert Griffin III, aka RG III, the black rookie sensation Washington Redskins quarterback Gets 'Uncle Tom' Treatment  "...ESPN's Rob Parker, who in addition to the "cornball brother" comment, said: "OK, he's black, he kind of does the thing, but he's not really down with the cause. He's not one of us. He's kind of black, but he's not really, like, the guy you want to hang out with because he's off to something else. ... We all know he has a white fiancee. Then there was all this talk about him being a Republican."

From the Media Research Center comes The Ku Klux Con Job Award for Smearing Conservatives with Phony Racism Charges  Via Newsbusters
Several entries are listed, but the winner is Yahoo! News Washington bureau chief and former political director for ABC News David Chalian talking over a picture of Ann and Mitt Romney, as caught on an open microphone during ABCNews.com coverage of the Republican National Convention, August 28:

“They are happy to have a party with black people drowning.”

Takers, get ready to party! Makers, BOHICA*

Neal Boortz   "Obama says he wants “revenues.” Well that’s fine! It’s additional tax revenue that helped us balance the budget when the GOP controlled the congress and Clinton was in the White House. There’s a difference though … a huge difference. The “revenues” that led us to our last balanced budget came from tax receipts brought on by a surging economy. It was the Dot.Com boom. The revenues came from economic growth, not tax increases. Now take a close look at all of the rhetoric surrounding the fiscal cliff talks today. Do you see any mention anywhere about additional tax revenues resulting from a growing economy? No … you don’t. That’s not part of the Obama/Democrat equation. The ONLY revenues the left approves of are revenues from tax increases. That’s it. We can’t balance the budget if we don’t increase taxes. Economic growth is not part of the picture. 
"Need convincing? Follow this scenario:"...  Read more...

 World Magazine

*"Bend over, here it comes again"

The 10 Worst Regulations of 2012

Heritage  "It seems that no aspect of American life can escape government regulation. In the past year, regulators drafted rules that addressed everything from caloric intake to dishwasher efficiency.

Maggie's Notebook

"Most of these rules increase the cost of living, others hinder job creation, and many erode freedom. Not all regulations are unwarranted, of course, but increasingly, the rules imposed by the government have less to do with health and safety and more to do with whether government or individuals get to make basic pocketbook and lifestyle decisions that affect them. And it is not just the regulators who are to blame. Congress writes laws that give unelected bureaucrats the broad powers they wield.
"Today we bring you 10 of the worst regulations from 2012." Read on if you dare...

Hope n' Change

Keep Israel in mind

Jerusalem Post

Argus Hamilton: The News in Zingers

Jewish World Review   "David Letterman was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor in Washington Tuesday. He overcame a heart bypass and depression to enjoy a sex scandal in the workplace. The award was named to honor a president who overcame a bad back to achieve the same goal."

About.com

.... "President Obama left Hawaii for Washington for budget talks with Republicans this week. Massive defense cuts are looming if they collapse. If we can just rig it to where North Korea is the world's only superpower, the Mayans will have been right, only a month off. "

It's hard to wish David Gregory, NBC and the media in general well

Via Ann Althouse:  Gregory had no intent to commit a crime; he was committing journalism instead.   "Gun owners often say they want the government to leave them alone; why then are some clamoring for Gregory to be prosecuted?" Asks Howard Kurtz, with amazing naivete. The implied argument is quite weird and perverse.



How would Gregory cover this story? Arizona Ranchers Demanding Protection From Armed Drug Smugglers  "Jim’s house has been burglarized twice and one of his neighboring ranchers has moved his family off the ranch for fear of them being harmed by the illegal activities. When asked if the borders are safer now than before, they laugh and say they’ve gotten worse, despite what the government claims. Jim told a news crew:" Read more...

From Legal Insurrection; Washington, DC Gun Attorney David Benowitz On The David Gregory Situation  "On the one hand, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is faced with what could be perceived as someone publicly flouting the law to make a point on TV. This practically compels MPD to investigate. On the other hand, given that there seem to be large obstacles to prosecution, no injuries were sustained, and that there is no real possibility of any punishment being either necessary or actually imposed, is this a case that DC’s Office of the Attorney General should take on?"

Probably true and Gregory will benefit from the publicity, unfortunately. I still have problems with the man over the extreme disrespect he- along with others, including Norah O'Donnell- publicly showed President Bush to his face. Do not expect this blog to shed any tears for Gregory nor to wish him well. TD

Big Journalism takes on the Wall Street Journal over this  "And that is partly the point of conservative criticism--to point out that gun control, as it already exists, ensnares otherwise law-abiding citizens in absurd and self-contradictory regulations. The other point is to illustrate that the mainstream media elite, and the liberal political forces it serves, want to apply one law to themselves and another to the rest of America. It is all right for Gregory to violate the law, but a private citizen might go to jail."