The First Shots Fired

A new Montana law signed by the Governor, the Montana Firearms Freedom Act, is the first shot fired by states fighting back against the insidious control being implemented by the Federal government.

In ground breaking, and sure to be challenged in the Supreme Court defiance, Montana's new legislation exempts all firearms and ammunition made in Montana from Federal legislation.

The Federal government has long regulated firearms via authority granted to it in the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, on the premise that any gun or related device is automatically subject to Federal regulation because it may be involved in interstate commerce. These new laws would negate that, by protecting guns and related goods which do not cross state lines.

By exempting from such regulation any eligible gun or related device manufactured within its borders and which stays within those borders, the states are in essence denying the Federal government a fictional authority which it has long asserted. More importantly, the states are creating law-based protection against the very-real threat of a Federal gun registration/confiscation scheme.

Many predict that this new movement will lead to an epic legal battle over the Tenth Amendment "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people". If so, an Obama-weighted Supreme Court may end up deciding the issue.

Some are eager for a test case, hoping that some brave soul in Montana will notify the Feds that he or she is going to begin manufacture and sale of "Made in Montana" guns under this new law and without Federal oversight. The expectation is of immediate Federal prosecution of that individual, with the resulting court decision possibly being a major deciding factor in the feasibility and future of such laws.

It seems worthwhile for us to urge our state legislators to consider similar legislation. In fact, Utah and Texas are already presenting potentially similar legislation. Anything that preserves civil rights while taking some power out of the hands of the Federal government has got to be a good thing. Better wording than Montana used for any section that omits fully-automatic guns from the law would be a good idea for any such law, though - there's no reason shotguns shouldn't also be covered by the protection these laws provide.

I believe that this could be the first shots fired in a fight that may well determine the future of not only our nation, but our individual and state rights. I also have to think about just how long this civil war will remain civil, because those with power rarely ever give it up voluntarily.

The Obama Two Faced Penny

Someone asked me the other day just why I have such antipathy for Mr. Obama.
I replied that I really admire the guy's talent and obvious intelligence, but,, I am absolutely horrified at the agenda he is setting. I'm 45 years old, and I don't think I've ever seen a President so determined to vilify capitalism and innovation. I insisted that the new American penny should be a bust of Obama on both sides.

My friend got angry and insisted that I wasn't describing Obama, so I told him a story a day later.

President Bush, during his term, threw lavish parties every Wednesday. He had $100 per pound beef served, had headliner bands play at the White House, all at the tax payer expense. He ran on a platform of a centrist, and as soon as he got elected, he ran a ultra conservative agenda and rammed it through Congress, breaking every campaign promise and didn't allow Congress to even read the Bill they were approving.

My friend blinked and said, "I thought you were a conservative. That's exactly what Bush did, and he never should have gotten a second term."

I just smiled. "I am a conservative, I just don't like dishonest people. By the way, the story is actually Obama's. Just change the name of Bush to Obama, and bam! The added insult is Mr. Obama is spending more money that any President in history. Too bad we don't have the money, and really really too bad the Chinese don't want to loan it to us."

You see, I expect politicians to deviate at least some from their campaign promises. I don't expect them to pull a 180 degree change after they get elected.

Obama railed against the deficit Bush had incurred. He didn't tell us he was going to spend more than double Bush's 8 year deficit in three months.

Obama swore up and down on the campaign trail he was all for developing coal and nuclear energy. But I guess he forgot about that in his budget.

Obama promised pork and earmarks were going to go away. Under his administration, pork barrel spending is at an all time high.

Obama ran on a reformer platform, and swore his administration would have the highest ethics ever. That it would not be business as usual in Washington. No lobbyist need apply.
How many of his cabinet don't pay their taxes?? Guess that was the shortest fit of honesty in history.


In three months, this President has managed to foment class warfare, create a climate of fear and mistrust, run confidence right into the ground and divide the American people.

What really chaps my hide is, that while the American economy burns to the ground, Obama throws lavish parties at the White House, and criticizes CEO's for doing the exact same thing-- on the tax payer dime.

Obama Transparency Rather Murky

Barack Obama campaigned on the idea of returning ethics and honesty to Washington. He enacted tough rules concerning lobbyist being appointed. He reveled in the idea of creating 4 million jobs and providing an economic recovery plan.

All admirable goals.

Too bad he's done exactly the opposite of what he promised,, and made no bones about it. After all, "he won",, right?

Let's look at it for a moment;

Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary-- so we pick a cheat. A tax scofflaw to run the treasury??That's change we can believe in??

Tom Daschle is President Barack Obama's nominee to oversee the Health and Human Services Department.--- Ok, here's yet another tax scofflaw,, to the tune of over one hundred thousand dollars. That's more than most American even make a year, much less what we pay in taxes.

And how about the IRS? If you or I owed this kind of money, the IRS would have locked down every single thing we had until that debt was settled.

Now where oh where are our ethics,, and our observation of rules we put in place ourselves. I mean, come on Barry, you broke your own rule on lobbyists one day after you made it.

So much for tough new rules, eh Barry?

Triffles I say,, mere triffles. (Especially if you're Obama-- after all,, he won).

The real 800 pound gorilla in the room is the "recovery" bill.

I took the time to actually read the entire 600+ page bill.
Folks, it's scary. It's a entitlement wet dream come true. It's not just a pork barrel on spending, it's the whole pig farm.

By my own admittedly non-expert judgement, it was 80% pork, and about 20% that could conceivably be called economy stimulating.

But rest assured America, California will have the best damn ATV trails in the world.