Headline of the day: American Woman Took Down Jihadi Hasan at Fort Hood

Pamela Geller has the headline of the day over at Atlas Shrugs: American Woman Took Down Jihadi Hasan at Fort Hood.

In addition to the “says-it-all” headline, Pamela also has more info on hero M.P. Kim Munley who shot and disabled the shooter in this week’s massacre at Fort Hood in Texas, including this great photo of her with country singer Dierks Bentley, and Kim’s online bio.

Maggie Thornton also has a ton of great coverage on this incident and the jihadi killer on Maggie’s Notebook (see the U.S. Army category). Be sure to check it out.

 

See No Evil

I was gearing up to blame ‘the army’s culture of guns,’ but now I’m leaning more toward ‘alienating anti-Muslim environment.’

 

For more fun, visit www.DiversityLane.com

 

Major property rights victory in TX Defeat of I-35 Trans Texas Corridor

It’s a great day for the little guys who put their heads together and created a legal strategy that blocked a major transportation corridor project in Texas that was supported by both Governor Rick Perry and former President George W. Bush. For months (or possibly years) the federal government denied existence of a plan to build a massive NAFTA superhighway project from Mexico to Canada that included The I-35 Trans Texas Corridor. The plan would have included the “condemnation of 146 acres per mile to build the highway.”

Last Oct I met with the local activists fighting this quarter mile wide freeway when Attending an Americans for Prosperity’s “Defending the American Dream” Summit in Washington. As our state did not offer a property rights topic I attended the state of Wisconsin’s break out session where I learned of the Stewards of the Range activity and met Fred Kelly Grant, their President, who is one of the leaders. Their combined groups found a loophole in Chapter 391 of Texas local government code that enabled the “grass roots” opposition to eventually block the state of Texas Master Plan. You can read that Orange Juice post dated Oct 13, 2008.

For those not familiar with the corridor “containers coming from China to a Chinese port in Mexico will be loaded onto sealed Mexican trucks that will be driven north and pass scanners in the “Smart Port” terminal in Kansas on their way to Canada.”

This I-35 corridor was to be the first link in this massive interstate system.

The Oct 7th-8th Press Announcement reads in part: “In a press conference in Austin, Texas, Amadeo Saenz, executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT), announced on behalf of Texas Governor Rick Perry, that the Trans-Texas Corridor, I-35 segment is dead. TXDOT will be recommending the “No Build” option to the Federal Highway Administration.”

Big bucks were behind this massive freeway including the Spanish firm Cintra-Zachary a “75% Spanish owned corporation that was to collect tolls, lease income and fees generated for 50 years.” The press release reveals that “$6.1 million was spent by TTC Contractors for paid lobbyist(s) to get the project through.”

A sweet property rights victory for sure!

The full Press Announcement can be read at Stewards.us (.pdf download).

Also posted on Orange Juice

 

Mother of Dead Dallas Girls Calls Their Murder An “Honor Killing”

The mother who lured her two young daughters, Sarah and Amina, to their tragic deaths at the hand of their father, Yaser Said, now regrets what she did. Downplaying her own role, or rather, insisting that she is innocent, Patricia (”Tissy”) Owens calls the murder of her daughters an “honor killing” by an “evil man.” Despite years of paternal child abuse at home, “Tissy” now insists that she had no idea that Yaser was actually going to kill the girls whom he sexually and physically abused and whose “too Western” ways enraged him.

Sarah and Amina refused to marry older, unknown men from Egypt in arranged marriages. They had American ways, academic ambitions, and Christian friends, including Christian boyfriends. Unthinkable! And, like Rifqa Bary, they knew they were in danger and so they ran away. Their mother sweet talked them back home. They were dead within hours. Their father has never been found…Continue reading on Chesler Chronicles >>

 

Ronald Reagan In The News

Our beloved Ronald Reagan will be honored with a statue in London and the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act is signed by an afro-Marxist who stands opposed to the very American values Reagan stood for.

Activities surrounding the centennial will include nationwide celebrations, educational programming and a complete renovation of the galleries within the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. As the legislation included no federal funding, all centennial activities and events will come through private fundraising efforts, spearheaded by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.

Emphasis mine. So Obama gets a wonderful photo op, spares federal money for his beloved ACORN and La Raza Supreme Court nominee for free! Fu*#ing tragic… My cables not hooked up yet in my new old farm house, but this should definitely be tonight’s Daily Show  “Moment of Zen.”

 

Woman Told to Remove ‘Offensive’ American Flag From Office

A woman in Texas who comes from a patriotic family and who’s husband and children have served in the military was told to take her flag down from the office because it was “offensive.” Here’s how Fox News lays out the story:

Debbie McLucas comes from a patriotic family – her husband and both of her sons served in the U.S. military, and her daughter is currently deployed to Iraq on her second tour of duty as a combat medic.

So when McLucas arrived at work at a Texas hospital last Friday, she was stunned to be told that the Stars and Stripes she had hung in her office in advance of Memorial Day were offensive, and that the flag had been removed.

“I got into work, I was met by my supervisor and told that there had been multiple complaints, that people found the flag very offensive and it had been taken down,” McLucas told FOXNews.com.

“I went to the office to retrieve it and found the flag wrapped around the pole, sitting in the corner on the ground. I was speechless.”

 

Marine Veteran Threatened with Fines, Towing by HOA for Patriotic Bumper Stickers

When I first read this headline on Twitter, I envisioned an old clunker held together with bumper stickers. I thought perhaps this neighborhood homeowner’s association was trying to rid their neighborhood of an eyesore. Not that that would excuse their behavior – generally, in America, protection from eyesores is not considered a basic human right.

However, I was quite surprised to see that this gentleman’s late-model vehicle had just a tasteful smattering of small patriotic symbols on it. As the news reporter pointed out, other cars in this neighborhood had various political and social statement magnets and stickers as well.

So, why was this person targeted and threatened with having his fines and having his vehicle towed?

Hat-Tip, Move America Forward via Twitter (@M_A_F)

 

Liberty Institute: This liberal attempt to intimidate pastors has backfired.

IRS upholds the ‘religious liberty’ clause of the U.S. Constitution

From the Liberty Legal Institute:

PLANO, TX — Liberty Legal Institute announced today that the Internal Revenue Service found that pastors who gathered in 2006 for a series of public policy conferences had every right to do so and that the organizers of the events did not violate any tax laws that govern non-profit organizations.

“This liberal attempt to intimidate pastors has backfired,” said Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel of Liberty Legal Institute which represented event organizers. “There is now a clear IRS statement outlining these pastors’ events and approving them as valid under the law.”

In January 2008, the IRS began its investigating into the Niemoller Foundation who held six conferences in 2006 calling pastors to stand up for moral issues and to encourage their congregants to get involved in the political process. The investigation was a result of a complaint filed by a politically liberal organization who accused the non-profit group of breaking the law by trying to influence political campaigns. Specifically, Niemoller was accused of “encouraging pastors at the gatherings to mount voter registration drives and turn congregants out at the polls.” The IRS ruled the meetings were legal.

“We educate churches on moral issues facing our society and encourage them to participate in the democratic process,” said Laurence White, director of the Niemoller Foundation and a Lutheran pastor. “The IRS has unequivocally affirmed the right of pastors nationwide to come together as spokesmen for the Word of God, to interact with political leaders, historians and scholars in discussing the moral issues under debate within our culture and to assert their Biblical responsibility to address such issues from their pulpits.”

A number of liberal groups have been in a national campaign filing IRS complaints against religious leaders and pastors. “Be careful what you hear from these liberal organizations,” Shackelford said. “They sound very confident and file many complaints yet none are found valid even by the IRS.”

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Liberty Legal Institute specializes in First Amendment and constitutional law and is often before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Institute represents more than 4 million veterans in the Mojave Desert Memorial case, Salazar, et al. v. Buono, now before The Supreme Court.