"The Obama Potato Gun Defense" or "How To Intimidate Journalists Who Criticize My Administration"

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A few months ago, CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson had her home and work computers hacked after stories she published were critical of the Obama Administration's seeming incompetence in Benghazi.   Now, we get an even more brazen confiscation of a reporters confidential notes and files from a reporter, Audrey Hudson, who has also be critical of the Obama regime, including a full military-stye invasion of her home, in what can only be described as an attempt to intimidate the reporter while sending a clear message to other reporters who may be thinking about criticizing the increasingly thin-skinned Obama Administration.
In a pre-dawn raid on her home, Federal Agents ostensibly looking for a "potato gun", ransacked Mrs. Hudson's home. Speaking to Gretchen Carlson of Fox News [video], Mrs. Hudson said that what made her think that the raid was about more than a potato gun though, was the first thing that the Homeland Security officer asked her upon entering her home - "Are you the same Audrey Hudson who wrote all of the Federal Air Marshall stories for the Washington Times?"

Do you still wonder what tyranny looks like?

“I think they found a great way to get into my house and get a hold of my confidential notes and go through every other file in my office."
- Audrey Hudson, journalist

Federal agents' pre-dawn raid on reporter's home raises questions
By Todd Starnes Todd's American Dispatch Published October 28, 2013 FoxNews.com

Audrey Hudson’s husband had just left for work on August 6 when suddenly, her dog began barking. The nationally-known journalist walked over to the curtains and peeked outside to discover her Chesapeake Bay home was surrounded by law enforcement officers wearing full body armor.

The phone rang. It was her husband.

“I’m in the driveway,” he said. “The police are here. Open the door.”

And so began Hudson’s nightmare – held captive by armed agents of the U.S. Coast Guard, Maryland State Police and the Department of Homeland Security as they staged a pre-dawn raid in search of unregistered firearms and a “potato gun.”

But instead of taking the potato gun, agents seized unrelated government documents and notes from the former Washington Times journalist.

Agents took Hudson’s records during a search for guns and related items owned by her husband, a civilian Coast Guard employee. They also confiscated her legally registered firearms, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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Napolitano To Arizona: Drop Dead! We Won't Uphold Immigration Law.

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Homeland Security suspends immigration agreements with Arizona police

The Obama administration said Monday it is suspending existing agreements with Arizona police over enforcement of federal immigration laws, and said it has issued a directive telling federal authorities to decline many of the calls reporting illegal immigrants that the Homeland Security Department may get from Arizona police.
Administration officials, speaking on condition they not be named, told reporters they expect to see an increase in the number of calls they get from Arizona police — but that won’t change President Obama’s decision to limit whom the government actually tries to detain and deport.

Fluke Calls For Pro-Woman Litmus Test For Candidates

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Sandra Fluke: darling of the left, whose testimony helped obfuscate the Constitutionality of Obama's mandate that religious organizations provide free contraception, into a "War On Women"

Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law student whom the left tried to pass off as just an innocent victim of a so-called, and trumped up, 'war on women', is making news again. Her first foray was, as we know, pushing for "free" birth control for all women as she testified before a congressional "committee".  Committee is in quotes, because we now know that this made-for-television event wasn't really a committee meeting at all, but a bunch of congressional democrat hacks who put Ms. Fluke and a sympathetic media in the room to give the nightly news their marching orders for the evening. The result was that the media and the Democrats were able to take the issue of whether the Obama Administration's executive order that religious organizations must provide services which violate their teachings and beliefs was Constitutional, and report that this was about women's health.
We have since learned the Fluke is a left-wing ideologue with an activist past, especially where it comes to special rights for women.
She now puts herself into the public forum once again to say that there should be a litmus test for political candidates, and that litmus test is that they should be "Pro-woman".  No Ms. Fluke, the litmus test for those seeking public office is that they be pro-Constitution. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights do not pander to this group, or that group. All laws which are passed by Congress should not favor any one, or several groups, at the expense of others. Sadly, we have seen an erosion of this ideal over the decades, and many politicians, both Democrat and Republican, have been corrupted by the power and money given by special interest groups.
Sadly too, as Ms. Fluke demonstrates, our law schools have become cesspools of leftist ideology which churn out such wrong-headedness as this woman demonstrates.
As such, we may see her in the future taking her place on the bench next to Sotomayor and Kagen.

Sandra Fluke: Politicians should be required to pass pro-woman litmus test to get elected 
Published: 12:09 AM 03/21/2012
By Michelle Fields -- The Daily Caller

Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke said on Tuesday that candidates running for office should have to pass a pro-woman litmus test in order to get elected.


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Fluke, an advocate for the Obama administration’s plan to force health insurers to cover birth control, was on Capitol Hill for a forum on “Opportunities and Challenges for a New Generation of Women,” in celebration of Women’s History Month.
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Obama: Another Unconstitutional Power Grab

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Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that the President has Legislative Powers, but rather can "recommend" to Congress for "Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient".
This President is acting outside of the U.S. Constitution and should be brought up for Impeachment for willfully violating his oath of office.

Article I - The Legislative Branch Note


Section 1 - The Legislature
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Obama: ‘When Congress Refuses to Act, Joe and I Are Going to Act’
By Fred Lucas February 21, 2012

(CNSNews.com) – In keeping with his “We Can’t Wait” initiative, President Barack Obama has once again asserted that if Congress does not enact his policies in the future, he will continue to forge ahead on his own.

“When Congress refuses to act, Joe and I are going to act,” Obama said on Tuesday, with Vice President Joe Biden at his side. “In the months to come, wherever we have an opportunity, we’re going to take steps on our own to keep this economy moving.”
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Obama's Contraception 'Compromise' Is A Smokescreen

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President Obama is expected to announce a plan to "accommodate" religious groups over a mandate requiring religious institutions to provide birth control coverage in their health plans.  This new "compromise" is simply a rephrasing of what has already been mandated - the insurance carried by a religious institution must carry birth control , regardless of the religious tenets of the institution.  So, what we have is an administration issuing an edict which violates the First Amendment, now saying they are only going to violate Freedom of Religion by a half measure.  First, there are no half measures in the Bill of Rights.  This is an attempt by Obama to begin to dismantle the Constitution by piece meal.  He is going after Freedom of religion first, which makes sense.  The Bill of Rights are those rights which are God-given. To make this a "human rights" issue takes God out of the equation. If you take God out of the equation, God-given rights become secondary. It is now a humanist issue, which is the goal of all totalitarian governments.

This is a full frontal assault on the very moorings of this country, whose foundations are of a Judeo-Christian genesis. The Founding Fathers believed that all of our rights came from God. Obama and statists like him believe that rights are given to us by an all powerful central government.
This is not about women's health. This is Obama's attempt to take religion out of the public square and to begin to dismantle the very foundation of what made this the most free, powerful, and wealthy country on earth.

ABC: Obama to ‘accomodate’ religious groups over HHS mandate
Posted by  The Right Scoop on February 10th, 2012

ABC is reporting that the White House, possibly Obama, will attempt to ‘accommodate’ religious groups by announcing this afternoon that health insurance companies will ‘help’ provide the birth control coverage, which I assume means an absorption of the costs by the insurance companies themselves. But unlike Hawaii, religious groups still won’t be able to ‘opt out’ of the coverage:
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Pelosi: Religious Freedom Is An 'Excuse'

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Pelosi, Democrats, and the left are in full screech about Obama's mandating that Catholic institutions provide contraception, against their religious doctrine. I wonder why Nancy Pelosi even continues to call herself a Catholic, as she has consistently stood against many of the doctrines of the church.  I suspect that it is more a political convenience at this point, due to the large numbers of Catholics in in California.
This attack on an organized religion though, is less about the Catholic Church and more a full frontal assault on the first Amendment of the Constitution.
This is not an attack on women.  No one is saying that any woman should not be able to go get birth control. Since when is a Catholic institution the only place that a person can get medications or contraceptives? There are drug stores on every other corner these days.  For poor women, contraception is free at Planned Parenthood.  No this is but one more attack on the Constitution and the very fabric of our society.
Leftist have for years claimed that the Constitution is a 'living, breathing document', which is their way of saying that they don't like what's in it, and they should be able to change it at their whim, whether through the courts, or with governmental mandates.  They don't like all of the messiness of actually having to go through the amendment process spelled out by the framers. That would require having to actually have an intellectual argument that would win over 2/3 of Americans to ratify their nutty, and dangerous ideas.
Welcome to the war on liberty!

Pelosi: Contraception Mandate is About ‘Women’s Health,’ Religious Freedom is an ‘Excuse’

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Obama Gloats About Trashing Constitution

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Obama takes victory lap 
By Amie Parnes - 01/06/12 12:45 PM ET 


Two days after defying Republicans and appointing Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, President Obama visited the new agency to take a little time to gloat.


Making a victory lap of sorts at the independent agency, Obama cracked a joke, telling employees that he came by to help their new director move in. 

More seriously, a seemingly content Obama called the man he tapped a “great director who is tailor made to lead this agency.”
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Pelosi: "Proud" That Obama Ignoring Constitutional Separation Of Powers

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Pelosi on Obama Nullifying Constitution's Confirmation Mandate: ‘I’m Proud of What the President Did’

By Elizabeth Harrington

January 5, 2012

(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says she is “very glad” and “proud” that President Barack Obama appointed a director to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and three members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) without putting them through Senate confirmations.

Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution requires presidential appointees to be confirmed by the Senate before they can take office unless the Senate is in recess or if the appointments are to inferior offices that Congress has legally given the president the power to control. When the Senate is in recess, the president can make temporary appointments that last only until the end of the next session of Congress.

However, the Senate was not in recess on Wednesday.

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Constitutional Expert says Obama's Recess Appointments "Illegal"

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Constitutional Scholar: White House Entirely Ignoring Article 1, Section 5

By Fred Lucas

January 5, 2012

(CNSNews.com) - John C. Eastman, a professor at Chapman University School of Law who is an expert on the constitutional separation of powers, says that the White House simply ignored the section of the Constitution, which governs when Congress can adjourn, when President Obama claimed to use the "recess" appointment power on Wednesday to name a director to the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau and three members to the National Labor Relations Board.

Eastman says that under the terms of the Constitution Congress was not in recess this week, it was in session.

“They’re ignoring that the recess clause was designed to fill vacancies that occurred during the recess. These did not," said Eastman. "They are ignoring entirely Section 5, Article 1. The Senate doesn’t have the authority to recess without the House’s approval even if they wanted to. So Carney’s claim that this is just a gimmick completely ignores that the House didn’t authorize them to leave at all.”

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Beck on Obama Circumventing Congress: "The Man is a Dictator"

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Glenn Beck on Thursday blasted President Barack Obama’s use of executive authority to make a recess appointment, calling him a dictator who views the American people as children.

On Wednesday, Obama announced he was appointing Richard Cordray the country’s chief consumer watchdog, making a recess appointment while the Senate was technically in session. The same day, he named three members to fill vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board. Explaining his decision before a crowd in Cleveland, Ohio, Obama said he has “an obligation to act on behalf of the American people” when Congress refuses and hurts the economy as a result.

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Levin: "President Trashing the Constitution Day In and Day Out".

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Mark Levin: 'We Have a Constitutional Crisis'

"That is a forthright statement of a dictator.”

By Patrick BurkeJanuary 5, 2012

On his radio show last night, Mark Levin said that President Barack Obama has caused a “constitutional crisis” by appointing members to the National Labor Relations Board and a director to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau without going through the constitutionally required Senate confirmation process.

“We have a constitutional crisis," Levin said. "It is in fact a constitutional crisis."
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