Liberty Amendments for Convention of States

Mark Levin has an entire book justifying these. Please read the book!:

1) Term Limits: He proposes limiting service in both the House and Senate to 12 years. Yes, we’ve heard all the arguments about elections being the best limit. But the past 100 years has proven that to be false. As someone who works day and night to throw the bums out, I can tell you that it is nearly impossible to throw them out with the amount of money they raise – precisely for their abuses of power. Levin also proves that limiting time in office was a highly regarded proposal during the Constitutional Congress.

2) Repealing the 17th Amendment: Levin proposes repealing the 17th amendment and vesting state legislators with the power to elect senators so that the power of states is not diluted, as originally feared by the framers of the Constitution.

3) Restoring the Judiciary to its proper role: The Judiciary was never meant to be an all-powerful institution in which five men in robes have the final say over every major policy battle in the country. In order to end judicial tyranny, Levin proposes limiting service to one 12-year term, and granting both Congress and the state legislatures the authority to overturn court decisions with the vote of three-fifths of both houses of Congress or state legislative bodies.

4) Limiting Taxation and Spending: Levin proposes a balanced budget amendment, limiting spending to 17.5% of GDP and requiring a three-fifths vote to raise the debt ceiling. He also proposes limiting the power to tax to 15% of an individual’s income, prohibiting other forms of taxation, and placing the deadline to file one’s taxes one day before the next federal election.

5) Limiting bureaucracy: He proposes an amendment to limit and sunset federal regulations and subject the existence of all federal departments to stand-alone reauthorization bills every three years.

6) Defining the Commerce Clause: Levin writes an amendment that, while technically unnecessary, is practically an imperative to restoring the original intent of the Commerce Clause. The amendment would make it clear that the commerce clause grants not power to actively regulate and control activity; rather to prevent states from impeding commerce among other states, as Madison originally intended.

7) Limiting Federal power to take private property

8) Allowing State Legislature to Amend the Constitution: Although the Framers intentionally made it difficult to amend the Constitution, they did so to preserve the Republic they created. However, the progressives have illegally altered our Republic through a silent and gradual coup without using the amendment process. If we are going to successfully push the aforementioned amendments, we will need an easier mechanism to force them through. The proposed amendment allows states to bypass Congress and propose an amendment with support of just two-thirds of the states (instead of three-fourths) and without convening a convention.

9) State Authority to Override Congress: A proposed amendment to allow states to override federal statutes by majority vote in two-thirds of state legislatures. The last two proposals are rooted in the idea that the states only agreed to the Constitution on condition that their power would not be diluted and that all federal power is derived from the states.

10) Protecting the Vote: A proposal to require photo ID for all federal elections and limit early voting.

Violent Rioters and the Ku Klux Klan

The violent rioters and looters in Ferguson, Missouri are legitimizing past actions of the Ku Klux Klan - which most would probably condemn. These opportunistic, racist thugs are criminals in hiding waiting for a convenient crisis.

United Nations

Founded October 1945 with 51 member states. Now has 193 member states. To promote international co-operation.

Funding(2013):

United States 22%

Japan 10.8%

Germany 7.1%

France 5.6%

United Kingdom 5.2%

China 5.1%

Italy 4.4%

Canada 3%

Spain 3%

Brazil 2.9%

Russia 2.4%

Australia 2.1%

Security Council: 15 members:

Permanent: China, France, Russia, U.K., U.S.

“Maintaining peace and security among members.”

Two Competing Philosophies in America

There are two major philosophies in America. Many Democrats preach Humanism, that mankind is basically good. Teavangelicals preach that mankind is sinful and needs Jesus to be saved. Democrats want a democracy, and that requires “good” people. All you need is 50.1% of the vote for control. Current day Russia is a “democracy” with a powerful elite in the Politburo and Kremlin. Most of the Framers trusted Jesus as Savior; others at least believed in a “higher power.” When they designed our foundation document, the Constitution, checks and balances were built into it to restrain those with power. There was no permanent political class with elitist beliefs. The House of Representatives was popularly elected and served two-year terms. The Senate was elected by the state legislatures for six-year terms and gave individual states a restraint on the House and the President. The Congress created and funded the courts as necessary. The President managed the government and could veto laws passed by the Congress. The main functions of the government were to defend the nation and settle disputes between the states.

A written Constitution is a problem for tyrants. It is easy to see when illegal acts are being committed. Currently we can do little about it since the Attorney General, the top legal officer, will do nothing, and the Senate will not try on impeachment. Most data is collected by the “government” and then filtered before it is reported. The media is normally a willing accomplice. Even they are realizing that the proverbial frog being slowly boiled to death is us.

America has immense resources – many in the western states. Environmentalists have been successful in placing in power individuals who will prevent us from using those resources. Millions of square miles are “Federal” lands and are “off-limits.” We are the “Saudi Arabia of coal”, and we have enough gas and oil to be independent of other nations, yet we import over 7 million barrels of oil each day. The $700 million we pay to those foreign nations each day could be invested in America to create jobs for our citizens. We keep our oil under the ground and give our capital resources to those who would destroy us.

I have little hope in America as a nation. Most registered voters do not vote. Many who do vote are ignorant of the issues. Most are content to watch their wide-screen TVs and be fed propaganda. I read all this in my Bible decades ago, so this is not a surprise to me. Jesus is the answer. Come quickly Lord Jesus!

"Crisis" at the Border

Progressives are successfully using Cloward-Piven chaos theory to “fundamentally change America.” This does not need to be a crisis, but the Obama administration is intentionally mismanaging the “crisis” that it has created. One look at the American population demographics shows why the Democrats are desperate for masses of youth who can fund bankrupt Ponzi schemes like Social Security. Almost 80 years of defending this gem in their FDR crown will result in extreme embarassment for the Democrats when the $130 trillion bill comes due.

The United States has an incredible airlift capability. We can move a sizable army to any part of the globe within 24 hours. While it not as comfortable as commercial air travel, troop carriers are certainly humane. I have traveled to Australia and Greenland by C-141. We need to use the resources which we have to return these children to the Central American countries from which they came. We need to have another Berlin airlift with the obvious difference in cargo.

The First Mulatto President of the United States

In November 2008, a mulatto man was elected President of the United States. He claimed to be black, although he is not. His mother was white; father unknown (Frank Marshall Davis?).

His formative years were spent in Muslim schools in Indonesia. He went to Punahou Academy, an elite college-prep school in Hawaii, and Occidental College in California on affirmative action scholarships – even though he had not experienced prejudice and poverty. Bill Ayers father helped him get into Columbia University and then Harvard Law School. He became editor of the Law Review without writing anything. Bill Ayers probably wrote Dreams From My Father – his “autobiography.” He headed Project Vote in Chicago and successfully got out the dead vote.

He became an Illinois state Senator and a United States Senator, both without significant accomplishments. A speechwriter probably wrote The Audacity of Hope – another “autobiography.” Other than “community organizer” and college instructor of law, he lacks experience in other areas. As President he appointed over 30 “Special Assistants to the President” - czars – to manage the areas where he was lacking in experience. None are accountable to the people's representatives or the people.

In the first 2 years while Democrats controlled both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Affordable Care Act, the Dodd-Frank Banking Reform, TARP and many other big government laws were passed. Deficits were over $1 Trillion each year. The national debt has soared over $6 Trillion since BHO took office.

Common Core Math is a Crime!

I have seen Common Core arithmetic instruction videos for subtraction and multiplication, and I view this as a crime! Teachers who teach subtraction and multiplication to elementary school children this way should be placed in the public stocks, and the students and their parents supplied with rotten eggs and rotten cabbage to throw at them. Colleges of Education which taught future teachers to teach this way should have their doors wrapped shut with crime scene tape!

I have a Masters degree in mathematics, and I will admit that the number line is an important concept which links Geometry and Algebra and the lattice method works, but these have no place in an elementary school. It does not matter that students are allowed to use calculators and will only use these concepts in theory and not reality. Each student should be able to do the arithmetic on paper and use the calculator only as a tool for efficiency and speed.

Our arithmetic is based on the decimal (base 10) system. Elementary students must be taught the structure of a decimal number with hundreds, tens, units on the left of the decimal and tenths, hundreths on the right. Other number bases are important, but that is also a subject for higher-level work. My favorite example is one plus one equals one zero (1+1=10). This is base 2 and allows us to use digital devices like calculators, computers, smart phones, etc. Teaching this to a normal elementary student should be a crime!