TURKISH GOVERNMENT IN TROUBLE by JERRY POURNELLE

Crisis in Turkey

The news from Turkey is terrible, and the US State Department thinks it is good news.

Since the US is, for many reasons, committed to an alliance with Israel, our options in the Middle East are limited. Note I make no comment on the Israel Alliance: it is as much a fact as the daily sunrise, and it is not going to change without tearing the nation apart.

But it limits our options as to allies. Given the reality of the US-Israel alliance, our choices of other allies in the Middle East were in effect confined to: The Shah of Iran (but not the mullahs); Saddam Hussein and the Baathist party; and the Kemalist Secularists in Turkey (but not necessarily the people of Turkey). For a while we could cultivate the multi-party coalition in Lebanon, but when we failed to support that regime by sufficient force -- a combat brigade would have done -- but we didn't send that, and when we lost those Marines in the barracks explosion we abandoned Lebanon to its fate.

Jimmy Carter threw the Shah under the bus in the name of democracy. He did so with the full approval of the State Department. Then came the mullahs who invaded our embassy -- even George Kennon said we should have considered that an act of war and invaded Iran -- and Iran became a "democracy" which is to say an Islamic Republic, and instead of the Shah's mild cooperation and control of the Persian Gulf (he simply took the Shatt al Arab from Saddam Hussein) we had the Islamic Republic denouncing Israel and the US as great Satans, etc.

That meant we had to turn to Saddam, and we did, making him our man in that region. He was a terrible man, but he was a secularist, and he was able to contain Iran. Iran vs. Iraq with mild US support were a pretty even match. But Saddam got ambitious. He had a reasonable claim to Kuwait, and when he expressed it, the US Department of State "professional Foreign Service" diplomats failed to make it clear that the US could not tolerate an invasion of Kuwait. Instead our ambassador gave Saddam a message that wasn't anything like clear, and which he took to be permission to proceed. Whereupon the First Gulf War, which I opposed at the time.

That crippled Saddam and turned him even more devious. It also made it much harder for him to contain Iran. To shore up his positions in the Middle East he became more and more anti-Israel. Meanwhile in Washington the policy wonks saw Iraq as a great opportunity to establish something that looked like a democracy in Iraq. All we had to do was depose Saddam, and install some friend of the west as the new leader, and Iraq would evolve into a democracy. Wouldn't that be great?

The result wasn't quite as expected. It was compounded by sending Bremer a State Department Foreign Service Professional, perhaps the least prepared pro-consul in the history of empire, to muck up what the Legions had accomplished. The result is that we have deposed the Sunni/Baathist/secularist leadership Saddam had assembled, and we are busily installing a Shia government which will have learned little and forgotten nothing; and being rather fervent Shiites, they look on Israel as an enemy to be humiliated and eventually dismantled.

Thus of our three potential allies in the Middle East the US, largely under the influence of the Professional Foreign Service Diplomats of the Department of State, has eliminated two of them.

That brings us to Turkey and the Kemalists.

The Asia Times article
http://www.atimes.com/
atimes/Middle_East/JG22Ak02.html

will tell you a great deal about what is happening over there. My contacts within the Turkish army are concerned: if the Army does not act fairly quickly, the secularist Constitution installed by Kemal Ataturk will fall, and Turkey will become a full fledged Islamic Republic.

And our State Department will cheer and cheer. So, I suspect, will Obama.

Of course this will eliminate the last possible ally of the US in the Middle East. Sure, we will continue our nominal alliances with the Saudi kingdom (whose mullahs hate us) and some of the other states over there. And yes, some of the Trucial States and Emirates are developing rapidly and appear to be secularizing; but they don't have much in the way of a military, and will be no match for a new wave of the Flame of Islam.

And the US is sliding into a Depression with Inflation. We simply cannot afford long term continued intervention in the Middle East, not without some expectation of return, and we seem to have foregone the notion of making the war pay for itself. War can feed war, but not if you don't try.

Note that our one major ally in Iraq is the Kurdish semi-state we have created: and that is of course anathema to the Turks, both to the Army and to the Islamists. And I have heard neither Obama nor McCain address this dilemma or any of the problems. I suppose McCain to be more of a realist than Obama, who must rely on professionals to advise him about both military affairs and foreign policy, since he has no experience nor studies nor direct knowledge of either; but I haven't heard much from McCain on what he would do about US policy with Turkey.

(And yes: the Kurdish situation is in part Turkey's fault. Our original battle plan called for invasion through Turkey into the Kurdish regions of Iraq. That would have given us a full Division up there, and we would have had the preponderance of military force; but when the Turkish parliament (not the Army) decided to forbid our troops to jump off through Turkey, the military authorities in Iraq had no choice but to accept the aid of the Kurdish Militias, giving the Kurds considerable control over their own region. Of course they then used that control to launch raids into Turkey.)

As to what we can do, I am not sure: things are coming apart rather rapidly in the Near East. I predicted as much before we invaded Mesopotamia. It's hard to see a good outcome: precipitate retreat (removing our combat troops on a published time table) isn't a great idea. Trying to stay the course and install some kind of constitutional government that will protect the rights of all three major factions in Iraq -- Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish -- plus the smaller secularist class -- may or may not make sense, depending on your estimate of the outcome. It this even possible?

And invading Iran will be overstretch beyond belief; I think even the maddest of the neocons and policy wonks understand this now.

Time is very much on our side regarding Iran: the country has fewer and fewer young people, but those there are are being affected by our cultural weapons of mass destruction. Iran has only a few years to be any kind of regional power for the Islamists -- provided that we don't help them by invading or bombing the country, which would unite Iran like nothing else.

Time is not so much on our side in Afghanistan, where a few brigades of combat troops sent in early would have given us control without the long war of attrition that ensued after the collapse of the Taliban. Of course all that was predictable, and predicted (here as well as elsewhere). One primary dictum of military strategy is don't urinate on them, kick their butts: in other words, send in more than you need to get a job done. Military conquest on the cheap doesn't work in the long run. The wonks didn't understand. And Obama is pretty well a captive of the wonks, far more so than McCain.

And here we are, in this Year of Grace 2008.

And perhaps I am entirely wrong. Perhaps both the Department of State and Obama understand the Middle East more than I do, and know what needs to be done: but I have seen no signs of that. In fairness I haven't seen much evidence that McCain knows what he is doing either. And clearly Rice has no control of the Department of State.

Alas, Babylon.

from the Chaos Manor Blog (the oldest blog on the planet) by Jerry Pournelle see the link on the right side.

Dr. Pournelle is one of the best informed men on the planet, if read Chaos Manor regularly you be be constantly be amazed by the breath information.

Stoneknives

McCain and X - Prizes "This is Excellent News"

John McCain wants to have an X - Prize for major storage battery advancement. This is great news for technology advancement, Prizes have probably been second greatest source of human advancement besides War in history. Prizes have motivated everything from Canned Food to flight over the Atlantic Ocean.
Some of the radio pundits have been down on this idea calling it a "government giveaway", if government were involved in this project the 300 million would be pissed away before it made it out of Congressional Committee.
So Glenn Beck please take note on this one, your thinking is way off here, ya' sick freak.

Taking a Stand with the NRA (diggin in my heels)

I've been a off and on member of the NRA for all of my adult life. Joining when there was a big political fight or when I was shooting competitively, then letting membership lapse during the quiet times.

Something happened the other day that put me to thinking (my family will tell you this is never a good ideal). I bought myself a Father's Day gift on eBay, a old leatherette covered Pachmayr Bullseye 5 pistol box. Something to replace my Bullseye box I sold along with a lot of my pistols to help put a down payment to buy our house 10 years ago. Well I received 4 days ago and unpacked it and looked the box over. It was just what I wanted great shape, but not perfect and no abuse, just the right amount of character marks. Well it has a this old style Life Member NRA Decal the side and it looks perfect there, probably been their since the first owner of the box. Now, I have no idea who the former owner was, the box is at least 40 years old (pre-scope pistols) and after mounting my old Bushnell spotting optics I couldn't bring myself to scrape the decal off. I mean someone used this thing for a long time and made a stand proudly for something we both believe in. Maybe he didn't have any kids to leave it to but he put his money where his mouth was for my rights. I want to pass this box and it's contents to my kids for them to have and use also.

I wont go around representing myself as something I'm not and I'm firm in my support of the second amendment so I guess now is the time to put my money on the table. Believe me money is not sticking around the household very long these days with 1 getting married, 2 in trade school and 2 still in grade school.

So the NRA has got me on the easypayment plan, so officially I don't own the life membership yet. I don't own my truck yet either but GMAC lets me keep the keys. I don't think the NRA will gripe if I keep the sticker on my box.

And Thanks To Whom Ever Owned My New/Old Shooting Box.

OUICK AND DIRTY why John McCain

I'm going to make this short and boil the election down to a nutshell.

1st. If something bad were to happen to family and your kids, grandkids, nephews or nieces had to be raised by another family would you choose, John and Cindy McCain or Barak and Michelle Obama?

2nd. It not what McCain might do.
IT'S WHAT OBAMA WILL DO !

stoneknives

A Modest Proposal for US Education

A Modest Proposal for US Education

By Jerry Pournelle

I had a thought while walking.

Our education system says that we must mainstream the disruptive, the crippled, the stupid, the uncaring, and the undisciplined, lest we condemn someone among them to a life of perpetual discrimination. The practical effect of this is to devote most of our educational resources to the left side of the bell curve in the hopes of getting everyone up to some average; while, of course, neglecting the right side of the bell curve.

It is as if a gemologist were required to polish coal up to some standard shine even if that meant giving only a cursory tweak to the garnets in his collection (not to mention the diamonds and rubies). This is probably not a very good analogy, but I think it's pretty clear what I mean. The future of civilization depends on getting the most out of the bright kids, so we have devised a system that insures that the bright kids will be neglected in favor of those who don't want or can't absorb an actual world class university prep education. Does this make sense?

I have a modest proposal: we spend about $10,000 per child per year in our education system. Could we have schools in which we will spend only $6,000 per child? The rules are: both teachers and pupils are volunteers. The budget is fixed; if this requires two grades per classroom so be it. Teachers and principals have full disciplinary authority including the authority to send disruptive and unresponsive students back to the mainstream. No one has a "right" to be in these schools, which are, by definition, "inferior" in that there is less spent per pupil here.

Principals have real control over which teachers are retained in these schools. There is no "tenure". Teachers who are removed from these schools go back to the "mainstream" schools.

Pupils who flunk out of these schools go back to the mainstream.

Parents and PTA and so forth are free to augment what's spent on the schools by fund raising.

The point is that we provide "inferior" schools for our bright kids; but it's voluntary. You don't have to go to these "inferior" schools; indeed, you have to compete to get into them if there are more applicants than spaces for them.

I recall that for my first 8 years in school, 1-3 in Catholic school, the rest in Capleville consolidated in rural Tennessee (half an hour on a school bus to get there in the morning), we had two grades to the classroom and about 30 pupils per grade. We also had strict discipline and fairly strict standards. In my case, I didn't get a lot of attention from the teachers, but I did get some from the librarian, and no one bothered me if I read a book during the half of the time when the teacher was concerned with the other grade.

Now I am sure we can do better than that for $6,000 per pupil, but my point is that if it were that bad it would still be better than what we have now.

Now if we could just get the schools district to do it.

I work for the 7th largest school district in the U.S. and getting these educated people to move on anything, even when it is blindingly obvious to anyone above a 60 IQ. But something need to be done now before we loose our children.

I've managed by hook and crook to keep my kid in the few excellent schools hidden, for the local gentry, in our school system. The neighborhood schools they were supposed to go to suck, using our states system of grading they are B rated. I can tell you the difference in Hillsborough County Florida, of a consistently A rated school and a B rated school is the difference between a Ruth Crist Steak and Micky D's. Anyone in Florida that puts a kid into a C or lower school dosn't love their kids.

STONEKNIVES

A Constitutional Admendment Idea

HR-163 A BILL

To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

(a) SHORT TITLE- This Act may be cited as the `Universal National Service Act of 2003'.

(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS- The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

Sec. 2. National service obligation.

Sec. 3. Two-year period of national service.

Sec. 4. Implementation by the President.

Sec. 5. Induction.

Sec. 6. Deferments and postponements.

Sec. 7. Induction exemptions.

Sec. 8. Conscientious objection.

Sec. 9. Discharge following national service.

Sec. 10. Registration of females under the Military Selective Service Act.

Sec. 11. Relation of Act to registration and induction authority of Military Selective Service Act.

Sec. 12. Definitions.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL SERVICE OBLIGATION.

(a) OBLIGATION FOR YOUNG PERSONS- It is the obligation of every citizen of the United States, and every other person residing in the United States, who is between the ages of 18 and 26 to perform a period of national service as prescribed in this Act unless exempted under the provisions of this Act.

(b) FORM OF NATIONAL SERVICE- National service under this Act shall be performed either--

(1) as a member of an active or reverse component of the uniformed services; or

(2) in a civilian capacity that, as determined by the President, promotes the national defense, including national or community service and homeland security.

(c) INDUCTION REQUIREMENTS- The President shall provide for the induction of persons covered by subsection (a) to perform national service under this Act.

(d) SELECTION FOR MILITARY SERVICE- Based upon the needs of the uniformed services, the President shall--

(1) determine the number of persons covered by subsection (a) whose service is to be performed as a member of an active or reverse component of the uniformed services; and

(2) select the individuals among those persons who are to be inducted for military service under this Act.

(e) CIVILIAN SERVICE- Persons covered by subsection (a) who are not selected for military service under subsection (d) shall perform their national service obligation under this Act in a civilian capacity pursuant to subsection (b)(2).

SEC. 3. TWO-YEAR PERIOD OF NATIONAL SERVICE.

(a) GENERAL RULE- Except as otherwise provided in this section, the period of national service performed by a person under this Act shall be two years.

(b) GROUNDS FOR EXTENSION- At the discretion of the President, the period of military service for a member of the uniformed services under this Act may be extended--

(1) with the consent of the member, for the purpose of furnishing hospitalization, medical, or surgical care for injury or illness incurred in line of duty; or

(2) for the purpose of requiring the member to compensate for any time lost to training for any cause.

(c) EARLY TERMINATION- The period of national service for a person under this Act shall be terminated before the end of such period under the following circumstances:

(1) The voluntary enlistment and active service of the person in an active or reverse component of the uniformed services for a period of at least two years, in which case the period of basic military training and education actually served by the person shall be counted toward the term of enlistment.

(2) The admission and service of the person as a cadet or midshipman at the United States Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, the Coast Guard Academy, or the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

(3) The enrollment and service of the person in an officer candidate program, if the person has signed an agreement to accept a Reserve commission in the appropriate service with an obligation to serve

on active duty if such a commission is offered upon completion of the program.

(4) Such other grounds as the President may establish.

SEC. 4. IMPLEMENTATION BY THE PRESIDENT.

(a) IN GENERAL- The President shall prescribe such regulations as are necessary to carry out this Act.

(b) MATTER TO BE COVERED BY REGULATIONS- Such regulations shall include specification of the following:

(1) The types of civilian service that may be performed for a person's national service obligation under this Act.

(2) Standards for satisfactory performance of civilian service and of penalties for failure to perform civilian service satisfactorily.

(3) The manner in which persons shall be selected for induction under this Act, including the manner in which those selected will be notified of such selection.

(4) All other administrative matters in connection with the induction of persons under this Act and the registration, examination, and classification of such persons.

(5) A means to determine questions or claims with respect to inclusion for, or exemption or deferment from induction under this Act, including questions of conscientious objection.

(6) Standards for compensation and benefits for persons performing their national service obligation under this Act through civilian service.

(7) Such other matters as the President determines necessary to carry out this Act.

(c) USE OF PRIOR ACT- To the extent determined appropriate by the President, the President may use for purposes of this Act the procedures provided in the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 451 et seq.), including procedures for registration, selection, and induction.

SEC. 5. INDUCTION.

(a) IN GENERAL- Every person subject to induction for national service under this Act, except those whose training is deferred or postponed in accordance with this Act, shall be called and inducted by the President for such service at the time and place specified by the President.

(b) AGE LIMITS- A person may be inducted under this Act only if the person has attained the age of 18 and has not attained the age of 26.

(c) VOLUNTARY INDUCTION- A person subject to induction under this Act may volunteer for induction at a time other than the time at which the person is otherwise called for induction.

(d) EXAMINATION; CLASSIFICATION- Every person subject to induction under this Act shall, before induction, be physically and mentally examined and shall be classified as to fitness to perform national service. The President may apply different classification standards for fitness for military service and fitness for civilian service.

SEC. 6. DEFERMENTS AND POSTPONEMENTS.

(a) HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS- A person who is pursuing a standard course of study, on a full-time basis, in a secondary school or similar institution of learning shall be entitled to have induction under this Act postponed until the person--

(1) obtains a high school diploma;

(2) ceases to pursue satisfactorily such course of study; or

(3) attains the age of 20.

(b) HARDSHIP AND DISABILITY- Deferments from national service under this Act may be made for--

(1) extreme hardship; or

(2) physical or mental disability.

(c) TRAINING CAPACITY- The President may postpone or suspend the induction of persons for military service under this Act as necessary to limit the number of persons receiving basic military training and education to the maximum number that can be adequately trained.

(d) TERMINATION- No deferment or postponement of induction under this Act shall continue after the cause of such deferment or postponement ceases.

SEC. 7. INDUCTION EXEMPTIONS.

(a) QUALIFICATIONS- No person may be inducted for military service under this Act unless the person is acceptable to the Secretary concerned for training and meets the same health and physical qualifications applicable under section 505 of title 10, United States Code, to persons seeking original enlistment in a regular component of the Armed Forces.

(b) OTHER MILITARY SERVICE- No person shall be liable for induction under this Act who--

(1) is serving, or has served honorably for at least six months, in any component of the uniformed services on active duty; or

(2) is or becomes a cadet or midshipman at the United States Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, the Coast Guard Academy, the United States

Merchant Marine Academy, a midshipman of a Navy accredited State maritime academy, a member of the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or the naval aviation college program, so long as that person satisfactorily continues in and completes two years training therein.

SEC. 8. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION.

(a) CLAIMS AS CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR- Any person selected under this Act for induction into the uniformed services who claims, because of religious training and belief (as defined in section 6(j) of the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. 456(j))), exemption from combatant training included as part of that military service and whose claim is sustained under such procedures as the President may prescribe, shall, when inducted, participate in military service that does not include any combatant training component.

(b) TRANSFER TO CIVILIAN SERVICE- Any such person whose claim is sustained may, at the discretion of the President, be transferred to a national service program for performance of such person's national service obligation under this Act.

SEC. 9. DISCHARGE FOLLOWING NATIONAL SERVICE.

(a) DISCHARGE- Upon completion or termination of the obligation to perform national service under this Act, a person shall be discharged from the uniformed services or from civilian service, as the case may be, and shall not be subject to any further service under this Act.

(b) COORDINATION WITH OTHER AUTHORITIES- Nothing in this section shall limit or prohibit the call to active service in the uniformed services of any person who is a member of a regular or reserve component of the uniformed services.

SEC. 10. REGISTRATION OF FEMALES UNDER THE MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT.

(a) REGISTRATION REQUIRED- Section 3(a) of the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. 453(a)) is amended--

(1) by striking `male' both places it appears;

(2) by inserting `or herself' after `himself'; and

(3) by striking `he' and inserting `the person'.

(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT- Section 16(a) of the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 466(a)) is amended by striking `men' and inserting `persons'.

SEC. 11. RELATION OF ACT TO REGISTRATION AND INDUCTION AUTHORITY OF MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT.

(a) REGISTRATION- Section 4 of the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 454) is amended by inserting after subsection (g) the following new subsection:

`(h) This section does not apply with respect to the induction of persons into the Armed Forces pursuant to the Universal National Service Act of 2003.'.

(b) INDUCTION- Section 17(c) of the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 467(c)) is amended by striking `now or hereafter' and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting `inducted pursuant to the Universal National Service Act of 2003.'.

SEC. 12. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act:

(1) The term `military service' means service performed as a member of an active or reverse component of the uniformed services.

(2) The term `Secretary concerned' means the Secretary of Defense with respect to the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard, the Secretary of Commerce, with respect to matters concerning the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with respect to matters concerning the Public Health Service.

(3) The term `United States', when used in a geographical sense, means the several States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam.

(4) The term `uniformed services' means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and commissioned corps of the Public Health Service.

JERRY DOYLE on IMMIGRATION

JERRY DOYLE”S
LEGAL IMMIGRATION
10 COMMANDMENTS

1. IF YOU ENTER THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ILLEGALLY OR OVERSTAY YOUR VISA, YOU WILL NEVER BE ELIGIBLE TO BECOME A CITIZEN OF THE US. NO EXCEPTIONS.

2. IF YOU HIRE SOMEONE WHO IS ILLEGAL, YOU AND / OR YOUR BUSINESS WILL BE FINED $50,000.00 PER EMPLOYEE. “STRICT LIABILITY” WILL BE THE LEGAL STANDARD.

3. THE POLICY OF “ANCHOR BABIES” IS NO LONGER THE LAW. YOU ARE ONLY ELIGIBLE TO BE A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES IF YOU ARE BORN “OF” A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

4. “SANCTUARY CITIES AND / OR STATES” WILL RECEIVE NO FEDERAL TAX DOLLAR REVENUE SHARING OR MATCHING. FEDERAL HIGHWAY SPEED LIMIT STANDARDS WILL BE THE TEMPLATE.

5. “SANCTUARY HOUSES OF WORSHIP”, IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF US LAW, WILL LOSE THEIR TAX EXEMPT STATUS.

6. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, DOING BUSINESS IN THE UNITED STATES, WILL BE PROHIBITED FROM OFFERING AND PROVIDING ANY INCENTIVE PROGRAM(S), ANY DISCOUNT LOAN(S), SUBSIDIZED CHECKING AND / OR SAVINGS ACCOUNT(S) OR ANY “SPECIAL” OFFER(S) TO ANYONE IN THIS COUNTRY ILLEGALLY.

7. PUBLIC EDUCATION, MEDICAL AND DENTAL SERVICES, HOUSING, SOCIAL SERVICES, FOOD STAMPS, SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, SSDI AND ANY OTHER US GOVERNMENT PROGRAM WILL BE FOR THE BENEFIT OF LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES ONLY.

8. ANY PERSON(S), CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION(S), OR BUSINESS ENTITY THAT HARBORS ANY ILLEGAL ALIEN(S) WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY BE CHARGED WITH A FEDERAL OFFENSE AND LOSE THEIR CITIZENSHIP.

9. GUEST WORKER VISAS WILL BE ISSUED ON A 5 YEAR TRAILING AVERAGE OF THE AGGREAGATE NUMBER OF VISAS ISSUED WITH ADJUSTMENTS FOR PROJECTED GDP GROWTH AND / OR CONTRACTION.

10. ENGLISH WILL BE THE ONLY LANGUAGE USED IN THE PUBLIC WORKPLACE, PUBLIC EDUCATION, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES AND FACILITIES, HOSPITALS AND RELATED MEDICAL FACILITIES AND THE FEDERAL COURT SYSTEM. ALL VOTING FOR FEDERAL OFFICES WILL BE DONE IN ENGLISH ONLY.


I like Jerry, I listen in to his radio program often. His outline is a start, tho I have real problems with Number 5 and 8 on Religious Freedom and Free speech grounds. But he's batting .800 with the rest of his ideas.

Stoneknives

Obama on Gun Control

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=66551746-3048-5C12-00921D2BE9528C54