Therefore, let it be resolved that those in the media responsible for such grievous attacks upon the soul of America as John King and Anderson Cooper of CNN News; Bill O’Reilly of Fox News Channel and Brian Ross of ABC News; George Stephanopoulos and Diane Sawyer of ABC News; Brian Williams and David Gregory of NBC News; Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus, Alan Colmes and Michael Moore; Megyn Kelly, Juan Williams and Shepard Smith of Fox News; Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough  and Ed Schultz of MSNBC; those in the peoples’ government as Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi; those in business and marketing as George Soros, Rupert Murdock, Warren Buffet and William Gates be themselves silenced by acts of the people to “turn them off” and “tune them out” for the duration of 2012, so that the microphones and television cameras of the offending media be closed, the speeches of the offending government clowns so far out of touch with the will of the people be ignored, and the lights of the offending moguls of business who sponsor and fund all of those who strive to abuse and deliberately thwart the peoples’ right to choose their own candidates for political office be dimmed forever.

 Then shall we once again enjoy the fruits of the labors of our founding fathers who molded so perfect a Union as The United States of America. Then shall we once again pray to a higher power in words so familiar yet so transparently trampled by the American media: “God, yes . . .  God . . . God Bless America!

“Smart” is not deliberately deflating Newt Gingrich following your debate night. “Fair” is not covering attacks only on Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul. “Balanced” is not suppressing Newt’s and Ron’s moments of leadership. We do not need your veiled attempts to choose our next president. We’ll do it ourselves. Oh, on the other hand, cute is deliberately camouflaging visuals of black participants in Minnesota flash mobs.

Fox News Channel’s (FNC) Rupert Murdoch pushing his cable news entity hard to the left by distorting words and opinions of Republican candidates for 2012 elections and censoring coverage of “Black Flash Mobs” that disrupt local economies and create panic in our streets and malls.

FNC’s reporting that Newt Gingrich would fire Judges who do not agree with him is perhaps one of the biggest distortion of cable news to date. Gingrich would remove Judges who deliberately subvert the Constitution only, not those he disagree with.

During FNC sponsored Iowa debates, Newt Gingrich received tremendous applause for his position on “Rogue” judges who willfully subvert the Constitution, but FNC reused to air these responses in their follow-up reports of their own sponsored debate.

FNC’s reports of “flash” mobs in Minnesota allowed foggy film only of the participants. The distorted film was to cover the truth. These were flash mobs perpetrated by black youths. Black mobs deliberately disrupting commerce and creating panic on American streets confirms current belief among American whites that the only truly dedicated “racists” in America today are America’s blacks. Unfortunately, FNC deliberately looks the other way.

FNC’s growing dependency upon political correctness when covering  grave domestic issues, political truths, and its deliberate censorship of flash mobs that are black seeded represents a sad commentary upon their shaky motto of  “Fair and Balanced” journalism.

Further, FNC refusals to air positive response to Newt Gingrich in Iowa and camouflaging black flash mobs in Minnesota are eerily similar to NBC news products. Preferring lies to truth, makes FNC the new NBC of Cable News. Shame on you FNC!

If you are a Newt fan and detest censorship, give Rupert Murdoch a taste of his own medicine. Give ol’ Rupert a month off. Tune out of Fox News Channel began at 0400 on 12-20-11. Return will occur 0400 January 20, 2012. Join us!

My great-grandfather raised tobacco, corn and winter wheat on a 10 acre farm in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. There was a cow, four hens, and a rooster. Oh, and a sawmill where he cut white oaks to build a three-story farmhouse complete with glass windows, storm doors and three wood burning fireplaces. He also raised 14 chidden there. And he did it on his own.

One of those children went to college and received a degree in architecture. He moved to New York and built 10 brownstone apartment houses on 63rd Street between Park Avenue and Madison Avenue. The rent from those buildings, which had marble foyers and great room entry columns, made him very wealthy until The Great Depression when he lost his rights to all of the buildings in bankruptcy court. And he did it on his own. Without ever whining, on the way up and on the way down.

My father had no more than a fifth-grade education. He was the smartest man I have ever known. He never completed his education because he had to help his family survive economically. Much later, he took the test for Certified Public Accountant, passed it the first time, and opened an accounting firm that is still very active in my hometown with his shingle hanging on main street. And he did it on his own.

Oh, while he was about it, he sent three children to three of America’s finest Universities. He paid for their full educations. And he did it on his own.

I graduated from Duke University, served my country for six years in The United States Marine Corps, rose to the level of Executive Vice President in one of Madison Avenue’s top Advertising firms, educated four children, and retired as a writer and author. And I did it on my own.

Oh by the way, one of my children lives in Manhattan. He is a residential Real Estate Broker. He represents two of those brownstone buildings on 63rd Street between Park and Madison Avenues. So, you see, Mr. President, what goes around, comes around.

So, please do not ask me if wealth is fairly distributed in America. Wealth is not distributed in America. It is EARNED! It always has been, and it always will be so long as we are a true Democracy.

And please don’t tell me that, “I’ll be on my own,” if I do not endorse you sad, illiterate race to make America a Socialist country. Excuse me, sir. I had rather do it . . . ON MY OWN!

More than 600 teachers employed by Milwaukee Public Schools, the state’s largest school district, staged a “sickout” on Friday, February 18, forcing classes to be canceled and parents to stay home with their children. A sure recipe to add to more job losses in an already bankrupt state.

While Milwaukee’s teachers paraded their opposition to budget amendments proposed by Governor Walker to help alleviate the state’s huge budget deficit, local doctors passed out fraudulent “sick slips” to anyone demonstrating without asking their identity or if they were really ill. A titillating new lesson for Milwaukee schoolchildren about rampant corruption in US Government and the Obama administration that champions their efforts.

By A1C Michael Bragg,  Hill AFB AFNCC

Ms. Williams:

I  just had the pleasure of reading your column, Our GI’s Earn Enough, and I am a bit confused. Frankly, I’m wondering where this vaunted overpayment is going, because as far as I can tell it disappears every month between DFAS (The Defense Finance and Accounting Service) and my bank account. Checking my latest earnings statement I see that I make $1,117.80 before taxes per month. After taxes, I take home $874.20. When I run that through the calculator, I come up with  an annual salary of $13,413.60 before taxes, and $10,490.40 after. 

I work in the Air Force Network Control Center where I am part of the team responsible for a 5,000 host computer network. I am involved with infrastructure segments, specifically with Cisco Systems equipment. A quick check under jobs for “Network Technicians” in the Washington, D.C. area reveals a position in my career field that requires only three years’ experience in my job. Amazingly, this job does not pay $13,413.60 a year. No, this job is being offered at $70,000 to $80,000 per annum . . . I’m sure you can draw the obvious conclusions. 

Given the tenor of your column, I would assume that you NEVER had the pleasure of serving your country in her armed forces. 

Before you take it upon yourself to once more castigate congressional and DOD leadership for attempting to get the families in the military’s lowest pay brackets off of WIC and food stamps, I suggest that you join a group of deploying soldiers headed for Afghanistan. I leave the choice of service branch up to you. Whatever choice you make though, opt for the six-month-rotation. It will guarantee you the longest possible time away from your family and friends, thus giving you full deployment experience.

As your group prepares to board the plane, make sure to note the spouses and children who are saying good-bye to their loved ones. Also please note several families are still unsure of how they’ll be able to make ends meet while the primary breadwinner is gone. Obviously they’ve been squandering the “vast” piles of cash the government has been giving them.  

Try to deploy over a major holiday; Christmas and Thanksgiving are perennial favorites. Then when you’re over there, sitting in a foxhole, shivering against the cold desert night, and your flight sergeant tells you that there aren’t enough people on shift to relieve you for chow, remember this: trade whatever MRE’s (meal-ready-to-eat) you manage to get for the tuna noodle casserole or cheese tortellini, and add Tabasco to everything. This gives some flavor. 

Talk to your loved ones often, as  it won’t be nearly long enough or often enough, but take what you can get and be thankful for it.

You may have picked up on the fact that I disagree with most of the points you present in your open piece. Even so, tomorrow from Kabul I will defend to death your right to say it.

You see, I am an American fighting man, a guarantor of your First Amendment Rights and every other right you cherish. On a daily basis, my brother and sister soldiers worldwide ensure that you and people like you can thumb your collective noses at us, all on a salary that is nothing short of pitiful and under conditions that would make most people cringe. We hemorrhage our best and brightest into the private sector because we can’t offer the stability and pay of civilian companies.  And you, Ms. Williams, have the gall to say that we make more than we deserve? Get a life!

God forbid that President Obama should sulk even more. So the Republicans in an ever-recurring, insatiable desire to shoot themselves in the foot (Oh my, please pardon such violent language.) have decided to have a “Happy Kumbaya” seating arrangement at the 2011 State of the Union address. Fostered by weak leaders like Speaker John Boehner and political snakes like Senator Chuck Schumer as means to give President Obama cover from the huge losses the Democrats suffered in the November 2010 elections.

But that is OK. No one wants the student prince to have to face “up-close-and-personal” the rewards of his failed economic and social agendas of the past two years.

We must ask, “Where was all this ‘Kumbayaing’ at last year’s address, or the year before?” Only proper alignment then. Which happens to be the best parliamentary procedure. For now, and since the first State of the Union address. With the only obvious objection being Nancy Pelosi nodding her approval of every word of our student prince, and popping up-and-down like a plastic Jesus on the dashboard of a very old car. Ugh!

Oh well, what are we to expect? It is the history of the Republican Party to never sustain a triumph longer than a moment. Then its members can be cheerfully invited to “shoot themselves in the foot” with great aplomb. The more things change; the more they stay the same.

If you had paid for tickets to a sports event, concert, Disneyland, or on an airplane and when you got to your assigned seat, someone else was in that seat, what would you do? You would call for a person in charge of ticket checking and have the person in your seat removed. Then, you would be properly asked to show your ticket and you would gladly and proudly do so. For you have bought and paid for that seat.

The person in your seat would also be asked for a ticket and they would not be able to produce one. They would be called gatecrashers and they would be properly removed.

Now in this huge stadium called the USA we have had millions of gatecrashers. We have been asking security to check for tickets and remove the gatecrashers for years. We have been asking security to have better controls in checking at the door. We have asked security to lock the back doors. And true to task, Security has failed us. They are looking the other way. They are afraid to ask to see the tickets. Many people say there is unlimited seating. Well whether there is or not, no one should be allowed in free while the rest of us pay full price!

In section AZ, of Stadium USA, we have had enough of the failures of Security. We have decided to do our own ticket checking, and properly remove those who do not have tickets. Now it seems very strange to me that so many people in the other 49 sections, and even many in our own section do not want tickets checked, or even be asked to show their ticket! Even the head of Security is chastising us, while not doing his own job that he has sworn to do.

My own ticket has been bought and paid for so I am going to proudly show it when asked to do so. I have a right to my seat, and I want the gatecrashers to be asked to show their tickets too. No more cheap seats for anyone.

The only reason that I can imagine anyone objecting to being asked for their ticket is that they are in favor of gate crashing and all the illegal activities that go with it. Such as drug smuggling, gang wars, murder, human smuggling, and many other illegal and inhumane acts that we are trying to prevent with our new legislation.

Is that what I am hearing from all the protestors such as Phoenix Mayor Gordon, US Representative Grijalva, US Attorney General Eric Holder, and even President Obama?

If you are not in favor of showing tickets, (proof of citizenship, passport, green card, or other legal document) when asked, as I would proudly do, then you must be condoning those illegal activities. Thanks for the suit, Eric!

Has America become the land of special interest and home of the double standard?

Let’s see:  if we lie to Congress, it is a felony and if Congress lies to us it is just politics; if we dislike a black person, we are racists and if a black dislikes whites, it is his 1^st Amendment right; the government spends millions to rehabilitate criminals and then does almost nothing for victims; in public school you can teach that homosexuality is OK, but you had better not use the word God in the process; you can kill an unborn child, but it is wrong to execute a mass murderer; we do  not burn books in America, we rewrite them; we got rid of the communist and socialist threat by renaming them progressives; we are unable to close our border with Mexico, but have no problem protecting the 38^th parallel in Korea; if you protest against President Obama’s policies, you are a terrorist, but if you burn an American flag or George Bush in effigy it is your 1^st Amendment right.

You can have pornography on TV or the Internet, but you had better not put a nativity scene in a public park during Christmas; we have eliminated all criminals in America, they are now called sick people; we can use a human fetus for medical research, but it is wrong to use an animal.

We take money from those who work hard for it and give it to those who do not wish to work; we all support the Constitution, but only when the Constitution supports our political ideology; we still have freedom of speech, but only if we are being politically correct; parenting has been replaced with Ritalin and video games; the land of opportunity is now the land of handouts; the similarity between hurricane Katrina and the Gulf oil spill is that neither president did anything to help.

And how do we handle a major crisis today? The government appoints a committee to determine who is at fault, then threatens them, passes a law, raises taxes, and tells us the problem is solved they can get back to their reelection campaigns.

 What has happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave?

                                                                          —Ken Huber, Tawas City

Even Obamacare’s biggest cheerleaders won’t be able to ignore Medicare chief actuary Richard Foster forever. Based on current law, Foster says, seniors who rely on Medicare will replace Medicaid recipients at the bottom of the health care ladder as early as 2019, five years after the individual mandate kicks in. That’s when the fees Medicare pays to providers will be slashed below Medicaid rates, which are already well below market prices.

“And if you’re in a plan that pays the lowest rates, you’re in trouble,” John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, told “The Examiner.”

That’s because the $575 billion cut to Medicare over the next decade — which is needed to pay insurance subsidies for 32 million new people — will force one in seven hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies and hospices out of business, according to the formal Medicare trustees report released on April 22. By 2050, 40 percent of existing health care facilities will be forced to close their doors.

Nearly half of the 32 million newly insured people will be enrolled in Medicaid (those whose incomes are at or below 133 percent of the poverty line will have no choice), but they shouldn’t expect the level of care that current Medicaid recipients receive, Goodman adds.

“For many low-income people, there’s not going to be much difference. Now they get care at community health centers and hospital emergency rooms. The Medicaid system won’t be able to handle them in a substantially different way. They’ll end up going to the same doctors and the same facilities they go to as uninsured.”

But there will be one difference: The wait for care will be much, much longer. Obamacare will provide 100 million Americans with much more generous insurance than they have today, Goodman points out, with no co-pays and no deductibles. This will give people new incentives to access medical care even though there won’t be enough doctors to handle the increased demand. A looming shortages of nurses won’t help, either.

Many physicians already refuse to accept new Medicare patients. More will refuse when payments from the government fall below cost. “It will be a game of medical musical chairs,” Goodman predicts. And when the music ends, it will be 15 million vulnerable senior citizens who wind up without a seat

Personal income tax rates will rise.  The top income tax rate will rise from 35 to 39.6 percent (this is also the rate at which two-thirds of small business profits are taxed).  The lowest rate will rise from 10 to 15 percent.  All the rates in between will also rise.  Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will again phase out, which has the same mathematical effect as higher marginal tax rates.  The full list of marginal rate hikes include:

 -          The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15%

 -          The 25% bracket rises to 28%

 -          The 28% bracket rises to 31%

 -          The 33% bracket rises to 36%

 -          The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%

Higher taxes on marriage and family:  The “marriage  penalty” (narrower tax brackets for married couples) will return from the first dollar of income.  The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1000 to $500 per child.  The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for married couples relative to the single level.  The dependent care and adoption tax credits will be cut.

The return of the Death Tax: This year, there is no death tax.  For those dying on or after January 1 2011, there is a 55 percent top death tax rate on estates over $1 million.  A person leaving behind two homes, a business, a retirement account, could easily pass along a death tax bill to their loved ones. Think of the farmers who don’t make much money, but their land, which they purchased years ago with after-tax dollars, is now worth a lot of money. Their children will have to sell the farm, which may be their livelihood, just to pay the estate tax if they don’t have the cash sitting around to pay the tax. Think about your own family’s assets. Maybe your family owns real estate, or a business that doesn’t make much money, but the building and equipment are worth $1 million. Upon their death, you can inherit the $1 million business tax free, but if they own a home, stock, cash worth $500K on top of the $1 million business, then you will owe the government $275,000 cash! That’s 55% of the value of the assets over $1 million!

Higher tax rates on savers and investors:  The capital gains tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011.  The dividends tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in 2011.  These rates will rise another 3.8 percent in 2013.

Wave Two: Obamacare:  The most onerous wave will be Obamacare. There are over twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare. Several will first go into effect on January 1, 2011. They include:

The Medicine Cabinet Tax Hike: Thanks to Obamacare, Americans will no longer be able to use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin).

The Special Needs Kids Tax Hike: This provision of Obamacare imposes a cap on flexible spending accounts (FSAs) of $2500 (Currently, there is no federal government limit). There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: Parents of special needs children.

There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United States and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education. Tuition rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington, D.C. (National Child Research Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year. Under tax rules, FSA dollars can not be used to pay for this type of special needs education.

The HSA (Health Savings Account) Withdrawal Tax Hike: This provision of Obamacare increases the additional tax on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 20 percent, disadvantaging them relative to IRAs and other tax-advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent.

Wave Three: The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) and Employer Tax:  When Americans prepare to file their tax returns in January of 2011, they’ll be in for a nasty surprise-the AMT won’t be held harmless, and many tax relief provisions will have expired.

The major items include:

The AMT will ensnare over 28 million families, up from 4 million last year. According to the left-leaning Tax Policy Center, Congress’ failure to index the AMT will lead to an explosion of AMT taxpaying families—rising from 4 million last year to 28.5 million. These families will have to calculate their tax burdens twice, and pay taxes at the higher level. The AMT was created in 1969 to ensnare a handful of taxpayers.

Small business expensing will be slashed and 50% expensing will disappear. Small businesses can normally expense (rather than slowly deduct, or “depreciate”) equipment purchases up to $250,000. This will be cut all the way down to $25,000. Larger businesses can currently expense half of their purchases of equipment. In January of 2011, all of it will have to be “depreciated.”

Taxes will be raised on all types of businesses. There are literally scores of tax hikes on business that will take place. The biggest is the loss of the “research and experimentation tax credit,” but there are many, many others.

Combining high marginal tax rates with the loss of this tax relief will cost jobs. Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching will be reduced. The deduction for tuition and fees will not be available. Tax credits for education will be limited. Teachers will no longer be able to deduct classroom expenses. Coverdell Education Savings Accounts will be cut. Employer-provided educational assistance is curtailed. The student loan interest deduction will be disallowed for hundreds of thousands of families.

Charitable Contributions from IRAs will no longer be allowed. Under current law, a retired person with an IRA can contribute up to $100,000 per year directly to a charity from their IRA. This contribution also counts toward an annual “required minimum distribution.” This ability will no longer be there.

Oh yes, now your insurance will become INCOME on your W-2 forms! One of the surprises we will all find next year is, (next year folks), our W-2 tax form sent by our employer will be increased to show the value of whatever health insurance we are given by the company. It does not matter if that’s a private concern or governmental body of some sort. Just can’t wait until the public sector sees its W-2 forms for 2011. Mmm, Mmm, Mmm.

Retired? So what—your gross will go up by the amount of insurance you have.

You will be required to pay taxes on a large sum of money that you have never seen. Take your tax form you just finished and see what $15,000 or $20,000 additional gross income does to your tax debt. That’s what you’ll pay next year. For many, it also puts you into a new, higher bracket so it’s even worse.

This is how the government is going to buy insurance for the 15% that do not have insurance and it’s only part of the coming tax increases. Not believing this? Here is a research moment from the summaries—On page 25 of 29: TITLE IX REVENUE PROVISIONS- SUBTITLE A: REVENUE OFFSET PROVISIONS-(sec. 9001, as modified by sec. 10901) Sec. 9002 “requires employers to include in the W-2 form of each employee the aggregate cost of applicable employer sponsored group health coverage that is excludable from the employees gross income.”

Had enough? Not yet. Plans for even more astonishing government extortion will be revealed in later blog posts. For now—vote REPUBLICAN in November. It is the only vote that may help to change some of the above intrusions upon our individuality and freedom.