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Simplicity in the Health Care Debate

Written by the Chairman | 08 August 2009
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Is the health care debate making you sick?

On the forefront of issues is the health care issue; whether or not we should have nationalized (socialized) health care, how to engineer a plan to achieve it and how we should pay for it. Many disagree with the concept of socialized medicine for a variety of reasons. Many agree with the concept, but are fearful that government will likely not operate an efficient program. The arguments are numerous and complex, but very intriguing to those who appreciate involvement in a good debate.

There is a skill among politicians to which we should be attentive. They are very good at getting us to ask and give attention to the wrong questions. There is one argument yet to be heard in public. Nationalized health care is

Biblical Jurisprudence

Written by Bill Mohr | 30 July 2009
Posted in From the Chairman

What Is the Basis For Morality?

The Associated Press reported yesterday that Rodell Vereen, a South Carolina man, has been charged with having sex with a horse. The horse’s owner caught him on video tape once, and then again at the round end of her shotgun. She said the horse was acting strange and getting infections.

He was charged last year for having sex with a horse, the same horse, and pleaded guilty. He was placed on probation and

Moderate Wolves

Written by Bill Mohr | 02 July 2009
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Beware of Moderate Wolves in Constitutional Clothing.

“I do not think we are more inspired, have more wisdom, or possess more virtue than those who will come after us.” George Washington

This may have been the only time Washington was wrong.

Yesterday, at a Health Care Roundtable, sponsored by the Heartland Institute, Americans for Prosperity, and the Mackinaw Center, Greg Scandlen from Consumers for Health Care Choices spoke on the dangers of the proposed system of health care in America. He did a stunning job of satisfying the average citizen’s inner quest to rebel against elected authority and its abuses of power.

How thrilling it was for me to hear him finally mention the constitution, though briefly, in the context of policy maker’s inadequacies. What a joy to think that an influential someone understands that government has somehow loosed itself from its constitutional leash.

Be Always Sure You're Right

Written by Bill Mohr | 21 June 2009
Posted in From the Chairman

Be Always Sure You’re Right – Then Go Ahead.

As devoted members and supporters of the US Taxpayers Party of Michigan (USTPM) we are often questioned as to why we are spending so much time, money and effort on a party that will never result in anything. After all, we cannot win elections. We have no political clout and will never influence government – right?

Listening to the scoffers we learn that

Accepting the Challenge

Written by The Chairman
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The US Taxpayers Party of Michigan is currently accepting the challenge proposed to it by an increasing number of Patriots coming forward in the state of Michigan.

Tens of thousands of people are now beginning to stand up to be counted by attending the popular Tea Party and other movements, writing letters and making phone calls to their representatives. Most have realized for years that government is becoming increasingly oppressive and that it is fleeing its constitutional foundation at an astounding rate, but it is just now that the people are beginning to band together in order to correct the problems. The US Taxpayers Party of Michigan is geared up, equipped, prepared and purposed to answer the call. Our ballot qualified status and aggressive grass roots efforts make us the political party of preference for the devoted American and Patriot who is ready to run for office or get involved assisting those who are.

We offer to you only candidates who stand on the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and our Party Platform. We are not subject to the primary election process, so we are allowed to screen our candidates for solid character traits and core beliefs. As the chairman of the US Taxpayers Party of Michigan, I will undertake to do my dead level best to weed out any forthcoming prospective candidate in whom I discover a spirit of deception or lies. It simply will not be tolerated.

There are many opportunities to be involved. Many of our fathers gave their time and efforts for a nation that delivered freedom and liberty to hundreds of millions of us; and many offered their fortunes and even their lives. It is up to us now to maintain it. What can you do? Will you run for office? Are you able to contribute financially? Assist in candidate campaigns? Join the party leadership committees? Join a county organization?

Please feel free to contact me. You will find my contact information within the content of this site. I would love to hear from you.

Mixed Feelings on Tax Day

Written by Bill Mohr | 15 April 2009
Posted in From the Chairman

Tax day, April 15, 2009, was a day of mixed excitement and alarm.

On one hand, it is speculated that there were over 800 cities all over these United States in which were held organized Tea Party assemblies. People from all walks of life gathered together with one voice, hundreds of thousands in number, begging to be heard in Washington. With the peaceful protests they are requiring only that the Federal and State governments adhere to their constitutions, ensure the liberties and freedoms for which many of our fathers died, and limit government spending, thereby lowering our taxes.

On the other hand, it was heavily publicized that just one week earlier on April 7, within the same government being addressed, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a bulletin warning of potential violence

Constitutional Militia

Written by Rick Butkowski | 02 June 2009
Posted in Issues

We Must Consider the Restoration of the Constitutional Militia in the State of Michigan

The U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan (USTPM) believes that the Founders and Framers wrote what they meant, and meant what they wrote. We believe in God-given, inalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, as embodied in the ownership and holding of private Property. Our Creator gave us these rights and no man, or group of men, can alienate us from these rights without due process of law, consistent with the principles and requirements of the unanimous Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Bill of Rights. If we have these rights, we have the right and obligation to protect these rights. This was affirmed in 1776 and finally ratified in 1791.

Education

Written by Cyndee Wedge | 27 May 2009
Posted in Issues

Article viii, section 1 of the constitution of the state of Michigan states, “Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” This is a direct quote from the northwest ordinance.

The founders of our great state and country were very much aware that good government and happiness is dependant

The 10th Amendment

Written by USTPM | 27 May 2009
Posted in Issues

The States formed a federal government, basically, for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. States are not political subdivisions of the federal government. The Founding Fathers recognized that in a federal structure important political powers must be reserved to the component States. Therefore, the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution specifically

Constitutional Taxes

Written by Mel Valkner | 26 May 2009
Posted in Issues

The Founding Fathers knew taxes were inevitable to support the Federal government. However, they were particular as to the type and process of taxes to be levied. We support a return to their original intentions by which we grew into a rich, free and powerful nation and therefore advocate repeal of the 16th Amendment.

Economics

Written by Carl Wedge | 26 May 2009
Posted in Issues

The national economy and our state economy are in shambles with high unemployment and regulations that stifle free enterprise. In their centralized planning efforts, plans far from the minds of our Founding Fathers, government often picks winners and losers by use of its funding and tax policies. Thomas Jefferson addressed this saying,

Tea Party Beware

Written by Chuch Baldwin | 13 February 2010
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This column is archived at
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2010/cbarchive_20100212.html

As far as grassroots activism goes, the surge in Tea Parties across America is one of the more encouraging developments to recently take place. It reminds me of the "Conservative Revolution" of 1994, when the GOP reclaimed both the US Senate and House of Representatives. At that time, it had been over 40 years since the Republican Party controlled both the US House and Senate. And, between the two, the House victories were the most significant.

Spurred mostly by the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, a host of young, energetic freshman Republicans marched into Washington, D.C., determined to return a burgeoning and out-of-control federal leviathan to the constitutional precepts of limited government. I'm talking about then-freshman House members such as Helen Chenoweth, Steve Largent, Bob Barr, Joe Scarborough, Sonny Bono, John Shadegg, J.C. Watts, etc. These young conservatives went to Washington, D.C., determined to reduce the growth and size of the federal government.

Not Your Father's Army

Written by Chuck Baldwin | 06 February 2010
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Not Your Father's Army
By Chuck Baldwin
February 5, 2010

This column is archived at http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2010/cbarchive_20100205.html

Most of us Americans have a deep and abiding respect and admiration for our country's fighting men who have served--and are serving--within the US Armed Forces. We appreciate their willingness to put themselves in harm's way for the preservation of our nation's liberty and independence. We honor their sacrifice. Indeed, many of us share that sacrifice with the deaths, dismemberments, and paralysis of our most cherished loved ones who were killed or injured in the line of duty.

It is time, however, that we awaken to the reality of what our military is becoming and where it is heading. Suffice it to say, this is not your father's army.

On December 8, 1941, my father, Ed Baldwin--along with his two brothers, Bud and Gene--marched down to a recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas, to enlist. The Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor the day before, and no branch of service had to beg people to enlist that day. Bud joined the Navy. Gene joined the Marines. When government officials saw Dad's resumé, they selected him to help construct the atomic bomb. All three brothers served their country with distinction throughout the war.

Wanted: Men Who Know

Written by Cyndee Wedge | 03 February 2010
Posted in Guest Writers

WANTED: MEN WHO KNOW AND UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION

While it is evident that leaders at all levels of civil government today are violating the U. S. Constitution, a past Michigan citizen, who was the prosecuting attorney for Mackinac County, a U. S. Representative and a Senator, was respected as a leader who upheld our Constitution.

Prentiss Brown, from St. Ignace, is a fine example of a man with virtue. At the age of 17 he worked on the great lakes steamer Chippewa along with seasoned seamen and rough college students. Raised a Methodist, his first night on board, he was faced with a tough decision; should he kneel in prayer, as was his custom before bedtime, in front of all the men. As he remembered later, “It was a terrible struggle, but with fear and trembling, I did it.” He was surprised when

Let's Go Home?

Written by Jim Dowling | 24 December 2009
Posted in Guest Writers

I'm confronted continually with the acts of a rogue government totally unaccountable to The People, and uncowered by their animosity. I'm confronted with the condition that no ordinary Citizen has "standing" in their own country, in order to defend the Constitution in the Courts of The Land from usurpation and erosion by those who are willfully crafting the demise of Freedom here and in the world.

Today I'm confronted with new governmental enactment that madates (under penalty of law) that every person - by virtue of the mere fact of just being alive - must purchase (forfeit their labor-property) a product (health care insurance) as proscribed by them - the tyrannical Overlords of The People.

My Thanksgiving Prayer

Written by Chuck Baldwin | 24 November 2009
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This column is archived at
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2009/cbarchive_20091124.html

That first Thanksgiving in the fall of 1621 saw about 50 Mayflower Pilgrims and 100 native Indians come together for a celebration feast consisting of a variety of homegrown vegetables--including corn, squash, beans, barley, and peas--along with wild turkey and venison. The precise date is not known, but it is believed to have taken place in late October or early November. Historians record that the Massachusetts weather was crisp, but not cold--and the fall foliage dazzled America's newcomers with a cornucopia of color.

These Pilgrims were mostly "Separatists," who had left Europe to seek a land of liberty, where men could be free to worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience--not according to the demands of a State church or an oppressive government.

2010 Year of the Third Party

Written by Linda Schrock Taylor | 07 November 2009
Posted in Guest Writers

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Yesterday, Doug Hoffman set the stage and turned the tide with his race for NY-23. Naysayers--Democrats and Republicans alike--will argue the point saying, “But he lost!” YEAH-sayers will wisely counter with, “But he almost won!” Hoffman’s run should serve as a green light for third parties; as a call to Everyman. America needs honest candidates with strong ethical principles, and in 2010 HONOR will have its best chance to make a comeback.

Remember typing class from way back when? “Now is the time for all good men [and women] to come to the aid of their country.” The time is certainly now. If Americans will accept the challenge of reclaiming America; of putting it back on its Founding Principles, then this coming year--November 2009 through November 2010--will become the Year of the Constitution, as well as the Year of the Third Party.

Climate Change Treaty

Written by Chuck Baldwin | 01 November 2009
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Climate Change Treaty A Precursor To Global Government?

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This column is archived at
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2009/cbarchive_20091030.html

Writing for World Net Daily, Dr. Jerome Corsi states, "A former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says the real purpose of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Dec. 7-18 is to use global warming hype as a pretext to lay the foundation for a one-world government."

Corsi quotes Lord Christopher Monckton as telling a Minnesota Free Market Institute audience at Bethel University in St. Paul, "Your president will sign it. Most of the Third World countries will sign it, because they think they're going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regimes from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won't sign it."

These Are Not Negotiable

Written by Chuck Baldwin | 14 October 2009
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This column is archived at: http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2009/cbarchive_20091013.html

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to

Written by Shawn Elletson | 25 August 2009
Posted in Guest Writers

Analysis of House Bill 5232

“Michigan Firearms Freedom Act”

BILL 5232 PRINTED BELOW

Analytical Summary. While the purpose and intent of House Bill 5232, “Michigan Firearms Freedom Act”, should be supported, in its present form it is extremely weak and watered down. This bill leaves the potential that Federal Government render the bill effectively null and void through statute. With that possibility, the bill would be purely symbolic and not provide the people any freedom that the name would imply. Significant changes are required before this bill will accomplish any measurable reassertion of Liberty.

Details. The bill begins in Section 1 with the customary fashion of providing the appropriate nomenclature of the bill, should it be passed into law. Section 2 continues

The Sotomayor Scare

Written by Chuck Baldwin | 22 August 2009
Posted in Guest Writers

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This column is archived at http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2009/cbarchive_20090821.html

[Note: My son, Tim, writes today's column. He is an attorney who received his Juris Doctor degree from Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a former prosecutor for the Florida State Attorney's Office and now owns his own private law practice. He is author of a new book, published soon by Agrapha Publishing, entitled FREEDOM FOR A CHANGE.]

Yes, yes, we have all heard the remarks from those who would call themselves conservative, libertarian or the like concerning the nomination and now swearing-in of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court, which took place on August 8, 2009. Yes, yes, books have been written by those conservative and libertarian editorialists and authors who have explained to us that the United States Supreme Court (US S CT) is "out of control" and

A Modern-Day Daniel

Written by Chuck Baldwin | 04 August 2009
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A Modern-Day Daniel
By Chuck Baldwin
August 4, 2009

This column is archived at http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2009/cbarchive_20090804.html

The Biblical story of Daniel in the lion's den is one of the more famous stories of the Old Testament. In the story, Daniel is commanded to not pray by a decree from King Darius. Imagine that! Can you imagine any government forbidding its people to pray? What kind of totalitarian state would do such a thing? OK, perhaps Red China or North Korea, but that's about it, right? Oh, did I mention that Daniel was a overnment employee? (I guess the ACLU has been around a lot longer than everyone thought.)

Well, friends, think again.

Yes to Christianity

Written by Anonymous | 24 July 2009
Posted in Guest Writers

WHY "NO" TO SOCIALISM, AND "YES" TO CHRISTIANITY?

Recenty, on a web site designed for Conservative-oriented conversation, I was very surprised to read a an inquiry by one of the group,
asking, "What is so wrong with the advancement of socialism in our government, in our elected officials, and in our general society?"

The writer went on to imply that "the wheel of Socialism" has "many spokes", and then wondered, "How can the whole "wheel" be rejected, in toto" by our side?

The Age Of Despotism

Written by Chuck Baldwin | 07 July 2009
Posted in Guest Writers

This column is archived at http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2009/cbarchive_20090707.html

This past Independence Day weekend, my friend, LCDR (Retired) Guy Cunningham, delivered an outstanding address here in Pensacola, Florida, in which he said that America is now in "The Age of Perfidy." He went on to say that our country is soon to enter "The Age of Despotism." I candidly confess that I believe the retired Naval officer could be more right than we might want to admit.

Commander Cunningham is no slouch. He was a Green Beret (who served in the same Special Forces company alongside his father and two brothers), an infantryman with the 101st Airborne Division, Navy pilot, mission commander and analyst. He is also the author of the now-famous 29 Palms Survey. His military credentials are unassailable. When Commander Cunningham speaks, people should listen.

Independance Now and Forever

Written by Chuck Baldwin | 02 July 2009
Posted in Guest Writers

Independence Now and Forever!

By Chuck Baldwin

July 1, 2009

As we approach Independence Day, it behooves us to recall the principles of America's founding, especially in light of the ongoing attempt by today's political and commercial leaders to merge the United States into a hemispheric government. In fact, the clarion call for independence is just as fundamental, just as revolutionary as it was 233 years ago.

Regarding the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams said, "[Independence Day] will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the Day of Deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore."

Adams went on to say,

Obama's Speech in Egypt

Written by Chuck Baldwin | 10 June 2009
Posted in Guest Writers

Obama's Speech In Egypt
By Chuck Baldwin
June 9, 2009

This column is archived at http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2009/cbarchive_20090609.html

Much has been made of President Barack Obama's "reconciliation" speech in Cairo, Egypt, last week. For the most part, the American media have focused on Obama's attempt to "repair" relations with the Muslim nations of the world. For example, Obama referenced the Koran five times, and the Bible only once. (It is noteworthy that one of the Koranic references Obama used was a verse dedicated to Islamic Jihad, in which Muslims are required to kill infidels--meaning those who are not Muslims, of course. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of America's major media failed to report this story. See: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100504 )

As nonsensical and revolting as much of Obama's speech was, the most egregiously dangerous statement he made in his Egyptian speech was another one that all but a small portion of America's mainstream media bothered to report. The sinister statement is as follows:

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