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Our ancient pledge to live in a nation of laws means nothing if one party aids the executive in undermining those laws on a whim.

— (((≠))) (@ThomasHCrown) July 9, 2014

As I had put up here, yesterday was a significant day where two high Federal Courts came down in two diametrically opposite results :

• The DC Circuit Court of Appeals (acknowledged to be the #2 Court in the land) – upheld the Rule of Law as written; the IRS cannot give subsidies to those that enroll in an Obamacare policy while logged into a Federal site; ONLY in an Exchange that was set up by an individual State.
• The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals – upheld the Rule of Intent and not as the black and white words actually used in the statute.   Instead of sticking to the wording, those judges decided that they could go by the intent of the Democrat Party in writing of the Law.

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Mark Levin is a well known and fiery Conservative talk show host and author.  What is less well known is that he also heads up the Landmark Legal Foundation and it has an ongoing FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) lawsuit against the EPA for all materials that mentioned the delaying the release and enactment of regulations concerning CO2 “pollution” standards simply for political reasons: announcing them before the election might have changed the results of the election once the general public learned of the draconian decrees and how it would affect them and their families.  We are now seeing the results – a larger and larger number of coal using electrical plants are being shut down due to the EPA using its regulatory power to institute a “cap and trade” system that Congress decided that it would not do.  How can a mere agency have the power to totally up end our lives when Congress decided that it shouldn’t?   But that is the Obama Administration, not just waiting, but IGNORING the other Branch of Government.  Or worse – deciding that he can be both the Legislative and Executive branches combined – a set up leading to tyranny.

The heads up from Instapundit that Levin is asking for sanction as it looks like the EPA, just like the IRS, has destroyed materials & emails that could have proven his assertions:

“Landmark Legal Foundation today asked Federal District Judge Royce Lamberth to sanction the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for destroying or failing to preserve emails and text messages that may have helped document suspected Agency efforts to influence the 2012 presidential election.”

The entire Presser is after the jump (emphasis and reformatting mine).  It is well worth to review the words of Thomas H Crown again:

Each agency will learn that there's no punishment — not even dreaded defunding! — for breaking the laws each officer is sworn to uphold.

— (((≠))) (@ThomasHCrown) July 9, 2014

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And the last post with the last videos from this past Sunday’s home event at the McManus’s residence.  Here we have:

• Marilinda Garcia (candidate for the NH GOP nomination for US Congress, CD-2)
• Jim Adams (candidate for the NH GOP nomination for NH Executive Council)
• Closing remarks (Jane Cormier, Susan Olsen)

Marilinda Garcia                                                     Jim Adams

Closing Remarks

Previous videos:  

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From Daniel Horowitz, a reminder of what a horrible mess Dodd-Frank is.  Remember, the “Frank” part was Barney Frank, the uber Leftist Congressman from MA!

Here are some of the worst aspects:

Too Big to Fail: – Title I of the bill created a new permanent bailout regime, the Financial Stability Oversight Council.  This institution would vitiate the bankruptcy process and allow the government to take over any entity that it deems vital to the rest of the economy.  In other words, it consummates “too big to fail” as a permanent policy, the very policy this bill was supposed to fix.

Volcker Rule – The Volcker rule ostensibly prohibits regular banks from investing their own money by engaging in bond trading.  It also prohibits banks from holding more than a 3% stake in private equity funds.  Just this part of the bill is 300 pages long!  It will take hundreds of new Keynesian jobs just to enforce, interpret, and comply with the rule.

CFPB – The bill created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFBP), which will limit the choices of consumers in financial markets, making it harder and more expensive to obtain credit.  This unaccountable agency will operate autonomously within the Federal Reserve and will not be subjected to congressional appropriations or oversight.  It is essentially the “death panel” of the financial sector, with control over bank accounts, mortgages, and student loans.

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“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice”

“Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

– US Senator Barry Goldwater, GOP nomination for President, 1964

50th anniversary of their use upon accepting the GOP nomination for President in 1964 (7/16/14).  (H/T: Instapundit).  Ann Althouse has 10 of the best lines of that speech after the jump – such prescient with today’s Administration and Progressive aggression (emphasis mine):

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