But when the Inspector General’s Office subpoenas all of the phone records for all BlackBerry and land lines being used by key people in Horne’s AG office to find out who’s been talking to the FBI, these guys are serious.

Do you have a favorite for the replacement Attorney General? Too late, the choices have already been made.

If Human Resources tells a person not to hire someone due to legal issues, it would have been wise to listen to them. Likewise, when one is told to get rid of all the Terry Goddard holdovers, it would behoove one to do so.

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It’s worth getting up early on Sunday mornings just to find out who ABC’s “This Week” is going to invite for their roundtable of experts to discuss the week’s hot topics. I thought they couldn’t top Al Sharpton or avowed Communist Van Jones, but last Sunday they brought forth the much-fired Keith Olbermann. (You know things are bad when even Al Gore can’t stand you.)

The topic was the Secret Service prostitute scandal in Colombia. Olbermann opined: “There seems to be this dynamic, this conflict between these two things. Are they (Secret Service agents) priests or are they supposed to represent this macho side and take advantage of what opportunities are presented to them?” Pearls of wisdom.

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It’s a funny world. One week the Arizona Republic praises retiring Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs for putting Glendale, Arizona on the map with her two decades of service. The next week readers learn just how deeply in debt she put her constituents in her lust to be a sports Mecca. Reading the time line on the Coyotes’ hockey team looks like a case study in throwing good money after bad. If more than $50 is spent on her retirement party, it’s too much.

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There are some ads that make my fingernails curl. One is the one from The Scooter Store that informs me I can get a Scooter power wheelchair “at little or no cost to me.” What’s wrong with this picture? Why should the schoolteacher down the block pay for my Scooter so I can “go to the park with my grandkids?” If mobility is so great, isn’t it worth some sort of payment on my part?

Equally indicative of our entitlement crisis are the calls to “Go Solar,” that urge me to “take advantage of government incentives and qualify for a $0 down lease and reduce or eliminate my power bill.” Really, now? And who do you think is paying to subsidize all this solar power? When I told the telephone solicitor that my neighbors shouldn’t have to pay for my energy use, she called me a sucker for not leaping on the bandwagon. Can this country be saved?

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Paul Lee, president of the ABC Entertainment Group, was quoted earlier this year saying, “On broadcast television, as it turns out, that isn’t a word you want to use in the title.” He was referring to the word “bitches,” as in “Good Christian Bitches” and “Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23.” In order to calm the censors, the first show’s title has been changed to “GCB” and the second title uses B—- with the dashes now. But we all know what is being foisted on the viewing public. I double dare ABC to try that with Muslim in the title.

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Nothing has ever been cleaner fun than comedian Bill Cosby’s recorded solo concert appearance entitled, “Bill Cosby, Himself.” Conversely, nothing has ever been stupider than his pronouncement that more guns cause more crime. The loss of his son was tragic, but Bill’s just not thinking straight. He needs to read John Lott’s book entitled, More Guns, Less Crime. It’s a compelling argument for even more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens.

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Holder has already shown he will not prosecute instances of voter intimidation if the violators are black. The watchdog group Judicial Watch investigated a cozy partnership between the DOJ and Project Vote, which is connected to the scandal-ridden ACORN, to use the threat of lawsuits under the National Voting Rights Act to aggressively force the registration of more individuals receiving welfare benefits. Does anyone think this wouldn’t help President Obama?

This month Holder shot down the Voter ID law passed in Texas, citing an inconvenience for minority voters to obtain IDs, even though the state would issue them free of charge. Democrats tend to view efforts to protect against vote fraud as racist plots to disenfranchise minority voters. These claims are baseless. In Georgia, turnout there increased dramatically in 2008, the first year after their new photo-ID law went into effect, even among black voters! Vote-fraud expert and freelance reporter Brad Zinn claims people are more apt to vote when they think their effort will result in an honest count.

Listen to a presentation given by Zinn on the Constitution and the vote of the people and then tell me if you believe, as do our voting officials, there is no need to worry about the incidence of vote fraud. “I believe that our Constitution is about to be shredded, the Electoral College overturned, and that vote fraud may well determine who the next President of the United States is,” Zinn warns. He proceeds to show the vulnerability of our system in three areas: In registration, in the casting of ballots, and in the tabulation of the results.

As Zinn sees it, mail-in ballots are the number one target of folks looking for a fraudulent vote. (I fought against this for years as I did against the mother of all bad ideas, Motor Voter.) And phony registrations lead to ballots in perpetuity per PEVL, or the Permanent Early Voting List, passed in Arizona in 2007 by the state legislature.

“Fraud of the magnitude which swings elections typically combines absentee ballot fraud and voter registration fraud,” says Jack Kelly, former Marine and Green Beret and national security writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Arizona used to have Voter Registrars, trained in proper recording. Those days are gone. Zinn tells of the case wherein a 13-year-old illegal immigrant girl was going door to door signing up people who responded to her political questions in the “right way.”

Arizona has a lot of snow birds from around the country. The temptation is strong for some of them to cast ballots in both states. Secretary of State Ken Bennett is working with thirteen other states to cross-check voter registrations, since double voting is a felony. To show the importance in choosing Secretaries of State, liberal mastermind George Soros started a project to install as many of them as possible, since he knows who has final control of the vote. Zinn points out the difference between the vote totals for U.S. Senator from Minnesota between Al Franken and Norm Coleman was the number of registered felons. Scary stuff.

Speaking of Minnesota, is there anyone with a computer who hasn’t seen the video of folks off the street registering Tim Tebow and Tom Brady to vote, no ID required from anyone? According to the Pew Center, approximately 1 in 8 active voter registrations in the U.S. are no longer valid or have significant inaccuracies, with nearly 2 million dead people listed as active voters. (That’s setting the bar rather low for “activity.”)

Leftists dominate the field of election law. This needs to change. And we damned sure need a small army of trained poll watchers. If we can’t trust there will be an honest election, nothing else that happens with this country matters. Nothing.

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Sharpton is a shell of his former self, having lost almost 100 pounds, but that is what going on a hunger strike while you’re serving time in a federal prison will inspire in a person. The irony of race-baiter Al Sharpton leading a panel discussion with Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan, the Washington Post’s E. J Dionne, and Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, (R-Tenn.) on the topic “Civility in Politics” is the political equivalent of porn star Ron Jeremy leading a seminar on “Choosing Celibacy for Fun and Profit.”

If Peggy Noonan hadn’t decided long ago that she’d rather wax poetic than stick with her former mindset, she’d have laughed in the producer’s face at being booked with this hustler. After all, Sharpton’s past scandals include instigating a riot that resulted in six deaths. Six. “It’s not cute to just escalate things,” Sharpton now says. Too bad he didn’t follow his own advice before six people died.

The next hour of Sunday TV that I watched was ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” which featured a panel that included disgraced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, better known as Client-9 in documents filed in U.S. Federal Court after he protractedly cavorted with prostitute Ashley DuPre.

I should have left the TV on, since there might have been a show on the cooking channel with former U.S. Rep Anthony Weiner.

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Question: If longtime Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley can run for Congress in CD 9 with a straight face, can former U.S. Congressman Rick Renzi run for Governor?

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Here’s another whiff of political flatulence from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. She wants to cut the armed airline pilots program by 50 percent, or $12 million. She told Congress that the program is not “risk based,” that pilots aren’t the last line of defense and that we can trust the cockpit door to keep us safe. Now, Secretary. As a rather immoveable object yourself, you should know that there is no such thing as an impenetrable door (with the possible exception of candidate for Corporation Commissioner in District 4, Jean McGrath, when she’s stopping wasteful government spending.)

Napolitano completely ignores the fact that it was the disarming of pilots in 1987 that led to the famous 9/11 cockpit takeovers. How irrational. Better she cut the program that teaches discount retail shoppers to report something “unusual or suspicious.” Now, that’s redundancy!

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I’ve been going crazy buying coupons on Groupon and LocalDines.com. But here’s one offer where I’ll take a pass: Naturopathic body mediators purge burdened bodies of toxin through colon-hydrotherapy sessions during which a practitioner gently sends warm, purified water coursing through the belly’s plumbing system for up to 45 minutes as the client reclines on a treatment table. For $39. I’ll give you $50 if you never tell me about this again.

Quoteworthy:

“The United States will always have Israel’s back when it comes to Israel’s security.”
– President Barack Obama, March 5. (This reminds me too much of how actress Sandra Bullock credited bad boy motorcycle man Jesse James with “always having her back.” Yea, sure.)

“Crying Putin, manscara and now mantyhose. We are over.”
– New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, contemplating the downfall of manhood.

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I have to be honest with you.

This is the most disturbing email I have ever written. I am frightened for our country. I am frightened for its freedom-loving citizens. But most of all, I am frightened for the future of America. Obama supports beating up the U.S. Constitution and we must not let it be replaced by United Nations Agenda 21.

The UN is ruthlessly advancing a new plan that will make America a HOSTAGE to the United Nations. While Obama and the liberal media ignore gas prices streaking to $5/gal. and England is already paying $10/gal.

UN Agenda 21 could…

• Wipe private property off the face of the earth.
• Force you and your family to live in a single-family energy efficient home.
• Confiscate private farms and farmland.
• Snatch away private landholdings.
• Ban individual ownership of cars.

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Sound too outlandish to be true? The scariest part is… IT IS TRUE! So what exactly is Agenda 21? I’ll tell you in a minute. But first, I’ll give you some background information that is critical to understanding how this anti-freedom scheme came about.

In 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) was held in Rio de Janeiro to discuss global initiatives. 172 governments attended and 108 sent their heads of state. And about 2,400 representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) showed up for the “GLOBAL FORUM.”

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This group of POWERFUL world leaders and environmentalists spent their time discussing typical green movement hogwash like alternative energy, the phony science of climate change and “deadly” car emissions. Back in 1992, most people dismissed this conference as a green rant fest.

However, that was a huge mistake…

…Because the politicians came up with a plan for a centrally ruled global society. They called that plan Agenda 21. The plan’s contract would make governments around the world a SLAVE to the every wish and whim of the United Nations.

We cannot make the same mistake with Agenda 21!

UN Agenda 21 would also dictate…

• Where we live
• What we eat
• How and what we learn
• Where and when we can move (if at all)

Here’s how the UN describes it:

“Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.”

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It’s already happening right now.

Obama, who has vowed to “fundamentally transform America,” is pushing to implement this freedom-grabbing plan UNDER THE RADAR.

On June 9, 2011 he signed EXECUTIVE ORDER 13575 and established the White House Rural Council (WHRC). This new administrative body is responsible for federally coordinating and implementing sustainable and green development locally.

Here is an excerpt from EO 13575:

Section 1. Policy- Sixteen percent of the American population lives in rural counties. Strong, sustainable rural communities are essential to winning the future and ensuring American competitiveness in the years ahead.

“Sustainable” became a buzzword at the UN’s 1992 Earth Summit in Brazil (where Agenda 21 was created).

Sustainable = Agenda 21

Mike Opelka of The Blaze reports,

“Warning bells should have been sounding all across rural America when the phrase “sustainable rural communities” came up. As we know from researching the UN plan for Sustainable Development known as Agenda 21, these are code words for the true fundamental transformation America.”

UN Agenda 21 is a transnational attempt to erode property rights, destroy freedom and make America submissive to foreign bureaucrats.

That’s why we need to act QUICKLY.

We don’t have much time to waste before this TOTALITARIAN TREATY BECOMES LAW OF THE LAND!

THIS IS NOT A FIGHT WE CAN AFFORD TO LOSE

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Ignorance of the law is no excuse. At least that’s what I’ve been told. But there are high costs of learning about every law that might possibly impact you these days. You can randomly violate laws without even knowing it, given how intrusive and nonsensical they can be, and how often they change.

Imagine being in business, making decisions worth tens of thousands of dollars, assuming the law is the same today as it was yesterday. Too often these days, that’s not a safe assumption. Municipalities and counties are constantly passing ordinances and rules, and making substantive policy changes with mere statements of intent with no notice. Volumes of law are passed without codification or any way for someone to easily find and read them. Decisions made in good faith that were legal last week might be illegal today and mean the loss of thousands of dollars.

Two bills making their way through the legislature attempt to even the playing field for those of us who find it tough to keep up with new laws that municipalities and counties keep imposing on us. SB 1505 applies to rules made and enforced by municipalities. HB 2827 applies to ordinances that include any enforceable act, practice, policy, or standard by counties. Both require more notice about proposed new ordinances and rules, allowing individuals to review them in full.

The bills make it more difficult for cities and counties to bypass the ordinance and rulemaking process by passing “substantive policy statements” which must be indexed, published, and accessible to the public. SB1505 requires municipal rulemaking to be more open to public scrutiny through notice and posting. HB 2827 does the same for county ordinances. These bills provide Arizona citizens with the basic due process procedures of notice, right to comment, and to a response to those comments for the rules and ordinances that are being enforced against taxpayers.

SB 1505 and HB 2827 do much more but their theme is transparency. They are bills that force government to explain its actions instead of forcing taxpayers to justify and explain actions that were once perfectly legal but made illegal with no notice and no practical ability to find out about changes in law. Both bills are slam-dunks for citizens anxious to avoid running afoul of shifting laws and should be slam-dunks for our lawmakers as well.

Dr. Byron Schlomach is the director of the Goldwater Institute’s Center for Economic Prosperity.

Chicago, 1996. State Senator Alice Palmer (D-Ill.) never saw it coming…

The popular activist, running for re-election (she’d won the previous election with a landslide 82% of the vote), was a sure thing keep her seat.

But on the day after New Year’s 1996, a small army of lawyers filed into the hearing room of the Chicago Board of Elections. In a blink, Alice Palmer’s name had been struck from the ballot.

So, too, were the names of three other candidates on the Democratic primary ballot — all eliminated on the basis of minor “violations,” most of them as picayune as not crossing a “t” or failure to dot an “i.”

When the dust settled only a single name remained on the ballot: Barack Hussein Obama. He “swept” to victory… unopposed.

You can’t say we weren’t warned!

Veteran political journalist David Freddoso has done a very brave, but dangerous thing. As the Alice Palmer affair reveals, bad things happen to people who dare stand in the way of Barack Obama and his Chicago cronies. Indeed, since his election as president, Obama has shown no reluctance to unleash the IRS against his adversaries.

Unlike Ms. Palmer, who never saw it coming, David Freddoso knows full well what “misfortunes” might befall him. But that didn’t stop him from writing the truth, namely — that Barack Obama has brought Chicago-style corruption and strong-arm tactics to Washington in order to ram though his massive, union-benefiting welfare-state agenda.

In Gangster Government, the revelations explode page after page…

• On PAGE 8, what Obama learned from his corrupt political godfather, a man whose entire family is on the government payroll or that of government contractors for whom he does legislative favors and receives large contributions in return.
• On PAGE 11, how Michelle Obama received a job promotion with a 200% pay increase at the University of Chicago Hospital immediately after her husband’s election to the U.S. Senate.
• On PAGE 12, how the newly elected Senator Obama requested a generous $1 million earmark for Michelle’s employer immediately following — guess what? — his wife’s promotion.
• On PAGE 96, how Obama’s trillion-dollar “stimulus” has been used, not to revitalize the economy, but to protect the jobs of government workers, who in turn contribute massive sums to Obama’s re-election campaign.
• On PAGE 43, how Obama cronies warned an investment firm to withdraw its opposition to the Chrysler bailout terms or face the full force of the White House press corps and the destruction of its reputation if it continued to fight.
• On PAGE 193, discover the Obama administration’s secret plan to turn the U.S. government into the world’s largest landlord.
• On PAGE 130, why under Obama’s hush-hush “Labor Plan A” you could return from vacation and find yourself a union member, whether you desire to be one or not.
• On PAGE 161, the real reason why the Obama White House went ballistic and declared open war on the Fox News Channel.

And most important, in Gangster Government you’ll learn why the political thuggery we’ve endured since Obama’s inauguration in 2008 is just a preview of the desperate tactics this failed president and his backers will use to secure four more years of power — years our deeply wounded nation cannot bear.

Gangster Government is a truly astonishing, eye-opening book. That’s why we’ve arranged for you to receive a gift copy just for trying the newspaper conservatives rely on for news and insight they can’t get anywhere else… Human Events.

If you like knowing what others don’t, you’ll devour your gift copy of Gangster Government… as well as each issue of Human Events.

Here’s a brief sampling from recent issues of Human Events…

• The 2012 election is going to be a nasty dogfight. Obama has little choice, given the horrific state of the economy, but to fight dirty — meaning brace yourself for brutal class and generational warfare, exacerbated by ugly charges of racism. Vote against Obama and you’re a racist. That’s what demagogic community-organizing, Marxist-leaning Alinsky disciples do — and Human Events thinks it’s disgraceful.
• Who outrageously demanded that Boeing — a private-sector American company — should be “forced by the government” to close down its non-union plant in South Carolina? Human Events reveals it was Nancy Pelosi who is apparently unaware South Carolina Boeing workers voted OUT of union status two years ago — of their own free will.
• Greece, Italy, Portugal and possibly other European nations are going down the tubes — all because of bloated government debts that cannot be paid. So what does Obama want to do? The “smartest president in U.S. history” wants another massive stimulus, thus adding greatly to our own national debt. It looks to Human Events that he hasn’t learned a thing.
• “Say, let’s allow government employees to work at home in their jammies!” It’s no joke. Human Events reveals Obama and the Democrats rushed through a law permitting increased “telework” for bureaucrats — perhaps the last people on earth who should be permitted to work at home unsupervised. On the bright side, business at gambling and porn web sites should skyrocket
• We’re led by the brainiest administration ever? Their latest brainstorm: If you apply for a job and aren’t hired — see a lawyer. And sue. You’re being discriminated against because you’re unemployed. Trial lawyers think it’s a great idea. Really, you can’t parody the ideas liberals come up with — it’s crazy logic that makes your head spin.

As you can see, Human Events brings you a healthy dose of sanity. Just like you, we take a jaundiced view of much of the “news” foisted upon Americans by sources that, for all intents and purposes, are allied with Obama and his pals.

Human Events does not fear taking on the media heavyweights who, arm and arm with the liberal establishment, are determined to tell you what to think, what to believe, and how to live.

We hit them with the one weapon sure to give them fits — the truth.

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They started in the summer of 2008, before he was even elected president. Then-Senator Obama travelled to Berlin to introduce himself as “a citizen of the world,” and said, “I know my country has not perfected itself…We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.”

Next came the Apology Tour of 2009, when President Obama travelled to France to apologize for our “failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world,” saying “America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.” (It’s hard to know where to begin with that one.)

He told the Turkish Parliament that “the United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history.”

He apologized to Central and South America for the United States having “at times been disengaged and…having sought to dictate on our terms.”

In Cairo, he explained American actions after the Sept. 11 Attacks by saying, “The fear and anger that it provoked was understandable, but in some cases, it led us to act contrary to our ideals,” and said tensions between the U.S. and Muslim world were due in part to “a cold war in which Muslim-majority countries were often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.”

An illegally leaked diplomatic cable from Japan to the U.S. even seems to suggest President Obama wanted to visit Hiroshima to apologize for the atomic bombing during World War II, until Japan nixed the idea.

For all this apologizing the president was rewarded with a Nobel Peace Prize, but his actions weakened the United States diplomatically and made America less secure.

As damaging as President Obama’s compulsion to apologize has been, however, it was not until last week that we saw its true potential to put American lives and military objectives at risk. By apologizing unnecessarily to Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the inadvertent burning by U.S. forces of Korans which had been confiscated from imprisoned extremists, the president made the situation in Afghanistan even worse.

Apparently the prisoners were writing in the books—and the books were inadvertently burned with the military’s trash outside Bagram Air Base, where they were spotted during the incineration process by local Afghans.

The violence that has erupted in Afghanistan in response to this mishap has been completely disproportionate. Riots and protests across the country have resulted in more than 30 people killed and hundreds injured. At least four Americans have died in targeted attacks since the crisis began. In one incident, an Afghan official apparently murdered his counterparts in the U.S. military, inside a base.

Instead of the United States treating this issue as it was—an accident, not reflective of any American policy or attitude—our leaders behaved as though the protests were based on a legitimate grievance. Afghanistan received apologies from “Afghanistan commander Gen. John Allen, the White House, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force and other Pentagon officials,” as Fox News reported.

The United States apologized for this accidental disposal even though the military intentionally burned a significant number of Bibles in 2009 that had been sent unsolicited from an American church, on the fear that “if they did get out, it could be perceived by Afghans that the U.S. government or the U.S. military was trying to convert Muslim.” Clearly there’s no endemic lack of sensitivity in the military leadership.

Yet finally, on Thursday, President Obama apparently could resist no longer. He wrote President Karzai a letter in which he expressed his “deep regret,” offered his “sincere apologies,” and promised to “take appropriate steps to avoid any recurrence, to include holding accountable those responsible.”

Tens of thousands of American men and women are in Afghanistan fighting to maintain security and prop up President Karzai’s government. Thousands of American and coalition troops have died. Four have been killed as a result of the protests. And President Obama is promising to “hold accountable those responsible” for the unintentional burning of a few books prisoners were themselves desecrating to pass messages.

The president’s letter is outrageous, and he first owes an apology to the men and women in uniform for his failure as commander-in-chief to defend their honor. What’s worse, he may have made their jobs even more dangerous. By apologizing he inflamed the sense that Afghans had been wronged and gave anti-American forces there the message that their violent, senseless protests were achieving something. It might come as a surprise to the president, but not all of his apologies win people over. Most of the time, they just make America look weak.

There’s no doubt that President Obama has a lot to apologize for. But before he continues diminishing the United States on the world stage, he should start by apologizing to the American people.

You may have heard of some of these beauties, as most are not new. You may not know, however, the speed with which they are being pushed while Republicans are distracted with the Presidential nomination. Worse, if these treaties do get signed and ratified (which could well happen in a Democrat-controlled Senate), Morris points out they will have the same status as constitutional law and cannot be altered by Congress or trumped by state legislatures. Their provisions must be enforced by U.S. courts. Just what our U.S. courts need – more power!

The first is the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). Already signed, it requires that the U.S. give half of our royalties for off-shore oil and gas drilling to an international body of 160 countries that vote on which countries should get the money. How frightening is this? We have only one vote of the 160, and panting nations of the world are lined up for the spoils. Morris tells us Obama will push for its ratification, with the aid of Senator Richard Lugar (RINO, Ind.), after Lugar’s primary this fall. (That way the little rat can ratify with relative impunity.)

It also mandates us to share our offshore drilling technologies with other countries for free. What do we get in return? Zip.

The second is the International Criminal Court. It is a body set up by the nations of the world with international judges who would have the power to prosecute violators of not only genocide but also the new crime of “aggression.” Aggression is described as going to war without permission of the United Nations. American presidents and Cabinet members could be imprisoned, with Russia and China having veto power over U.S. actions. No wonder George W. Bush wanted to steer clear, but Hillary is barreling ahead. Some of you may think this sounds cool, but give it a little thought.

The third one is the Small Arms Treaty. This is basically a way to enact gun control without going through Congress by means of a global ban on the export of small arms. The ban applies only to private citizens. Consider: It’s the governments of the United States, China, Israel and Russia that are exporting 80 percent of the arms around the world, not the individual Tom and Harry (oh, yea, and ATF on order of the Justice Department). An international treaty that deals with the governments moving arms instead of the individuals involved is goofy.

Now the entire world will know if I have a gun. What’s more, all my ammunition must be registered. Gun grabbers are drooling.

The fourth one is the Rights of the Child Treaty to be run by a 14-member court. It’s an effort to dictate that a code of rights for children is going to be locked into an international covenant. It’s meant to fight child prostitution, kidnapping and trafficking. But it could also impose rules in how to deal with children, where they may be educated, what religious instruction they should receive, or what discipline they should get, says Morris.

We already have the constitution and child protection laws. With the “gentle snowflake” treatment we give our kids, soon we’ll need protection for the parents. (Already my friends aren’t allowed to see the grades of their child in college without his permission!) Hillary wrote that “It Takes a Village.” I guess her sequel will be, “It Takes an International Treaty.”

These are all power grabs by the international bureaucracy at the United Nations. The rest of the world, a vast majority with hatred for us, sees this as a perfect opportunity to cripple Uncle Sam while Obama and Hillary are in charge.

Watch for Morris’ book, “Screwed! How the United States is Getting Screwed and What the Next President Must Do to Stop It,” which debuts on May 8, for even more atrocities from the Obama administration and how our own business and political leaders are pushing for globalism with all its negative economic and environmental consequences. And weep.

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The Times ascribes to the Obama administration a “gold-rush mentality” when Congress expanded green-power incentives in 2009, despite a paralyzing federal deficit. The chief executive of NRG, which received $5.2 billion in federal loan guarantees plus hundreds of millions in other subsidies for solar projects, gushed that “I have never seen anything . . . in my 20 years in the power industry that involved less risk than these projects.”

A start-up industry with no capital risk to investors? It’s a nifty deal if you can get it—and many have. “It is like building a hotel, where you know in advance you are going to have 100 percent room occupancy for 25 years,” the Times quotes the CEO of SolarReserve. Even some of President Obama’s top advisors have warned of industry “double-dipping.”

Solar may be the most-subsidized industry in American history. Not only are producers subsidized at the federal, state, and sometimes even local levels, but consumers are subsidized to purchase solar panels, utility companies are forced to use and further subsidize solar power, and higher utility rates are passed along to Americans amidst deep recession.

Arizona is immersed in solar subsidies, providing tax breaks and (through the Corporation Commission) mandating that 15 percent of all utility energy be provided through specified renewable sources. Cost and technological feasibility are no object, and every dollar in added costs is passed along to consumers through a utility surcharge.

If the New York Times gets it, shouldn’t sensible, self-styled conservative elected officials? It’s time for government to stop playing Santa Claus to this pampered industry.

Clint Bolick is director of the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation.

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