A couple of excerpts from The Liberty Amendments, written by bestselling author, attorney, president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, talk radio host Mark R. Levin, who worked in the Reagan administration and was chief of staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese.

The book details a plan, a path, some even call the rip-cord, for preserving the government as the founders intended from an over-reaching one as exists today. It was so important, it was put in the Constitution in Article V.

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the delegates to each state’s ratification convention foresaw a time when the Federal government might breach the Constitution’s limits and begin oppressing the people. Agencies such as the IRS and EPA and programs such as Obamacare demonstrate that the Framers’ fear was prescient.

The founders knew that in the event of an over-reaching or out-of-control branch, or branches, of federal government, the states needed a remedy to correct, since the tyrannical branch(s) in question would never allow itself to be corrected. This is what Article V was written for.

Prior to his inauguration, do you remember president-elect Obama saying we were just days away from “fundamentally transforming the United States of America?”

By this, of course, President Barack Obama did not mean a fresh allegiance to the nation’s founding principles and a new respect for the Constitution’s limits on federal authority, but the converse. He is more blatant and aggressive than his twentieth-century predecessors, but faithfully follows the footsteps of the most transgressive among them.

Having delegated broad lawmaking power to executive branch departments and agencies of its own creation, contravening the separation-of-powers doctrine, Congress now watches as the president inflates the congressional delegations even further and proclaims repeatedly the authority to rule by executive fiat in defiance of, or over the top of, the same Congress that sanctioned a domineering executive branch in the first place. Notwithstanding Congress’s delinquency, but because of it, an unquenched President Obama, in a hurry to expedite a societal makeover, has repeatedly admonished Congress that “[i]f [it] won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will!”—that is, if Congress will not genuflect to his demands, and pass laws to his liking, he will act on his own.

And the president has made good on his refrain. On a growing list of matters, he has, in fact, displayed an impressive aptitude for imperial rule. With the help of a phalanx of policy “czars,” from immigration, the environment, and labor law to health care, welfare, and energy, the president has exercised his executive “discretion” to create new law, abrogate existing law, and generally contrive ways to exploit legal ambiguities as a means to his ends. He has also declared the Senate in recess when it was not, thereby bypassing the Senate’s constitutional “advice and consent” role to install several partisans in top federal posts.

What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, healthcare provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.

A convention of the states, per Article V of the Constitution is the antidote for such a tyrannical federal government.

Article V sets forth the two processes for amending the Constitution, the second of which I have emphasized in italics:

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress.

Read Chapter One of The Liberty Amendments below. Courtesy of its author, Mark R. Levin.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/190564901/Liberty-Amendments-Ch-1

Link: Convention of States

Below is an informative info graphic graciously lifted from The Blaze. It explains in great detail what your rights are, should you have a police encounter of the first kind. Rule number one, don’t be a jerk. Be polite. With good knowledge of what your rights are, you can be just as professional as the officer, and maybe stay out of jail. He knows what your rights are. You should too.

Don’t they believe in probable cause in New Mexico? Do they have their own local version of the 4th Amendment? How “clenching” your butt lead to twelve hours of torture and humiliation is beyond belief. Maybe he felt he needed to protect himself from the cop’s “nightstick” and “tighten up?” Whatever it was, I hope this guy sues everyone involved, wins, and doesn’t have to work another day if he doesn’t want to.

Follow the link to the timeline. X-rays didn’t even stop them.

Link: ‘You Could Never Anticipate This Happening in the United States of America’ | Video | TheBlaze.com.

Barack Motors, aka General Motors, has suspended production of the Chevy Volt for six weeks to pare excess inventory. They are using the the downtime to prep the assembly line for building the 2014 Chevrolet Impala starting early next year. Sales for the Volt are down 2.7% YTD. It has shown three consecutive months of decrease compared to LY, ending with the largest decrease in October 2013 of 32% compared to October 2012.

Lesson to learn here is that there is an insufficient market for this product, despite all the good intentions of the Obama administration and the environmentalists. And, that the government can not make a market. The people by their choices makes a market for a product. And this is a product that GM loses money on with every unit it sells.

What’s most amusing is how the greenies report this. For example UPDATE:Plug-In Electric Car Sales For Oct: Volt, Leaf Hold Steady by John Voelcker. His take on the Volt is quite different. You decide whether it is deliberately deceptive or he is mis-informed, when he says . . .

The Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car racked up 2,022 deliveries, which is up 14 percent on September’s number of 1,766. For the 10 months of the year to date, a total of 18,782 Volts has now been delivered–which is 2.7 percent less than last year’s total through October of 19,309.

It “racked up” 2,022 sales. That’s down from October 2012 when it “racked up” 2971 sales. A 32% drop. You’ll also find reporting that supposedly refutes the over-inventory and poor sales performance as contributing to the production suspension. The reason I say “supposedly refutes” the real reason for the suspension is because the slug for the article itself reads to the contrary; http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2012/08/gm-suspends-chevy-volt-production-over-slow-sales/1#.UnSQGRaYcUt Do you see the “over slow sales?”

Suffice it to say, if the Volt was doing well, they wouldn’t be needing subsidies to sell it, they wouldn’t be losing money on every one they sell, and, they wouldn’t be suspending production. And the taxpayers wouldn’t have lost $9.7 Billion on the GM bailout.

Here’s a couple of geniuses.

Link: Does my bum look big in this? ‘It better be… because it’s good for your health

Caroline Biden, the niece of Vice President Joe Biden, in her white sheet outfit (are women allowed in the KKK?), is wheeled into an ambulance after scuffling with police and fighting with her roommate.

Roommate 1, Biden 0.

Link: Whoa! Joe Biden’s Niece Arrested For Reportedly Hitting an NYPD Cop | The Gateway Pundit.

Having grown up on the Jersey shore, Wildwood, I’ve seen boardwalk fires before. So far, the source and cause of the Seaside Park fire has not been identified. Which means, they haven’t ruled out ‘Jewish lightning.’  Also known as arson. Not to be anti-Semitic or anything, that’s just what it’s called there.

Insurance companies know of this ‘weather’ phenomenon, usually prevalent after Labor Day and, after a bad season. The fact that the fire was on the part of the boardwalk that was not rebuilt after hurricane Sandy could be a contributing factor.

The fire may have begun Thursday afternoon at a Kohr’s frozen custard stand on the boardwalk, according to WABC. However, officials were hesitant to speculate a cause for the blaze, or even speak on the record about where it may have started.

The annual State Firemen’s Convention was going on in Wildwood, NJ when the fire broke out, and continues through this weekend.

Link: Firefighters Make Stand Against NJ Boardwalk Blaze

A baby born about three months premature and weighing just 2.85 pounds. Found in the apartment building’s trash can by kids playing, umbilical cord still attached.  Lucky for the boy, he’ll survive. And if the would-have-been mother is found, it will be interesting to see if she’ll be charged with murder and what kind of defense she’ll use? And who, aside from a public defender, would represent that piece of human waste.

I may be all wrong on this. Maybe this was just a self-abortion. You know, mother’s right to choose. No biggie. It was one of those late-term abortions. So the baby survived the birth. The abortion lobby, and President Obama, feel it’s OK to just let the baby die. Only difference? The woman did it herself and didn’t have an abortion clinic’s stainless steel table for it to die on. The garbage bag was all she had.

If that baby doesn’t end up severely retarded and institutionalized for the rest of his life due to what happened to him, imagine the thought of knowing that your “mother” literally put you in the trash to die.

What’s really sad, aside from the act itself, is that this kind moral depravity is not limited to Jersey City. It’s just not often that we hear about it. And, there’s no excuse for it. New Jersey has a Safe Haven law, whereby a newborn can be dropped off at a manned police or fire station, or at a hospital and not be prosecuted.

Link:  Search underway for mother of baby found in trash in Jersey City