Sandia Tea Party Presents: Area Municipal Candidate Forum On 2/26/12

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Please plan to attend the first municipal candidate forum sponsored by the Sandia Tea Party.  Candidates from Estancia,Moriarty and Edgewood have been invited to participate.
Thus far, eleven candidates have committed to attend this non-partisan event, and everyone, regardless of party affiliation, will be welcomed.

The forum will last from 2 – 5 PM on February 26 and the venue is the East Mountain Calvary Chapel, located 2.5 miles north of Wal-Mart on State Road 344.  Refreshments will be provided.

Each candidate will be allotted ten minutes to explain their visions and goals.  After all candidates have spoken, a meet and greet of at least forty-five minutes will be held to inform those in attendance of additional information regarding each candidate’s position on matters concerning their individual jurisdictions.

There is no charge for this event and no candidate will be endorsed by the Sandia Tea Party.  Of course, individual Sandia Tea Party members may support any candidate/candidates they wish to endorse.

For a map and additional information please check “Upcoming Events” on the right of the home page

Edgewood Food Pantry & Civitan Clothing Distribution (2/24/12)

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Hillsdale College Offers 10 week Constitution Class

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Begins February 20, 2012!About Constitution 101
“Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution” is a 10-week online course presented by Hillsdale College.
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An expanded format from the “Introduction to the Constitution” lecture series with Hillsdale College President Dr. Larry Arnn, Constitution 101 follows closely the one-semester course required of all Hillsdale College undergraduate students.

In this course, you can:

  • Watch lectures from the same Hillsdale faculty who teach on campus;
  • Study the same readings taught in the College course;
  • Submit questions for weekly Q&A sessions with the faculty;
  • Access a course study guide;
  • Test your knowledge through weekly quizzes; and
  • Upon completion of the course, receive a certificate from Hillsdale College.

You must register in order to participate in Constitution 101. Even if you have already signed up for a previous Hillsdale webcast or seminar, we ask that you complete the simple registration process below for Constitution 101.

There is no cost to register for this course, but we ask that you consider a tax-deductible donation to support our efforts to educate millions of Americans about our nation’s founding documents and principles.

Constitution 101 Schedule
Lectures and other study materials will be released by noon each Monday, according to the schedule below.
  1. Introduction: The American Mind
    Larry P. Arnn – Monday, February 20
  2. The Declaration of Independence
    Thomas G. West – Monday, February 27
  3. The Problem of Majority Tyranny
    David Bobb – Monday, March 5
  4. Separation of Powers: Preventing Tyranny
    Kevin Portteus – Monday, March 12
  1. Separation of Powers: Ensuring Good Government
    Will Morrisey Monday, March 19
  2. Religion, Morality, and Property
    David Bobb – Monday, March 26
  3. Crisis of Constitutional Government
    Will Morrisey – Monday, April 2
  1. Abraham Lincoln and the Constitution
    Kevin Portteus – Monday, April 9
  2. The Progressive Rejection of the Founding
    Ronald J. Pestritto – Monday, April 16
  3. The Recovery of the Constitution
    Larry P. Arnn – Monday, April 23
Approximately 40 minutes in length, these lectures are pre-recorded and available to view at your convenience.
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Victor Davis Hanson Seeks Honesty About Illegal Immigration

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I suspect all conservatives and thinking liberals want the same as Mr. Hanson.  In National Review Online, Mr. Hanson covers the subject thoroughly and respectfully without political correctness gumming up the works.  He begins:

President Barack Obama recently assured El Salvador that the United States would not deport the more than 200,000 Salvadorans residing illegally in the United States. As the election nears, and the president looks to court Hispanic voters, he has also created a new position of “public advocate” for illegal immigrants, whose duties would appear to be advocating that millions circumvent, and not follow, current federal law

The above action by Obama is an insult to those former immigrants, who are now citizens after legally entering the US and  becoming citizens through study, dedication and hard work.  It should be added, action by some illegal aliens and their activist organizations, have at their core, nothing less than a new land taken by force of numbers … perhaps by force of arms if the land cannot be taken by allowing millions of illegal aliens to become citizens through amnesty.

The administration has also said it will focus its enforcement only on those who have committed crimes — with the implicit understanding that it is no longer a crime to illegally enter and reside in the United States. Obama has caricatured those supporting completion of a fence on the border as wanting to place alligators in the Rio Grande.

Citizens of the US should contemplate the fiscal and cultural impact of illegal immigration and amnesty granted when the pressure of the aliens becomes so immoral it causes a breakdown in our economic safety and after it impacts our system of laws to the extent it causes this nation and its citizens to accept a dishonest government which has thrown up its hands in frustration.  Frustration after the wrong method of dealing with illegal aliens through ignorance and a wrong-headed surrender of its basic responsibilities.  Employers of illegal aliens (there are thousands) also should bow their heads in shame for their part in propagating and growing this problem, while ignoring the laws they are supposed to obey.

True, American employers have welcomed in illegal aliens as a source of cheap labor. Employers were happy to pass the ensuing social costs on to taxpayers. To summarily deport those who have resided here for 20 years, obeyed the law, worked hard, stayed off public assistance, and are now willing to pay a fine, demonstrate English proficiency, and pass a citizenship test would be impracticable, callous, and counterproductive.

We ordinary citizens have sat and waited, and waited and waited some more for our so-called leaders in congress and past and present administrations to right this shipwreck and its terrible price.  Of course we wait in vain; either due to lack of commitment or the influence peddling through political contributions from powerful construction, agricultural or manufacturing interests.  Each instance of irresponsibility or lack of commitment slaps justice in the face and cause Lady Liberty to shed a tear of remorse.

The rest of Mr. Hanson’s story continues in the same vein, but with different examples of what our failure to look the immoral aspects of illegal aliens straight in the eye to deal with our nations future and secure justice for this nations citizens.  Please continue to the rest of the story by clicking here … do it for your children and grandchildren.

President Obama’s Budget A Done Deal: Some Say, “NOT BY FAR!”

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Please watch and send on the videos found below:

Sessions Addresses Obama’s Budget on MSNBC

Sessions Addresses Obama’s Budget On Fox

Sessions Addresses Obama’s Budget On Bloomberg

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A Liberal Lady Wants To Know …

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Why courts keep ruling ObamaCare unconstitutional.  Of course some of them have … some have not.  But let us watch the video for the humor; if for no other reason: