Nationally, the Good and Bad of These Hot August Days

As I have written here before, this is all about power and control in the hands of corrupt people. This scandal, like Benghazi and IRS, continues to evolve and make liars out of the people defending it. At first, DIA Director Clapper lied to Congress when he said that the NSA does not collect any data on Americans. Then, thanks to Snowden, we found out that they are tracking all of our phone calls and emails.

Congressman Amash (R-MI) almost succeeded in passing an amendment that would have required specific individualized warrants in accord with the fourth amendment of the Constitution. The statists tried to claim that his amendment would have defunded the entire program when this was clearly not true. His amendment only applied to one section of the Patriot Act.

Then, last week, the perpetual campaigner said in a speech that he will be proposing reforms to the NSA program and that he would have done this even if Snowden hadn’t tipped us all off. Does he really take us for a bunch of nitwits? The defenders of the spying assure us that the NSA is policing itself, but this week we learned that thousands of people had their private information searched without warrant, supposedly by “mistake” and the NSA did not even report these violations to Congress. So much for Congressional oversight. The people’s elected representatives don’t have a clue what’s going on here. We’re living in a police state!

There was a breath of fresh air this week. Mark Levin released his new book, Liberty Amendments, proposing a plan to have a constitutional convention called by the states for the purpose of amending the constitution in order to secure our liberty. This may be our last chance to preserve the republic from “fundamental transformation” without bloodshed. Pray that it works.

I wish August would go on forever and that Barack Obama, John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Peter King would stay out of Washington forever.