Obama Set To Declare New Limits To Some 2nd Amendment Rights

President Obama plans a January Edict to curtail the sale of guns in the USA.

Local sporting goods stores may be shut down for failing
to acquire new federal licensing. Feds may also deliberately stall
their paperwork or slow-walk them out of business.

You may be able to keep and bear arms, But you may not be able to buy arms like you used to.  In many liberal cities, gun retailers have already been regulated out of existence.  This might be a time to challenge his federal jurisdiction on commerce. The constitution only grants federal oversight of interstate commerce. Retailers rarely sell outside of their state boundaries.

Politico.com reports:

  President Barack Obama’s bid to assert himself in his final year will begin with long-awaited executive actions on gun control, expected to be released next week, shortly after he returns to Washington.
  The White House is putting finishing touches on several measures in an effort to make progress on curbing gun violence, an issue the president and close aides have found frustratingly intractable, before the race to replace him enters prime time.

Oklahomans Chosen To Join Iowa Campaigns

The Ted Cruz Campaign is mobilizing a massive army of dedicated campaign workers from around the nation for a strategic strike force, in Iowa.
  The key political showdown state will hold its presidential caucus on February 1st, and Ted Cruz has a Camp set up for hundreds of energetic and proficient campaign workers to use as a home base.
  Campaign officials secured the empty college dorms of AIB Business College (which will soon be the University of Iowa's Des Moines Campus). The facility will hold hundreds of campaigners who spend multiple days on the stump for Ted Cruz.

Police Step Up Raids On Norman Retailer

Oklahoma's flag has an exotic pipe featured; but is it legal to sell?

  In these times of Oklahoma's economic freefall, state & municipal law enforcement are adding to the crisis.

  For the 2nd time in as many months  they raided a licensed retailer and seized most of his inventory and operating cash.

  Their stated justification is that someone might use his products to get high. The merchant sells pipes of various designs.

Where does it end?

•  The matches and lighters at the town grocer were never raided.
• The copper tubing at the hardware store was not confiscated. 
•   The Demoral at the pharmacy  is still on sale.
•   Craft glue at the hobby shop and gasoline at the station can still be purchased at record low prices...

  But pipes are raided repeatedly, based on their imagery, rather than functionality.

  It's like outlawing an AR-15 rifle, but not the Browning 30-06 (which is far more lethal).

  Then net result is that state budgets keep getting smaller as sale tax collections continue to constrict.

  But law enforcement is now turning even more to Asset Forfeiture to fund themselves for further warfare against Oklahomans.

  Nothing encourages online shopping as much as when a patron fears a police raid on his home, simply because he bought a hookah pipe as a Christmas gift at a local merchant. And nothing shrinks sales tax collections as much as online shopping does. 

Read the story at Red Dirt Report:

Our ISIS Problem Starts In Congress

"Circumventing the Constitution is not being faithful.  It’s being
unfaithful.  It’s breaking an oath.  It’s forsaking a duty." - Jarrin Jackson

The following is an except from a 3-part essay from Jarrin Jackson.

Why the Buck Starts in the House

  The short answer is that the ISIS problem tying our country in knots is because people do not understand war.  What they understand is a political concoction used to resolve conflict in the least disagreeable way.  In other words, war has become an exercise in political correctness.
  The Constitution gives Congress the authority to declare war (Art. 1, Sec. 8).  Yet Congress has not done that since 1942.  Instead, there has been the use of military force started, more or less, by the President, and tolerated, more or less, by the Congress.
The difference between war and the use of military force is more than wordplay.  War requires an enemy be identified.  Using military force does not.  War ends with victory or defeat.  Using military force does not.

Watching For 'White Smoke' From A Texas Ranch

  Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, made an early attempt to unite fellow Christian Leaders to get behind one presidential campaign. On Dec. 7th he arranged a secret meeting, but no consensus was to emerge on that day.

  Since the Dec. 7 meeting, endorsements have been announced by influential figures such as James Dobson, a radio host who founded Focus on the Family; Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage; and Bob Vander Plaats, head of the Iowa Family Leader organization.

December 28th

 Tom Hamburger of the Washington Post says the next gathering will take place a few days after Christmas at a remote ranch in central Texas, where Cruz, his wife and several key financial backers will visit with some of the country’s most prominent evangelical leaders for private conversations and a public rally.

  Some of the 100 or so leaders flying to the ranch owned by conservative billionaire Farris Wilks are still considering other candidates, including Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), who also is maneuvering to be the Trump alternative. But in recent weeks, Cruz has outpaced his rivals in the race to line up religious conservative support.