"Both parties have equally participated in abandoning the limited role of the federal government," says Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma).

 Coburn new book, The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting Our Economy, argues that Republicans and Democrats together have brought the U.S. to the brink of fiscal calamity.  

First elected to the house in 1994 as part of the "Republican Revolution," Coburn is a staunch fiscal and social conservative, who’s been outspokenly critical of members of his own party for compromising their principles out of political expedience. Coburn has publicly taken former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to task for lacking leadership and resolve during his battles with the Clinton White House to cut spending in the mid-90s.
 
Coburn, who’s known in the senate as "Dr. No" for vetoing almost all new spending initiatives, says the federal budget is rife with "waste, fraud, and duplication." In 2006, Coburn co-sponsored legislation that created USASpending.gov, which makes publicly accessible a list of all recipients of government funds. In 2010, Coburn was instrumental in getting the Government Accountability Office to undertake researching and documenting wasteful government programs.
 
ReasonTV’s Nick Gillespie sat down with Sen. Coburn to discuss wasteful spending, cutting entitlements, the need for free-market health care, and whether he’s losing faith in the government’s ability to enforce values.
 
Click here to go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions of the video.

And for those in Oklahoma that complain Congress is not doing the job we sent them to do … take heart.  Senator Tom Coburn is the exception that proves the rule. 

For his intelligent studious good work, excellent leadership and ongoing fearless presentations to call Congress and the public to foundations of principle and honor – pray daily for Senator Coburn. 

According to newly released evidence from the FBI, there appears to be no racial motivation in George Zimmerman’s killing of Trayvon Martin.

As NBC Miami reports:
The FBI found no racial bias behind George Zimmerman’s shooting of
Miami Gardens teen Trayvon Martin, according to dozens of documents
related to the case released Thursday.

Chris Serino, the lead investigator in the case, told the FBI that while Zimmerman was “overzealous” and had a “little hero complex,” but was not racist. Co-workers, neighbors, and friends of Zimmerman said he did not have any racial bias. Nonetheless, the DOJ investigation into the killing as a hate crime is still open, no doubt in large part to the initial media bias that turned the Trayvon killing into a national story.
 
The documents also show a political motivation at work in the Trayvon arrest. Sanford Police Sgt. Arthur Barns said the black community “would be in an ‘uproar’ if ZIMMERMAN is not charged. The community will be satisfied if an arrest takes place. As for the civil rights investigation, it is determined to be a violation of Trayvon Martin’s civil rights then it will reflect negatively on the Sanford Police Department and fingers will be pointed at them for not doing their job properly.”

Tulsa Today has noticed a significant lack of national media coverage of this FBI report.  However, on news web sites with more independent thinking like www.Breitbart.com where we first found this report, readers are posting comments significant in support for George Zimmerman including links to his defense fund:

George Zimmerman Defense Fund
P.O. Box 622793
Oviedo, FL 32762-2793
For information on the fund click here for www.gzdefensefund.com.

Analysis:  Brietbart.com’s Seton Motley recently noted that on December 21, 2010 the Barack Obama Administration–via its Federal Communications Commission (FCC)– illegally imposed Network Neutrality.

Rejected multiple times by Congress; Net Neutrality allows the
government to regulate every website on the World Wide Web–a tremendous
First Amendment free speech problem.

 Net Neutrality came from the fevered mind of Tim Wu.  Wu is a Columbia law professor.  And the former chair of Free Press–the absurdest of all the pro-Net Neutrality Media Marxist groups.  On February 4, 2011 Wu became senior advisor to the (Obama Administration’s) Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for consumer protection and competition issues that affect the Internet and mobile markets.  Wu wants the government to know where we go via GPS, what we write on word processing software and who we Friend on Facebook.

 
When you turn to Google with a question, the search engine must decide, at that moment, what “answers” to give, and in what order to put those answers. If such answers are speech then any government efforts to regulate Google must be examined as censorship….
 
But if we call computerized decisions “speech,” the judiciary must consider these laws as potential censorship, making the First Amendment, for these companies, a formidable anti-regulatory tool.

Wu is absurdly asserting that what you type in the “Search” field is protected speech–but the results you get are not.  The “Search” results being, of course, a dead giveaway as to what you typed in the “Search” field. 

Do you want the government having blanket access to where you go, what you write and for what you search–just because you did any of it on a computer?  Wu does.
 
Click here for more from www.Breitbart.com. 

From Canada Free Press:  Marcia and I sat this evening in the garden of an Indian Restaurant in the Escazu section of San Jose eating Tandoori chicken and listening to the sound of fireworks coming from the American Ambassador’s residence two blocks away. But not all the 4th of July fireworks were in the Ambassador’s garden. They were all over the capital city of Costa Rica, because Costa Ricans are very much pro-American.

As we ate I could not help thinking of my own first July 4th in the United States. I was not yet a citizen, but I was visiting from just over the river where I lived at the time in Canada. It was not easy for me to become a citizen back then. 

I was British, but I had always wanted to be an American. There was a very stringent test for immigrants back then. You had to really want to be an American and be prepared to learn what it meant to be an American. And then you were expected to stand up for the principals that made America great.

You didn’t just walk in and start demanding that Americans pay your bills, educate your children and pay for you to go into hospitals for free medical care, and be treated like royalty.

There was a quota system when I applied to come to the United States and it took a few years for me to get to front of the line. I remember that I was grilled by the Immigration Officers and made to prove that I understood and agreed with the form of government that the United States enjoyed.

Today it seems that it is a Federal Crime to be what was then considered a loyal citizen. How on earth did all that come about?

The first settlers in the “New World” came to escape persecution in Europe, mostly England. They founded a Nation based on Liberty and Equality, where they did not have to fear the King. They were united in their determination to live free of big government and overbearing dishonest rulers. They chose honest citizens to represent them in making laws that were fair and just. And most of them were happy to abide by those laws for the good of all. But one of the most important foundations of that Nation was a belief in Almighty God and in His laws as presented in the Bible.

Now, more than two centuries have passed and I wonder what the founding fathers would have thought of their United States today. No, honestly I do not wonder. I know what they would have thought of that strutting Kenyan peacock who has usurped the authority of “We the People.” I know what they would have thought of a Supreme Court that flaunts the Constitution and rules in favor of the enemies of righteousness and against God. I know what they would have thought of the self serving politicians who will do anything to get votes in order to keep their positions for life. I know what they would have thought of the Police who break down doors of innocent people in the middle of the night and the Prosecutors who ignore truth and justice to make a name for themselves that will eventually get them into high political positions.

What would the Founding fathers have done if they could have looked into the future and seen the sick and self hating society that they fathered all those years ago?

Click here for more from Canada Free Press.

Convoy of Hope’s Disaster Response Team is conducting relief efforts to aid survivors of recent devastating wildfires in Colorado and damaging floods in Minnesota.  A tractor-trailer load of product arrived at Timberline Church in Fort Collins, Colo., containing gloves, shovels, contractor grade trash bags, energy drinks and water. The items are being distributed to firefighters, volunteers and survivors who are facing the worst fire season in Colorado history.

“In addition to distributing supplies, we delivered a load of ice from Denver to some of the areas affected,” says Jeff Nene, public relations director for Convoy of Hope. “Our assessment team has also been on the ground in Boulder and the Colorado Springs area to determine if we can be of help there.”

In Cloquet, Minn., where the St. Louis and Cloquet rivers have overflowed their banks and caused damaging floods, Convoy of Hope is working with Good Hope Church to help residents clean up.

“We’ll continue to monitor the situations in Colorado and Minnesota in the coming days and respond accordingly,” says Karen Benson, global disaster response director for Convoy of Hope.