Hello everyone,
I've made a decision.
Rampart Media will be transitioning to a new home on the web. I'm not sure how long this transition will take, but I'll pass the new site on whenever it is up and running.
Updates will be posted here as well as on Twitter, so you can keep in touch with me there.
Thank you,
RM Editor
4-30-12
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Fallen Soldier Sunday
Guardsman Michael Roland- 22. Worthing, Sussex, England
Lt. Christopher E. Mosko- 28. Pittsford, New York
Staff Sgt. Brandon F. Eggleston- 29. Candler, North Carolina
Spc. Jason K. Edens- 22. Franklin, Tennessee.
Sgt. Dick A. Lee Jr.- 31. Orange Park, Florida
Spc.Benjamin H. Neal- 21. Orfordville, Wisconsin
Staff Sgt. Andrew T. Britton-Mihalo- 25. Simi Valley, California
Spc. Moises Jesus Gonzalez- 29. Huntington, California
Spc. Manuel J. Vasquez- 22. West Sacramento, California
Staff Sgt. Joseph H. Fankhauser- 30. Mason, Texas
1st Lt. Jonathan P. Walsh- 28. Kennesaw, Georgia
Pfc. Michael J. Metcalf- 22. Boynton Beach, Florida
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Don C. Viray- 25. Waipahu, Hawaii
Sgt. Dean R. Shaffer- 23. Pekin, Illinois
Sgt. Christopher J. Workman- 33. Boise, Idaho
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Nicholas S. Johnson- 27. San Diego, California
I've made a decision.
Rampart Media will be transitioning to a new home on the web. I'm not sure how long this transition will take, but I'll pass the new site on whenever it is up and running.
Updates will be posted here as well as on Twitter, so you can keep in touch with me there.
Thank you,
RM Editor
4-30-12
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Fallen Soldier Sunday
Guardsman Michael Roland- 22. Worthing, Sussex, England
Lt. Christopher E. Mosko- 28. Pittsford, New York
Staff Sgt. Brandon F. Eggleston- 29. Candler, North Carolina
Spc. Jason K. Edens- 22. Franklin, Tennessee.
Sgt. Dick A. Lee Jr.- 31. Orange Park, Florida
Spc.Benjamin H. Neal- 21. Orfordville, Wisconsin
Staff Sgt. Andrew T. Britton-Mihalo- 25. Simi Valley, California
Spc. Moises Jesus Gonzalez- 29. Huntington, California
Spc. Manuel J. Vasquez- 22. West Sacramento, California
Staff Sgt. Joseph H. Fankhauser- 30. Mason, Texas
1st Lt. Jonathan P. Walsh- 28. Kennesaw, Georgia
Pfc. Michael J. Metcalf- 22. Boynton Beach, Florida
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Don C. Viray- 25. Waipahu, Hawaii
Sgt. Dean R. Shaffer- 23. Pekin, Illinois
Sgt. Christopher J. Workman- 33. Boise, Idaho
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Nicholas S. Johnson- 27. San Diego, California
Friday, April 27, 2012
Story #1
Awwwwwkwaaarrrd
Story #2
Freshman Class President- Wall Street Journal
Story #3
Gov’t $15.6T in Debt Funds 16 Programs to Teach Citizens ‘Financial Literacy’- Terence Jeffrey, CNS News
Story #4
YouTube pulls Armendariz ‘crucify them’ video- Caroline May, Daily Caller
Free Market Wednesday
Tribute to Milton Friedman and the Humble Pencil
Tribute to Milton Friedman and the Humble Pencil
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Story #1
Romney wins RI and CT- Michael O'Brien, MSNBC
Story #2
Social Security Faces Unfunded Liability of $8.6T, or $73,167.83 Per Household- Christopher Goins, CNS News
Story #3
Obama's Army- Andrew Malcolm, Investor's Business Daily
Story #4
If I wanted America to fail......-Free Market America
Monday, April 23, 2012
Story #1
Richard Trumka: Hypocrite- Washington Free Beacon
Story #2
Global Warming Alarmists admits....yeah.....I'm an alarmist- Ian Johnston, MSNBC
Story #3
Who exactly is being deprived of the same “chance” Obama had to get an education?- Legal Insurrection
Fallen Soldier Sunday
April 15th- April 18th
Sapper Connor Ray- 21.Newport, Shropshire, England
Capt. Michael C. Braden- 31. Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Staff Sgt. David Paul Nowaczyk- 32. Dyer, Indiana
Cpl. Aaron M. Faust- 22.Louisville, Kentucky
Sgt. Tanner Stone Higgins- 23. Yantis, Texas
April 15th- April 18th
Sapper Connor Ray- 21.Newport, Shropshire, England
Capt. Michael C. Braden- 31. Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Staff Sgt. David Paul Nowaczyk- 32. Dyer, Indiana
Cpl. Aaron M. Faust- 22.Louisville, Kentucky
Sgt. Tanner Stone Higgins- 23. Yantis, Texas
Weekend Reading
A ban on oil speculation?- Econbrowser
Jim Cooper: Anti-Constitutionalist- Joey Garrison, The City Paper
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Story #1
Obama supporters scammed with "Obama money" debit cards- Michael Berry
Story #2
New Obama plan: Test a job, keep unemployment benefits- Fox News
Story #3
Obama’s mortgage unit is AWOL- Mike Gecan And Arnie Graf, New York Daily News
Story #4
Another Obama Lie Debunked by . . . The New York Times- Steven Hayward, Powerline
Story #5
Happy (Additional) Tax Day- Scott Linicome
Free Market Wednesday
I hearby declare Wednesday "Free Market Day." Each Wednesday, I will feature an article or video promoting the free market.
First up, Milton Friedman on "fairness"
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Story #1
Giving away the game- John Podhoretz, Washington Examiner
Story #2
Appeals court blocks National Labor Relations Board from requiring union posters at work sites- Associated Press, Washington Post
Story #3
Obama Politicizes Trayvon for Latino Audience- Tony Lee, Breitbart.com
Story #4
CNN analyst to Obama administration diplomat?- Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon
Story #5
Illinois Shows What Not to Do- Steven Malagna, City-Journal
Monday, April 16, 2012
Story #1
Buffet Rule Blocked- Reuters
Story #2
Great news: “Too big to fail” banks even bigger now- Ed Morrissey, Hot Air
Story #3
A Civil War Is Breaking Out Within Occupy Wall Street Over Supporting Obama- Buck Sexton, The Blaze
Story #4
Obama Site's 'Compare Your Tax Rate To Romney's' Calculator Won't Compare Obama's Salary- Craig Bannister, CNS News
Story #5
Partying like it's 1996- Taylor Bigler, Daily Caller
Sunday, April 15, 2011
Fallen Soldier Sunday
March 26th- April 14th
Spc.James Evan Dutton- 25. Checotah, Oklahoma
Cpl.Roberto Cazarez- 24. Harbor City, California
Spc.David Wayne Taylor- 20. Dixon, Kentucky
Pfc.Johnathon Frank Davis- 20. Griffin, Georgia
Cpl.Michael J. Palacio- 23. Lake Elsinore, California
Capt.Francis Dee Imlay Jr.- 31. Vacaville, California
Sgt.Joseph D'Augustine- 29. Waldwick, New Jersey
Maj.Christophe Schnetterle- 45. Reyniès, France
Lance Cpl.Michael Foley- 25. Burnley, Lancashire, England
Staff Sgt.William Robert Wilson III- Getzville, New York
Sgt.Luke Taylor- 33. Bournemouth, England
Sgt.Daniel Joseph Brown- 27. Jerome, Idaho
Capt.Aaron Dale Istre- 37. Vinton, Louisiana
Sgt. Maj.Michele Silvestri- 33. Napoli, Italy
Lance Cpl.Abraham Tarwoe- 25. Providence, Rhode Island
Spc. Philip C. S. Schiller- 21. The Colony, Texas
Lance Cpl.Ramon T. Kaipat- 22. Tacoma, Washington
Cpl.Jack Leslie Stanley- 26. Bolton, England
Seaman Trevor J. Stanley- 22. Virginia Beach, Virginia
Spc. Antonio Carlos Burnside- 31. Great Falls, Montana
Cpl. Alex Martinez- 21. Elgin, Illinois2
Capt. Nicholas Jan Rozanski- 36. Dublin, Ohio
Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey James Rieck- 45. Columbus, Ohio
Sgt. 1st Class Shawn Thomas Hannon- 44. Grove City, Ohio
Spc. Jeffrey Lee White Jr.- 21. Catawissa, Missouri
Cpl. Douglas Hughes- 26. Northland, New Zealand
Staff Sgt. Tyler James Smith- 24. Licking, Missouri
Staff Sgt. Christopher Lawrence Brown- 26. Columbus, Ohio
Cpl. Christopher David Bordoni- 21. Ithaca, New York
Fallen Soldier Sunday
March 26th- April 14th
Spc.James Evan Dutton- 25. Checotah, Oklahoma
Cpl.Roberto Cazarez- 24. Harbor City, California
Spc.David Wayne Taylor- 20. Dixon, Kentucky
Pfc.Johnathon Frank Davis- 20. Griffin, Georgia
Cpl.Michael J. Palacio- 23. Lake Elsinore, California
Capt.Francis Dee Imlay Jr.- 31. Vacaville, California
Sgt.Joseph D'Augustine- 29. Waldwick, New Jersey
Maj.Christophe Schnetterle- 45. Reyniès, France
Lance Cpl.Michael Foley- 25. Burnley, Lancashire, England
Staff Sgt.William Robert Wilson III- Getzville, New York
Sgt.Luke Taylor- 33. Bournemouth, England
Sgt.Daniel Joseph Brown- 27. Jerome, Idaho
Capt.Aaron Dale Istre- 37. Vinton, Louisiana
Sgt. Maj.Michele Silvestri- 33. Napoli, Italy
Lance Cpl.Abraham Tarwoe- 25. Providence, Rhode Island
Spc. Philip C. S. Schiller- 21. The Colony, Texas
Lance Cpl.Ramon T. Kaipat- 22. Tacoma, Washington
Cpl.Jack Leslie Stanley- 26. Bolton, England
Seaman Trevor J. Stanley- 22. Virginia Beach, Virginia
Spc. Antonio Carlos Burnside- 31. Great Falls, Montana
Cpl. Alex Martinez- 21. Elgin, Illinois2
Capt. Nicholas Jan Rozanski- 36. Dublin, Ohio
Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey James Rieck- 45. Columbus, Ohio
Sgt. 1st Class Shawn Thomas Hannon- 44. Grove City, Ohio
Spc. Jeffrey Lee White Jr.- 21. Catawissa, Missouri
Cpl. Douglas Hughes- 26. Northland, New Zealand
Staff Sgt. Tyler James Smith- 24. Licking, Missouri
Staff Sgt. Christopher Lawrence Brown- 26. Columbus, Ohio
Cpl. Christopher David Bordoni- 21. Ithaca, New York
Thursday, April 12 and Friday, April 13, 2012
(Well...I didn't get any links up for Thursday. I had a birthday party for a family friend to attend to. Friday is my birthday, so yeah......I won't be posting on Friday lol. Interesting note, I share my birthday with Thomas Jefferson. Since I don't have any famous quotes, I'll leave you with these from TJ.)
John Petrie’s Collection of Thomas Jefferson Quotes
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greatest confidence than an armed man.” (Quoting Cesare Beccaria)
The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
News Feed Wednesday
CNS News
News Feed Wednesday
CNS News
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Story #1
A 1% Spending Cut Is Six Times As Effective as the ‘Buffett Rule’- Jim Geraghty, National Review
Story #2
New Study: Affordable Care Act Worsens the Nation's Already Unsustainable Fiscal Path- Mercatus Center
Story #3
Rick Rolls Over- Breitbart News
Story #4
Obama's War on Women Continues with His War on Jobs- John Ransom, Townhall.com
Story #1
A 1% Spending Cut Is Six Times As Effective as the ‘Buffett Rule’- Jim Geraghty, National Review
Story #2
New Study: Affordable Care Act Worsens the Nation's Already Unsustainable Fiscal Path- Mercatus Center
Story #3
Rick Rolls Over- Breitbart News
Story #4
Obama's War on Women Continues with His War on Jobs- John Ransom, Townhall.com
Monday, April 9, 2012
Story #1
Obama's $1 million Motown pizza party- Carol Cain, CBS
Story #2
It's official: Obama's policies are actually bullcrap- Joel Gerhke, Washington Examiner
Story #3
Don't be duped by the Coop- ATR
Story #4
Revenue with and without the Buffet Rule- Political Math
Story #1
Obama's $1 million Motown pizza party- Carol Cain, CBS
Story #2
It's official: Obama's policies are actually bullcrap- Joel Gerhke, Washington Examiner
Story #3
Don't be duped by the Coop- ATR
Story #4
Revenue with and without the Buffet Rule- Political Math
Weekend Reading
The big March jobs miss — and why the real unemployment rate sure ain’t
8.2%- James Pethokoukis, AEI
Anti gun media desperately distorts Zimmerman case
- Raqeul Okyay, Conservative Women
NBC News Fires Editgate Producer- John Sexton, Breitbart.com
Call Off the Race-Baiters… George Zimmerman Passed Lie Detector Test
Immediately After Shooting- Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit
Friday, April 6, 2012
Story #1
NFP Big Miss: 120K, Expectations 205K, Unemployment 8.2%, "Not In Labor Force" At New All Time High- Zero Hedge
Story #2
Chaffetz: White House blocking access to ‘Fast and Furious’ witness who wants to testify- Michael Volpe, Daily Caller
Story #3
Department of Propaganda- Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon
Story #4
The Real Causes of Income Inequality- Phill Gramm and Steve McMillin, Wall Street Journal
Story #5
U.S. Senator Bob Corker doesn’t say no to vice president spot- Chris Carroll, Times Free Press
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
News Feed Wednesday
(Hopefully by next week, I'll have a different feature for Wednesday.)
CNS News
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Story #1
Appeals court fires back at Obama's comments on health care case- Jan Crawford, CBS News
Story #2
Obama's ignorance revealed in one easy Google search- Wikipedia
Story #3
New York Times Repeats NBC Smear With Selective Edit of Zimmerman 911 Call- Joel B. Pollack, Big Journalism
Story #4
Corporate Taxes Trickle Down- Antony Davies, Mercatus Center
Story #5
Joe Biden must really like the taste of his foot- Nicholas Ballasy, Daily Caller
Story #1
Appeals court fires back at Obama's comments on health care case- Jan Crawford, CBS News
Story #2
Obama's ignorance revealed in one easy Google search- Wikipedia
Story #3
New York Times Repeats NBC Smear With Selective Edit of Zimmerman 911 Call- Joel B. Pollack, Big Journalism
Story #4
Corporate Taxes Trickle Down- Antony Davies, Mercatus Center
Story #5
Joe Biden must really like the taste of his foot- Nicholas Ballasy, Daily Caller
Monday, April 2, 2012
Story #1
Video: Obama Campaign Disables Credit Card Verification, Accepts Donation from ‘Nidal Hasan’- PJ Tatler
Story #2
Sebelius: Youth Violence Leads to Asthma and Obesity- Penny Starr, CNS News
Story #3
Lights out for another solar energy company- Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge
Story #4
Sugar Taxes Are Unfair And Unhealthy- Patrick Basham, CATO
Story #5
Blood drives canceled because of unions- Roxanne Werly, upnorthlive.com
Sunday, April 1, 2012
(Today, I had the priviledge of attending Earl Scruggs' Memorial service at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. What an amazing musician and pioneer of bluegrass music he was. Such an incredible legacy to leave behind.)