Ronald Lynn “Ron” Ramsey

Ronald Lynn "Ron" Ramsey is a patriot.

Ronald Lynn “Ron” Ramsey is a patriot.

Ronald Lynn “Ron” Ramsey is a patriot as the Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee and Speaker of the State Senate.

Ronald Ramsey the Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee has called for Christians to arm themselves after it was revealed the gunman who killed nine students at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon this week asked his victims to state their religion before shooting them in the head.

Ron Ramsey encouraged Christians who are ‘serious about their faith’ to obtain a handgun carry permit for protection.

“The recent spike in mass shootings across the nation is truly troubling,” he wrote on the Facebook post. “Whether the perpetrators are motivated by aggressive secularism, jihadist extremism or racial supremacy, their targets remain the same: Christians and defenders of the West.”

Lt. Governor Ramsey, who included a link with his post detailing how one can apply for a handgun permit in Tennessee, concluded that although it was not the time for ‘widespread panic’, his ‘fellow Christians’ needed to prepare.

Ron Ramsey Lieutenant-Governor-Tennessee

“I have always believed that it is better to have a gun and not need it,” he wrote, “than to need a gun and not have it.”

“Our enemies are armed. We must do likewise.”


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At Oregon’s Umpqua Community College – Nine people were killed and another nine were injured after Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, opened fire in his writing class on Thursday, October 1, 2015.

He eventually shot himself dead after exchanging fire with police, according to authorities.

Witnesses said he made his victims stand-up and say if they were Christian before telling them: ‘Good, you’ll see God in a second’ and shooting them.


Charles Martland

Charles Martland is a patriot.

Charles Martland is a patriot.

Charles Martland is a patriot.

Sergeant 1st Class Charles Martland, is a decorated Green Beret being separated involuntarily from the U.S. Army for kicking and body slamming an Afghan police commander he describes as a brutal child rapist.

Martland is under a gag order imposed by the Pentagon, but at the request of Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif, he wrote a statement detailing his actions on Sept. 6, 2011.

“Kicking me out of the army is morally wrong and the entire country knows it,” Martland writes. Last week the Army rejected his appeal.

Martland and former Captain Daniel Quinn were disciplined by the Army after they beat a powerful local police official who they concluded had been raping a small boy. They say they had been encouraged by higher-ups that there was nothing to do about such horrific acts, that these were Afghan problems for the Afghan authorities to work out.

But the Afghan authorities wouldn’t do anything about it, the two soldiers say.

“Our ALP (Afghan Local Police) were committing atrocities and we were quickly losing the support of the local populace,” Martland writes in his statement. “The severity of the rapes and the lack of action by the Afghan Government caused many of the locals to view our ALP as worse than the Taliban.”

Quinn and Martland were told by a 11 year old Afghan boy and his mother, through an Afghan interpreter, that the boy had been tied to a post at the home of Afghan Local Police commander Abdul Rahman and raped repeatedly for up to two weeks. When his mother tried to stop the attacks, they told the soldiers, Rahman’s brother beat her. Quinn says he verified the story with other ALP commanders from neighboring villages. Then they invited Rahman to the camp.

“After the child rapist laughed it off and referenced that it was only a boy, Captain Quinn picked him up and threw him,” Martland writes. Martland then proceeded to “body slam him multiple times,” kick him in the rib cage, and put his foot on his neck. “I continued to body slam him and throw him for fifty meters until he was outside the camp,” Martland writes. “He was never knocked out, and he ran away from our camp.” The incident lasted no more than five minutes, he says.

Quinn said, “We basically had to make sure that he fully understood that if he ever went near that boy or his mother again, there was going to be hell to pay.”

“While I understand that a military lawyer can say that I was legally wrong, we felt a moral obligation to act,” Martland writes.

Quinn said that they took the action they took because otherwise nothing would be done by the Army or local authorities. “The reason we weren’t able to step in with these local rape cases was we didn’t want to undermine the authority of the local government,” he said. “We were trying to build up the local government. Us acting after the local government fails to can certainly undermine their credibility.”

Nevertheless, the Pentagon and Army now denies the official practice of telling soldiers to look the other way. At the same time the Army has issued a gag order to “avoid any further negative attention” and is worried that the matter might not remain in the Army’s hands.

Put it all together, and it’s now difficult to hold a reasonable level of confidence in the ability of the Pentagon and Army leadership to do the right thing. Especially since they apparently side with an Afghan child rapist over an American soldier, and no longer consider sexual abuse as being completely unacceptable.


Update: April 29, 2016

In a stunning reversal, the U.S. Army decided late Thursday to retain a decorated Green Beret it had planned to kick out after he physically confronted a local Afghan commander accused of raping a boy over the course of many days.

Sgt 1st Class Charles Martland, confirmed the Army’s decision to retain him when reached by Fox News, who has been covering the story in depth for the past eight months and first broke the story of the Army’s decision in August to kick out Martland over the incident, which occurred in northern Afghanistan in 2011.

“I am real thankful for being able to continue to serve,” said Martland when reached on the telephone by Fox News. “I appreciate everything Congressman Duncan Hunter and his Chief of Staff, Joe Kasper did for me.”

As first reported by Fox News, while deployed to Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, Martland and his team leader confronted a local police commander in 2011 accused of raping an Afghan boy and beating his mother. When the man laughed off the incident, they shoved him to the ground.

Martland and his team leader were later removed from the base, and eventually sent home from Afghanistan. The U.S. Army has not confirmed the specifics of Martland’s separation from service citing privacy reasons, but a “memorandum of reprimand” from October 2011 obtained by Fox News makes clear that Martland was criticized by the brass for his intervention after the alleged rape. Asked for comment in September 2015, an Army spokesman reiterated, “the U.S. Army is unable to confirm the specifics of his separation due to the Privacy Act.”

An Army spokesman said Thursday that Martland’s status has been changed, allowing him to stay in the Army in a statement to Fox News.

“In SFC Martland’s case, the Army Board for Correction of Military Records determination modified a portion of one of SFC Martland’s evaluation reports and removed him from the QMP list, which will allow him to remain in the Army,” said Lt. Col. Jerry Pionk.

Martland’s former Special Forces team leader, now out of the Army and living in New York said the Army is a better place with Martland in its ranks.

“This is not just a great victory for SFC Martland and his family- I’m just as happy that he can continue to serve our country and inspire his peers, subordinates and officers to be better soldiers. Charles makes every soldier he comes in contact with better and the Army is undoubtedly a better organization with SFC Martland still in its ranks,” said Martland’s former team leader Danny Quinn when reached by Fox News Thursday.

Quinn is a 2003 graduate of West Point.

“I am thrilled beyond words that my brother is able to continue his career of service to country. The relentless defense of Charles as a soldier and a man of integrity by his friends, family and colleagues sent a clear message that abhorrent decision making made in the interest of self promotion and lacking common sense will not be tolerated. Charles is where he belongs. He is an elite warrior. He belongs on the front lines. Our enemies last vision in this life should be of Martland’s face. They have earned that right,” said Casey a former Special Forces teammate of Martland’s who asked that only his first name be used due to the sensitive of his current work.

The American Center for Law and Justice, who was involved with a writing campaign to save keep Martland in the Army, called the decision a “significant victory.”

“The decision by the Army to retain this hero is long overdue and represents a significant victory for SFC Martland,” said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ. “Justice has been served. The U.S. military has a moral obligation to stop child sexual abuse and exonerate SFC Martland for defending a child from rape. The Army finally took the corrective action needed and this is not only a victory for SFC Martland, but for the American people as well.”

“The Army did the right thing and we won — the American people, won,” said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a Marine veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, in a phone interview with Fox News. “Martland is who we want out there.”

Lawmakers were not the only ones who supported Martland’s case.

One famous Hollywood actor also weighed in.

Harvey Keitel of “Pulp Fiction” and “Reservoir Dogs” fame also asked the Army to reconsider their decision.

Martland grew up south of Boston, in Milton, Mass. An all-state football player in high school, he set his sights on playing college football after graduating in 2001. Martland went for the Florida State University team, which just finished a season ranked fourth in the nation.

He made the team, impressing legendary head coach Bobby Bowden and famed defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews. Still, he often remained on the sidelines.

When Pat Tillman, a former NFL football player who volunteered for the Army Rangers, was killed in Afghanistan in 2004, he saw Tillman’s sacrifice as motivation to apply for another elite program.

Martland dropped out of college and graduated in 2006 from Special Forces Qualification Course, one of the U.S. military’s toughest training programs. Over the years he became a jumpmaster, combat diver and sniper.

After a deployment to Iraq in 2008, he deployed to Afghanistan in January 2010 as part of a 12-man unit. He and his team found themselves fighting large numbers of Taliban militants in volatile Kunduz Province.

In 2014, three years after being sent home from Afghanistan, Martland was runner-up Special Warfare Training Group Instructor of the Year from a pool of 400 senior leaders in Special Forces.


Joyce Lewis Kugle

Joyce Lewis Kugle is a patriot.

Joyce Lewis Kugle is a patriot.

Joyce Lewis Kugle is a patriot.

Joyce Lewis Kugle has resigned as the clerk for East Texas county rather than comply with an unconstitutional U.S. Supreme Court ruling claiming a fabricated right does exist for same-sex couples to marry.

Rusk County Clerk Joyce Lewis-Kugle submitted her resignation letter Thursday, July 9, 2015.

County Judge Joel Hale, Rusk County’s top administrator, said Lewis-Kugle wrote that she could not in good conscience issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

County commissioners are scheduled to vote on her resignation Monday. Hale said he expected it would be accepted.

District Attorney Michael Jimerson said Lewis-Kugle asked about her options and he told her “the Supreme Court is the law of the land.” He said she had a choice of issuing the license or resigning in protest.

Joyce Lewis Kugle is a true patriot, for she bears the burden of hardship in assuring the survival and the success of liberty.


Theodore Scott “Ted” Yoho

Theodore Scott "Ted" Yoho is patriot.

Theodore Scott “Ted” Yoho is a patriot.

Theodore Scott “Ted” Yoho is a patriot.

Theodore Scott “Ted” Yoho is a patriotic United States Representative for Florida’s 3rd congressional district.

As of April 9, 2015, Ted Yoho of the U.S. House of Representatives has made a move that could set off impeachment proceedings against Barack Obama.

Representative Ted Yoho is preparing to introduce a resolution setting forth the House’s definition of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” drawing an unmistakable line in the sand that would directly challenge Obama’s actions.

This is the single most significant action taken by a Republican towards impeachment to date.

The resolution introduces 11 different specific actions that fit the Constitution’s standard of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” and several of them apply directly to Obama.

For example, the resolution lists “failing to take care that the laws be faithfully executed through signing statements or systematic policies of non-enforcement” and “substituting executive agreements for treaties” as two of eleven potential high crimes and misdemeanors the House would be declaring “impeachable,” according to Breitbart.

It further adds the use of military force without congressional authorization, the use of funds in defiance of congressional appropriations, and the defiance of congressional subpoenas during oversight investigations are all impeachable offenses.

Sound familiar?

Obama’s refusal to enforce America’s immigration laws, his threat of bypassing Congress on Iran, his illegal war in Libya, and his consistent defiance of congressional investigations into executive branch scandals like the IRS, Fast and Furious, and Benghazi all fit squarely within Yoho’s 11 criteria for a “high crime.”

Yoho said that the most recurring argument against impeachment by experts was that Obama’s actions are similar to actions of previous presidents. This, he says, is why the resolution is a necessary first-step to impeachment. Once Congress has defined its criteria for “impeachable” offenses, the “Bush did it, too” argument is immediately destroyed.

This resolution was crafted with the assistance of legal experts like Fox News’ Judge Andrew Napolitano and civil liberties attorney Bruce Fein.

Yoho added that he expects that the resolution will cause a liberal “firestorm” and will draw the ire of the race baiters, who will inevitably claim that the only reason the GOP wants to impeach Obama is because he’s black.

But Yoho won’t back down, declaring, “This is strictly about the rule of law.”

He noted that executive amnesty was the final straw. It was a “blatant, in-your-face ‘I’m above the law and I’m going to do what I want. I’m a dictator, I’m a king’” act, Yoho said.

This brave congressman should be commended for his efforts to fulfill his oath to defend the Constitution. Now, his colleagues who claim to love liberty and represent the interests of Americans need to step up to the plate and give this effort their full support.


Michael Shumway “Mike” Lee

Michael Shumway "Mike" Lee is a patriot.

Michael Shumway “Mike” Lee is a patriot.

Michael Shumway “Mike” Lee is a patriot.

Michael Shumway “Mike” Lee is a patriotic American lawyer who is a United States Senator from Utah.

Conservative constitutional expert Senator Mike Lee blasts Congress, Supreme Court justices and the White House for treating the nation’s founding document as a “nuisance” and subverting the document to create essentially illegal programs including Obamacare.

In his new book, “Our Lost Constitution,” Lee details many cases where all three branches have undermined the Constitution, sometimes on purpose and many times out of sheer laziness and stupidity.

“Many Americans probably assume that our lawmakers understand our founding document and are devoted to defending it,” Lee writes. “Unfortunately, that assumption is in many ways incorrect.”

In the book, the Utah senator adds, “The truth is that our Constitution is being subverted by many of the very people who have solemnly sworn to protect it.” Overall, he said Washington treats the document as “a nuisance.”

Lee has been a strong defender of the Constitution in Congress. Lee is a former Utah federal prosecutor who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito before he joined the high court. He is a Tea Party favorite and the first of several GOP upstarts who shocked the establishment by knocking off three-term Republican Sen. Bob Bennett in 2010.

The book offers a rare rebuke of colleagues by a sitting member of the usually clubby Senate.

“Only about 1 percent of the rules we must live by are enacted by the most accountable branch of government — Congress,” writes Lee. He added that the legislative branch routinely “duck and dodges” hard decisions that require an understanding of the Constitution, leaving unelected bureaucrats with the power to decide how laws and regulations are imposed on Americans.

Written as mini-histories, the senator’s book selects several constitutional provisions that he feels have been distorted by lawmakers and then tells the historical origin and intent of each. He notes how a former Klansman hijacked the establishment clause to hurt Catholic schools, and how a chief justice of the Supreme Court labeled the Second Amendment a “fraud.”

The 256-page book is sure to make waves in Washington and has won praise from constitutional scholars such as talk radio’s Mark Levin, Georgetown’s Randy Barnett, Stanford’s Michael McConnell. Lee will make the usual book tour, starting with major media stops in New York followed by book signings.

It could play a role in the building effort to hold a Convention of States to pass constitutional amendments aimed at limiting Washington’s power.

The book details the “dramatic stories behind the most neglected parts of the Constitution, from Alexander Hamilton to Barack Obama.” One example: “The Origination Clause says that all bills to raise taxes must originate in the House. It was gutted in 1892, leading eventually to Obamacare.”