A National Park, the Park Service Is Not Sure It Wants...

The Washington Post wrote recently "Hours before President Obama urged members of Congress to show spending restraint Wednesday, the House voted to authorize spending as much as $50 million to create a national historic site in the U.S. Virgin Islands on beachfront land the National Park Service isn't yet sure it wants.

Republicans had blocked the bill last week, saying it was a bad use of money for a government bleeding cash, but Democrats pushed it through this week, saying they didn't want to lose the chance to acquire the land."

The nation is broke.  We are borrowing money from China to pay for daily operating expenses of the government and the Congress votes to spend $50 million on a park…that the Park Service has not indicated it wants. 

Former Border Patrol Agents declared that the Wilderness Bill (S.1689) proposed in Dona Ana County "is a danger to the security of the United States."

After detailing multiple problems that occur in similar border areas in Arizona, the former agents observe that, "Citizens of southern New Mexico should be aware of the consequences of such Congressional action." In other words, the citizens should be made aware that if Congress passes the bill, the United States but especially southern New Mexico will be less safe.

Violence is already spreading across the southern border. The wilderness will provide new corridors of access for drug trafficking and human smuggling.

In their letter to Senator Bingaman, the former border patrol agents write about problems in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and other areas in Arizona where special use land has shown us the problems we can expect under his bill.

By Guest Writter Bill Sumruld

Living Constitutionalists claim that the Constitution implies Congress has the power to do things such as the “bail-outs” and “universal health care,” but actually they are stretching things quite a bit. They do this through the conflation of two different clauses (which they have misinterpreted).

These two clauses are found in Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution. Section 8 begins with a statement about Congress’ taxation power and then strings several clauses below that:

“Congress shall have the power… to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.”

This is commonly referred to as the Commerce Clause.

They conflate the Commerce Clause with the later clause commonly referred to as the Necessary and Proper Clause:

“To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.”

For Immediate Release

 Hopes information will be used to make significant changes to Wilderness Bill

HOBBS, NM – Steve Pearce issued the following statement in response to the field hearing on the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Wilderness Act (S.1689) held today in Las Cruces.