Entries by Dr. Rich Swier

Manatee County, FL Commissioners served with Writ of Mandamus

On January 29, 2014 the Common Law Grand Jury in Manatee County served the Manatee County Commissioners with a Writ of Mandamus. A Writ of Mandamus is defined as: A writ or order that is issued from a court of superior jurisdiction that commands an inferior tribunal, corporation, Municipal Corporation, or individual to perform, or refrain from performing, a […]

Former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates criticizes Obama in his Memoir by Frank De Varona

Former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates criticizes President Barack Obama and members of his administration in a just published memoir called Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War (2014). This is the first book that describes in great detail the Obama administration’s policy deliberations by a person who served in the Cabinet. Gates, a former director […]

Exposed: Florida’s Judicial Star Chamber

I have written about ordinary citizens who have had their liberty and property taken from them. One of the common threads is the inextricable link between the judiciary and lawyers, who in case after case, appear to represent not their client but rather “the system.” Their mission is to protect and defend “the System” rather […]

Senator Rubio on Obama SOTU: “Working alone”, “dictating”, “failing”, “missed opportunity”

Florida Governor Rick Scott issued the following statement on President Obama’s State of the Union address: Governor Scott said, “President Obama has had more memorable speeches. But, in fairness, it’s hard to top ‘if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.’ Unfortunately, what we didn’t hear tonight was how […]

Allen West: His View of the State of the Union

Former Congressman Lt. Col. Allen West talks about his view of the State of the Union. [youtube]http://youtu.be/OBjThGb5SYk[/youtube] Allen West states in an email: Tonight President Obama announced how he plans to solve America’s fiscal crises during the final two years of his presidency. His solutions include: Fixing “income inequality” and creating opportunity, instead of policies […]

Special Report: The Status of the TEA Party Movement

The Institute for Research and Human Rights (IREHR) issued a second special report on the status of the Tea Party movement provides an unvarnished, non-partisan, data-driven analysis of the membership of the national factions as the movement approaches its sixth year. As IREHR noted in Tea Party Nationalism, support for this movement ranges across three broad […]

Gun Control for Dummies – It’s Common Sense

This video gives a further explanation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution in the context of why the Bill of Rights was included along with the establishment of the Federal Government. Please share this with your friends so that they can help educate America. The Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: No Soldier […]

City of Port St. Lucie, FL withdraws from Seven50 Regional Plan

A growing movement consisting of Florida citizens is pushing back against any effort to regionalize Florida under the banner American Coalition 4 Property Rights (AC4PC). This is part of new urbanism promoted across Florida as the Seven50 Plan. The Florida Seven50 Plan includes the counties of Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin, Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe. […]

The Two Faces of Fraud: Teacher gives herself credit for Professional Development course she taught?

In 2012 Miami Norland High School two teachers were caught helping students cheat on an industrial art test. This led to a major IG investigation and district scandal. It would seem Miami-Dade teachers, administrators and district staff would be hypersensitive to any hint of cheating or impropriety. That may not be the case, it appears history […]

For Thirty Pieces of Silver: List of Florida Legislators who Voted to Sell our Children to Common Core

Andrew Nappi from the Tenth Amendment Center writes: We first wrote about the dangers of States running towards federal education money in December of 2010. In 2011 we asked how “conservatives” in Florida state government could embrace SB 736, also known as the Teacher Merit Pay Bill.  The bill was sold to their base voters […]

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) calls Nancy Pelosi “Mind-Numbingly Stupid”

The 2012 video interview on Fox News Greta Van Susteren with Rep. Trey Gowdy is re-circulating on the internet. In the interview Rep. Gowdy questions former Speaker Pelosi’s comments accusing Republicans of using Congressional investigations to suppress the vote. As 2014 is an election year and ongoing Congressional investigations into activities of the IRS, NSA, […]