Last month I saved an article by George Will in the Washington Post. In his article, he makes reference to and quotes from a presentation by Christopher DeMuth (a Fellow of the Hudson Institute) at George Mason University. DeMuth was explaining the perverse effects of progressivism. Paraphrasing DeMuth, Will wrote: Government power is increasingly concentrated in Washington, Washington power is increasingly concentrated in the executive branch, and executive-branch power is increasingly concentrated in agencies that are unconstrained by legislative control. Debt and regulation are, DeMuth discerns, “political kin”: Both are legitimate government functions, but both are now perverted to evade democratic [...]
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Obama Admits He Is Not Big On Ethics
While scanning the stories a BadBlue this morning, I found this quote at Weasel Zippers. (CNSNews.com) — President Barack Obama told an audience of high school students in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday that he was “not always the very best student” and that ethics “would not have made it on the list” of his favorite subjects. “I was not always the very best student that I could be when I was in high school, and certainly not when I was in middle school,” Obama said, speaking at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School. “I did not love every class I took. I wasn’t always paying [...]
Are you Personally (but Inadvertently) raising a Liberal?
In a recent article on RealClearPolitics called The University Utopia, Robert Tracinski, former securities analyst for Morningstar and now the publisher of The Tracinski Letter, tackled a very important question- Why do the young vote for dependency—when the essence of youth is a quest for independence? …So take a look at the college experience, particularly for a liberal arts major, from this perspective. You study topics in which the answers are subjective, no one is too concerned about whether it has any practical application or economic value, and everyone is pretty much expected to repeat the conventional wisdom. You express [...]
Producers vs. Non-producers
There are many trends in the economy of the United States and the rest of the developed economies that are very disturbing. Yesterday we talked about the increasing number of people on food stamps and that governments are encouraging more people to participate in the food stamp program. Since the financial collapse in 2008, there have been countless articles written on the increasing income gap; i.e., the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. During the last presidential campaign season we were reminded countless times that the highest 10% wage earners pay 60% or more of the federal income [...]
President Obama: A Soldier On A Mission and Supported By Potemkin Villages
s Barack Obama inept? Is he too small for the job he holds? Is Obama an amateur as Bill Clinton once said during the 2008 primaries? Is he a nice guy who is in over his head as Mitt Romney often said? Barack Obama is none of those things. He is not a great intellect; that is for sure. What he is an ideologue. What he is a well trained soldier on mission. He has never hidden what his mission is. His mission is to fundamentally transform America. He is not and has never been interested in governing this once [...]
Savers vs Spenders
…”full blown escalation in the status quo’s war against savers everywhere…” This line from a recent story by Zero Hedge stuck out at me as perhaps a shifting the paradigm of how we should be looking at what is happening in our world. Perhaps rather than our nation being in a battle between those who desire liberty and rights and those who desire control and tyranny, instead the battle is being fought between those who save and increase the wealth of society and those who spend and decrease the wealth of society. It’s a battle between those who make a [...]
Who are the Parents, and who are the Children?
I’m certain that I’m not the only person that has noticed that the liberals tend to act like petulant children when they “don’t get their way.” One has to look no further than the recent happenings in the Wisconsin State Legislature to see how far we have fallen. So what’s going on? Why has does the left descend into tantrums when reality intervenes and ruins their plans? Why do they deny others the right to speak by shouting them down? Why do so many adults abandon reason and self-control when life throws a wrench into their works? What happened to [...]
Your Public Servants Are Robbing You Blind
When I graduated from college in the sixties, the only graduates that went to work for government (local, state, or federal) were those who couldn’t find a real job. The pay for bureaucrats was low, however, there was job security (nobody was ever fired) and the benefits were good , including retirement. Pay increases were almost automatic and merit was not a factor. They were pencil pushers or file clerks who put in their time and didn’t make waves. Taxpayers would grumble and complain about the inefficient or poor service they received from their public servants; but what more could [...]
Mark Levin wants John Boehner and the Republican Leadership Removed M
Most of you know I’m no fan of John Boehner. It was an epic failure by the House Republicans when they voted him back in as Speaker this past January. The Republicans once again let an opportunity get away from them to turn this thing around and make a difference. Today I was listening to Sean Hannity on the radio and he was interviewing John Boehner. Nothing Boehner said inspired or gave me hope as a conservative. He is the poster child for the establishment and as long as he remains as Speaker of the House conservatism will suffer. Today [...]
What if the Economy is Much Worse Than We are Being Told?
John Williams, among other things, produces an electronic newsletter called Shadow Government Statistics. Less you think Mr. Williams is some king of right-wing blogger, I suggest you click on the link and read some of his bio. He is a professional economist who has consulted to the private sector for over thirty years. I have reproduced his graphs on unemployment and inflation various times in the past. Take a look: One of the things Mr. Williams likes to do is to apply Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to government accounting in the same way corporations must do their accounting. In [...]
The Obama Administration’s Love Affair With Islam
The words “Muslim” and Islamist” have long been purged from any and all government anti-terrorist training manuals. Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old U.S. Army major murdered 13 soldiers at Fort Hood while yelling ”Allah Akbar” and his act was declared a “work place incident”. Suleiman Abu Ghaith, the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden was located the other day in Jordan. He was not introduced to a drone missile, he was not captured and taken to Guantanamo for interrogation; but, he was captured and taken to New York to stand trial in civilian court where he will be on stage and in [...]
Battle Lines Drawn
Mr. Paul’s filibuster was a big deal for reasons other than the obvious. Sure, it’s great that he forced the Attorney General to admit that what they had previously condoned was actually illegal. It’s excellent that he got some face time for a very important issue that otherwise wouldn’t have been talked about. I’m happy that it has garnered support from the left and the right (that’s the first bit of bipartisanship I’ve seen in ages). Still, that’s not what is most important to me. What has me excited is that two GOP senators, who were eating with the President at the [...]
The Psychology of Gun Control
Last week, I saw a picture that shows the psychology of gun control perfectly. Here’s the pic… The real psychology of gun control is far more subtle than the public debate would imply. It is also far more powerful. The state always wants order, and power. While order is desirable, the state’s means of enforcing it is shown by the man with the whip. It is based on fear, threats, and injustice. It is not just, it is violence. As for the people? Most of them bowed. But when one stood up, others were emboldened to stand as well, [...]
Obamacare and National Debt Screw Over Obama’s Biggest Supporters
Even though I am a teacher and daily spend my time around youth, I simply don’t understand their voting choices. Last election, according to exit poll samples of people 29 and under voted for Barack Obama by a margin of 60% to 36%. And youth voters made up 19 percent of all those who voted, according to the early National Exit Poll conducted by Edison Research, which is higher than normal. This sort of large and decisive turnout of the youth for President Obama is surprising to me because his policies are destroying their future. As evidence, let’s look at [...]
Congressional Testimony Reveals Obama Lazy, Dishonest, Incompetent
It is important to not forget that when our nation faced a crisis on September 11, 2012, that the President of the United States did not discharge his duties to his greatest abilities and as a direct result of that several Americans died, including an Ambassador who was murdered on American territory. Of course I am referring to the attack on our country in Benghazi last year, where more details are coming to light after the Presidential election. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimony was fairly useless- she used the opportunity to testify in front of our elected officials about [...]
Reader’s Digest Parent Files for Bankruptcy
An iconic American publication, Reader’s Digest, is bankrupt. RDA Holding Co., publisher of the 91-year-old Reader’s Digest magazine, filed for bankruptcy to cut $465 million in debt and focus on North American operations as consumers shift from print to electronic media. The company is the latest in a line of iconic businesses to have recently sought court protection from creditors, after Hostess Brands Inc., maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, and Eastman Kodak Co., inventor of Kodachrome and the Instamatic camera. Reader’s Digest, founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace, went public in 1990. An investor group led by private-equity firm [...]
The State of the Union? It Sucks!
Nancy Pelosi recently said “It is almost a false argument to say that we have a spending problem.” She went on to say that what we have is a deficit problem. Conservatives have given Ms. Pelosi a lot of flack over her statement and maybe we have been too hard on the less than brilliant Congressman from San Francisco. After all she did use a qualifier; “almost”, which can mean “not quite”. And, she was spot on when she said the US has a deficit problem. Who could argue with that? By saying that we have a deficit problem instead [...]
What Recovery? Part III: Freedom and Innovation to the Rescue?
In Part I of this “What Recovery?” series, we examined the concept of the velocity of money and how it has been declining for over two decades, which explains why most Americans are not experiencing the economic recovery that technically began in 2009. Then, in Part II, we saw how systemically high unemployment is a factor of US companies having to compete with the lower costs in emerging nations and how our Nanny Government’s fiscal policies make the situation even worse. Today, we are going to see what well-known libertarian writer, Gary North, thinks. He sees all of what we [...]
How the World Continues
Too often it is the case that we focus on what is wrong with the world rather than what is right. That truth spans through various positions of criticism be it politics, economics, or faith. On the latter, I have often heard scoffers of faith (specifically Christianity) speak of the ill that Christianity has brought the world as a way of demeaning the religion. I must reject this notion. I cannot deny that evil men have taken the banner of Christianity and have done terrible things with its power, but Christianity has harmed no one. It cannot. The purpose of [...]
States out of scale: It’s time to break up the 10 State Oligopoly
Last week I wrote an article about an America that is currently out of scale. How the Apportionment Act of 1929 which caps the House of Representative at 435 members is diluting our representative republic. The ratio of Representatives and those who they represent is way out of scale creating an unmanageable environment on the national level. When your voice is 1 out of 710,000 do you really feel represented? What if your opinion or ideology is in the minority in your state or district? Is the answer moving to another district or state where your opinion or ideology is [...]
How Republicans Can Win: Some Thoughts
Via Powerlineblog comes this excerpt from David Horowitz’s pamphlet “Go For the Heart: How Republicans Can Win”, which gives some good advice to those who would advance the protection of life, liberty, and property because out of the two parties only the Republican Party right now contains a sizable portion of people that are fighting for these values. From the pamphlet: …After voters re-elected an administration that added five trillion dollars to the nation’s debt, left 23 million Americans unemployed, surrendered Iraq to America’s enemy Iran, and enabled the Muslim Brotherhood to gain control of the largest country in the [...]
America out of scale: Rethinking the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929
Eventually over time nations grow out of scale. The manageable becomes unmanageable because as the population and size of a nation grows so do its problems. Our founders believed that government at its best was an imperfect beast administered by flawed bureaucrats seeking power and control. They felt that in order to keep government in check it should be as close to the people as possible. This is why many of our founding fathers feared an all-powerful federal government with its seat at a national capital far from the people. They knew it would be more detached from the people [...]
What Recovery? Part III: Freedom and Innovation to the Rescue?
In Part I of this “What Recovery?” series, we examined the concept of the velocity of money and how it has been declining for over two decades, which explains why most Americans are not experiencing the economic recovery that technically began in 2009. Then, in Part II, we saw how systemically high unemployment is a factor of US companies having to compete with the lower costs in emerging nations and how our Nanny Government’s fiscal policies make the situation even worse. Today, we are going to see what well-known libertarian writer, Gary North, thinks. He sees all of what we [...]
Benjamin Franklin: On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1766
Here is a letter, penned by Benjamin Franklin, regarding the price of corn, and the treatment of the poor. It is republished, in full, from The Federalist Papers. I do not believe that there is an established ownership for Franklin’s papers and letters, so I do not believe that I am violating anyone’s copyright. To Messieurs the PUBLIC and CO. I am one of that class of people that feeds you all, and at present is abus’d by you all; — in short I am a Farmer. By your News-papers we are told, that God had sent a very short [...]
Mali: What We Are Not Being Told, Matters
Recently, your host at Asylum Watch, was introduced to a new conservative blog by his friend Maggie , of the well-known, Maggie’s Notebook. The new blog is called Ooobie on Everything and it is truly an excellent blog. The author, whose name is not Ooobie, brings a special insight to conservative blogging. She graduated from Georgetown University in 1977 with a major in Russian language and a minor in Soviet politics. She worked 21 years in the US foreign Service, during which time, she was on the Nicaraguan Desk during Iran-Contra, she was in Kosovo just before NATO decided it [...]
Drone Strike Takes Out C3PO!
Protocol Droid C3PO was killed in a drone strike in the mountains of Afghanistan yesterday, a Department of Defense spokesman has revealed. C3PO, who was traveling as a good-will ambassador was taken out just before dawn during a prescheduled drone attack. “We had good intel that a high value target was at this location, so we got the President’s approval” said Lt. General Curtis M. Scaparrotti, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. C3PO’s death was confirmed through software and hardware analysis of the corpse. As to why C3PO was targeted, despite his official cover as a goodwill ambassador [...]
Man is Born Free, and Everywhere He is in Chains… Let’s Break the Chains and Be Great Again
As I sat at a local government meeting recently, I was struck by how amazing people are and therefore why it is so wrong for other people to make decisions for them regarding their lives or property. Man (and woman) are amazing creatures- when free. “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains,” or so said Jean-Jacques Rousseau, but I think I might modify this statement to say “Man is born free and is amazing, but everywhere he has been chained by government.” Too many people believe that the goal of government is to make people better- but [...]
Battle Ready Betty
In the latest bit of reality-bending psychopathy imposed by Barack Obama and the socialists of the Jackass Party, the ban upon sending women into direct combat has been lifted. The braying donkeys who claim for the public good the right to confiscate your salt, your sugar, your firearms, and your fossil fuels will now, in order to ensure a ‘fairness’ that never has and never will exist, send your wives and daughters into hell – one which, of course, most of them managed to successfully avoid: [...] Combat is no place for a woman. Every grunt knows that. So do [...]
School Shootings Will Increase as Schools Increase Assault on the Spirit of Man?
On Thursday, May 27, 1999, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee. In the light of the latest school shootings, I think that it is important to reflect on a portion of his testimony: …The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field. The villain was not the club he used. Neither was it the NCA, the National Club Association. The true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could [...]
Liberty Needs More Doers and Fewer Watchers
My father always told me there are two types of people in this world; doers and watchers. Even the revolutionary war had its share of doers and watchers. The doers were the Patriots and Tories. These people encompassed colonists who kicked in by fighting either for independence or for the King. Some of the most brutal and bloodiest battles of the war were fought between Patriots and Tories. They made up roughly 2/3 of the colonial population. The final 1/3 was made up people who either didn’t care which side won or who desired independence but really didn’t want to [...]
America In the Eyes of Others: America In Decline
Since 2002, Pew Research has carried an opinion survey they call their Global Attitudes Project, where by, they interviewed people in twenty countries about their opinions on a number of questions having to do with America. On a few questions, Americans were also surveyed. The results for 2012 have just been published and I thought it might interesting to share and comment on some of the results. I was surprised by some of the results and disturbed by others. Below is a list of the questions asked. You can click on any question to see the complete results, but first [...]
How Stupid Is The American Electorate? Would Americans Vote For A Socialist State If Given The Chance?
How Stupid Is The American Electorate? Let’s start with this Dictionary.Com definition of intelligence: in·tel·li·gence noun 1. capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc. Now I want you to rate the intelligence of the American electorate on a scale of 1 to 10. But, before you do that please consider this opinion poll I found at Hot Air on what Americans think of Congress compared to other things. When asked if they have a higher opinion of either Congress or a series of unpleasant or disliked things, voters said they had a higher opinion of root canals (32 for Congress and 56 for the dental procedure), [...]
No more playing nice in the defense of liberty and freedom
Unlike most conservatives and tea party patriots, I liked the tax deal- because I thought it was a good first step. Now that tax rates for some of us have been permanently frozen at the lower rate, our elected leaders can go about working to get the tax rates for the rest back to the lower level that they were at for a decade, and lower them for the everyone else. Now is the time to keep fighting to lower taxes and push for everyone- poor and rich, liberal and conservative, black and white, man and women- to have lower [...]
The Progressive Message Is Marketable-The Conservative Message Is Not
Scott Pinsker is a marketing and publicity expert. He has written a two-part article for Fox News, in which he analyses the 2012 election results from a marketing point of view and explains why the Democrats won and the Republicans lost. In Part 1, Pinsker explains the difference in the two parties today. He calls the Democrats the Plaintiff Party and the Republicans the Ideology Party. Let´s see what he means. Democratic Party The Democratic Party is a “plaintiff party,” where various constituencies lobby to wield government power. As the lone plaintiff party, Democrats attract voters who (rightly) recognize that [...]
Not-So-Trivial Pursuit
“The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look.” — P.J. O’Rourke “These days, there are few few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degenerating USA …” — Pravda (Americans, Never Give Up Your Guns) Collectively, the modern American electorate may not be the dumbest group ever assembled, but they’ll do until the real idiots show up. After all, what other drove of dimwits would hand a flame thrower to a pyromaniac then wonder why the house is suddenly ablaze? What other swarm of simpletons would engage a lifelong highwayman to safeguard [...]
USA R.I.P. Was it Suicide, Murder or Stupidity?
Well, the United States of America isn’t dead yet, but she seems to be getting weaker by the day. If she does die, it will not be due to natural causes. Nations don’t die from natural causes. They either commit suicide or they are murdered. America is gravely injured. Are they self-inflicted wounds or is someone trying to kill her? Suicide is a conscious act, where as murder can be either intentional or unintentional. So, which is the case for our beloved America? Some days I am convinced she is committing suicide by way of death of a thousand self-inflicted [...]
Big Fish Eat Little Fish: What Happens When There Are No More Little Fish?
Then the big fish turn on each other until there are no fish. That would seem to be the logical end, don’t you think? Not exactly favorable to one’s self-preservation, is it? It seems to this humble observer that this is what big governments do. They keep eating more and more of the food supply (the economy) until there is not enough left to support them. Are big corporations playing the same stupid game? Maybe that is what Kim Strassel is suggesting in this Wall Street Journal article. …a growing collection of CEOs and big-business lobbies have fallen in line [...]
The Self Fullfilling Prophesy of Zero Leadership
Does hysteria breed hysteria? I think that is the message of Professor Larry Kotlikoff;s article at VOX. Imagine that you are an employer. Every day you hear, “the economy’s going over a fiscal cliff. Tax hikes and spending cuts totalling $600 billion will kill the economy”. Everyone is saying it – the politicians, the media, the economists, the Fed, the CBO, the IMF. So it must be true. Sure, the Republicans and Democrats may make a deal and save the day. But these guys never agree and, meanwhile, economic doomsday – January 1st – is just weeks away. What do [...]
President Obama and Mob Rule
In the latter days of the Roman Empire it was mob rule that guided Rome to its eventual demise. Emperors remained in power for as long as the mob was entertained and distracted. Emperors recognized the power of the mob and used it to increase their popularity and gain support for radical reforms and much like the Roman Emperors of old who used the mobs to advance their agenda today very little has changed. America stands on the edge of a fiscal cliff. There is gridlock in Washington and both sides appear to be unwilling to compromise. Where is President [...]
Taking America Back One Bit At A Time Part 6: The Process of Taking America Back
Earlier posts in this series can be found here: Part 1, Introduction, Part 2, The Founding, Part 3, The Taking, Part 4, The Taking continued, and Part 5, Looking Beyond December 2012. {NOTE: This is the last post in this series and it is long.} The Process of Taking America Back In Part 5, we speculated about the future. We divided the future into three parts: 1.) from December 2012 until the debt time bomb goes off, 2.) the period of chaos after the debt bomb goes off, and 3.) after the chaos. We will want to keep those three parts [...]
Unions Brought Right-to-Work on Themselves and Now Should Reap What They Have Sown?
While on the executive board of my local union, as the lone conservative voice I recommended from the very start against supporting Proposal 2, but no one listened to me and now the unions are reaping what they have sown. On several occasions I argued in my local union executive meetings and in our representation council meetings and I distinctly remember a heated discussion that I had with the Michigan Education Association President at a picnic, and in each case I strongly recommended that pushing for Proposal 2 was a bad idea for several reasons. One, that if the effort [...]
Taking America Back One Bit At A Time: Part 5, Looking Beyond December 2012
Earlier posts in this series can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, ans Part 4. Looking Beyond December 2012 In Part 4, The Taking of America continued, we arrived at the current point in time, December 2012. The movement to convert America into a socialist state has, after 100 years, nearly completed their mission. Barak Obama was elected in 2008 after the financial crisis. In four years his administration added $5 trillion to our national debt, which now stands at over $16 trillion and growing. In 2009, President Obama asked for and got an $800 billion stimulus [...]
Taking America Back One Bit At A Time – Part 3: The Taking Of America
P art 1 of this series on Taking America Back One Bit At A Time can be found here and Part 2 can be found here. The Taking of America In Part 2, The Making of America, we left off with the delegates to the Convention producing their constitution for America and the warning from Ben Franklin that we were given a republic, if we could keep it. But, the job of constituting this new nation, The Republic of the United States of America, was not yet done. It was now necessary to get the states to ratify the new constitution. This effort would produce the [...]
Taking America Back One Bit At A Time Part 1: Introduction
On November 26, 2012, I wrote a post titled Is It Time For Conservatives to Start Thinking Long Term? Support from my readers was less than I had hoped it would be. As part of that post, an article by Andrew Klavan was linked and I asked that readers review and share their opinions on Klavan’s long view plan for taking back America. Klavan addressed three areas of gradual attack: bringing balance back to news media, bringing balance back to the entertainment industry, and bringing our Judeo-Christian God back into our culture. All lofty goals to be sure. For my part, I wrote [...]
Fighting Words
Despite what some of my less than tolerant liberal acquaintances may believe, my military experience does not date back to the era of hardtack and beans — soldiers in the field in my day supped on such culinary catastrophes as ham and chopped eggs delivered in an olive-drab tin can laboriously broached (especially when the icy January winds that regularly blast through the Fulda Gap have demobilized your every digit) by the ubiquitous P-38 (OPENER, CAN, HAND, FOLDING, TYPE I). The quality of these antique military victuals may be adduced by the fact that everyone’s favorite item in a case of C-rations was generally the [...]
Is It Time For Conservatives To Start Thinking Long Term?
In the world of business, especially in the corporate world, they make use of short-term, mid-term, and long-term planning. Typically this begins at the department head level. Someone(s) further up the chain then consolidates these plans into plans for the division and those plans will be consolidated to produce short, mid, and long.term plans for the corporation. Short-term might mean one year, mid-term might mean three years, and long-term might mean ten.years, just as an example. The short-term plans are typically the basis for annual budgets. Mid-term plans alert management to many things they need to be doing in the [...]
Restoring Liberty Should be Our Number One Priority
During the recent election most people listed the economy as their number one concern and that it should be a top priority for the next administration. The reason people prioritize the economy as their main concern is because they can feel it. Like the nauseating smell of cigarettes smoke, people feel the negative effects of a faltering economy. It has an immediate and direct impact on their lives and impedes their ability to pursue happiness because there is little to no opportunity. So it’s a natural thing for people to desire stronger economic conditions because it creates an opportunity rich [...]
Money For Nothing
“The common denominator to all of history is that all governments almost universally act irresponsibly to debase their currency.” — Robert T. Lutts “The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.” — Alan Greenspan Ah, the coin of the Realm … t’was a time when our specie was fashioned of precious metals — silver, gold even — back before America’s elected larcenists decided to mint money from materials with the same intrinsic worth as a Tijuana bus token. Debasing the currency, [...]
It’s time to do the right thing…Fire John Boehner?
For the last couple of days I’ve been observing the Benghazi hearings and the negotiations going on with John Boehner and Democratic leaders to prevent us from going off a fiscal cliff. It appears the left cares more about politicizing events to advance the agenda of their political party than doing what’s right and good for America and I’m personally tired of it. Benghazi is a no-brainer. After seven hours of fighting and numerous requests for help, we failed to answer the call and left our citizens to die in the streets of Benghazi. This alone is absolutely unacceptable, but [...]
Beasts of Burden
“Who would have thought that it would fall to us, some of us in our so-called declining years (unless 60 is the new 40) to rescue the Republic? In our lifetimes, we have had the war in Vietnam, and the Reagan revival, and now we find the left has been tunneling under us all along. Last Tuesday, the platform we thought was solid collapsed as if its underpinnings had been eaten by termites, which they had.” — Greg Richards via The American Thinker It didn’t take long, did it? The next four years of misrule by Hussein Obama have yet [...]
Is it Time for Conservatives to Form a Third Party? Updated and Stickied!
I have to admit that over the last several years, I have been torn about whether or not there is a need for Conservatives to leave the Republican party and either form a new third party, or join one of the small, already extant, Conservative parties. I have been on both sides of the fence, so to speak, and have been unable to come to a full decision. A recent comment on another post prompted me to again consider the issue. I think it’s time we revisit this debate First up, the “leave the Republicrats” side of the debate: We [...]
What Does The Future Hold For Us? What Is The Real Problem? Who Is The Real Enemy? What Is Their Objective?
[Folks, forgive me if I ramble today. But, that is the mind-set I am in.] No one can see into the future. That is a given. And yet, it is absolutely necessary to be concerned about our future and, therefore, try as best we can to anticipate what is coming. To do otherwise would be to stick our collective heads in the sand. There is really only two things we meer mortals can in trying to project into the future. One is to be observant about what has happened, what is happening, and what is likely to happen (looking at [...]
Make the Right Choice This Tuesday: My Closing Arguments
In this election you have a choice- to vote to loot your fellow man in the hopes that some of that wealth may find its way to you, or to vote to elect moderate and responsible individuals who will limit the power of government so that you may live your life as the free and prosperous individual that God intended you to be. You see, God created you all free and equal, and then we all agreed to create a government that would protect our basic rights to life and liberty and protect our property rights. Moderate and responsible men [...]
Your Government At Work…Who Is Responsible? Who Will Fix It?
Take a look at these three snippets from recent news articles. From Breitbart: Reports indicate U.S. soldiers and British Royal Marines have been urged to show “courageous constraint” by not shooting Taliban members spotted planting IEDs. From Fox News A Mexican telecom mogul who holds the title of world’s richest man, and one of President Obama’s top donors are both getting even richer from the U.S. government program that supplies so-called “Obamaphones” to the poor. Also from Fox News The U.S. government paid a Chicago consultant hundreds of thousands of dollars to put on diversity training workshops that, according to [...]
And Then There Was One …Debate That Is. What Will Obama’s Strategy Be?
The Romney campaign team are rightfully feeling good about their chances of winning now that the first two presidential debate and the VP debate are behind them. The polls are very favorable. So, going into next Monday’s debate on foreign affairs, Romney would appear to be in the driver’s seat. All indications are that only a very serious misstep could stop Romney from a victory on November 6, only three weeks away. Being a foreign affairs debate, and considering the fiasco of the events leading up to the terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya (inadequate security) and the [...]
The American Left Shamelessly Follow The Principles Behind The French Revolution Instead Of Those Of The American Revolution
It is only fair that I start out by telling you that I am not a fan of the French. Intellectually I know that it is wrong to judge a people and their history because of a handful of distasteful experiences. But, what can I tell you? I’m not totally sure where my angst comes from. I suspect it may have started with World War II movies and learning how General Patton and his troops were ordered to stand aside and allow that pompous ass, General Charles de Gaulle, to lead his French Resistance fighters into Paris as the “liberators”. [...]
Is The American Culture Gone Forever?
For me to write about American culture, requires that I leave my comfort zone. The soft sciences were never my strong suit. Trying to define the American culture, in which most of us grew up, in a few words, is no easy task. To be honest, America has always been a patch quilt of many different cultures. And yet, there does seem to be a few common threads that occur to me: the rule of law, a common ethical and moral bond, and religion/church. At least to this humble observer, those are the pillars upon which the American culture was [...]
The consequences of electing leaders with little or no virtue
Samuel Adams once said, “If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” Now more than ever these powerful words ring true. In the aftermath of the first Presidential debate we see the works of these vain and aspiring politicians. We now see how far they will go to hang on to power. After the President’s terrible debate performance Obama shifted his strategy to lying about Mitt Romney’s position on the issues. He had to because Romney not [...]
Did the mainstream media’s bias contribute towards President Obama’s terrible debate performance?
Oh fudge… We all know the mainstream media is in the tank for President Obama; but did their bias and unwillingness to ask the tough questions throughout his Presidency contribute towards the President’s terrible debate performance? Looking at the debate from a slightly different angle I believe it did. In an effort to shield President Obama from the impact his terrible economic policies has had on America the mainstream media has not only done themselves and the American people a great disservice, but they may have unknowingly sabotaged the President’s debate performance last night. By not holding the President’s feet [...]
Who Is Mitt Romney’s Opponent In This Election
America’s Socialist News Network’s presidential debates start tonight in Denver, Colorado. How did the Republican National Committee allow the Left Stream Media control the debates? Today’s media should be required to register as Democratic Party Super PACs. I’m serious! But, it is what it is. So, the challenger, Mitt Romney, about whom we know intimate details of his life, will square off against the incumbent, Barack Obama, about whom we know very little even after four years in office. The reason we know so little about Mr. Obama is in part due to his own actions to hide his past [...]
Pain is a powerful motivator
If you believe polls, most show President Obama with a slight edge over Mitt Romney going into the debates. This edge has left many pundits scratching their heads wondering how Obama can even be in this race. After all he has presided over one of the worst economic recoveries in our nation’s history. Unemployment has been over eight percent for three and a half years, we have lost our triple A credit rating, slipped from first to seventh in global competitiveness, increased our national debt by $6 trillion with nothing to show for it, lost 662,000 jobs to China since 2008, [...]
Trying to Cope with Stupidity
Folks, I understand that not everyone can be intelligent. But, stupidity seems to have reached epidemic proportions in the world today and America has not escaped this tragedy. This seems to be particularly true for those on the left side of the political spectrum Like me, most of you have probably seen some videos put up by conservatives that have gone viral. One was of a woman who was more than a little emotional because she had gotten a Obama phone. The other video I have in mind was where a sneaky conservative was interviewing Obama supporters at some rally. [...]
Government Lying To Americans: A Proud Tradition
For the better part of two weeks, America has been treated to a continuous stream of lies and cover ups over what transpired in Libya and Egypt and why it happened. The spin doctors were working over time to convince America and the world that the attacks on our embassies and the murders of our Libyan Ambassador and three of his staff was nothing but a spontaneous reaction to some You Tube video insulting of Islam.. In spite of this administrations best efforts, along with a compliant media to protect the reputation of The Leader From Behind, the story came unraveled [...]
Obama Supporters vs Romney Supporters
In debate after debate with people about the upcoming election I am seeing two clear differences between how those who are voting for Romney are approaching this election and those who are voting for Obama are approaching it. When I am critical of President Obama, my criticisms are almost always about results- I feel that as President he has done a bad job in his job. I use statistics and facts and data to demonstrate that his policies have made our nation less prosperous, less free, and life less protected. I point to the dramatic rise in debt, budgets that [...]
Liberty deserves better from me
As a conservative I’m fighting each day to restore the constitutional republic our founding fathers gave us. My weapon in this fight is the words that I use in the articles I write. After all this an ideological war, one that pits two very different views about the role government should play in our lives. It’s a topic that has been debated since the founding of our great nation. Great minds like James Madison and Patrick Henry had two very different views on the role government should play in our lives and they matched wits against each other during the [...]
Obama’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Politics has always been as dirty a business as, say, emptying overflowing latrine buckets, which probably says as much about the people that tend to be drawn to it as it does about the profession itself. The difference is that conscientious sanitation specialists are usually careful about what they let splash on them. Politics, on the other hand, provides us with such as the lifelong dung beetle Harry Reid, the current Senate Majority Leader, a man who has steeped himself so thoroughly in manure that you can hardly tell where the ordure ends and Dirty Harry begins. As Michael Goodwin puts [...]
Ignorance is the Fuel That Advances the Left’s Agenda…
The greatest threat to our liberties is not the average politician. The greatest threat to our liberties is the ignorant voter; the voter who doesn’t take the time to do their homework in regards to the issues. These are voters who vote by name recognition or by party affiliation. These are voters who check the party box on the ballot. These are voters who have a myopic view of America and continuously spew the talking points of the politician they support even if it’s factually wrong. They are the Kool-Aid drinkers and part of the rainbows and unicorns crowd. They [...]
Are you a staunch defender of liberty?
Sentry Journal had a good post the other day that got me thinking- are there any real difference today between the Obama-led Democratic Party and the Tories of colonial times? …You see the actions of our elected representatives are in complete contrast of the actions these men took 236 years ago. Our elected representatives to include the President are the kind of ilk our founders were declaring independence from. We’re living with the same type tyrannical forces that were oppressing the rights of the colonists in the 1770s. Our government confiscates our property through taxation, they overregulate our free market, they can [...]
Let’s Save America
If Paul Revere were alive today, he wouldn’t be warning us that the redcoats are coming — he’d be telling us they’re already here. And these days, it’s not the crimson coats that identify the enemy — it’s their black totalitarian hearts. One of this era’s night watchmen is Ulsterman’s White House Insider. WHI, apocryphal or not, has been accurately tolling the alarm bell for some time. Some excerpts from Ulsterman’s latest report: “We Got One Last Chance Here To Make It Right” [...] WHI: … I’ll say it to you again and again – Obama ain’t no Democrat. Never was. Never has been. He controls the party…people who [...]
Why is America the Greatest Country on Earth? Or Is It?
Of course, instead of facing this and holding politicians accountable, our media will continue to play to the distractions, the nonsense and the irrelevant instead of asking the hard questions, demanding answers and informing voters. The above quote is from a Questions and Observations post in which Bruce McQuain is talking about how much worse our so-called economic recovery is than we are being told. It is an excellent article which I highly recommend. Today, however, I am more interested in his rebuke of the media in the above quote. Please keep the rebuke in mind while watching the following video. I first saw the video in a by [...]
