Whatever you have to say about the mechanics of this law you have to admit that passing it took guts.
Gov. Brewer and other proponenets of the bill undoubtedly knew they were touching off a media firestorm on the illegal immigration issue yet did it anyway. It’s been less than 72 hours and they have been called racists, bigots, anti-Christs, Nazis, facists and every other perjorative that the “progressive” media can think up.
With one blow Arizona has chosen to sever the Gordian knot of timidity, cowardice and political opportunism that the feds have created.
Arizona is cutting to the chase on the basic question – Are the immigration laws of the U.S. to be enforced or not?
Arizona has decided that they should be and has proposed a system of enforcement. Opponents will have to do more than simply cry “racist.” They will have to come up with a real solution that is better than the one proposed by Gov. Brewer.
AFTER YOU GET IT FIGURED OUT, PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU DECIDE.
She said I was racist for asking.
But I wouldn’t drop it…I replied that the hang-up is Mexico’s citizens have never adopted the American Bill of Rights, and that if they did I’d be the first to push for El Norte’s unification with the Mexican South and to add one more star to our flag.
My liberal friend turned pale, her mouth hung open, and she gasped for air like a landed lung-fish. She had never entertained the idea that there may something special about America, and something lacking in Mexicans’ traditional jurusprudence that might argue against permitting their un-documented immigration.
After blustering and waving her hands in the air, finally she blurted out, “Mexico would NEVER want to join America!”
Of course, every Mexican national who crosses into Arizona, California or Texas is refuting her, and she knows it, but still she could not relinquish her liberal anti-American talking point.
The seconds passed uninterrupted, and I let silence slowly make my point for me: my “liberal” fellow-citizen neither relishes the Bill of Rights that her political party claims to champion, nor does she thinks that any other person in the world should.
But there is one more juicy contradiction to note. When I floated the topic of unification with Mexico my interlocuter got flabbergasted: any extension of America’s Constitutional order, even if it is sanctioned by a public referendum in a neighboring state like Mexico, is to be opposed.
This, she says, is “extending American Imperialism,” and, furthermore, nations are oppressive, patriarchal constructs that should be dissolved in order to achieve “global harmony.”
Problem is, this registered Democrat (an American political party) cloaks her defense of illegal immigration in racialist terms that invoke “Hispanics,” and “Latinos” as facile proxies for the Mexican nation and its government policies – which she has no problem whatsoever defending and extending.
So which is it? Is all nationalism bad, or is just American nationalism bad? Is Mexico’s socio-political tradition compatible with ours, or not?
And, do Democrats revere our bill of rights, or is it just a Monopoly card for them – something to get them out of jail free, a property on Boardwalk, or a win in the next election?
Third, Mexico is no help. Now it weighs in with all sorts of moral censure for Arizonians — this from a corrupt government whose very policies are predicated on exporting a million indigenous people a year, while it seeks to lure wealthy “gringos” to invest in second-homes in Baja.
The absence of millions from Oaxaca or Chiapas ensures billions in remittances, less expenditures for social services, and fewer dissident citizens.
But the construct of Mexico as the concerned parent of its own lost children is by now so implausible that even its sympathizers do not take it seriously.
Mexico has lost all credibility on these issues, expressing concern for its own citizens only when they seem to have crossed the border — and left Mexico.
"We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," said Gov. Jan Brewer. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created an unacceptable situation."
We have a crisis in Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington.
What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed?
He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.
He has denounced Arizona as "misguided." He has called on the Justice Department to ensure that Arizona's sheriffs and police do not violate anyone's civil rights. But he has said nothing about the rights of the people of Arizona who must deal with the costs of having hundreds of thousands of lawbreakers in their midst.
If you are responsible for security and law enforcement in your state, wouldn't you be required to do what the AZ governor is doing?
Why does the Messiah deny his obligation to enforce federal law? Why does he fail to support local communities? Why doesn't he stand and clearly state what his intentions are? Should we let Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California descend into total chaos like Chicago, Detroit and the Bronx?
You know the answer, of course. It's all about political potential. It's all about amnesty and converting those illegals into voting citizens to perpetuate the welfare state.
It's about pay-offs, and politics, and pandering. It isn't about protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.
China, having fought no one, has rapidly built up her military power and developed ties to the growing number of nations at odds with America, from Russia to Iran to Sudan to Venezuela.
The Chinese of 2010 call to mind 19th century Americans who shoved aside Mexicans, Indians and Spanish to populate a continent, build a mighty nation, challenge the British Empire -- superpower of the day -- and swiftly move past her in manufacturing to become first nation on earth.
Men were as awed by America then as they are by China today.
America seems a declining superpower. She cannot defend her borders, balance her budgets or win her wars. Her educational system at the primary and secondary level is a shambles. In the first decade of the century, she lost one of every three manufacturing jobs. In this second decade, she is looking at trillion-dollar deficits to 2020. The world is losing confidence in her ability to manage her surging national debt.
During the Cold War, China was in the grip of a millenarian ideology that blinded her to her true interests. Today, it is we who are captive to a utopian ideology that is becoming perilous to the republic.
Why are the Tea Partiers not intimidated the way Republicans often are? Why is the charge of racism not working?
First, they do not feel the guilt of country-club Republicans.
Second, they know it to be untrue. While Tea Partiers are anti-Obama, they are also anti-Pelosi, anti-Martha Coakley and anti-Charlie Christ. The coming conflict is not so much racial as it is cultural, political and tribal.
Black America seems united. White America is the house divided, for it is in the womb of white America that this new people is gestating and fighting to be born.
Would having openly homosexual males in the barracks at Parris Island or Camp Pendleton, with 18- and 19-year-old Marine recruits, strengthen unit cohesion and morale? Would having gay officers date other gay officers and living together in civil unions or matrimony on Marine bases enhance the war-fighting capabilities of the Corps?
That almost zero pressure for this "reform" is coming from inside the Corps, and almost 100 percent from outside, from the gay rights community and its allies, reveals what this is all about.
A militant minority, strategically placed in the culture, media, academy and politics, is imposing its morality and values upon a yet-resistant silent majority.
As the president himself said on his weekly radio address a week ago, “one thing we have not done is raise income taxes on families making less than $250,000; that’s another promise we kept.”
In fact, that wasn’t his promise at all.
Here’s what candidate Obama really said in September of 2008: “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
Got that? “Not any of your taxes.” The claim of no tax hikes on those below $250,000 as a result of the current administration’s policies is completely and utterly false.
A report from the House Ways & Means Committee’s GOP members notes that, since January 2009, Congress and the president have enacted $670 billion in tax increases. That’s $2,100 for each person in America. At least 14 of those tax hikes, the report says, break Obama’s pledge not to raise taxes on those earning less than $250,000. Roughly $316 billion of the tax hikes — 14 increases in all — hit middle-class families, the report says.
This comes in addition to recent data from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office showing U.S. spending and indebtedness growing at an alarming rate. Government spending now totals 25% of GDP, a quarter above its long-term average. By 2035, it will hit 34% of GDP at current trends — a 70% increase in the real size of government in just 25 years.
A CBS News/New York Times poll released on Tax Day found that Tea Party activists are wealthier than average (20 percent of their households earn more than $100,000, compared with 14 percent of the general population) and better educated (37 percent have college or postgraduate degrees vs. 25 percent of Americans ).
Milbank should be careful about opening that can of worms lest it lead to a discussion of whether the half of US households who pay Federal Income Tax so it can be transferred to the other half should have any say on how their money is spent.
Because the only thing worse than the narrative that Tea Partiers are the ingrates who should be saying “thank you” to the quality that wisely governs them is the reverse: a narrative where the Tea Partiers are the quality who dare to question the ingrates that govern and write about them.
Any idea that threatens to invert the positions of the elite and the peasantry is by definition subversive. The real problem with portraying the rebels as well educated and smart is that it begs the question of what their critics are.
Unlike the debate between Clegg, Cameron and Brown the Tea Parties are not about tinkering on a set of givens but they are in part about what the givens should be. Therefore they will be viewed as either attempts to redress system failures or exercises in illegitimacy.
The words “November” can therefore be a threat or a promise. Like most opportunities the word is probably both.
The point Bill Clinton is missing is that the danger doesn’t come from right wing ‘anger.’ The anger is just a byproduct. The voices he hears from the Tea Party crowds aren’t threats; they’re warnings.
The real peril is coming from somewhere else: the demographic decline in industrial world working populations, the increasing cost of energy and the international movement in the factors of production.
A whole generation of failed policy from both parties is coming to a head and it probably means that the welfare state, the European Union and by consequence the Chinese economy are heading for a cliff.
What’s driving the Tea Parties isn’t amorphous hate. It is concrete fear: worry that pensions have been devalued; medical care will become unaffordable; taxes are too high and jobs are gone, never to return.
And a look around the world shows there’s no place to hide.
When the wave hits it will be global.
In the UK membership in political parties is at near historic lows. In America Congress’s popularity is lower than whales**t. The Eurozone is cracking up under its weight of debt. First Greece, now Portugal are being ripped off the cliff face like a zipper — and all the climbers are roped together.
Japan is like a kamikaze sub heading for the depths and tapping out a sayonara. Russia was history long ago. And China, when it has used up its flowering moment, will face the consequences of its one-child policy.
And Middle Eastern potentates, stuck in the same old, same old, are warning about a Summer War. The Tea Parties aren’t about putting some country club Republican in the White House, though Bill can’t help hearing it like that.
The cheese-paring scene at the White House Press Corps is just as indicative of the coming storm as the Tea Parties. It is yet one more sign that the old institutions are making plans for a future that isn’t there; moving trillions of dollars in projected revenues around a five year plan like Hitler’s fictive armies were moved around a map in 1945.
When you hear Gordon Brown describe the billions he’s going to spend to save the world and heal the planet; when you read news about the proposed legislation on “cap and trade”– the issue isn’t the “right wing hate” but where’s the money going to come from?
The most telling fact about Bill Clinton’s speech is that 2010 reminds him of 1994. If he — or the political establishment — can’t tell the difference between the decades, that’s your problem right there.
In the 2002 school voucher case, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, Stevens argued that an Ohio program giving poor parents tuition aid to send their children to schools of their choosing also violated the establishment clause. Stevens admitted that the public school system in question was in "crisis" and also that the new schools were freely chosen by the parents.
Still, he said, because the program did not forbid parents from using the tuition payments at religious schools, the state was using "public funds to pay for the indoctrination of thousands of grammar school children in particular religious faiths." That money should have been used to indoctrinate children in subjects such as animal rights, Gaia theory, anti-Americanism and fisting etiquette!
Speaking as a Protestant, and not a "Protestant," we're happy to see Stevens leave the court.
Stevens' claim that he hasn't moved left, the court has moved right, if stated during a mental competence hearing, would have earned him a straitjacket and a handful of Thorazine.
Anti-poverty campaigners had been pinning their hopes on the IMF endorsing a so-called Robin Hood tax under which a small levy would be placed on all financial transactions. However, the fund said such an approach "does not appear to be well suited to the specific purposes" set out by the G20 in its mandate.
The fund said the financial sector had become too big as a result of being taxed too lightly, and said this could be addressed by the FAT, which it compared to VAT.
Downing Street said the fund's preference for a global deal rather than a go-it-alone approach by individual countries was a snub to George Osborne, who has insisted the Conservatives would impose a levy regardless of what other nations do.
The IMF said: "International co-operation would be beneficial, particularly in the context of cross-border financial institutions. Countries' experiences in the recent crisis differ widely and so do their priorities as they emerge from it.
But none is immune from the risk of a future – and inevitably global – financial crisis. Unilateral actions by governments risk being undermined by tax and regulatory arbitrage."
So Bill Clinton had an op-ed in the New York Times yesterday, in which he used the anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building as a platform to make a political, rather than a compassionate point. It took him a while to get there, but there it was, the very last line of his carefully articulated piece.
"Fifteen years ago, the line was crossed in Oklahoma City. In the current climate, with so many threats against the president, members of Congress and other public servants, we owe it to the victims of Oklahoma City, and those who survived and responded so bravely, not to cross it again."
Now, there's a lot wrong with that quote- but let's start with who this message is for. He says, "we owe it to victims," not to cross this line again. We? It's as if he's asking all of us not to blow up buildings. Generally, people who would agree to that weren't planning on it anyway.
And later when he mentions "contentious and "partisan" types, it only makes me think of...Clinton. When his face wasn't red with embarrassment, it was red with anger. And sometimes, ketchup.
But more important, is the whole "current climate" thing. Fact is, this time is no more violent than any time before, and most likely less. Look at the vast tea parties from last week. I've seen scarier office picnics.
So when Captain Busyhands talks about the "vast echo chamber," he's really talking about people like him who constantly smear their intellectual adversaries as violent racists.
It's happening so much, it's starting to make me really, really angry!
On pjtv recently, Bill Whittle asked the following question; "Are there in fact existential threats to the United States that endanger our very way of life or are they like Iran's nuclear ambitions, out of control spending, terrorism and the socialization of America merely boogeymen cooked up by conservatives in order to keep people afraid?"
If you believe as I do, that the threats do indeed endanger our very way of life, I have a follow up question; What are you going to do about it over the next two years other than listen to the world's biggest spinner of truth Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News propaganda platform?
BREITBART REPORTS, YOU DECIDE. ENFORCING THE LAW, WHAT A NOVEL CONCEPT.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The head of the nation's largest Catholic archdiocese says a proposed Arizona law cracking down on illegal immigrants encourages "German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques."
Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Los Angeles archdiocese made the comments in his blog Sunday, a day before the Arizona Legislature passed the bill.
We have been taught in our government schools by the socialists and progressives for two generations, and the results are clear - we have no idea what our American culture and American laws are all about.
And if we are not lawful, how can we expect or demand our government to be lawful?
This has been a long term battle for control of our country by our sworn enemies on the left. They have done an excellent job of dumbing us down so that we have no cautionary concerns about being taken over by forces from within.
ONE TIRELESS FEARLESS AMERICAN PATRIOT IS NOT BASHFUL ABOUT TELLING THE TRUTH. HELLO, IS ANYBODY LISTENING?
Nuclear power, when all the acrimony dies down, will be seen as the real green power. Again, for now all the Gore-related vocabulary will serve two main purposes: to make those who master and manipulate it quite rich, and the rest of us feel very good about ourselves—all the while as some sort of carbon-based fuel helps to power our cars, or a nuclear fuel powers our homes and charges car batteries.
As we see with the current unprecedented shut-down of all air travel in Europe, nature in a second, not mankind in years determines what we puny humans will and will not do.
http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/
THE INTERNIST FOUND A CANCER, WE NEED A SURGEON TO CUT IT OUT.
Big Brother?
Or does rampant borrowing for government spending reflect our despair over the inability of millions to know what is best for themselves?
For democracy to work, all of us must fully participate. But because of endemic racism, sexism, class bias, and historical prejudices, millions of Americans do not have access to adequate education and enlightenment. Therefore, a particular technocratic class, with requisite skill and singular humanity, has taken it upon themselves to ensure everyone gets a fair shake — if only government at last has the adequate resources to fix things.
If it proves problematic for one to register and vote, then there will be a program to make 100% participation possible. If some of us are too heavy and too chair-bound, we can be taught what and how to eat. If some of us do not study, we can adjust academic standards accordingly. In one does something unwise, like buying a plasma TV rather than a catastrophic health care plan, then we still can ensure he is covered.
In other words, an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-moral guardian class requires resources to finish the promise of participatory America.
After all, why would we allow the concrete contractor to “keep” 70% of his income only to blow it on worthless things like jet skis or a Hummer in his garage or a fountain in his yard — when a far wiser, more ethical someone like Van Jones could far more logically put that now wasted capital to use for the betterment of the far more needy?
So big spending and borrowing mean 300 million will have their capital spent wisely as their collective labor and efforts are channeled into proper directions — as determined by sober and curious government overseers, not the ignorant who might selfishly spend capital only for indulgence.
The artificial creation of rich and poor households derives from the socialist goal of equality, which demands that every person receive the same income. And “every person” by definition includes infants, the aged, and everybody in between.
“No fair!” you might be thinking, “Your example is silly. Everybody knows that equality does not mean awarding equal salaries to babies and the residents of nursing homes.”
Everybody does not know that. If you lust for equality, the burden is on you to define exactly what “equality” means.
Dont fall for the Demoncats and Obama taunting us with this Fraud president. We know there is something iffy, but they have forged iron clad stuff by now and want us to all look like idiots.
Just REMEMBER in NOVEMBER and vote these scum out, vote out anyone who would do anything to support this rat vermin traitor Obama.
If you support Obama and his Regime, you support an Statist authoritarian who is an empty suit who speaks in platitudes who is beholden to the oligarchical collectivists and banking cabals.
You are against freedom, liberty and our constitutional republic and the notion that all of our rights are inborn and are given by our creator.
Some autocrat in Washington does not grant rights – the constitution simply enumerates them for added protection.
The constitution also limits the Powers of the Federal Government yet an expansionist authoritarian view is used in modern times contrary to what Madison had intended.
If you support Obama you support the biggest threat to our free will in our history, and when the last bastion of freedom in the USA falls, there is nowhere else to go.
LOS ANGELES (April 17) -- A white supremacist group rallied against illegal immigration in downtown Los Angeles Saturday as hundreds of counter-protesters gathered to shout them down in a tense standoff that included several arrests, thrown rocks and police in riot gear.
Police officers stood between the white supremacists and counter-demonstrators on the south lawn of Los Angeles' City Hall, where about 50 members of the National Socialist Movement waved American flags and swastika banners for about an hour.
America's greatest Republican, Abraham Lincoln, confirmed his view that the Constitution is in fact a contract:
I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever, it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
Again: If the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it -- break it, so to speak -- but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
More than 500,000 Americans gave their lives in the Civil War to preserve that proposition.
What are you going to do save it? Every breach of this contract is our (individual) responsibility. http://www.americanthinker.com
Republicans: Stop the Gimmicks
By Otis A. Glazebrook IV
The current Republican leadership proposes that America needs a "New Contract" [i].
Why?
We already have the finest social contract/compact ever devised by mankind. The historical basis of the Republican Party is to stand firm on those fundamental founding principles. That contract is the Constitution of the United States, which evolved from the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
As members of the Independent Conservative Republicans of Texas, we pledge to defend the values and principles on which our nation was founded. We are proud Republicans who support our party. But our first allegiance is to the people, the conservative majority of our party who elected us to office.
We pledge not to divide, but to unite Conservatives everywhere. We pledge to make America and Texas stronger by defending individual liberty, freedom, and the free market ideals that made our country the envy of the world.
The Obama administration really doesn’t care much about deficits or debt, in the manner that the profligate credit-card user cannot be bothered about mundane silly things like balancing a checkbook as he shops for vital presents for his family. We must spend what is necessary, and let others worry where the money is to come from.
In more practical terms, growing the debt by $1.5 trillion per year is a lot more fun than having to squeeze out surpluses to pay down the existing $12 trillion. We can blame Bush before us for his $200-500 billion annual deficits, and we can blame conservatives after us who must either raise taxes or cut spending in massive fashion to clean things up.
Either way, we achieved the progressive agenda in four years, and will leave it to those heartless after us to worry about their accounting games. Our legacy is that we cared for people, not ledgers.
So big spending and borrowing are things for geeks and nerds to worry about later; right now we are doing the right thing for the right people — and can’t be worried.
Nothing makes a conservative madder than higher taxes, bigger government, and more borrowing. Well, we’re in power now; you’re not. Elections matter and you guys lost. So big spending and borrowing enrage right-wing nuts and that is all to the good.
I went on at length with all these hypotheses, because it is inexplicable how sane people could do such insane things.
The White House ripped CBS News on Thursday for publishing an online column by a blogger who made assertions about the sexual orientation of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, widely viewed as a leading candidate for the Supreme Court.
Ben Domenech, a former Bush administration aide and Republican Senate staffer, wrote that President Obama would "please" much of his base by picking the "first openly gay justice." An administration official, who asked not to be identified discussing personal matters, said Kagan is not a lesbian.
CBS initially refused to pull the posting, prompting Anita Dunn, a former White House communications director who is working with the administration on the high court vacancy, to say: "The fact that they've chosen to become enablers of people posting lies on their site tells us where the journalistic standards of CBS are in 2010."
The network deleted the posting Thursday night after Domenech said he was merely repeating a rumor. The flare-up underscores how quickly the battle over a Supreme Court nominee -- or even a potential nominee -- can turn searingly personal.
Most major news organizations have policies against "outing" gays or reporting on the sex lives of public officials unless they are related to their public duties.
A White House spokesman, Ben LaBolt, said he complained to CBS because the column "made false charges." Domenech later added an update to the post: "I have to correct my text here to say that Kagan is apparently still closeted -- odd, because her female partner is rather well known in Harvard circles."
MR. PRESIDENT. I LIKE IT A LOT. THIS GUY IS NO PIG IN A POKE. FEEL THE DRAFT?
I believe it to be highly unlikely that the United States of America will long remain a free and sovereign Constitutional Republic governed by representatives who advocate for and work to implement the will of the people.
I believe the one best hope for the preservation of the nation is for those who believe in the majesty of our Constitutional Republic over any other form of government ever devised by man, is to unite with a single voice, and seek out one individual, with the courage to undertake the hard work of ripping out and burying the toxic material used by Democrats and Republicans alike as they constructed their highway to UNtopia, and who best represents their views regarding the virtues of intellect, humility, historical perspective, devotion to country, common sense, honesty, decency and public service rather political self-service, and draft him or her to run for the presidency in 2012, providing a choice, not an echo for the people who think and care deeply about their country.
I believe that overwhelming and constantly increasing numbers of those among us who demand and expect "entitlements" largesse from an all powerful federal government will make it nearly impossible to roll back the wreckage of a nation, brought about by oncoming tides, where a much more powerful tide of communism will surely follow in the wake of the slightly less destructive tide of socialism that has become much like a tsunami.
I believe that Barack Hussein Obama is a Marxist Puppet who will carry out the orders issued to him by a gaggle of Marxist Puppet Masters who pull his strings behind a curtain of stealth.
I believe that anyone with a basic knowledge and even a little understanding of the laws of economics knows that the course set by Barack Hussein Obama for this nation cannot be sustained going forward. And that it has never been his intention to preserve a great nation but rather to bring the United States of America to its knees by turning its people into a helpless, babbling mass of humanity depending on an all powerful federal government for its needs and wants.
I believe that the ultimate objective of the Obama administration is to rebuild the United States of America as simply one small component of his communist vision of an all powerful one world government that I choose to call UNTOPIA.
I believe that the ideal of honest state and federal politicians who seek office to serve the people is dead and has been replaced by a political game played by professional politicians who seek office to gain or expand wealth and power at the expense of the people they only pretend to represent.
I believe that most network and cable television news programs are not in fact disseminators of news as they purport to be but are in fact merely a stage where an endless stream of ego driven self-promoting actors are allowed to strut while performing, and spew whatever propaganda they choose so long as it sells commercial airtime.
I believe a majority of major and local once respectful newspapers whose main purpose for existence has become spreading outright lies and endless streams of propaganda about the virtues of collectivism and the benefits of group think when compared to their perverted versions of unending evils flowing from free people acting on their own individual initiative unrestrained by excessive government control.
I believe that my country, the United States of America as I knew it in the past has only one hope of survival and that hope is not based on a change in control of congress in November 2010 or the election of another Senator or another Governor or anyone else whose life has been dedicated to climbing the political ladder toward a platform built on corruption. It's time for the people to stand up and be counted, to put up or shut up.
I believe that the draft movement needs to start now, this day, rather than tomorrow. Two solid years laying out the blueprint to preserve a nation fit for those who will follow us into the future years.
I believe there are a few possible candidates who would meet the necessary criteria and at least three or four who would not. First choice on my favored list is the noted historian, Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, followed closely by General David Patreus and if neither of them was willing to serve, then EX-Governor, Mitt Romney whom I believe to be an honest man who would not sell out his country for twenty pieces of silver.
The same cannot be said for the likes of professional spoilers such as John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, Rudolph Giuliani or many others from the ranks of both major political parties who seek ego driven gratification which truly serves only to divide the people and weaken and then ultimately, destroy this nation.
Nor does my list contain the name of Sarah Palin who I believe has been bought and paid for by those who pull the strings of all the puppets at the Fox News Network.
"I believe we are nearing a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those Americans who want to be left alone that separation is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage, where vows are broken, our human rights protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them.
The Democrat-controlled Washington is simply an escalation of a process that has been in full stride for at least two decades. There is no evidence that Americans who are responsible for and support constitutional abrogation have any intention of mending their ways.
You say, "Williams, what do you mean by constitutional abrogation?" Let's look at just some of the magnitude of the violations.
Article I, Section 8 of our Constitution lists the activities for which Congress is authorized to tax and spend. Nowhere on that list is authority for Congress to tax and spend for: prescription drugs, Social Security, public education, farm subsidies, bank and business bailouts, food stamps and other activities that represent roughly two-thirds of the federal budget. Neither is there authority for congressional mandates to the states and people about how they may use their land, the speed at which they can drive, whether a library has wheelchair ramps and the gallons of water used per toilet flush. The list of congressional violations of both the letter and spirit of the Constitution is virtually without end. Our derelict Supreme Court has given Congress sanction to do anything upon which they can muster a majority vote."
-Dr. Walter Williams
THERE ARE DRAFTS AND THERE ARE ILL WINDS. BIG DIFFERENCE. THAT'S WHY TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.
National health insurance reform and the runaway deficit have clearly become a tipping point for the tea party movement.
It is also clear that while excessive spending and the health care takeover have been the catalysts for protest, the underlying motivation for the movement is the belief that the Constitution has been stretched, mutilated, mangled, and shamelessly used to justify granting the federal government power it was never intended to have — power it has acquired to the detriment of individual rights.
There can be no absolutist position on personal liberty, just as there is no communitarian justification for fashioning a society where equality of outcomes is guaranteed by the state. For in the end, the tension between the rights of the individual and the needs of the community is a healthy manifestation of an evolving society.
What makes the tea party movement so significant is that for the first time in a very long time, the supporters of individual liberty not only have organized effectively to make their voices heard, but actually have a strong case to make regarding the primacy of the individual over the state as it relates to the current agenda of the Democratic majority.
But the modern Democratic Party is not interested in small doses of anything. They appear to have adopted quite a bit of communitarian philosophy in attempting to “remake America” by declaring all sorts of “positive rights” that citizens are due as members of the community.
The tension between the Constitution’s clear, unambiguous celebration and protection of individual rights and the practical need for some form of communitarian ideology to which government aspires has become painful in the early 21st century.
Schemes to promote “fairness” and “equality” are most susceptible to this impulse, but lately, as with national health care, we see the ugly facade of “positive rights” rearing up to overshadow the Constitution’s conservation of the individual’s primacy in American society.
NAILING THE BARN DOOR SHUT AFTER THE HORSE IS GONE ISN'T ALL THE HELPFUL.
The principle of utility has been used the past 60 years to create and expand the welfare state — many believe to the detriment of individual liberty. And the tea party movement has set itself up as something of a barrier to the notion that this can continue without reference to a debate on what such utilitarian actions mean for the first principle of our founding: the individual’s sacrosanct position in the constitutional hierarchy.
They have not only placed themselves athwart history with a sign yelling “Stop!” They also are becoming a sabot thrown into the machinery of government in order to slow it down long enough to have their concerns heard.
The importance of their advocacy becomes apparent when you consider that President Obama and the Democrats in Congress have adopted the even more problematic “communitarian” ideal as their template for government.
Where the principle of utility is part of the historic, classical liberal definition of government, communitarianism is a more radical ideal that denies individual rights in almost all cases while making forced altruism the dominant force for change.
SCHOOL FOR ECONOMIC ILLITERATES IS NOW IN SESSION.
The unemployment effect of minimum wages isn't restricted to American Samoa but to the mainland U.S. as well.
Overall teenage unemployment stands at a record 25 percent while adult unemployment hovers around 10 percent. Also at a record high is the 50 percent unemployment rate among black teenage males.
One might ask why teen unemployment, particularly that among black teens, is so much higher than adult unemployment. The answer is simple. One effect of a minimum wage law is that of discrimination against the employment of less-preferred workers.
Within the category of less-preferred workers are those with low skills. Teens are disproportionately represented among such workers and are therefore more adversely affected by minimum wages. Black teens are disproportionately represented among teens with low skills and therefore share a greater burden of minimum wages.
Tragically, minimum wages have the unquestioned support of good-hearted, well-meaning people with little understanding who become the useful idiots of charlatans, quacks and racists.
POLITICALLY SPEAKING, IF THEY'RE IN, GET 'EM OUT. BIG NOVEMBER.
Soros is probably one of the best high-risk investors in history. He makes his money by playing financial market instability. If he were wrong, he’d be broke.
However, he isn’t always correct on the timing.
He predicted our latest bubble and crash so far in advance that it seemed like he was wrong, however, he was right. His understanding is very deep, so he knew we were on an unsustainable path far before the markets did, or anyone else did for that matter.
He’s dead on, and it is even very likely that the next complete collapse could end in catastrophe. Almost by definition, the last collapse will be devastating.
Our financial markets are driving our country to disaster. If the break up of the Euro seems bad, think of the breakup of the Dollar and the US government.
If it leads itself to financial ruin by trying to guarantee financial markets, eventually states will split off and you either have a civil war or a split up like the Soviet Union.
MR. PRESIDENT. I LIKE IT A LOT. THIS GUY IS NO PIG IN A POKE. FEEL THE DRAFT?
I believe it to be highly unlikely that the United States of America will long remain a free and sovereign Constitutional Republic governed by representatives who advocate for and work to implement the will of the people.
I believe the one best hope for the preservation of the nation is for those who believe in the majesty of our Constitutional Republic over any other form of government ever devised by man, is to unite with a single voice, and seek out one individual, with the courage to undertake the hard work of ripping out and burying the toxic material used by Democrats and Republicans alike as they constructed their highway to UNtopia, and who best represents their views regarding the virtues of intellect, humility, historical perspective, devotion to country, common sense, honesty, decency and public service rather political self-service, and draft him or her to run for the presidency in 2012, providing a choice, not an echo for the people who think and care deeply about their country.
I believe that overwhelming and constantly increasing numbers of those among us who demand and expect "entitlements" largesse from an all powerful federal government will make it nearly impossible to roll back the wreckage of a nation, brought about by oncoming tides, where a much more powerful tide of communism will surely follow in the wake of the slightly less destructive tide of socialism that has become much like a tsunami.
I believe that Barack Hussein Obama is a Marxist Puppet who will carry out the orders issued to him by a gaggle of Marxist Puppet Masters who pull his strings behind a curtain of stealth.
I believe that anyone with a basic knowledge and even a little understanding of the laws of economics knows that the course set by Barack Hussein Obama for this nation cannot be sustained going forward. And that it has never been his intention to preserve a great nation but rather to bring the United States of America to its knees by turning its people into a helpless, babbling mass of humanity depending on an all powerful federal government for its needs and wants.
I believe that the ultimate objective of the Obama administration is to rebuild the United States of America as simply one small component of his communist vision of an all powerful one world government that I choose to call UNTOPIA.
I believe that the ideal of honest state and federal politicians who seek office to serve the people is dead and has been replaced by a political game played by professional politicians who seek office to gain or expand wealth and power at the expense of the people they only pretend to represent.
I believe that most network and cable television news programs are not in fact disseminators of news as they purport to be but are in fact merely a stage where an endless stream of ego driven self-promoting actors are allowed to strut while performing, and spew whatever propaganda they choose so long as it sells commercial airtime.
I believe a majority of major and local once respectful newspapers whose main purpose for existence has become spreading outright lies and endless streams of propaganda about the virtues of collectivism and the benefits of group think when compared to their perverted versions of unending evils flowing from free people acting on their own individual initiative unrestrained by excessive government control.
I believe that my country, the United States of America as I knew it in the past has only one hope of survival and that hope is not based on a change in control of congress in November 2010 or the election of another Senator or another Governor or anyone else whose life has been dedicated to climbing the political ladder toward a platform built on corruption. It's time for the people to stand up and be counted, to put up or shut up.
I believe that the draft movement needs to start now, this day, rather than tomorrow. Two solid years laying out the blueprint to preserve a nation fit for those who will follow us into the future years.
I believe there are a few possible candidates who would meet the necessary criteria and at least three or four who would not. First choice on my favored list is the noted historian, Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, followed closely by General David Patreus and if neither of them was willing to serve, then EX-Governor, Mitt Romney whom I believe to be an honest man who would not sell out his country for twenty pieces of silver.
The same cannot be said for the likes of professional spoilers such as John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, Rudolph Giuliani or many others from the ranks of both major political parties who seek ego driven gratification which truly serves only to divide the people and weaken and then ultimately, destroy this nation.
Nor does my list contain the name of Sarah Palin who I believe has been bought and paid for by those who pull the strings of all the puppets at the Fox News Network.
"I believe we are nearing a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those Americans who want to be left alone that separation is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage, where vows are broken, our human rights protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them.
The Democrat-controlled Washington is simply an escalation of a process that has been in full stride for at least two decades. There is no evidence that Americans who are responsible for and support constitutional abrogation have any intention of mending their ways.
You say, "Williams, what do you mean by constitutional abrogation?" Let's look at just some of the magnitude of the violations.
Article I, Section 8 of our Constitution lists the activities for which Congress is authorized to tax and spend. Nowhere on that list is authority for Congress to tax and spend for: prescription drugs, Social Security, public education, farm subsidies, bank and business bailouts, food stamps and other activities that represent roughly two-thirds of the federal budget. Neither is there authority for congressional mandates to the states and people about how they may use their land, the speed at which they can drive, whether a library has wheelchair ramps and the gallons of water used per toilet flush. The list of congressional violations of both the letter and spirit of the Constitution is virtually without end. Our derelict Supreme Court has given Congress sanction to do anything upon which they can muster a majority vote."
-Dr. Walter Williams
THERE ARE DRAFTS AND THERE ARE ILL WINDS. BIG DIFFERENCE. THAT'S WHY TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.
This year, the political parties and the press will not be caught off guard. Republican politicians will address tea party rallies, Democrats will denounce the supposed puppeteers of the movement and the press will look for hate speech.
But few will glean the real meaning of the protests or the booming support for Ron and Rand Paul.
It's not about the Pauls themselves or the guys with the "Don't tread on me" flags It's about the people at home who might not be willing to march in the park or join the next Paul money bomb, but who don't blame the folks who do.
Libertarian sentiment has finally gone mainstream.
A movement that said that people should do whatever they wanted as long as it didn't hurt anyone else couldn't compete during the culture wars that began in the 1960s.
But after two wars, a $12 trillion debt, a financial crisis and the most politically tone-deaf president in modern history, Americans may have finally given up on big government.
DRAFT VICTOR DAVIS HANSON FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012: TO SALVAGE AND REBUILD A PIG STY, OR A NATION, SOME THINGS ARE BASIC REQUIREMENTS.
First you have to kill off the infected animals. Second you have to remove the dead carcasses. Then you remove the contaminated muck and disinfect the pig pen. Then you replace the dead animals and identify a strong new leader.
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THERE IS NO REASON TO FEEL HUMBLE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH DAVE.
35. Dave Surls
IMO, the Tea Parties aren’t going to cut it. If you want to stop the lefties you’re going to have to do what the original Tea Partiers did. Quit paying the taxes…and get ready to fight.
Hate to say it, but nothing sort of actual resistance is going to stop the lefty tyrants. They firmly believe that we exist to serve them, and it’s going to take more than just polite protests to change their minds.
TESTING WHETHER OR NOT REPETITION IS A GOOD SUBSTITUTE FOR BANGING DONKEYS UPSIDE THE HEAD WITH A 2X4?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The Tenth Amendment was meant to guarantee the federal government stayed within its proper sphere. Therefore, it makes it clear that all powers not explicitly given to the federal government belong to the states, and that all powers belonging to the states actually belong to the people.
If God grants victory to the modern Tea Party I just sincerely pray for two things. Firstly that it ignites the same cause of freedom around the world just like 1776 did; and secondly, to paraphrase the epilogue of Henry V, that it does not squander away its victories cheaply after the war by relaxing too soon, not purging enough of the irritated ministers from their infested lairs and by assuming the new bastards are any different in stripe from the old without real evidence thereof.
Cicero said that it was the City (of Rome) that bred corruption; that once men went there to serve the polity it inevitably corroded their character. Well we’re all grown up now so for God’s sake let’s innoculate the new citizen revolutionaries who take high office or elect others to it from that corruption.
Getting to the Moon was easy- eradicating the modern unholy lust for corrupting money, perverted sex and raw power will be as revolutionary as the founding of America.
I THOUGHT IT WAS OBAMA THAT SAID THAT. I GUESS I WAS WRONG.
“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government…”
The bill could still face a veto from Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer. A spokesman for Ms. Brewer said she has not publicly commented on the bill. Ms. Brewer, a Republican, has argued for stringent immigration laws.
Under the measure, passed Tuesday by Arizona's lower house, after being passed earlier by the state Senate, foreign nationals are required to carry proof of legal residency.
Another attendee, John Arathuzik, 69, of Topsfield, said he had never been especially politically active until he saw the direction of the Obama administration.
"I feel like I can do one of two things: I can certainly vote in November, which I'll do, and I can provide support for the peaceful protest about the direction this country is taking," said Arathuzik, a veteran who clutched a copy of the Constitution distributed by one of the vendors who had set up shop amid locals heading to work and walking their dogs.
A festive mood filled the air. A band played patriotic music, and hawkers sold yellow Gadsden flags emblazoned with the words "Don't Tread on Me" and the image of a rattlesnake.
STILL AIN'T A DIME'S WORTH OF DIFFERENCE. SO SAYETH DR. SOWELL.
Republicans too often appoint judges whose confirmation will not require a big fight with the Democrats. You can always avoid a fight by surrendering, and a whole wing of the Republican party has long ago mastered the art of preemptive surrender.
The net result has been a whole string of Republican Justices of the Supreme Court carrying out the Democrats' agenda, in disregard of the Constitution. John Paul Stevens has been just one.
If and when the Republicans return to power in Washington, we can only hope that they remember what got them suddenly and unceremoniously dumped out of power the last time. Basically, it was running as Republicans and then governing as if they were Democrats, running up big deficits, with lots of earmarks and interfering with the market.
“ As a specialist physician I will suggest that until primary care physicians can earn 70-80% of what most specialists make without killing themselves, there will be no incentive for the best and the brightest to go into primary care.''
The political class is raping the taxpayers while the Government is spining the "oh how we need more money for entitlements" mantra to rip off anything the average private sector worker has left.
Governor Christy of New Jersey was on the Fox News this morning pointing out the insanity of the public sector workers pensions in New Jersey.
If a 49 year old worker retires with his thirty years in as a public worker never making more than $50,000 in salary, he would have paid in $126,400 toward his retirement and would recieve a total pension for the rest of his life that on average equals $3,300,000 plus lifetime free healthcare worth an additional $504,000.
Or on his payments of $126,400 into his retirement plan the cost to pay his pension and retirement healthcare is $3,804,000 for the taxpayers of New Jersey. Which of course is why they are going broke.
How many of you working tools out there in the private sector have that coming to you out of your 401K?
And as we all know the difference between a public sector worker and a tree stump is the stump at least can say it was once productive.
This has to end. Get ready for a real civil war over this ripoff. The pigs like to keep their acorns once they have bribed their politican friends to steal them for them.
WHO IN THE WORLD IS THIS HABU PERSON? THINK HE'S ON TO SOMETHING DR. HANSON DIDN'T KNOW?
79. Habu
What we can expect in terms of dollar purchasing power going forward?
Much of the answer centers on the continuing argument over the direction of money:
deflation /inflation.
One thing is certain. A collapse of the financial system is already baked into the cake, that train has left the station, and a dozen more trite but true metaphors. What the inflation/deflation debate seems to boil down to is what Congress, the Fed and the administration will do going forward and that’s not looking good. Greenspan already said he pooh poohed in his pants in dreaming up his calculations and oops, there went all our money.
It is clear that we are currently in a broader deflationary trend. This is evidenced by what happened with the stock market crash, including commodity prices like oil, copper and even gold, in late 2008 through early 2009. Because of that gold is now THE place to be.
Credit collapsed during this time period – across the board. Essentially, bad debts were being cleared out of the system, just as they should have been.
In March of 2009, the Fed and Congress began pumping trillions of dollar into the system in the form of bailouts, stimulus packages, and buyer incentives. This put a floor on the deflationary impact across all asset classes and led to a manufactured (read false) rise in those asset classes (inflationary) from March 2009 through today.
If the powers that be were to pull all stimulus and monetary expansion right now, it is evident what would happen to all asset classes, save precious metals; a re-collapse in values.
Thus, the future is going to be dependent on what Congress and the Fed do going forward which is to continue printing fiat money with absolutely NO escape from the eventual hyperinflation that will follow and the Mother of all Depressions.
When the SHTF people get very irrational and they are no longer driven by logic, but rather, fear. When the system was on “the brink”, as suggested by then Secretary of Treasury Henry Paulson, Congress acted out of fear of the potential for “martial law” across America if the system collapsed, and thus the trillions in spending was justified, which turned out to be exactly the WRONG thing to do …bankruptcy laws could have handled the situation much more efficiently from a legal and monetary standpoint, saving the taxpayer his life savings.
Now they want your 401K money. If we were to see a relapse in the housing meltdown and a crash in stock markets, those in charge may very well respond irrationally and do what they did in 2008.
Keynesians believe, after all, that the reason the Great Depression of the 1930’s wasn’t prevented is because we failed to spend enough money. This time around obama will print.print,print….visualize chaos.
The long-term position in terms of money? In the short and long term the cake is baked.
Expect inflation, hyperinflation from now on: expect a significant rise in your cost of living, especially related to commodity driven prices like gas, food and electricity. And do not expect wages to keep up with rising prices, meaning that as prices in essential goods go up, your wages will not keep up, meaning that over time, you will get poorer and societal breakdown will occur.
We’ve seen the best days. Prepare to eat your neighbor or be eaten.
Finally, as is obvious–at least to me—with the election of such a naive fool as Obama, the majority of Americans are as lacking in the healthy “nutrition” in the food for thought dimension.
Talk about psychically undernourished!
How about telling the truth—too many are unwittingly conned to digest the suicide “pill” that the Democratic Party has become, and is shoving down our mental throats!
67. crk
We have bad roads, crumbling infrastructure, and inferior education because we have bad congressmen, and inferior presidents because we have lazy, uninformed, spoiled voters who elect people like themselves.
How then can you expect anything different?
In a sense isn’t the majority of America standing on street corners with plackards “give me other peoples stuff” for which the politicians accomodate to get votes?
Who will finally be left to pay the politicians to pay for the “entitled” to pay for the votes ?
Immediate answer is to vote out any and all incumbents. Good luck .
An eloquent post. Well said. Unfortunately, if the polls are to be believed, the great majority of the demographic you describe also vote on the “progressive” side. That means you are voting for the redistribution of the fruits of your hard labor, the unsustainable growth of government and government power over every aspect of life, under the happy face slogans of hope and change.
You can blame the Boomers for many sins, but laziness is not one of them.
The problem is that those of us who spent our careers working the same hours you describe allowed the statists and extremists to take over the major institutions of the nation, which they now largely control.
The Boomers will not take their graying heads out of their nether regions politically, so your generation had better wake up and reclaim the nation.
REAGAN GOT IT, SO DOES VICTOR DAVIS HANSON. WHERE'S THE DRAFT?
The only two summers I fully remember are the one on the farm and the other on the ranch. The rest were spent on nothing much, the usual stuff.
This wise lesson from my cagey old dad revealed to me that so much of life, a huge vibrant slice of life, lies totally unobserved, unregarded, unrecognized and unknown by a softie like I was, caught up in interminable suburban whatevers.
I regard it as a signature failing of our culture that we cannot communicate to the majority of our people that civilization is not automatic and does not fall down from the sky like manna.
Another failure is the failure to communicate the simple joy and pride of accomplishment you get when the season is over, and the hard worked day is put to bed for an honest and well-deserved return.
As I watch this teeming recession-era energy — thousands leaving squalor in Mexico for the life raft of the U.S., thousands in the middle buying as birthright what a few decades ago would be considered the playthings of the aristocracy, and thousands living in a progressive bubble disconnected from the grime and mess that fuels it — I hope there are still enough around to keep all this going.
I say that because a new Microsoft program, a better search engine, another recent arrival from Chiapas, and someone out of work and still at Best Buy simply are not going to get us out of this recession, find the energy to keep the country fueled, and create the money to pay off a soon-to-be $ 20 trillion debt.
In short, from this week’s observations, I think our so-called poor need to read a bit more, and our assumed elite to read a bit less.
In the old days a poor house in rural Selma would have poor plumbing and no insulation; today’s apartment, in terms of hot water heater, oven, cook top, or air conditioner, is not much different than those found in the estates above Stanford.
I can’t quite see how imported granite countertops in a 8,000 square foot estate translate into better food preparation than does cheap tile counters in a $500 a month apartment in Selma.
Note well that no politician ever gives the U.S. credit for extending the veneer of American consumer comfort to nearly all its 300 million residents. I say nearly all, since if someone can cross the border from Oaxaca, enter Selma, and have an iPhone that connects to the world wide internet, instant weather reports, and a GPS, then poverty as we knew is not really old-fashioned want — despite the John Edwards’ two nations rhetoric.
There is a new beggar. I see him on the intersections now on major urban boulevards. They are never illegal aliens, rarely African-Americans, but almost all white males, and of two sorts.
One is someone who looks homeless, not crippled but in a walker or wheelchair (yet he gets up occasionally). He has a sign on cardboard with a wrenching narrative (fill in the blanks: veteran, of course; disabled; will work (not) for food, etc.). Choice corners become almost enclaves, as two or three cluster on islands and stoplights, as if certain franchises are choice and more lucrative than others.
A newer second sort is younger, more upscale. One fellow looked like a fraternity brat with a sign that said “Mom has cancer. No health insurance. Please help!” Another burly lad, well fed and toned, had a placard, “Need gas money. Broke down.” Yet a third waved a card, “Sudden wedding, need money.”
My illiberal side suggests that if we were to investigate, both types have not inconsiderable cash in their pockets. They certainly feel there is no shame in begging. All that is changed from antiquity is that we have eliminated the vocabulary not the act: beggars don’t exist; “homeless” and the “needy” do.
WHOSE VISION IS CLEARER THAN VICTOR DAVIS HANSON'S?
As for bankrupt, wannabe national defaulters, don’t worry — we are rapidly catching up, and have neither the credibility nor the desire to lecture you about artificial constructs like “debt,” “bonds,” “trust,” and other archaic financial euphemisms manipulated to protect the international capital of an overseer class.
Sowing a new crop takes a while, but the sprouting has begun and the bitter, 1979-like harvests will soon be upon us.
In other words, the last 14 months have been a catharsis of sorts.
At last the world of Rush Limbaugh’s fears and Sean Hannity’s nightmares is upon us, and we can determine whether these megaphones were always just alarmists — or whether they legitimately warned of what logically would follow should faculty-lounge utopian rhetoric ever be taken seriously.
Europe screamed for a multilateral, multipolar, non-exceptional America. Now in place of the old Johnny-on-the-spot NATO colossus, they are quickly getting what they wished for — America, the new hypopower.
BOOK OF VICTOR: CHAPTER 1 VERSE 1. YOU NEED TO BLOW A DRAFT TO THE PRESIDENCY HIS WAY.
Now, however, for the first time in my memory, the United States has an authentic leftist as president — one who unabashedly believes that the role of the U.S. government at home is to redistribute income in order to ensure equality of results through high taxes on a few and increased entitlements for many, while redefining America abroad as a sort of revolutionary state that sees nothing much exceptional in either its past role or its present alliances — other than something that should be “reset” to the norms embraced by the United Nations.
In sum, for years the loud Right warned Americans about what could happen should they vote for a genuine leftist. We mostly did not believe their canned horror stories. But now the country has got what it unwittingly voted for — and at last we have evolved beyond the rhetoric and entered into the real liberal world of the way things must be.
It was not his agenda but his carefully crafted pseudo-centrism that got Obama elected — that, and a dismal designed to lose McCain campaign, weariness over the Iraq War, a rare orphaned election without any incumbent candidate, the September 2008 meltdown, and the novelty of the nation’s first serious African-American presidential candidacy.
WHY? BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE SAID. WHY? BECAUSE IT'S THE TRUTH.
One of the most ominous developments of our time has been the multicultural dogma that all cultures are equal. It is one of the many unsubstantiated assertions that have become fashionable among self-congratulatory elites, with hard evidence being neither asked for nor offered.
But, however much such assertions minister to the egos of the intelligentsia and the careers of politicians and race hustlers, the multicultural dogma is a huge barrier to the advancement of groups who are lagging economically, educationally and otherwise.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON FOR PRESIDENT 2012. HE DOESN'T SHOOT HOOPS BUT HE SHOOTS STRAIGHT WITH PEOPLE.
Mr. Obama is "the most radical president in American history," Gingrich said. "He has said, 'I run a machine, I own Washington, and there is nothing you can do about it."
"What we need is a president, not an athlete," Gingrich said during a question and answer period after his speech. He added: "Shooting three point shots may be clever, but it doesn't put anybody to work."
This has happened many, many times before and it usually ends pretty sadly. Its bullets or bread at the end and that is where the benign dictator takes over for the good of all.
California has been taken over by the Socialist/progressive/Marxists and financial idiots.
Try to fathom the reasoning behind the ruin of the Central Valley, some of the most productive farm land in the world.
It once fed most of the United States its vegetables and its now slowly turning into desert from lack of water because of the environazi’s that California is rife with; a 40% unemployment rates and a $31 Billion Dollar industry ruined, just in a decade. California is shot, everyone that can is leaving because of Marxist politics and taxation.
19. Thomas McLaughlin
The honest worker, the industrious entrepreneur, the saver and the investor, long the enemies of Marxists and idealistic revolutionaries, are now the enemies of our own government.
Those who provided for themselves by indusrty and thrift are soon to be stripped bare by the locusts turned loose on them by the government.
Unfortunately, it is not only the witless Obama administration but years of pandering polititians who have sold the nations future for their own political gain. Where does one hide from the ravishers? I don’t know.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON FOR PRESIDENT 2012. HE KNOWS ALL ABOUT MUCKING OUT CESSPOOLS LIKE THE BIG ONE KNOW AS DC.
So as the U.S. completes its metamorphosis into a much larger version of the EU, we should expect to see something of the following:
Karzai or Allawi will look more to Iran, which will soon become the regional and nuclear hegemon of the Middle East.
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics had better mend fences with Russia.
The EU should finally start on that much-ballyhooed all-European response force.
Taiwan, the Philippines, and South Korea should strengthen ties with China.
Buffer states in South America had better make amends with a dictatorial, armed, and aggressive Chavez.
Israel should accept that the U.S. no longer will provide support for it at the UN, chide the Arab states to cool their anti-Israeli proclamations, remind the Europeans not to overdo their popular anti-Israeli rhetoric, or warn radical Palestinians not to start another intifada. (In other words, it's open season to say or do anything one wishes with Israel.)
As for bankrupt, wannabe national defaulters, don’t worry — we are rapidly catching up, and have neither the credibility nor the desire to lecture you about artificial constructs like “debt,” “bonds,” “trust,” and other archaic financial euphemisms manipulated to protect the international capital of an overseer class.
Sowing a new crop takes a while, but the sprouting has begun and the bitter, 1979-like harvests will soon be upon us.
WILL THE SLEEPING SHEEP WAKE UP AND FIND THEIR LEGS?
Due in large part to the passage of the stimulus bill and the more recent health care reform, 38 states have passed some type of resolution emphasizing the rights reserved to them in the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution. That amendment reads:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The Tenth Amendment was meant to guarantee the federal government stayed within its proper sphere. Therefore, it makes it clear that all powers not explicitly given to the federal government belong to the states, and that all powers belonging to the states actually belong to the people.
Within five weeks after Obama’s inauguration, eleven states attempted passage of preemptive resolutions to avoid the financial burden certain to accompany the passage of Obama’s agenda. These states were Washington, New Hampshire, Arizona, Montana, Missouri, Michigan, Oklahoma, Minnesota, South Carolina, Georgia, and Texas.
While most of the eleven states succeeded in passing resolutions, some, like New Hampshire, did not. But even where the resolutions failed to pass they did not fail to send a message to Washington, D.C. The message was that citizens around the country, both Republican and Democrat, had already seen enough of Obama’s hope and change.
GOVERNOR WANTS TO BE A MAILMAN DELIVERING A MESSAGE.
AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states’ rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.”
A number of recent federal proposals are not within the scope of the federal government’s constitutionally designated powers and impede the states’ right to govern themselves. HCR 50 affirms that Texas claims sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not otherwise granted to the federal government.
It also designates that all compulsory federal legislation that requires states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties, or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding, be prohibited or repealed.
To our own detriment, we have attributed to our ideological opponents the same benign intentions the average law-abiding, tax-paying citizen have:
To be left alone to raise their family, conduct their business, and worship their God in peace.
We mistakenly think that Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich basically want the same end-goals for America, but just disagree with each other on the means (and that disagreement is based almost entirely in petty politics). This is wrong.
Liberty and freedom are not compatible with top-down government control and social engineering. The enslaving of people onto the welfare plantation, regardless of the intentions of the parties responsible, is not compatible with real justice and compassion.
Equality of Opportunity is not compatible with an unobtainable, stubborn, and arbitrary insistence upon Equality of Outcome.
I don’t want to get ahead of myself. One thing at a time. Here at A Voice in the Wilderness I will continue to highlight particular, specific issues and stories in with the intent to expose their connection to some of the bigger concepts and principles that “Mere Conservatism” embodies. The devil is in the details, as they say.
But from time to time, and perhaps for the first time, people need to catch a glimpse of what we’re fighting for, who we’re fighting, and why remaining in the shadows of indifference and ignorance is really no option at all.
Two men, Chesterton and McCabe, with wholly different worldviews and belief-systems, were able to pin-point the crux of the culture war that rages still today and come away with a healthy respect for one another. They grasped the seriousness of their disagreement and found ways to hate the other side’s ideas without hating the individuals on the other side. We can do the same with the political, religious, and secular Left in 2010.
Only if we’re all honest about the stakes involved, that is.
But explanations of group differences based on historic or geographic happenstances do not provide emotional fulfillment. Some preferred theories of genetic differences and others preferred seeing the poverty of some as being a result of the sins of those who were more prosperous.
Multiculturalism enshrines the sins and grievances approach-- and paints the poor into a corner, where they can nurse their resentments, instead of advancing their skills and their prospects. The beneficiaries are politicians and race hustlers.
OPRAH TOO BIG TO FAIL? WHO WOULD SHIELD THE GODESS?
The Blackballing of Kitty Kelley's Oprah Bio. Why Larry King, Charlie Rose, David Letterman and Barbara Walters all said no.
There is a serious backstory to the story of O. The first thing you need to know is that there was great surprise in the publishing world that such a book could even be done. Oprah, being the doyenne of making or breaking books, was thought to be immune from an unauthorized biography because … well, she is the doyenne of making or breaking books.
Kitty Kelley was probably the only author whose name and track record could convince a publisher to take the leap. (And we’re not talking Grace’s Storm Door and Publishing Company; we’re talking Random House.)
Kelley is generally thought of as an "Uh-oh" writer. That is, when she announces she is writing a book about X, the response is "Uh-oh," usually on the part of the subject. For the rest of us, the "Uh-oh" signifies: "This is gonna be good. It may be down and dirty, but it will be true, and it will be good."
If there is hidden history to be gotten, Kelley will get it. Some people belittle her work as muckraking that is perhaps fanciful, if not far-fetched, but that is because they can’t believe that there are facts about a famous person which have heretofore not been known.
Let’s put it this way: Frank Sinatra, when she was writing her book on him, was so, um … displeased that he threatened to have her killed. And she’s never been sued successfully.
For her biography about Oprah, she did 850 interviews. Eight hundred and fifty! (In my news days if I contacted four people I thought I had really worked my tail off.) Her work is that of a hybrid researcher/historian, and whatever she writes you can take to the bank.
She is in no way an academic, which is probably the reason her books sell in the millions.
The second thing you need to know about this book is that most of the kingpin interviewers in the mainstream media were astonishingly up front about saying they would not help Kitty promote her book because they didn’t want to offend Oprah! They didn’t even make up excuses; they flat-out said they didn’t want to offend Oprah. It was surprising, to say the least, that interviewers such as Larry King, Charlie Rose, David Letterman and Barbara Walters all shut her out. Walters’s turn-down was especially interesting in that she said she wouldn’t even have Kelley on "The View." I mean, that’s a show with four or five babes nattering on, where no guest is on for more than maybe seven minutes. Walters told Random House publicity she didn’t want to "upset" Oprah. Letterman said he didn’t want to "disrupt" his détente with Oprah. And ABC, whose name might as well now stand for "All ‘Bout Cowards," made an across-the-board decision that Kelley’s book would be boycotted by all ABC shows. Even second-tier people like Joy Behar followed suit. And Rachael Ray! A cooking show, no less.
A wiser administration would call in opponents and, in bipartisan fashion, agree to finish the border fence, toughen up employer sanctions, issue a tamper-proof ID, deport alien felons and recent arrivals, and then work out a process through which illegal aliens who are long-standing residents of the United States could reapply for residency and embark on a pathway to eventual citizenship, contingent upon payment of fines, lack of criminality, compliance with current law, and mastery of English.
Then legitimate debate could take place over the thorny issue of whether aliens would first need to return home in order to begin going through these legal channels and processes.
Instead, we will see a replay of the healthcare controversy.
The administration has decided that winning another legislative victory in an agenda aimed at remaking America is worth the cost of dividing the country and whipping up heroes and demons. Momentum, not compromise, is the order of the day.
NO NO SELWYN THERE IS NO SOULTION AT THE STATE OR LOCAL LEVELS. A DRAFT A MIDDLE AGED TO ELDERLY WHITE MALE AMERICAN PATRIOT NON-POLITICIAN IS THE ONLY WAY. NOTHING ELSE WILL WORK.
November is not the ultimate solution. In the political universe, seven months is an eternity, and we cannot know precisely how public sentiment will evolve. Besides, the chances of Republicans retaking both Houses are slim and, even if they do, there’s no guarantee they’ll rise to the occasion. Some will be Scott Brown types — not the sort to give us tradition we can believe in.
The truth is that Uncle Sam violates the Constitution ever more brazenly with the passage of time, adding to its power and subtracting from our rights. And it won’t stop unless someone stops it.
A better solution lies on the local and state levels. Fifteen states are currently suing the federal government over ObamaCare, and then there is the Tenth Amendment Movement, involving at least 35 states that are asserting their sovereignty over powers granted them by that amendment.
These are good starts, but . . . .
Question: What if the Supreme Court, in obvious violation of the Constitution, upholds ObamaCare? Do we simply obey unflinchingly and wait for the next federal usurpation?
Victor Davis Hanson has my gratitude for this article.
Its high time that those who have given Obama the benefit of the doubt regarding his constant self-contradictions realize that we are close to the dead-end of the Orwellian world of “freedom is slavery,” (I don’t know whether that is an exact quote) and the attempt to defend individual rights is racism!
People who have reached this stage of sabotaging their thinking process are to be pitied; unfortunately, they seem to have power over our lives.
Jonathan Nolan
Look, socialism as it truly exists, not as it is advertised, is the chosen method for the enslavement of the whole human race for the benefit of the power elite who will sit atop the pyramid. Obama is a NPD suffering puppet, nothing more.
Postmodernism didn’t appear in a vacuum or by accident. It is part of a structured Marxist (or really League of Just Men aka Illuminati) takeover.
Believe it or not as you please, but there’s more proof of it than of gravity having an associated waveparticle!
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
"Geezers: You didn't get a cost of living increase this year because the cost of living did not go up."
Denny, you're wrong! The cost of living went up at least 4 to 6 percent last year depending on which Commerce Department idiot did the measuring.
Your Geezer buddies were screwed out of a cost of living increase because the version of the Consumer Price Index used by the government to calculate Social Security increases (one of several CPI measures they calculate, by the way) didn't go up. And the reason it didn't go up was because it excludes increases in the cost of food and energy -- a couple of things Codgers buy from time to time. And the Geezers' Libtard Democrat icon Billy Jeff Clinton was the leader who made the change.
Meanwhile, the version of the CPI used by the government to gin cost of living changes does include housing and vacation costs -- a couple of things Codgers seldom buy -- which dropped like a rock.
But all those old farts who voted for the Wee Wee don't need to worry about this discrepancy. In a few months, the Democraps' social agenda will trigger hyperinflation and then all their bonds will become worthless, their pensions will become worthless, and their life insurance will become worthless.
As a result, the dumb old bastards are going to do a lot less eating, driving and house heating. They are going to do a lot more home selling, moving and sleeping in shelters. That will make their Social Security checks go up a little more than do now. Unfortunately, the checks won't buy more than a couple of tanks of gas, but what the hell ... at least they're going to get free health care ... providing they can find a competent doctor and can wait ten years or so.
But looking on the positive side, that Blue Pill won't taste quite as bad now. And there's going to be a lot fewer of those dumb shits to breathe up good oxygen and vote for liberals.
DID THE MAGIC MULATTO GO BACK IN TIME AND KILL JAMES MADISON? CAN AMERICANS NO LONGER VOTE WITH THEIR FEET?
James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, explained in Federalist Paper No. 45: "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.
The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. ...
The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State."
LET THERE BE NO DOUBT. AN IDIOT BY ANY OTHER NAME IS STILL AN IDIOT. IDIOT, THY NAME IS OBAMA.
The real issue was his memories of "Cominsky" Park. Last year it was a more egregious malapropism when he called it Cominsky Field.
Rush jumped immediately on the fact that nobody from Chicago ever calls the southside baseball place "Cominsky" more than once without getting slapped silly. It is Comisky with no "N", thank you.
But the earlier iteration was even worse when he called it Cominsky Field. Any good Chicago boy, from either the northside or the southside knows that the place on Addison St. is Wrigley FIELD and the place on 35th Street is Comisky PARK. You don't mix the names.
Failure to be able to name a single "favorite" player either from current roster or legacy for the White Sox pretty much cemented the deal that once again this guy is a total phony. Not a core principle to be found anywhere in his body. Not one.
MR. PRESIDENT. I LIKE IT A LOT. THIS GUY IS NO PIG IN A POKE. FEEL THE DRAFT?
I believe it to be highly unlikely that the United States of America will long remain a free and sovereign Constitutional Republic governed by representatives who advocate for and work to implement the will of the people.
I believe the one best hope for the preservation of the nation is for those who believe in the majesty of our Constitutional Republic over any other form of government ever devised by man, is to unite with a single voice, and seek out one individual, with the courage to undertake the hard work of ripping out and burying the toxic material used by Democrats and Republicans alike as they constructed their highway to UNtopia, and who best represents their views regarding the virtues of intellect, humility, historical perspective, devotion to country, common sense, honesty, decency and public service rather political self-service, and draft him or her to run for the presidency in 2012, providing a choice, not an echo for the people who think and care deeply about their country.
I believe that overwhelming and constantly increasing numbers of those among us who demand and expect "entitlements" largesse from an all powerful federal government will make it nearly impossible to roll back the wreckage of a nation, brought about by oncoming tides, where a much more powerful tide of communism will surely follow in the wake of the slightly less destructive tide of socialism that has become much like a tsunami.
I believe that Barack Hussein Obama is a Marxist Puppet who will carry out the orders issued to him by a gaggle of Marxist Puppet Masters who pull his strings behind a curtain of stealth.
I believe that anyone with a basic knowledge and even a little understanding of the laws of economics knows that the course set by Barack Hussein Obama for this nation cannot be sustained going forward. And that it has never been his intention to preserve a great nation but rather to bring the United States of America to its knees by turning its people into a helpless, babbling mass of humanity depending on an all powerful federal government for its needs and wants.
I believe that the ultimate objective of the Obama administration is to rebuild the United States of America as simply one small component of his communist vision of an all powerful one world government that I choose to call UNTOPIA.
I believe that the ideal of honest state and federal politicians who seek office to serve the people is dead and has been replaced by a political game played by professional politicians who seek office to gain or expand wealth and power at the expense of the people they only pretend to represent.
I believe that most network and cable television news programs are not in fact disseminators of news as they purport to be but are in fact merely a stage where an endless stream of ego driven self-promoting actors are allowed to strut while performing, and spew whatever propaganda they choose so long as it sells commercial airtime.
I believe a majority of major and local once respectful newspapers whose main purpose for existence has become spreading outright lies and endless streams of propaganda about the virtues of collectivism and the benefits of group think when compared to their perverted versions of unending evils flowing from free people acting on their own individual initiative unrestrained by excessive government control.
I believe that my country, the United States of America as I knew it in the past has only one hope of survival and that hope is not based on a change in control of congress in November 2010 or the election of another Senator or another Governor or anyone else whose life has been dedicated to climbing the political ladder toward a platform built on corruption. It's time for the people to stand up and be counted, to put up or shut up.
I believe that the draft movement needs to start now, this day, rather than tomorrow. Two solid years laying out the blueprint to preserve a nation fit for those who will follow us into the future years.
I believe there are a few possible candidates who would meet the necessary criteria and at least three or four who would not. First choice on my favored list is the noted historian, Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, followed closely by General David Patreus and if neither of them was willing to serve, then EX-Governor, Mitt Romney whom I believe to be an honest man who would not sell out his country for twenty pieces of silver.
The same cannot be said for the likes of professional spoilers such as John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, Rudolph Giuliani or many others from the ranks of both major political parties who seek ego driven gratification which truly serves only to divide the people and weaken and then ultimately, destroy this nation.
Nor does my list contain the name of Sarah Palin who I believe has been bought and paid for by those who pull the strings of all the puppets at the Fox News Network.
"I believe we are nearing a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those Americans who want to be left alone that separation is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage, where vows are broken, our human rights protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them.
The Democrat-controlled Washington is simply an escalation of a process that has been in full stride for at least two decades. There is no evidence that Americans who are responsible for and support constitutional abrogation have any intention of mending their ways.
You say, "Williams, what do you mean by constitutional abrogation?" Let's look at just some of the magnitude of the violations.
Article I, Section 8 of our Constitution lists the activities for which Congress is authorized to tax and spend. Nowhere on that list is authority for Congress to tax and spend for: prescription drugs, Social Security, public education, farm subsidies, bank and business bailouts, food stamps and other activities that represent roughly two-thirds of the federal budget. Neither is there authority for congressional mandates to the states and people about how they may use their land, the speed at which they can drive, whether a library has wheelchair ramps and the gallons of water used per toilet flush. The list of congressional violations of both the letter and spirit of the Constitution is virtually without end. Our derelict Supreme Court has given Congress sanction to do anything upon which they can muster a majority vote."
-Dr. Walter Williams
THERE ARE DRAFTS AND THERE ARE ILL WINDS. BIG DIFFERENCE. THAT'S WHY TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.
MY REALITY IS THAT I LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE THE TOP DOG IS A MAGIC MULATTO MESSIAH.
Racialism — no such thing!
Race is the same. A person of color can hardly, given the history of oppression accorded to non-whites, himself be guilty of dividing people by race.
So if Obama says “typical white person,” or entitles his book from the sloganeering of a racist preacher he courted for 20 years, or stereotypes rural Pennsylvanians, or dubs police as acting “stupidly” in matters of supposed racial confrontation, or has an attorney general who damns the country as “cowards” on race, or appoints a Supreme Court judge who thinks a “wise Latina” by virtue of race and gender has superior wisdom, or recruits a Van Jones who characterizes everyone from polluters to mass murderers by race (I could go on), well, all this is not at all racial stereotyping with an intent to deprecate.
Why? Because constructs of language, expression, and reality hinge on status and class. Obama is seeking to dethrone traditional nexuses of power. So when he, from time to time, muses on real racial inequality, reactionaries retreat to “objective” “standards” of reciprocity to thwart his proposed changes.
The President of the United States — whose most important duty is to protect the citizens of this country — is publicly abjuring the use of nuclear weapons if we are attacked by chemical or biological weapons — both of which are known to all of us as Weapons of Mass Destruction, the dreaded WMDs.
What are we to make of this and the man who is adopting this policy? Does he hate us? Does he hate this country?
What would he do if there was, for example, a massive small pox attack on the U.S.? Send in the infantry? Call in the Marines? Try to reason with whoever did it and recommend they negotiate as the fatal disease spreads to millions of people?
Now I detest nuclear weapons as much as the next person, but this approach seems — I hate to repeat myself, but I will — deranged. It also has very little to do with actually reducing nuclear weapons in the world. Again, it seems like the act of an extreme narcissist, someone who wants to parade himself as anti-nuke while ignoring the checks and balances that have, in fact, kept nuclear weapons in their silos for decades.
Deterrence has worked. And now Obama wants to abandon or diminish it at the very moment Russia is modernizing their arsenal. What a strange person.
JOKE, WHAT JOKE, THE DUDE IS SERIOUSLY IMPAIRED. WHERE'S THE IMPEACHMENT CHAMBER?
Unfortunately, the joke is on us. Presidential proposals have become a manifestation of ego and not of thought-through deliberated policy. No attempt at bi-partisanship is ever really made because our leader is too fragile to compromise and too wounded to admit when he is wrong. For someone who arrived as an “intellectual” president, ideas are the least of it. He only wants to be right.
I know some conservatives think Obama is a socialist or a closet Alinskyite or whatever, but I think the problem is yet more complicated. No matter his ideology, this man is not fit to rule psychologically. Or, more properly, govern — but you know what I mean. He doesn’t have the temperament. He was elected with people knowing almost nothing about him. Despite that the facts are still masked, his history still obscure, we may now know too much, have seen too much. These things just leak out around the edges. They do for all of us, like it or not. And yet, he will be with us until 2012 at least.
YEP HE CAN TALK WITHOUT A PUPPET MASTER PULLING HIS STRINGS.
Response to Why Pile Taxes on the Over-taxed?
The narcissistic fool loves to hear himself talk. But he may be the only one in the room who really believes what he is saying. The 17 minute diatribe in response to a simple citizen's query is a perfect example of bafflement. He throws everything he knows at the wall in the fervent hope that something will stick.
And, he maintains the belief that when you walk away you will be awestruck at his seeming command of arcania.
THE REALLY BIG LIES JUST KEEP ON COMING DON'T THEY DOC?
Nothing is easier than coming up with computer models that prove almost anything.
Back during the 1970s, there were computer models predicting mass starvation and global cooling. The utter failure of those predictions ought to make us at least skeptical of computer models, especially computer models based on data that advocates want to keep from public view or even "lose" when investigators start closing in.
The huge political, financial and ideological investment of many individuals and institutions in the "global warming" hysteria makes it virtually impossible for many of the climate crusaders to gamble it all on a roll of the dice, which is what empirical verification is. It is far safer to dogmatize and to demonize those who think otherwise.
Educators who turn schools into indoctrination centers have been going all out to propagandize a whole generation with Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth"-- which has in fact carried a message that has been very convenient for Al Gore financially, producing millions of dollars from his "green" activities.
If you are 80 years old, and your assets exactly balance your liabilities, you're in good shape, right? Wrong.
At your age, you know that there may be some big medical bills coming, somewhere down the road.
If you have been following politics-- which may be bad for your blood pressure-- you know that the mountainous federal deficits that extend into the future, as far as the eye can see, are likely to set off inflation that will silently steal a big chunk of the value of whatever money you have put aside for your old age.
But none of that shows up in the numbers measuring your current assets and liability.
The last opportunity that current American citizens may have to determine who will control Congress may well be the election in November of this year.
Off-year elections don't usually bring out as many voters as Presidential election years. But the 2010 election may be the last chance to halt the dismantling of America. It can be the point of no return.
With politicians now having not only access to our most confidential records, and having the power of granting or withholding medical care needed to sustain ourselves or our loved ones, how many people will be bold enough to criticize our public servants, who will in fact have become our public masters?
Brown hails move on global bank tax
By George Parker in London
Published: April 4 2010 22:01 | Last updated: April 4 2010 22:01
Gordon Brown on Sunday said the large economies were close to agreeing a global tax on banks that would cost the financial sector billions of pounds a year but played down expectations that a deal could be struck at the next Group of 20 meeting in June.
The UK prime minister, who held talks with Angela Merkel, German chancellor, last week, said the scene was set for a “global responsibility levy”.
He said Britain, France and Germany were now broadly agreed on the need for a levy, and he hoped the US would come on board.
THREE NAMES: VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, DAVID PATREUS, MITT ROMNEY. END OF LIST.
DRAFT VICTOR DAVIS HANSON FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN 2012. BUT IF NOT HIM, THEN:
I believe it is highly unlikely that the United States of America will long remain a free and sovereign Constitutional Republic governed by representatives who advocate for and work to implement the will of the people.
I believe the one best hope for the preservation of the nation is for those who believe in the majesty of our Constitutional Republic over any other form of government ever devised by man, is to unite with a single voice, and seek out one individual, with the courage to undertake the work of ripping out and burying the toxic material of which the the highway to Utopia was built, and who best represents their views regarding the virtues of intellect, humility, historical perspective, devotion to country, common sense, honesty, decency and public service rather political self-service, and draft him or her to run for the presidency in 2012, providing a choice, not an echo.
I believe that overwhelming and constantly increasing numbers of those among us who demand and expect largesse they consider an entitlement from an all powerful federal government will make it nearly impossible to roll back the erossion wrought by oncoming tides where a much more powerful tide of communism will surely follow in the wake of a slightly less destructive tide of socialism.
I believe that Barack Hussein Obama is a Marxist Puppet who will carry out the orders issued to him by a gaggle of Marxist Puppet Masters who pull his strings behind a curtain of stealth.
I believe that anyone with a basic knowledge and understanding of the laws of economics knows that the course set by Barack Hussein Obama for this nation cannot be sustained going forward. And that it has never been his intention to save the nation but rather to bring it to its knees by turning Americans into a mass of humanity depending on an all powerful federal government for their needs and wants.
I believe that the ultimate objective of the Obama administration is to rebuild the United States of America as simply a small component of his communist vision of an all powerful one world government that I choose to call UNTOPIA.
I believe that the ideal of honest state and federal politicians who seek office to serve the people is dead and has been replaced by a political game played by professional politicians who seek office to gain or expand wealth and power at the expense of the people they only pretend to represent.
I believe that most network and cable television news programs are not in fact disseminators of news as they purport to be but are in fact merely a stage where an endless stream of ego driven self-promoting actors are allowed to perform and spew whatever propaganda they choose so long as it sells commercial airtime.
I believe a majority of major and local once respectful newspapers whose main purpose for existence has become spreading outright lies and endless streams of propaganda about the virtues of collectivism and the benefits of group think when compared to their perverted versions of unending evils flowing from free people acting on their own individual initiative unrestrained by excessive government control.
I believe that my country, the United States of America as I knew it in the past has only one hope of survival and that hope is not based on a change in control of congress in November 2010 or the election of another Senator or another Governor or anyone else whose life has been dedicated to climbing the political ladder toward a platform built on corruption. It's time for the people to stand up and be counted, to put up or shut up.
I believe that the draft movement needs to start now, this day, rather than tomorrow. Two solid years laying out the blueprint to preserve a nation fit for those who will follow us into the future years.
I believe there are a few possible candidates who would meet the necessary criteria and at least three or four who would not. First choice on my favored list is the noted historian, Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, followed closely by General David Patreus and if neither of them was willing to serve, then EX-Governor, Mitt Romney whom I believe to be an honest man who would not sell out his country for twenty pieces of silver.
The same cannot be said for the likes of professional spoilers such as John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, or others from the ranks of both major political parties who seek ego driven gratification which truly serves only to divide the people and weaken and then ultimately, destroy this nation.
Nor does my list contain the name of Sarah Palin who I believe has been bought and paid for by those who pull the strings of all the puppets at the Fox News Network.
Some say that Barack Hussein Obama's only qualifications are his skin color, a Muslim name that specifically recalls two prominent enemies of America, and hard-left political views that he usually knows enough to gloss over when the wrong people are listening — all of which endear him to the liberal elite ruling class that installed him in power.
But "community organizer" — i.e., Marxist rabble-rouser — isn't the only job title on his resume. He also taught law at the University of Chicago. Obama's past is shrouded in secrecy, but we do have some hearsay about his law-teaching days, via Doug Ross:
I spent some time with the highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law a few months back, and he did not have many nice things to say about "Barry."
Obama applied for a position as an adjunct and wasn't even considered. A few weeks later the law school got a phone call from the Board of Trustees telling them to find him an office, put him on the payroll, and give him a class to teach. The Board told him he didn't have to be a member of the faculty, but they needed to give him a temporary position. He was never a professor and was hardly an adjunct.
The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool.
According to my professor friend, he had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. He also doubted whether he was legitimately an editor on the Harvard Law Review, because if he was, he would be the first and only editor of an Ivy League law review to never be published while in school (publication is or was a requirement).
Apparently the Harvard Law Review position was an Affirmative Action appointment awarded to him to give liberals an opportunity to congratulate themselves, much like the position he holds now.
Not only was Hopey McChange never a law professor, at this point he isn't even a lawyer, having surrendered his license to practice law possibly to escape trouble over false information on his bar application. His Bitter Half isn't a lawyer anymore either. They're in good company, by liberal standards; Bill Clinton was forced to give up his law license too. It's nice to see the profession is maintaining some standards.
We may never know how the Manchurian Moonbat got bumped up the ladder to the top rung so fast, but it's becoming increasingly obvious that it wasn't on the strength of legitimate qualifications.
TIME TO START IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS? THE IDIOT FAKER DID NOT DESCEND FROM HEAVEN TO SAVE US AFTERALL.
"Halfway through, an audience member on the riser yawned.
But Obama wasn't finished. He had a "final point," before starting again with another list -- of three points.
"What we said is, number one, we'll have the basic principle that everybody gets coverage," he said, before launching into the next two points, for a grand total of seven.
His wandering approach might not matter if Obama weren't being billed as the chief salesman of the health-care overhaul. Public opinion on the bill remains divided, and Democratic officials are planning to send Obama into the country to persuade wary citizens that it will work for them in the long run.
It was not evident that he changed any minds at Friday's event. The audience sat politely, but people in the back of the room began to wander off.
Even Obama seemed to recognize that he had gone on too long. He apologized -- in keeping with the spirit of the moment, not once, but twice. "Boy, that was a long answer. I'm sorry," he said, drawing nervous laughter that sounded somewhat like relief as he wrapped up.
But, he said: "I hope I answered your question."
Obama has never graduated from any college. He can't produce any diploma's, degree's etc. This man is a total fraud.
The Bernie Madoff of Politics.
When are people going to wake up, this whole thing has been a scam on the people.
The voters have been swindled. He's not even born here. He refuses to prove it. Just like a good con-man in business. Just buy more time each and everytime someone ask's you for some documentation.
YOU'VE ALL BEEN SWINDLED BY THIS CON-MAN.
I wonder if we can call the Police and have Obama arrested?
It's common knowledge that minus his pre-programmed teleprompters that Obama is a babbling idiot. Recall that he couldn't even show up at a grammar school without his ubiquitous teleprompters. Congressman Paul Ryan made Obama look silly and confused at the faux health care summit. The best that Obama could offer was an angry response that they would hold that discussion for another day. We're still waiting. What a National disgrace.
YABUT EVEN BETTER, VICTOR DAVIS HANSON FOR PRESIDENT. THE TIME IS NOW FOR THE TEA PARTY THROWERS TO BEGIN THE WORK OF SAVING A DYING NATION. AND IN YOUR HEART, YOU KNOW IT.
"Many voters yearn for an outsider, someone with authenticity, integrity and proven accomplishment. Someone who has not spent their life plotting how to ascend the greasy pole, adjusting every utterance for maximum political advantage.
In this toxic climate, perhaps the only public institution that has increased in prestige in recent years is the American military. Its officers are looked upon, as General George Patton once noted, as "the modern representatives of the demi-gods and heroes of antiquity".
General Patreus would be the perfect Vice President to serve in the administration of Victor Davis Hanson. He would have the leisure time to enjoy his retirement years and would also be available to take command in the event of the death or disability of Dr. Hanson. Talk about a win-win situation, there you have it.
THE MAGIC MULATTO HAD A LITTLE HANGOVER THE DAY THAT CLASS WAS HELD AT HARVARD.
The Tenth Amendment and Enumerated Powers
The Tenth Amendment states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
By its terms, the amendment tells us nothing about which powers are delegated to the federal government, which are prohibited to the states, or which are reserved to the states or to the people. To determine that, we have to look to the centerpiece of the Constitution, the doctrine of enumerated powers.
That doctrine is discussed at length in the Federalist Papers. But it is explicit as well in the very first sentence of article 1, section 1, of the Constitution ("All legislative Powers herein granted...") and in the Tenth Amendment's reference to powers "not delegated," "prohibited," and "reserved."
Plainly, power resides in the first instance in the people, who then grant or delegate their power, reserve it, or prohibit its exercise, not immediately through periodic elections but rather institutionally--through the Constitution. The importance of that starting point cannot be overstated, for it is the foundation of whatever legitimacy our system of government can claim.
What the Tenth Amendment says, in a nutshell, is this: if a power has not been delegated to the federal government, that government simply does not have it. In that case, as Justice Thomas correctly said in his trenchant dissent in U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton (1995), it becomes a question of state law whether the power is held by a state or, failing that, by the people, having never been granted to either government.
At bottom, then, the Tenth Amendment is not about federal vs. state, much less about federal-state "partnerships," block grants, "swapping," "turnbacks," or any of the other modern concepts of intergovernmental rule. It is about legitimacy.
As the final member of the Bill of Rights, and the culmination of the founding period, the Tenth Amendment recapitulates the philosophy of government first set forth in the Declaration of Independence, that governments are instituted to secure our rights, that they derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Without that consent, as manifested through constitutional ratification, power is simply illegitimate.
IT'S A GOOD THING THAT SOME FOLKS STILL BELIEVE IN A BETTER TOMORROW.
It is true that no nation has in the past ever recovered from the cycle of entitlement, moral decay and aristocratic rot that we find ourselves in. But it is also true that no nation — not one in history — was established precisely in opposition to these cancers.
It is also true that never before have common people — otherwise known as the Host Organism — had the means to speak directly to one another, as we are here. It is true that if there is to be an historical exemption to the Cycle of Civilization it is only here that it will occur, and it is also true that the concepts of Free Will and Destiny are antithetical to one another. One of them is true and the other is not.
It is my belief that you can chose to abandon Free Will and chose to believe in destiny and historical inevitability, or you can take the risk to believe instead that there is a new world populated by optimists and dreamers, but dreamers with rifles as well as quills and parchment… People who have never surrendered and for whom the very idea of defeat and despair is anathema.
That’s a choice I make every day. What we see before us is the result of lost elections and redemption will come from winning elections. Mark these words, my friends: We are going to whip these Marxists out of their little commie boots!
TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES AND IT'S NOT AN APRIL FOOLS DAY JOKE.
4. stuart williamson:
It is scarey, alright, Dr. Hanson – the rapidity with which the Chicago Machine spawn of Stalin’s Kremlin have applied the strategies of Marxist dictatorship: demonizing of opposition; ramping up bureaucracy; penalizing the bourgeoisie; controlling the press running up debt. Hell-bent to destroy capitalism and the two-party political system.
I have always been contemptuous of conspiracy thinking, but it is increasingly evident that the Axelrod-orchestrated endless campaign is tightly engineered to force as much raw Socialism into law, backed by a dedicated nomenklatura and swollen, permanently entrenched bureaucracy as possible within two years, and then remain as destructive as possible when they lose control of Congress.
Yet many in the right-wing punditry still dither: “Can he really be a Socialist?’ and “Doesn’t he realize…?
One thing is sure: this didn’t just happen. This administration knows exactly what it is doing, is not caught up in knee-jerk reaction, and will employ any means, however vile and deceitfully, against those who challenge them.
VDH: Wow. Now I can hardly wait for the coming elections this November! Of course, that presupposes that there’ll be federal elections as long as our present society remains docile and accepting of whatever our present federal administration wishes to do regarding non-existent loopholes, or non-existent shows of popular non-support of this administration’s acts and behaviors.
Well, at least I don’t need a passport to travel to Wisconsin or Iowa but maybe that’s coming, or maybe just a requirement for a government issued photo ID to be on our person at all times.
The future never has been predictable yet we’ve usually been able to kind of determine what government limits were; that ability seems to be lost for now. This is a brave new world and the old world seemed to have been a better place.
There is no more interest on your meager passbook account; just on your mortgage: you pay the bank 5% for a house loan; they pay you a tenth of that at .5% for having $10,000 in your savings. They are dubbed “evil” by Washington and given more perks and latitude than ever before.
You are to pay higher local, state, federal, payroll, and heath care taxes, with the assumptions that you will not help to pay down the debt and you, the greedy bastard, should pay even more taxes than you do.
A year ago I had never heard of “overseas contingencies operations” (what possibly could that mean?), much less “manmade disasters.” (Power failures? Overfishing? Oil spills?).
And before January 2009 I thought Khalid Sheik Mohammed was an enemy monster, who had planned the murder of 3,000 Americans, beheaded Daniel Pearl, and promised more mayhem if let loose — not a civil rights, water-boarded symbol of suffering, to be tried in a civilian court a few yards from the scene of his mass murdering.
SOME WILL CHOOSE TO LIVE IN HARLEM WHILE OTHERS MAY CHOOSE TO LIVE IN TIJUANA NORTH.
The New Rules of Racial Tolerance
There is a new racial tension not present a year ago, one having nothing to do with the election of the nation’s first President of partial African ancestry. Instead, never in my experience have officials of the federal government, both in the campaign leading up to their governance and once in office, so deliberately chosen to polarize the country along racial lines.
In retrospect, it seems a sort of nightmare these now serial outbursts of our officials — “typical white person,” “clingers,” “cowards,”,police who “stereotype” and act “stupidly,” “wise Latina,” “white polluters,” framed by the President’s pastor and once spiritual Audacity-of-Hope mentor screaming “God D— America,” bookended by hyper-racial comments of a Harry Reid or Joe Biden about Negro accents and cleanliness.
And, of course, soon followed the slurs and smears of those in the media accusing almost every opponent at sometime of being a “racist,” a word that now has as much currency as a German Mark around 1929.
In a nation with justice there is no justification for violence. In a nation with demonstrated disrespect for justice there can be few alternative left.
I know a couple of hundred fat old guys, combat veterans all, who are simply too old to engage in physical altercations with fanatics who are much younger than us. That's why we look to that famous saying about a great invention: "God made men, but Samuel Colt made them equal."
When you reach a certain age there isn't a very distant horizon. That's why dying in a worthy cause gets so much easier.
