And when they vote, they should vote for the candidates and party that supports the Constitution as written, the Nation as founded, and the exceptionalism for which the United States stands.
Stand up for the United States - or stay home.
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Election Day 2018 - Stand Up For Your Country
It is November 6, 2018. Election day. Once again, voting-eligible citizens in the United States who educate themselves on the issues should go vote.
And when they vote, they should vote for the candidates and party that supports the Constitution as written, the Nation as founded, and the exceptionalism for which the United States stands.
Stand up for the United States - or stay home.
And when they vote, they should vote for the candidates and party that supports the Constitution as written, the Nation as founded, and the exceptionalism for which the United States stands.
Stand up for the United States - or stay home.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Cookie Monster - A Hoodie Away From Joining The Trayvon Martin Protestor Mob
Russell Moore, the Southern Baptist Convention’s apologizer
in chief, says white taxpayers are “missing the point” regarding the “Justice
for Trayvon” mob. I don’t know that the
Justice for Trayvon mob is actually articulating a point at all, but I’m
willing to try to distill the point.
Lord knows, I’d hate to miss a point being made by a mob wearing
hoodies.
When I look at a mob of low information voters wearing
hoodies and repetitively chanting nonsense, I am reminded of Justice
Rehnquist’s dissent in Texas v. Johnson.
My impression of the Justice for Trayvon gatherings is that they articulate
“no essential part of any exposition
of ideas” but rather are merely “the equivalent of an inarticulate grunt or
roar”.
But Russell Moore
insists I am missing the point. So, if I
were to distill a point from the Justice for Trayvon mob, the point I get is: “Me
Want Cookie!”
It strikes me
that the Cookie Monster is more articulate, and certainly more to the point,
than any Justice for Trayvon mob or race huckster. It also occurs to me that both the Cookie
Monster and the mob want the same thing: to take something that does not belong
to them, which they did not earn, and consume it.
If you dressed the Cookie Monster in a hoodie, put a cookie
on a covered plate and placed it before the Cookie Monster, I am certain Cookie
Monster would say “No Justice, No Peace”, smash the covered plate, and eat the
cookie.
So what point am I to distill from Cookie Monster and the Justice
for Trayvon mob? They want what they
want, without paying for it, and won’t even say “thank you” when they take
it. Their desires are sufficient enough
excuse to engage in any behavior. Facts,
property rights, and laws do not matter to them. Their behavior is simply childish.
It is Russell Moore who does not “get the point” that we
already get the point. Begging hands and
bleeding hearts always cry out for more.
There is no limit to Cookie Monster’s appetite. And at some point, children must be told “enough”.
The fact is Trayvon received his justice - both on earth and
before his Maker. Russell Moore should
know this – Baptists do believe in Heaven and Hell.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Election Day!
Or, put another way, "Remove the Stain of Barak Hussein Obama from American Politics" Day!
Today we can rebuke and remove America's first anti-American president.
Today we can rebuke and replace the Reid/Pelosi congress.
Today we can set the nation on a path of recovery and renewal!
We can repeal the government takeover of healthcare - Obamacare - and get rid of it. (Also, disabuse some "conservatives" of crafting some kind of interstate "market" for health care insurance that just begs for federal regulation of interstate commerce).
Today we can start fixing the economy instead of harming it.
Every dollar taken from the economy in taxes is a net loss to the economy. We must lower taxes and slash federal spending. NOW!
Today we can fix it so we rescue Ambassadors under attack by terrorists instead of letting them die in the street.
Today we can avoid plunging off the fiscal cliff and defuse the January 1 tax bomb.
Today we can chase Chicago/Alinsky politics out of Washington.
Today is the day of the American Renewal. Let's make it happen today!
Today we can rebuke and remove America's first anti-American president.
Today we can rebuke and replace the Reid/Pelosi congress.
Today we can set the nation on a path of recovery and renewal!
We can repeal the government takeover of healthcare - Obamacare - and get rid of it. (Also, disabuse some "conservatives" of crafting some kind of interstate "market" for health care insurance that just begs for federal regulation of interstate commerce).
Today we can start fixing the economy instead of harming it.
Every dollar taken from the economy in taxes is a net loss to the economy. We must lower taxes and slash federal spending. NOW!
Today we can fix it so we rescue Ambassadors under attack by terrorists instead of letting them die in the street.
Today we can avoid plunging off the fiscal cliff and defuse the January 1 tax bomb.
Today we can chase Chicago/Alinsky politics out of Washington.
Today is the day of the American Renewal. Let's make it happen today!
Sunday, September 11, 2011
10 Years After - The Atrocity of September 11
As everyone must know, today is the anniversary of the Muslim jihadist attacks on New York and Washington DC, and the fight back by ordinary Americans ending in Shanksville, PA.
It was Todd Beamer who said "Let's Roll", a mantra taken up by Americans after the attacks.
Unfortunately, in the ten years since our united effort to beat back Islamic terrorists has turned into "Let's Roll Over."
The current Department of Homeland Security has abdicated is job to protect our borders and eject illegal aliens. Furthermore, DHS believes that Christian Americans are the greatest terrorist threat in the United States -- an opinion unfounded in fact or experience.
The current President is attending a 9/11 healing and forgiveness observance where Christians are not welcome.
Travelling by air in the United States as a Christian American means being treated like a terrorist suspect, and being forced to choose between a virtual strip search or an actual molesting.
Everyone says about September 11 - "Never Forget." What is it about September 11th should we remember?
All the hijackers were Muslim men between the ages of 18 and 40.
All the hijackers were in the United States on lawfully obtained visas.
The FBI and the CIA could not communicate with each other about each bureau's suspensions regarding these Muslims by a policy set up by Clinton Administration hack named Jamie Gorelick, who inexplicably took a position on the 9-11 Commission. Her 1995 memo, entitled "Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations" stated explicitly that they would "go beyond what is legally required, [to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation. (Gorelick was also appointed vice Chairman of Fannie Mae during the Enron-like accounting era, helping to bring the United States' credit lending system to a near-halt).
All the hijackers could readily point to verse after verse in the Koran supporting the attack on the United States.
The enemies are jihadists and politicians who refuse to see the danger Islam poses to the West.
These are the things I remember on this September 11th. We would all do well to remember this.
It was Todd Beamer who said "Let's Roll", a mantra taken up by Americans after the attacks.
Unfortunately, in the ten years since our united effort to beat back Islamic terrorists has turned into "Let's Roll Over."
The current Department of Homeland Security has abdicated is job to protect our borders and eject illegal aliens. Furthermore, DHS believes that Christian Americans are the greatest terrorist threat in the United States -- an opinion unfounded in fact or experience.
The current President is attending a 9/11 healing and forgiveness observance where Christians are not welcome.
Travelling by air in the United States as a Christian American means being treated like a terrorist suspect, and being forced to choose between a virtual strip search or an actual molesting.
Everyone says about September 11 - "Never Forget." What is it about September 11th should we remember?
All the hijackers were Muslim men between the ages of 18 and 40.
All the hijackers were in the United States on lawfully obtained visas.
The FBI and the CIA could not communicate with each other about each bureau's suspensions regarding these Muslims by a policy set up by Clinton Administration hack named Jamie Gorelick, who inexplicably took a position on the 9-11 Commission. Her 1995 memo, entitled "Instructions on Separation of Certain Foreign Counterintelligence and Criminal Investigations" stated explicitly that they would "go beyond what is legally required, [to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation. (Gorelick was also appointed vice Chairman of Fannie Mae during the Enron-like accounting era, helping to bring the United States' credit lending system to a near-halt).
All the hijackers could readily point to verse after verse in the Koran supporting the attack on the United States.
The enemies are jihadists and politicians who refuse to see the danger Islam poses to the West.
These are the things I remember on this September 11th. We would all do well to remember this.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Thoughts on the Proposed Debt Limit Deal
We now have a proposed “bipartisan” debt deal hammered out by the people who have put us in the position of having unsustainable spending levels and unsustainable debt in the first place, and foisted upon the American people and Congressional rank-and-file sight unseen:
Spending levels are economically unsustainable now, and will be unsustainable after this debt deal.
The debt level is economically unsustainable now, and will be worse after this deal.
While raising the debt limit will allow the treasury to borrow money to continue the present unsustainable level of spending, it will not preserve the US’ AAA bond rating.
The US will not default on its debt obligations whether or not the debt deal passes.
The debt deal permits immediate access to the first tranche of borrowing, and will permit the entire amount to be borrowed in less than a year, yet the spending “cuts” are spread out over ten years. This gives Barak Obama a blank check for two years, and handcuffs the replacement President for the next eight.
The spending “cuts” are reductions in the baseline growth over government spending over the ten years, not actual cuts to the existing budget. This deal actually cuts nothing, it only slows the growth of spending, and not even at a rate below inflation.
The deal exempts cuts to the greatest sources of budget busting in the future: Social Security, Medicare, and Obamacare.
The debt deal will permit the balance of the fiscal year to be spent as set forth in the continuing budget resolution (remember, the Democrats have not passed a actual federal budget in more than 800 days).
If a budget deal is not passed, the US will not be able to borrow additional sums of money. It would be, therefore, a “poor man’s” balanced budget amendment, or better yet, a spending cannot exceed revenues cap. It is a back-door way to forced fiscal responsibility in spending.
If the US is not in the market for loanable funds, the demand for investment funds is therefore decreased, which has the effect of lowering interest rates on such investments.
Given all this, what is the benefit of this debt deal?
If a budget deal is not passed, the US’ bond rating will certainly be downgraded.
If the US’ bond rating is downgraded, interest rates might rise from 0.1 to 0.5 points, and they are already at near historical lows, however, this will be offset by the decrease in interest rates on investment funds. Given the Fed’s qualitative easing over the last several months, an small interest rate increase is likely in any event.
If a budget deal is not passed, the Obama administration would pick and choose which programs get paid and which programs will become prorated or impounded, that is, which are short-paid and which are not paid at all. In any event, there is adequate revenues coming into the Treasury to service all US debt and continue Defense, FAA, Social Security, and Medicare payments if Obama so chose. Senator Pat Toomey has proposed legislation directing the priority of payments, and Congress can certainly direct the Administration by law if it so chose.
If a budget deal is not passed, non-essential government workers would likely be furloughed. Thus, we will get to see how many people are on the government payroll that are not doing anything essential for taxpayers. One wonders why we have non-essential government workers in the first place. In years past, when this happens, the government workers get paid for the furloughed days anyway, which just provides these government workers yet another paid holiday at taxpayer expense.
Politically, Obama will blame Republicans and the Tea Party for a government shutdown. But, as all elements of government are held in extremely low regard by the people, what difference would it make? Since none of the GOP’s leading candidates for president in 2012 are involved in this budget and debt limit mess, but Obama is, a shutdown will hurt Obama’s reelection chances as much as anyone’s.
Lastly, it bears mentioning that every budgetary and economic government action has unforeseen economic consequences. These can be good or bad, and they are certainly hard to predict. So, the budget deal at least alleviates uncertainty, even as it simply postpones a real date of reckoning.
So, is it worth it to the taxpayers and for the rank-and-file of each party in Congress to accept this budget deal to possibly avoid a bond rating downgrade, in fact avoid forced government belt-tightening, and the political ramifications of a partial government shutdown?
Spending levels are economically unsustainable now, and will be unsustainable after this debt deal.
The debt level is economically unsustainable now, and will be worse after this deal.
While raising the debt limit will allow the treasury to borrow money to continue the present unsustainable level of spending, it will not preserve the US’ AAA bond rating.
The US will not default on its debt obligations whether or not the debt deal passes.
The debt deal permits immediate access to the first tranche of borrowing, and will permit the entire amount to be borrowed in less than a year, yet the spending “cuts” are spread out over ten years. This gives Barak Obama a blank check for two years, and handcuffs the replacement President for the next eight.
The spending “cuts” are reductions in the baseline growth over government spending over the ten years, not actual cuts to the existing budget. This deal actually cuts nothing, it only slows the growth of spending, and not even at a rate below inflation.
The deal exempts cuts to the greatest sources of budget busting in the future: Social Security, Medicare, and Obamacare.
The debt deal will permit the balance of the fiscal year to be spent as set forth in the continuing budget resolution (remember, the Democrats have not passed a actual federal budget in more than 800 days).
If a budget deal is not passed, the US will not be able to borrow additional sums of money. It would be, therefore, a “poor man’s” balanced budget amendment, or better yet, a spending cannot exceed revenues cap. It is a back-door way to forced fiscal responsibility in spending.
If the US is not in the market for loanable funds, the demand for investment funds is therefore decreased, which has the effect of lowering interest rates on such investments.
Given all this, what is the benefit of this debt deal?
If a budget deal is not passed, the US’ bond rating will certainly be downgraded.
If the US’ bond rating is downgraded, interest rates might rise from 0.1 to 0.5 points, and they are already at near historical lows, however, this will be offset by the decrease in interest rates on investment funds. Given the Fed’s qualitative easing over the last several months, an small interest rate increase is likely in any event.
If a budget deal is not passed, the Obama administration would pick and choose which programs get paid and which programs will become prorated or impounded, that is, which are short-paid and which are not paid at all. In any event, there is adequate revenues coming into the Treasury to service all US debt and continue Defense, FAA, Social Security, and Medicare payments if Obama so chose. Senator Pat Toomey has proposed legislation directing the priority of payments, and Congress can certainly direct the Administration by law if it so chose.
If a budget deal is not passed, non-essential government workers would likely be furloughed. Thus, we will get to see how many people are on the government payroll that are not doing anything essential for taxpayers. One wonders why we have non-essential government workers in the first place. In years past, when this happens, the government workers get paid for the furloughed days anyway, which just provides these government workers yet another paid holiday at taxpayer expense.
Politically, Obama will blame Republicans and the Tea Party for a government shutdown. But, as all elements of government are held in extremely low regard by the people, what difference would it make? Since none of the GOP’s leading candidates for president in 2012 are involved in this budget and debt limit mess, but Obama is, a shutdown will hurt Obama’s reelection chances as much as anyone’s.
Lastly, it bears mentioning that every budgetary and economic government action has unforeseen economic consequences. These can be good or bad, and they are certainly hard to predict. So, the budget deal at least alleviates uncertainty, even as it simply postpones a real date of reckoning.
So, is it worth it to the taxpayers and for the rank-and-file of each party in Congress to accept this budget deal to possibly avoid a bond rating downgrade, in fact avoid forced government belt-tightening, and the political ramifications of a partial government shutdown?
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Tienanmen Square 22 Years Later
June 4th and 5th is the twenty second anniversary of the true face of Red China.
In the weeks before June 4, 1989, nearly one million workers and students occupied Beijing's Tienanmen Square to demonstrate for liberty and democracy and against the corrupt, oppressive communist system in Red China.
As the Chinese Army units located in Beijing refused to put down the protesters, the communist government in China brutally slaughtered thousands of these citizens by rolling in tank units from different regions and assaulting the defenseless people in the square.
Nothing, of course, has changed in China in the subsequent twenty two years. Over the last week, the oppressive ChiCom internal security forces have been rounding up anyone suspected of desiring to organize or participate in a remembrance of the slaughter of innocents. See http://bit.ly/ivlZEP
Despite Red China's attempt to demonstrate to the world that they are a respectable first world nation and budding superpower, events like Tienanmen Square, suppression of its people's Internet usage, hostilities towards the United States military, threats against Taiwan, and spy operations against the United States show the true nature of this brutal, Fascist regime.
As Ronald Reagan said, communism will be tossed into the ash bin of history. With China, it will just take longer than many of its imprisoned citizens shall survive.
References:
http://on.wsj.com/kyEYrr
http://bit.ly/kKLAdS
http://bit.ly/lJOj0o
In the weeks before June 4, 1989, nearly one million workers and students occupied Beijing's Tienanmen Square to demonstrate for liberty and democracy and against the corrupt, oppressive communist system in Red China.
As the Chinese Army units located in Beijing refused to put down the protesters, the communist government in China brutally slaughtered thousands of these citizens by rolling in tank units from different regions and assaulting the defenseless people in the square.
Nothing, of course, has changed in China in the subsequent twenty two years. Over the last week, the oppressive ChiCom internal security forces have been rounding up anyone suspected of desiring to organize or participate in a remembrance of the slaughter of innocents. See http://bit.ly/ivlZEP
Despite Red China's attempt to demonstrate to the world that they are a respectable first world nation and budding superpower, events like Tienanmen Square, suppression of its people's Internet usage, hostilities towards the United States military, threats against Taiwan, and spy operations against the United States show the true nature of this brutal, Fascist regime.
As Ronald Reagan said, communism will be tossed into the ash bin of history. With China, it will just take longer than many of its imprisoned citizens shall survive.
References:
http://on.wsj.com/kyEYrr
http://bit.ly/kKLAdS
http://bit.ly/lJOj0o
Monday, May 2, 2011
Osama bin Laden Has Assumed Room Temperature
The one time in my life I was pleased to hear something - anything - out of B. Hussein Obama's mouth was last night. Osama bin Laden has been killed by the United States military. In Pakistan, which we knew was harboring al Qaeda's founder all along.
We are sure of two things: bin Laden's death was assured on 9/11, and Barak Hussein Obama had nothing to do with causing it.
We can all be very, very thankful that we killed the bastard so he can rot in hell. And that he was not captured so the idiot AG Eric Holder could put him on trial.
As a super added bonus, May Day will no longer be referred to as that Communist celebration in the United States, but as The Day We Heard Osama bin Laden Was Dead Day. It has a better ring to it.
A toast to our fighting men putting bad guys down in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. May many, many more follow bin Laden to Hell.
P.S. Rob Bell: there is a Hell, and Osama bin Laden is in it.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Reform the TSA Now!
In the balance between security and liberty, the Obama regime has gone too far. The obtrusive, offensive, and unconstitutional searches of airline travellers must end.
Under what legal theory do we believe that airports are Constitution-free zones? Under what legal theory can it be implied that a commercial transaction between private parties (purchasing an airline ticket) comprises a waiver of Constitutional rights?
Under what legal theory does the Obama regime assume that American citizens that do not qualify for even a Terry stop can be subjected to sexual assault or a strip search merely because they want to travel?
Why does the "brilliant" Obama need to be told that treating each and every airline passenger as as a potential terrorist is anti-intellectual? Is EVERY traveller a potential terrorist? And, we are willing to trust the controls of a plane to a pilot, but we want to search him for explosive underwear first? We do have a description of suspect airline bombers/hijackers. Let's put those people to enhanced searches. It is usually those people who are waved through security, sacrificing real airline safety and civil rights of travellers on the altar of political correctness.
I understand why Obama would innately be drawn to Soviet-style police state searches of American citizens, but even the KGB targeted its efforts. Even authoritarian overseas regimes in terrorist-rich regions do not subject travellers to physical assaults and strip searches to travel. I know, I've travelled there.
Congress needs to step in now and end the offensive touchings and virtual strip searches immediately. A valid, effective security process would involve merely this - metal detectors for persons, x-ray the belongings, and send everything past an explosives sniffer (either mechanical or animal). Instead of spending money on a radiation-spewing back scatter device, we should have spent the funds on a combination x-ray machine/explosive compound detector. Enhanced
I knew when Bush wanted the Department of Homeland Security created, we could not trust it to the Democrats because they would use it against the citizens. Liberals can never, ever be trusted with power.
Under what legal theory do we believe that airports are Constitution-free zones? Under what legal theory can it be implied that a commercial transaction between private parties (purchasing an airline ticket) comprises a waiver of Constitutional rights?
Under what legal theory does the Obama regime assume that American citizens that do not qualify for even a Terry stop can be subjected to sexual assault or a strip search merely because they want to travel?
Why does the "brilliant" Obama need to be told that treating each and every airline passenger as as a potential terrorist is anti-intellectual? Is EVERY traveller a potential terrorist? And, we are willing to trust the controls of a plane to a pilot, but we want to search him for explosive underwear first? We do have a description of suspect airline bombers/hijackers. Let's put those people to enhanced searches. It is usually those people who are waved through security, sacrificing real airline safety and civil rights of travellers on the altar of political correctness.
I understand why Obama would innately be drawn to Soviet-style police state searches of American citizens, but even the KGB targeted its efforts. Even authoritarian overseas regimes in terrorist-rich regions do not subject travellers to physical assaults and strip searches to travel. I know, I've travelled there.
Congress needs to step in now and end the offensive touchings and virtual strip searches immediately. A valid, effective security process would involve merely this - metal detectors for persons, x-ray the belongings, and send everything past an explosives sniffer (either mechanical or animal). Instead of spending money on a radiation-spewing back scatter device, we should have spent the funds on a combination x-ray machine/explosive compound detector. Enhanced
I knew when Bush wanted the Department of Homeland Security created, we could not trust it to the Democrats because they would use it against the citizens. Liberals can never, ever be trusted with power.
An End to Stalinists
One way or another, the Stalinist regime in North Korea needs to fall. If we do not have the fortitude to do it militarily, then we need to end all cooperation and economic aid to this Asian tin horn and force the national concentration camp to collapse.
North Korea is nothing but a threat to themselves and others. Let's end it.
North Korea is nothing but a threat to themselves and others. Let's end it.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Continued Fleecing of Taxpayers by Government Motors
Today, Government Motors will issue an "initial" public offering of taxpayer-owned GM stock. While the taxpayers and shafted secured debt holders of GM paid for GM's bailout, the taxpayers took about a half interest in Government Motors and Obama gave the other half to the UAW, which invested nothing. Obama's justification that the labor of the UAW workers on the line amounts to corporate capital is straight out of Karl Marx's Das Kaptial.
Today's Government Motors stock firesale means that the taxpayers will see a permanent loss of over 9 billion dollars on the GM bailout. Furthermore, it will make the UAW the largest single shareholder and corporate controller of Government Motors.
In their wildest dreams the union thugs in this country would never have imagined that a president would transfer the ownership of GM to the unions, but it has indeed occurred -- and financed by the taxpayers and secured debt holders of GM to boot!
The transfer of taxpayer wealth to unions continues unabated, and more generosity to Government Motors new union owners is forthcoming. Wait until Obama and the Democrats forgive the loans to Government Motors Ed Whiteacre lied about repaying.
Today's Government Motors stock firesale means that the taxpayers will see a permanent loss of over 9 billion dollars on the GM bailout. Furthermore, it will make the UAW the largest single shareholder and corporate controller of Government Motors.
In their wildest dreams the union thugs in this country would never have imagined that a president would transfer the ownership of GM to the unions, but it has indeed occurred -- and financed by the taxpayers and secured debt holders of GM to boot!
The transfer of taxpayer wealth to unions continues unabated, and more generosity to Government Motors new union owners is forthcoming. Wait until Obama and the Democrats forgive the loans to Government Motors Ed Whiteacre lied about repaying.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Religion of Peace Update
When considering how establishment politicians in this country bow and scrape before their false god of tolerance, particularly in regards to the Muslims trying to establish a Ground Zero mosque to commemorate their victory over the Great Satan USA, we should keep this in mind.
At least twelve Catholics have been arrested and charged with proselytizing in Saudi Arabia for saying the Mass in a private home. http://bit.ly/cgVqRZ
Tolerance is a one way street with Muslims. Keep that in mind.
At least twelve Catholics have been arrested and charged with proselytizing in Saudi Arabia for saying the Mass in a private home. http://bit.ly/cgVqRZ
Tolerance is a one way street with Muslims. Keep that in mind.
Friday, September 17, 2010
It Is Constitution Day!
September 17th is Constitution Day. You can read the document here:
On this day, of all days, we should remember that the Constitution says what it means, and means what it says. It needs neither embellishment, discovery of penumbras, interpretation, nor improvement.
What it DOES need is a government that believes it is bound by the terms of the Constitution, or a citizenry that is willing to force the government back within the limited powers set forth in the Constitution.
The Constitution is a living document, not because judges unconstitutionally create new rights from the bench, but because of this one important clause:
Article. V.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
Article V sets forth the only manners by which the United States Constitution may be changed. You will notice that Article V does not say "a majority of the supreme Court determine so."
If there is a finer national Constitution, I have not found it. We should all rededicate ourselves to being governed by the letter of the Constitution.
God bless our Republic. God save the Constitution. Let freedom ring.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Message to the GOP Establishment
During times of intense crisis, the greatest directive we had in the United States Army Infantry was "Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!"
The United States is in a time of crisis, and the GOP establishment is bound and determined to stay in the way and point fingers at those who are acting to save the nation.
Charles Krauthammer - get the hell out of the way.
National Republican Senatorial Committee - get the hell out of the way.
Michael Steele - get the hell out of the way.
RINOs - get the hell out of the way.
Bill Kristol - get the hell out of the way.
I've read the Federalist Papers from cover to cover. I respect James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton. With all due respect, Bill Kristol is no James Madison.
Citizen patriots, not career politicians and pundits, will do what it takes to save this country. It must be tough for these career politicians and pundits to come to realize they are irrelevant. But, irrelevant they are.
Get the hell out of the way.
The United States is in a time of crisis, and the GOP establishment is bound and determined to stay in the way and point fingers at those who are acting to save the nation.
Charles Krauthammer - get the hell out of the way.
National Republican Senatorial Committee - get the hell out of the way.
Michael Steele - get the hell out of the way.
RINOs - get the hell out of the way.
Bill Kristol - get the hell out of the way.
I've read the Federalist Papers from cover to cover. I respect James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton. With all due respect, Bill Kristol is no James Madison.
Citizen patriots, not career politicians and pundits, will do what it takes to save this country. It must be tough for these career politicians and pundits to come to realize they are irrelevant. But, irrelevant they are.
Get the hell out of the way.
Krauthammer Gets It Wrong on Delaware
Krauthammer says of Delaware's senate election that GOP members voting for Christine O'Donnell is "capricious" "self indulgent" and irresponsible".
On the other hand, I say voting for entrenched incumbent RINOs like Mike Castle that support abortion on demand, mandate cap and tax, oil drilling bans, and gun bans is irresponsible, unpatriotic, and anti-constitutional.
Krauthammer is not alone in his advice - many weak-kneed Republican leaner types agree with him. But Krauthammer is the biggest of the bunch to come out hard for Castle, so he gets my attention.
Krauthammer invokes the Buckley Rule: vote for the most electable conservative candidate. I see this rule as having a precondition and then an effect. The precondition is that an election need two or more conservative candidates running for the same office. If there are two or more, then choose the most electable one.
In Delaware, the precondition is not met. Mike Castle is a RINO with a mere 52% lifetime ACU rating. He has the lowest rating among the GOP every year as measured by the Club for Growth - even worse than Arlen Specter. Mike Castel is NOT conservative. The best that can be said for Mike Castle is he is reasonably popular in Delaware and he is not a ideological liberal. But he is a liberal, and he is not a conservative at all.
Krauthammer distorts the rule by trying to determine at the outset which candidate is more electable, and them try to convince himself that Castle is "conservative". He's not. Castle is merely a registered Republican from a liberal state.
So, there is only one conservative in the race - Christine O'Donnell. Buckley's rule, correctly applied, says vote for O'Donnell, not Castle.
In short: those who support voting for Castle are playing party politics, not engaging in a discussion regarding what governing philosophy is best for the country. Preferring party to country is not admirable -- in fact, it is wrong.
Krauthammer is also wrong that Obamacare is "irreversible." Don't take your victory plans from defeatists.
No matter what happens in this off year election, Barak Hussein Obama is going to still be president of the United States. There will be liberals in the Senate and conservatives in the Senate. In my opinion, it is best to isolate the liberals to the Democrats so that in the general election two years, the parties can have an ideologically-driven election from top to bottom, without outliers, exceptions, and -INOs between them.
On the other hand, I say voting for entrenched incumbent RINOs like Mike Castle that support abortion on demand, mandate cap and tax, oil drilling bans, and gun bans is irresponsible, unpatriotic, and anti-constitutional.
Krauthammer is not alone in his advice - many weak-kneed Republican leaner types agree with him. But Krauthammer is the biggest of the bunch to come out hard for Castle, so he gets my attention.
Krauthammer invokes the Buckley Rule: vote for the most electable conservative candidate. I see this rule as having a precondition and then an effect. The precondition is that an election need two or more conservative candidates running for the same office. If there are two or more, then choose the most electable one.
In Delaware, the precondition is not met. Mike Castle is a RINO with a mere 52% lifetime ACU rating. He has the lowest rating among the GOP every year as measured by the Club for Growth - even worse than Arlen Specter. Mike Castel is NOT conservative. The best that can be said for Mike Castle is he is reasonably popular in Delaware and he is not a ideological liberal. But he is a liberal, and he is not a conservative at all.
Krauthammer distorts the rule by trying to determine at the outset which candidate is more electable, and them try to convince himself that Castle is "conservative". He's not. Castle is merely a registered Republican from a liberal state.
So, there is only one conservative in the race - Christine O'Donnell. Buckley's rule, correctly applied, says vote for O'Donnell, not Castle.
In short: those who support voting for Castle are playing party politics, not engaging in a discussion regarding what governing philosophy is best for the country. Preferring party to country is not admirable -- in fact, it is wrong.
Krauthammer is also wrong that Obamacare is "irreversible." Don't take your victory plans from defeatists.
No matter what happens in this off year election, Barak Hussein Obama is going to still be president of the United States. There will be liberals in the Senate and conservatives in the Senate. In my opinion, it is best to isolate the liberals to the Democrats so that in the general election two years, the parties can have an ideologically-driven election from top to bottom, without outliers, exceptions, and -INOs between them.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Remembering 9/11
Yesterday was the 9th anniversary of the Islamic attack that destroyed the twin towers in New York City, hit the Pentagon in Washington DC, and forced the passengers of a jet to crash in Shanksville, PA.
President Barak Hussein Obama spent it trying to appease Muslims.
While my motto about 9/11 is "never forgive, never forget, and never submit", we have a President far more interested in convincing Americans that heretical Islam is "true" Islam because he says so.
While it may well be in the United States' best interests to pervert Islam into some sort of watered down Rick Warren-esque meaningless mainstream religion, he should not spend time trying to convince the American people that madrases funded by Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan already instruct Muslims in that manner. They don't.
Never Forgive. Never Forget. Never Submit. Not even if a President named Barak Hussein Obama tells you that we have nothing to worry about from Islam.
President Barak Hussein Obama spent it trying to appease Muslims.
While my motto about 9/11 is "never forgive, never forget, and never submit", we have a President far more interested in convincing Americans that heretical Islam is "true" Islam because he says so.
While it may well be in the United States' best interests to pervert Islam into some sort of watered down Rick Warren-esque meaningless mainstream religion, he should not spend time trying to convince the American people that madrases funded by Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan already instruct Muslims in that manner. They don't.
Never Forgive. Never Forget. Never Submit. Not even if a President named Barak Hussein Obama tells you that we have nothing to worry about from Islam.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Good Service
Just a post to point out that I received excellent service from A Briggs Passport and Visa Expediters. It is not the usual case that these outfits meet or exceed my expectations, but these folks absolutely have. They have my highest recommendation.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Down Goes Murkowski!
First, let me concede that Lisa Murkowski has, so far, taking her loss with a fair amount of class, conceding before all the votes were counted, but knowing that she lost.
Now, let me celebrate another Tea Party truth - the Tea Party is against big spending/big government types of all parties, and Joe Miller's win proves it.
We should also mention that Sarah Palin is the biggest political force on the Right today. She just is. No other right wing politician has the weight of her endorsement.
Now, let me celebrate another Tea Party truth - the Tea Party is against big spending/big government types of all parties, and Joe Miller's win proves it.
We should also mention that Sarah Palin is the biggest political force on the Right today. She just is. No other right wing politician has the weight of her endorsement.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Obama's Economic Guru Resigns
Christina Romer, chair of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, is resigning her post. Romer, said to be an expert in the Great Depression, has done her best to get us into another Great Depression.
Romer's economic guidance has been devastating to the country. Never before has this nation had so much long term unemployment, not even under Carter's devastating tenure.
Roemer was the chief architect of Obama's great economic failure, the Obama Excessive Government Spending and Debt Plan (a/k/a the "Stimulus"). Romer co-wrote a justification paper saying the Obama Stimulus would keep unemployment rates from rising above 8%. She was, predictably, dead wrong. Liberals who call themselves economists always are. Even so, she has advocated a path of "doubling down" by borrowing yet more Chinese money and increasing government spending even more.
Her failure will almost certainly be rewarded with an appointment as the chairwoman of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. Such is the path of the liberal elite.
Romer's economic guidance has been devastating to the country. Never before has this nation had so much long term unemployment, not even under Carter's devastating tenure.
Roemer was the chief architect of Obama's great economic failure, the Obama Excessive Government Spending and Debt Plan (a/k/a the "Stimulus"). Romer co-wrote a justification paper saying the Obama Stimulus would keep unemployment rates from rising above 8%. She was, predictably, dead wrong. Liberals who call themselves economists always are. Even so, she has advocated a path of "doubling down" by borrowing yet more Chinese money and increasing government spending even more.
Her failure will almost certainly be rewarded with an appointment as the chairwoman of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. Such is the path of the liberal elite.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
GM Funnels Tax Dollars to Dems
How is GM spending your tax dollars? By funneling $41,000 to liberals, including $36,000 to the Congressional Black Caucus.
The only thing being drained in Washinton DC is the taxpayer.
The only thing being drained in Washinton DC is the taxpayer.
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