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− a Christian or a OBAMA and all other politicians who pursue an agenda with the intent to dismantle the Constitution and our traditional American institutions and values must be held accountable based on those actions, not based on the religion they profess.
You can't express your opposition
to the building of an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero in NYC because to do so
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a violation of Sharia Law! LAST EVENING, Friday, Aug. 6, I received an email from Act! for America, under the heading UNBELIEVABLE CENSTORSHIP!, forwarding to me a shocking communication from Pamela Geller of Stop Islamisation of America. Ms. Geller and Robert Spencer, also of SIOA, have filed a lawsuit against New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority for censoring their freedom of speech speech -- out of deference to Sharia law! I felt that the email, including Ms. Geller's complete communication, were important enough to reproduce in their entirety here. A statement from the law firm that filed the suit follows. You think Sharia law won't come to America? It's here, my friends! Read on, and you'll see.
Happy 234th Birthday, America ON THIS FOURTH OF JULY, while celebrating 234 years of American freedom and American , as we know it and as its founders envisioned it, survive for another 234 years? Will the principles so powerfully expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights endure for another two and one-third centuries? If George Washington and Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson could see what the United States of America will look like in 2244, would they be proud of where the intervening generations have taken the country?
Honoring Fatherhood I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT STRANGE, as a young boy, as a young father, and throughout my life, that when I went to church on Mother's Day I would hear mothers and motherhood praised from the pulpit, but on Father's Day, no matter where I was or who was giving the sermon, it seemed that almost invariably fathers were more preached at than praised.
Who Has the Right To Say IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, there are really only two criteria that qualify someone to be a legitimate journalist: the ability to write with clarity and the ability (and inclination) to tell the truth. Based on the latter of those criteria, sadly, the majority of career "journalists" in this country at this point in our history don't qualify. I'll trust an honest amateur any day over a professional propagandist masquerading as "The Press."
Honoring Evil: Palestinians Heap Glory on Mass
Murderer I RECENTLY received an email from a Jewish friend of mine who has a chilling personal connection to a horrific event that took place 32 years ago in Israel -- a ruthless, murderous rampage by a gang of Palestinian terrorists led by a 19-year-old Palestinian girl named Dalal Mughrabi. In all, 38 innocent men, women and children were massacred that day in the deadliest terrorist attack in Israel's history. Last week, the Palestinian Authority commemorated -- actually celebrated -- the anniversary of that unspeakably evil act by naming a public square in Mughrabi's honor.
Obama's Ultimate President Barak Obama, who wants to take over the private health care industry -- one-sixth of the U.S. economy -- doesn't seem to know what 100 percent of anything is. I kid you not. At a rally in Strongville, Ohio, Monday, March 15, 2010, to promote ObamaScare, B.O. actually said that workers who get their health insurance through their employers may see premiums go down by as much as 3,000% if his plan is adopted!!!! Obama already has his hand on the joystick of the biggest budget on the planet and is jerking it around like a video-game-addicted adolescent playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. For him to make such a gargantuan gaffe is more than unsettling. It's downright scary.
Obama, You Lie!
On Behalf of a Grateful Nation THE ANCHORS and editors who control the major news outlets want you to believe that most of your fellow-Americans are quite indifferent about honoring those who have fought and died in defense of freedom and democracy. They want you to think it is not fashionable to memorialize fallen heroes, and especially those of the last half century. They are as determined to take the remembering out of Memorial Day as they are to take Christ out of Christmas (or Winter Holiday as it is now called by the “politically correct” crowd). But Americans do remember, or at least many of us do. And the more we are seen to show honor and respect and to express an eternal debt of gratitude for those who have served their country in the armed forces, and particularly for those who died in defense of their country, the more those feelings of honor and gratitude will spread to others. Taxed EXCESSIVELY Already
U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock “I look back a generation ago when California was spending far less than it is today, our taxes were far lower than they are today, and yet we had the finest highway system in the world, we had the finest public school system in the country, we were producing electricity and water so cheaply that many communities didn’t bother to measure the stuff. And the only thing that has changed between those days and these days is public policy,” said Rep. Tom McClintock in an exclusive interview with Rand Green, editor & publisher of Perspicacity Press, on Wednesday, Feb. 25.
An Open Letter to Michael Steele Dear Mr. Steele: Patriotism Is . . .
There are those who would have you believe that all political agendas are morally equivalent and, therefore, equally patriotic. That is a preposterous notion. While it is true that no one political party has a monopoly on patriotism, it is equally true that there are some political agendas that are flagrantly unpatriotic. Any agenda that seeks to diminish the Constitutional rights of American citizens or to undermine the Constitution itself falls in that category, and there has been a lot of that going around lately. Our basic freedoms have been methodically eroded over the last few decades, and anyone (regardless of party) who has been a party to allowing that to happen has engaged in an unpatriotic act. Patriotism is as patriotism does.
Where There's Smoke . . . "Smoke if you like, or if you must – if you haven’t yet found the desire or the will or the motivation or the strength to quit. But c’mon now, it shouldn’t take the force of law to persuade you to be a considerate smoker and do your smoking where people who choose not to smoke, and particularly children, don’t have to breathe the stuff." |
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Rand's Rants Freedom Not Fear? Oh, That's Rich! Sept. 2, 2010 — I MUST GIVE Common Cause credit. Whoever is writing for the organization, a radical liberal non-profit that claims to be non-partisan, has mastered the art of propaganda rhetoric. He/she uses the language of patriotism in a way that sounds oh-so-patriotic, while turning the meaning of the words completely upside down. It could be pretty convincing if one failed to look beneath the pretty turns of phrase and see the organization's real agenda. But I've never seen it done better than in the following Email blast from Common Cause on Aug. 30, 2010, under the subject line, "Freedom, Not Fear," and over the signature of Bob Edgar, president and CEO. Mr. Edgar (assuming it was he who is the actual author of this artfully deceptive communication) wrote: "Freedom of thought and expression lies at the heart of America. The First Amendment's guarantees of free speech, press, religion and assembly constitute a national commitment to tolerance of unpopular ideas and those who espouse them." Oh, that's rich! If I didn't know something about Common Cause and its agenda, I might really get sucked in by that. And yet it is totally disingenuous. Fact is, Common Cause has long been one of the leading advocates of free speech limitations masquerading under the appellation, "Campaign Finance Reform" as well as numerous other "reforms," all calculated to silence the conservative voice. Common Cause champions media "reforms" that would give government (local and national) the power to decide what can and can't be said on the air, based on what is deemed to be "in the public interest." So listeners would not get to decide what and who they wanted to listen to; rather, politicians and bureaucrats would make those decisions. Common Cause also supports media ownership policies that amount to effective affirmative action for the media, meaning that broadcast licenses would be taken away from present owners and given to "underrepresented" minorities. Edgar continues: "So attempts like those now underway in New York to block a Muslim group from opening a community center and mosque near the former site of the World Trade Center strike at our most fundamental values. The politicians and commentators leading the fight against the center are stoking a mob mentality that could scarcely be more un-American; they seek to make enemies out of their fellow countrymen." Strike at our most fundamental values? Un-American? Look who's calling the kettle hot. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is behind the drive to build a 15-story, mosque overlooking Ground Zero, claims to be a moderate and says that the purpose of the mosque at that location is to promote "interfaith understanding." Yet he has ranted about America being worse than the Al Qaeda terrorists who flew planes into the World Trade Towers and murdered thousands of innocent civilians in the name of Allah. That is surely not promoting interfaith understanding, and no mosque at that location, built by an Imam who has said such offensive things (Why is it that they can offend and we cannot?) could do other than cause greater pain to families of 9/11 victims -- and we were all victims. Moreover, Imam Rauf has involvement with Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the U.S. representative of Hamas, and with the radical Muslim Brotherhood. Excuse me, but Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood have declared us to be their enemies. Nobody in America is trying to make enemies out of any American Muslim who genuinely loves his freedoms in this country and isn't seeking to deprive others of theirs through the imposition of Sharia law. If Imam Rauf were truly one of those, as he claims to be, he would embrace the offer of New York's Governor David Paterson to build the mosque at another site donated by the state. That would go a long way toward building the interfaith understanding he purports to seek. Better still: Maybe Imam Rauf could negotiate a trade with the Saudis (as long as he's over there on a diplomatic mission for Obama anyway: He gets to build a 15-story mosque at Ground Zero and we get to build a15-story Christian church in Mecca. Hey, we can't even carry a personal bible into that tolerant country. As for Mr. Edgar, his assertion that Americans who express their views about the building of a mosque at Ground Zero are un-American is patently hypocritical. Where is the tolerance for their viewpoint? Where is their right to free speech? The Imam and his followers have it; their critics don't. The Left has it; the rest of us don't.
Yes, freedom of thought and expression do lie at the heart of America. But Common Cause, under the sham of protecting that freedom, is endeavoring to stifle the freedom of expression of anyone with whom it disagrees. Mr. Edgar errs gravely in his efforts to intimidate the American people. We see through his doubletalk, we will not be intimidated, we will stand for freedom, and we do not fear.
— Rand Green
Racist? Explain this one, please! August 27, 2010 — The proponents of open borders and of amnesty for those who have entered the country illegally are quick to label as "racist" anyone who believes that U.S. immigration laws ought to be obeyed and enforced. How so? The preponderance, though by no means all, of those who have chosen to enter our country by prying open the back window rather than knocking on the front door are Hispanic, and yet the same "politically correct" set that cries "racist!" is also quick to point out, quite correctly, that Hispanic is not a race; that, in fact, "Hispanics can be of any race." (I Googled that phrase, in quotes, and got more than 300,000 results.) Can someone explain this one, please? How can anyone be "racist" toward people who "can be of any race"? We'll leave the definition of "La Raza," as well as the discussion of who are the real racists, for another time. But I do wish to state emphatically that while there may be some rare exceptions among the hundreds of millions of Americans who are opposed to illegal immigration, overwhelmingly race does not factor in one iota for those of us who support secure borders and enforcement of immigration laws. Rather, we are concerned with national security and respect for law. We desire that those who come here to stay, regardless of race, understand what it means to be an American; that they come to embrace what America stands for, not to change it, not to subvert it, and not to demand rights of entitlement; and that when they become citizens, they do so without divided loyalty. We welcome all such, for that type of people — regardless of race — will help to keep our country strong, prosperous and free. For those who come to work, and not to stay, we expect for them to come under legally established programs, to respect our laws while here, and to return home when their work visas expire. No, we who oppose illegal immigration are not racist. Nor are we anti-Hispanic. Nor are we anti-immigration. It vexes me the way the Obama regime's spokescritters, their sycophants in liberal press, the Congressional Democrats, and (sadly) even some Republican supporters of amnesty (by whatever name) accuse us of being "anti-immigration" when we are merely opposed to illegal immigration. But that point has been made repeatedly. That the misrepresentation persists is evidence that it is a deliberately slanderous lie.
U.S. Senator Tom McClintock (R-California), put it well in a recent Sacramento Bee
op-ed when he said, "One cannot support both legal and illegal immigration at the same time." Those who want to erase our national borders to further their own agenda are well aware of that fact but choose to ignore it, because being truthful would be detrimental to their cause. Instead, they deceitfully choose, as Sen. McClintock said, "to hurl accusations of racism" against those with whom they disagree.
— Rand Green
Are You (Still) Displaying your
Not that American flags were nowhere to be found. I saw the Stars and Stripes displayed on a few homes and businesses, as well as government buildings. And I did see an occasional patriotic bumper sticker. Also, I saw several out-of-town big rigs with flags. Thank you, truckers. But the only American flag I saw on an automobile in three days of driving around the Los Angeles area was the one in the rear window of my Grand Marquis (which, by the way, was built by the only American automobile manufacturer still in the private sector!). Of course, there are millions of cars on the road in the Los Angeles Basin that I didn't see, and I know for a fact that flag or no flag, there are many proud American patriots in Southern California. Still, I was struck, as on the side of the head with a 2x4, by how many California residents driving on the freeways and surface streets of greater Los Angeles boldly displayed their loyalty to another country, while not a single star-spangled banner was in sight. With our nation's 234th Birthday just two days away at this writing, I know there will be a great deal of flag waving this weekend. I would love to see that not go away when America goes back to work on Tuesday. I would hope that many of us will continue to show our true colors, the red-white-and-blue colors, day after day, month in and month out, year after year.
Have a happy Fourth of July -- and let's do all we can to make certain, for the sake of future generations, that this nation is still around, and still rooted in solid foundational American values, 234 years from now! As our national anthem says, "Tis the star spangled banner: O, long may it wave / O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."
— Rand Green
Reckless Endangerment Tuesday, June 29, 2010 — Asked by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) during her confirmation hearings today whether she felt Congress had powers to limit political speech, Supreme Court Justice Nominee Elena Kagan gave a response that I am sure she thought conservatives in the Senate couldn't argue with, but her wording betrayed a typical leftist attitude toward the Bill of Rights. She said, "Senator Hatch, the First Amendment protects all of us and grants all of us rights." What Kagan and other leftists fail to understand is that such foundational American principles as freedom of speech are given by God, not granted by government, and the purpose of the First Amendment to the Constitution is to prohibit government from infringing on that right. When I read an account of the exchange between Hatch and Kagan on American Thinker, in a blog by Dana Ferrell, I was momentarily very proud of the senator, as at first glimpse it appeared to me that he had responded to Kagan statement much as I would have done. But as I read more closely, I realized that Ferrell was not reporting what Hatch had said but what she felt he ought to have said. Farrell and I were on the same wavelength, but Sen. Hatch either didn't pick up on Kagan's gaffe or decided to let it slide. A true conservative should never let such a statement slide. Hatch also said today that he doubts Republicans will filibuster the nomination -- and besides, he doesn't "believe in" filibusters. And besides that, he thinks some Republicans will vote for Kagan anyway. Makes one wonder if he's not among them. Where is this man's fight? Has he no conception of the danger our country is facing and how much damage Kagan could inflict on the United States as a Supreme Court Justice?
Actually, Kagan's record as a leftist activist attorney attests that she is no friend of free speech or any other provision in the Bill of Rights when it gets in the way of the leftist agenda. Failing to do everything possible, within the limits of the law, to keep her and others like her from getting a seat on the High Court is to be a party to the left's efforts to shred what remains of the Constitution. I call it reckless endangerment, because Kagan and others like her will interpret the Constitution the way they believe it should have been written, not the way the Framers intended.
— Rand Green Pronouncing America Dead Sunday, June 27, 2010 — Many people have proclaimed, often with great rejoicing, that the United States of America is in inevitable and irreversible decline. Some gleefully predict our demise. And according to a blog post I just ran across, at least one individual seems to be under the impression that the United States is not just on its last gasps but has already flatlined. The statement, made by an anonymous blogger on backreaction.blogspot.com, was a comment in response to an October 2008 posting by one Sabine Hossenfelder, Assistant professor, High Energy and Nuclear Physics at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm. Singing the praises of "social democracy" and decrying what she views as the evils of free market capitalism, Prof. Hossenfelder reiterated the Leftist mantra: "An unregulated free market is merciless on the sick, the old, the poor, or the unlucky, simply everybody who fails to contribute directly to economic growth for whatever reason, e.g. by having too many kids." "That is why China works and America died," commented the anonymous blogger. China works? America is dead? If America is in decline, it's because our government has moved away from the free market principles that made this country the most prosperous and powerful in the world. It would be trite to quote what Mark Twain famously said about rumors of his own death being greatly exaggerated, but America is not dead yet. And if China appears to be working, it is only because the United States has offered itself as a sacrificial market for cheap Chinese goods. For all of the frustrations that we're grappling with right now in the United States in trying to retain our freedoms and restore this nation to its foundational principles, this is still the greatest country in the world − and, as Ronald Reagan said, it "remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation."
To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill, "Never say die. Never, never, never, never, never."
— Rand Green Compassionate Use of Arms and Wealth May 22, 2010 — Below are my responses to some statements made by the rabidly anti-capitalist, radical environmentalist, British writer David "The Planet is Dying" Edwards (as interviewed by Derrick Jensen, an American of similar credentials, from extracts published in a promotional mailer for the "radically intimate and socially conscious" magazine, The Sun). Edwards: "Your compassion needs to reflect what you do. How can you aspire to compassion and yet work for an arms manufacturer?" My answer: Armaments -- weapons -- are, of themselves, neutral things. They can be used to harm others, or they can be used compassionately, to protect others from those who seek to do them harm. Edwards: "Once you start to see through the myth of status, possessions, and unlimited consumption as a path to happiness, you'll find that you have all kinds of freedom and time. It is like a deal you can make with the universe: I'll give up greed for freedom. Then you can start putting your time to good use." My response: Those who prosper are much better positioned to help others than those who quit their jobs to prove they are not greedy and have to then rely on the compassion of others for their daily sustenance while volunteering their time in the oh-so-compassionate cause of destroying the prosperity of others. Wealth is not evil. Wealth in the hands of a compassionate individual enables that individual to help others far more than if he were poor. Edwards: "… realize that helping others is also helping yourself."
My response: Mr. Edwards, you have just made the capitalist's case for enlightened self-interest.
— Rand Green Opinion Surveys Won't Change the World
May 21, 2010 — A fat envelope with no exterior information other than "2010 national opinion survey"
arrived in today's mail. Obviously an appeal for donations. So-called "opinion surveys" always are. Even when they are from an organization I support, it gets a little tedious.
This one turns out to be from Christian Senior Association, America's Christian Alternative to the Far-Left AARP, and it is a membership drive as well as a request for additional contributions.
Sadly, not all so-called "Christian" organizations are alternatives to the Far Left. I'm glad this one is. But the game plan the mailing proposes is a futile gesture. It states: "We will be releasing a report on the results on this survey in the next 90 days to President Obama, his senior advisors,
members of Congress, and the news media." Sorry, but Obama won't care, nor will his senior advisors. It won't change any minds in Congress. And it will be ignored by the major media.
The mailing also states, "We must continue to show America's political leaders that AARP's ultra-left agenda is out-of-step with the views of most American seniors." That's pointless. America's political leaders are already aware of that fact.
What the piece does well is to summarize ways in which the radical agendas of both Obama and the AARP are seriously out-of-step with the values of most Christian seniors and, for that matter, of most Americans. The best thing the Christian Seniors Association could do is to put that information in front of as many seniors in the country as possible, because the only way we are going to stop the Obama agenda is at the polls and the only way we are going to stop the AARP agenda is by exposing that agenda and fomenting mass defections away from that organization.
I'll put Christian Senior Association in the camp of the good guys, and I'll pop for the $12.95 membership fee. But they need to devise a more effective strategy than trying to change the minds of radical leftists with survey results.
— Rand Green Read more of Rand's Rants Here FEATURES * * * * * The Last Letter Home
We who breathe free air today owe an eternal debt to Lt. Charles Ralph Campbell and his crew, and to all other Allied military personnel who fought and died in World War II, as well as all other conflicts in our nation's history from the American Revolution to the present day. We can repay that debt only by remembering, and by doing all within our own power to safeguard our freedoms for generations yet to come.
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A Response to a McClatchy Newspaper Editorial Smearing Supporters of Birthright Citizenship Reform as 'Racist' " I have extolled the virtues of legal immigration throughout my entire career in public office. Unlike most nations, our immigration laws were not written to keep people out. They were written to assure that as immigrants come to America, they come with the intention to become Americans and to fully assimilate into American society by acquiring a common language, a common culture and a common allegiance to American constitutional principles. Illegal immigration undermines the entire process of legal immigration that makes our nation of immigrants possible."
Obama's Bogus Budget Cuts "IN ITS LATEST ATTEMPT to mitigate public outrage over out-of-control government growth, the administration of President Barack Obama has instructed a handful of federal agencies to cut their budgets by five percent.... [T]he reality is that Obama isn’t cutting anything – not a dime. In fact, his budget office is calling for the so-called “savings” accrued from these “cuts” to be pumped into additional government growth. ."
Obama's Health Control Law
"We must not compromise with evil. And Obama's Health Control law is evil, harmful, and dangerous to Americans, destructive of our freedom, and unconstitutional."
"It is an outrage that a foreign head of state would appear in this chamber and actively seek to [undermine our immigration laws]. And it is a disgrace that he would be cheered on from the left wing of the White House and by many Democrats in this Congress."
The Coming Constitutional Debate "Proponents of a “21st century constitution” or “living constitution” aim to transform our nation’s supreme law beyond recognition—and with a minimum of public attention and debate. Indeed, if there is an overarching theme to what they wish to achieve, it is the diminishment of the democratic and representative processes of American government." The Slaughterhouse Lies It has been called blatantly unconstitutional. Talk show host Mark Levin has declared it a “brazen and open violation of one of the most fundamental aspects of our Constitution.” At controversy is a plan by Congresswoman Louise Slaughter to enact the Senate version of ObamaCare without actually voting upon the bill itself. The Really Dark Side Under EFCA, [the existing] check on excessive union demands disappears. Through its arbitration panels, the Obama administration would effectively write labor contracts to fulfill the wishes of its union friends, and union monopoly would no longer be "quasi." It would be complete.
'Vengeance Is Mine,' So, we now predicate national tax policy on the public’s thirst for revenge [against greedy bankers] and boosting Obama’s poll numbers?
Charitable giving in America has never been the exclusive province of wealthy people. Throughout our history, Americans from all walks of life have given generously for charitable causes....These philanthropic achievements have all been made possible by freedom.... But these freedoms are now under serous threat.
United States not as Free The U.S. economy is no longer "free" according to the "2010 Index of Economic Freedom," a 485-page analysis of the world's economies prepared by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal.
Education, Economics, and Self-Government
No Ceiling and the Sky Is Falling THE IRONY of the United States’ current financial situation is that it would be absolutely impossible for any business or private citizen to ever wind up in such dire straits. It literally couldn’t happen, as there are far too many safeguards that would kick in to prevent the sort of uncontrolled, addictive descent into unprecedented debt (and deficit spending) that we currently see gripping Washington D.C.
ObamaCare: How The Unions Are “Getting Well” Both versions of ObamaCare do something far worse than slipping billions of dollars into the pockets of organized labor leaders as a payoff for their support in the 2008 election: They actively seek the forced unionization of the entire health care industry.
Will the Senate Torpedo ObamaCare? Now that the House has passed the $2.1 trillion ObamaCare abomination by the slimmest of margins, the scene shifts to the Senate. There, members will be put to the test as to whether to pass the single largest redistribution of the wealth in U.S. history.
Congress Must Hear Constituents,
Reject ObamaCare Every single Rasmussen poll since September 13-14 has had opposition [to ObamaCare] polling at 50 percent or greater, and support for the bill has not risen above 46 percent for almost two months.... Will members represent the will of their constituents, or those of the political elite in Washington who seek to force their will upon the American people?
Lindsey Graham's Sordid Self Once the hero of the conservative movement for his courageous stand against the libidinal Bill Clinton in the House impeachment proceedings of 1998, Lindsey Graham has since evanesced into a mere shadow of his once-stalwart self. Or, for that matter, of any other wannabe leader with scarcely a thimbleful of testosterone flowing through his anemic system. Today, Graham is little more than the ever-eager turn-to guy whenever the hard left needs a squishy sycophant to carry its water through the corridors of Congress.
Pollution as a Capital Offense
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Time after time in President Obama’s Sept. 9, 2009, speech on health care before a joint session of Congress, he called the American people liars for speaking what he, himself, knows
darn well is the truth. And that, it seems, is okay.
Time after time in his speech, the President told lie after lie, bold-faced and blatantly, knowing full well that what he said was untrue. And that, it seems, is okay.
Time after time, when the President told a lie or called the American people liars, the Congressional Democrats applauded, cheered, and rose to their feet.
But when Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) grew increasingly and justifiably incensed by the President’s hubris, audacity and mendacity, and finally, unable to hold it in any longer, one time shouted out, “You lie,” following one of the President’s most outrageous and demonstrable lies – that, it seems, is not okay.
ATTENDING the Central Valley TEA Party here on Tax Day, April 15, was one of the most heartening,
energizing and exhilarating experiences this writer has enjoyed in quite some time. There have been
times in recent years, quite frankly, when I felt like a lone voice crying in the wilderness, warning
of the dangers facing the United States of America not only from without but from within. But no more
do I feel alone. Clearly, the American people -- We, the People -- have had MORE THAN ENOUGH of the
heavy-handed policies of power-craven politicians who are taking this country in a head-long descent
into socialist-fascist totalitarian tyranny. .jpg)
Friday, July 2, 2010 — On a recent trip to Los Angeles, I was quite surprised to see how many drivers displayed their patriotism by flying flags from the windows of their cars. I haven't seen that many national flags on cars
on the highway since, oh, about 2003. Just one problem: now, without exception, they were
all Mexican flags. 
A story of faith,
“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
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Response to Mexico President Calderon's Address to Congress 
The Generosity of Americans
Once you deny the existence of absolute truth, the definition of "good" becomes subjective and the only standard of behavior is what we want—"we," in the political sense, meaning the government or bureaucracy. It reduces politics not to right, but to force. That is why there is this bullying spirit about our government today, and why so many Americans are worried.
It is time for that to stop, and there are two conditions for stopping it. The first is for the ordinary folk of the United States to see in this the despotism that it is, and to rise up and repudiate it. The second thing is longer term, but equally vital: It is to replace leaders who have bad educations with leaders who have good educations.
ARE cases of environmental pollution that are so egregious that the polluters should be punished as murderers?
Absolutely, says Obama EPA Administrator Lisa Heinzerling. And she is willing to wipe out half of the world’s population to prove her point.
If we’re not going to go down the tubes as a great nation, we must get about changing things while we still have the liberty to do so.