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Obama, You Lie!
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." |
Rand's Rants The Fall of the House of Pelosi? Jan. 28, 2010 — I've read several rather gloomy commentaries by conservative "pundits" assessing the chances for the Republican party to pick up a majority in the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections this November as "rather slim" or even "slim at best." They cite "all the experts" or "conventional wisdom" as the authority for this prognostication. But I think the odds are a little better than slim. According to the New York Times, to regain a majority in the House, Republicans need a net gain of 40 seats. There are 56 seats up for grabs that are currently held by Democrats, and Republicans would need to win all but 16 of those in addition to keeping all of the 14 Republican-held seats currently in play. Can it happen? Given the present mood in the country, the recent Republican victories in governors races in Virginia and liberal New Jersey and in a Senate race in ultra-liberal Massachusetts, as well as the near-victory of a third-party conservative over a liberal Republican and a liberal Democrat in New York's 23rd Congressional district, it seems to me the prospect of similar successes for conservatives in November are very good indeed. And the odds improve every time an incumbent Democrat congressman, apparently hoping to avoid the chagrin of a possible defeat at the polls, announces his retirement. A lot of that has been going on lately. Yes, I believe the chances of the Pelosis and the Dems losing control of the House this fall are very good.
But it won't happen if the Republican party only fields RINOs (Republicans in name only). The party will need to back principled conservatives if it truly wants to regain control of the House!
— RG Apoplexy & Hypocrisy at Common Cause Jan. 22, 2010 — Common Cause President Bob Edgar has gone apoplectic over the Supreme Court's "stunning decision" yesterday upholding the right of citizens − and of corporations − to express their political opinions. . Existing campaign finance laws required that "a speaker wishing to avoid criminal-liability threats and the heavy costs of defending against FEC enforcement must ask a governmental agency for prior permission to speak," noted Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. That meant, as observed by David N. Bossie, president of Citizens United − which brought the lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission in the case on which the court ruled − that " a citizen who spoke without government permission was at risk of a prison sentence." Said Mr. Bossie: ” I believe that, above every other category of speech, political speech must be the most protected." . Fortunately, the Supreme Court agreed and overturned some of the most egregious free-speech censorship provisions of McCain-Feingold. . "This is judicial activism at its worst," blared Edgar, crassly misusing the term. "Everything" Common Cause has fought for throughout its 40-year history is "on the line," he said. Clearly, his definition of judicial activism is any ruling that disagrees with his radical, anti-capitalist agenda − which, simply put, is to silence anyone who disagrees with his Marxist views. . "We cannot − we will not − allow control of our democracy to be handed over to wealthy special interests," he bellowed. . That is a stunningly hypocritical statement coming from the top exec at Common Cause, a political lobbying organization which is itself heavily funded by big-money interests − specifically George Soros, the billionaire capitalist who turned anti-capitalist after making his own mega-fortune. . Common Cause itself constantly violates election finance laws with impunity because with liberal activist dominating many courts as well as the FEC and most other federal agencies, in practice it is only conservative political speech that is banned. . Edgar claims to oppose the corruption of big money in politics, but it seems in his view only corporate money has the power to corrupt. He has never decried as corruption such practices as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid buying Sen. Mary Landry's vote on Health Care for $300 million or buying Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson's vote by exempting just his state from new Medicare payments, forcing the rest of us to pick up the tab, or when Obama cut a deal with the labor unions to exempt their members from the taxes on Cadillac health plans the rest of us would have to pay, in return for their support for ObamaCare. Astonishing hypocrisy! .
To keep corporate money out of politics (except when donated to leftist non-profits, of course), Edgar wants public funding for elections -- which would mean that candidates could only spend what the government gives them and, therefore, those in power could decide who qualifies and who does not qualify for the funding. That's his idea of democracy: government elites deciding what's best for the people and government censors deciding who has a right to express what opinions. Thank God the Supreme Court did its job and stood on the side of the Constitution on this issue!
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* * * * * 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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'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
Prospects for
Economic Liberty
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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. 
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.”
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.