Why “Progressives” and not “Liberals”?

In less than 4 years under Obama and 6 years under nearly 100% Democrat rule they have driven the economy into depression, doubled the national debt, doubled the number of people unemployed, doubled the price of gas and put 49% of the country on some form of government dependency; you call this progress?

Only if you consider the total economic collapse of America a success would you agree that they've made progress.....

Why “Progressives” and not “Liberals”?

3 Must-See Charts About Obama's Budget - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

So let's get this straight, Obama proposes to increase taxes on Millionaires and Billionaires (accept for the money that his wealthy white supporters make, that won't be taxed) and then he still comes up with a $1.3 Trillion deficit while lecturing US about math......?

He was correct when he admonished us not to label him a "tax and spend" Democrat, he is clearly a "Tax and Debt" Democrat!

If he is doing this during an election year, just imagine what happens to this country if he is elected to a second term and no longer has to worry about appearing to be pro-American.....?

3 Must-See Charts About Obama's Budget - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

The Catholic Mandate - Obama's Real End Game

So now Obama announces a compromise whereby he will exempt religious organizations from his mandate of on-demand birth control while simultaneously mandating that the Insurance Companies those religious organizations use become the providers of on-demand birth control. So what's changed? Nothing but the clarity of his initial purpose.

While so many people were confused as to why the President would make such a controversial move, the President was setting up the next step in a beautiful misdirection.

I have long contended that Obamacare is a ticking time bomb that will exponentially move us down the path to government provided health care. Today's announcement furthers my argument. Since the religious organizations still oppose contraception on-demand, and ALL insurance companies must provide it, the only choice the organizations have is to cease offering health insurance as a benefit and pay a fine instead, forcing their employees into the public health insurance co-ops or to look for a new job where the benefit is offered.

Despite their assertions to the otherwise, the cost benefit of the "penalty" encourages employers to end health care benefits and just pay the fine. At first this will be businesses that are hurting financially, but once the ball gets rolling, it will be a matter of time until only government employees have this benefit. What people entering the public pools will find is that with all the mandates and restrictions required by Obamacare, the cost of health insurance will be prohibitive. This will then be the next crisis which will then resurrect the "need" for the public option as the only viable solution.

Once a public option is in place, it will only be a matter of time before it's the only option....game over.

We had better wake up soon to the battle that is in front of us. This is not a single mosquito buzzing in our ear, this is a swarm and it hits full force if Obama gets his second term.

President announces compromise on birth control issue

The Ongoing Recovery from the Folly of Intellectuals

I think the growth of skepticism over the last decade about the role and effectiveness of government is very encouraging and one reason why the left seems to be scrambling to nail the coffin shut. They know the tide is turning, it is time for us to double our efforts and call these people out for what they are?


The Ongoing Recovery from the Folly of Intellectuals

OWS & the planned “endgame” for the U.S.

This is frightening and very Glen Beck-ish, but think how many things that Beck has predicted are now coming to pass. Don't know how it will end, but I do know that the people I have encountered from the Occupy movement are not speaking of freedom and liberty from an owned tyrannical government. Instead they want the government to "do more to us" something the BHO has complained that is the main flaw of the Constitution.

We need to wake up and be aware of what is going on around us.


OWS & the planned “endgame” for the U.S.

The Creed of Sacrifice vs. The Land of Liberty

I found this piece this morning.  It does a very good job of showing the devolution from the American Dream to the Socialist Nightmare that has ensnared us.  Yes folks we are already a socialist country, the water is now boiling and all President Foodstamp needs is a relection before he puts the lid on the pot.....

  The Creed of Sacrifice vs. The Land of Liberty

http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2009-fall/creed-of-sacrifice-vs-land-of-liberty.asp

Defending Romney's Policies

Based on everything I have seen, heard and read, I do not like Mitt Romney as a Republican Presidential Candidate.  People I admire like Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, have a core belief system that they are not afraid to show, discuss and promote.  The run based on the belief that their policies will be best for the people electing them and win or lose based on their ability to convince people of that premise.

Mitt Romney scans the horizon and says (for example)...."these are liberals, so today I am a liberal".   I have no idea what he really believes in or what he would actually push for once elected President.  Romneycare is an example of his belief in government solutions, albeit at the state level and it is supposed that he will get hammered on it if he is in fact the Republican candidate.

Having said that, I am confused as to why Ann Coulter, who I enjoy reading, would be endorsing Romney.  So today, I am sharing Ann's well-thought defense of Romneycare and how it's quite different from Obamacare....

http://townhall.com/content/1bd69323-b044-43a5-8b9a-740f3ea67b02

National Security Versus International Intervention

I have long been a Ron Paul supporter based on his in-depth knowledge of the Constitution and his common sense approach to applying it at all levels of society.  While many pundits agree with me when it comes to Dr. Paul's domestic agenda (which too often gets taken out of context and twisted into something it's not), they are constantly dismissing him for his foreign policy which is labeled passivist, isolationist or simply "wrong". 

My response which usually drives Republicans nuts is "when did Republicans become the party of War?".  Are the Chinese isolationists?  Are the Russians isolationists?  The answer of course is no, they are both trading all over the world with everybody in the world, they both have foreign companies doing business within their borders, they are both reasonably easy to travel to and leave from.  They even both have standing armies, just not fighting undeclared wars all over the world at a cost in the 100's of millions.

The idea that we can go in to another country, take out the "bad guy" and put in a "good guy" to run things is not only improbable, but morally reprehensible.  Yes, there are a lot of messed up people in the world, doing messed up things to their citizens, but our history is no cleaner and one would wonder how well we would have worked things out if we were constantly having other companies intervening in our affairs.

In the attached Link, John Stossel makes a case for Ron Paul's REAL foreign policy....

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2012/02/01/creators_oped

Cheers For Our "Do-Nothing Congress"

Quick, what's the difference between Obama and Hugo Chavez?  Answer - Chavez has cancer.

In his latest transformation leading up to November 2012, Obama has decided that it is best to blame the Congress (translation: the Republican-led House of Representatives) for the ills of the US Economy.  We have heard quite often about his Czars lamenting the fact that we can't be a more dictatorial society like the Chinese, so they can just get everything they wanted in place.

This is very telling on many different levels.  First, the total disregard of Obama for the structure of the Government.  We are, nor were we ever intended to be a democracy.  While our elected officials are elected using a democratic process, we live in a republic were a majority rule is tempered by the power of the individual states.  The House is supposed to represent the people, they tour their districts and come back to Washington with ideas and demands from their constituents.  They can then take those demands and bring them up as House Bills to be voted on; a simple majority passes the bill along to the Senate.

The Senate as designed, was to represent the interests of the States.  Until the early 1900's (thanks to the Father of the Progressive Movement - Woodrow Wilson) the US Senators were selected by their peers in their state's senate.  The purpose for this was that if any of the Senators behaved badly, they could quickly be called back to the state senate and replaced.  The process for electing Senators this way ended with the 17th Amendment which some claim was the end of the republic.

Furthermore, again until the early 1900's, any piece of legislation could be stopped by 1 Senator, not 40 as we see today, 1.  The purpose for this was simple; in Venezuela Chavez took over with a simple majority and began implementing everything he wanted.  In this way, the majority can simply vote to take anything they want from the minority.  This is what Obama would like to do, but the brilliance of the Founders and Ben Franklin in particular foresaw people like Obama and put in place checks and balances to prevent the evil of democracy.

In 2010, the Republicans ran on the promise that they would put a stop, or at least slow down Obama's march to socialism, thanks to the foresight of the Founders, they have been able to fulfill most of that promise.

Obama to Catholics - "Kill Babies or Else!"

In perhaps the most blatant attack on religeous freedom, the Obama Administration under the cover of ObamaCare, has told Catholic Hospitals that they must provide abortions on demand or face government penalties.  At a time when we are being told we should accept Sharia law in our legal system in certain cases, a religeous organization which at one time was the primary provider of health care to the uninsured, must perform acts that are in direct violation of their religeous belief's.

This is an attempt to once and for all, establish the federal government as the sole arbiter of health care in the US.  The government hates competition and eliminating charities that provide an alternative source of assistance for the (ever growing) dependent class, is the way to secure power.

So while you hear the progressives telling us how we are all evil and greedy and not doing enough to pay our fair share, pay attention to how they are trying to destroy the most giving and unselfish among us.

Random Thoughts on Obama's SOTU Speech

If Congress approved all the Obama Tax Increase, would he then bring down spending in line with tax revenue?  Cause taking 30% of millionare's income won't get you $1.6 Trillion.....

Does giving everyone a "fair shot" mean that the Government stops using tax payer money to make loans, grants and loan guarantees to "favored" companies?

Does anybody know what Warren Buffet actually pays his secretary?

Shouldn't the Government pay it's "fair share" by only accepting a pay and benefit scale equal to the mean private sector employee?

Why not promote a tax on all net worth over $10 million?  Then Buffet's secretary would (probably) not pay any more and Buffet would pay billions in taxes ....wouldn't that make him happy?

Shouldn't all government employees be forced to buy their Health Insurance on an exchange run by DC?

In 22 months businesses created over $3 million jobs...ok but you also ran up $5 trillion in debt over the same period, so the cost per job has been $333,330 per job.  You think that's a good ROI?

Does he not know that Capital Gains come from money invested with after tax income?

GM is back on top?  Not by market cap...Toyota $116B, $Volkswagon $56B, $Ford 49B, GM $39B  and GM still owes me some money!

If we're doing so well drilling our own oil, then why are gas prices double since 2008?

Why does he keep reminding us he's wealthy?

Does it really make sense to threaten to punish existing businesses for lowering their costs instead of creating an environment for new businesses to come and grow here?

We have to fund his new construction projects?  What happened to all the stimulus money?

I'd be happy to build consensus around "common sense ideas" if he actually had any....

He calls his plan the "Blueprint for An America Built to Last," .....Mao had a blueprint, Stalin had a blueprint, Reagan had a vision.......

Bottom line, more government, more taxes, more central planning by the same people that got us where we are today.....this economic system only worked on "The West Wing"

Dr. King was a Man of God

To say that the Reverends Wright, Sharpton and Jackson are men of God is to say that Bill Maher is a man of Faith. 

On a day when so many Black leaders will be standing up in front of large audiences and putting words in Dr. King's mouth, I wonder what he would be actually thinking today if he saw the current state of the movement he led.

 The most public and notable leaders Sharpton and Jackson, turned the movement into nothing more than a protection racket; extorting money from various business entities under the threat of being called racist or "a discriminator".  With great regularity they fail to keep Commandments #8 and #9 while calling on their followers to openly and brazenly break Commandment #10.  These are not leaders who seek to lift their people up to greater achievement but must in fact keep their people suppressed in a vicious cycle of poverty, chaos and hatred in order to continue to line their own pockets. 

Reverend Wrights weekly venom has been widely publicized and needs not be repeated here.  It is enough to note that a true man of God, would never utter these words or promote the hatred and envy he does to a people in need of real hope and direction.  The longer someone harbors thoughts of hatred and resentment for his or her situation, the lower the chances of that situation ever changing for the better.

Dr. King was a good shepherd.  He had a vision for his flock that they could live in peace and prosper in a country that was founded on the premise that all men were created and endowed by their creator with inalienable rights. His speeches were filled ideas of equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity, not hate-filled damnation, entitlement and revenge. 

His enemies hated him, not because he was pointing fingers at them and spewing vicious rhetoric, but because he held up a mirror to the oppressors and showed them what they really were.  He did not seek revenge, he sought understanding, repentance and forgiveness so that future generations of American citizens would have this all behind them.  Like Moses, John the Baptist and Jesus he knew that he was on the side of righteousness and that with God, he could change the course of Man.

Of all the people who were taken from us too soon, Dr. Kings death was the most tragic in my lifetime, because the void he left has been filled with purveyor's of corruption, hatred and despair and his flock still wanders the desert.

May God Bless Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and those who today still share his dream. 

Ron Paul Tells Newsmax: I Support Israel

Ron Paul was excluded in a debate sponsored by a Jewish-Republican group this week.
Here is what he would have liked to have said...

Ron Paul Tells Newsmax: I Support Israel

Obama’s Kansas speech: some suspect facts - The Fact Checker - The Washington Post

This speech was so pathetic on so many levels.....

Really, who's mommy ever told them that if the work real hard and play by the rules, they may one day become part of the middle class? I'd wished OBAMA!'s mommy had encouraged that, we'd be far better off than we are today.

A larger, more activist government? Have you seen Europe lately? The model of OBAMA!'s vision of America is insolvent! Not broke, insolvent! They can only pay their bills by borrowing more even more money! Do you think their middle class is going to survive? The will expand their middle class by making them as poor as the lower class.

Is that what America should look like? 99% of us in poverty while the ruling class takes 18 day vacations in Hawaii?

This guy, along with everyone who votes with him, has to go...

Obama’s Kansas speech: some suspect facts - The Fact Checker - The Washington Post

What the Founders Thought About Democracy | Eric Peters Autos

"This is what democracy looks like!" Everywhere for a year we heard this in Wisconsin as protestors converged on the Capital in Madison and Occupy Wall Street ramped up their eat the rich campaign against Capitalism. And they were right! That IS what democracy looks like, mob rule, a majority ganging up on a minority to impose their will without regard to the rights of those on whom the imposition is placed. In a democracy, private property rights cannot exist, they will always be subjegated to the will of the mob that desires to confiscate them.

This is why, America was not constituted as a democracy. The Founders understood the flaws of democracy and so created a Republic based on the concept of private property and the right of the States over the will of the Federal Government. Unfortunately, both parties rarely speak of the republic anymore and in fact the 2 party system has taken us further and further away from the idea of America. Today we have liberal governors who gladly abdicate their State's sovereignty to the Fed, allowing a Senator from Delaware to dictate how the State of Texas must conduct its affairs and worse, an unelected bureacrat in the NLRB to prevent a private company from opening a plant in the State of South Carolina. Even George W. Bush felt it was his mission to spread democracy across the Middle East, so how's that worked out so far?

Yes, this is what democracy looks like....and we better eradicate it from our republic soon because it sucks!

What the Founders Thought About Democracy Eric Peters Autos

CARPE DIEM: Democrats Need to Re-Think U.S. Energy Policy

A pragmatic Democrat...?

CARPE DIEM: Democrats Need to Re-Think U.S. Energy Policy

When Governments Go Rogue

This is simply a great op-ed piece that should slap in the face anyone who thinks things will get better if we simply put Republicans back in power...

When Governments Go Rogue

Senate To Vote On Legislation That Allows U.S. Military to Detain Americans Without Charge or Trial

It is unbelievable to me that a man who would run for President on the Republican ticket would co-author such a dispicable piece of legislation. John McCain is an outright enemy to the American citizen, he would willingly destroy your freedoms and open the government up for more abuses and for what? How long did it take before the Patriot Act was turned on American citizens with Napolitano naming people with Ron Paul bumper stickers as potential home grown terrorists. Do you really think there will be any sort of check once this becomes law?

So many people call Obama the Manchurian candidate, but what does this say about McCain? This man has worked tirelessly to make sure that a permanent ruling class gets even more deeply entrenched in D.C. If this man has any use for the Constitution, it most likely occurs after a bowel movement.

This is another example of over-reach, just like Sarbane's, Obamacare, Dodd-Frank and others, it seeks to establish power over the many under the guise of protecting us against the few. It must be stopped before it can reach the floor more a simple majority vote, there are too many Scott Brown's out there who will find a way to justify a yay vote.

Senate To Vote On Legislation That Allows U.S. Military to Detain Americans Without Charge or Trial

The Real Reason the Occupiers Where Cleared Out

Despite John Stewart's ongoing effort to equate OWS to the Tea Party movement, America isn't buying...

Recent polls indicate an increasing unfavorable opinion and the news of violence both within the camps as well as against police and citizens as well as the vile behavior has necessitated the Obama campaign to call off the camp-outs.

Like an offensive unit breaking from the huddle, the Mayors of almost all of the major occupy cities moved in concert to shut down the camps citing reasons that have existed for weeks while they took no such action.

So what's different....?


Awww: Protests featuring rape-free zones somehow less popular than the Tea Party « Hot Air

Analysis: Romney stronger than ever in GOP race - Yahoo! News

The mainstream media and the DNC are "all in" for a Romney - Obama Presidential race.

No other candidate fits Obama's strategy better than Romney. For months now the President has railed against (Implied to be White) GOP Millionaires and Billionaires who refuse to pay their fare share to helping our nation create the jobs (union and non-tax-paying government jobs of course) we all need to get things done.

Here is Romney, the poster child for Obama's straw man who also happens to garner little support from Tea Party activists and who cannot run against Obamacare since his own healthcare plan was the template for Obamacare. Obama couldn't ask for a better opponent....

Analysis: Romney stronger than ever in GOP race - Yahoo! News