“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.” Isaiah 5:20
This week the duplicitous Obama administration reneged on its commitment to “look forward” and not prosecute the prior administration for alleged misconduct in the War on Terror. Nevertheless, Attorney General Eric Holder has just authorized an investigation into the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques used in the first months following the 9/11 attack.
This is stupid, if not treasonous. The investigation will completely destroy our ability to work with other nations in the sharing of covert intelligence. Who would want to reveal any worthwhile secrets knowing that some future political trial in America might expose everything?
There are about a dozen cases that John Durham, the appointed special prosecutor, will be investigating. There’s nothing new here. These cases have all been looked into before and would remain closed if not for this extraordinary political move.
This is a reckless decision that will prove disastrous for those heroes in the field who have put themselves at risk for our safety. Eventually, many CIA operatives and contractors will be exposed to the enemy, jeopardizing their lives and families. Is this what we want? Who does this really help?
President Obama seemingly gave assurances to the CIA last April that this would not happen: “There is nothing more important than protecting the identities of CIA officials. So, I need everybody to be clear. We will protect your identities and your security as you vigorously pursue your mission.”
Huh? Who is he kidding? I guess this is the equivalent of Obama’s assurance that the unemployment rate would not go above 8% if we enacted the $800 billion porkulus bill.
Fact: the CIA interrogators now under siege by their own government are forces for good, not evil. The Left is clueless, but more than that, they’re putting us all in mortal danger. This is a definite pattern for them. They have demonstrated over the years a pathological tendency to misinterpret the nature of good and evil. Remember how they cringed when Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an “Evil Empire?” Case in point.
For Attorney General Holder, trying to decide, “who’s the good guy” has always been a challenge. As Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno he participated in Clinton’s infamous Pardongate where Marc Rich and 16 members of the terrorist group Boricua Popular Army, (formerly FALN), were given clemency on Clinton’s last day in office.
The Rich pardon was so bad that it was even denounced by many on the Left. The New York Times called it “an inexcusable abuse [of power].” Democrat leaders such as Jimmy Carter, Terry McAuliffe, Chuck Schumer and Robert Byrd all condemned the act as a disgrace. I suppose it is conceivable that Holder didn’t realize the full extent of Rich’s guilt, but then again, Rich wasn’t exactly hiding- he was on the FBI’s top ten most wanted list! Rich was associated with BCCI, aka “the Bank of Crooks and Criminals,” and made illegal oil deals with Iran at the time of the Iranian hostage crisis. Rich appears to have purchased his pardon with a $450,000 gift to the Clinton Library and a $70,000 contribution to Hillary’s senate campaign. Sweet.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks. His interrogation by the CIA, including waterboarding, led to the extraction of critically valuable information that helped thwart several attacks. One of the plots involved flying a jetliner into the “Library Tower” in Los Angeles. Names and addresses of several al Qaeda terrorists working in the U.S. and Europe were successfully collected.
It’s hard to imagine the moral confusion of someone like Holder who thinks it’s more important to prosecute the saviors of America’s security than those who mean us harm. But then again, there are those on the Left who think America itself is the focus of all evil in the world.
In 2003, Eric Holder worked for the Covington and Burling law firm that gave free representation to 16 detainees at Guantanamo. The documents from that case will necessarily reveal “witnesses” who are clandestine CIA agents working for our protection. It’s time to ask President Obama which side he is on! (send comments to WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757.)
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
Town Hall Protesters or Patriots
In 2003, Hillary Clinton proclaimed, “I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this [Bush] administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.”
Well, that was then this is now. Apparently, in this strange Orwellian world we now find ourselves in some protests are more equal than others.
In a recent op-ed piece, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called people who oppose the government takeover of healthcare “un-American.” Pelosi further characterized these town hall citizens as phony, “astroturf,” disrupters of democracy who carry swastikas! Let the record show that it was the Socialist Nazis who nationalized their healthcare with centralized, government control.
Other Democrats, like Representative David Scott of Georgia, have said these town hall “mobs” are preventing civil debate on the issue. Are they serious? Please take note: the Democrats never intended to have a debate at all, much less a civil one. They wanted to pass this overhaul of nearly 20% of our economy before the August recess without even reading the bill. How could there be any kind of relevant debate after a vote? Hmm?
This should serve as another example of how this current administration is attempting to deceive the American people. Remember what Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) said about this particular legislation, “what good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?” Apparently, all those folks in the “mob” out there are just too sensitive about their liberties and should blindly hand over all power to Obama. We simply must trust in Obama’s divine benevolence and forget all logical objections.
The mainstream media, predictably, has joined the chorus of demonizing these town hall activists who have the naïve concept of wanting to express their First Amendment Rights. How is it that Hillary Clinton and others on the Left can so easily abandon their once unified celebration of dissent? I suppose when there is a Republican president and the concerns involve “progressive” issues like: war protests, homosexual demonstrations, tree huggers, and ACLU anti-Christian lawsuits, the proverbial shoe is on the other foot.
Now, with the other party in charge, reasonable Americans should not protest, but rather heed Obama’s warning: “I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess.” So, the President expects us to believe that the town hall protestors, including many Democrats, are somehow responsible for creating the mess. I guess these town hall “hijackers” should be happy about the prospects of paying higher taxes for rationed healthcare that proposes to cut Medicare and Medicaid by $313 billion? I wonder if Obama and Pelosi’s condemnation includes Democrat Governor Phil Bredesen who called ObamaCare, “the mother of all unfunded mandates.” Is he an un-American Nazi too?
The hypocrisy of the Left is on full display. They love protest and agitation, but only when it benefits their pet, political causes. We can’t forget that it was President Obama himself- a former community organizer and Chief National Trainer for ACORN- who told supporters during the campaign, “I want you to argue with them and get in their face.” Staying true to form, Obama has sent out purple-shirted SEIU thugs, who are affiliated with ACORN, to pre-pack town hall audiences and rough-up dissenters like Kenneth Gladney in St. Louis who had to go to the hospital ater the assault.
The White House has also launched a website asking citizens to report on the “fishy” conduct of their fellow citizens. This snitch-on-your-neighbor website (flag@whitehouse.gov) is an insult to our American heritage of popular government and likely violates the law.
Americans who love and value their liberty need to take a stand now to stop this abuse of power before it’s too late. Find a town hall meeting in your area and speak-out while you still can. Power to the People! (send comments to: WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757)
Well, that was then this is now. Apparently, in this strange Orwellian world we now find ourselves in some protests are more equal than others.
In a recent op-ed piece, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called people who oppose the government takeover of healthcare “un-American.” Pelosi further characterized these town hall citizens as phony, “astroturf,” disrupters of democracy who carry swastikas! Let the record show that it was the Socialist Nazis who nationalized their healthcare with centralized, government control.
Other Democrats, like Representative David Scott of Georgia, have said these town hall “mobs” are preventing civil debate on the issue. Are they serious? Please take note: the Democrats never intended to have a debate at all, much less a civil one. They wanted to pass this overhaul of nearly 20% of our economy before the August recess without even reading the bill. How could there be any kind of relevant debate after a vote? Hmm?
This should serve as another example of how this current administration is attempting to deceive the American people. Remember what Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) said about this particular legislation, “what good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?” Apparently, all those folks in the “mob” out there are just too sensitive about their liberties and should blindly hand over all power to Obama. We simply must trust in Obama’s divine benevolence and forget all logical objections.
The mainstream media, predictably, has joined the chorus of demonizing these town hall activists who have the naïve concept of wanting to express their First Amendment Rights. How is it that Hillary Clinton and others on the Left can so easily abandon their once unified celebration of dissent? I suppose when there is a Republican president and the concerns involve “progressive” issues like: war protests, homosexual demonstrations, tree huggers, and ACLU anti-Christian lawsuits, the proverbial shoe is on the other foot.
Now, with the other party in charge, reasonable Americans should not protest, but rather heed Obama’s warning: “I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess.” So, the President expects us to believe that the town hall protestors, including many Democrats, are somehow responsible for creating the mess. I guess these town hall “hijackers” should be happy about the prospects of paying higher taxes for rationed healthcare that proposes to cut Medicare and Medicaid by $313 billion? I wonder if Obama and Pelosi’s condemnation includes Democrat Governor Phil Bredesen who called ObamaCare, “the mother of all unfunded mandates.” Is he an un-American Nazi too?
The hypocrisy of the Left is on full display. They love protest and agitation, but only when it benefits their pet, political causes. We can’t forget that it was President Obama himself- a former community organizer and Chief National Trainer for ACORN- who told supporters during the campaign, “I want you to argue with them and get in their face.” Staying true to form, Obama has sent out purple-shirted SEIU thugs, who are affiliated with ACORN, to pre-pack town hall audiences and rough-up dissenters like Kenneth Gladney in St. Louis who had to go to the hospital ater the assault.
The White House has also launched a website asking citizens to report on the “fishy” conduct of their fellow citizens. This snitch-on-your-neighbor website (flag@whitehouse.gov) is an insult to our American heritage of popular government and likely violates the law.
Americans who love and value their liberty need to take a stand now to stop this abuse of power before it’s too late. Find a town hall meeting in your area and speak-out while you still can. Power to the People! (send comments to: WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757)
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
“The Doctor Won’t See You Now”
At the time of this writing there seems to be a reprieve on ObamaCare. Thank God! At first, President Obama said that Healthcare Reform would be pushed through before the August recess. Now, all of that has changed thanks to some Blue Dogs and some very angry constituents.
Washington phone lines have been melting down with calls opposing this latest attempt to socialize our Health Industry that represents 1/6 of our overall economy. Obama remains adamant about achieving his reforms before the year is out. The good news is that more time means more truth will come out to undermine this horrendous 1,018 page health care bill that few in Congress have actually read.
If you are uncertain about this issue, take a few moments to consider the following:
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has analyzed the price tag for this Nationalized Health monster and has determined a cost of $1.5 trillion over 10 years. That’s on top of our current debt and deficit already skyrocketing out of control.
In 1966 Medicare cost $64 million, now it’s $500 billion. The Council for Affordable Health Insurance estimated that the administrative expenses of Medicare and Medicaid last decade were 66% higher than those in the private sector. That’s hardly a trustworthy track record that warrants more federal involvement. In fact, maybe the politicians should fix these programs first, before demanding more from the taxpayers?
The brave new world of ObamaCare will create 31 new federal programs with a Healthcare Czar and a Bureau of Health Information. This red tape will increasingly make all health decisions a political matter where even euthanasia will be mandated in order to help save resources for those who are more fit.
The bill will add costs in other ways. There’s a pay-or-play provision that would require businesses to provide health insurance or pay a fine equal to 8% of payroll. By the White House’s own estimates, this would be a $300 billion cost to employers, eliminating 5 million jobs. Income taxes, also, would be increased by $583 billion with more than half of those affected being small businesses- the provider of most jobs in America. The CBO notes that for those businesses able to survive, these costs will be passed on to the workers in the form of lower wages. Douglas Elmendorf, chief of CBO, predicts “the health care bills that congressional Democrats have proposed would likely make the nation’s already gloomy budget prospects even worse.”
If you think you have a choice in this matter, forget it. Opting out of this government behemoth will bring down the wrath of Obama with various tax penalties. We must all assimilate under Big Brother’s plan even though polls show that as many as 90% of Americans are happy with their current health care.
Another big lie, is the number of uninsured. Proponents of Socialized Medicine say that there are 47 million uninsured Americans. The truth is: 20 million can afford health insurance but don’t voluntarily choose it. Most of the other 27 million, according to a CBO study conducted by former director June O’Neill, are single, under 35, or illegal aliens. Why should we destroy a system that a majority of Americans prefer just to cover those who either don’t want it, or shouldn’t be here?
Critics say our health care is bad compared to the rest of the world. This is yet another lie. Countries who have nationalized care have far worse catastrophic outcomes due to rationing and long lines. Breast cancer mortality in Germany is 52% higher than the U.S. In the U.K. it is 88% higher. Prostate cancer mortality is 604% higher in the U.K. and 457% higher in Norway. If you take out the anomalies in the U.S. statistics, like the homicide rate and driving deaths, studies find that Americans actually live longer than people in other countries.
Proponents of Socialized Medicine say the poor need more coverage. Well, this also belies the facts. America has 37 million people living in poverty, but Medicaid covers 55 million at a taxpayer cost of $350 billion per year.
So, how do we make health care better? Nearly half of our Health Industry is already socialized with government, third-party intrusions. This system needs to be cleaned-up and privatized with medical savings accounts. With more consumer choice, insurance plans that can go across state lines, medical tort reform and other free market principles the industry can improve without a total government take-over.
ObamaCare is dangerous on many fronts. It’s aiming to tax health insurance plans for the first time in history. Physician-owned hospitals would likely go out of business. And, perhaps worst of all, ObamaCare would force all health insurance plans to cover abortions. To compel someone to fund this immoral practice is the height of tyranny for an arrogant Administration that has gone way out of control. (send comments to: WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757)
Washington phone lines have been melting down with calls opposing this latest attempt to socialize our Health Industry that represents 1/6 of our overall economy. Obama remains adamant about achieving his reforms before the year is out. The good news is that more time means more truth will come out to undermine this horrendous 1,018 page health care bill that few in Congress have actually read.
If you are uncertain about this issue, take a few moments to consider the following:
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has analyzed the price tag for this Nationalized Health monster and has determined a cost of $1.5 trillion over 10 years. That’s on top of our current debt and deficit already skyrocketing out of control.
In 1966 Medicare cost $64 million, now it’s $500 billion. The Council for Affordable Health Insurance estimated that the administrative expenses of Medicare and Medicaid last decade were 66% higher than those in the private sector. That’s hardly a trustworthy track record that warrants more federal involvement. In fact, maybe the politicians should fix these programs first, before demanding more from the taxpayers?
The brave new world of ObamaCare will create 31 new federal programs with a Healthcare Czar and a Bureau of Health Information. This red tape will increasingly make all health decisions a political matter where even euthanasia will be mandated in order to help save resources for those who are more fit.
The bill will add costs in other ways. There’s a pay-or-play provision that would require businesses to provide health insurance or pay a fine equal to 8% of payroll. By the White House’s own estimates, this would be a $300 billion cost to employers, eliminating 5 million jobs. Income taxes, also, would be increased by $583 billion with more than half of those affected being small businesses- the provider of most jobs in America. The CBO notes that for those businesses able to survive, these costs will be passed on to the workers in the form of lower wages. Douglas Elmendorf, chief of CBO, predicts “the health care bills that congressional Democrats have proposed would likely make the nation’s already gloomy budget prospects even worse.”
If you think you have a choice in this matter, forget it. Opting out of this government behemoth will bring down the wrath of Obama with various tax penalties. We must all assimilate under Big Brother’s plan even though polls show that as many as 90% of Americans are happy with their current health care.
Another big lie, is the number of uninsured. Proponents of Socialized Medicine say that there are 47 million uninsured Americans. The truth is: 20 million can afford health insurance but don’t voluntarily choose it. Most of the other 27 million, according to a CBO study conducted by former director June O’Neill, are single, under 35, or illegal aliens. Why should we destroy a system that a majority of Americans prefer just to cover those who either don’t want it, or shouldn’t be here?
Critics say our health care is bad compared to the rest of the world. This is yet another lie. Countries who have nationalized care have far worse catastrophic outcomes due to rationing and long lines. Breast cancer mortality in Germany is 52% higher than the U.S. In the U.K. it is 88% higher. Prostate cancer mortality is 604% higher in the U.K. and 457% higher in Norway. If you take out the anomalies in the U.S. statistics, like the homicide rate and driving deaths, studies find that Americans actually live longer than people in other countries.
Proponents of Socialized Medicine say the poor need more coverage. Well, this also belies the facts. America has 37 million people living in poverty, but Medicaid covers 55 million at a taxpayer cost of $350 billion per year.
So, how do we make health care better? Nearly half of our Health Industry is already socialized with government, third-party intrusions. This system needs to be cleaned-up and privatized with medical savings accounts. With more consumer choice, insurance plans that can go across state lines, medical tort reform and other free market principles the industry can improve without a total government take-over.
ObamaCare is dangerous on many fronts. It’s aiming to tax health insurance plans for the first time in history. Physician-owned hospitals would likely go out of business. And, perhaps worst of all, ObamaCare would force all health insurance plans to cover abortions. To compel someone to fund this immoral practice is the height of tyranny for an arrogant Administration that has gone way out of control. (send comments to: WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757)
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
“Happy Declaration Day”
America is 233 years old this week. Will there be many more? One thing’s for certain, America’s form of government-- and the God-given privileges of liberty it uniquely protects-- depends upon popular renewal and eternal vigilance. If we, the people, ever forget the principles of our great country we are sure to lose it.
Freedom is not a naturally occuring condition for human organization. It is a rare phenomenon in the course of human history. If it is not rigorously defended it will be abolished under the weight of self-serving politicians who force their will upon the people by exploiting weakness, ignorance and gullibility. As a writer in Pravda reminded us recently, “pride blinds the foolish.” The article was in reference to America’s rapid descent into Marxism. If you think you are incapable of being fooled, you better think again. Not everyone presenting themeselves as political “friends” are honest and forthright. Remember, they only want your vote to enlarge their own power!
The majority of Americans are inherently conservative. All of the polling data consistently reflects this ideological bent, (CNN 5/19/09; Gallup 6/15/09). They believe in America’s Founding principles and the high ideals of freedom and liberty. This means they have a healthy skepticism of government, a distrust of those who would usurp their individual rights with promises of collective, state-sponsored security. The trouble comes from the fact that a group of disengenuous politicians are governing now in Washington from a completely different perspective.
I think it would help us to go back to the Declaration of Independence this holiday weekend and consider, once again, the heritage that defines our nation. It’s the one thing that stands in the way of a Liberal, Left-wing majority in Washington that’s determined to take over every aspect of our lives with irresponsible bailouts, oppressive energy taxes and government-run health care.
On July 4, 1776 thirteen British colonies, after suffering from similar abuses of tyrannical government, declared their independence. The author of the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson, wrote one of the best known sentences in the English language. It has been regarded by historians as the most potent and consequential words in American history:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident [there’s no logical debate]: that all men are created equal [not evolved, and not subject to Sotomayor’s affirmative action]; that they are endowed [a legal endowment] by their Creator [God] with certain unalienable [cannot be alienated from] rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit [not the capture] of happiness.” Abraham Lincoln said, “I never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.”
These sentiments charge us with the duty to seek and follow the will of the Creator as the precursor to all governments. The authority of the Creator, being prior to all civil society and human authority, must be respected for liberty to endure. The Bible instructs us, “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” The only other option is to follow the authority of untrustworthy and fallible men who arbitrarily rule according to their own, selfish purposes. That’s why we say we are “one Nation under God.” It is a differentiation from both the “Divine Right of Kings” we rejected in 1776 and the totalitarian Liberalism we battle today.
Our first squadron of cruisers commissioned by Gen. Washington in the War of Independence flew the Pine Tree Flag with the motto: “An Appeal To Heaven.” I’m sure if the ACLU had been around back then they would have filed a lawsuit! The phrase is another reminder of our Founders’ reliance upon God for determining the success of the Revolution. The idea comes from John Locke and his philosophy regarding the “Right to Rebel.” Here is a quote from Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government,”
“If God has taken away all means of seeking remedy…[with] no Arbitrator on Earth to appeal to. Then they may appeal, as Jephtha did, to Heaven, and repeat their Appeal, till they have recovered the native Right of their Ancestors, which was to have such a Legislative over them, as the Majority should approve, and freely acquiesce in.”
If people are continually abused by a system that abdicates its responsibility to ensure justice, then Jefferson says, “it is [the peoples’] right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.” Jefferson concluded, “with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”
The challenges we are facing now represents another call to duty, to test our commitment to those sacred principles handed down to us. Time will tell whether this generation will keep the faith, or consign America to the dust bin of history. (send comments to: WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757).
Freedom is not a naturally occuring condition for human organization. It is a rare phenomenon in the course of human history. If it is not rigorously defended it will be abolished under the weight of self-serving politicians who force their will upon the people by exploiting weakness, ignorance and gullibility. As a writer in Pravda reminded us recently, “pride blinds the foolish.” The article was in reference to America’s rapid descent into Marxism. If you think you are incapable of being fooled, you better think again. Not everyone presenting themeselves as political “friends” are honest and forthright. Remember, they only want your vote to enlarge their own power!
The majority of Americans are inherently conservative. All of the polling data consistently reflects this ideological bent, (CNN 5/19/09; Gallup 6/15/09). They believe in America’s Founding principles and the high ideals of freedom and liberty. This means they have a healthy skepticism of government, a distrust of those who would usurp their individual rights with promises of collective, state-sponsored security. The trouble comes from the fact that a group of disengenuous politicians are governing now in Washington from a completely different perspective.
I think it would help us to go back to the Declaration of Independence this holiday weekend and consider, once again, the heritage that defines our nation. It’s the one thing that stands in the way of a Liberal, Left-wing majority in Washington that’s determined to take over every aspect of our lives with irresponsible bailouts, oppressive energy taxes and government-run health care.
On July 4, 1776 thirteen British colonies, after suffering from similar abuses of tyrannical government, declared their independence. The author of the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson, wrote one of the best known sentences in the English language. It has been regarded by historians as the most potent and consequential words in American history:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident [there’s no logical debate]: that all men are created equal [not evolved, and not subject to Sotomayor’s affirmative action]; that they are endowed [a legal endowment] by their Creator [God] with certain unalienable [cannot be alienated from] rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit [not the capture] of happiness.” Abraham Lincoln said, “I never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.”
These sentiments charge us with the duty to seek and follow the will of the Creator as the precursor to all governments. The authority of the Creator, being prior to all civil society and human authority, must be respected for liberty to endure. The Bible instructs us, “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” The only other option is to follow the authority of untrustworthy and fallible men who arbitrarily rule according to their own, selfish purposes. That’s why we say we are “one Nation under God.” It is a differentiation from both the “Divine Right of Kings” we rejected in 1776 and the totalitarian Liberalism we battle today.
Our first squadron of cruisers commissioned by Gen. Washington in the War of Independence flew the Pine Tree Flag with the motto: “An Appeal To Heaven.” I’m sure if the ACLU had been around back then they would have filed a lawsuit! The phrase is another reminder of our Founders’ reliance upon God for determining the success of the Revolution. The idea comes from John Locke and his philosophy regarding the “Right to Rebel.” Here is a quote from Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government,”
“If God has taken away all means of seeking remedy…[with] no Arbitrator on Earth to appeal to. Then they may appeal, as Jephtha did, to Heaven, and repeat their Appeal, till they have recovered the native Right of their Ancestors, which was to have such a Legislative over them, as the Majority should approve, and freely acquiesce in.”
If people are continually abused by a system that abdicates its responsibility to ensure justice, then Jefferson says, “it is [the peoples’] right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.” Jefferson concluded, “with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”
The challenges we are facing now represents another call to duty, to test our commitment to those sacred principles handed down to us. Time will tell whether this generation will keep the faith, or consign America to the dust bin of history. (send comments to: WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757).
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Twinkle Twinkle, Little Czar
There are about 20 czars now working for “Head Czar” President Obama. These are appointees of the Executive Branch granted much power and accountable to no one except the President.
Sen. Robert Byrd, a Democrat and the longest serving senator in history, has called this development “dangerous.” He warned, “The presence of the czars gives the president too much power.” He also said the czar system “can threaten the Constitutional system of checks and balances.”
“These White House staffers” Byrd continued, “are not accountable for their actions to the Congress, to cabinet officials, or to virtually anyone but the president. They rarely testify before congressional committees, and often shield the information and decision-making process behind the assertion of executive privilege. In too many instances,” Byrd asserts, “[they] have been allowed to inhibit openness and transparency, and reduce accountability.”
Czar is a Slavic term designating certain monarchs, or kings. Originally, the title Czar (derived from Caesar) meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, an autocratic ruler who claims the same rank as a powerful Roman emperor, with the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official. It refers especially to one of the emperors who ruled Russia until the revolution of 1917.
Sen. John McCain has joked, “Obama has more czars than the Romanovs,” who ruled Russia for three centuries. These czars report directly to Obama and have the power to unilaterally dictate national policy on their subject area.
For example: Brian Deese is the new Car Czar. The New York Times, not exactly a bastion of right-wing thought, opined, “it’s not every 31-year-old who, in his first government job, finds himself dismantling General Motors and rewriting the rule of American capitalism.” Brain Deese has an interesting background. As a young college student he hosted a radio program called “Bedknobs and Beatniks.” Later, he worked for John Podesta’s left-wing think tank, the Center for American Progress, which is financed by globalist, hedge fund mogul George Soros. Podesta, by the way, was head of Obama’s transition team and most recently a central figure in ABC’s irresponsible fear-mongering program “Earth 2100.” See: http://newsbusters.org/people/john-podesta.
Brian Deese suspended his Yale Law education to work for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. When she dropped out he was hired by Obama. Deese has never had any formal business education or business experience in the private sector, yet this “wonder kid” has been put in charge of managing nearly a half a million dollars of taxpayer’s money per month in this massive auto bailout!
What does politicizing our auto industry mean? It means someone like Rep. Barney Frank gets to call GM CEO Fritz Henderson and intervene to stop the closing of a distribution plant in his district of Norton, MA. It means centuries old case law regarding bankruptcy gets turned upside down. Even the most liberal Justice on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has weighed-in to stop the insanity of Obama’s Chrysler deal that has unfairly cheated the secured debt holders while also misappropriating the TARP funds. Does this make any sense whatsoever?
It makes about as much since as the rest of this czar mania. There is now a Great Lakes Czar who’s in charge of restoring the lakes’ environment. Doesn’t the EPA offer enough regulation already? Right now in California’s San Joaquin Valley, they are part of a Federal action that is shutting down a vital, irrigation canal in an effort to protect a minnow! Forty thousand jobs have been lost already due to these drought-stricken farmers, but apparently this is not enough power for some, who wish to dictate their dreams of an Ecological paradise where everything thrives except humans.
The list of czars also includes: Bank Bailout Czar, U.S. Border Czar, Urban Czar, Regulatory Czar, Iran Czar, Middle East Czar, Afghanistan/Pakistan Czar and Cyber Czar. There’ll probably be a LGBT Czar soon since Obama announced last week that June is “Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender Pride Month!” Oh, and can’t forget, there’s a Stimulus Accountability Czar. That is especially needed since the Administration assured us that without the $800 billion stimulus bill the unemployment rate would reach 9%. At last check, it was 9.4% and climbing.
Neal Boortz, a popular, talk radio personality, put all of this government expansionism in perfect context the other day. He said, “government is not made powerful when you spend the money you earn, government is made powerful when they spend the money you earn.”
Don’t believe the seductive, sales pitch of socialism. Look at the results! Pride blinds the minds of the foolish, it also makes for a compliant populace to be ruled over by an endless array of Czars! (send comments to WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757).
Sen. Robert Byrd, a Democrat and the longest serving senator in history, has called this development “dangerous.” He warned, “The presence of the czars gives the president too much power.” He also said the czar system “can threaten the Constitutional system of checks and balances.”
“These White House staffers” Byrd continued, “are not accountable for their actions to the Congress, to cabinet officials, or to virtually anyone but the president. They rarely testify before congressional committees, and often shield the information and decision-making process behind the assertion of executive privilege. In too many instances,” Byrd asserts, “[they] have been allowed to inhibit openness and transparency, and reduce accountability.”
Czar is a Slavic term designating certain monarchs, or kings. Originally, the title Czar (derived from Caesar) meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, an autocratic ruler who claims the same rank as a powerful Roman emperor, with the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official. It refers especially to one of the emperors who ruled Russia until the revolution of 1917.
Sen. John McCain has joked, “Obama has more czars than the Romanovs,” who ruled Russia for three centuries. These czars report directly to Obama and have the power to unilaterally dictate national policy on their subject area.
For example: Brian Deese is the new Car Czar. The New York Times, not exactly a bastion of right-wing thought, opined, “it’s not every 31-year-old who, in his first government job, finds himself dismantling General Motors and rewriting the rule of American capitalism.” Brain Deese has an interesting background. As a young college student he hosted a radio program called “Bedknobs and Beatniks.” Later, he worked for John Podesta’s left-wing think tank, the Center for American Progress, which is financed by globalist, hedge fund mogul George Soros. Podesta, by the way, was head of Obama’s transition team and most recently a central figure in ABC’s irresponsible fear-mongering program “Earth 2100.” See: http://newsbusters.org/people/john-podesta.
Brian Deese suspended his Yale Law education to work for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. When she dropped out he was hired by Obama. Deese has never had any formal business education or business experience in the private sector, yet this “wonder kid” has been put in charge of managing nearly a half a million dollars of taxpayer’s money per month in this massive auto bailout!
What does politicizing our auto industry mean? It means someone like Rep. Barney Frank gets to call GM CEO Fritz Henderson and intervene to stop the closing of a distribution plant in his district of Norton, MA. It means centuries old case law regarding bankruptcy gets turned upside down. Even the most liberal Justice on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has weighed-in to stop the insanity of Obama’s Chrysler deal that has unfairly cheated the secured debt holders while also misappropriating the TARP funds. Does this make any sense whatsoever?
It makes about as much since as the rest of this czar mania. There is now a Great Lakes Czar who’s in charge of restoring the lakes’ environment. Doesn’t the EPA offer enough regulation already? Right now in California’s San Joaquin Valley, they are part of a Federal action that is shutting down a vital, irrigation canal in an effort to protect a minnow! Forty thousand jobs have been lost already due to these drought-stricken farmers, but apparently this is not enough power for some, who wish to dictate their dreams of an Ecological paradise where everything thrives except humans.
The list of czars also includes: Bank Bailout Czar, U.S. Border Czar, Urban Czar, Regulatory Czar, Iran Czar, Middle East Czar, Afghanistan/Pakistan Czar and Cyber Czar. There’ll probably be a LGBT Czar soon since Obama announced last week that June is “Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender Pride Month!” Oh, and can’t forget, there’s a Stimulus Accountability Czar. That is especially needed since the Administration assured us that without the $800 billion stimulus bill the unemployment rate would reach 9%. At last check, it was 9.4% and climbing.
Neal Boortz, a popular, talk radio personality, put all of this government expansionism in perfect context the other day. He said, “government is not made powerful when you spend the money you earn, government is made powerful when they spend the money you earn.”
Don’t believe the seductive, sales pitch of socialism. Look at the results! Pride blinds the minds of the foolish, it also makes for a compliant populace to be ruled over by an endless array of Czars! (send comments to WFC83197@aol.com, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757).
Thursday, May 28, 2009
No Longer a Christian Nation
These were the words of our new president recently in Turkey. Obama made a similar statement in an email response to CBN's David Brody in 2007: “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation.” Whatever we once were?
Patrick Henry, the “give me liberty or give me death guy” said, “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
Or how about John Jay, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court and one of the three men responsible for our Constitution? “Providence has given to our people the choice for their rulers and it the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” Oops! Another right-winger.
Also, I think James Madison had something to do with that old pesky Constitution that keeps getting in the way of the liberal agenda. He stated, “We have staked the future of all of our political institutions…upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
Of course, Madison did not want them hung in the courthouses or schools because someone might stop, read, obey them and not steal or kill because of them. That would be unconstitutional.
Then there was John Quincy Adams on July 4th, 1837, addressing an Independence Day crowd, “Why is it that next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day?”
“Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?” Weren’t all these men atheists and Deists?
In a 10-year university of Houston study of the Founders and 15,000 quotes, they identified 3,154 quotes made by the Founders and had identified the sources of those quotes. They discovered that 34% of Founders’ quotes come directly out of the Bible and 94% were either directly or indirectly from the Bible.
From 1690 to 1900, the New England Primer was the first and most-used textbook in America. It used Bible verses to assist students is memorizing the alphabet. There were even questions about the Ten Commandments in the back of the book. Shocking indeed!
What about that “separation of church and state” to which the ACLU and the liberals allude? It would be much more effective if it were actually in some founding document.
It was in a letter from Jefferson’s to the Danbury Baptist Association on Jan. 1, 1802, because they were worried that the Congregational Church was going to be established as a national denomination. When in context, it shows that the founder wanted to use Christian principles without establishing a national denomination.
However, if you repeat something enough, like hope and change, many will eventually believe it.
In the Church of the Holy Trinity Vs. United States in 1892, the Supreme Court ruled, “ Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and must embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible for it to be otherwise. In this sense, to this extent, our civilizations and our institutions are emphatically Christian.”
In that ruling, they quoted 87 precedents including quotes from the founding fathers. 70 years later in the 1962 ruling to ban prayer in schools, the Supreme Court cited 0 precedents.
Although the ruling lacked historical or legal precedents, liberal and progressive judges only need precedents when it promotes their activist agendas.
The following year, they banned school Bible reading. They stated that “If portions of the New Testament were read without explanation, they could be and….had been psychologically harmful to the child.”
I’m glad we took that New Testament out of public schools. Look how much it has traumatized those children in Christian schools!
In a March 27, 1854, House Judiciary Committee Report, it stated, “In this age, there is no substitute for Christianity…. That was the religion of the Founders of the Republic and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.” According to a 2007 Pew Poll, 78% say it still is.
On the campaign trail, Obama stated, “Folks haven’t been reading their Bible.” Apparently, some folks haven’t been reading their history book either.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Tea'd Off
Tea’d Off
Or
Party Like It’s 1773
Last week, over a million people turned out for an estimated 850 tea party events held across the nation. Adopting the imagery of the Boston Tea Party, these independent activists from across the political spectrum brought out their pitchforks and protest signs to voice their outrage over unparalleled government spending.
Taxpayers are mad at both political parties over the fact that they will have to pay an additional $95 million every day just for the interest on the $800 billion “Stimulus Package.” They are incensed over the insanity of trying to fix a debt problem by going into more debt. These views were clearly expressed by such signs as: “give me liberty, not debt,” “don’t spread my wealth, spread my work ethic,” and “TEA = Taxed Enough Already.”
In Tennessee, the majority of the “stimulus” money includes a $608 million increase in Food Stamps. It’s hard to see how that will create new jobs or spur economic growth, but it certainly will satisfy a significant voting bloc to secure their votes in the future. But, as Eisenhower once wisely instructed, “a people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
These tea parties were not extolling the benefits of party privilege and patronage. They were celebrating their individual Rights-- as another sign proclaimed, “under God, not government”-- to protest the tyranny of politicians passing laws they’ve never even read! How can it be “taxation with representation” if the representatives haven’t even read the bill?
Investor’s Business Daily called the tea parties “one of the most extraordinary grassroots uprisings in the history of the republic,” and a “landmark protest” offering a “golden opportunity for freedom-loving politicians.”
By contrast, the tea parties really got under the skin of the governing elite and their Left-wing allies in the, so-called, mainstream media. These patriotic, peaceful protests were called “despicable,” “not for family viewing,” “unhealthy,” “racist,” and “redneck.” Obama was rudely dismissive saying he was “unaware” they were going on. They were characterized as “tea-bagging,” “Astroturf” rallies for “sore losers,” “weasels” and “old cranks” that represent the “wealthiest people.” Sources for these quotes include: Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill), Sr. White House Adviser David Axelrod, Janeane Garafolo, CNN-reporter Susan Roesgen, CNN-anchor Anderson Cooper, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Paul Begala and James Carville.
Never mind the fact that these crowds included people from every political and cultural demographic. Never mind that many of these people were African Americans and folks who had voted for Obama. For the Kool-aid drinkers on the Left it doesn’t matter. The Left must beat their drums ever louder in order to drown out the truth that is beginning to challenge their brainwashing mantras.
Ronald Reagan- hated by elitists in both parties- once said, “you can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.” The idea that more concentration of power into the hands of the state will somehow benefit the “little guy” is the type of absurd hoodwinking that goes on in banana republics like Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela or the Socialist Paradise of Castro’s Cuba.
“Concentration of power” to quote Reagan again, “has always been the enemy of liberty…man is not free unless government is limited.” What is ignored is the fact that it is the U.S. Constitution, not any particular political party or politician, that limits and constrains our government from trespassing upon our God-given freedoms. Put simply, those attending the tea parties understand America’s Founding principles much better than those who disparage the tea parties “The problem,” to echo Reagan again, “is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”
Over the past 50 years, government spending has averaged around 20% of GDP. Under Obama that rate is going up to an unprecedented 25%, or more. Our deficit-- which has a historic high of 6% of GDP—has more than doubled to 13% of GDP. At the current rate, taxes will have to be increased over the next ten years by $1.4 trillion! And remember, China has announced their intention of not buying any more of our debt. The tax avoiders in Obama’s cabinet seem unconcerned as they place more and more hard-working Americans on the hook.
Sam Adams was a leader at the original Boston Tea Party. His proclamation is as relevant today as it was back then-
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” (send comments to: WFC83197@aol.com, Facebook- On the Right Track Network, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757)
Or
Party Like It’s 1773
Last week, over a million people turned out for an estimated 850 tea party events held across the nation. Adopting the imagery of the Boston Tea Party, these independent activists from across the political spectrum brought out their pitchforks and protest signs to voice their outrage over unparalleled government spending.
Taxpayers are mad at both political parties over the fact that they will have to pay an additional $95 million every day just for the interest on the $800 billion “Stimulus Package.” They are incensed over the insanity of trying to fix a debt problem by going into more debt. These views were clearly expressed by such signs as: “give me liberty, not debt,” “don’t spread my wealth, spread my work ethic,” and “TEA = Taxed Enough Already.”
In Tennessee, the majority of the “stimulus” money includes a $608 million increase in Food Stamps. It’s hard to see how that will create new jobs or spur economic growth, but it certainly will satisfy a significant voting bloc to secure their votes in the future. But, as Eisenhower once wisely instructed, “a people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
These tea parties were not extolling the benefits of party privilege and patronage. They were celebrating their individual Rights-- as another sign proclaimed, “under God, not government”-- to protest the tyranny of politicians passing laws they’ve never even read! How can it be “taxation with representation” if the representatives haven’t even read the bill?
Investor’s Business Daily called the tea parties “one of the most extraordinary grassroots uprisings in the history of the republic,” and a “landmark protest” offering a “golden opportunity for freedom-loving politicians.”
By contrast, the tea parties really got under the skin of the governing elite and their Left-wing allies in the, so-called, mainstream media. These patriotic, peaceful protests were called “despicable,” “not for family viewing,” “unhealthy,” “racist,” and “redneck.” Obama was rudely dismissive saying he was “unaware” they were going on. They were characterized as “tea-bagging,” “Astroturf” rallies for “sore losers,” “weasels” and “old cranks” that represent the “wealthiest people.” Sources for these quotes include: Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill), Sr. White House Adviser David Axelrod, Janeane Garafolo, CNN-reporter Susan Roesgen, CNN-anchor Anderson Cooper, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Paul Begala and James Carville.
Never mind the fact that these crowds included people from every political and cultural demographic. Never mind that many of these people were African Americans and folks who had voted for Obama. For the Kool-aid drinkers on the Left it doesn’t matter. The Left must beat their drums ever louder in order to drown out the truth that is beginning to challenge their brainwashing mantras.
Ronald Reagan- hated by elitists in both parties- once said, “you can’t be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.” The idea that more concentration of power into the hands of the state will somehow benefit the “little guy” is the type of absurd hoodwinking that goes on in banana republics like Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela or the Socialist Paradise of Castro’s Cuba.
“Concentration of power” to quote Reagan again, “has always been the enemy of liberty…man is not free unless government is limited.” What is ignored is the fact that it is the U.S. Constitution, not any particular political party or politician, that limits and constrains our government from trespassing upon our God-given freedoms. Put simply, those attending the tea parties understand America’s Founding principles much better than those who disparage the tea parties “The problem,” to echo Reagan again, “is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”
Over the past 50 years, government spending has averaged around 20% of GDP. Under Obama that rate is going up to an unprecedented 25%, or more. Our deficit-- which has a historic high of 6% of GDP—has more than doubled to 13% of GDP. At the current rate, taxes will have to be increased over the next ten years by $1.4 trillion! And remember, China has announced their intention of not buying any more of our debt. The tax avoiders in Obama’s cabinet seem unconcerned as they place more and more hard-working Americans on the hook.
Sam Adams was a leader at the original Boston Tea Party. His proclamation is as relevant today as it was back then-
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” (send comments to: WFC83197@aol.com, Facebook- On the Right Track Network, or mail to POB 114, Jacksboro, TN 37757)
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