Editors Note; This two part article first appeared in the Richmond Patriots blog found at http://richmondpatriots.blogspot.com/. Laura Alcorn has thorough researched the Cloward-Piven strategy as used by Barack Hussein Obama as he carries out his plan to “fundamentaly change” our country. You can find Part I here.
Ironically, an enthusiastic Fannie Mae Foundation report singled out one paragon of nondiscriminatory lending, which worked with community activists and followed “the most flexible underwriting criteria permitted.” That lender’s $1 billion commitment to low-income loans in 1992 had grown to $80 billion by 1999 and $600 billion by early 2003. The lender they were speaking of was Countrywide, which specialized in subprime lending and had a working relationship with with ACORN.
Investor’s Business Daily added: The revisions also allowed for the first time the securitization of CRA-regulated loans containing subprime mortgages. The changes came as radical “housing rights” groups led by ACORN lobbied for such loans. ACORN at the time was represented by a young public- interest lawyer in Chicago by the name of Barack Obama. Read more of this article »
Editors Note; This two part article first appeared in the Richmond Patriots blog found at http://richmondpatriots.blogspot.com/. Laura Alcorn has thorough researched the Cloward-Piven strategy as used by Barack Hussein Obama as he carries out his plan to “fundamentaly change” our country.
Jim Simpson on “Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis” edited
No one has connected all the dots between Barack Obama and the Radical Left, but it is apparent that he is a willing participant and has spent most of his adult life immersed in it. Obama can be tied directly to a strategy that has motivated many, of the radical leftist organizations in the US since the 1960s: The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Manufactured Crisis.
The Cloward-Piven Strategy was first seen in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation magazine by a pair of radical socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. David Horowitz summarizes it as:
The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. Read more of this article »
Most of us ate too much and some will go out Friday and stimulate the economy by spending way too much at the malls and shopping centers throughout the country. I am hoping that in spite of some of our excesses of this holiday, we can appreciate the family we spent time with… and those who couldn’t be there this year… much longer than memory the excellent food and great fellowship stays with us. We need to keep these people close to our hearts as we watch the destruction of the America we know. It will give us the motivation and courage to push back and put a stop the the foolishness of our own government.
If we act just to preserve benefits for ourselves, we are unlikely to be able to sustain the effort needed to get the job done. However if we remeber that we are not alone and people are depending on us, we can see our effort through to victory. We just need to remember… unlike those pushing the socialist agenda… it’s not abut us. Think ab out it when you tuck your kids in bed or hug your grandchildren. They are the most important reasons to protect the country we have been given.
Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to “recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”
Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us. Read more of this article »
Editors note: this is a letter a New Jersey woman wrote to her local paper expressing what many of us feel this time of year. Thanksgiving is a great time to enjoy our families and express gratitude for all the good things this great country has to offer. However we cannot forget those who cannot be with their families and friends this holiday season… just like we cannot forget those who will never be coming home to their families and friends. Keep them in your prayers as well, both for their safety and their sense of abandonment. If there is a family near you that will be alone because daddy or mommy is overseas, why not invite them to join you for your dinner?
Dear Editor:
While I’m eating my Thanksgiving dinner with my family this year, I’m going to have a hard time enjoying it knowing that our President is willingly allowing our men and women in Afghanistan to die while waiting for him to make up his mind whether or not to give them the resources they need for survival. Read more of this article »
By now, virtually everyone has read and reread the copious news accounts of the terrible shooting a few weeks ago at Fort Hood, Texas. This column will not attempt to add new details to what is already a highly scrutinized tragedy. However, I do want to pose three basic questions that, to me, are extremely glaring and, for the most part, absent from the discussion.
Question 1: Why were the soldiers not armed?
After all, this is a military base; more than that, it is an Army base that emphasizes the training and equipping of frontline, combat-ready soldiers. For the most part, these were not clerks or cooks; these were combat troops. Fort Hood is home to the 1st Cavalry Division (the largest Division in the Army). Troops stationed at Fort Hood have engaged the enemy in virtually every hot theater of war to which American forces have been deployed. In recent conflicts that means Somalia, Bosnia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Without a doubt, these are among America’s bravest and best.
So, how is it that these intensely trained, disciplined, rugged, highly qualified warriors are not allowed to carry their own weapons on base? This makes about as much sense as the policy forbidding airline pilots from carrying their own handguns on board commercial airliners, or teachers not being allowed to carry their own handguns in the classroom. After all, judges are granted the authority to carry their own firearms into the courtroom. If we can trust lawyers, we should be able to trust soldiers, airline pilots, and teachers. Read more of this article »
“Because we honor justice and the common good, we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family. We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar’s. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God’s.”
So concludes the Manhattan Declaration, penned in part by Chuck Colson and signed by 152 Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical church leaders. The list of signatures reads like a Who’s Who of the Christian world. What these courageous men and women have done is to take their beliefs outside of the confines of the church and into the real world where they can make an impact in our society. In some ways we can thank the current administration for the slap in the face that woke up both the tea party people and, now, the religious leaders. Prior to this time, our country had been drifting toward destruction… now we are rushing headlong to the end of our country as we know it.
Below, I’ve included some excerpts that convey the concerns and spirit of the document. You can read the complete declaration and list of signers at http://tinyurl.com/ykrmek4 Read more of this article »
Have a look at this video if you have any doubts about they kind of people running SEIU and their ethics. Most of us have seen the videos of their fellow travelers, ACORN, trying to help a pimp and his hooker set up houses of ill repute fulled with underage girls slipped in from South America. These people want to kick our butts like they did the National Union of Healthcare Workers in Fresno CA. We cannot allow these people to gain any more control or power in this country. It’s kind of like al qaeda and their friends… they were at war with us long before we realized it.
SEIU has big ambitions and they are not good for us. These ambitions take them overseas into a world wide grip on labor. Like I said, watch the video and see how you feel about the the organization and it’s operations. And keep in mind that SEIU president Andy Stern is the single person that visited the White House most since Barack Hussein Obama took office. Like he said, judge him by the quality of people he has around him.
Once again the Israeli government is defying international pressure, and our very own Barack Hussein Obama, as they begin building a 124 unit apartment complex in the Gilo section of Jerusalem. This is a section of the city that never was occupied by Arabs and is not being built on Arab owned land. Yet, the President of the United States of America has taken it upon himself to order that this not be done. For those who did not realize that Israel was subject to US authority, you are among most of the world outside of Washington DC.
We have seen a shift in American loyalties and support since our new President has taken office. Where in times past, we realized that Israel was our one reliable friend and ally in the middle east, the new kids in town have a decidedly different outlook and value system. They now hear with favor the complaints from the Palestinians who refuse to integrate into any society, in Israel or any of the of the surrounding friendlier countries.
Zalman Shoval, Former Israeli Ambassador to the US, believes there are two possible reasons for this determined attempt at interference in the country’s domestic affairs. “Perhaps they confused the Gilo issue with the planning of a new Israeli neighborhood between Gilo and Beit Jala. Overall, when you sit in Washington and look at the maps it’s hard to tell the difference. The other reason could be that the US administration wants to encourage Abu Mazen (Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas) and is also trying to cover up Hillary Clinton’s various statements, maybe they were trying to create a balance.” Read more of this article »
“There’s to be no volunteers!” declared Nick Balzano, president of the Service Employees International Union’s Allentown, PA chapter. The cause of his consternation was a 17 year old Boy Scout from nearby Center Valley who, along with friends and fellow scouts, cleared a 1000 walking path in Allentown’s Kimmets Lock Park.
The scout, Kevin Anderson, a junior at my son’s alma mater, Southern Lehigh High School, was working toward Eagle Scout and was looking to do something to improve the community. The SEIU local, still smarting from recent member layoffs, was looking out for the welfare of its members. The service in the union’s name certainly was not for the benefit of the citizens of Allentown.
Balzno told the city council that he was looking into filing a grievance against the city for allowing volunteers to do work that should have been done by union personnel. Then, showing a little of Tony Soprano persona added, “We’ll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails.” Showing surprising awareness of the damaged public relations, SEIU spokesman Matt Nerzig jumped into the act, telling reporters Balzano’s response was “unauthorized and insensitive“. So young Mr. Anderson may be blessed to continue walking about on unbroken kneecaps. Read more of this article »
There has been quite a fuss about the White House web site, http://www.recovery.gov, touting the wonderful success in creating (or saving) jobs with their stimulus money. We are to read this and swoon with delight at the way our federal government is handling the situation with effectiveness and efficiency. Unfortunately, as with most everything from this current administration, the site is long on promise and hype and short on usable information. Aside from two minor points this is all good to know. The first point is that economists have no metric that covers “jobs saved” as it’s kind of hard to count and prove. The second point is that pages that were available yesterday have apparently been pulled down in embarrassment.
My home state of Virginia has eleven congressional districts, yet money was spent and jobs created (or saved) in districts 00 through 98. This information is coming from an organization headed by a man who told us he was in almost all of our 57 states. Admittedly, the bulk of the money is listed as having been spent in the real eleven districts. One really has to wonder what good openness would do us poor citizens, if the information we are given has little or only a tangential relationship to reality.
The formerly available table tells us that a little over $51K was sent to our 98th district to create 0 jobs. None were even “saved”! Just a little shy of $700K was sent to our non-existent 36th district to create (or save) 10 jobs. That’s a lot of money to slip off into the black hole of political corruption into the hands of dishonest politicians, union officials and connected cronies. Yet that is chump change compared to the more than a billion dollars that went into the notorious Democrat Bobby Scott’s 3rd district. You have to be from the Old Dominion to grasp the irony of this situation… although Scott’s district went a long way to secure the Obama victory last year. Read more of this article »
Did you realize that “The majority of women around the world associate justice for women, with Sharia compliance”? That’s right, according to Dalia Mogahed, President Obama’s, Islamist appointee on the Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, made this astonishing statement in an interview on a British television show. Mogahed has made news before as a member of the U.S. Muslim Engagement Project, which called for “engagement” with the Muslim Brotherhood — the organization that has a 100 year plan for subverting and overthrowing the West. She teamed up with John Esposito to conduct a poll on Islam, then misrepresented some of the results (some called it “cooking the books”) in order to increase the number of Muslim “moderates.”
What makes Mogahed’s assertion about Shariah even more disturbing is that she made it in an interview hosted by a member of the radical Islamist organization Hizb ut Tahrir on the British Muslim show “Muslimah Dilemma”. HT is committed to the non-violent overthrow of democracy and capitalism and the worldwide imposition under Sharia Islamic law. The organization has been banned as a terrorist organization in several countries — but remarkably, not here in the United States. Miss Mogahed appeared alongside Hizb ut Tahrir’s (HT) national women’s officer, Nazreen Nawaz. During the discussion, on the Islam Channel programme Muslimah Dilemma, the two members of the group made repeated attacks on secular “man-made law” and the West’s “lethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism”. Read more of this article »
I originally published this column back in January of 2005. Since then (and especially lately), many people have called and written with requests to republish it. So, with a few minor revisions, here it is.
More than thirty years as a student of American history, constitutional government, and the Holy Bible leads me to the conviction that the two major political parties in this country (at the national level) are equally culpable in stripping America of its founding principles. In my opinion, both the Democrat and Republican parties in Washington, D.C., have zero fidelity to the U.S. Constitution and zero respect for America’s foundational precepts.
In my studied opinion, neither the Democrat nor Republican Party (at the national level) has any intention of slowing the out-of-control expansion of government. Neither party has demonstrated any loyalty to preserving and protecting our constitutional form of government.
Like National Socialists and Soviet Socialists of old, the only thing that concerns Democrats and Republicans today is who is in power. Both are equally willing to destroy the freedoms and liberties of people without conscience or regret as long as their party remains in control. Read more of this article »
I had the fortune of hearing Brigitte Gabriel a few years ago and was struck by the clarity of her message. Political correctness is, on one hand, a method of controlling the expressed thoughts and actions of the masses through social and, sometimes, legal, pressures. On the other hand, it attempts to clear the way for the one message our “betters” want us to hear and act on. It comes from the halls of academia which is supposed to be the bastion of free thought and expression. However, in practice, thought is only free if it stays within the confines of the leader’s wishes. Other expression is deemed anti-social and must be restricted for the smooth functioning of the progressive agenda at work in most universities, media outlets and government agencies. Read more of this article »
Barack Hussein Obama appears to be having a difficult time deciding if he will take the word of his man on the scene, General Stanley McCrystal who requested 40,000 more soldiers in the field to the job done. He also has the anti-American left that put him in office to please. They just want us to waive the white flag, apologize for being Americans and slink on home. It’s also possible that each of his advisors has their own little variation on the best way to accomplish whatever they would like to see happen in Afghanistan.
While we could argue about our justification for being in the God-forsaken land, but, while it may make us feel good, that ship has sailed. This involvement is quite a picklement for the man who may sincerely be trying to balance his duties as Commander in Chief with his own feelings about the country and those of his most vocal supporters. He gives the appearance of sincerely looking for input and weighing the virtues of each suggestion.
This past weekend, rumors were flying about that he would take partial measures to meet the field commanders requests. Thirty thousand they said, would be on their way… as soon as they could be prepared. This turned out to be false hope for the troops holding things together. Who knows, it may have been a trial balloon to test his supporters reaction to the news.
It may have been a call from George Soros, his pals at the Daily Kos, Huffington Post, MoveOn.org or any of his supporters, any of whom would put in a good word to weaken our military and our country. It’s hard to say why this story got started, then shot down, but the fact remains… no decision was made… or did he decide on a plan? Read more of this article »
A recent column co-authored by John Eidsmoe and Ben DuPré struck me. They titled their column, “What makes a ‘great’ president?”
See it at: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114683
The basic thrust of the column was to examine the qualities that make one a “great” President. They start by examining the Presidency of our 11th President, James K. Polk. They note that Polk is commonly regarded as being one of America’s top 12 greatest Presidents. To use their words, “between eighth and 12th among our greatest presidents.”
Eidsmoe and Dupré note that Polk was undoubtedly a man of outstanding Christian character and faith. They say that Polk was “the only president who kept and fulfilled every one of his campaign promises.” They observe him to be a man “with a Puritan work ethic, [who] literally worked himself to death as president, retired from office in broken health and died 103 days later.” Read more of this article »
A surprising revelation sprang into my quiet time this morning. It’s connected to a prophetic word God gave me yesterday called “A DECREE FROM THE LORD.” It’s posted on my blog http://Nancy777.com.
I was studying a teaching by Kim Clement on the subject of REVELATION. He said, “A revelation is a sudden compelling force or action that induces motion.” He went on to explain that it drives you forward and creates spiritual motion and with this motion creates expression by inactivating the “negative control system” and activating the “positive control system.”
I learned we have two control systems in us: negative and positive. The negative one is continually fed by the news media, bad reports, and bad things etc. These negative things stifle us and bring fear. What God does is suddenly activate the positive control system in you by inactivating the negative control system.
Kim said, “REVELATION CANNOT COME INTO EXISTENCE WITHOUT YOU! GOD NEEDS SOMEBODY TO BRING REVELATION INTO EXISTENCE IN TIME AND SPACE.” Read more of this article »
[Note: My son, Tim, writes today's column. He is an attorney who received his Juris Doctor degree from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a former felony prosecutor for the Florida State Attorney's Office and now owns his own private law practice. He is the author of a soon-to-be-published new book, entitled FREEDOM FOR A CHANGE. Tim is also regarded as one of America's leading spokesmen for State sovereignty.]
After the release of my last column ”Freedom’s Destruction by Constitutional De-Construction,” I received so many responses to my statement, “The people of the states [must] once again reject this national form of government and assert and defend the principles of federalism,” that I felt the need to develop this subject more thoroughly. The question I received was: “How can I choose federalism once again?” Indeed, answering this question is crucial to injecting a cure for the sickness and illness of tyrannical, national control over the people of the states. Undoubtedly, we are going to need an acute dosage to even begin ridding ourselves of the disease destroying the body of our once-great federation.
See the other column at http://bizy.be/XbWqB
The reality is, the answer is not complicated. The more relevant question will likely be, what portion of the cure(s) must we implement. This will require a diagnosis of the degree and seriousness of the disease’s attack on our Confederate Republic. Let us analyze briefly the seriousness of the attack so that we may proportionally and accordingly respond and defend against the encroachments on our constitutional freedoms, guarantees and powers. Read more of this article »
The sad case of Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan is just the latest evidence that our culture of political correctness is not only destroying our freedom of speech, but it can have deadly results. The push for politically correctness is actually an effort by those who see themselves as elites to tell us poor unfortunate and uneducated commoners that there are some things were are not allowed to say and ideas we are not allowed to discuss… unless it is how awful our country is.
Some courts have even upheld this unconstitutional and anti-American mindset when they have placed hurt feelings above the rights we have been given by our creator. Our constitution says we have the right to express our thoughts and feelings. It does not guarantee that we will never be offended. Yet… some have used this pernicious concept which emanated from the bowels of academia which was once the bastion of free thought and inquiry to stifle free thought and inquiry. However, in this era of specialization, we have teachers teaching and professors professing that have spent their whole lives behind ivy covered walls, having successfully avoided real world participation. They have given us the benefit of the output of their great minds that are unencumbered by the reality the rest of us live in.
In the case of Major Hasan, we see that politically correct thinking most likely is running amok, even in our fine military. Reports are that he was inflicting his anti-war and anti-American views on recovering service men. We are also told that he was angrily spreading the word that our country was at war with his Islamic faith… and that those that take part deserve death. We are told that he gave away his possessions in his apartment prior to this attack… as if he were not coming back. And, lastly, we are told that he shouted praises to Allah before beginning his attack. Yet, the Commander in Chief is not interested in having investigators pursue the possibility that his extreme religious views led to his horrible actions. Read more of this article »
I had a great day in DC with thousands of my closest friends. We were there because Congresswoman Michelle Bachman had the audacity last Friday to call on Americans to come to the nation’s capital and let her fellow legislators hear how the citizens are rejecting the nationalization of our health care system. She did not know how people would respond… but they did, and in numbers beyond her expectation.
Many congressmen and women joined Ms. Bachman and commented ad nauseum about the crisis facing our country. I would like to believe they were all of the same mind, but we need to keep an eye on some of them to be certain as some politicians tend to be opportunistic and slippery types. Other personalities were present lending their support. Some unusual opportunities presented themselves, for instance, Bo Snerdley, Mark Levin and Jon Voight can now go back to their friends and tell them they they shook my hand. I’m sure it was the high point of their visit… well maybe not.
The point was made over and over in many and varied ways that our country, the United States of America was a gift we received from our ancestors and the founding fathers who sacrificed so much in giving independence to our land. Others built on this gift in the sands of Normandy and the hills of Iwo Jima… and at countless locations throughout the world over our two hundred plus year history. This gift was a land where we could be what we wanted to be and do what we wanted to do. Now we have people who are trying to wrest this gift from us… and we won’t let it happen. They do not understand the sleeping giant they have awakened with their assaults on our freedoms and values. Read more of this article »
Amid all the excitement of conservative resurgence in Virginia and New Jersey, it was easy to miss another important victory… that being the repeal of Maine’s law legalizing homosexual marriage. It was a hard fought battle with 53% of the voters electing to support traditional marriage between a man and a woman. All thirty times before when the issue was brought to the voters, same sex marriage was repudiated by the American citizens.
Homosexual leaders are crying out that they are being deprived of essential human rights. They are obviously out of sync with our founding fathers who understood that our creator endowed us with the rights we enjoy and that our government’s only function in this regard was to recognize and protect these rights. Neither the state nor the federal government created any of our inalienable rights. Now we see this fringe group encouraging our government at various levels to create a right that is antithetical to the creator of our genuine rights.
This thinking results from complete misunderstanding of individual rights, their source and the natural law from which they were derived. This thinking may satisfy immediate perceived needs, but places all of us in the precarious position of having a legislature or bureaucrat controlling which rights you do and do not enjoy. Even if this were a legitimate right, the process would reduce Americans from citizens to subjects. Read more of this article »
Election Day 2009 brought some good news and presented us with a clearer picture of some of our struggles facing our nation. It showed us that a candidate does not have to run away from conservative values to defeat liberal opponents. We saw that when conservative values are presented in a logical and coherent manner, they can carry the day and and find their way into our government. All this is overlaid on an atmosphere of fear and frustration with liberal expansion and intrusion into the lives of individual citizens.
Looking first at my home state of Virginia, Republicans won with a trio of conservatives ranging from the real deal, Attorney General elect Ken Cuccinelli whose campaign adopted the Gadsden flag as its unofficial symbol to Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling to Governor Bob McDonnell, who is still a good man though not quite what he once was as far as strength of his convictions. Read more of this article »
In recent columns, I have reported on both the attempted takeover of the Hardin, Montana, jail facility by a private mercenary force and a Chinese story that the White House would fly the Communist Chinese flag in honor of the 60th anniversary of Mao’s revolution of 1949, which brought the Reds to power (initially killing as many as 3 million Chinese people, and resulting in the deaths of more than 50 million people during those 60 years).
I promised readers that I would keep an eye out for these stories and provide necessary updates. Well, here are those updates.
The Hardin, Montana, Update:
On Friday, October 9, the private mercenary company that had attempted to take over the Hardin jail facility, American Police Force (APF), announced that it was pulling out of negotiations on contracts with the Two Rivers Authority (the economic development arm of the city of Hardin) to operate the facility. This announcement was made after my column was released and many other news sources, Internet bloggers, and talk radio hosts blitzed the story to the public. We showed how APF’s frontman, Serbian immigrant Michael Hilton, had a criminal record, and is, in fact, currently facing criminal charges for fraud in California. We also reported that APF had fraudulently attempted to identify itself as the “City of Hardin Police Department” by patrolling Hardin’s streets with Mercedes-Benz SUVs with Hardin police markings stenciled on the sides of the vehicles. (The city of Hardin does not have a police department. The city is policed by the Big Horn County Sheriff’s Office.) Read more of this article »
A lot of people are sitting around waiting for the election of Bob McDonnell in Virginia and Chris Christie in New Jersey, believing it will give Barack Hussein Obama his comeuppance and break the momentum of his rush to socialism. Important steps, yes, but just a start. A beginning of the long journey back to normalcy for our nation.
It will be encouraging and help us keep things going. As a victory by Doug Hoffman would help restore the voters to the head of the Republican Party… something many in official positions have been fighting tooth and nail for the last several years. Good things can happen, but we can’t expect a few steps to take us the entire distance and let us get back to our own little worlds.
We have devious and determined foes who will bob and weave like a like a boxer giving, then taking back… blocking punches and landing a few. We are in a fight that will not be won on points. We need to go for a knock out because as long as the statists are upright and mobile, they will pose a threat to the good people of America and the world. These people are patient and will take what they can get without taking their eyes off their long term prize… control of our country. Read more of this article »
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Most of us ate too much and some will go out Friday and stimulate the economy by spending way too much at the malls and shopping centers throughout the country. I am hoping that in spite of some of our excesses of this holiday, we can appreciate the family we spent time with… and those who couldn’t be there this year… much longer than memory the excellent food and great fellowship stays with us. We need to keep these people close to our hearts as we watch the destruction of the America we know. It will give us the motivation and courage to push back and put a stop the the foolishness of our own government.
Editors note: this is a letter a New Jersey woman wrote to her local paper expressing what many of us feel this time of year. Thanksgiving is a great time to enjoy our families and express gratitude for all the good things this great country has to offer. However we cannot forget those who cannot be with their families and friends this holiday season… just like we cannot forget those who will never be coming home to their families and friends. Keep them in your prayers as well, both for their safety and their sense of abandonment. If there is a family near you that will be alone because daddy or mommy is overseas, why not invite them to join you for your dinner?
By now, virtually everyone has read and reread the copious news accounts of the terrible shooting a few weeks ago at Fort Hood, Texas. This column will not attempt to add new details to what is already a highly scrutinized tragedy. However, I do want to pose three basic questions that, to me, are extremely glaring and, for the most part, absent from the discussion.
“Because we honor justice and the common good, we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family. We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar’s. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God’s.”
Once again the Israeli government is defying international pressure, and our very own Barack Hussein Obama, as they begin building a 124 unit apartment complex in the Gilo section of Jerusalem. This is a section of the city that never was occupied by Arabs and is not being built on Arab owned land. Yet, the President of the United States of America has taken it upon himself to order that this not be done. For those who did not realize that Israel was subject to US authority, you are among most of the world outside of Washington DC.
“There’s to be no volunteers!” declared Nick Balzano, president of the Service Employees International Union’s Allentown, PA chapter. The cause of his consternation was a 17 year old Boy Scout from nearby Center Valley who, along with friends and fellow scouts, cleared a 1000 walking path in Allentown’s Kimmets Lock Park.
There has been quite a fuss about the White House web site, http://www.recovery.gov, touting the wonderful success in creating (or saving) jobs with their stimulus money. We are to read this and swoon with delight at the way our federal government is handling the situation with effectiveness and efficiency. Unfortunately, as with most everything from this current administration, the site is long on promise and hype and short on usable information. Aside from two minor points this is all good to know. The first point is that economists have no metric that covers “jobs saved” as it’s kind of hard to count and prove. The second point is that pages that were available yesterday have apparently been pulled down in embarrassment.
Did you realize that “The majority of women around the world associate justice for women, with Sharia compliance”? That’s right, according to Dalia Mogahed, President Obama’s, Islamist appointee on the Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, made this astonishing statement in an interview on a British television show. Mogahed has made news before as a member of the U.S. Muslim Engagement Project, which called for “engagement” with the Muslim Brotherhood — the organization that has a 100 year plan for subverting and overthrowing the West. She teamed up with John Esposito to conduct a poll on Islam, then misrepresented some of the results (some called it “cooking the books”) in order to increase the number of Muslim “moderates.”
I originally published this column back in January of 2005. Since then (and especially lately), many people have called and written with requests to republish it. So, with a few minor revisions, here it is.
Barack Hussein Obama appears to be having a difficult time deciding if he will take the word of his man on the scene, General Stanley McCrystal who requested 40,000 more soldiers in the field to the job done. He also has the anti-American left that put him in office to please. They just want us to waive the white flag, apologize for being Americans and slink on home. It’s also possible that each of his advisors has their own little variation on the best way to accomplish whatever they would like to see happen in Afghanistan.
A recent column co-authored by John Eidsmoe and Ben DuPré struck me. They titled their column, “What makes a ‘great’ president?”
[Note: My son, Tim, writes today's column. He is an attorney who received his Juris Doctor degree from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a former felony prosecutor for the Florida State Attorney's Office and now owns his own private law practice. He is the author of a soon-to-be-published new book, entitled FREEDOM FOR A CHANGE. Tim is also regarded as one of America's leading spokesmen for State sovereignty.]
The sad case of Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan is just the latest evidence that our culture of political correctness is not only destroying our freedom of speech, but it can have deadly results. The push for politically correctness is actually an effort by those who see themselves as elites to tell us poor unfortunate and uneducated commoners that there are some things were are not allowed to say and ideas we are not allowed to discuss… unless it is how awful our country is.
Amid all the excitement of conservative resurgence in Virginia and New Jersey, it was easy to miss another important victory… that being the repeal of Maine’s law legalizing homosexual marriage. It was a hard fought battle with 53% of the voters electing to support traditional marriage between a man and a woman. All thirty times before when the issue was brought to the voters, same sex marriage was repudiated by the American citizens.
In recent columns, I have reported on both the attempted takeover of the Hardin, Montana, jail facility by a private mercenary force and a Chinese story that the White House would fly the Communist Chinese flag in honor of the 60th anniversary of Mao’s revolution of 1949, which brought the Reds to power (initially killing as many as 3 million Chinese people, and resulting in the deaths of more than 50 million people during those 60 years).
A lot of people are sitting around waiting for the election of Bob McDonnell in Virginia and Chris Christie in New Jersey, believing it will give Barack Hussein Obama his comeuppance and break the momentum of his rush to socialism. Important steps, yes, but just a start. A beginning of the long journey back to normalcy for our nation.
