Much to the chagrin of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a federal judge has cleared the members of a Michigan militia who were accused by federal law enforcement agents of conspiracy to commit sedition. Since you didn’t hear much about this ruling from the national press corps, here is one online version of the report:
“Seven members of a Michigan militia have been cleared of plotting to overthrow the U.S. government as a judge dismissed the most serious charges against them.
“In a shock defeat for federal authorities, District Judge Victoria Roberts said the group’s expressed hatred of law enforcement did not amount to a conspiracy.
“The FBI secretly planted an informant and an agent inside the Hutaree militia in 2008 to collect hours of anti-government audio and video that became the cornerstone of the case.
A few days back, the White House resident had strong words for reporters covering him and his policies. This was in spite of the fact that they almost invariably support him and cover for his flubs and his failures. This was in spite of the obvious selective reporting by the formerly main stream media that emphasizes sometimes unimportant events that make the President look good and totally ignore the truth of his destruction of the American dream and the values that made our country great.
He told the reporters, “This bears on your reporting, I think that there is often times the impulse to suggest that if the two parties are disagreeing then they’re equally at fault and the truth lies somewhere in the middle. And an equivalence is presented which I think reinforces peoples’ cynicism about Washington in general. This is not one of those situations where there’s an equivalency.”
He followed up with, “As all of you are doing your reporting, I think it’s important to remember that the positions that I am taking now on the budget and a host of other issues. if we had been having this discussion 20 years ago or even 15 years ago … would’ve been considered squarely centrist positions.”
It’s Good Friday and Easter is on the way. For those intent on just making a buck off the holiday or laughing at the silly Christians, we have a message. Easter is about more than bunnies. Many celebrate Christmas, and often forget that the time of year we call Easter is really the point of Christmas, and of the whole flow of history.
It is an entire weekend event. From the brutal execution to the triumphant resurrection we see the entire process of God’s love for his crowing creation, mankind, and the lengths he went to for us all. The cruelty in the video is something we need to see – remember. To say only that Christ died for your sins does not nearly convey the horror of the events that day, and most of us don’t have the appreciation we should have.
Just remember, what was unnecessary for Him was totally necessary for us.
Since the first flicker of life appeared on this planet, there has been the inherent right to self-protection in order to survive. It has always been a part of natural law. It is a right of little consequence without the means to enforce it against those who would do us harm. Titanic struggles have occurred between those who maintain the right to possess weapons to implement their own self – defense and those who believe no such right to weapons exists.
Our nation’s Founding Fathers so fervently believed in the citizen’s need to bear arms, it installed that right as the 2nd of the first ten amendments to the United States of America’s Constitution; the Bill of Rights. I believe that ranking to be significant. It is the only right pertaining to self-defense, and it guarantees that we have the means to defend ourselves. Without the right to bear arms, they understood that none of the other rights could be defended from threats by foreign countries or their own tyrannical government and was crucial in maintaining freedom. They also recognized that no person could be truly free without the right to defend oneself – not only in his or her home – but also anywhere in our country.
After reading Obama’s remarks concerning the case of Obamacare before the Supreme Court, I can’t let his comments go unanswered. His rhetoric should be a shinning, classic example for the text books on how a demagogue works so that people can spot one when they speak.
Obama said, “Ultimately, I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.”
There are three things wrong (or should I say false) with this statement. First of all, it is not unprecedented for a Supreme Court to overturn a law passed by Congress. If that were the case there would be no need for the Supreme Court. To cite just one example, the California’s Supreme Court has consistently overturned laws passed by a referendum vote of the people – such as proposition 8 – that passed by a large percentage. Yet the Democrats hailed that decision because they were against what the voters wanted. To say that it is unprecedented for the Supreme Court to overturn a law passed by Congress is not only historically false but is Constitutionally false as well. That is exactly the role of the Supreme Court if they think a law is unconstitutional.
Washington, DC – The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped its appeal in Holder v. Pine against pro-life sidewalk counselor Mary “Susan” Pine, who is represented by Liberty Counsel. The DOJ has agreed to pay $120,000 for this improper lawsuit. The DOJ had unsuccessfully sought thousands of dollars in fines against Susan Pine, as well as a permanent injunction banning her from counseling women on the public sidewalk outside the Presidential Women’s Center (“PWC”) abortion clinic.
After 18 months of litigation, the DOJ’s case was thrown out of federal court, and the department was chastised for filing a case with no evidence. Federal Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp stated that Holder’s complete failure to present any evidence of wrongdoing, coupled with the DOJ’s cozy relationship with PWC and their joint failure to preserve video surveillance footage of the alleged “obstruction,” caused the court to suspect a conspiracy at the highest level of the Obama Administration. “The Court is at a loss as to why the Government chose to prosecute this particular case in the first place,” wrote Judge Ryskamp. “The Court can only wonder whether this action was the product of a concerted effort between the Government and PWC, which began well before the date of the incident at issue, to quell Ms. Pine’s activities rather than to vindicate the rights of those allegedly aggrieved by Ms. Pine’s conduct.” After this ruling the DOJ appealed on the last day possible and gave indication that President Obama ordered the appeal.
Ironically, this past December, in the midst of the case, Ms. Pine actually counseled a woman outside of PWC and convinced her not to have an abortion, thus saving the life of the child and possibly the mother as well. Her email to Liberty Counsel read, “We saved a life today.”
One of the key witnesses to the events that led up the shooting of Trayvon Martin told police that he heard Zimmerman screaming for help and saw the teenager on top of the man beating him mercilessly. He made the 911 call, then went to an upstairs window to watch what happened next. To his credit, he, and one or two others responded the the victims screams with more concern then Kitty Genovese’s Kew Gardens neighbors did when she was stabbed to death in an alley next to her apartment building in 1964.
I don’t know the man or his physical condition, but I am concerned that this thinking is far too prevalent in our world today. Many believe that seeing a situation and letting the government know about it is the solution to just about any problem. In this case, we were able to see the truth of the well known statement: when seconds count, police are only minutes away. This is not a criticism of the police, who generally do a fine job. They are not all around us all the time – nor would we want them to be. All too often they are limited to cleaning up after incidents such as this and figuring out what happened. Prevention is something they aspire to, but so often arrive after the damage is done.
It just seems to be a little a ineffective for someone to see a neighbor in trouble in front of one’s home and not go out to help. I realize we, as a society, have become averse to personal risk and danger, but if we are to return our country to the greatest we knew in the past, we not only need to take responsibility for ourselves, but need to watch out for our neighbors as well.
Montgomery, AL – Liberty Counsel filed an Amicus Curiae Brief in the Alabama Supreme Court in the case of Ankrom v. State of Alabama. The case involves the consolidation of two cases, which address the question of whether Alabama’s law against chemical endangerment of children can be applied to unborn children who are exposed to illegal drugs in utero. Courts of appeal in Alabama upheld convictions of mothers who were charged under the chemical endangerment law, when their children tested positive for illegal drugs at birth.
Liberty Counsel’s brief provides the Alabama Supreme Court with a thorough historical review of legal protection for unborn children, dating from ancient Greece to the present day. Common law in England and the United States, with support from the medical and legal professions, recognized that “[l]ife is the immediate gift of God, a right inherent in every individual; and it begins in contemplation of law as soon as an infant is able to stir in the mother’s womb.” This understanding remained the prevailing view in the United States through the middle of the 20th Century, when a societal shift prompted a “liberalization” of criminal laws, including restrictions against abortion, culminating in the abortion cases, Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, (1973) and Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 (1973), in which the Supreme Court held that unborn children are not “persons” protected by the right to life set forth in the Constitution.
Those of us who believe in constitutional government, the Bill of Rights, personal liberty, and State autonomy are beginning to taste what German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and pastor Martin Niemoller experienced back in 1930’s Germany. These two great lovers of God and freedom were ostracized and eventually persecuted by both Germany’s political and social societies and by “German Christians.” History does have a way of repeating itself, doesn’t it?
Anyone who does not recognize that America is rapidly being transformed into a fascist state is as dumb as Balaam’s ass. No, dumber! At least the ass had the sense to stop when it realized it was heading smack into God’s wrath.
For all intents and purposes, the US Constitution is dead; the Bill of Rights is dead; the vision of the Founding Fathers is dead; and federalism and republicanism are also dead. What we have left is a blend of socialism, welfarism, fascism, statism, and warfarism, with fascism becoming the dominant “ism” of the bunch.
This video is one of several in circulation around the internet where Barack Obama claims he must work for a collective salvation to obtain his own. Some show his speeches, some audio clips from books he claims to have written, but they all carry the same message of an aberrant Christianity. He is also known to have been under the influence of Jeremiah Wright for over twenty years – and when that association became a political liability – he began saying “Jeremiah whooo?”
However, he did not forsake the “social gospel” teaching as Wright was quickly replaced by theological liberal, Jim Wallis. Under this new spiritual adviser, the President continues to work out his collective salvation with arrogance and disdain. Obama, who was raised as a Muslim, claims to have found Jesus under the teaching of the recently rejected Wright.
However the Jesus Rev. Wright presents is far from the one of the Bible. John 10:10 says “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” (NIV) Wright’s Jesus says “You have been given a government that shall meet your needs – preferably with resources that have been taken someone else.
View this video, then view it again… and think about what is really going as leaders of the United States and Russia conspire against the American people. The US president is telling the Russian leader that they should be patient. He is telling him that after he is re-elected he would be more flexible in working with our traditional enemy and selling out our God-given rights and traditional allies.
This is something we need to consider, and many see this as just one more indication that Obama is not suited to sit in the oval office any more than he was suited to sit in the Senate. Those of us who care about the security of our nation and the safety of our citizens, as well as the safety of our friends who have stood with us over the years should be outraged at such betrayal. Many of us see the danger and are speaking up and doing what we can to see that the re-election he seeks is denied him by the American people.
The Fed’s near-zero short-term interest rate policy distorts the market, with many ill effects and none of its proclaimed benefits.
In a speech today before the spring conference of the National Association for Business Economics, Federal Reserve Commissar Ben Bernanke, now an Obama re-election campaign mouthpiece, reaffirmed the Fed’s intention to continue imposing artificially low interest rates for short-term Treasury securities. According to the Washington Post’s report, he admitted that the economy and employment remain weak. But, he maintains, “the Federal Reserve’s existing policies will help boost economic growth.”
If that is true, one is entitled to ask why after nearly three years of this policy the economy remains in the doldrums. Unemployment, taking the most favorable measure used by the government, remains north of 8%. Using comprehensive measures from the government, measures that include people who have given up looking for jobs and have dropped out of the labor market, unemployment is running around 17%.
Nonetheless, the stock market again roared ahead today on Commissar Bernanke’s affirmation that the Fed will continue pumping excessive amounts of fiat money into the economy to keep interest rates low. Meanwhile businesses remain cautious about expanding, and consumer spending, as in the housing bubble that burst in 2007, is being floated on increasing debt and declining savings.
I’m sure I’ll get all sorts of negative reaction to this, but there are some things that need to be discussed. Initial reports by the formerly mainstream media and later reports on the death of Florida youth, Trayvon Martin, simply do not match… which leads us to wonder what actually happened that awful night. It seems that Mark Twain knew what he was talking about when he said, “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”
Initial television reports told the story of witnesses seeing and hearing Neighborhood Watch member George Zimmerman being beaten by Martin before the shooting. Later reports bypassed that story and just reported that Zimmerman shot and unarmed young man. It’s hard to tell what actually happened when those telling the story don’t seem to have agreement as to what actually happened.
It is interesting that the media has no problem shaping a story to meet their particular slant or viewpoint. For example, the generally accepted picture everyone has seen is of a clean cut, smiling 14 year old, rather than the picture of the gang banger that supposedly came from the victim’s Facebook page. It also goes the other way, as they tend to show a five year old booking photo of the shooter rather than anything recent that reflects his current life situation.
[March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry took to the floor of St. John's Church in Richmond VA where he addressed the state's leading citizens. It had been a year and a half since the Boston Tea Party. It had been not quite a year since General Gage led four regiments into the same city. Just the month before John Hancock helped lead the Massachusetts Colony in establishing defenses against the unwanted British. Henry spoke from the heart - recognizing the dangers that lay ahead for the freedom seeking colonists, yet urged them forward anyway. May we be worthy of this man and the rest of the courageous founders who laid the groundwork for this great nation.]
No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve.
This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty towards the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
We, as a society, have no financial problems. Problems are things that come upon us unannounced that we have no control over. But when we create situations that are not good, we really can’t call them problems… they are more like natural consequences. If I run my hand over a sharp knife and it cuts my skin, that is not a problem. It is a self inflicted injury. It is something that could be easily predicted and planned for, or even prevented. The bleeding still needs to be stopped and bandaged, but I have no right to complain about this terrible thing that happened to me.
We have all sorts of politicians of both parties weeping and wailing about our dire financial problems. They act as if this terrible thing has come upon their poor, innocent selves out of the blue and these hard working public servants are blameless victims of this unforeseen recession/depression. As with cutting our fingers with a knife, running out of money is the result of our government’s own illadvised actions… not by uncontrollable circumstances.
The people of this administration, and, to a lesser extent, the one before it, have no concept of the old saying, “If your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall.” Kids understand this basic economic concept, but somehow it escapes the grasp of our members of congress, even most of our state legislators. What is so difficult to understand about this… it’s not even higher math?
Even though regular gasoline cost around $1.80 when Barack Hussein Obama replaced George W. Bush in the White House, Energy Secretary Steven Chu thinks he is doing a pretty good job as current prices soar past the $3.85 mark. In California, it is even worse with prices well over $4.00.
Those of us paying for our own gas see things a little differently. We are pouring more dollars into our gas tanks and less into other necessities and niceties of life. Most of us have a relatively static amount to spend each month and if we spend more in one area, we can’t spend it in on other items. We are not in the same position as the national government where we can just borrow more from the Chinese, or have the Federal Reserve “print” more money to buy our securities. We just have cut back somewhere.
This is particularly troublesome when we look at the economy as a whole with fewer people working, other prices rising, and many who are still working are unsure of the stability of their jobs. But, is this taken into consideration when Secretary Chu evaluates the work he is doing? Does Mr. Chu’s boss agree with his assessment of the Energy Department’s performance?
Words are funny things; they seem to follow the speaker around long after they escape from the speaker’s mouth. Throughout our lives, we rethink the things we have said to others, and the impression those words left behind. I’m sure virtually all of us have had that “traffic moment” when certain words escaped from our mouths before we had a chance to engage our brains instead of our emotions; believe me, I’ve had my share. Being a Christian, I often fight the “battle of the tongue”. I try to live by the precepts of my Christian Faith; my allegiance must always align with God’s Word first, and His Book.
The last three verses in the Book of Revelation say “If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book. He who testifies to these things says, “Yes I am coming quickly,” Amen. Come Lord Jesus. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.”
The Bible is very clear about what the Bible is to the believer, the Christian; it is the enlightened word of God, not to be edited or deleted. It is God’s truth from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible is for the ages, and is applicable to every era man has lived through, but you must read it as a complete work to understand both the Old and New Testament, or it will be distorted by deceptive interpretation. Believers cannot “pick and chose” which passages of the Bible they want to follow, and they must understand the role of Jesus in the interpretation of both Testaments.
Toward the end of last week, Richmond, Virginia’s local news stations were all abuzz about an internet add for an anti-Obama bumper sticker that had a message that caused the racially sensitive to wave their arms and scream bloody murder. It was interesting to watch white Richmonders with a society induced sense of guilt struggle under the burden of political correctness to express outrage that someone could produce such a thing. Then there were those of a group that voted 98% for Barack Obama because he was black accuse the producers of racism.
The product was ill-conceived and created unnecessary bad feelings among some sincere people. It was a foolish attempt at a play on words… yet, if the first amendment does not protect unpopular speech, what value does it have. Having said that the guarantee of free speech protects the right of companies to produce such a bumper sticker, but it was a really bad idea.
By attacking Obama’s record on any basis other than his failures and the unacceptability of his policies, conservatives give the progressive left a free pass by permitting them to ignore the real issues and portray them as haters of minorities. Even when we say that gas prices have doubled since Obama took office and real unemployment is much more prevalent than administration numbers would indicate, they still say we are only complaining because the President is black.
After returning to his Israel home from a brief trip to Obama’s fantasy world, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told parliament that Iran is behind the recent rocket attacks on his country. He explained that the militants in Gaza were armed and trained by the Iranians, and that his country would do whatever was necessary to protect his people.
He went on to consider the possibility Iran was close to developing nuclear weapons… which is most distressing to those Iran’s demented President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has pledged to wipe from the face of the earth. While for those of us in the United States, it’s somewhat academic, to the Israels it is a deadly serious threat to their survival – one that cannot be ignored.
It is not clear whether such weapons are ready to be hurled at the Jewish nation, or if they will be in the near future. It is also not clear to this writer what the best course of action would be for this tiny coastal nation. What is clear is that, despite official pronouncements to the contrary, Israel cannot depend on the support of the United States government. Netanyahu remarked, “Israel has never left its fate to others, not even the best of its friends.” And right now, the US is not looking like the best of friends to the country.
Washington, D.C. – Monday, the Republican Policy Committee (RPC) of the United States Senate issued a report chronicling President Obama’s unconstitutional actions. This comes on the heels of a report released last week by nine attorneys general that, likewise, details numerous instances in which the Obama Administration has trampled individual liberty, stripped policing powers from local authorities and has otherwise usurped the powers of the states.
The RPC lists the evasion of constitutional checks on presidential powers, like the president’s complete disregard for the Advice and Consent Clause through arbitrary creation of a “bureau” (the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) with zero congressional oversight; the Administration’s creation of czars; the Administration’s regulatory-overreach which is crippling the job market by hobbling businesses with burdensome EPA and FCC regulations; the Administration’s implementation of the health care mandate that forces consumers into the marketplace to purchase subpar health plans that pay for “services” with which they have a moral and religious objection, and much more.
The attorneys general’s list contains almost twenty violations, some of which are also listed by the RPC. The attorneys general tied the unconstitutional actions to the states whose residents are directly and negatively affected by the Obama Administration’s refusal to recognize that James Madison and the other framers of the Constitution intended the federal government’s powers to be “few and defined.”
[George Washington may have been our first and greatest president and founder, yet there were many others who contributions led to the greatest nation ever on the face of the earth. Many thanks to James Manship for compiling this list.]
We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land — nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.
- Daniel Webster
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
- Samuel Adams
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.”
The press and many so-called moderates criticize conservatives for being hung up on social values at the expense of pursuing the “real problems” of our day – like the economy. The problem for them is not that many of us have social values and the progressives and moderates don’t… it’s that our values are different from theirs. Honestly, for whatever else I would think of this opposition, I would not insult them by saying they have no values.
The fact that their value system finds no problem with killing innocent babies, or same sex unions… or even the generational theft of outrageously excessive government debt. They even have no problem with the government taking from those who have worked to make a better life for their families and giving the fruit of their labor to those who will not work. The values of this class of people revolve around their own gratification, even at the expense of others. It is the antithesis of the Christian ethic of looking out for the weakest among us.
Because of the near universal acceptance of the narcissistic worldview by the formerly mainstream media and academic elites, they portray any other way of thinking as aberrant, perverse and old fashioned. By accepting their narrative that their ideas are normal for twenty-first century man, we are conceding defeat in the battle of ideas that will determine the fate of our nation and of many of our fellow men.
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza is a smart guy, so when he misfires as badly as he did in his March 5, 2012 column, “In GOP circles, some wonder whether the party needs to lose big to eventually win” one can’t help but wonder whether if inside the liberal bubble of The Post’s newsroom, history has died, or if Cillizza intentionally chose to ignore the facts in order to manage a result – namely the nomination of moderate establishment Republican Mitt Romney.
Cillizza’s premise in the column is that when Republicans nationalize presidential campaigns and run as conservatives they are foreordained to lose — because in 1964, Barry Goldwater ran as a conservative and lost.
The support for this argument seems to be the self-serving comment of an unnamed establishment Republican figure who warns against nominating a strictly conservative candidate (like former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum), and the assumption on Cillizza’s part that Goldwater’s opponent at the 1964 Republican convention — New York’s liberal Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller — would have done better against Lyndon Johnson in the ’64 general election.
For many of us illegal immigration is a theoretical problem, or, at best, a distant economic issue. Others of our number have lost jobs to illegitimate intruders, or worse yet, have been victims of their violent crimes. Professor Terry J. Lovell of Yavapi College in Prescott, AZ has close up view of the situation and describes it with a great deal more honesty than we normally hear from a member of the academic community.
Barack Hussein Obama and his Attorney General, Eric Holder, and even some complicit Republicans would have us believe that the open borders they seek to impose on our country are the only fair way to deal with the poor and downtrodden of other lands, as the inscription on the Statue of Liberty pleads. Yet, as Prof. Lovell points out it is the drug cartels that are moving back and forth between the US and Mexico with impunity. They are killing honest policemen in their own country and threatening to do the same in ours… and our government is doing nothing about it, other than providing hormone treatments for the “transgendered” of these intruders once they are caught… at our expense.
A while back, I did something unusual for me, I watched the local television news. This is a great source of information about the robberies, rapes and murders in my home town… and it’s kind of depressing since there is not a lot that I can do about most of these personal tragedies. What upset me most, though, was the news feed about the “Christian militia” arrests that had recently taken place. There was an almost gleeful tone to the story about how the federal officers took down these religious zealots intent on overthrowing the government. Folks, this is just the beginning.
To put the story into perspective, all we know is what the formerly main stream media has told us… and all they know is what they’ve gotten from the authorities involved. It may be that these nine or so people in custody presented a real threat to life as we know it, however our government, over many administrations has lied to us so often that it’s difficult to know truth from fiction – and our media watchdogs have turned into lapdogs so we can’t look to them for help in ferreting out the straight story. It may even be that the real threat to our way of life came from the government itself.
Even Rupert Murdoch’s “fair and balanced” FoxNews ran an uncritical story about arrests of “Christian” militia members, so what can we really expect from the likes of CNN and MSNBC. Not knowing these people, I have no idea of what brand of theology they adhere to, so it is impossible to decide if they are persecuted brothers or nut case heretics. I mean, this is the same media that calls Jeremiah Wright and Jim Wallis Christian, and I certainly am not willing to claim any spiritual kinship to them.
Living just outside the capital of Virginia in the days leading up to Super Tuesday, one would have expected to be bombarded with ads from the free spending Romney campaign along with a valiant representation of the other candidates. One would also have expected to see highways lined with political signs and polls swarming with advocates of the various contenders. But… such was not the case. There was so little coverage by the media that almost had to be a bonafide political junky to even know voting was taking place. The only signs to be seen anywhere were in the yards of Ron Paul supporters, and they had been in place for weeks, or even months.
After witnessing the gyrations of the Republican Party of Virginia in certifying only establishment favorite Mitt Romney and the choice of the libertarian wing of the party, Ron Paul to appear on the ballot, one has to wonder if the entire process was designed to remove the mere citizens from the candidate selection. By Republican establishment, we are looking at not only the national manipulators setting the agenda. We are looking at a state wide party with the governor lusting over the vice presidential nomination and the lieutenant governor actively advocating this run, there is just no way anyone but the Republican answer to John Edwards hair would be in the running.
The phrase “judge strikes down” is used so often to usher in a story of common sense pushed aside in favor of one more form of intrusive idiocy on the part of our government. This time, however, a judge, a US District Judge, actually read and understood the constitution and ruled in favor of the citizens.
In an effort to curtail the ability of it’s citizens to protect themselves by carrying a handgun, the Peoples Republic of Maryland passed a law placing the burden of proving a “good and substantial reason” for desiring such protection. By requiring an applicant to convince members of a hostile Handgun Permit Review Board, they built a structure to decide who could enjoy the benefit of constitutional protection of the right to self defense and who could not.
The good judge, Benson Everett Legg, ruled “A citizen may not be required to offer a ‘good and substantial reason’ why he should be permitted to exercise his rights, the right’s existence is all the reason he needs.” This is a refreshing change from the subjugation of rights to the expansion and intrusion of government into our lives – for our own good. It brings to mind C.S. Lewis thoughts on the subject, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive”
March 6 marks the anniversary of the fall of the Alamo back in 1836. For more than 13 days, 186 brave and determined patriots withstood Santa Anna’s seasoned army of over 4,000 troops. To a man, the defenders of that mission fort knew they would never leave those ramparts alive. They had several opportunities to leave and live. Yet, they chose to fight and die. How foolish they must look to this generation of spoiled Americans.
It is difficult to recall that stouthearted men such as Davy Crockett (a nationally known frontiersman and former congressman), Will Travis (only 23 years old with a little baby at home), and Jim Bowie (a wealthy landowner with properties on both sides of the Rio Grande) really existed. These were real men with real dreams and real desires. Real blood flowed through their veins. They loved their families and enjoyed life as much as any of us do. There was something different about them, however. They possessed a commitment to liberty that transcended personal safety and comfort.
Liberty is an easy word to say, but it is a hard word to live up to. Freedom has little to do with financial gain or personal pleasure. Accompanying Freedom is her constant and unattractive companion, Responsibility. Neither is she an only child. Patriotism and Morality are her sisters. They are inseparable: destroy one and all will die.
Washington, DC – An article entitled “After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?” was recently published in the London-based Journal of Medical Ethics, advocating that if abortion is allowed, then society also has the right to kill a newborn child. This outrageous deduction by Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva takes abortion to its logical conclusion.
The abstract states: “By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.”
The authors are willing to admit that handicapped children are able to live happy lives but then advocate that, because of their burden on the rest of the family, the children should be able to be killed. If the test for one’s life continuing was based on not burdening someone else, everyone’s life would fail at one point or another. The question then becomes how burdensome must you be to merit your murder?
By now you most certainly heard the news of the death of conservative blogger, Andrew Breitbart, at the age of 43. He was a boat rocker and, to the progressive left, a trouble maker. His goal in life was to “destroy the institutional left.” Just as his work was loved and respected by many, it created a host of enemies.
While it is not unheard of for someone his age to die of a heart attack, it does raise questions, and suspicions. I’m sure most of us at least know of someone else who exited this life at a young age – and it reminds us that we never know how much time we really have… that if there is something to be done, it needs to be done now! Whether it is telling your family you love them, or there is an unfinished task on your agenda, there is no time like the present – and none of us are promised tomorrow.
The story went out quickly that a heart attack ended his life. This is unusual as we are normally told that the cause of death was undetermined pending the autopsy to be performed by the LA coroner. The fact that Breitbart exposed corruption at ACORN and broke the Weinergate story and was working some video tapes that could destroy the President that were to be released this summer, and suddenly, is no more, causes one’s mind to wander to thoughts of the final scenes of the Dustin Hoffman film Wag the Dog.
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