Many years ago, our forefathers agreed that all men were created equal. This was a giant step forward as the world they lived in was dominated by a stratified society composed of the ruling class and peasants… and there was no movement between, or association with, members of the opposite class. The founders understood that the One who Created each of us did not play favorites and everyone stood before Him on equal footing.
Today, we are governed by another ruling class who, at best, gives lip service to the Creator and, at worst, wants Him banned from public discourse, lest their humanistic lies be exposed. They are the ones who determine who is favored and who is shunned. They decide who deserves the good will of the state and who requires observation.
Here is where we run into the idea of the “protected class” of citizens. These are people who don’t always have an easy time of life. It could be that they have some physical situation, or some lifestyle choice situation that is different than most. However, the common denominator is that the Democrat Party has managed to create a dependency on government in these citizens and, pretty well, takes them for granted at the polling place… sometimes multiple times in a cycle. Foolishly, the other party bought into the compassionate sounding names they gave the laws and embraced them as well.
As I was growing up, hearing about the speeches and marches of Martin Luther King, much of what I heard was that he was stirring up trouble where he had no business. In the rural northeast there was little knowledge or understanding of the situations he was fighting against. There was only one black student in my high school graduating class and she was kind of cute and fit in with everyone, so I could not comprehend what the fuss was all about.
It was only later, after Dr. King was gone, and I saw grown men with dark skin addressed as “Boy” and saw pictures of segregated facilities that I began to grasp the struggles of freedom fighters like Martin Luther King Jr and others like Medgar Evers.
Our Declaration of Independence enshrined the words “all men are created equal”. Correctly it does not specify all men of a certain color, a particular economic class or those connected to the “ruling class”. It says all men are created equal. It does not say that some are only three fifths equal as some in congress specified so as to obtain congressional representation, yet not recognize the humanity of some citizens.
“Photo ID laws are very similar to a poll tax,” whines Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Later she adds, “there really aren’t many instances of voter fraud.” Such is the fantasy world the wild haired legislator lives in. She thinks it is terrible that people have to identify themselves when the cast a vote that helps determine whether our country lives or dies.
In her world, there is no guile in the Democrat voter base that continuously votes itself more and more benefits from the public treasury. She complains that her constituency has a higher proportion of members with no government supplied ID. She says it is difficult for them to get such an ID. This is interesting as so many have found a way to fill out the forms necessary to receive benefits at major expense to the taxpayers.
The point is that if is important enough to sign up for benefits, shouldn’t voting be at least equally important? It seems to be one more case of the progressives looking to do things for the people that really should be doing for themselves. By doing this, they are really diminishing the people they are attempting to help.
The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. (Genesis 11:6 NIV)
When our country was founded well over two hundred years ago, the citizens were neither perfect or marching in lock step, yet there was a form of Christian consensus. There was a general agreement on what constituted right and wrong. There was an agreement on the rights and duties of citizenship in this great land. Because of this the people were happy and productive – creating the most prosperous nation on earth.
Sure there were conflicts. There were those who desired to take advantage of the good people… both inside and outside the government. In spite of this the sense of common values and common destiny held us together even through our darkest hours. This sense of common values kept us from fragmenting ourselves into ineffective and hostile tribes that could only succeed at the expense of others.
For ages, students of human psychology have debated the relative impacts of nature and nurture in determining individual development. In other words, what characteristics are we born with, and which ones develop as a result of outside influences and life experiences. For decades, the American Psychological Association regarded homosexuality as an aberrant condition that could be treated and corrected.
It was long understood that boys growing up without a strong male presence, particularly those with a dominating female presence, would be more inclined toward homosexual behavior Much of the behavior was attributed to environmental factors, which led to the belief that it could be corrected.
Then came the politically correctness revolution. Springing to life in academia, this political correctness sought to minimize social and institutional offense in gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, certain other religions, beliefs or ideologies, disability, and age-related contexts by declaring certain ideas, language, ideas and behavior to be inappropriate and off limits in the supposedly open and tolerant world then envisioned.
Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall. Luke 11:17b (NIV)
In Federalist Number 2, John Jay makes the point that this country came together as one to defeat the most awesome power in the world to win its independence. He, like other founders, believed that divine providence brought together this unique group of people with a common world view and a common love for liberty. His point point was that most people at the time had a common set of values and this allowed them to pull together in a common direction. This also led them to see everyone as their neighbor… and they looked out for their neighbors.
This is true today, unity is the key to success in an organization as well as a nation. As flawed as they are, most Republicans try to see people as individuals and as Americans. Sometimes they find themselves in a position of telling us that what is good for corporations is good for Americans – whether it is true in the particular situation or not.
On the other hand, we have another party that seeks to maintain its prosperity by keeping segments of the American people constantly up in arms about some real or imagined sleight at the hands of society in general, or some other group of people in particular. These dividers have the erroneous view of our world with prosperity being a fixed value… that one persons good fortune is the result of another persons misfortune. This thinking is epitomized by former congressman Dick Gephart’s reference to those who are well off as “winners in the lottery of life” – the implication being that the less fortunate have nothing to do with their lot in life and they just are the losers in the “lottery of life”. Read more of this article »
Deterministic systems, ideological symbols of abdication by man from his natural role as earth’s Choicemaker, inevitably degenerate into collectivism; the negation of singularity, they become a conglomerate plural-based system of measuring human value. Blunting an awareness of diversity, blurring alternatives, and limiting the selective creative process, they are self-relegated to a passive and circular regression.
Tampering with man’s selective nature endangers his survival for it would render him impotent and obsolete by denying the tools of variety, individuality, perception, criteria, selectivity, and progress. Coercive attempts produce revulsion, for such acts are contrary to an indeterminate nature and nature’s indeterminate off-spring, man the Choicemaker.
Until the oppressors discover that wisdom only just begins with a respectful acknowledgment of The Creator, The Creation, and The Choicemaker, they will be ever learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth. The rejection of Creator-initiated standards relegates the mind of man to its own primitive, empirical, and delimited devices. It is thus that the human intellect cannot ascend and function at any level higher than the criteria by which it perceives and measures values. Read more of this article »
After reading my Bible this morning, I decided to see what the other side was up to, so I watched a little CNN. They were reporting on the attack on American service men at Frankfurt airport that killed two and left another badly wounded.
The infobabes – in this case it was more like infohags – were doing their best to downplay the fact they the victims were US military. They spoke hopefully that the airmen were dressed in civilian garb with no evidence to support their reporting fantasies. The word “attack” never crossed their lips, but I’m not sure what other word would be more appropriate to describe someone approaching a group of people and shooting at them.
I guess to a Ted Turner news organization, the idea, as frightening as it may be, of someone killing random targets is more acceptable than a premeditated attack on our country. The one even rarely happens, and fortunately for them, it happened to someone else and makes great copy. The other event demands a response unless, of course, we were to follow the past Obama approach of apology and surrender. Read more of this article »
The recent CPAC conference in the nation’s capitol made a brief splash and now it’s gone. Many opponents of the President’s policies were present to stir the crowd with firey rhetoric heard from few elected public servants anywhere, and even fewer inside the beltway. It was, perhaps, cathartic for those who attended. And many attended… but many did not.
The newly influential presence of the group that bills itself as “homosexual conservative” was a stumbling block to many. A great many well known political figures skipped this year’s event because of the highly visible involvement of GOProud.
Objections came on two levels. The first, and the one most expected, was based on the concept that homosexuality is wrong, as described in various scriptures, such as Leviticus 20:13 “If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.” (NIV) Read more of this article »
Worshiping at the altar of diversity as advocated by the politically correct elites serves their purposes well, but what does it do for the rest of us? Does it help us unite to solve common problems, or does it split us into multiple camps where all we can see is our competing interests? If it is the latter, should we be viewing this politically correct article of faith as simply a well meaning error, or as a sinister attack on our country’s ability to function and lead the world?
Pursuing identity politics, that is, looking at each person as a member of some small, but downtrodden group rather than as an individual, serves to promote isolation from the rest of society and focus our attention on our differences rather than our similarities. It keeps us fragmented and distracted. We face many challenges in our country today. We need to pull together, but all we hear from our government is divisive rhetoric that keeps us at each others throats. The poor are told their plight is the fault of the rich. Union members are told corporate greed keeps them from getting what they want. One racial group thinks they are being held down by another. While the other group sees their opportunities given to less qualified workers based strictly on skin color.
The left, through the Democratic party, has successfully balkanized America so many people see themselves first as members of some sort of aggrieved group that needs help in redressing some real or imagined wrong. One must give them credit for forging this disparate group, with often opposing interests into a coalition that keeps many of them in office… even though few of the grievances are ever resolved. Read more of this article »
Republican National Committee Chairman, Michael Steele’s term is almost up and there is quite a buzz in the air around insider circles and talking heads over whether or not he should keep his job. That this should even be a topic of discussion after the tremendous victory the party recently enjoyed is just one more indication of the tumultuous times in which we live. It shows the old rules of political warfare simply don’t apply today.
Some of the arguments of his opponents are more telling about about the upset insiders than about the man himself. He was their darling a few years back when he allowed them to hold off conservative challengers for the position. He represented the desired demographics as the me-too Republicans felt the need to demonstrate a public inclusiveness on their part. Now that he has outlived his usefulness, they are ready to toss him aside. At one time he showed much promise as Lt. Governor of the Peoples Republic of Maryland, but like many of the political class, failed to provide the leadership the people needed.
A few years ago when I was more involved in party politics, I had the opportunity to chat with Michael Steele at The Homestead during Virginia’s Republican Advance. I found him to be a pleasant, intelligent and well spoken gentleman… a typical Republican. He was not, however, the fire breathing patriot we need today to lead us out of the mess we find ourselves in. Read more of this article »
It’s been coming at us for years. Remember those old black and white movies where most of the men wore suits and ties? Beaver Cleaver came home to a mother wearing a nice dress, heels and pearls, and his dad sat around the house in a white shirt and tie. Remember when IBMers were clones in gray suits? Then, corporate offices adopted “casual Friday”… then casual every day. While I’m not a big one for coats and ties myself, I still find it annoying to find myself sitting in a nice restaurant next some guy in shorts, a tank top and flipflops. Even our own president still dresses like a community organizer while his wife often looks like her wardrobe comes from the sale rack at a thrift store.
But, these lowered standards of formality are just minor situations compared to what is now taking place in many airports around the country. Our government is forcing random citizens to parade themselves through a device where some unseen TSA agent sees more of them than if they were on a beach in the skimpiest of bikinis. Should someone have the audacity to object, the alternative is to be felt and fondled in a way that would land the writer and reader in jail were we to do it to some stranger on the street or in the office. Once again our government has taken the authority to set itself above the law it imposes on the citizens.
There have been many thoughts about this practice that is supposed to make the flying public safer and thwart the efforts of those who hate us. Interestingly, the nation that is hated even more than ours has found it unnecessary to resort to such universally obnoxious and intrusive methods. Of course the Israelis use the various intelligence apparatus they have available, but they take the logical steps of concentrating their limited resources on potential fliers who, most normal people, would find the most likely to take destructive actions. They sit them down, look them in the eyes and probe their motives rather than confiscating everyone’s toothpaste. Read more of this article »
John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
[Editor's note: It's interesting how time changes perspective. At the time of President Kennedy's election, I thought it was the worst possible thing that could happen to our country. Looking back now, I have acquired a new found respect for the man even though I still do not agree with parts of his political philosophy.
Having dealt with the shock of a math class interrupted by a classmate sticking his head in the door, telling us the President was shot, then a few months later, standing by his grave site during our senior class trip to Washington, I've seen this country come through difficult times. My parents came through World War II and the Great Depression. All this means that the problems our country faces need to be looked at as challenges to help us grow into what we can be. Let's look at President Kennedy's Inaugural Address and try to recapture the can-do spirit that set our country on the path to landing a man on the moon.]
We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom — symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning — signifying renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago. Read more of this article »
In the past, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said, “Multikulti, we are now living side by side and are happy about it.” She was echoing the politically correct mantra we have been hearing for decades. The idea that a common culture and language is not necessary for a smooth functioning society is a fantasy that academic idealists have been pushing for years. This thinking derives from the teachings that there are no absolutes, that all cultures and all values are moral equivalents and that those who believe one way is the answer, such as we poor deluded Christians would contend, were just plain wrong. This seems to be an absolute position in itself.
That was in the past. Having lived with the results of this philosophy, the lady showed a higher degree of perception than most world leaders when she addressed some younger members of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU), telling them that the much hyped and worshiped multiculturalism was an utter failure. She saw that pockets of people living by totally different values, work ethics and abilities did not fit in well with the solid, precise and productive German way of life. The problem was not so much that the newcomers looked different and spoke other languages, the problem was that they had no intention of integrating into the host country’s system, but instead, expected the Germans to bend to their demands and accept such idiosyncrasies as sharia law.
What Chancellor Merkel saw, was the same thing the people of Michigan are seeing, which is the same thing the people of Arizona and New Mexico are seeing. Conflicting cultures do not provide for a peaceful and productive society, particularly when those who have just arrived have little or no respect for the existing ways of the people. Read more of this article »
In watching the rescue of the Chilean miners, I was reminded that there is a world beyond the cesspool of Washington politics. Not everything is dirty and corrupt as one could believe by watching most news programs. Not everyone is willing to sell out their honor and integrity for power over others. Some even volunteer to put themselves in danger to help out someone in need, like those rescuers who rode the capsule down into the would-be tomb. While this theme is not completely unique – we hear stories like this all the time from our fine military – it is not as common in our day to day lives as the “me generation” grows in influence.
The beauty of the moments when rescued miners hugged their families, then rescue workers, reaffirmed the value we inherently place on human life. It is reassuring to see the value we, as human society, place on the individual. These men were miners, they work in a hole in the ground, yet untold amounts of money and man hours were committed to retrieve them from the jaws of death.
This is reminiscent of the drama we witnessed back in 1963 near the depressed mining town of Oneida, Pennsylvania when Hank Throne and Davey Fellin were rescued from a bootleg mine where they were trying to eke out a living in the depleted coal fields. Fellin’s was not an operation with the resources of the energy giants, yet the mining community came together to bring them home. The technology has changed, but the desire to bring those in danger to safety has not. Read more of this article »
Tyler Clementi’s dive off the George Washington Bridge into the murky waters of the Hudson River was a tragedy on so many levels. No eighteen year old should see life as so painful and hopeless that such a plunge would be preferable to facing another day among the living.
Some, who see the world in terms of group identities and memberships, miss the idea that this was a tortured young man whose life ended prematurely. They see the whole affair as one of a member of their group being disrespected and hurt by a cruel and uncaring straight society… and they are doing their best to make this a movement event to advance their agenda. The fact is that he will now have to face his creator on the basis of his own life, not based on the membership in one group or another.
Clementi’s actions showed the presence of a concept that is becoming a foreign one in today’s world: shame. Many of his so-called supporters show none of this emotion as they as they use his death to promote their cause… or in their own actions. They are encouraged by and model themselves after a culture of celebrity that values notoriety over virtue. Read more of this article »
“What’s Wrong With Sharia Law?” I have been asked. Isn’t it just some sort of quaint religious observance? It has religious practices that some countries have used to go to extremes, such as stoning a woman caught in adultery, cutting off body parts and throwing homosexuals off high buildings? No, these punishments are part of the Medina verses of the Koran. These punishments are the result of the type of theocracy many on the left fear from Christians and many Christians are blinded to as the influence of Islam continues to build in the United States.
Those who just see a foreign religious system may be surprised to learn that in New Jersey, a man had charges dismissed for beating his wife because a judge accepted it as part of his religious belief system. Some Imams go so far as to give “sermons” on the proper way to do this to control women who are looked on as less intelligent and inferior.
In Michigan police refused to protect Christians who attempted to hand out literature at an Islamic festival, because it is against their law to even acknowledge such literature. The law of Islam trumped the free speech guaranteed by our constitution, and that is the law the police recognized. Read more of this article »
Yesterday’s post told a story of working in a unionized shop in the garment industry in the late sixties and early seventies. It may be instructive to look at where some of the actors ended in later years.
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union, from a peak of about 450,000 members in 1969 started loosing members as manufacturing left the United States for foreign shores. It seems that all the members’ money they threw at politicians was used to pursue other agendas and not keep jobs at home. Their influence dropped as membership continued to decline until, in 1995, they merged with rival Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union when their combined membership was only 250,000.
The new union was called the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) which, in 2004 merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) to form UNITE HERE. These mergers took place as union membership continued to fall. In fact as one looks at the union publicity, it appears that UNITE HERE seems to be a competitor to SEIU. This is not to say that they are the good guys deserving of our support, but that they, like most non-governmental unions, suffered from the loss of manufacturing jobs in our country and the realization of the American people the they neither needed nor wanted union goons fighting their battles. Read more of this article »
Abraham interceded for G-d to avert the destruction of Sodom on the strength of his righteousness and his generational covenant with G-d (Genesis 18: 16-19). Within the process of his bargaining the Lord agreed to not destroy the city, if He could find 10 righteous people that were not contaminated by the prevalent sin of the city; homosexuality.
For me, there is the immediate temptation to show the spiritual significance of the number ten as the perfection of divine order, this we see from: the 10 commandments; the 10 clauses of the Lord’s prayer; our tithe of 10 percent; and Abraham’s 10 trials. But, what is more significant here is the fact that by the time these angels reached Lot’s home in Sodom, the flames of homosexuality had engulfed the city.
Not only could they not find 10 righteous people to save the city, but the sodomites of the city wanted to rape the holy angels (Genesis 19:5). Lot went out to try and reason with the sodomites not to do the wicked thing that they desired with his guests, but they were so consumed with their passion that they could not hear the voice of reason: Read more of this article »
The recent action of Judge Vaughn Walker in his attempt to strike down California’s referendum supported effort to retain conventional marriage brought out all sorts of information, misinformation and disinformation from all sorts of people. More often than not, these comments reveal more about the commentator than about the situation. Tweetering twit Perez Hilton commented “Gay marriage is not about politics. It’s about real people – and families!”
This tells us two things, first he believes his values should be universally accepted without discussion, probably because he, like most progressives, believes he is smarter than the rest of us. His tweet was picked up and forwarded by many who wash occasionally and who often think Barack Hussein Obama is a legitimate president. He does not understand that politics is about the relationship between people and their government, and now, particularly with the government sticking it’s nose in just about every aspect of our lives, EVERYTHING IS ABOUT POLITICS.
Then we have the judge himself. He man proved that he does understand the roots of our country or the way normal people live. He is a puzzlement and shows that even Reagan had a less than perfect record in appointing judges… even though it didn’t come about until W’s daddy seated him on the federal court. Being a homosexual himself, he really should have recused himself rather than fashion the law to suit his preferences, rather than the people’s. Read more of this article »
He had a pastel, bouquet for a pocket piece and a suit the color of the clouds. Quickly he glided to the front of the church, giving directions for the choir to begin.
The House of G-d is under siege in this season, but the enemies in the war are not rugged warriors; hardened from the rigors of their battles, the enemies in this case are the effeminate sodomites that refuse to change in G-d’s presence.
Deuteronomy 23:17: There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
There are those that love to justify homosexuality and that would be quick to point out that the original Hebrew word used here for sodomite, “qadesh”, means temple prostitute. But being a sodomite has a wider contextual significance when we remember the divine judgment of G-d against the twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, the inhabitants of whom G-d calls wicked sinners (Genesis 13:13). Read more of this article »
Rumors have abounded for months that our illustrious President, caring more for the welfare of the undocumented Democratic voters than the American people, was looking to bypass congress one more time and create an amnesty plan by executive order and regulation. The formerly mainstream media and the administration itself has continuously told us this is not the case. However, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley has uncovered a draft copy of a memo created by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security.
Toward the bottom page 2, under the heading Options, the paper states, “The following options – used alone or in combination – have the potential to result in meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action.” Reading further reveals multiple layers of strategy to impose the will of the elite on the unwilling and unaccepting citizens of the land.
Each of these options requires, we are told, “development of specific written guidance and/or regulatory language, implementation protocols…” One can only recall the old adage, “more regulation, less freedom”. Yet this is only the beginning. Read more of this article »
Among the limited duties of the US Government enumerated in the federal Constitution is Article. IV. Section. 4. “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.” However, for several decades now, the federal government in Washington, D.C., has shown great ambition and propensity to engage in activities to which it was never authorized, and to ignore those responsibilities with which it is specifically charged. The responsibility of the federal government to protect each State against invasion is a classic example of the latter.
Can anyone deny that the states on the US southern border (California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas) are being invaded by an ongoing onslaught of illegal aliens (many of whom are violent and dangerous criminals)? Somewhere between 12 and 30 million illegals now reside in the US. The entire country is feeling the effects of this invasion, but the Border States are literally under siege. And not only does the federal government do nothing to protect the states against this invasion, it actively wars against states such as Arizona when they attempt to protect themselves. Yes, I am saying it: the Washington, D.C., lawsuit against the State of Arizona’s immigration laws should be regarded as an act of war against the State of Arizona in particular, and against the states general in principle.
Please consider what Arizona and the other Border States are dealing with. According to published reports:
*In Los Angeles, 95% of all outstanding warrants for homicide in the first half of 2004 (which totaled 1,200 to 1,500) targeted illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) were for illegal aliens. Read more of this article »
Eulogies for the late Senator Robert Byrd, referring to him as the “conscience of the Senate”, told us little about about the recently departed, but a lot about the speakers. Hardly anyone referenced his career as a Klansman who rose to the ranks of Grand Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops. Most people are not sure of what those positions are, but they sure sound important… grand and exalted, even.
After looking it up, I found that a kleagle was a recruiting officer and a cyclops presided over a Council of the Centaurs and reported to a Grand Giant. It’s clear he ranked far above the average Buford in sheets. In fact, it is said that the good Senator was responsible for recruiting more than one hundred klansmen into the cause. Yet, on his death, little is said by the formerly main stream media about his illustrious career dressed appropriately in garb purchased at a “white” sale.
The one person to bring it up during Byrd’s memorial service was that paragon of American values, William Jefferson Clinton. Yet, as we could expect, even he did not get it right when he said, “A lot of people who wrote these eulogies for Senator Byrd in the newspapers, and I read a bunch of them, and they mention that he once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan and what does that mean. I tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and the hollows of West Virginia. He was trying to get elected, and maybe he did something he shouldn’t have done.” Read more of this article »
Barack Hussein Obama has done his best to turn our country into a place only a European socialist or communist could love. Even worse than his intended destruction of the best health care system in the world, or his presiding over the annihilation of marine life in the Gulf of Mexico or his intention to make our energy costs skyrocket – in spite of the other economic pressures caused by his mishandling of the economy, is one crime that exceeds even these debacles of leadership. He has guided this country in a direction that appears to be designed to stick the governmental thumb into the eye of everyday Americans… the kind who have made this country work for more than two centuries.
And how have many reacted to this Chicago thug giving jobs to cheap labor coming into this country illegally or taking their money and giving to all sorts of people and purposes unacceptable to the American value system? He has turned the normally happy and charitable citizens into angry subjects, distrustful of the government that is supposed to be looking after their welfare. The people understand that they are nothing but resources for his grand scheme of social reorganization.
The incensed population no longer has the happiness and optimism that once typified America. Some leaders have the ability to take people in difficult situations and buck them up to restore their confidence and ability to beat their circumstances and lack of confidence. This “leader” has taken another tack. He is telling us that we should not have had our prosperity at the expense of the rest of the world and the under performers in our own society. To the Obamessiah, economic justice is sufficient cause to bring this hardship on the American people… to the point where he is taking no steps to correct the situation. Read more of this article »
There’s not much to say about this video, other than our first amendment rights are being overridden by those who have come to our country, not to assimilate, but to change and control. The use of police to stifle constitutionally guaranteed free speech shows how far we have fallen from government officials… particularly big city officials… who have forgotten our heritage of God given rights and have caved to the expediency of political pressure and fear of those who reject our freedom and values and insist on imposing theirs. If you believe this is wrong, pass it on to everyone you know. We can’t fight this sort of thing by sitting on our couches and bellyaching about it.
If you feel the need to express your opinion of the actions you just witnessed on the video, you can reach the mayor and police chief at the Dearborn city website. You might even want to give them a call.
There is a YouTube video making the rounds that inspires tea party patriots and gives ajada to many progressive statists. It is the product of congressional candidate Rick Barber looking for a way into the hearts and minds of Republican voters in Alabama’s 2nd district. The brief video shows him discussing today’s issues with some founding fathers. After enumerating the various assaults on our property and liberty, he is told, “Gather your armies”.
For some reason, those who have imbibed in the Obama kool aid see this as a call for armed rebellion. Considering the abundant and intrusive excesses of the current administration combined with the publicly expressed anger of so many Americans, it is understandable that the perpetrators would be nervous. However, Barber contends that he is really only looking to gather grass roots armies and arouse the sleeping giant that the tea party movement has begun to stir. Read more of this article »
The true essence of the 4th Amendment, that is, probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, found by the Framers, as the best, and only, reason for depriving a citizen of his, or her, fundamental God-given right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, was changed, without constitutional amendment by eight justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in the decision Terry v. Ohio 392 U.S. 1 (1968) to reasonable suspicion. Terry v. Ohio (1968), the will of the Earl Warren Court, essentially threw out “probable cause” from the 4th Amendment and made it much easier for all police officers to deprive a citizen of a basic constitutional right that the writers of the U.S. Constitution saw as sacrosanct.
From what we know about the almost unanimous 1968 decision, Chief Justice Earl Warren carefully courted the vote of each of the justices, just as he had done in Brown v. the Board of Education (1954), in order to produce a, hopefully, unanimous vote. To change the letter of the U.S. Constitution, without amendment, the Court had to show unanimity, because the decision, in and of itself, was basically illegal, if it had been subsequently challenged by the U.S. Congress. The only vote Warren was unable to acquire in 1968 was that of the Justice William O. Douglas, who vehemently wrote in his dissenting opinion, “To give the police greater power than a magistrate is to take a long step down the totalitarian path. Perhaps such a step is desirable to cope with modern forms of lawlessness. But if it is taken, it should be the deliberate choice of the people through a constitutional amendment.” (392 U.S. 1, at 38). A few days after the decision was rended, Justice Douglas supposedly quipped to a reporter off-the-cuff that “if the Court can arbitrarily change the 4th Amendment, to read as it wants it to read, what is next, changing the word “respecting” to “denying” in the 1st Amendment?” What amazes me is the immediate, or latent, lack of opposition to the decision by the American people, when a section of the Bill of Rights was altered by the collective whim of eight of the Brethren, instead of by decree of the American electorate through the amendment process. Read more of this article »
The two thought-provoking words, racial and profiling, may be used together to convey a very sinister tone, especially to someone who has no real idea what racial profiling comprises and how it is used daily in law enforcement as a valid means of apprehending criminal suspects. The old, “let me see your papers, you don’t look Aryan,” anecdotal scenario, as applied to the fascist-Nazi motif, when the trench-coated Gestapo agent grabs the unwitting bearded suspect by the collar and carts him off to a dungeon where the person is tortured for information, is not the correct application of racial profiling in American law enforcement. Instead, imagine an elderly woman mugged on a street corner in downtown San Diego, California during the late afternoon. A police officer arrives on the scene after the mugger flees with the woman’s purse, and asks the bruised and bleeding woman a series of very important questions.
Recently I received an email listing some pretty incriminating quotes from Dreams of My Father, the book domestic terrorist Bill Ayers ghosted for Barack Hussein Obama. They include such pearls of wisdom as:
“I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.”
And
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” from the Audacity of Hope.
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“Photo ID laws are very similar to a poll tax,” whines Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Later she adds, “there really aren’t many instances of voter fraud.” Such is the fantasy world the wild haired legislator lives in. She thinks it is terrible that people have to identify themselves when the cast a vote that helps determine whether our country lives or dies.
The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. (Genesis 11:6 NIV)
For ages, students of human psychology have debated the relative impacts of nature and nurture in determining individual development. In other words, what characteristics are we born with, and which ones develop as a result of outside influences and life experiences. For decades, the 
Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall. Luke 11:17b (NIV)
After reading my Bible this morning, I decided to see what the other side was up to, so I watched a little CNN. They were reporting on the attack on American service men at Frankfurt airport that killed two and left another badly wounded.
The recent CPAC conference in the nation’s capitol made a brief splash and now it’s gone. Many opponents of the President’s policies were present to stir the crowd with firey rhetoric heard from few elected public servants anywhere, and even fewer inside the beltway. It was, perhaps, cathartic for those who attended. And many attended… but many did not.
Worshiping at the altar of diversity as advocated by the politically correct elites serves their purposes well, but what does it do for the rest of us? Does it help us unite to solve common problems, or does it split us into multiple camps where all we can see is our competing interests? If it is the latter, should we be viewing this politically correct article of faith as simply a well meaning error, or as a sinister attack on our country’s ability to function and lead the world?
Republican National Committee Chairman, Michael Steele’s term is almost up and there is quite a buzz in the air around insider circles and talking heads over whether or not he should keep his job. That this should even be a topic of discussion after the tremendous victory the party recently enjoyed is just one more indication of the tumultuous times in which we live. It shows the old rules of political warfare simply don’t apply today.
It’s been coming at us for years. Remember those old black and white movies where most of the men wore suits and ties? Beaver Cleaver came home to a mother wearing a nice dress, heels and pearls, and his dad sat around the house in a white shirt and tie. Remember when IBMers were clones in gray suits? Then, corporate offices adopted “casual Friday”… then casual every day. While I’m not a big one for coats and ties myself, I still find it annoying to find myself sitting in a nice restaurant next some guy in shorts, a tank top and flipflops. Even our own president still dresses like a community organizer while his wife often looks like her wardrobe comes from the sale rack at a thrift store.
John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
In the past, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said, “Multikulti, we are now living side by side and are happy about it.” She was echoing the politically correct mantra we have been hearing for decades. The idea that a common culture and language is not necessary for a smooth functioning society is a fantasy that academic idealists have been pushing for years. This thinking derives from the teachings that there are no absolutes, that all cultures and all values are moral equivalents and that those who believe one way is the answer, such as we poor deluded Christians would contend, were just plain wrong. This seems to be an absolute position in itself.
In watching the rescue of the Chilean miners, I was reminded that there is a world beyond the cesspool of Washington politics. Not everything is dirty and corrupt as one could believe by watching most news programs. Not everyone is willing to sell out their honor and integrity for power over others. Some even volunteer to put themselves in danger to help out someone in need, like those rescuers who rode the capsule down into the would-be tomb. While this theme is not completely unique – we hear stories like this all the time from our fine military – it is not as common in our day to day lives as the “me generation” grows in influence.
Tyler Clementi’s dive off the George Washington Bridge into the murky waters of the Hudson River was a tragedy on so many levels. No eighteen year old should see life as so painful and hopeless that such a plunge would be preferable to facing another day among the living.
“What’s Wrong With Sharia Law?” I have been asked. Isn’t it just some sort of quaint religious observance? It has religious practices that some countries have used to go to extremes, such as stoning a woman caught in adultery, cutting off body parts and throwing homosexuals off high buildings? No, these punishments are part of the Medina verses of the Koran. These punishments are the result of the type of theocracy many on the left fear from Christians and many Christians are blinded to as the influence of Islam continues to build in the United States.
Yesterday’s post told a story of working in a unionized shop in the garment industry in the late sixties and early seventies. It may be instructive to look at where some of the actors ended in later years.
Abraham interceded for G-d to avert the destruction of Sodom on the strength of his righteousness and his generational covenant with G-d (Genesis 18: 16-19). Within the process of his bargaining the Lord agreed to not destroy the city, if He could find 10 righteous people that were not contaminated by the prevalent sin of the city; homosexuality.
The recent action of Judge Vaughn Walker in his attempt to strike down California’s referendum supported effort to retain conventional marriage brought out all sorts of information, misinformation and disinformation from all sorts of people. More often than not, these comments reveal more about the commentator than about the situation. Tweetering twit Perez Hilton commented “Gay marriage is not about politics. It’s about real people – and families!”
He had a pastel, bouquet for a pocket piece and a suit the color of the clouds. Quickly he glided to the front of the church, giving directions for the choir to begin.
Rumors have abounded for months that our illustrious President, caring more for the welfare of the undocumented Democratic voters than the American people, was looking to bypass congress one more time and create an amnesty plan by executive order and regulation. The formerly mainstream media and the administration itself has continuously told us this is not the case. However, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley has uncovered a draft copy of a 
Among the limited duties of the US Government enumerated in the federal Constitution is Article. IV. Section. 4. “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.” However, for several decades now, the federal government in Washington, D.C., has shown great ambition and propensity to engage in activities to which it was never authorized, and to ignore those responsibilities with which it is specifically charged. The responsibility of the federal government to protect each State against invasion is a classic example of the latter.
Eulogies for the late Senator Robert Byrd, referring to him as the “conscience of the Senate”, told us little about about the recently departed, but a lot about the speakers. Hardly anyone referenced his career as a Klansman who rose to the ranks of Grand Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops. Most people are not sure of what those positions are, but they sure sound important… grand and exalted, even.
Barack Hussein Obama has done his best to turn our country into a place only a European socialist or communist could love. Even worse than his intended destruction of the best health care system in the world, or his presiding over the annihilation of marine life in the Gulf of Mexico or his intention to make our energy costs skyrocket – in spite of the other economic pressures caused by his mishandling of the economy, is one crime that exceeds even these debacles of leadership. He has guided this country in a direction that appears to be designed to stick the governmental thumb into the eye of everyday Americans… the kind who have made this country work for more than two centuries.
By Norton R Nowlin
By Norton R Nowlin
Recently I received an email listing some pretty incriminating quotes from Dreams of My Father, the book domestic terrorist Bill Ayers ghosted for Barack Hussein Obama. They include such pearls of wisdom as:
