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Freedom Photos

2012-01-28T11:01:00.001-05:00

My Favorites, a set on Flickr.

Freedom

2011-05-22T14:45:00.005-04:00

“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.” ~ Ronald Reagan, from his first inaugural speech as governor of California, January 5, 1967

The Slippery Slope Towards Tyranny

2011-05-17T08:24:00.003-04:00

Indiana Sheriff: If We Need to Conduct RANDOM HOUSE to HOUSE Searches We Will

Indiana Supreme Court: Resisting an Unlawful Entry Into Your Home is… Unlawful

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. — 4th Amendment to the US Constitution

Supreme Court affirms police action in Kentucky drug case

Doors being knocked down with out warrants will not have a happy ending. People will end up dead for smoking pot. How many people died over alcohol during prohibition? hwrjr

The U.S. Constitution Owes It's Life To The 10th Amendment and The Bill Of Rights

2011-05-08T21:03:00.008-04:00

Americans can learn about such forbidden ideas as the Principles of 1798, when Jefferson and Madison laid out the idea that to give the central government the sole ability to interpret the constitution was the path to tyranny, and that the states have the right and the duty to oppose tyrannical actions by the feds.

For a long time, it had been touch-and-go as to whether the Constitution would be ratified at all. Two states initially refused to agree, and of the remainder five had approved the document only after the Constitution’s supporters and moderate opponents had cut a political deal calling for a Bill of Rights. As soon as the new Congress met, two of the most important states, Virginia and New York, petitioned for a new convention to re-write the Constitution. Only after Congress had approved the Bill of Rights did Virginia and New York abandon their petitions and only then did the last two hold-outs, North Carolina and Rhode Island, join the union. The fourteenth state, Vermont, came in at the beginning of 1791.

The 10th Amendment, also known as the “states rights” amendment says very simply, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Very simple words…and these simple words mean just this: If it’s not in the enumerated powers of the Constitution, the US government is not empowered to legislate it.

There is nothing in the US Constitution that authorizes the New Deal, the Great Society, or nationalized health care or any other fiscal or civil dishonesty that is being perpetrated upon the people.

All of the text above from tenthamendmentcnter.com

I can only take credit for the title.

The Blessed Institution: Liberty

2011-04-26T23:14:00.003-04:00

Since the beginning of the last century, many seeds of destruction have been planted that are now maturing into a systematic assault on our freedoms. With a horrendous financial and currency crisis both upon us and looming into the future as far as the eye can see, it has become quite apparent that the national debt is unsustainable, liberty is threatened, and the people's anger and fears are growing. Most importantly, it is now clear that government promises and panaceas are worthless. Government has once again failed, and the demand for change is growing louder by the day. Just witness the dramatic back-and-forth swings of the parties in power.

Ron Paul

Introduction to Liberty Defined Here

Thanks and Giving

2011-04-14T08:38:00.003-04:00

It seems a trifle peculiar to send someone on a walking tour of a medical facility. But in the case of Pennsylvania Hospital, the oldest such institution in the land, history, architecture, and landscaping combine in making yet another of Benjamin Franklin's legacies a singular destination. The indefatigable Franklin raised money to help found the hospital in 1751, in conjunction with Dr. Thomas Bond. When the United States declared independence from Great Britain, the hospital was already 25 years old. Franklin also served on the hospital's original Board of Managers, as well as being its first secretary and second president.

More here http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/philadelphia/hospital.htm Thanks go out to the happy ebay auction winner of the Benjamin Franklin tshirt. The bid price of $117.91 rather than the purchase price was paid by the winner. The bid price has been matched by ROCapparel, LLC and has been donated to St. Davids' of Hanover Pa. building fund. Please check in soon for details of the next auction. Thank You.

Rebellion

against tyrants

obedience to

God

Benjamin Franklin

Exporting Wealth & Importing Oil

2011-03-30T07:14:00.005-04:00

Two-thirds of oil and gas leases in Gulf inactive

Opec set for $1,000bn in export revenues

Petrobras told it can use deep-water vessel in Gulf

The fields are in more than 8,000 feet of water about 165 miles off Louisiana, in an area called Walker Ridge.

Brazil's state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (PBR Stock Quote" a >PBR<> - PBR Zacks Equity Analyst Report">Analyst Report), or Petrobras S.A., has got the green light for the use of a floating production storage and offloading (“FPSO”) vessel in the Gulf of Mexico (“GoM”) to extract oil and gas from its deepwater Chinook-Cascade project.

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Spreading the wealth on a Global Scale and debt spending of historical amounts will not have a happy ending.

The solution would be to do the exact opposite. Produce U.S. oil and make historical spending cuts.

Looking at the headlines above it would have you believe that Barack Obama is currently controlling oil prices around the world. Debt spending and the printing of money is also effecting food prices around the world.

Hope and Change - Yes We Can - will "Yes We Did" be the slogan for 2012?

or how about " Four More and You'll Be Poor"

The tail gate was right

Saturday, March 14, 2009

12 Warning Signs of U.S. Hyperinflation

2011-03-28T09:02:00.004-04:00

In our estimation, the most likely time frame for a full-fledged outbreak of hyperinflation is between the years 2013 and 2015. Americans who wait until 2013 to prepare, will most likely see the majority of their purchasing power wiped out. It is essential that all Americans begin preparing for hyperinflation immediately. To read all 12 warning signs go to: http://inflation.us/hyperinflationwarningsigns.html

8) Record U.S. Budget Deficit in February of $222.5 Billion. The U.S. government just reported a record budget deficit for the month of February of $222.5 billion. February's budget deficit was more than the entire fiscal year of 2007. In fact, February's deficit on an annualized basis was $2.67 trillion. NIA believes this is just a preview of future annual budget deficits, and we will see annual budget deficits surpass $2.67 trillion within the next several years.

10) Obama Lies About Foreign Policy. President Obama campaigned as an anti-war President who would get our troops out of Iraq. NIA believes that many Libertarian voters actually voted for Obama in 2008 over John McCain because they felt Obama was more likely to end our wars that are adding greatly to our budget deficits and making the U.S. a lot less safe as a result. Obama may have reduced troop levels in Iraq, but he increased troops levels in Afghanistan, and is now sending troops into Libya for no reason. The U.S. is now beginning to occupy Libya, when Libya didn't do anything to the U.S. and they are no threat to the U.S. Obama has increased our overall overseas troop levels since becoming President and the U.S. is now spending $1 trillion annually on military expenses, which includes the costs to maintain over 700 military bases in 135 countries around the world. There is no way that we can continue on with our overseas military presence without seeing hyperinflation.

Make Love not "kinetic military action"

2011-03-25T08:15:00.002-04:00

White House: Libya fight is not war, it's 'kinetic military action'Read more at the Washington

Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/03/white-house-libya-fight-not-war-its-kinetic-military-action##ixzz1Hc4NBOme

Lipstick On A Pig

2011-03-25T08:10:00.001-04:00

and this from March of 2009

The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration has renamed the Global War on Terror. Apparently it is no longer a war, nor is terror worth mentioning. It is now the “Overseas Contingency Operation.”
http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/mom-apple-pie-and-the-overseas-contingency-operation/

So, if we combine the two we get "kinetic military action overseas contingency operations"

That sure sounds better then World War III

and this from March of 2009
Terrorism Is a 'Man-Caused' Disaster?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509597,00.html

Global War on Terror = The global kinetic military action overseas contingency operations on man caused disasters.

Political correctness is so confusing

Mooo Update (Maine)

2011-03-16T09:50:00.004-04:00

Maine Town Declares Food Soverneignty
http://www.foodrenegade.com/maine-town-declares-food-sovereignty/

Sedgwick, Maine has done what no other town in the United States has done. The town unanimously passed an ordinance giving its citizens the right “to produce, process, sell, purchase, and consume local foods of their choosing.” This includes raw milk, locally slaughtered meats, and just about anything else you can imagine. It’s also a decided bucking of state and federal laws.

This isn’t just a declaration of preference. The proposed warrant added, “It shall be unlawful for any law or regulation adopted by the state or federal government to interfere with the rights recognized by this Ordinance.” In other words, no state licensing requirements prohibiting certain farms from selling dairy products or producing their own chickens for sale to other citizens in the town.

What about potential legal liability and state or federal inspections? It’s all up to the seller and buyer to negotiate. “Patrons purchasing food for home consumption may enter into private agreements with those producers or processors of local foods to waive any liability for the consumption of that food. Producers or processors of local foods shall be exempt from licensure and inspection requirements for that food as long as those agreements are in effect.” Imagine that–buyer and seller can agree to cut out the lawyers. That’s almost un-American, isn’t it?

Click on link above for complete article.

See previous Mooo posts below to see why free people are fighting back.

Thanks to Mike Church for bringing this to our attention.
http://www.mikechurch.com/

Mooo (update - SenateBill 510)

2011-03-16T09:46:00.000-04:00

From 4/23/10

Feds invade farm for 5 a.m. inspection

See next post for update

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=144557

11/30/2010

2011-03-16T09:45:00.000-04:00

The video footage below is prior to SB510 becoming law.

The dangerous lame duck senate and SB510 Happening TODAY!

Senate roll call votes here

The passage of this bill will extend control over all food in the US, violating a fundamental human right to food. It will create higher compliance costs for smaller producers, putting them at a competitive disadvantage against corporate farmers and producers who can more easily absorb costs, fees, and possible fines, furthermore products not grown according to designated standards will be considered adulterated and your business records will be subject to warrant less searches by inspectors from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), all this without any evidence that you have violated any law.

Under this new law, US food suppliers would need to meet other countries requirements and standards, also S.B. 510 will cost Americans $825 billion in 2010 alone.

What will this mean for the small time farmer? The new law will force small time farmer's to go out of business, placing all of the U.S. food production into large corporations, for citizens this will mean letting corporations that are more concerned with making a profit
decide what is and isn't healthy for your family to consume.

We're Doomed

2011-03-10T21:30:00.002-05:00

We need 50 more "Quote" "extremists" in the U.S. Senate

Full Civic Literacy Exam

2011-03-03T18:08:00.001-05:00

What are the three branches of government?

executive, legislative, judicial
executive, legislative, military
bureaucratic, military, industry
federal, state, local

Take the test here
http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3B47-9675-41E0-9CF3-072BB31E2692

Democracy Versus Liberty by Walter E. Williams

2011-02-25T07:30:00.003-05:00

Walter E. Williams : a short must read at LewRockwell.com

It is truly disgusting for me to hear politicians, national and international talking heads and pseudo-academics praising the Middle East stirrings as democracy movements. We also hear democracy as the description of our own political system. Like the founders of our nation, I find democracy and majority rule a contemptible form of government.

John Adams said, "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." Alexander Hamilton said, "We are now forming a Republican form of government. Real Liberty is not found in the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy, or some other form of dictatorship."

To highlight the offensiveness to liberty that democracy and majority rule is, just ask yourself how many decisions in your life would you like to be made democratically. How about what car you drive, where you live, whom you marry, whether you have turkey or ham for Thanksgiving dinner? If those decisions were made through a democratic process, the average person would see it as tyranny and not personal liberty. Is it no less tyranny for the democratic process to determine whether you purchase health insurance or set aside money for retirement? Both for ourselves, and our fellow man around the globe, we should be advocating liberty, not the democracy that we've become where a roguish Congress does anything upon which they can muster a majority vote.

Video Update

2011-02-23T14:51:00.002-05:00

Updated videos now available at my youtube channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/rocapparel1

BOMB (Barack Obama's Massive Budget)

2011-02-15T08:06:00.006-05:00

Mr. Obama‘s budget projects that 2011 will see the biggest one-year debt jump in history, or nearly $2 trillion, to reach $15.476 trillion by Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year. That would be 102.6 percent of GDP — the first time since World War II that dubious figure has been reached.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/14/debt-now-equals-total-us-economy/

South Carolina lawmaker wants separate currency for state
A South Carolina state politician wants the state to develop its own gold and silver-based currency in case the Federal Reserve collapses and hyper-inflation ensues.
"If folks lose faith in the dollar, we need to have some kind of backup," State Sen. Lee Bright told the Spartanburg Herald Journal's Stephen Largen. His bill asks a committee to look into the development of a state currency, citing the Constitution and Supreme Court precedents to prove the bill's legality.
More here at Yahoo news

The Nitty Gritty on Nickels

2011-02-10T08:40:00.003-05:00

You don't need a doctorate in Economics to conclude that the U.S. Mint cannot continue minting Nickels that are 75% copper and 25% nickel--at least not much longer.

Once the price of Nickels hits 5X face there will surely be published "bid/ask" quotations for $100, $300, and $500 face value quantities, just as has been the norm for pre-1965 U.S. 90% silver coinage since the early 1970s. (Those coins are typically sold in a $1,000 face value Bag (weighing about $55 pounds), or a "Half bag" (containing $500 face value.) Soon after the current Nickels are dropped from circulation, we will see $300 face value boxes of Nickels put up for competitive bidding, on eBay.

Complete article

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/rawles6.1.1.html

Ronald Reagan Born 100 Years Ago

2011-02-04T09:21:00.002-05:00

Born February 6, 1911

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

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There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

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"And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Above quotes from Brainy Quotes

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Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" speech October 1964

"This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

it's what Reagan meant at the close of his first inaugural when he said the crisis of our time requires "our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds; to believe that together, with God's help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us. And, after all, why shouldn't we believe that? We are Americans."

Bill Of Rights with preamble

2011-02-03T03:17:00.006-05:00

http://www.billofrights.org/

The First 10 Amendments to theConstitution as Ratified by the States December 15, 1791

Preamble

Congress OF THE United States begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday the Fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution

RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.:

ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.

Click on link at top of page for the complete bill of rights (the first ten amendments of our constitution)

Judge strikes down healthcare reform law - Again!

2011-02-01T07:47:00.002-05:00

(Reuters) - A federal judge in Florida struck down President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare overhaul as unconstitutional on Monday in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law.

"Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire act must be declared void," he wrote, "This has been a difficult decision to reach and I am aware that it will have indeterminable implications."

States involved in the lawsuit were Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Iowa, Ohio, Kansas, Maine, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/31/us-usa-healthcare-ruling-idUSTRE70U6RY20110131?pageNumber=1

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/31/judge-uses-obamas-words-against-him/

Utah

2011-01-30T20:31:00.007-05:00

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert

“I firmly believe if we, as a state, fail to vigorously fight to protect and defend our rights under the Constitution, those rights will invariably be seized and usurped by the federal government,” Herbert said. “I remind Washington: We are a state, not a colony, and I assure you, on my watch Utah will not stand idly by.”

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51130916-76/state-herbert-utah-energy.html.csp?page=1#

The Awesome Power of Kirishima

2011-01-27T20:34:00.005-05:00

Our planet has more energy than we could ever use, if we only knew how to harvest it.
Must see photos
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351064/Japan-raises-alert-following-volcanos-biggest-eruption-50-years.html

Thank God the earth can clean it's self up, because those volcanos sure do make a mess.

State of the Union 2011

2011-01-26T09:15:00.005-05:00

Changes since last years SOTU address - Larger Government, Larger Debt and Less freedom.

Big government is the problem not the solution. Ronald Reagan

Big government is the solution not the problem. Barak Obama

If we can't get enough patriots thinking like Ronald Reagan with in the next two years, our Union of States will not stay united much longer and neither will the republican party. Strong responsible states will not go down with the ship, they will get on their life boats and try to survive.

Only a few members currently holding office in Washington D.C. understand what is at stake and not enough states realize the power they hold over the federal government with the Article V. written into the U.S.Constitution. We don't have two years to play politics. It reminds me of the musicians playing their violins as the Titanic was sinking.

Printing and borrowing money to maintain an out of control centralized government will not have a happy ending.

Rand Paul says more in 4 min. than Barak Obama says in over 60 min.

Perfect Freedom

2011-01-21T16:00:00.000-05:00

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
Patrick Henry

The 10th on the 10th

2011-01-10T22:01:00.004-05:00

James Madison -
The Federalist No. 45

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite."

http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/

The 10th Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

What You Already Know

2011-01-08T09:39:00.005-05:00

12/11/2009 Silver Purchase 18.00 oz.

1/7/2011 Silver Purchase 32.00 oz.

These links will be added to Infosites located on the right side of this page.

http://inflation.us/blog/

http://inflation.us/videos.html

Our currency is made of paper with fancy ink and coins made of junk metals and at one time the paper currency was backed by gold and silver and the coins were made of silver and gold.

What is it backed with now? Promises, the printing press and future tax payments by the producers and hard working people of our country for generations to come.

Inflation will destroy savings and retirement accounts and reduce the standard of living for all who live on fixed incomes and those who live pay check to pay check.

"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle." - Alexis de Tocqueville -

2010-12-26T09:18:00.001-05:00

Good Bye 2010 and Good Riddance 111th Congress

2010-12-23T07:25:00.007-05:00

Obama said Congress had its “most productive post-election period” in decades. “And it comes on the heels of the most productive two years that we’ve had in generations.”

It is not good when a large centralized government ruling over 50 sovereign states has a productive year.

Obama also said he was disappointed that Congress did not agree on an annual budget to fund government operations for fiscal year 2011, which began Oct. 1, and instead passed temporary extensions.

Their was plenty of time to pass a budget, instead they punted the ball down the field because of the Nov. elections. The Democrats knew if they tried to pass a budget prior to the elections they would have lost the majority not just in the House of Representatives but the Senate as well.

2011 - The power of the purse strings.

Article 1. Section Seven
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

Confidence will not be restored to the U.S. economy until the bail outs and out of control spending ends. With the Republicans now in charge of the purse strings with control of the House of Representatives the test will come early for the 112th congress. Will the federal government continue to expand? If it expands with a Republican label or a bipartisan label it will only damage the Republican party. Is the Republican party too big to fail? My answer is no! They will need to fail if they can not do the job that needs to be done.

Understanding that the Republican party has control of only the House of Representatives will not excuse them for failing at the task at hand. The independent party will grow larger and larger and the Republican party will become a permanent minority party trying to cut deals with all sides until they become irrelevant. The Democrat party will always have a voter base that is stable due to more and more people becoming recipients of those who provide(the tax payer). The Republican party does not have that luxury and they will need to get the job done or be fired and yes replaced.

It may be that no party in Washington DC can fix anything, they can only make things worse. It will take individuals and local communities not relying on all that government promises that will allow us to be free.

Our government was established to protect our God given rights not provide them.

Merry Christmas
hwrjr

The Sweet Sound Of Cash

2010-12-15T20:19:00.000-05:00

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/rounds6.1.1.html

Va. vs. U.S.A.

2010-12-14T21:49:00.006-05:00

The states created the federal government, in the end it will be the states who put the federal government back in their place as a limited government.

Follow up from my post March 2010 Thttp://pafreedomwriter.blogspot.com/2010/03/more-push-back.html

Obama's Health-Care Law Ruled Unconstitutional Over Insurance Requirement

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-13/u-s-health-care-law-requirement-thrown-out-by-judge.html
But the state of Virginia basically said that you cannot enforce the ObamaCare law in Virginia. We will not allow the IRS to penalize any of our citizens. We will not allow the IRS to tax any of our citizens who refuse to participate. And we will not allow anyone to prosecute our citizens because they refuse to participate. And we will not enforce your IRS law, and we will not collect your taxes for you, is what the Virginia law said. Or says.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/13/cuccinelli-hails-ruling-health-care-law-predicts-supreme-court-fight/
"This case is not about health insurance. It is not about health care. It's about liberty," Cuccinelli said at a press conference Monday afternoon in the state capital, Richmond. "We've won the first round of this particular fight, but we know there are others to come."

AG Cuccinelli reaction to winning suit against federal health care law 12-13-10 from OAG on Vimeo.

Conclusion

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/12/virginia_ag_cuccinellis_press.html
Today is a great day for the Constitution. Today the Constitution has been protected from the federal government, and remember, an important reason for the constitution in the first place was to limit the power of the federal government.

Today is also a day of a small degree of vindication. When we first filed suit, the screeching of the liberals was deafening. Everything from accusing us of playing politics instead of practicing law, to filing what they called a 'frivolous' lawsuit.
I want you to know, that our team makes decisions based on the Constitution and the laws. Period. We deal with the consequences of our decisions separately, but first and foremost we have been and will continue to be true to the Constitution and laws of the United States and Virginia, regardless of whether it's easy or hard in any particular case.

Here We Go Again ! ! !

2010-12-14T21:12:00.003-05:00

In one of their last acts before Congress adjourns for the year, Senate Democrats are pushing a 1,924-page spending bill that includes massive earmark spending. If passed, the measure would be enacted into law without debate in the full senate.

$1.1 Trillion Spending Bill Nears 2,000 Pages

Full story at THEBLAZE.COM if you can stomach it.

I have an idea, vote up or down on tax rates and then go home.

Here is another clue: If their is less revenue to the federal government due to a slow economy and all the politicians screwing things up, spending should be reduced not increased.

Then when you come back next year don't tell us what you are going TO DO, tell us what you are going to UNdo.

I know this is a lame duck congress and this behavior was expected but the actions this congress is taking is criminal.

$10.76 Pocket Constitution Included With All Shirts

2010-12-12T19:48:00.004-05:00

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Remembering Pearl Harbor

2010-12-07T21:20:00.000-05:00

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/12/07/remembering-pearl-harbor-69-years/

Jim DeMint 2012 (wishful thinking)

2010-12-07T21:05:00.006-05:00

Hugh Hewitt, Quote:
Senator Jim DeMint just announced on my program that he will oppose the deal as well as a vote for cloture on the deal. He is reluctant to criticize GOP Senate leadership, but believes the deal at a minimum has to be paid for, and that we need “a permanent economy” not a temporary one as well as permanent tax cuts, not temporary tax cuts.

http://nation.foxnews.com/jim-demint/2010/12/07/breaking-sen-jim-demint-oppose-tax-deal-would-join-filibuster

Senator Jim DeMint, Gentlemen - South Carolina
http://demint.senate.gov/public/

Obama struggles to keep Dems from killing tax cuts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101207/ap_on_bi_ge/us_tax_cuts

Lame Republicans

2010-11-30T21:07:00.003-05:00

SB510 Passes thanks to the RINO Republicans (Republican In Name Only)

More federal employees will be needed, more of future generations money will be spent, and more freedoms have been taken.

We are in deep trouble because of our deep national debt!

This new law will cost billions of dollars. When interest rates start to rise, the cost of just financing our debt will cost more than the entire defense budget.

We are at a crossroads that the politicians do not understand and with todays votes on SB510 and earmarks their is no reason to believe our federal government is headed in the right direction now or for the next two years. Emergency bills that cut spending need to be passed and until that happens confidence in our economy will never return and the decline will continue.

Alexander (R-TN)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Collins (R-ME)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kirk (R-IL)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Lugar (R-IN)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Snowe (R-ME)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)

The Senate bill must be reconciled with a version that passed the House of Representatives in 2009 before Congress adjourns for the year.

Welcome To The Future

2010-11-27T18:17:00.004-05:00

Pentagon to test 2nd near-space strike craft

The Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle is designed to skim the top of the atmosphere just below space, and is a key element of the Pentagon's Conventional Prompt Global Strike (CPGS) capability — a program to build non-nuclear strategic weapons that can strike conventionally anywhere in the world in less than an hour.

The States Created The Federal Government

2010-11-23T19:44:00.003-05:00

On Nov. 16, Texas Representative Leo Berman (R-Tyler) filed a bill in the Texas House of Representatives that would nullify federal health care legislation in the the Lone Star State. HB-297 asserts:

The federal Act is not authorized by the United States Constitution and violates the Constitution’s true meaning and intent as expressed by the founders of this country and the ratifiers of the Constitution.

The federal Act:
(1) is invalid in this state;
(2) is not recognized by this state;
(3) is specifically rejected by this state; and
(4) is null and void and of no effect in this state.

The bill takes things a step further, making it a crime for any official, agent, or employee of the United States or an employee of any corporation to enforce any part of the health care act in Texas, and imposes fines up to $5,000 and/or five years in prison for anyone convicted of doing so.

While some might call this legislation radical, it rests squarely within the scope of state power as understood by the framers of the Constitution. James Madison wrote in the Virginia Resolution of 1798 that states not only have a right, but a duty to step in when the federal government oversteps its authority.

click link for more
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/11/20/the-lone-star-states-opportunity/

liberty nor safety

2010-11-23T07:34:00.002-05:00

Those

who would give up

essential liberty to purchase

a little temporary safety

deserve neither

liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

Lame Duck Congress

2010-11-12T16:44:00.003-05:00

He looks harmless.

This could be the most dangerous lame duck of all time!

The Lame Duck Congress returns to Washington D.C. 11.15.10

The 111th Congress returns to Washington for its final session later this month with what will likely be a weakened president, shell-shocked Democrats and an emboldened Republican Party seeking to define a new political dynamic.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704865104575588680012478518.html

Confidence

2010-11-06T22:44:00.002-04:00

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. James Madison

Hammer Time

2010-11-02T21:52:00.007-04:00

Bye Bye Nancy

Who's smiling now?

This is Nancy Pelosi's victory march On March 20, 2010 among the citizens of the United States as they were protesting government run healthcare, the day before it was signed into law.

I was one of those citizens

Stay tuned, it's going to be a bumpy ride.

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/11/02/pelosi/

Joy Ride

2010-10-26T19:29:00.007-04:00

Here we are one week from an election that some of us have been looking forward to since 2006 when the Democratic Party won control of congress. With all the talk about a Republican landslide I don't feel like happy days are hear again and it's time to party.

President Obama uses the analogy of the car in the ditch all the time, so I thought I would join in on some of the fun.

…and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The republic is in a whole lot of trouble. Two more years of playing party politics may put the brakes on but the steering wheel is still controlled by President Obama and still headed for the cliff only a little slower with possibly a few detours.

Remember drivers ed, the instructor had a brake pedal but no steering wheel.

Big government spread the wealth entitlement type people will put up with tapping the brakes once in a while but try and turn that steering wheel at the same time and they accuse you of trying to cause an extreme accident.

Some in the Republican Party are happy with being that driver education instructor in the passenger seat tapping the brakes once and a while but not caring about what direction they are heading. Two years from now if the Republican Party is only tapping the brakes they will be thrown out of the car while it is moving, by me and millions of others riding in the back seat.

George Washington in his farewell address:
Warns against the party system. "It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration....agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one....against another....it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption...thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

We The People need to support our constitution above party politics. If you don’t like our current rule book for running our federal government (the U.S. Constitution) please feel free to add or remove amendments as necessary by playing by the rules (Article V). Ignoring our constitution and hoping it goes away will only create more divisions among We The People.

I have a feeling when Obama gives the keys to the car back to the American people in two years the car will be out of gas, almost damaged beyond repair and a credit card in the glove box over the limit.

The joy ride is fun until you run out of other people’s money.

When the joy ride is over the real work of repaying and repairing can begin.

hwrjr

Black Tea

2010-10-21T20:21:00.003-04:00

For the past year, the national media has attempted to paint the Tea Party movement and opposition to the Democratic agenda as based in racism, a reaction to the election of the first African-American President in November 2008. As the New York Times discovers, the reality of the opposition makes that very difficult to believe. Republicans have fielded a record number of African-American candidates for Congress, most or all of which have entered those contests with enthusiastic Tea Party support. More hear at HotAir

One might think the resurgence of black Republicans, coming as it does at a time when a black Democrat is president, would rate more than a feature story or two in the national media. But that would conflict with the liberal meme that Republicans are racist.

I bet you haven't heard of Tim Scott, Allen West or Ryan Frazier. If they were Democrats, I might lose that bet.

But they're not. Mr. Scott, Mr. West and Mr. Frazier are three of the 14 black candidates running for Congress as Republicans this November. Thirty-two black Republicans ran in the primaries.

Most of the 14 are running all-but-hopeless races against black Democratic incumbents in black majority districts. But Mr. Scott, running in South Carolina, is a virtual cinch to win. Mr. West (Florida) and Mr. Frazier (Colorado) are in races that are judged tossups.

If all three win, that would be a post-Reconstruction record. The largest number of black Republicans to serve together in the House in the last century is two, J.C. Watts (Oklahoma) and Gary Franks (Connecticut) between 1995 and 1997. There haven't been any since Mr. Watts retired in 2003. Real Clear Politics

2010-10-20T20:29:00.003-04:00

York County Pennsylvania Ballot

EPOH

2010-10-20T07:40:00.003-04:00

Squeeze

2010-10-19T21:01:00.003-04:00

So did you think that 2010 was bad?
Well, you haven't seen anything yet.
2010 was a Sunday picnic compared to what is coming.
Get ready to get squeezed.
Get ready for higher food prices, higher gas prices, higher health insurance premiums and higher taxes.
Get ready to try to do a lot more with a lot less.

#3 It looks like those receiving Social Security are not going to be seeing cost-of-living increases again. The Associated Press is reporting that the U.S. government is expected to announce some time this week that the tens of millions of Americans that receive Social Security will go through yet another year without an increase in their monthly benefit payments. You see, Social Security cost-of-living adjustments are tied to the official government inflation numbers, and according to the U.S. government there is basically very little inflation right now. Of course we all know that is a lie, but it is what it is.

#4 The cost of health care continues to soar into the stratosphere. Americans already pay more for health care than anyone else in the world, and yet costs continue to spiral out of control. The cost of health care increased a staggering 9.6% for all U.S. households from 2007 to 2009. Now, health insurance companies from coast to coast are announcing that they must raise health insurance premiums substantially due to the new health care law that Barack Obama and the Democrats have pushed through. So in 2011 it looks like the average American family is going to have to carve out an even bigger chunk of the budget for health care.

More here

Backdoor Bailouts & Scrap Metal

2010-10-19T20:40:00.004-04:00

These new backdoor bailouts are going to work something like this....

1) The big U.S. banks have massive quantities of junk mortgage-backed securities that are worth little to nothing that they desperately want to get rid of.

2) They convince the Federal Reserve (which the big banks are part-owners of) to buy up these "toxic assets" at way above market price.

3) The Federal Reserve creates massive amounts of money out of thin air to buy up all of these troubled assets. The public is told that all of this "quantitative easing" is necessary to stimulate the U.S. economy.

4) The big banks are re-capitalized and have gotten massive amounts of bad mortgage securities off their hands, the Federal Reserve has found a way to pump hundreds of billions (if not trillions) of dollars into the economy, and most of the American people are none the wiser.

Complete article here

The Number One U.S. Export To China: Waste Paper And Scrap Metal

Historians tell us that by the very end of the Roman Empire, goods were pouring into Rome from all over the known world, but about the only thing being sent out of Rome was human waste and garbage.

more here

What's At Stake (Every Election)

2010-10-14T19:00:00.003-04:00

A little over two years ago I wrote my first blog post, I have reposted below my opening remarks.

Solutions to our problems will not come from those responsible in Washington D.C. regardless of what party is in charge. The solutions will come from we the people in our individual lives, our families, and communities. Understanding that a large central government constantly expanding and promising to take care of us with your neighbors money and your neighbors grand children's money filtered through Washington D.C. is not the solution.

10/8/08

What’s at stake not only during this election but at this time in history?

This country is almost 233 years old since it started drafting The Declaration of Independence and 389 years since the May Flower arrived. I explained to my two beautiful daughters recently that we are really a young country in relation to other countries around the world. I then asked them “how did we become the greatest country on earth in just that short amount of time?” Casey responded, “We are special” and Carley answered, “Freedom”. Both are true and I am so proud of them. We are special - because of our freedom. The people of the May Flower were some of the first from England to settle and start a new life in this part of the world. It was their values, challenges, sacrifices and experiences that laid the foundation for what followed.

In 1620, when he was fifty years old, Christopher Jones and the Mayflower were hired to carry the Pilgrims and their cargo to Northern Virginia.

Christopher Jones and the Mayflower stayed with the Pilgrims in America through the winter. Half of the Mayflower's crew died the first winter.

The pilgrims are proof that fighting for freedom has no beginning or end.

What followed was a whole lot of history that I took very little interest in during my youth. My knowledge of American History is limited and I hope to change that in the years to come. The true stories of our past are more interesting, inspirational and at the same time more sobering than any fiction story that has ever been written. There have been many battles, struggles and wars fought since the day the Pilgrims settled almost 400 years ago. The 233 years between 1776 and present 2008, have been the most transitional in the history of mankind. Only 100 years ago things were much different.

* Star #46 was added to U.S. flag for Oklahoma

* Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran

* Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles

* Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across U.S. by car, they leave Los Angeles in a Packard and arrive in New York City in 32d-5h-25m

* Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B. Stubblefield(I still listen to AM radio)

* 1st passenger flight in an airplane

* New York Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at MSG

* Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va.

* Russia takes part of Poland

* Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors

* Henry Ford introduces Model T car

Only one generation ago their was no TV, air conditioning, computers, nuclear power, microwave ovens, cell phones with tv’s, fm radio, rock and roll, and Starbucks. The list is actually pretty long. The list of medical advancements in the U.S.A. is very long as well, and has improved life for everyone around the world. What this country has accomplished in the last 100 years alone is extraordinary and possible for one reason, freedom. Freedom is what saved the world in world war II, (when good people do nothing, evil wins) put a man on the moon, and gave us our independence to create a country for “We The People”. Brave free hard working men and women built this country. The prosperity created by this freedom has also been spread around the world. We often take all that has been accomplished for granted including our freedom. Nobody ever died trying to get to Cuba from Florida on a homemade raft. A lot of people have sacrificed their health and lives for the freedom of this country and other countries. I’m sure you have heard the saying “freedom is not free” freedom is also very fragile, and takes a lot of hard work and responsibility to maintain. Every day our freedoms are under assault by evil people that mean us harm inside and outside of this country. Others with good intentions can also threaten our freedoms through legislation in our local and federal government. One of John Kennedy’s famous quotes “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country’’. One of Hugh Reynolds’ famous quotes “Take care of your self and your family, that is what you can do for your country.” A country’s freedom can be lost in one war or one day at a time. When the courts start making decisions that “We The People” should be deciding, freedoms are lost. When congress votes against the will of “We The People” to cover up their own mistakes, freedoms are lost. Don’t take freedom for granted. As a United States citizen, stay informed but not too much, it will make you crazy, like me. Be informed before you vote, as it’s not a popularity contest. When the government takes care of more and more of your needs it’s called socialism. If they give it to you, they can take it away. The government did not give you your freedom, God did, weather you believe in God or not. Your freedom can not come from another man.

One of the biggest challenges “We The People” have is to keep this a country worth fighting for. We have an all volunteer armed services with brave men and women who put their lives on the line every day for freedom. The more the culture in this country moves away from strong family values and the more freedom we loose, the weaker we become. Freedom loving people fight for freedom not for their government. Peace through strength. The citizens of these United States are a very blessed people because of good family values, friends and freedom. God bless all freedom loving people, and the men and women of our armed services.

Thanks for your service Dad.

If your children are not learning enough about history in school, there are more and more children’s books available today that could make a difference. I recommend any of Lynne Cheney’s history books for children. Her newest book "We The People" is available at Amazon.com for a great price. New Also try Founders' Fables

I would like to thank my lovely wife Kelly for asking me to write for her blog. It actually felt pretty good and I enjoyed it. She might end up regretting this, I have a lot on my mind. Keep up the great work on your blog Kelly!

How we became the greatest country in history we should never forget. How we keep this the greatest country may be even more of a challenge and it is up to us, We The People…

hwrjr

Good Economic News

2010-10-04T23:07:00.002-04:00

Cuba announces raft of reforms - Cuba is preparing to embrace the free market the hard way by laying off hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in the next six months. Full story here

Maybe in January the headlines will read - U.S.A. is preparing to embrace the free market the hard way by laying off hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in the next six months.

I don't think the home made rafts will be going in the other direction any time soon but at the same time Cuba has no place to go but up.

If you want the headlines to change in our country you need to change Washington D.C. 4 weeks from today.

Straw - Republicans Turn

2010-09-28T20:39:00.013-04:00

A new Republican congress with President Obama in the White House.

Sounds like nothing will get done.

That's the good news.

The bad news is that too much has been done already that will not be undone.

It's called the ratchet effect.

The constitution exists to limit the federal government and it has not failed.

The elected politicians, judges and yes we the people have failed to follow it, not just in the past two years but for the past 200 years.

One of economic historian Bob Higgs's outstanding contributions is the "ratchet effect." During a crisis, the size and scope of government grow tremendously. After the crisis subsides, government shrinks, but not to the pre-crisis level. In consequence, leviathan expands over the decades, leaping from one crisis to the next. more hear

Five weeks from now there will be victories and defeats as there are in all elections but victory over the "ratchet effect" may take the largest crisis of all.

When will the straw that breaks the camel's back come?

When will we as a people learn to do with less from our federal government and make the sacrifices necessary to prevent the final crisis?

I have no idea what that final crisis looks like, but if we don't start removing some of those straws from the camel's back this generation not future ones may be the first to find out.
hwrjr

Straw - The game that broke the camel's back

http://theboardgamefamily.com/2010/06/straw-enjoy-breaking-the-camels-back/

It doesn’t take much to break the camel’s back when you’re throwing loads of brick on it. Of course, placing a magic carpet on the camel could help lighten its load. But do you really want to lighten its load? If you’ve got the straw you may just want to break his back with it. Choices, choices, choices.

TGIF

2010-09-24T09:36:00.004-04:00

Famous Last Words

2010-09-22T12:37:00.002-04:00

Patriot Nathan Hale Was Hanged September 22, 1776

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Have you heard this famous declaration before? American patriot Nathan Hale said it on September 22, 1776, his last words before he was hanged for spying on British troops. How did this come to pass? Hale, born in Coventry, Connecticut, on June 6, 1755, and a teacher by trade, joined his five brothers in the fight for independence against the British.

Five of Nathan Hale's brothers fought the British at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775. Nathan joined them on July 1. From there, he quickly rose to the rank of captain in the military. He fought under General George Washington in New York, as British General William Howe began a military build-up on Long Island. Washington took his army onto Manhattan Island. At the battle of Harlem Heights, Washington, facing Howe in battle yet again, asked for a volunteer to go on a spy mission behind enemy lines. Hale stepped forward.

Disguised as a Dutch schoolmaster, Nathan Hale set out on his mission on September 10. For a week he gathered information on the position of British troops, but was captured while returning to the American side. Because of incriminating papers Hale possessed, the British knew he was a spy. It is said that his cousin, a British sympathizer under Howe's command, betrayed him. Howe ordered young Hale to be hanged the following day. That's when Hale, who gave his life for his country, said those famous words.

This history lesson from americaslibrary.gov

Joe Six Pack

2010-09-20T21:02:00.011-04:00

A politician even Joe six pack can understand.

Joe Constitution Miller makes Fox News look and sound liberal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?

And Peter Schiff in the video below makes a whole lot of sense now that a couple years have passed.

Peter Schiff August 9, 2010

"We're in the early stages of a depression"

They've created a nation of spenders, speculators, and consumers, and they've destroyed the savers, producers, and the investing class that built this country. We're moving from a market-based economy to essentially a planned economy. We're abandoning capitalism and embracing socialism. That's a recipe for disaster.

Complete question and answer here http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/08/09/peter-schiff-were-in-the-early-stages-of-a-depress.aspx

According to Peter Schiff, two years of The Obama administration has only delayed and made a bad situation worse.

ROC:
The days of easy choices with wasteful spending will come to a close as a new congress and senate come into play.

Hard choices and not so easy solutions will be needed from the new Congress not only to start down the long road to limited government but to also restore confidence with we the people.

Confidence in a limited federal government is the best solution.

Spending cuts must come and when they come from the new congress the little pigs are going to cry wee wee wee all the way home.

thanks to mikechurch.com for the video links.

Peter Schiff video blog http://www.europac.net/media/video_blog

Bro For Sis

2010-09-19T20:30:00.004-04:00

All this talk about the Constitution is pretty amazing. I knew nothing about it just a couple years ago. During my reading, I was first disappointed that the Constitution SEEMED to treat slaves differently. But that changed as I slowly learned more.The founders had included the most important tool for providing freedom right in the words of the Declaration of Independence.

Dred Scott seemed to see that tool. When he sought to be freed in 1857, he referred to the statement in the Declaration that “all men are created equal”. I believe the founding documents clearly support that he and all slaves should have been freed as a result of his case. Instead the Supreme Court effectively disregarded the wording of the Declaration insisting equality did not apply, seemingly finding that slaves were property and not people.

Could the injustice of slavery have been corrected in 1857 before the start of the Civil War?

The opportunity was there. If only the Supreme Court had actually upheld the founding documents and followed the Founder’s words. A journey of self-education is a key to retaining freedom. I now see that we were not taught what we must know.

Happy Constitution Day!

Sis

September 17, 2010 9:04 PM

Happy Constitution Day - September 17, 2010

2010-09-15T18:44:00.003-04:00

Read It

It's not a living breathing document.

When it does need a little adjustment it should be done so through the amendment process not the courts.

I challenge you to find out for yourself what it takes to amend the constitution.

If our Constitution is out dated, why has it been amended 17 times since the first 10 amendments (the bill of rights)?

Amendment XXVII Adopted 1992

Mark your calendars fellow lovers of Liberty and the Constitution, the King Dude is hosting his 1st Annual Constitution Day-Spirit of '76 Viewing Party. In addition, the audio version of Spirit of'76 will stream live from the link below.

It will cost you 0.0 to listen and learn, no reading!

The voices of our founding fathers come to life with the actual text from those days in 1787 at the constitutional convention in Philadelphia.

Thursday 9/16/2010 7:00 PM eastern
http://www.mikechurch.com/index.php/show-prep/todays-lead-story/4957-test-chat-logo

All Over The Place

2010-09-08T22:36:00.006-04:00

Report: Castro says Cuban model doesn't work

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100908/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_fidel_castro_5

Obama Added More to National Debt in First 19 Months Than All Presidents from Washington Through Reagan Combined, Says Gov’t Data

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/72404

Note: My health insurance is going up this month and the boss is making me pay. I don't understand?

How will spending one trillion dollars on govt run health care reduce the national debt?

I thought 50billion for infrastructure was in the original stimulus of about 800 billion.

Health care, food and unemployment going up; the standard of living going down.

I hope all this changing stuff stops soon.

I have a feeling it will only get worse. Sorry for the doom and gloom.

I think the books are being cooked and the outlook is being presented as improving just to get those in power now, past the upcoming elections. After the elections all the bad news will hit the fan, be prepared.

Why is government spending more as tax revenues go down due to the struggling economy?

I thought I would never say this, but I miss Bill Clinton, at least he adjusted his policies and worked with the Republican congress in his second term.

This President is not capable of such behavior I do not believe.

This president will use all the various departments and his czars to move his agenda forward at all costs and work around the Republican congress. There has been enough unknown legislation passed to keep President Obama busy for the next two years transforming are country into the opposite of capitalism.

What is the opposite of capitalism and free markets?

If President Obama's goal is to kill capitalism and free markets there will be no reason for him to run for a second term. He will try to put the last nails in the capitalism coffin while the republicans are in control of congress and he has nothing to loose.

He is a young man with a huge ego. I predict he will take control of the UN after his first term and try to run the world, or I could be crazy, wrong or a racist.

hwrjr

A Battle With No End In Sight

2010-09-07T22:17:00.009-04:00

Battle of Lepanto

Please visit the links for a great history lesson that is very appropriate for the world events of today.

http://www.ewtn.com/library/mary/olislam.htm
On October 7, 1571, a great victory over the mighty Turkish fleet was won by Catholic naval forces primarily from Spain, Venice, and Genoa under the command of Don Juan of Austria. It was the last battle at sea between "oared" ships, which featured the most powerful navy in the world, a Moslem force with between 12,000 to 15,000 Christian slaves as rowers. The patchwork team of Catholic ships was powered by the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Knowing that the Christian forces were at a distinct material disadvantage, the holy pontiff, St. Pope Pius V called for all of Europe to pray the Rosary for victory. We know today that the victory was decisive, prevented the Islamic invasion of Europe, and evidenced the Hand of God working through Our Lady. At the hour of victory, St. Pope Pius V, who was hundreds of miles away at the Vatican, is said to have gotten up from a meeting, went over to a window, and exclaimed with supernatural radiance:

"The Christian fleet is victorious!" and shed tears of thanksgiving to God.

What you may not know is that one of three admirals commanding the Catholic forces at Lepanto was Andrea Doria. He carried a small copy of Mexico's Our Lady of Guadalupe into battle. This image is now enshrined in the Church of San Stefano in Aveto, Italy. Not many know that at the Monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Spain, one can view a huge warship lantern that was captured from the Moslems in the Battle of Lepanto. In Rome, look up to the ceiling of S. Maria in Aracoeli and behold decorations in gold taken from the Turkish galleys. In the Doges' Palace in Venice, Italy, one can witness a giant Islamic flag that is now a trophy from a vanquished Turkish ship from the Victory. At Saint Mary Major Basilica in Rome, close to the tomb of the great St. Pope Pius V, one was once able to view yet another Islamic flag from the Battle, until 1965, when it was returned to Istanbul in an intended friendly token of concord.

http://www.traditioninaction.org/History/A_001_Lepanto.html
When news of the victory finally reached Europe, church bells rang out in cities all across the continent. The Battle of Lepanto was a decisive victory, with only 40 of the over 300 Moslem ships surviving the engagement. The Turkish force of some 75,000 men was in ruins. The battle, although a great victory for Catholic Europe, did not end the threat of invasion, or completely break the power of the Ottoman Turks.
More naval and land battles would follow in the years to come, and Vienna itself would come under attack again, and yet again.

Today, the long clash between Christendom and Islam is still evident in the political and ethnic geography of Europe, Africa, Byzantium, and north into Russia. The battle also extends, in varying degrees, throughout the Near and Far East, and the Islands of the Pacific as well.

Many Christian knights, soldiers, and sailors have died defending Christendom against the onslaughts of Islam down through the centuries. Today, the borders of many European countries, Canada, and the United States are practically wide open, and the old enemy is invited to come in and make himself at home. And many 'Christians' in the West are just too busy enjoying their material prosperity to be bothered with unpleasant history. But the enemy has not forgotten history. He remembers it all too well, and he is still deadly serious about his religion. His goal over the years has not changed in the slightest, and he is very patient. The enemy within is now smiling, just biding his time.

R U Kidding Me

2010-09-02T21:15:00.005-04:00

As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in the beleaguered Kabul Bank, called Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial meltdown.

"America should do something," he said in a telephone interview, suggesting that the Treasury Department guarantee the funds of Kabul Bank's clients, who number about 1 million and have more than $1 billion on deposit with the bank.

Complete article :
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/02/AR2010090202266_pf.html

Arlington

2010-09-02T08:03:00.001-04:00

http://livinglifeinpa.blogspot.com/2010/08/known-but-to-god.html

Who Is John Galt?

2010-08-31T22:01:00.007-04:00

Georgia

Excerpt from John Galt's Speech:

Is it ever proper to help another man? No, if he demands it as his right or as a duty that you owe him. Yes, if it's your own free choice based on your judgment of the value of that person and his struggle. This country wasn't built by men who sought handouts. In its brilliant youth, this country showed the rest of the world what greatness was possible to Man and what happiness is possible on Earth.

John Galt's speech - mini version here

Wikipedia

John Galt is a fictional character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Although he is absent from much of the text, he is the subject of the novel's often repeated question "Who is John Galt?" and the quest to discover the answer.
As the plot unfolds, Galt is acknowledged to be a creator and inventor who symbolizes the power of the individual capitalist. He serves as an idealistic counterpoint to the social and economic structure depicted in the novel. The depiction portrays a society based on oppressive bureaucratic functionaries and a culture that embraces the stifling mediocrity and egalitarianism of socialistic idealism. In this popular mass ideology, the industrialists of America were a metaphorical Atlas of Greek mythology, holding up the sky, whom Galt convinces to "shrug," by refusing to lend their productive genius to the regime any longer.

As of August 2010 the Who is John Galt? billboard still displayed along I-95 in Georgia.

Restoring Honor

2010-08-24T20:58:00.009-04:00

Restoring Honor Rally Supports SOWF

Special Operations Warrior Foundation

Come celebrate America by honoring our heroes, our heritage and our future at the Restoring Honor Rally on August 28, 2010. Join us at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. for this non-political, non-partisan rally that will recognize our First Amendment rights and honor the service members who fight to protect those freedoms. Every day servicemen and women risk their lives to protect our country. It is through the support of non-profit organizations like the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF)that the families of these soldiers are taken care of in the event of an accident or loss of life. To support the "Restoring Honor" Rally and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation click here.

Motorcycling to Remember
Riding From Leesburg to Gettysburg for SOWF
The 7th Annual Battlefield Motorcycle Run to benefit the Special Operations Warrior Foundation is just around the corner. On Saturday September 18th, riders will fire up their bikes in Leesburg, Virginia and set off on a route that will take them through four states to the sites of some of the Civil War’s most famous battles, before ending at the hallowed ground of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. For more information or to pre-register log on to www.battlefield run.comSOWF: A Four Star Charity

The Twelve Values Defined by My Daughter (nature girl) to help get things started:

My Town, by My Daughter

2010-08-22T21:06:00.015-04:00

Sacrifice

2010-08-13T12:26:00.003-04:00

For all the men and women of the armed forces and their families who sacrifice so much,

thank you.

I will be spending some time with my family this week.

He aint all bad

2010-08-12T07:51:00.005-04:00

This morning at DFW Airport, George and Laura Bush greeted 150 (very surprised) troops as they arrived home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Their expressions were so priceless!

Welcome home to our troops and thanks to George and Laura Bush for greeting them! Michelle Malkin

The Second Amendment

2010-08-11T10:43:00.003-04:00

If the right to bear arms is lost all other rights will also be lost.

"When

firearms go,

all goes,

we need them

every hour"

George Washington

G.W. quoted shirt available from ROCapparel

Sam I Am

2010-08-06T08:13:00.005-04:00

I do not like this Uncle Sam,
do not like his health care scam.
I do not like these dirty crooks,
or how they lie and cook the books.
I do not like when Congress steals,
I do not like their secret deals.
I do not like this speaker Nan,
I do not like this 'YES WE CAN'.
I do not like this spending spree,
I'm smart, I know that nothing's free,
I do not like your smug replies,
when I complain about your lies.
I do not like this kind of hope.
I do not like it. nope, nope, nope!

The Commonwealth of Virginia vs. U.S.

2010-08-03T07:53:00.002-04:00

A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that the state of Virginia could proceed with its challenge to President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law, a setback that will force the White House to defend its reforms in the middle of a tough congressional election campaign.

In the opening salvo of the legal fight, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson refused to dismiss the state's lawsuit, which argued the requirement that its residents must have health insurance is unconstitutional and conflicts with state law.
More here http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67130B20100802

Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" because it is the birthplace of eight U.S. presidents.

Commonwealth - Today, commonwealth also means a political unit having local autonomy but voluntarily united with the U.S.

Understanding why these states chose the commonwealth moniker and continue to stick to it so proudly is a lot easier once you consider the history of those states. The original meaning of the word commonwealth was a nation or body governed by the people, not some king or tyrant. In fact, the time in British history during which Cromwell and Parliament ruled instead of a king is known as the Commonwealth Period. So when it came time for the American colonies to throw off the yokes of oppression and tea taxes and the excessive use of the letter u in words like colour, the three hotbeds of revolution—Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia—were most eager to signal the difference in government. Perhaps remembering the Commonwealth Period, they declared themselves commonwealths. So what about Kentucky? Kentucky had once been merely a giant western county of Virginia (before that, it was called Transylvania). When it started doing its own thing in 1790, Kentucky kept the commonwealth status. Not to mention the whiskey.
From http://www.mentalfloss.com/difference/state-vs-commonwealth/

Today in 1776

2010-08-02T08:17:00.001-04:00

The Continental Congress, having decided unanimously to make the Declaration of Independence, affixes the signatures of the other delegates to the document.

Regulation of Immigration Historically a State Function

2010-07-29T12:08:00.003-04:00

Besides dealing with a crucial issue of public policy, the controversy over Arizona’s recently adopted law concerning aliens within its borders illustrates a disturbing lack of familiarity with relevant constitutional law and precedent. The controversy offers a striking example of the deterioration of American constitutionalism.

Congress’s naturalization power, the chief justice concluded, “has nothing to do with the admission or rejection of aliens, nor with immigration, but with the rights of citizenship. Its sole object was to prevent one State from forcing upon all the others, and upon the general government, persons as citizens whom they were unwilling to admit as such.”

1. If the wording of the Massachusetts provision upheld by the court seems harsh or politically incorrect, consider that the federal immigration law enacted by Congress decades later in 1882 denied entry to “idiots, lunatics, and persons likely to become a public charge.”

See complete piece http://www.nhinet.org/epistulae10.htm

The Pursuit of Happiness

2010-07-28T22:58:00.000-04:00

"The
Constitution
only gives
the people
the right
to pursue
happiness.
You have to
catch it
your self."
Benjamin Franklin

Britain Plans to Decentralize Health Care

2010-07-27T07:48:00.001-04:00

More here
Britain Plans to Decentralize Health Care

Principals of Freedom 101

2010-07-27T07:00:00.002-04:00

Every generation of Americans struggled to pay off the national debt up until the present one.

The founders also warned that the only way for the nation to prosper was to have equal protection of "rights," and not allow the government to get involved in trying to provide equal distribution of "things." They also warned against the pooling of property as advocated by the proponents of communism. Samuel Adams said they had done everything possible to make the ideas of socialism and communism unconstitutional. Said he:

The utopian schemes of leveling [redistribution of the wealth] and a community of goods [central ownership of the means of production and distribution], are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the Crown.

From a must read book The 5000 year leap. First printing 30 years ago. Now available on audio. Here

Don't Look Now

2010-07-26T10:51:00.008-04:00

WASHINGTON – New estimates from the White House on Friday predict the budget deficit will reach a record $1.47 trillion this year. The government is borrowing 41 cents of every dollar it spends.

Full Article

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100723/ap_on_bi_ge/us_budget_deficit_2

The Breakup of the United States

2010-07-26T07:48:00.004-04:00

The value of the United States paper currency depends critically on the taxing power of the United States. Anything that undermines U.S. tax collections undermines the U.S. dollar.

There is no external bank or government that can or will extend credit to the U.S. to save the dollar once the perception spreads that its tax-collecting power is permanently impaired.

Read More Here http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff328.html

The fight for freedom has no beginning or end

2010-07-19T21:47:00.006-04:00

Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and The Kentucky Resolutions in 1798 (only ten years after the constitutional convention), proof that fighting for freedom and fighting to keep it are one in the same.

Our founding fathers knew the fight for freedom would require constant maintenance. We have let them down, let's pray it's not too late to repair the damage we have done. Please take a minute to read the information below to better understand why the U.S. Constitution and our country require allot more maintenance then we are providing.

In early 1798 Thomas Jefferson believed that the Alien and Sedition Acts were a Federal measure designed to introduce dictatorship or monarchy to the U.S. and so drafted what became known as the Kentucky Resolutions in order to oppose them. In the 8th Resolution he stated that:

Let him say what the government is, if it be not a tyranny, which the men of our choice have conferred on our President, and the President of our choice has assented to, and accepted over the friendly strangers to whom the mild spirit of our country and its laws have pledged hospitality and protection: that the men of our choice have more respected the bare suspicions of the President, than the solid right of innocence, the claims of justification, the sacred force of truth and the forms and substance of law and justice. In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

The First Resolution:

Resolved, That the several states composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force: That to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-states forming as to itself, the other party: That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.

Click on the link below for the complete Kentucky Resolutions
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1083&Itemid=264
Research information for this post available on the Liberty Library link to your right, under infosites.

13 ~ July 1787 (Pre Constitution & Bill of Rights)

2010-07-13T22:33:00.005-04:00

Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacts the Northwest Ordinance, establishing rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.

Considered to be one of the most significant achievements of the Congress of the Confederation, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 put the world on notice not only that the land north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi would be settled but that it would eventually become part of the United States. Until then this area had been temporarily forbidden to development.

Increasing numbers of settlers and land speculators were attracted to what are now the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. This pressure together with the demand from the Ohio Land Company, soon to obtain vast holdings in the Northwest, prompted the Congress to pass this Ordinance

The area opened up by the Ordinance was based on lines originally laid out in 1784 by Thomas Jefferson in his Report of Government for Western Lands. The Ordinance provided for the creation of not less than three nor more than five states. In addition, it contained provisions for the advancement of education, the maintenance of civil liberties and the exclusion of slavery.

Above all, the Northwest Ordinance accelerated the westward expansion of the United States.

The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in each U.S. state in the name of "The People". The Constitution has been amended twenty-seven times; the first ten amendments are known as the Bill of Rights (From Wikipedia)

United and Independent?

2010-07-06T22:24:00.005-04:00

the last paragraph of "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America"

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Independent states and independent people will solve alot of our problems.

Dependent states and dependent people on a central power is our problem and not at all what this great country was founded on.

What You Don't Know Will Hurt Us All

2010-07-05T21:44:00.001-04:00

Gone Fishin'

2010-06-29T08:07:00.008-04:00

Gone Fishin'

Happy Independence Week!

Fly these united States of America flags proudly this week!

Overwhelm the system

2010-06-24T08:15:00.009-04:00

by Wayne Allyn Root
http://www.rootforamerica.com/

Barack Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within. Barack Obama is my college classmate (Columbia University, class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.

-- Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?

-- Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."

-- Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.

-- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America. But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government. Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security.

-- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America. The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means.

-- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme

-- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan.

Scared To Debt !

2010-06-16T19:34:00.007-04:00

Where's the Democrats' budget?

No budget likely prior to election.

Democrat majority for the first time since the enactment of the budget act has abdicated its responsibility to do a budget,”Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37137.html#ixzz0r6sIE6aP

Every "crisis" brings on the expansion of the federal government and debt.

“You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste; it’s an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid.”
– Rahm Emanuel

Short Term Solution - Remove as many liberals, progressives, and yes admitted socialist as possible from power in November.

Long Term Solution - Educating the American citizens on The Free Market System, The U.S. Constitution, and Strong Family Values would be a good start.

Deepwater Horizon drilling rig which caught fire, burned for two days, then

2010-06-15T21:45:00.002-04:00

Check out these pictures

http://sz0084.wc.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/Horizon.pdf?auth=co&loc=en_US&id=62060&part=2

Once a government pet, BP now a capitalist tool

2010-06-15T20:57:00.003-04:00

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Once-a-government-pet-BP-now-a-capitalist-tool-95942659.html

The Onerous Compliance Cost of the Internal Revenue Code

2010-06-14T20:24:00.004-04:00

I found this educational video from a link on Ludwig von Mises Institute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX8EswfGKQw&feature=channel

I have also placed the the link under Infosites to your right.

The Road To Serfdom

2010-06-12T21:46:00.006-04:00

The Reader’s Digest condensed version of
The Road to Serfdom - complete download as pdf here

excerpt
To many who have watched the transition from socialism to

fascism at close quarters the connection between the two systems

has become increasingly obvious, but in the democracies the

majority of people still believe that socialism and freedom can be

combined. They do not realize that democratic socialism, the

great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable,

but that to strive for it produces something utterly different – the

very destruction of freedom itself. As has been aptly said: ‘What

has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that

man has tried to make it his heaven.’

This Day In History

2010-06-11T07:33:00.000-04:00

On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress selects Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert R. Livingston of New York to draft a declaration of independence.

Knowing Jefferson s prowess with a pen, Adams urged him to author the first draft of the document, which was then carefully revised by Adams and Franklin before being given to Congress for review on June 28. More

Who's On First

2010-06-08T22:50:00.004-04:00

Library of Liberty

2010-06-07T22:32:00.004-04:00

This new link is also posted under Infosites to your right.

http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=149

You will find enough information at this site to edumacate yourself on liberty.

I plan on furthering my higher education on liberty how about you?

If we don't learn our real history our liberty may become history.

Inflation - Deflation - Frustration

2010-06-07T22:27:00.003-04:00

Educational and interesting video - 1 hour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb1n1X0Oqdw

Remembering D - Day

2010-06-07T07:13:00.002-04:00

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/06/remembering-d-day/

Michelle Takes A Break

2010-06-07T07:05:00.002-04:00

The Great American Road Trip

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/06/07/the-great-american-road-trip-reflections-rv-tips-rushmore-to-yellowstone-pics/

2010-06-06T22:14:00.000-04:00

That

Government

is best

which governs

least.

Thomas Paine

Be Strong

2010-06-03T08:18:00.001-04:00

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Calvin Coolidge

KaBoom

2010-05-24T23:19:00.002-04:00

Did you notice the debt clock to your right has gone from 12 trillion to over 13,000,000,000,000.00 and no sign of slowing down.

When a clock counts down, you know when the bomb will go off.

The debt time bomb is counting up and nobody knows when it will explode.

How can a country plan it's future with a time bomb ticking?

Big government = Big time bomb

Financial Regulation Bill Is Socialism

2010-05-22T09:25:00.002-04:00

President Obama has taken the United States one more giant step towards socialism by ramming through the Senate his financial regulation bill.
The bill authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury – a political appointee – to seize any financial company (bank or nonbank) simply because, in his opinion, it is too big to fail and in danger of insolvency. This power can be used for political retribution, pressure for campaign funding, or any other abuse bureaucratic whim or partisan politics can conceive. It is a power Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez would love to have!

Dick Morris - Click on Fidel Castro for more.

Mexico - Mind Your Own Business

2010-05-22T09:11:00.002-04:00

Words From A Wiser Community Organizer

2010-05-20T22:33:00.008-04:00

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Frederick Douglass

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Frederick Douglass

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Frederick Douglass

The First Blacks In Congress - All Republicans - Here

Now & Then

2010-04-26T15:50:00.004-04:00

A system of capitalism

presumes sound money,

not fiat money manipulated by a central bank.

Capitalism cherishes voluntary

contracts and interest rates

that are determined by savings,

not credit creation by a central bank.

Ron Paul

"The
circulation
of confidence
is better
than the
circulation
of money."
James Madison

"The only

real crisis

that needs

to be regulated

by congress

is the

debt crisis."

Hugh Reynolds

Try it

your self,

it's fun.