Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Born in 1938 and am lost in Our Country

America Has Lost Faith In Competence Of Leaders

When this writer was 3 years old, the Empire of Japan devastated Battleship Row of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Before I was 7, Gen. MacArthur was in an office in Tokyo overlooking the Imperial Palace, dictating to a shattered Japan.

In 1956, President Eisenhower, impressed by the autobahn he had seen in Hitler's Reich, ordered a U.S. Interstate Highway System built, tying America together, one of the great public works projects in history. Within a decade, the system was on its way to completion.

In 1961, John F. Kennedy said the United States, beaten into space by Nikita Khrushchev's Soviet Union, would put a man on the moon and return him to earth within the decade. In July 1969, President Nixon, on the deck of the carrier Hornet, welcomed home Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins of Apollo 11.

Whatever became of that America? What ever became of that can-do nation? What has happened to us?

This October saw the vaunted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fumbling over basic questions on how to protect Americans from an Ebola epidemic in three small countries of West Africa.

In September, an intruder with a knife climbed the White House fence, trotted across the North lawn, walked through the unlocked front door of the president's house, barreled over a female officer, and ran around the East Room before being tackled by a Secret Service agent going off duty. The president had just departed.

Days earlier, an armed security guard in Atlanta with a violent criminal past was allowed by Secret Service to ride an elevator with Barack Obama.

Last summer came reports that 60,000 children and young people from Central America had walked across the border into the United States, overwhelming our Border Patrol.

Last spring, we learned that sick and suffering vets were deliberately made to wait months for appointments to see VA doctors, and dozens may have died during the wait. Earlier, the rollout of ObamaCare, years in preparation, became a national joke and a metaphor for government incompetence.

Under President Bush came Katrina, where 30,000 residents of New Orleans were stranded for days behind a pool of stagnant water after a hurricane. The city and state couldn't handle it. Yet, during five days in 1940, 350,000 British troops, besieged at Dunkirk, were rescued from across the Channel by their countrymen in boats and yachts under the guns of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe.

Such events have contributed to a collapse of confidence among Americans in the competency of their leaders and their government.

Large majorities now believe America is heading downhill, that the future will not be as good as the past, that we are going in the wrong direction. Malaise pervades the republic.

And there are larger reasons for these sentiments. Our recent wars, in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, all seem to have left them and us worse off. In fighting our new war in Iraq and Syria we have neither a credible strategy nor sufficient troops to prevail against the Islamic State. Already, Americans are asking: Why is this our war?

Since the mid-1970s, the real wages of working Americans have stagnated as we have run uninterrupted trade deficits totaling more than $10 trillion. Under Obama the national debt has surpassed GDP. Our manufacturing base has been hollowed out with Detroit as Exhibit A.

We outsource our future by borrowing from China to buy from China.

We borrow from Japan and Europe to defend Japan and Europe, though World War II has been over for 70 years.

FedEx tracks with precision millions of packages a day. But the U.S. government cannot locate and send back 12 million illegal aliens.

Thirty years after a Reagan amnesty that carried a commitment to secure our borders, Obama is preparing an executive amnesty for untold millions of illegals, as soon as the election is over. And still the borders are not secure.

If government is conceded a role in anything, it is in building roads, bridges, highways and airports, and in running public schools. Yet our infrastructure is crumbling, U.S. children fall lower and lower in international competition and the racial divide in academic performances has never closed, despite an investment of trillions in education over half a century. Even Joe Biden calls LaGuardia a "Third World" airport.

Many private institutions are succeeding splendidly. But our public institutions, save the military, seem to be broadly failing. Congress is gridlocked. The president is seen as a dithering incompetent. The Supreme Court is polarized irreparably.

Our political, racial and cultural clashes, traceable to conflicts created by the revolutions of the 1960s, are daily magnified and exacerbated by cable TV, the Internet and social media.

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world," wrote the poet Yeats. Clare Luce put it another way. In this world, she said, there are two kinds of people — optimists and pessimists. "The pessimists are better informed."

Slight of hand?

Dems Hide ObamaCare's Worst Features Until Election

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By TIM PHILLIPS

The administration's public pronouncements on the law — reinforced by surrogates and friends in the Senate, in the media and elsewhere on the left — invariably claim that the law is working. Yet the American people never got the memo.

Fully 51% of Americans still oppose the law; only 39% support it.

In recognition of this dismal record, the White House is quietly working to hide the law's looming ill effects from voters until after the midterm elections on Nov. 4.

The end goal? Prevent a backlash at the ballot box that could imperil the law's existence.

Last week, the Obama administration unveiled a revamped version of Healthcare.gov, the online portal where people purchase ObamaCare plans.

Administration officials praised it for simplifying the purchase process and making it easier for customers to understand what plans they're buying.

There's just one thing missing from this new website: the cost of premiums. Instead, these key data will be available starting only the second week of November — conveniently, one week after the midterm elections.

The political calculation is clear: Protect the incumbent congressmen and senators who voted for ObamaCare and who are now fighting for their electoral lives.

If premiums increase significantly — as they will in many states that have already announced rates for next year — voters will certainly be angry.

After all, ObamaCare was sold on the promise that it would make health care more affordable and even lower average premiums by up to $2,500 a year.

It is thus in the White House's interest to delay the news that this promise has been broken until after Nov .4.

For those incumbents, angry constituents writing letters is preferable to angry voters heading to the polls.

This political gamesmanship likely also explains the start date of Healthcare.gov's open enrollment period for next year's plans — Nov. 15. That's 11 days after the midterms. Compared with last year, enrollment starts a full 45 days later.

The accountability dodge is again plain to see. Healthcare.gov became the laughing stock of the nation last year when it couldn't go 10 minutes without a catastrophic glitch.

It wasn't too funny to the millions of people who were forced to spend hours, days, weeks and even months simply trying to find a health care plan.

By waiting to open enrollment until after the election, the White House is ensuring the new Healthcare.gov failures won't be fresh on voters' minds when they enter the voting booth.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Chicago Activists Unchained: "It's not the Tea Party that's done this to us"

Black activists call "Black Leadership" of the cities

a Black-on-Black crime

Black Activists Call Obama "Worst President Ever"

See Rebelpundit.com and their YouTube Channel

MORE ON THE GAS TAX IDEA

The editorial espousing a twenty for cent per gallon gasoline tax is ridiculous. As a senior citizen that drives mostly local and several road trips with cars that are EPA rated at over 28 miles per gallon I foresee the devastating increase in gasoline taxes. Between doctors, gymnasium, shopping etc., the cost will be over $200 per year.

What we need is a state that finds a method to reduce our cost per-mile of road maintenance. The State of NJ is ranked 48 most expensive among the fifty states. The two states where the cost of maintenance per mile are Hawaii and Alaska.
What is needed is a wood-shed where our governor could take the Transportation Commissioner. If this is not enough Christie should be taken to the wood shed.

Look at the methods of competitively bidding. Look at the specifications for unnecessary restrictions. And look at the cost of police being on site during the work. Watch this last one and see how many police are actually watching and not talking to a member of the work crew. What are they talking about,-The game last night, or the girls on dancing with the Stars?

Monday, October 27, 2014

This is another reason to SCREAM at Governor Christie

New jersey is the 3rd highest in maintenance cost.

We don't need higher gas tax, we need cheaper maintenance costs.

http://reason.org/news/show/21st-annual-highway-report

I sent a message to the South Jersey Times and Christie. They repeated a similar editorial as the one below.

When it comes to gasoline, New Jersey drivers have two demands: that it’s relatively cheap and that someone pumps it for them. Politicians rarely discuss changing the state’s rock-bottom gas tax rate or mandatory full-serve pumps. Voters are intensely fond of both.

But New Jersey’s highways are brittle and congested. Governors past and present have borrowed so heavily from the Transportation Trust Fund that whatever puny gas taxes we collect are used to pay down billion-dollar debts — with little left over to build new roads or fix old ones.

State Sen. Raymond Lesniak is right: New Jersey’s roads and bridges are failing, and we don’t have the money to fix them. That’s why the Union County Democrat wants to raise the state gas tax by 15 cents a gallon over three years. That’s an increase (scaled down from his original proposal of 24 cents over six years) that is measured and reasonable.

New Jersey’s infrastructure is rotting with age and neglect. Last year, a study concluded we’d need to spend $21 billion over five years just to get into passable shape. A 15-cent gas tax hike would mean an extra $750 million a year.

Despite the glaring need, Gov. Chris Christie is adamantly against any attempts to raise the gas tax — unchanged since 1991 — though he’s a big part of the reason a hike is needed.

Saturday, October 25, 2014

“Don’t let anybody tell you it’s corporations and businesses create jobs,” Hillary said.

Appearing at a Boston rally for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley on Friday, Hillary Clinton told the crowd gathered at the Park Plaza Hotel not to listen to anybody who says that “businesses create jobs.” Read Breitbart.

Friday, October 24, 2014

Ronald Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" Speech's 50th Anniversary

The Speech that Defined Conservatism for 50 Years
by Craig Shirley

Ronald Reagan (center) leads a group that rallied in support of Sen. Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in San Francisco in July 1964. Rep. Bill Miller was Goldwater's running mate (right)

It was not the best of times for Ronald Reagan in the early 1960s. His beloved mother Nelle had died, and he mourned her for months. His career had gone into a tailspin with the loss of his GE contract.

In 1953, Reagan was the perfect choice to host "General Electric Theater" on CBS and go on the road several weeks a year to give speeches and do the grip and grin with tens of thousands of employees.

But by 1962, the calm and reassuring Reagan was... Read More At Investor's Business Daily.

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Is this still true?

Written and printed in Courier Post November 2013:

If a person of national authority repeatedly assures that something will come to pass, can we assume there is a promise?
A border guard was murdered by people taking advantage of weapons sold under the Fast and Furious program. Green energy loans totaled billions. We had millions contributed to Solyndra and like solar corporations that went bankrupt.
We heard of the IRS using its authority to subject the requests of conservative organizations to delays and scrutiny. Phone calls and emails were intercepted and recorded by the National Security Agency.
The raid in Benghazi resulted in the death of Americans. We were told that the raid in Benghazi was the result of an anti-Islam video. We were told, by our president, the culprits would be brought to justice. Various stories of possible military rescue missions to Benghazi have been reported, but the witnesses have not been permitted to testify.
Our president assured the government we would get to the bottom of these fiascoes.
Oh well, we can keep our health insurance and doctor, or is that left up to the secretary of Health and Human Services? She issued the criteria that insurance companies must meet.
Who cares what difference it makes?
GERALD KEER
Turnersville

Spending out of control, starve the beast, Look at our troubles now!

Obama Administration Deals With October Worries It Created

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By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

Posted 10/22/2014 04:49 PM ET

Victor Davis Hanson

In October of 1962, America worried whether an untried young president, John F. Kennedy, could keep us safe from nuclear-tipped missiles from nearby communist Cuba.

Today's October worries are more insidious: the Ebola virus, the macabre Islamic State, a tottering stock market, a bellicose Russia and a crisis of confidence in our government.

Much of what the Obama administration and the Centers for Disease Control initially swore about the Ebola virus proved false.

The virus really did infect Americans at home, despite assurances that there was "no significant risk." There always was a danger of infected West Africans entering the U.S. The CDC protocols did not protect nurses from infection by Ebola patients.

Banning all travel from West African countries where the virus is epidemic may not stop Ebola from spreading throughout the U.S. But the administration still cannot offer convincing reasons why we should not try just that.

Instead, a purely medical decision seems hopelessly embedded in the administration's usual politically correct spin.

The U.S. is even more inept in dealing with the Islamic State. That terrorist virus, too, could have been contained, had we kept some peacekeepers in the mostly quiet Iraq of 2011.

But once again politics, not strategic logic, explains why the administration pulled all troops out of Iraq — a recklessness that turned up as 2012 campaign talking point.

The stock market is wobbly, and for good reason. A record number of Americans have dropped out of the workforce. The quiver of traditional priming — zero interest rates, massive deficit spending, huge government stimulus — is now empty. Yet the economy remains weak.

Six years of piling up more debt, raising taxes, issuing more regulations, perpetuating deficits, slashing defense, expanding social programs and creating vast new bureaucracies have only stifled economic growth. Barack Obama has no interest in trying something other than boilerplate Keynesian borrowing.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is portrayed around the world as a merciless tiger, while Obama is caricatured as a frail kitten. Much of Eastern Europe, once pro-West, is now lining up with Putin. They cut deals with Russia rather than be left high and dry by a sermonizing but otherwise appeasing West.

Once-unimpeachable federal agencies now appear as 19th-century tribal fiefdoms.

No one much trusts the IRS anymore. Partisan politics seem to determine whether Americans are audited. The Department of Veterans Affairs covered up callous — and occasionally lethal — treatment of scores of hospitalized veterans.

The National Security Agency lied about monitoring the communications of average Americans. Almost nothing in Obama's lectures about the new unaffordable Affordable Care Act proved accurate.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot come clean about the nation's utter lack of border enforcement with Mexico. The once-hallowed Secret Service seems incompetent and scandal-ridden.

Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department has picked and chosen which laws to enforce largely out of partisan considerations. NASA is hardly recognizable. Its director said that a main priority for the agency was not our continued reliance on Vladimir Putin's space rockets, but Muslim outreach.

Even the Patent and Trade Office hounded the Washington Redskins about their supposedly politically incorrect logo by canceling the team's trademark registration.

Whether the Obama administration shuts down U.S. travel to and from a foreign airport is not predicated on national security threats but political correctness. Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv not that long ago was put off limits to U.S. airlines despite offering far less hazard to Americans than the connecting flights to the airport in Monrovia, Liberia.

The new Ebola czar, Ron Klain — the former Fannie Mae lobbyist who was also knee-deep in the Solyndra controversy — has no health care experience, much less any experience with epidemics. He was picked only because he is a veteran partisan brawler who understands that the Obama administration sees Ebola as more of a political liability than a health challenge.

The administration is waging a halfhearted effort to destroy the Islamic State because Obama has in the past damned such preemptive bombing in the Middle East. Now, an embarrassed White House relies on the Bush administration's 2002 military authorizations to use the sort of force in the Middle East that he used to decry.

Russia is ascendant largely because of the State Department's loud boast of resetting the Bush-administration punishments of Putin's past aggressions.

The Obama administration sees government agencies as political tools to further its agenda, as we have seen with NASA's new Muslim outreach, the IRS' hounding of conservative nonprofit groups and the patent office's antagonizing of the Washington Redskins.

The October missiles of 1962 were never launched, but the crisis still forced JFK to adopt a new realism about the Soviet Union.

In contrast, for Obama to meet these current October threats head-on, he first would have to admit they were largely self-created.

Russain view point

Why can't other newspapers see our Country's problems?

America's 'Useful Idiots' Are Just Like Those In USSR Tue, Aug 06 2013 00:00:00 E A15_ISSUES

By Svetlana Kunin

Posted 08/05/2013 06:44 PM ET

'We have overthrown capitalism," dictator Joseph Stalin declared in a February 1931 speech to the First All-Union Conference of Leading Personnel of Socialist Industry.

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"We have seized power. We have built up a mighty socialist industry. We have transferred the middle peasants on to the path of socialism. We have already accomplished what is most important from the point of view of construction.

"Not much is left to do; to gain technique, to master science. And when this is achieved, our pace shall become such as we dare not even dream of at present."

Sixty years later, the world witnessed the collapse of one of the first socialist economies: that of the Soviet Union.

It's hard to believe that 100 years after the real-life test and failure of the Marxist theory of class warfare, collectivism and central planning, the American people are still buying into this tired ideology, with its superficial and primitive slogans.

Five years into the "we are all in this together" world of Barack Obama, low-income children continue to attend failing schools, bad teachers cannot be fired, jobs are disappearing, insurance premiums are rising, the IRS is oppressing opposition, the media repeat government talking points, government is snooping on citizens and investigating journalists, and the poor are stuck in poverty.

When Choice Is Lost

The United States is getting weaker on all fronts. The only power this administration is gaining is over the American citizens.

The tremendous efforts the Obama administration put into the Zimmerman trial to prove America is racist ended in fiasco. But citizens should not unwind with relief.

Soviet Communists successfully practiced ethnic incitement to redirect disillusion and anger. Prejudices are present all over the world. But when government is involved in a business of incitement of racism and chauvinism, people are in mortal danger.

Living in the USSR for the first 30 years of my life, I have met many people who didn't believe that socialist government was responsible for their misery. The founder of the USSR, Vladimir Lenin, called such people "rotten intelligentsia."

In the USSR, I didn't quite understand this characterization. Only when I emigrated to the USA did I understand the difference between freedom and dictatorship. It can be characterized by one word: "dignity."

When human beings are losing their ability to choose, they lose their dignity. The less choice they have, the more dignity they lose. Once frightened into submission and conformity, the "rotten intelligentsia" no longer represents any danger to the power of dictatorship.

Today in the U.S., I meet people who live in freedom and comfort but believe that the country should be transformed into a dictatorship of the government.

Full of slavish admiration for power, brainwashed by Marxist propaganda and ignorant of history, some of them, such as commentator Thomas Freidman, admire the Chinese system of government. Others, many of them from Hollywood, don't see any problems with the regimes in Cuba or Venezuela.

They demonize role models such as Clarence Thomas or Dr. Ben Carson, and glamorize Al Sharpton. They ignore independent thinkers such as Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams and other brilliant, accomplished individuals. Instead, they inflame racial grievances.

Assisting The Totalitarians

How ironic that the majority of Google employees, working for a company co-founded by the son of Soviet immigrants, support the transformation of free people into servants of the government.

The company's chairman, Eric Schmidt, understood that Barack Obama needed more time to subordinate American people and was therefore very active in the president's re-election. I guess Mr. Schmidt liked what he saw in North Korea.

American liberals and progressives do not pose any danger to totalitarian government; they are eager to assist in its oppression. I must give Lenin credit for understanding the psychology of such people.

Preoccupied with their personal image and status, indifferent to individual freedoms and void of any strong moral values, American progressives and liberals are the same people Lenin defined as "rotten intelligentsia."

Former card-carrying communists are the new Russian oligarchs. They can see through the Obama administration and the rest of American progressives. They were useful to Soviet Communists in the middle of last century; today, they are no longer useful.

Russians lived through all the slogans and actions of class warfare, fairness and equality. They were part of a centralized government and know too well how it works and how it ends.

• Kunin lived in the Soviet Union until 1980, working as a civil engineer. She is now a retired software developer living in Connecticut. This is the 30th column in her "Perspectives Of A Russian Immigrant" series, all of which can be found at ibdeditorials.com.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Government burden on our economy

How Washington Widens Gap Between The Rich And Poor

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By SCOTT S. POWELL

Posted 10/20/2014 06:03 PM ET

Critics of growing inequality who blame the market for distributing wealth unfairly and rewarding the rich at the neglect of the poor have it partially correct.
Everyone knows that in competitive markets, as in sports and academics, outcomes are not equal. The problem of flagging upward mobility is rooted in subpar economic growth and lackluster creation of the specific kind of job that leads to more and better opportunity.
Those who think government should fix this problem need to first recognize that Washington's current trajectory of regulatory and monetary policies has crimped economic growth and widened the gap between rich and poor.
While hidden, the costs of federal government regulations are now estimated at about $1.9 trillion annually — more than 11% of GDP and more than 50% of federal government spending. Which is to say that the real cost of the U.S. federal government is half again as much of the $3.6 trillion it actually spends, or almost a third of the nation's $17 trillion GDP.
The burden on the private economy is greater than official numbers suggest, and the costs of regulation are passed on to the consumer in higher prices.
The enormous hidden costs of regulation have been studied by John W. Dawson and John J. Seater in the Journal of Economic Growth. Their examination of the escalation of regulations, as documented in Federal Register since 1949, suggests that economic growth in the U.S. may have been reduced by as much as 2% annually.
Without that drag, the U.S. could be producing over $50 trillion in goods and services instead of its current $17 trillion, and average household monthly income could be four to six times its current $4,400.
Three basics about regulation, politics and the economy must be understood.
First, politicians perceive crises as opportunities to grandstand with supposed legislative fixes. But since new laws rarely fix the purported problems, politicians shift responsibility of their laws' rulemaking to unelected, unaccountable agency bureaucrats.
Second, regulatory costs are more burdensome for small firms than large enterprises.
Third, small companies create most new jobs.
Three major regulatory laws have expanded bureaucratic intrusion the most, having come about with the last two financial crisis-recessions and with restructuring 17% of the economy in health care reform.
The Sarbanes-Oxley law of 2002 was passed in response to the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the failure of Enron and WorldCom, which collapsed into bankruptcy due to fraudulent accounting practices. The SOX law, as it came to be known, created a daunting auditing regime imposed on every area of operations of all publicly listed companies on U.S. exchanges.
It added a minimum of $2 million to annual company costs, which was disproportionately more costly for small public companies and discouraged dynamic private companies from ramping up for IPO funding and stock exchange listing.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was passed in response to the 2008 financial collapse. Although failing to fix either "too big to fail" or the Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac duopoly, it did bring unprecedented expansion of power from Washington, rearranging the entire bank and financial-service regulatory chessboard — empowering new agencies and unelected bureaucrats to rewrite some 400 rules.
Four years later, nearly half those rules remain unfinalized, with 96 of the required rules — 24% of the total designated — neglected.
Like SOX, Dodd-Frank created enormous and prolonged regulatory uncertainty — prompting banks and financial institutions to shift resources and manpower to compliance, lawsuit defense and risk aversion, and away from loan origination and business.
On the heels of Dodd-Frank, President Obama and his party pushed through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — further expanding Washington's power in the guise of extending social welfare entitlements to provide health care for all. Turns out that ObamaCare and SOX have similar effects — causing small enterprises to limit growth and cap full-time employees to 49 to avoid costs of mandated health care coverage.
These three laws and their attendant regulatory expansion may have crimped more than 2% growth annually from the present recovery — thwarting both job gains and wage increases in unprecedented ways for average Americans.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve's zero-interest-rate policy of the last five years has made the affluent wealthier, driving liquidity into stocks and hard assets — lifting prices to levels unwarranted by underlying normalized fundamentals. Here's how it works:
Most public companies reward highly paid executives with stock options and restricted stock, which create incentive to increase their company's stock price by boosting earnings. Even without top-line growth, management can increase per-share earnings through stock buybacks using corporate cash or issuing debt at cheap rates, courtesy of the Fed.
Fed-engineered money creation and low interest rates have helped create a stock market casino, prompting more and more companies to go all in with enlarged stock buyback programs to goose per-share earnings and elevate stock prices — wealth through financial engineering rather than increased productivity.
Artificially low interest rates have been equally beneficial for real estate investors, providing leverage to propel prices and transactions in an upward trajectory.
While the Fed says its policies have kept consumer prices in check for the working class, the real benefit has been inflating asset prices in the portfolios of the rich. Call them the 1% or the 2%, the rich are getting richer, courtesy of the ruling class in Washington, elected in large part by voters who have been fooled and left behind.
• Powell is senior fellow at Discovery Institute in Seattle and managing partner at RemingtonRand LLC.

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Is all Politics local? Not when judges are in Obama's Control

Thomas Sowell

Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill once said, "All politics is local." That may have been true in Tip O'Neill's day, but some elections are decisively on national issues — and the congressional elections this year are overwhelmingly national, just as the elections of 1860 were dominated by one national issue, namely slavery.
In 1860, some abolitionists split the anti-slavery vote by running their own candidate — who had no chance of winning — instead of supporting Abraham Lincoln, who was not pure enough for some abolitionists.
Lincoln got just 40% of the vote, though that turned out to be enough to win in a crowded field. But what a gamble with the fate of millions of human beings held as slaves! And for what? Symbolic political purity?
This year as well, there are third-party candidates complicating elections that can decide the fate of this nation for years to come. No candidate that irresponsible deserves any vote.
With all the cross-currents of political controversies raging today, what is the overriding national issue that makes this year's congressional elections so crucial?
That issue is whether, despite all the lawless edicts of President Obama, threatening one-man rule, we can still salvage enough of the Constitution to remain a free, democratic nation.
The 'Gift' That Keeps Giving
Barack Obama will be on his way out in two years, but if he can appoint enough federal judges who share his contempt for the Constitution's limits on federal government power in general, and presidential powers in particular, then the United States of America can continue on the path to becoming another banana republic, even after Obama has left the White House.
Obama understands how high the stakes are, which is why he is out fundraising all across the country — seemingly all the time — even though he has no more elections to face himself.
Obama came to power saying that he was going to fundamentally change the United States of America — and he intends to do it, even after he is gone, by giving lifetime appointments as federal judges to people who share his view that this country's institutions and values are fundamentally wrong, and need to be scrapped and replaced by his far-left vision.
If only Obama's critics and opponents understood this momentous issue as clearly as he does! The issue is whether "we the people," as designated by the Constitution, continue free to live our own lives as we see fit, and to determine what laws and policies we want to live under.

Writing from Victor Davis Hansen- Important viewpoint!

Obama Follows French Revolution To Transform America

At the end of the 18th century, there were two great Western revolutions — the American and the French.

Americans opted for the freedom of the individual and divinely endowed absolute rights and values.

A quite different French version sought equality of result. French firebrands saw laws less as absolute, but instead as useful to the degree that they contributed to supposed social justice and coerced redistribution.

They ended up not with a Bill of Rights and separation of powers, but instead with mass executions and Napoleonic tyranny.

Unfortunately, the Obama administration is following more the French model than the American...

Read the entire article at Conservative Fifty-Plus Alliance

Monday, October 13, 2014

VOTING AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY

2012 we saw the election go to Obama. Most of our Tea Party Compatriots did not have a warm feeling about Romney many stayed home and did not vote. The better choice than Obama did not get elected and we stuck to our principles.
We are now at a point wherein the Democrats could lose control of the Senate.
We might have a situation similar to 2012. If we stick to our principles and some large number stay at home the Democrats could sweep to maintaining control of the Senate. Many people do not realize the a third of the Senate is up for grabs every two years. We can not wait another two years to dethrone Harry Reid. It is also important that we attempt to dethrone the D Party in our states and local governments.

I am not urging we move away from conservative views. An alternative could be vote by write in a conservative's name. This continues our problems and would give the control back to the Democrats.

Another option is contact the candidates by letter, telegram, E-mail, or in person . Tell them strongly that the only reason you will vote for them is if they adopt conservative principles. Plead with them to become openly right win; become bravely conservative.

Friday, October 10, 2014

Ebola Yes, Bagpipes No

by Mark Steyn Steyn on America (full article here)

October 4, 2014 US Customs & Border Protection agents prepare to pat down a Canadian tourist discovered with a chocolate egg in his pocket

In Texas the now deceased Thomas Eric Duncan has the distinction of being America's Patient Zero - the first but not the last person to develop Ebola symptoms in the United States.

Is he a US citizen? No, he's Liberian. Is he a resident of the United States? No, he landed at Washington's Dulles Airport on September 20th, in order to visit his sister and having quit his job in Monrovia a few weeks earlier.

So he's a single unemployed man with relatives in the US and no compelling reason to return to his native land. That alone is supposed to be cause for immigration scrutiny. In addition, visitors from Liberia have the fifth highest "visa overstay rate" in the United States. That's to say, they understand very clearly that all that matters is getting in.

Once you're in, they'll never get you out. And, of course, Liberia is one of the hottest spots of Ebola's West African "hot zone". It's been all over the front pages, except apparently in The US Customs & Border Protection Staff Newsletter, where it rated a solitary "News In Brief" item at the foot of page 37.

Just to give you an example of how hard-assed the boneheads of America's immigration bureaucracy can be when they want to: The legendary Gord Sinclair, longtime news director of CJAD in Montreal, had a ski place near Jay in northern Vermont, and he invited his engineer on the show to come down and visit him.

"What's the purpose of your visit?" asked the agent at the small rural border post. "Oh, just a relaxing weekend at my boss' place," said Gord's colleague affably, and then chortled, "although I don't know if it'll be that relaxing. He'll probably have me out in the yard chopping wood all day." So the immigration agent refused him entry on the grounds that he would be working illegally in the United States.

(Read the full article here.)

Friday, October 3, 2014

He means what he says, and he says what he means. (?!?!)

Clips of Obama taking credit

for ending the war in Iraq,

1 minute, 40 seconds:
Or better click on

Click here: (25) David Slossberg