Dorothy,
Thank you, for your earlier letter, though I cannot fathom the reason you felt it was necessary.
You wrote from your heart on a matter of grave consequent: the belief that this country is involved in a momentous struggle for its very identity marks you as a true patriot.
Your comments called to mind that great orator and statesman Barry Goldwater, who said in his acceptance speech at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco: "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Now, I was too young then to have witnessed the speech, and I am ashamed to say that I had not read it until this evening, but I would encourage you to read it. It can be found here. (Cut and paste it into your browser if you are unable to click on the link)
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Extremism_in_the_Defense_of_Liberty_Is_No_Vice
This speech furthered my resolve and encouraged me to continue to struggle for liberty in the face of this massive government intrusion into our lives. The speech brought to mind the words of the father of this country who said in a letter to James Madison, "No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was ever more clouded than the present. Wisdom and good example are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm," George Washington to James Madison, 1786.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
And The People Shall Lead...
When all else fails, look to the people.
Voters in Virginia today cast-off the rule of big-government and instead opted for the rarefied air which comes with liberty and personal responsibility.
Only 8 months of his term is finished and the vote in Virginia signals a mood-shift in America. Gone are the wide-eyed, gape-mouthed millions who swooned at the feet of the first black man elected president of this Great Country. Reality sets in.
With a projected deficit of $1.4 T(!)rillion dollars is the Obama administration beginning to see the folly of its elaborate expenditures? Not really. The promise of "Hope" and "Change" may be turning into the reality of despair and deficit, but Obama and his three dogs, Reid, Pelosi and Hoyer, continue to think if they can spend enough of the people's money their legacy will be secure. Together this quatrain of liberal liars have told us that they are for changing the way Washington does business. Despite the fact that pundits like Michelle Malkin have shown us that The Four Horesemen of Decay are really about the rotten business-as-usual of corruption on a much grander scale.
Today we send a message to this democratic cabal: if you don't change your profligate ways you will be out on your collective keesters in 2010, 2012 and 2014. Count on it!
Voters in Virginia today cast-off the rule of big-government and instead opted for the rarefied air which comes with liberty and personal responsibility.
Only 8 months of his term is finished and the vote in Virginia signals a mood-shift in America. Gone are the wide-eyed, gape-mouthed millions who swooned at the feet of the first black man elected president of this Great Country. Reality sets in.
With a projected deficit of $1.4 T(!)rillion dollars is the Obama administration beginning to see the folly of its elaborate expenditures? Not really. The promise of "Hope" and "Change" may be turning into the reality of despair and deficit, but Obama and his three dogs, Reid, Pelosi and Hoyer, continue to think if they can spend enough of the people's money their legacy will be secure. Together this quatrain of liberal liars have told us that they are for changing the way Washington does business. Despite the fact that pundits like Michelle Malkin have shown us that The Four Horesemen of Decay are really about the rotten business-as-usual of corruption on a much grander scale.
Today we send a message to this democratic cabal: if you don't change your profligate ways you will be out on your collective keesters in 2010, 2012 and 2014. Count on it!
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Disappearing America
"A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking." -- James Madison, letter to William Hunter, 1790 (as quoted in today's Patriot Post website)
The citizenry of this country (a country made up by a whole bunch of 'you's and 'I's) have allowed themselves to slip further and further from the ideals expressed in the above sentiment by James Madison. Today our elected officials are less concerned with representing our interests than they are with securing another term in the office to which they were elected.
Many friends have told me that our current political system is a good political system. But I disagree.
Where are the moral values which were inherent in the founding principles of our Constitution?
Where are the guarantees to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" promised by our Declaration of Independence?
What is it that compels our representatives to vote for legislation that is counter-productive to the commonweal?
Our country wallows in the corpulent mire created by our own successes. We are surrendering our best technology to others in order that they can produce the same goods and sell them back to us at a discounted price. But with the purchase we too late realize the inferior quality of the goods, shrug it off, discard the item, and buy another. Ah, the luxury of a disposable society.
Einstein once said that it was luncacy to continue employing the same methodology and expect a different result. Well it is time we applied Einstein's logic to our own politcal situation and throw thosee bums out of Washington DC! And I mean a clean sweep of congress in 2010!
It may sound extreme, but even the good legislators will need to go if we are to reclaim the country for our children. An oncologist will tell you that you will risk a cancer's return if you only remove the damaged portion of the tissue. Some of the surrounding good tissue must be removed to ensure that you have removed all the cancer.
Our representatives and our president do us no favors with their current legislative activities, and I say enough is enough! We brought you into this town, and by God we can kick you out of this town!
Act locally in this election cycle, and your actions will have national consequences!
The citizenry of this country (a country made up by a whole bunch of 'you's and 'I's) have allowed themselves to slip further and further from the ideals expressed in the above sentiment by James Madison. Today our elected officials are less concerned with representing our interests than they are with securing another term in the office to which they were elected.
Many friends have told me that our current political system is a good political system. But I disagree.
Where are the moral values which were inherent in the founding principles of our Constitution?
Where are the guarantees to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" promised by our Declaration of Independence?
What is it that compels our representatives to vote for legislation that is counter-productive to the commonweal?
Our country wallows in the corpulent mire created by our own successes. We are surrendering our best technology to others in order that they can produce the same goods and sell them back to us at a discounted price. But with the purchase we too late realize the inferior quality of the goods, shrug it off, discard the item, and buy another. Ah, the luxury of a disposable society.
Einstein once said that it was luncacy to continue employing the same methodology and expect a different result. Well it is time we applied Einstein's logic to our own politcal situation and throw thosee bums out of Washington DC! And I mean a clean sweep of congress in 2010!
It may sound extreme, but even the good legislators will need to go if we are to reclaim the country for our children. An oncologist will tell you that you will risk a cancer's return if you only remove the damaged portion of the tissue. Some of the surrounding good tissue must be removed to ensure that you have removed all the cancer.
Our representatives and our president do us no favors with their current legislative activities, and I say enough is enough! We brought you into this town, and by God we can kick you out of this town!
Act locally in this election cycle, and your actions will have national consequences!
Monday, October 5, 2009
The True Ugly American
Fletcher Kneible in his book on Sarkan (a thinly veiled Vietnam), wrote a description of the Ugly American. The book was immensly popular in the late 1950s, but achieved near stellar prominence in the 1960s with America's involvement in South Vietnam. The book was viewed as a catharsis for liberal America, and at the same time a bludgeon with which to beat conservatives. The problem was, Mr. Kneible did not subscribe to the ideology of the left wing nut cases then active in the United States.
Today, we see the left once again trying to destroy the United States by using tactics such as this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/sports/04usoc.html?_r=1
But Americans, whom I am told, at least for the moment make up most of America these days, are not racist! 66 million of them elected the first black president of the United States (unless Bill Clinton claims that title). It is comments like those from Mr. Silva that are racist and, frankly, unimaginative.
Today, we see the left once again trying to destroy the United States by using tactics such as this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/sports/04usoc.html?_r=1
But Americans, whom I am told, at least for the moment make up most of America these days, are not racist! 66 million of them elected the first black president of the United States (unless Bill Clinton claims that title). It is comments like those from Mr. Silva that are racist and, frankly, unimaginative.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Truth We Can Believe In - Not!
All week long the administration has been looking forward to the job-loss numbers, which were posted early this morning. It was only a slight rise, so the spin will go, from 9.7% in August to 9.8% in September.
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE RISES TO 9.8 PERCENT IN SEPTEMBER AS EMPLOYERS CUT 263,000 JOBS
As the White House puffs out its chest and gives us a couple of harumphs for emphasis, the American worker/citizen (is it really a necessary distinction?) will be told that the job loss is a sign that the ecomomic sub-strata is realigning to produce more jobs in the green energy sector, or some other shiboleth they dream up. We will be served the typical Obama pabulum that "good times" are just around the corner. After all, its not 500,000 jobs as it was in May. We've "turned the corner" as it were, veritably staunched the flow of our life force from the body politic. Huzzah!
Oh, thank you, President Obama! I am so relieved. And before this report I thought our country was going to hell in a hand basket. And as Obama trots off to Denmark to give away more American sovereignty to buy, er bring, the Olympics to Chicago, an Afghan woman with a purple stain on her index finger is pointing to the freedom won for her by American lives.
Bull Shit! mr. president! Your stimulus package has not had the positive uptick in the economy precisely because it is government money. Business looks further down the road, further than your feeble Harvard/Yale educated mind can see, to the day when U.S. currency won't even be able to buy the paper it is printed on. When it will take wheel-barrow loads of greenbacks just to buy a loaf of bread. And industry is taking, not giving, mr. president, like the heroin addicted standing in line for free methodone. Taking as much money out of circulation and puting it aside against the day when your socialist agenda will go the way of the dodo bird.
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE RISES TO 9.8 PERCENT IN SEPTEMBER AS EMPLOYERS CUT 263,000 JOBS
As the White House puffs out its chest and gives us a couple of harumphs for emphasis, the American worker/citizen (is it really a necessary distinction?) will be told that the job loss is a sign that the ecomomic sub-strata is realigning to produce more jobs in the green energy sector, or some other shiboleth they dream up. We will be served the typical Obama pabulum that "good times" are just around the corner. After all, its not 500,000 jobs as it was in May. We've "turned the corner" as it were, veritably staunched the flow of our life force from the body politic. Huzzah!
Oh, thank you, President Obama! I am so relieved. And before this report I thought our country was going to hell in a hand basket. And as Obama trots off to Denmark to give away more American sovereignty to buy, er bring, the Olympics to Chicago, an Afghan woman with a purple stain on her index finger is pointing to the freedom won for her by American lives.
Bull Shit! mr. president! Your stimulus package has not had the positive uptick in the economy precisely because it is government money. Business looks further down the road, further than your feeble Harvard/Yale educated mind can see, to the day when U.S. currency won't even be able to buy the paper it is printed on. When it will take wheel-barrow loads of greenbacks just to buy a loaf of bread. And industry is taking, not giving, mr. president, like the heroin addicted standing in line for free methodone. Taking as much money out of circulation and puting it aside against the day when your socialist agenda will go the way of the dodo bird.
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