Supreme Court Expands Power of the Government!

Did I miss something? I thought part of what the Supreme Court was supposed to rule on was the government mandate? Ok so they decided the government could tax you for not doing something! Yes that alone is quite absurd but that’s what Justice Roberts has decided to call the penalty. But I don’t remember seeing anywhere an answer to the primary question before them whether the government can mandate that you buy something?

I must admit out of all the things I’ve heard from the Supreme Court this last decision by Justice Roberts can only be rivaled by the decision which so vastly expanded the commerce clause. He was saying that he didn’t think this would fit under the commerce clause so instead he expanded even more what the government can now do through taxes. This ought be disturbing to anyone that reads this decision yet what the media is focusing on is that at least he gave the right to the states to say no to obeying it, but they still can’t say no to the tax for it which is really all the government needs for real control.

After all who is not going to accept what the government is trying to push on them if they know that they’re going to pay for it anyway? It is for this reason that I don’t see how this is going to help us at all, though I do see how it’s going to expand the ability of the government to shove even more stuff down our throats.

Supposedly Justice Roberts didn’t want to expand the power of the government through the commerce clause. Before they needed you to buy something before they could go after you. They regulated commercial activity, but now they found a way where they don’t even need the commerce clause for control. Now all they have to do is determine to tax you for not doing something and thus force you to do it or face a “penalty tax”

What Justice Roberts called a tax does not fall under any of the taxes authorized in the constitution, but by doing what he did he has now set yet another very BAD precedent that will lead to the congress and the president getting even more power over the people.

Justice Roberts said that if they expanded the commerce clause it would forever change the relationship of the people to the government but what he did instead was give the government even more power than they would have gotten under the commerce clause which is already far more power than the founding fathers ever intended. It only requires that you look at that clause with common sense to see it doesn’t mean what the Supreme Court has determined it means.

This must rate among the 4 biggest government power grabs ever; The decision by the Supreme Court that expanded the power of the commerce clause, social security, Obamacare, and now the decision that you can be taxed for not doing something which also effectively authorized the government mandate.

The truly frightening thing is that even if we change congress and the president we can’t get rid of the Supreme Court Justices fast enough to roll back all the other things they’ve set precedents for.

Far too many people in this nation have been careless in the people they’ve elected and frequently re-elected over and over, thinking those people must be just like us and really want the best for us. What they ought to consider is that if they were really the salt of the earth kind of people they wouldn’t lie so much. We have too readily become complacent with the idea that our leaders are going to lie to us. We also deceive ourselves if we think they are not in it for the power. Most of these people with the possible exception of some of the new Tea Party additions are not to be trusted at all.

This did not happen overnight and we are fooling ourselves if we think it will be fixed overnight or even in just 1 or 2 elections. Things have gotten far worse than most people want to admit.

Christians are under attack as is Christianity. The right to own and BEAR firearms is under attack. Many say the reason for Fast and Furious was as a way to get more laws passed prohibiting the ownership of guns. Freedom of speech is under attack more than ever. It is called political correctness. You are not allowed to criticize or even question Muslims. You are not allowed to disagree with or criticize any people, who are black or Mexican. Yes, your freedom of speech is being curtailed at every turn.

Think you have freedom of religion? Just try and pass out some Christian tracts or hold a bible study in your home and you may find that you are being cited for nothing having some permit… after all you need the government’s permission if you’re actually going to practice your religion… but yes you can still go to church… for now… and because of this I suppose our wonderful leaders think you still have your freedom. They know better, but hope you don’t.

What has any of your representatives done that you think is so great that you just have to have them back in office over and over? Are these really the best 500+ people we could find in the entire country out of 350 million people? Somehow I don’t think so.

We need big changes in this nation and that means we need to get rid of all or most all of the people we currently have. Some of the new people seem to be doers and are actually doing or at least trying to do what they promised. They are certainly not violating their conscience or what they promised to do, they are just being blocked by all the progressives, in BOTH parties that don’t want the status quo to change.

What Kind of Tax

Today Judge Roberts declared seemingly by fiat that the penalty in the Obama bill was really to be considered a tax. Aside from the issue of whether Supreme Court Justices can just rewrite laws as they please the question I have goes to “WHAT KIND OF TAX IS IT?”

According to the constitution congress has the right to levy several kinds of taxes of which this one doesn’t seem to fit under any of those categories. Now if the constitution doesn’t give them the right to just call any penalty a tax then it is still unconstitutional.

You cannot say simply by virtue of the fact that you’ve charge the IRS with collecting some penalty that it therefore must be tax. The IRS is not charged with collecting sales tax but that is a valid tax, but they are charge with the responsibility for the income tax, possibly excise taxes. I don’t see how simply saying that they have been charged with collecting this penalty that it is therefore a tax. Again congress has the right to enact only certain taxes constitutionally and what I want to know is which one this tax falls under?

It seems through most of this situation the concept of the constitution has been mostly lost. Some of the justices were concerned that it might be giving the federal government too much power to put extend the commerce clause any more so instead they vastly increased the power of the government forever through just calling things taxes and thus compelling the American people to buy things by simply putting a universal tax on something you want them to buy and thus they must by it or pay the tax but not get the thing which of course doesn’t make any sense.

Part of the problem as I see it is that there are states saying that they are going to opt out of Obamacare, but this doesn’t work because you still have to pay the tax or the Penalty/tax for it whether you take advantage of the service provided or not. In this Obama and the Democrats were very clever. And though the Justices didn’t really address this issue though I’m sure they think they did, they have thus left open the door for the government to demand that we buy things whether we want them or not and don’t even need the commerce clause to do it. It is not like having your state opt out of Obamacare in any way relieves you of the responsibility of paying your taxes. It seems to me that this would be like some state saying they were going to opt out of social security. They might not take the tax for the social security out of your check each month but come tax time you would still be responsible to pay that tax or pay the penalty. It is because of this that I say this will be implemented no matter what everywhere and on every state regardless if it is not repealed.

My real concern though is the new door the Supreme Court has now opened up through taxing to require all kind of things from the people. As I mentioned above the constitution is quite clear about the taxes that can be enacted against us and at least in this case this penalty/tax fits under none of those things.

It seems far more likely to me that Judge Roberts just didn’t want to spear being partisan in his vote and as a result sold us down the river yet eroding the constitution more. A big part of my concern in all this as has been stated on other occasions is that more and more “constitutional” is now based more on precedent than on the constitution itself. We have gotten very far away from the constitution trusting more to the wisdom of judges that interpret it to mean something than to our own common sense to understand what it means by a plain reading of it.

The constitution was not written for lawyers and judges it was written for the common man and was meant for the common man. Our founding fathers trusted to the common sense and virtue of the people to understand best what the constitution meant and now we are asked to believe that whatever these 9 men say must be write. I heard that almost all day today on the news and I must admit after a while it gets frustrating.

I keep hoping that maybe we’ll get judges in there that are more concerned with the construction of the constitution and what was intended instead of just what it might mean. Based on the latter I can make almost anything a person says mean something other than what they wanted it to mean. I would go so far as to say that I would defy even the best linguist or lawyer to say or write anything that could not be taken at least 2 ways and more likely even more than that. But if you were to look at what they said honestly in the light of the subject matter being discussed at the time it was said it would certainly be easy to determine what they meant. It then simply becomes a matter of where you want to abide with what they meant or make something up so you can do what you want.

Supreme Court Insanity

For some reason we tend to think of those in the Supreme Court as being intelligent and the font of common sense, but the contortions one has to go through to justify some of the things they say is amazing. Consider the Supreme Court ruling that opened the doors wide to give the federal government the ability to regulate virtually any commerce whether interstate or not. It centered on a man growing wheat on his own land for himself. Well of course this would affect interstate commerce if everyone decided to grow their own wheat and then didn’t need to buy any more wheat at all.

Now they say that you can’t stop an illegal immigrant from seeking employment. Now what kind of sense does this make? None! Any person with common sense can see how absurd this is, but I’m sure they have some ridiculous explanation for why this should be allowed. If they are here illegally then how are they protected in searching for a job? If they are not allowed to be here then how are they allowed to seek employed in a place they’re not even allowed to be?

Who knows maybe they are thinking about children of illegals. Maybe they are thinking that because the kids didn’t decide to break the law that therefore the law doesn’t really apply to them.

I can’t help but wonder what kind of decision they’re going to pass down on the Obama care situation. I can’t help but wonder if they won’t TRY to find at least something in it that should be sustained. At this point they ought to just strike the whole thing down and let the congress go back to work on doing something that is constitutional.

They have so expanded the commerce clause in the constitution that it would be hard for them not to allow it. Part of the problem is that they no longer look strictly at the constitution, now precedent is more important that the constitution itself. The Supreme Court is immune to what the people think. It is understandable this is so because they don’t want them making their decisions being based on whether they can get back in their office, but at the same time this is not a good thing because they can make decisions that will affect us for sometimes generations to come and there is nothing we can do about it. Once they make a ruling there is really no chance of overturning it. This is a good thing in the light of defending and protecting the constitution, but it’s also not a good thing in the light that if they don’t defend it but instead warp it there is nothing you can do about it.

It was interesting listening to some of what they wrote about their decisions and sadly it was more about how they felt for the poor illegal immigrants and their plight than it was about the constitution. Their job is to determine constitutionality based on the constitution not based on how they feel for the people that may be affected by that constitution or the laws of the land. This is part of the problem is that judges and especially the Supreme Court seems to have lost sight of strict adherence to the constitution. They are more than willing to stretch the meaning of any passage they find in much the same way that lawyers do rather than look for the actual meaning or intent of the founding fathers.

This is how we ended up with such an expanded view of the commerce clause. It is equally sad I feel that out of all the people we have in this great nation that these are really the best 9 people we could find to be the top judges of the land? Something is seriously wrong with that.

It should not be a comfort but a great concern when something like the 2^nd Amendment gets upheld only 5-4 by the Supreme Court! We should simply be gland that it was upheld but we should seriously be questioning what was wrong with the 4 people that voted against it!

All the Things Republicans, Democrats and the Media are Afraid to Say

1.      Obama is a Muslim.

On occasion the idea that Obama is a Muslim or was a Muslim has been put forward and of course the media has immediately rejected it as though it was the “birther” issue. They behave as though it were simply some conspiracy thing. Aaron Klein in his book The Amateur has it on record that Obama at least at one point was a Muslim and again that Reverend Wright was not even sure that he ever converted to Christianity. Yet this is another thing that not one of the media can now report on because it will only reflect on their lack of research and honest reporting since the Obama regime began.

Anything even the slightest bit kooky sounding was rejected out of hand without even looking into it. It is no wonder that this would now be such an embarrassment to the media that they dared not report on it no matter how much more evidence comes out. This same thing has happened with the Obama birth certificate, and the fact that he was and most probably still is a socialist.

I disagree with Klein in one respect though. Obama knows exactly what he’s doing and knows exactly how to get it done. He has used congress when it was convenient and has bypassed them when it was not. He cares nothing for the constitution and has found that at least as far as congress goes, they don’t care to defend it either. He is so confident of his power and what he can get away with that he continues to do it and still has the media so busy chasing its tail that they never have the time (not that they have the inclination) to do any serious in depth investigative reporting on Obama. So many of the issues are big issues but just as they begin to pursue them another one pops up and then they are on to the newest shiny object.  For examples consider, his new Immigration policy, Fast and Furious, Executive Privilege, the Sandra Fluke store, connections with Bill Ayers, Reverend Write, His membership in the New Party (socialism), Van Jones, The Czars, Appointments to cabinet positions when congress was still in session (without a word from congress on that) This is just a short list. Obama is such a moving target it’s hard to nail him down on anything because he’ll just do or say something else that becomes the newest thing.

2.      Obama is a socialist

Even though they now have the actual copies of his membership in the New Party as well as promises of mutual support, not to mention is own admission of seeking out Marxists and communists while in college, still the media and the Republicans and Democrats are afraid to say anything about this. If you look at the many czars and cabinet members he’s selected they are among the most radical people he could find and yet the media, the Republicans and the Democrats have remained silent about them.

For some reason far too many people are afraid to call a spade a spade. Now even though that’s an old but common saying I’m sure that will be taken as something racial because this is another dirty secret that no one will talk about. To Obama and his supporters everything comes down to race if you disagree with him.

The media is petrified to address false racism charges; even when it’s clear to anyone with common sense that a situation is not really racist still we defend against it instead of simply ridiculing the charge as it deserves.

The media, including Fox News is afraid to report things such as the following:

“The deforestation that’s evident here in Brazil should be discouraged and reversed … these are real environmental concerns. But these concerns were not talked about here at this conference,” Monckton revealed. “Instead, they were still effectively talking about a mechanism for setting up a global government so that they can shut down the West, shut down democracy and bring freedom to an end worldwide.”

Though credentialed for the conference through his connections with SPPI, Monckton says he was barred from many of the gathering’s meetings. Nonetheless, he said, he was able to get a team of “spies” into a meeting of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, or ICLEI, preceding the main conference.

ICLEI works to implement through state and local governments the U.N.’s “Agenda 21″ from its first Rio de Janeiro conference in 1992.

Monckton recited what his spies discovered of the ICLEI members: “They were saying to each other, ‘We can no longer talk about Agenda 21 in the context of the environment because the environment, thanks to those dirty skeptics, has become a dirty word. … We won’t be able to win the argument if we talk about the environment anymore. We can’t talk about climate change because even we have to admit it’s not happening as they said. We can’t talk about green issues, because, frankly, in the West the environment is largely quite well regulated altogether, and it’s just been vastly overblown.’ (taken from SPIES AT U.N. 'GREEN' CONFAB EXPOSE RED AGENDA http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/spies-at-u-n-green-confab-expose-red-agenda/ )

No matter how many laws the president ignores, breaks or makes up still the media and the congress remain silent. It is as though their oath to defend the constitution is as hollow as that of our president. The congress has become a nearly useless wing of the government. I wonder that they being power hungry people as much as the president who love parading around as the most important men of the whole world are so willing to give up their power and become little more than figureheads.

I suppose in part it is the do nothing congress that is afraid to do their jobs we have to thank for this mess. In many respects they even add to it. We desperately need a congress filled with men and women who are not afraid to do their jobs.

If nothing else you can say this. The Tea Party is not content to just have representatives who call themselves conservatives or republicans in congress. They want people who are going to do something. This is something the democrats have had for a long time. Democrats, socialists, progressives or whatever you wish to call them have all been very activist in bringing out their positions. Yes, this has been to the detriment of the nation, but at least you can say they are committed and determined to get their agenda done. At the best the most you can say about most republicans and conservatives in congress is that they have been content to slow the process down, but they are almost completely inept at actually getting their own agenda put forward. 

High Crimes and Misdemeanors

It is always good to start with definitions when dealing with subjects like this. So let’s start there and then see if any of Obama’s actions would qualify. Please remember it doesn’t take repeat offenses, any more than any other law does. If you’ve done it then the consequences apply. I took the following from Wikipedia.

The charge of high crimes and misdemeanors covers allegations of misconduct peculiar to officials, such as perjury of oath, abuse of authority, bribery, intimidation, misuse of assets, failure to supervise, dereliction of duty, conduct unbecoming, and refusal to obey a lawful order. Offenses by officials also include ordinary crimes, but perhaps with different standards of proof and punishment than for nonofficials, on the grounds that more is expected of officials by their oaths of office.

Let’s take a look at each of these and see if we can find any cases where these would apply?

Compliance with Congress

We have already on several Occasions where Eric Holder has said one thing under oath and then said something else; yet it has taken more than 18 months for a contempt of congress vote to happen. What is the matter with these people? Oh gee, we don’t want to cause a ruckus. WHAT ABOUT YOUR JOB!!! Perjury of Oath, refusal to Obey a Lawful Order.

Fast and Furious

The Fast and Furious gun running in general falls under at least several categories: abuse of authority, misuse of assets, failure to supervise, dereliction of duty, conduct unbecoming.

Defense of Marriage Act

Refusal by the president to uphold the Defense of Marriage Act: Abuse of Authority, intimidation, dereliction of duty, refusal to obey a lawful order.

Solyndra

Bribery?, Misuse of Assets,

New Immigration Policy

Abuse of Authority, Intimidation, Refusal to Obey a Lawful Order

Auto Bailout

Investors pushed to the back of the line when it comes to the bankruptcy. Abuse of Authority, misuse of assets, failure to supervise, Refusal to Obey a Lawful Order.

You may wonder why I keep saying refusal to obey a lawful order on so many of these, but that is because there are already laws on the books regarding what is to be done and this administration seems to think they don’t need to obey the law. If they don’t like it they just don’t obey it and declare by executive order that they don’t need to. One of the chief jobs of the executive branch is to enforce the laws.

Arizona Immigration Issues

In the case of Arizona the president through the Attorney General has not only determined not to enforce or help enforce the immigration law, but he has even made sure they are sued over it. He is now preventing the federal government from giving them any assistance in identifying illegal immigrants thus gutting the rest of what the Supreme Court would not.

His job is to support the immigration laws and defend the United States against enemies both foreign and domestic. This insurgence of illegal immigrants would seem to fall under this category and yet the president refuses to do anything about it. On what basis is this being done? The only basis that seems to apply is that he disagrees with it and it’s not politically expedient. So again we have Abuse of authority, intimidation, misuse of assets and refusal to obey the law.

Cabinet Appointments

Obama decides to make several cabinet appointments simply declaring that congress is out of session when they’re not. This is a violation of the constitution which he swore to uphold and defend. Abuse of Authority, Intimidation, Refusal to Obey a Lawful Order.

On the part of Congress we might also say it was Dereliction of Duty. They should have confronted the president about it and made him take back his appointments but again they just let it stand thus eroding their constitutional responsibilities and rights even further. For this all of congress should be held responsible for high crimes and misdemeanors. If they are not willing to faithfully do the jobs we sent them there to do then they need to be put out of office immediately. They have a job to do and they do answer to the American people or at least they are supposed to.

At what point do a president’s decisions become high crimes and misdemeanors? At what point will the congress decide to stand up and assume the power it has as the 3^rd branch of government? It would seem the congress doesn’t think they have any power to stop the president. If they do know they have power they are certainly too afraid to exercise it.

Obama has selectively applied laws or not as he pleases. He has bypassed congress and created his own immigration law, something the executive branch is not allowed to do. He has determined not to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act and the list goes on. Whether the reason is for political purposes or the more simple power grab and seeing just how far congress will let him go doesn’t really matter. When he determined to rewrite immigration law on his own every said it was just because of political reasons like this somehow justifies it, or as though this means there’s nothing congress or anyone else can do about.

As I said in the title… What are high crimes and misdemeanors and at what point do the things Obama’s doing warrant such a charge. You would think he had to murder someone before it qualified for a high crime. Is this really what the founders thought?

At what point is enough, enough?! Does he need to commit 100 of these high crimes and misdemeanors? He is DETERMINED to ignore the constitution, and we are RELUCTANT to enforce it. What are people afraid of, that he’ll say they’re doing it because they’re racists? Isn’t this getting just a little bit old? Right out of the gate it’s clear that’s not the case or he wouldn’t have been elected president in the first place; so please let’s dispense with that tired cliché.

These are only a few examples of issues that have happened with this president and still our congress is intimidated to do anything. These were considered impeachable offenses by the founding fathers. Consider the words of Thomas Jefferson below…

I have spoken of the Federalists as if they were a homogeneous body, but this not the truth. Under that name lurks the heretical sect of monarchists. Afraid to wear their own name, they creep under the mantle of Federalism, and the Federalists, like sheep permit the fox to take shelter among them, when pursued by dogs.

These men have no right to office. If a monarchist be in office, anywhere, and it be known to the president, the oath he has taken to support the Constitution imperiously requires the instantaneous dismission of such office; and I hold the President criminal if he permitted such to remain. To appoint a monarchist to conduct the affairs of a republic, is like appointing an atheist to the priesthood. (Thomas Jefferson - From a newspaper letter, June 1803, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson 10 Vols. [New York; G.P. Putnam's Sons 1892-1899 8:237)

Yet we now have a man who is a Marxist/socialist as our president and everyone seems to feel that he has a right to his political views. The point of Thomas Jefferson’s writing was that someone opposed to the constitution had no right in office, ANY OFFICE and certainly it was grounds to get him out of the presidency.

So where is congress!!!!

Obama’s Ongoing Shell Game

Obama simply must be the master of shell games. He plays them better than anyone else. It is now coming out that much of the stuff in his autobiography were lies and fabrications.

Let’s take a look at the latest in a series of ongoing shell games. They pop so fast they’re impossible to keep up with. Just as the media starts to focus on one and tries to get to the bottom of it, another comes up… then they leap at that one, only to find yet another coming up. This has been continuing for months now and because the media doesn’t care to follow anything for more than a couple of days He gets away with much of what he’s doing.

We don’t even hear about the unconstitutional creation of a new law by Obama through executive order regarding immigration. Now we’re onto the news of executive privilege. Before that we had Sandra Fluke, the war on Catholics, his war on Arizona through his chief enforcer Eric Holder, his war now on Florida, again through holder, and the list goes on and on, but within a week or so each of those gets forgotten except for by those being affected, but they of course don’t receive any coverage.

Obama simply must be the best man at playing the shell game that I’ve ever seen in politics. He goes from crisis to crisis, each one created by him. He does this as a constant distraction. He of course has much of the media running interference and knows that the few remaining that aren’t advocates for him won’t be able to keep up. He thoroughly understands the News’ proclivity toward whatever is new fresh and exciting and this is just what he has mastered. No matter how outrageous his offense it gets forgotten in the light of each new one.

If nothing else it is a sure thing that this is a new strategy never employed on such a scale in any other presidency. Though he is constantly on the hot seat and constantly has the media hunting for something, he always gives them something else just in time for them to forget what the last thing was and they faithfully do forget what the old thing was.

He is a master in the way he plays the media. Now he’s extended executive privilege where it may or may not belong, but this doesn’t matter because no doubt he will simply have another thing pop up when this one starts to get too hot.

Before this he didn’t really give the Fast and Furious issue a second though. It has been lagging on for 18 months and looked like this was no chance they would do anything substantial with it till he was either out of office or re-elected and these were the only two concerns he had regarding this issue. The media was putting on some pressure regarding what he did with the immigration so along came an opportunity for another distracting news story not nearly as bad as the constitutional violation he was committing by refusing to uphold the laws of the United States which is his job as the chief executive of the nation.

I’d say I wonder how long the media will let him get away with this, but like Obama they are incapable of changing their habits and Obama is well aware of this

Resolution of Disapproval

Michele Bachmann Says they are getting emails and calls every day for the congress to do something about the power grabs of Obama. Her response today on Greta Van Sustren’s show was that she was drafting a resolution of disapproval. When asked what it actually did, it seems it does nothing substantial it only expresses their disapproval. She and the rest of congress could do that with letters. It holds no more power than do our letters. Does she really think that their disapproval matters to him. So they're going to put their foot down and draft a resolution of disapproval... and then they probably have to vote on this disapproval that does nothing... but at least they're doing "something". What a joke!

We are outraged over his power grabs and seeming disdain for the constitution. She used similar times over and over saying “We’re not going to take it anymore.” And the best she can come up with is a resolution of disapproval.

I think the American people are asking for something more and once again it only goes to show that the congress has no teeth. It’s a roaring lion. It makes a lot of noise but can’t seem to actually do anything to defend the constitution, they all swore to defend and uphold.

We were looking for something with teeth in it. Do something to actually rein him in. Apparently he was right and they really have no idea what to do with someone that just starts taking power from them. They all have seen things work just as they are for so long that they really don’t know what their powers are or what they can do about a president who is running away with power he should not have?

Does Bachmann really think I would care about her disapproval if I were a dictator either domestic or foreign? What I would care about is the congress declaring war or the equivalent thereof. I really don’t think the congress knows how to do more than just right lets and requests. They have no idea how to actually make things happen except against the American people. They sure know how to write laws and put restraints on the American people, but can’t seem to figure out how to rein in the president or judges that are out of control. They behave as though they really don’t know what it means to be the 3rd branch of government.

Much like our president if they don’t like a law they simply don’t obey it and there are no consequences. By law they are supposed to have a budget… but gee, we just can’t seem to get to it. I wonder if that would fly with the IRS? Or if I could just start a business with government money and not have to account for how I was going to spend it or how I had spent it? I wonder if I just used up everything they gave me if I could just demand more and still give no account. This is certainly the attitude they all take… though of course they do write letters and resolutions of disapproval. Oh, SCARY! What a joke

Giving Up Liberty In the Name of Safety

As a people we are rapidly being willing to give up all our freedoms of privacy, except of course where birth control is concerned and that is guarded religiously. We are more than happy to be search when we go to the airport just so we can be safe. We are more than willing to give up our liberty and freedom of movement just so we won’t be attacked. We are happy to give up our liberty rather than go to war, and I mean the kind of war that kills people and shows them you mean business and you’re willing to do what it takes to make sure they don’t attack you anymore. Our founding fathers warned us of this, but here we are almost 200 years later and it seems we are paying them no heed whatever.

We have become a nation of sheep. God forbid we should actually kill people in war except very specific targeted individuals. If we care more about the nation we are at war with than they do then something is seriously wrong with the way we look at war. If most of their population is actually against the “small minority of extremists” then they should certainly be able to help put that minority down in the name of peace in their nation. If they are unwilling to do that then maybe we should consider that they actually do support what the extremists are doing.

Rather than think that way we prefer to think there must be something wrong with us going to war to make sure our people are safe. We are more than happy to relinquish every freedom we have so that we won’t be in danger.

We need to be realistic about Islam the problem is that they too have become another politically correct group in the name of tolerance. The question I would ask is “should we show such tolerance toward those who will not be tolerant of us?” Certainly the politically crowd answers no to this question whenever the issue of Christianity comes up. They will not tolerate prayer to a Christian God in school, but they will install places for foot washing for Muslims in those same schools.

These same politically correct people who wear the veil of tolerance are frequently among the most intolerant people I’ve met.

It is about time that at least some of our representatives are looking into such groups as the Muslim Brotherhood and their involvement in our government. Instead of looking at the citizens of this nation as though we were the ones the United States needs to worry about, we need to start looking at those who wish this nation harm and who refuse to obey the laws of this nation.

It amazes me how often I hear things like “Illegal alien” and law abiding citizen in the same sentence. These things are incompatible on so many levels. If they are illegal then by definition they are not law abiding. Second they are not citizens, they are residents. Whether intentionally or not these people put the fabric of our society at risk. When citizenship no longer means anything neither does loyalty or patriotism. Both of these concepts are worth retaining in any society and we must be careful to hang on to them for all we’re worth or we won’t be worth much as a society.

I have little doubt that we have a fair number of radical Muslims in this nation right now. If the 10% we hear about is even partial correct then there is no reason for us to think that figure is any different simply because they live here in the United States. Just living here does not somehow magically make you loyal to our nation.

The politically correct crowd would have us believe if they are American Muslims that they must be loyal to the United States but this is mere political correctness and a lack of understanding of what is found in the Koran.

"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

Our founding fathers had a great deal of wisdom and we ignore their great wisdom at our own peril.

The Racism of the Left

Ask yourself a couple of questions: Which party is always the first to start screaming racism? When they start throwing the term around has there been any mention of race in any way that would have caused such a charge? If no mention having anything to do with race was used then why is racism assumed and why did it even come up?

I’m sure if we were honest with ourselves we would have to say that it is the Democrat Party that always cries racism first. It can also be demonstrated that in almost every case there has been no mention of the person’s race in which the charge is being leveled. From this it can be reasonable surmised that the ones that are acutely aware of a person’s race are the ones making the charge without the slightest grounds except the person’s color. This being the case, isn’t this the very definition of racism? Who then really are the racists? Who is it that always sees the race of a person as being the primary factor instead of the person and their character first? Again it seems to be the democrats.

Racism is one of the things no person wants to be accused of. The left, and the Democrats in specific know this. They are also quite aware of the endless effort people will put into fighting this charge. This is why it is such a valuable tool in political warfare. But the thing you really ought to focus on is just how much stock the left puts into the color of a man’s skin. It is the first thing they see and for the most part the only thing they see.

I would also say that in their minds they view other races as less than themselves, yet another sign of racism. The reason I say this is because they constantly view other races as needing their constant help as though they certainly couldn’t stand on their own. Think how demeaning this is. It is what some blacks call “plantation mentality”. What this means is that the Democrats are using the same lies that slave owners used over a century ago. “You’ll never amount to anything!” “If it weren’t for us protecting you, you’d have nothing.” Make sure you stay under my protection and say what I want you to say or there will be consequences!” “I’ll make sure you have a roof over your head and you’re taken care of, even if it is a menial lifestyle living on welfare it’s better than nothing.”

All of these things smack of racism to me. You only need to look at Clarence Thomas and other black men of the conservative persuasion. They went off the plantation and the wonderful democrats who are pleading the cause of the down-trodden minorities were all over them like slaves that had run away.

Sadly much like the slaves in our early history many are so afraid of offending their handlers that they will not even stand up for their own people if they leave the plantation. Still the key point people should take away is that where race is concerned it is the Democrats that notice the color of a person’s skin first and foremost. To them it always comes down to the color of a person’s skin, not the strength of their argument, or the cause at hand.

I challenge any person to see if they can find a conservative who started yelling racism first! The reason for this is that in general conservatives don’t tend to think in terms of race at all. Now I’m sure the liberals would be the first to say this is because the conservatives are afraid of having their racism exposed, but once again the first people yelling racism are the liberals and this is what any situation involving a person of color involves. Indeed I wonder sometimes if they even know how to defend a point without using some charge such as racism or war on women or whatever other hate group they can think of. As I mentioned to them the actions of others are always motivated by some form of hate. Again, all I can say is that this comes to mind because they cannot picture people thinking any differently from the way they think. So, what comes to their minds first is probably what’s on their minds.

If anyone should be considered racists it’s those who see everything in terms of race even when race is not mentioned. The very fact that they assume it must be race can only be a reflection of the way they’re thinking works. Some have called this reverse racism, but that’s just a fancy way of avoiding the charge of racism which is favoring one race over another even if it’s your own. It is also assuming that race is more important than the individual which is something else the left is famous for doing.


There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
­ Theodore Roosevelt, speech before the Knights of Columbus, 1915, New York

Presidents or Royal Decree

It would seem that every time you turn around there is something else happening with the Obama campaign. It is hard to imagine how the media has been saying for such a long time that he was such a sure win. All you have to do is look at his record which is abysmal and one he certainly can’t run on to realize just what bad shape he is in.

If a president can’t run on his record then what is the qualification he’s flaunting to tell you why he should be president again? Though Obama has been the prime mover behind much of what has been happening in our country, he has also done the same thing he did as senator and managed to stay on the sidelines for everything. He may or may not be a prime mover, but one thing is sure he wants to take credit but is very good at insulating himself from blame, while constantly heaping it on everyone around him.

It is interesting that Obama has the gall to say he’s going to stand by his jobs policy that he started several months ago, but can’t seem to say what that policy is. Maybe it’s because he’s talking about his budget, you know the one that got shot down by his own democrat senate. Even they recognize it’s an economy and jobs killer. No one wants to say this out loud but if he can’t even get Reid to bring it to the floor then you know it has to be bad.

It is interesting that the Obama strategy isn’t EVER to mention what he’s done or worse has happened because of what he’s done. He has only one campaign strategy; he’s going to try to scare everyone about how everyone else just wants to cut all the “freebie” goodies he’s given them at the expense of the tax payer dime. He’s trying to scare people away from voting for anyone else at the same time hoping they won’t be scared to vote for him again. He’s doing his best to demonize his opponent by making him look like the Grinch while fashioning himself as Santa Clause. Of course the difference between Obama and Santa Clause is that Obama is giving us the most mediocre of gifts with our own money and then trying to convince us he’s showering us with gold and jewelry, but either way it’s still with our money!

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any wackier the president today decided by royal decree that the Dream Act is now the law of the land even though it never passed in congress. It seems he doesn’t feel he needs congress anymore. If they’re not going to do something then he’s just going to pass it by royal decree. Why wait for that tedious process after all when he can just declare it the policy (read as law) and no one will call him on it.

I thought our representatives had sworn and oath to defend the constitution, but I wonder if they even know or care what is in the constitution. I can’t help but wonder how many of them have been waiting for someone of enough power to just take control.

One of our representatives has told us that we have at least 80 communists in congress and I have little doubt that a communist is really going to support or defend the constitution. I equally doubt that they are going to call the president on his violation of the constitution either.

Obama even said he couldn’t just do something about the immigration issue when asked about this almost a year ago, and now all of a sudden he finds the power and of course the congress does nothing about it. The media has almost nothing to say about it, because after all, he is the Chief Executive, and he does have the power off executive order. Apparently he also can decide which laws he will follow and which ones he won’t. He’s also going to decide which laws we must follow and which special groups don’t have to follow the law. After all this is the compassionate thing even if it’s not the legal one.

Leaders Say Unsustainable But Do Nothing

Interestingly our leaders are almost all using the word unsustainable regarding our economy in one way or another, yet not one of them is willing to make any serious changes. They’re more than happy to blame the other side for all the troubles, but no matter which side you’re talking to they don’t want to take any serious action. I’m not sure if it is because they concerned about their careers or if it’s because they are ideologically convinced they’re not the ones doing the wrong thing. Either way they’re not taking any actions except those that make our situation even more unsustainable than it has been so far.

What we don’t need is more leaders just telling us how unsustainable the situation is. We need leaders who are willing to make the hard and right choices to bring our nation back to what made it great. Though the republicans would have you believe it is capitalism, and the democrats would have you believe it is some form of socialism with fairness, social and economic justice, these are not really the answers. Both sides have given up the moral aspects of our founding fathers. They want to badly to remove every form of religion from our society that it has made us spiritually incapable of handing even the best of governments.

Sadly, and mostly because of the progressives, we have cast religion aside and are left with nothing but humanism. Understand when I say progressives I don’t mean only Democrats. We have more than our share of progressives in the Republican Party as well. These progressives are opposed to religion and celebrate humanism. They think of God and religion as crutches.

Everyone wants to pretend their being patriots, but I wonder how many even know what this country was really founded on. For the republicans it seems to be the idea of capitalism, which is most certainly not true. They were concerned about true liberty and freedom. They were interested in creating a place where the GOD given rights of all men would be respected and protected.

It must also be said that to the liberals and Democrats what this means is that everyone has the right to the same things as everyone else, meaning that everyone must share equally. To these people rights and fairness mean almost the same thing. In their view you have a right to what someone else has worked hard for simply because they have too much. This is not a right enumerated or ever even thought of by our founding fathers.

I sincerely doubt that most of our leaders have ever read the constitution let alone the writings of the founding fathers; HECK most of them can’t even take the time to read the bills they vote for. What does this say about their character?

It is time we start expecting our leaders to tell the truth. We’ve become so accustomed to having them say whatever we want to hear instead of saying what they’re really going to do.

Cowards: Glenn Beck Gets it Right

It is clear that the media including Bill O’Reilly are afraid to call Obama what he is. There is no doubt anymore that Obama is a socialist otherwise why would he become a member of the socialist group the New Party. We now have proof that he was a member of their party and there is certainly not a shred of evidence that he ever left them. He had their support and he promised to support them. This is the same when it comes to SEIU, Planned Parenthood and ACORN. He continues to support them and it still remains a mystery to me why anyone in the media would be afraid to point this out.

Even Bill O’Reilly shows such great reluctance to speak the words it is amazing! He just won’t say the word socialist because he has one view of what a socialist is and because Obama doesn’t meet that view, in his mind it is therefore a given that Obama is not a socialist or a Marxist. To many people a socialist or Marxist must advocate the government taking everyone’s property, but this is not what Marxism is. Marxism and communism is a believe that the Government controls the means of production, not that it owns the means of production and it is here that O’Reilly gets it wrong. You do not have to own something to control it.

Obama has been clearly seeking control over the coal industry, the Oil industry, Green Energy, he actually had the government take control of a large section of the American auto industry, and the list goes on. He has used the EPA like a sledgehammer. He has gone after almost every company or individual that has stood in his way. He has steamrolled congressed. He has refused to appear to court summons, his cronies including the AG, Eric Holder has stonewalled congress and of course congress sits on its hands like a bunch of cowards as well. “Well what can we do? They said they won’t give us the information…” What is that? What is the matter with the congress? They behave as though they were not a co-equal branch of government!

It would seem the only one showing any stones is President Obama and he’s doing it in all the wrong ways. He simply just keeps pushing ahead with his agenda and not even congress or the Supreme Court seems willing to stand up to him. The Supreme Court could have heard at least half dozen cases on his eligibility by now, but instead they too are afraid of the constitutional crisis that might come if it was found that Obama really was not eligible for his office. The media are afraid to report on this issue in total including Glenn Beck. I guess Beck thinks he knows more about the legal and evidentiary situations than does Sheriff Arpaio.

If they actually held a hearing and forced the evidence to come out in a court of law the issue would be over one way or another, but the media is afraid to even report the efforts of others, much less investigate it themselves. I can’t help but wonder what will happen if it comes out after he’s out of office that Obama really wasn’t qualified for the position. Now that will be a constitutional crisis.

Still in all of this there is no doubt that the media including every show on Fox News is afraid to confront the really hard issues concerning Obama. The media didn’t report on Reverend Wright. They didn’t report on Bill Ayers. They didn’t report on Obama’s membership in the New Party, which information was certainly available. They didn’t report on the birth certificate issue and still won’t even though it’s still in the news and being pursued by reputable law officers. They have reported little nor not at all about Obama’s remarks to do an end run around congress. There was virtually no reporting on the fact that Obama committed troops to Libya even though war was not declared and it never went before congress. They didn’t report that congress did nothing but remain silent when he did that. They didn’t report that he refused to appear in court over the birth certificate even when summoned by a judge, and again nothing happened. This is a man that clearly feels he is above the law and so far it seems that he is.

This ought to frighten every American to their core. Anyone that thinks this nation cannot suffer the fate of so many other nations and end up with a despot in power knows nothing of history or how these things happen.

Obama depends on the cowardliness of the media, judges, congress and the American people. The American people ought to be demanding of their representatives, and media the truth. They ought to be demanding the confrontation with Obama that puts him in his place, but none seem up to the challenge.

It’s Not a Gaff

When Obama said, “the private sector is doing fine”, I believe he really meant. I don’t believe it was a gaff. In his mind everything is going according to plan. Most don’t want to believe the person we’ve elected as president is really out to destroy this nation, at least as far as its freedoms and constitution. He is a socialist; not just by membership but by philosophy. This is not something he tried as he’d like us to believe about so many other things concerning him. He decided to join the New Party as an adult and as such wanted their support and promised to support them as well.

As I said above I don’t think Obama sees anything wrong with the way things are going. In his mind this just furthers the ends and opportunities as expressed by Cloward and Pivens. He sees this is yet another opportunity to insight the poor against the rich. He has been aiming for this and it is the reason he’s done everything he can to create this situation. Do I believe he’s glad all these people are poor? No, I do not believe he’s glad they’re poor. I do believe he’s glad they’re on government assistance and as such beholding to the government for their support. I do believe he sees their poverty as a means to an end and I believe he will use it for just that if he’s given half an opportunity.

What he said was genuinely expressing his views. Obama is a man who has lived such a different life with such a different world view that he really does not view things the way the rest of the people in this country do. He genuinely believes this nation is evil or at the very least not only lost its way but as he said in a speech last year, that we never had it right.

It is clear that we have many in our nation that believe in capitalism, but as I’ve been reading more on the founding fathers I’ve come to realize they were not looking merely for freedom to use our money as we wanted. They were looking at freedoms that were far more basic than that. They wanted us to be free in a far more personal way. They did not feel it was the job of the government to invade our privacy either of property of person.

Our founding fathers were deeply concerned about the government invading our property, or rights to believe as we wished, our right to speak what we wanted, and our right to associate with anyone we wanted. They included the right to own guns because they saw this as a necessary means of maintaining that freedom.

Later in that same speech the following was said, "The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. It's wrong," Obama told reporters at a news conference Friday. "And people I think need to have a better sense of how I approach this office and how the people around me here approach this office."

It is important to notice that Obama almost never directly refutes anything. He tell you how he feels about people accusing him of it and lets you infer from this that he didn’t do it or wasn’t responsible for it, but it’s interesting to note that he never said that. He then said that people need to have a better sense of how he approaches the office, but never followed that up with what would be a usual follow up sentence or even paragraph explaining how he approaches his office. One has to wonder why he avoids saying such things outright. Is it because he is of such character that he couldn’t bring himself to lie about how he really approaches it and knows how offensive that would be to most Americans, so he just says the first part and lets the rest of us assume that he approaches it the way we would, but he never said that.

Like most politicians, only more so Obama says almost nothing he can be held responsible for except for the occasional slips like the one about redistribution of wealth and now this one that the economy is doing fine.

One thing we should all be clear on. Obama is not an idiot. It’s not that he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s going what he is on purpose. When Obama said he was for redistribution of wealth I do not believe for a second that he misspoke. He was saying what he really believes and it popped out because he believes these things so profoundly that he just said what he believed before he realized what the reaction would be. I think he believes that most of us believe like he does. He does not understand that this nation does not want to become a socialist or communist nation.

I equally believe that he didn’t misspeak when he said the private sector was doing fine and then went on to express how the public sector is struggling. He views the government as the engine of the economy. He sees government as being responsible for jobs and even creating them. In some twisted way he seems to think the job of the government is for everyone to have a job even if that means you’re locked in to some low level paying job. I think he really believes the rich are responsible for all the woes of our nation. In some respects I wonder if he even views the private sector as necessary. Does he really understand that the government’s money comes from the working class? Does he understand that the rich by themselves cannot fund and support the rest of the nation?

Obama A Socialist

Even though there is now certain documentation that Obama is a socialist still the media is afraid to report what it knows 100% for sure is the truth. They now have documentation that Obama was a sworn member of the New Party, which is the American wing of the socialist party. This party is more socialist in the style of Russia than Europe. Yet even in this I’m sure if the media reports it they will still behave as though it is the milder version of the Europeans.

This is the sort of thing I would have expected to have plastered all over the news but by the very virtue that they are hardly mentioning it they are saying it’s not very important. This will of course make it harder to report on later as well. There is little doubt if they sit on this for 3 months everyone will say it must not have been very important if you didn’t report on it before this even when you had the information. I can hardly help but think this isn’t by design. Even Fox News has been reluctant to mention the “S”-Word! They love doing that. They are ever afraid to call things what they are. They won’t even use the full word much less actually call someone something even when it’s clear they are.

People who just listened to what he said about redistributing wealth and the like should have known he was a communist or socialist, but all he had to do is ask in a condescending and challenging way, “Are you calling me a communist!” and maybe add that it was silly, or offensive and people just left him alone. This is similar to what he did today when asked about the possibility of White House leaks about very secure data.

If you ask me this seems to be his “tell”. Whenever he gets caught in something he uses this method of challenge knowing that most will back down even if they had enough proof to make it stand in court, which they don’t actually need.

It would seem whenever Obama tries to put someone on the defensive by putting words in their mouth they were about to speak or just spoke and saying it with ridicule in his tone people back off. This has been a very effective method of dealing with people who would pursue issues they might otherwise continue with. He was very effective with this method where his birth certificate was concerned, but still he has made sure that no one can see the original and yet still no one asks why that is if he’s already shown us a copy of the original on his website! Why doesn’t anyone ask then why not release the original?!

This only goes to show just how easily the media is intimidated into no asking the hard questions they ought to be asking. It is clear that the media doesn’t need to feel intimidated by the government in this nation, at least at this point. They still have at least enough freedom to broadcast that they’re being harassed by the government with specifics if anything should start happening and that’s certainly more than the rest of us can do.

It is time the media started doing its job, though somehow I don’t think that’s likely. Even Fox News is afraid to pursue some very important questions that ought to be pursued until we get some real answers about this president.

Never is a country in more danger than when the media is teamed up with the government to support whatever they may want to do. In too many cases over the last few years we’ve seen the media covering up things they knew and even worse running interference and helping put spin on various aspects of this president’s administration.

When the president says things like he did in the news conference today, “The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive — it’s wrong,” it speaks volumes and usually those volumes tend to be that the president is covering up what he knows is going on.

All he has to do is sound angry, and annoyed that anyone would question him and the wimpified media backs right off and stops asking questions. They take their cues from the president about what they should and should not ask him and what they should pursue and what they should let go.

I still can’t help but wonder what would have happened with Watergate if they had been like that with Nixon. Of course I’m quite aware that in today’s society that lacks so many of the ethics of earlier generations as well as any real historic knowledge of what’s gone before them, that many of these people don’t even know why Watergate was so important.

I have little doubt that the story of Obama’s membership in a socialist organization will be lost on every network including Fox News. These organizations are rapidly proving themselves useless as any serious source of real information. They are rapidly being relegated to the gossip zone and reality TV, but little else.

The Power of Polls

I must say the more I look at polls and actual results it is amazing to me how far off they can be. I would say it makes me wonder why they even bother to take them, but then I began to realize that the purpose of polls is quite different than what I thought their purpose was and I’m sure it’s quite different than what most people think it’s supposed to be.

I think most people think the purpose of polls is to be predictive, and I’m sure in many cases it appears that way. There is quite an amazing science that goes into them and I’m beginning to wonder if there isn’t an even more subtle science behind them and their real use. They do seem to predict, though often they are very wrong as is the case in the Scott Walker recall election. I have now begun to wonder if they are not more the cause of the outcome than merely the prediction of it. Certainly those who study polls have probably look at the various effects of predicting things before people vote on them. I can’t help but wonder if they don’t walk a thin line between determining what to predict so as to change the outcome by just enough so as to manipulate it. Polling groups are quite aware that people pay attention to polls and that declaring an avalanche vote can often cause one group or another to not even show up. They must equally be aware that predicting something really close may cause a group with the slight edge or the slight underdog position to show up in greater numbers. In this way it is conceivable that they might be able to influence the outcome of a specific vote.

I wonder does anyone actually check up on their numbers and who they polled or do they simply declare that they did it and make up results and as such manage to manipulate the outcome of a given race.

Either way it is clear that in the case of Wisconsin the pollsters didn’t have a clue about what was really going on, so you have to wonder who they were really polling. In many respects it seems to me that polling is more like a form of propaganda than a predictive science. It only seems to be predictive because the desired event is so often brought about. The pollsters were predicting for the most part a dead even heat within the margin of error giving Walker only a slight edge. Was this designed to get out the vote from the unions and the democrats? Were people just lying to the pollsters? Were the questions that were asked slanted?

There is usually no way to know the answers to these questions because only the people being polled know what the questions are. On top of all this the questions themselves can force or direct certain responses from those being polled. If you ask, “Do you beat your wife every night?”, with the answer allowed only being yes or no, then you might get the impression that most men don’t beat their wives EVERY night only occasionally or weekly and of course they leave much of the interpretation up to those hearing the response to the poll.

I become more convinced all the time that we pay far too much attention to the polls. Every time you hear one the responses change. Are we really that frenetic? I do not believe the American people change their minds that much or that dramatically on a nearly daily basis. I also don’t believe they are really all that undecided about whether or not they will vote for someone. At this point they certainly know most of the facts about the incumbent and the job he’s been doing and as such it is not likely they’re going to change their mind unless some major revelation comes out about Obama. Aside from this situation it is most like they have already decided to either vote for him or not vote for him already. The only reason they would say they’re undecided is because they’re either wondering or hoping some other last minute information will come out to confirm their decision. Certainly no one is hoping they’re wrong. It is not in the nature of people to hope they are wrong. We only need take an honest look at ourselves to understand this. We are always looking for confirmation that we are right. Because no one wants to be wrong I am equally convinced that no one really believes they are wrong right now until proven wrong otherwise they would change their opinion on a given matter before confronted about it.

As I listen to the news, especially where politics are concerned it seems the word poll comes up over and over to the point that now that I’m aware of it I find it very annoying. I wonder sometimes how I ever missed it before. Yet no matter how often these polls turn out wrong they keep pushing them at us as though they are something reliable. I wonder if they actually believe their own polls or at least the poll results they seem to be getting or if they really are nothing more than a propaganda device. I tend to think they really are just a very cleverly disguised propaganda devise.

Either way the evidence seems to be in after the Wisconsin race that these polls are wholly unreliable. They had the candidates being within a couple of points of each other yet it turned out to be near a 10 point difference. This is not a rounding error. This is a big error. It is the difference between a landslide and a close race or even a marginal win.

Rather than report on real news most of the media outlets would rather just make phone calls, essentially doing nothing more than asking people what they think about something and then declaring that. Well we already know what we think, and most of us communicate with others and as such know what most of them think about things as well. We really don’t need this. And though the polls contain facts of a sort they are certainly not facts in the sense that actual events are.

The media is more than happy to report on facts about things like fights and murders, but it seems they will have nothing to do with facts like Obama being a member of the New Party, which is just another name for the American Socialist party, or the fact that no one has yet seen his actual physical birth certificate or even a tested microfilm of it.