Every now and then, it’s worth reminding ourselves what the opposite of freedom and liberty is. When I was growing up, it was communism. How is a communist to live? The planks and goals of the Communist Manifesto: 1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes. 2. [...]
Category Archives: Freedom
Freedom of Press
Feb 10
Well, chalk up another loss of Constitutional Freedoms. The freedom of press which is right up there with freedom of religion, speech, assembly and petitioning government has received a 27 point lower score in the rating by the Press Without Border’s in France. We were number twenty last year and now they have rated the [...]
Better Men Than Obama Tried to Silence the Church – They Failed
Feb 7
Like every other Sunday Mass attending Catholic, I was treated to a letter from my archbishop Sunday morning decrying the political maneuvers of the Obama administration in regards to human reproduction, the medical efforts to stymie it and the dictation that all employers, and medical facilities must finance and provide it. For a man as [...]
U.S. Press Freedom Dropped to 47th…
Jan 28
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America gone Fascist usually leads to the recent law empowering the Pentagon to arrest and imprison citizens without regard to the Constitution but there’s another aspect getting less attention. Three current reports paint the picture: FBI Seeks Social Media Monitoring Tool is self-explanatory; the government police peering over everybody’s shoulder at their personal affairs is historically [...]
Troops Being Trained in Big City for Large Scale Policing…
Jan 25
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Knowing that Congress has recently authorized the U.S. military to arrest and imprison citizens in the U.S. without habeas corpus, due process or any charge and hold them without communication as long as desired is scary. (Non-believers: Sec 1031 of Defense Authorization Act.) Knowing the internment camps to house such prisoners have been built (by [...]
The Post-Election Aftermath
Jan 12
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Even if control of both Congress and the White House pass to the Republican Party in January 2013—and this outcome is far from certain—it might not be time to pop open the champagne. A number of existential issues face the country, challenges that would be daunting if the nation were united and sober, let alone [...]
Predictions of a Blind Prophet…2012
Jan 3
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What’s gonna happen, ya think? That’s easy for someone who’s not always right but is always opinionated: 1. The stock market and its cousin in flimflamary, real estate, have both been floating above their real market values on a sea of Fed funny money and credit, much of it pumped into sinking banks to keep them [...]
What, Me Worry?
Dec 27
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Mad Magazine’s Alfred E. Neumann seems the perfect model for todays’ American citizen: 1. The President, Barack Obama, has expanded his Republican predecessor’s claim to the right to kill whoever he decides is a threat, anywhere, anytine, without review. 2. The Federal transportation cops (TSA) are moving out from airports to random searches of both [...]
Why Are American Police Departments Gearing Up For War?
Dec 22
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Body armor, surveillance gear, drones, military weapons and even small tanks ore becoming routine police department inventory. Every department of any size already has a SWAT team. Perhaps it would be wise to start considering why and wondering where this path leads. The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The [...]
Barack Obama’s Big Book of Fairy Tales
Dec 6
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Barack Obama is either living in his own little fantasy world or trying to lull Americans to sleep by reading from his liberal-progressive, “Big Book of Fairy Tales.” Nothing approaching reality could explain the litany of inconsistent, unimaginable policies and statements coming from this President. Unless, of course, it is a deliberate willingness to deceive [...]
American Freedom…What Freedom?
Dec 5
Not too long ago, I read a quote from a non-American who says that Americans are one of the most enslaved peoples in world history. Really? Most Americans would argue that we are free. After all, that’s what all the founding documents tell us and what our beloved eagle is supposed to symbolize. We are [...]
E.U. Forcing Swiss Banks To Return Greek Depositor’s Money To Greece?
Nov 19
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Greeks who moved their savings to Swiss banks seeking safety are watching the E.U. and their government leaning on the Swiss to send the money back to the tottering Greek banks whether the money owners like it or not. E.U. Officials Negotiating Forced Greek Capital Repatriation With Swiss Banks is the report. Reminiscent of the 1930′s… [...]
Feds Now Stopping, Searching Random Highway Drivers in Search for Terrorists
Oct 25
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Homeland Security’s TSA “Jack-booted thugs” per Ron Paul are now stopping random travelers on U.S. highways in Tennessee, expanding their airport searches for terrorists onto the country’s highways, though there is no history of highway threats to date. TSA Thugs On the Loose explains. Big Sis has given us a first: Being randomly stopped and searched on the [...]
Am I To Be the Next Dead American Enemy Combatant? My Kids Too?
“I’LL TELL YA WHAT: I’LL TRADE JA SECURITY FOR YOUR FREEDOMS, OK?
The day that I agree with the ACLU is the day that confirms my belief that the world has truly turned upside down. That day is today. The ACLU is demanding transparency & legal justification for the killing of American born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, his teen age son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who was born in Denver in 1995, and his 17-year-old Yemeni cousin that were killed in a U.S. military drone strike that left nine people dead in southeastern Yemen. Read the rest of this entry
For Homeland Security It Is FAST
Oct 21
Once again the individual freedom of the American people is being assaulted by the Department of Homeland Security. They recently did a public test of a new invasion of the Fourth Amendment rights of the American people from an unreasonable search. The new invasion is called FAST and it is still in the research section of the DHS. It is [...]
The Conservative Citizen – Website Prototype
Oct 13
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I have sought throughout my life to spread the conservative message and ideology to as many people as I possibly could in a large variety of ways. I graduated from a conservative political training school, the Morton Blackwell Leadership Institute, while in college and since then have had a wide range of political experiences includes serving two [...]
“Too Much Democracy” in Germany?
Sep 22
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The organs of German government and its ruling elite want the country’s democracy cut back with more power in a more centralized government and less for the people to say. Dare Less Democracy is the recently published book selling-or demanding-the change. The German govenment wants to bail out southern Europe at German workers’ expense; the workers [...]
Rhetorical Me.
If the government creates a debt so big that persons who are not old enough to vote or have not yet been born will have to pay for it, is that not in effect, Taxation Without Representation? just sayin’…
Per Red State: Action Needed
Sep 20
This morning I beg the indulgence of my fellow ConClubbers as I am compelled to pass on this post from Red State “Take Action: America’s Job Creators Are About to Be Sucker Punched & You Have Until Wednesday to Comment” from poster LaborUnionReport. According to LaborUnionReport, the pending legislation will put into law the push [...]
Nature of the Beast, Part I
Sep 19
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Rule #1 for all conservatives ought to be this: Never let the left frame the debate or define the terms. They have created a political climate that insures leftward drift over more than two centuries. This drift was noted by former editor of National Review John O’ Sullivan who coined O’Sullivan’s First Law: All organizations [...]
Hello, you must be an Objectivist
Sep 18
I have noticed that a couple of Objectivists have appeared on the scene and that is a good thing. It is good because they at least respect logic and do attempt to be rational, they are really the most honest liberals we have and true confession time, I used to be one. Having said that [...]
“Right-to-Work” Laws for Michigan Teachers?
Sep 15
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Michigan Teachers’s Unions May Lose 40% of Members If “Right to Work” Passes tells what’s happening in that state’s public union wars. Republicans are trying to pass right-to-work laws allowing teachers to choose whether they wish to join the union–and of course, pay the dues. What a concept! The union officials are overwhelmingly opposed; their members, less [...]
We’re Being Watched
Aug 11
And now back to our regularly scheduled and pretty much justified paranoia…. The last week has been a whirlwind news-wise (are we sure it’s August?), what with the budget “deal” where no one got what they wanted other than the current Resident of the White House and the subsequent U.S. Government Securities/Bond notes downgrade to [...]
Fate Worse than Debt?
The debate seemed to be: Raise the Debt Ceiling or Don’t Raise the Debt Ceiling?
Really? How about: This Whole Thing Could have Been Easily Avoided If We Stopped Buying DEBT! Pay it down. Zero Debt NOW. Mandate: All pork barrel spending automatically goes toward the debt until its Gone.
Step One: Last Years Revenues? THAT’s your baseline budget. No more legislating dollar amount spending:The NEW deal is a percentage of Last Years Revenue. Shave off -I dunno- 20%? off the top for the debt. The other 80% is what congress has to work with. The amount is decided, only how big of a slice goes where is left to decide. End of story, Morning Glory.
Satan’s Playground
Jul 25
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One of the Twitter accounts I’ve been following is Andrew Breitbart’s. Mr. Breitbart is really living the American dream. With a vision and a lot of hard work, he set out to create a conservative media outlet, and, quite frankly, he has done it in spades. Kudos. His Twitter account, on the other hand, is [...]
Reality Check: Judge Napolotano’s Lies the Government Told You
Jul 20
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For some time, Judge Andrew Napolotano’s Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power and Deception in American History has been on my “To Be Read” list, and has been sitting there as other tasks took precedence. After reading it, I can’t imagine why anything would. Published last year with a stirring forward from Congressman Ron [...]
The Buck Is Coming To Your Desk, Mr. President
Jun 30
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The buck stops on your desk Mr. President. If the debt ceiling is not passed, it will be your fault. You are the one responsible for running the country and managing the budget. It is Congress’s job to keep you from spending too much money. They are dong their job, but you are failing miserably [...]
Legalized Plunder
An important thinker worthy of our consideration is the French statesman and economist Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850). Perhaps his most important work was The Law. Published in the year of his death, it is a concise formulation of the case for classic liberalism (of the Adam Smith variety), and a stern warning against the dark clouds of socialism that were descending upon Europe, particularly after the great upheavals of 1848. Read the rest of this entry
The Fat of the Land, How Many Freedoms Will The American Citizen Give Up
Jun 20
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“The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not [...]
New Gender Experiment
May 25
After years of psychology working so hard to become a respected part of science and medicine, we are seeing the results. The confusion imposed through its teachings on the mind have created the epitome in human thought. Kathy Witterick and David Stocker of Canada announced in an email to those they wished to know, baby Storm was [...]
Malevolence vs. Benevolence
May 23
We are told that what happens in privacy between two consenting adults won’t affect us in any way. This is of course yet another malevolent lie propagated by the sodomite community and their political agenda. One of the victims of the homosexual agenda is Catholic Charities, a benevolent religious organization that endeavors to reduce poverty, [...]
Why Do Jews Vote Democrat?
May 22
My first contact with a Jewish person came when I was in my thirties. The vastness of west Texas can be isolating, so I must confess to being rather uneducated about Jews, with most of what I knew taken from their Biblical history. However, when you move into a neighborhood where a number of Jewish [...]
Rights Violation #1,259,504
May 20
Yep, it happened again,. Two government police violated a citizen’s rights. Evidently the Secret Service got the Tacoma police to accompany them to Truman Middle School. There the school allowed the Secret Service to interrogate 13 year old Vito Lapinta without his parent‘s consent or presence. An assistant principal was present. I‘m sure he was [...]
Ignorance of the law is no excuse…unless you are a cop
May 18
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Philly Police Harass, Threaten to Shoot Man Legally Carrying Gun -A story in today’s Philadelphia Daily News shows why it’s so important that citizens be allowed to videotape cops – it can be citizens’ only way to fight back against police abuse of power. This incident happened several weeks ago in Philadelphia to Mark Fiorino, [...]
Rainy Saturday Musings
May 14
This morning, after my exercise class (where there was a lengthy discussion on personal responsibility and that American culture used to stress that one was to go out of the way to not inconvenience others and respect other people’s property and space) I stopped at a chain discounter to pick up a few household staples [...]
Obama’s Legacy
May 13
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8 month old potential suicide bomber -Welcome to the New America- Dadnapit, horse feathers and petunia juices. I’ve had with this government. If I were a lawyer said to be knowledgeable concerning the Constitution of the United States, I would be embarrassed down to my socks of the abusive behavior of TSA personal and the [...]
Total Victory in the Battle for the 2nd Amendement
May 12
Conservative forces often complain about losing the grand battle for the heart and soul of America, about declining moral standard, and a certain long term move towards socialism and loss of freedom. Well, atleast when it comes to gun rights, the move seems to be going the other way. Look at the map above, 48 [...]
Bless Their Muslim Hearts
May 12
America kill bin Laden and bless those poor Muslim hearts, America still mistreats and distrusts them. Poor souls. Where’s my violin, Ethel? Last Friday, two Muslim gentlemen from Memphis were heading to North Carolina to a conference. The subject was “Islamophobia.” They went through the TAS screening and they had to go through the second stage screening [...]
The American Dream
May 10
The American Dream! Now that small phrase sounds good. The American Dream. I remember the first time I hear it. A politician was running for office and he was promising to furnish, if elected, the great American Dream. His political opponent’s answer was, his American dream is a chicken in very pot and a [...]
Bastiat’s The Law
Apr 28
“The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it [...]
No Such Thing as Freedom of Religion!
Apr 14
Nor free speech, either; the judge famously pointed out that we can’t yell “FIRE!” in a crowded theater. Unless there is one, of course. Government is constitutionally forbidden to enshrine itself in a state church and to interfere with our individual practices of religion. Well, some folk are currently upset about kosher/halal meat laws and [...]
Where Are the Clowns?
Last night, our elected representatives stalled a federal government shutdown with all the drama and comedic effect of a Punch and Judy show. Perhaps Charles Dickens was gifted with precognition and the following quote from him, regarding the famous street puppet show, was meant as a metaphor for our government at work: Read the rest of this entry
Dave’s Quote of the Day
“Therefore, words meant by the instrument to be subsidiary only to the execution of limited powers, ought not to be so construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument; and
II. Therefore, whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.”
- New Hampshire House to Congress – resolution HCR0019 passed by a vote of 242-109 on 3-30-11
Freedom for All
Mar 8
“Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.” Samuel Adams. This quotation was made at beginning of the United States of America. It is speaking of the Revolutionary War, “our contest.” But, the war was not [...]
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