What has happened to State Rights?

The US Constitution contemplates constant friction between the states and the federal government. The states had to ratify the creation of the federal government, so it is no wonder that they chose to restrict the power of the federal government and to maintain their own. In 1798, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison joined to write the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which declared that “the powers of the federal government … (result) from the compact, to which the states are parties … in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them.”

In simpler terms, the states, according to the framers, were duty-bound to resist action by the federal government superseding its allotted authority under the Constitution. To that end, the states reserved to themselves the chief authority to tax, to raise militias, and to carry out the day-to-day activities required by government.

It was a brilliant structure. The federal government could not redistribute money and resources from taxpayers of one state to taxpayers of another without running up against resistance from the states, seeking to safeguard their own sovereignty. The federal government could not take over the states' interest in the education, welfare and protection of their own citizens — and so the federal government remained small.

The states' role was simple: they were to be “laboratories of democracy” run by local citizens. Sadly, states misused their authority. Certain states claimed that it was within their power to sanction slavery. And so the laboratories of democracy became torture chambers of democracy, with majorities oppressing minorities. The federal response to the slavery question was quick and right – President Abraham Lincoln's Civil War restored for all time the founding promises of the Declaration of Independence. Despite the Civil War, however, the legacy of Jim Crow further eroded the moral authority of states' rights. And the federal government, wielding the ethical imperatives of both racial equality, stepped in. States' rights advocates were forever branded as bigoted Orval Faubus types, standing in the doorways of segregated schoolhouses. And so the federal government took control of abortion policy. It took control of tax policy, blaming the states for “regressive” laissez-faire doctrine. It took control of education and health care. And states, eager for federal cash, largely acceded in the shift toward federal power.

Now states are surprised to find that their ability to resist federal directives has been all but extinguished. They are surprised that they are no longer able to set their own standards regarding social, economic, or criminal policy. They are surprised that through a combination of moral blindness and drooling greed, they surrendered their role in the constitutional system.

It is not too late. The first step toward the reinstitution of local government as a force in American life must begin with resistance to the total federalization of the economy. States can start by taking the moral high ground and refusing federal “stimulus” dollars.

If they do not, federal government will, once and for all, become a government of unlimited powers. And the laboratories of democracy will be closed down once and for all in the name of nationalized leftism.

If you have 23 minutes....watch this. Rubio is a rock star!

A tribute to Ronald Reagan by a Republican Rock Star!

Republic vs. Democracy

Just after the completion and signing of the Constitution, in reply to a woman's inquiry as to the type of government the Founders had created, Benjamin Franklin said, "A Republic, if you can keep it."

Not only have we failed to keep it, most don't even know what it is.

A Republic is representative government ruled by law (the Constitution).   A democracy is direct government ruled by the majority (mob rule).   A Republic recognizes the inalienable rights of individuals while democracies are only concerned with group wants or needs (the public good). Lawmaking is a slow, deliberate process in our Constitutional Republic requiring approval from the House, Senate, Executive (President or Governor), The Supreme Court, and individual jurors (jury-nullification).   Lawmaking in our unlawful democracy occurs rapidly requiring approval from the whim of the majority as determined by polls and/or voter referendums.   Voter referendums allow legislators to blame bad law on the people.   A good example of democracy in action is a lynch mob.

Democracies always self-destruct when the non-productive majority realizes that it can vote itself handouts from the productive minority by electing the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury.   To maintain their power, these candidates must adopt an ever-increasing tax and spend policy to satisfy the ever-increasing desires of the majority.   As taxes increase, incentive to produce decreases, causing many of the once productive to drop out and join the non-productive.   When there are no longer enough producers to fund the legitimate functions of government and the socialist programs, the democracy will collapse, always to be followed by a Dictatorship.
Even though nearly every politician, teacher, journalist and citizen believes that our Founders created a democracy, it is absolutely not true.   The Founders knew full well the differences between a Republic and a Democracy.   They repeatedly and emphatically said that they had founded a Republic.

Article IV Section 4, of the Constitution "guarantees to every state in this union a Republican form of government".... Conversely, the word Democracy is not mentioned even once in the Constitution.   Madison warned us of the dangers of democracies with these words,

"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths...",

"We may define a republic to be ... a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior.   It is essential to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans and claim for their government the honorable title of republic." James Madison, Federalist No. 10, (1787)

"A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.   There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Our military training manuals used to contain the correct definitions of Democracy and Republic. The following comes from Training Manual No. 2000-25 published by the War Department, November 30, 1928.

DEMOCRACY:

• A government of the masses.
• Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.
• Results in mobocracy.
• Attitude toward property is communistic--negating property rights.
• Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
• Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

REPUBLIC:

• Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
• Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.
• A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.
• Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy.
• Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.
• Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.

The EPA and how they are destroying America

Right now, someone is sitting at a large oak table in the EPA’s marble palace in Washington, D.C., sipping a vanilla latte and dreaming up a new rule to impose.  Without fail, the EPA continues to come up with ideas that leave you scratching your head in wonderment because of the questionable science used to justify these regulations.  Instead of protecting the environment, these rules dreamed up by the EPA in Washington are destroying American industry and killing job creation, which is just what our economy needs right now.  This type of federal meddling is exactly what causes companies to lay off workers, move overseas, and in many cases, fail.  The purpose of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect the environment—not to regulate American industry into nonexistence.

Personally, my favorite is the EPA act that SHUT the water off to farmers in California, to save the life of "endangered" MINNOWS. Minnows? So, the life of a minnow is more important to the lives/livelihood of famers here in America? Minnows? Really? How many jobs did that impact? How many lives were turned upside down? Because of a minnow. And now...in Texas the EPA is researching a lizard. Yes...a lizard that could quite possible shut down oil production and cost jobs and God knows what else. A lizard. Don't get me wrong. I love animals. I would walk in front of a bus for my dog. But when the welfare of animals is put before the welfare of humans....WE HAVE A PROBLEM.

The EPA’s blatant disregard of the fragile state of our economy is alarming.  Businesses in the United States already are operating in an environment of uncertainty, which makes investors hesitant to invest in American businesses.  The EPA’s efforts to force companies to comply with its expensive (and many times environmentally unnecessary) regulations will inevitably increase the cost for businesses, and accordingly consumers, and destroy job growth.  If the EPA continues on its crusade of destruction and over-regulation, manufacturing and energy companies will take their business to friendlier lands overseas, jobs will be destroyed, and the environment will not be any better off.

In the name of saving us from ourselves, the EPA continues to abuse its power.  The mother of all mandates is the proposed cap-and-trade regulations.  Houston, Tex., is the energy capital of the world, and home to more energy companies and facilities than almost any other location in the United States.  What I hear most often from the businesses that supply the energy that our country demands is that these questionable regulations will significantly increase costs that make doing business in the U.S. too difficult.  This type of over-regulation will crush the economy and put thousands of people out of work.  What makes the EPA’s proposed regulations most disturbing is that Texas has been successful on its own in ensuring clean air through the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality.  Despite Texas’ own progress, the EPA is looking for more to control, arrogantly ignoring the will of the people and the will of Congress.

The American people have rejected the EPA’s cap-and-trade regulations overwhelmingly, and recently, the REPUBLICAN controlled House of Representatives passed the Energy Tax and Prevention Act that would prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gasses (i.e., carbon dioxide).  Of course, this caused the fear-mongerers to scream that we don’t care about the environment. What was left out of their talking points is that this legislation does not prohibit the EPA from regulating those hazardous pollutants that are harmful to public health.  We await the Democrat controlled Senate's action on this bill.

The Environmental Police Agency’s assault on our economy and state does not stop there.  It wants to control what kind of light-bulbs Americans use, how much power the utility companies generate, the “particulate coarse matter”—more commonly known as dust found on farms and ranches, how much water we have in our toilets, and one of the newest ones:  What kind of anti-bacterial soap we use to wash our hands.  That’s right, the EPA’s overstepping of authority now touches almost every aspect of our lives.  So, if you’re a mom who has been using the same soap for years to protect your children from spreading germs, sorry.  You need to go to the pharmacy and buy some new “improved” EPA-authorized soap.  While you’re there, you should pick up a box of only-Made-in-China compact fluorescent bulbs—because thanks to the EPA—incandescent bulbs will be banned by 2014.

Despite the unconstitutionality of government controlling every aspect of our lives, we’re left without any grounds for why this nanny state is needed.  The EPA has not adequately defended its destructive policies.  Recently, the EPA has chosen to miss several Capitol Hill hearings. I have heard the EPT referred to as the “Evaporating Personnel Administration.”  But when the EPA has actually chosen to show up for a hearing, what Congress has heard from its administrators is worrisome.  This month, EPA Assistant Administrator Mathy Stanislaus testified before the House Environment and Energy Subcommittee.  Congressman Cory Gardener (R.-Colo.) asked Administrator Stanislaus whether the EPA took job creation into account when it analyzes new regulations.  This simple question sent Stanislaus on a five-minute-long frenzy, where he let it slip that the EPA could care less about job creation.  Apparently, the EPA comes up with regulations in the marble palace without considering the effect that its policies will have on job creation.  You can’t make this stuff up.

The reality is that the EPA policies are driving up energy costs at a time when gas is nearly $5 a gallon, destroying jobs when unemployment is hovering at 8%, and sending companies overseas at a time when investment in America is at a low.  Many of these regulations—such as regulating dust on farms—just make no sense.  It is understandable, but not defend-able, how someone who does not set foot out of his marble palace might think that dust on farms should be regulated.  This just shows how disconnected some people in Washington really are, coming up with rules based on no science or knowledge.  This is why the Constitution does not give the government the power to decide what kind of light-bulb you use.  The pure absurdity of the ridiculous and expensive federal regulations is what makes normal Americans all across our country so frustrated with Washington, D.C.  The regulators sitting at the table in the marble palace are out of touch with America.  The EPA needs to do its job—protect the environment—and get out of the way of American businesses and job creators.

And that’s just the way it is.

Love this Song/Video!! What a wonderful assurance!

Common Sense

I have had some messages from people inquiring me about my feelings on the West Memphis 3, and some people have been upset with me and have asked me to defend why I feel the way I do. I am a conservative woman, as you most know pretty well. ;) I do believe in the death penalty when its needed. I do believe in our justice system. I do believe it is the best in the world, hands down, by far. I do believe it works very well for the most part, but I am not one who can't admit when it doesn't. I am not one who is so politically rigid that I can't admit when I see an injustice. Our system isn't perfect and in this case it did fail EVERYONE involved. We discredit ourselves when we are unable to admit things that go against the principals we believe in (like the death penalty in this case) just because we don't want to give our counterparts credit.

Do you REALLY think that the state would have agreed to this deal if they REALLY thought that these boys were guilty of murdering 3 children? Really??? Think about it. Use common sense. They would have fought TOOTH AND NAIL to keep them there, behind bars where they couldn't hurt anyone else. They would have NEVER IN A TRILLION YEARS taken the risk at letting 3 indivduals out they truely felt had murdered 3 children so brutally. The state knew they were innocent. Let me rephrase....they KNOW they are innocent. They saw the new evidence. These are not stupid people. They are pretty dang smart to be where they are. They realized the gross injustice that occurred with this case 18 years ago. It hit them square in the face and they couldn't ignore it. Because they knew if they did, they would be tarnishing our justice system knowingly...even more than it already has been in this case. They were trying to right a wrong as best as they felt they could. And this option was the best option at the given time for all parties involved. They KNEW that these boys were going to get a new trial, based on the blaring new evidence. They KNEW that these boys would be acquitted at their new trial. And when that happened, they KNEW that they would have to publically apologize to these boys and publically admit that they were wrong 18 years ago, not to mention face millions of dollars worth of lawsuits. Do you really think they wanted to do that? No. They did NOT want to have to do that. They didn't want to have egg on their face. There is no way they are going to admit that they were wrong. They were going to take the route in order not to have to do that. This excuse they used that the reason that they agreed to let them out is because they didn't want to play out another trial that might drag out 3-4 more years and they were ready to end this saga, is HOGWASH. When has that EVER stopped the state in prosecuting people that they felt were murderers? Drug dealers....car thiefs.....burglars.....fine. Murderers? Child murderers? Uh......NO. Not buying it. I am ALL FOR PROSECUTING MURDERERS. I am ALL FOR going after murderers swiftly and unmercifully, when they are GUILTY. The sheer fact that they agreed to this deal, tells you that they believe they are innocent. They KNOW THEY ARE NOT GUILTY. Period. But they CAN’T say that. Why? That’s just the way it is. They just can’t. But they KNOW. If they really thought that these boys were guilty…..I'll say it again. No way on God's green earth, no how, not in a trillion years, would they have allowed those boys to walk. These state employees, in this case, were cowards. They refused to admit they were wrong….so this is the best they could offer these boys. Period. Done. Bottom line.

Take a moment.....look at the new evidence. Look at the new facts in the case. My theory.....the man that was seen at Mr. Bojangles that night holds the key to this case. My theory....Terry Hobbs, the stepfather did it. He lied about being with the boys that night. Why do you lie? Why do you lie if you have NOTHING to hide? He stated under oath that he DID NOT SEE the boys that night. Why lie? Why not be totally and completely honest with the police? Wouldn't being honest help find the boys? Wouldn't being honest help find the people that did this quicker? Wouldn't you want that if you were a parent? If you had nothing to do with the crime? 3 credible eyewitnesses have come forward that put him with the boys 30 minutes before they went missing. The stepdad's DNA was found at the crime scene. The stepdad's best friends DNA, whom he happened to be with that night, was found at the crime scene. That man at Mr. Bojangles came up on them in the woods that night. He saw something he shouldn't have seen and he knew it. He panicked....took off running, getting muddy, cutting himself up on vines/trees. OR Terry Hobbs caught up with him after he saw that he had discovered them and there was a struggle, and that's why the mystery man was bloodied and muddy. Either way....he knew he saw something that was going to threaten his life. Why do I think that? Because Terry Hobbs made up a story and told police that the morning after the boys went missing he saw a man fitting the description of the man at Mr. Bojangles walking in the area. There were SEVERAL people with him that morning when he claims to have seen this mystery man he described to the police, including one of the victims mothers. NOONE ELSE saw this man. He described a man that FIT perfectly the description of the man at Mr. BoJangles, based on employees description of the mystery man. Now...HOW could Terry Hobbs describe this man IF he hadn't seen him? How? Because I do believe that he DID see him in the woods that night. He saw him. He knew this mystery man had caught him in the act of murdering these boys. He wanted to try and pin the murders on this mystery man. Just read up on the case. Go to YOUTUBE and google Terry Hobbs and watch those police interviews with him. All arrows point to him. Not ONE arrow pointed to those boys. Were they a little strange. Yes...maybe. They may have even dabled in devil worshipping. Although I don't think that is true. The witness that testified to that has since come out and said that she lied about that on the stand. Which could prove that there was misconduct in the West Memphis Police Department in attempting to pin the murders on these boys. Just another flaw in this case. These boys may not have been the clean cut kids we aspire our children to be. They may have caused other kinds of trouble. They may have not been kids that I would want my children associating themselves with. They may not be individuals who hold the same religious, political, and/or social beliefs I do, but that doesn't mean they aren't deserving of compassion. They doesn't mean they aren't deserving of being treated fairly. That doesn't mean they are murderers. This is America. You are innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. These boys weren't proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The juror misconduct in one of the trials also makes this case a gross injustice. These boys were never given a fair trial. These boys are innocent of this crime. I hope one day they are exonerated. And I hope one day charges are brought up against Terry Hobbs and he is convicted. Only then will justice be served. Only then will these little boys have justice.

Vacation

I'm so glad the president has gone on vacations for TEN days in MARTHA'S VINEYARD (after he has been on a bus tour for 4 days) while the stock market plunges and unemployment is about 9%. I hope he has a good time. I wonder how many rounds of golf he will play. So far he has played more golf in 2 years than Bush did in 8. But yet Bush was villified for playing as much golf as he did. Go figure.

Certified Nutt!

Really? Someone is paying Herman Cain to be conservative?? Take a look people. This is what the liberal base has become! Delusional Idiots. (I did not say democrats. I said liberals.) To my democrat friends...do you really want to associate yourself with people like this?

Challenge to conservatives....

Ok. Its this simple. If every conservative could change one liberal mind or one Obama voter, we could seal the deal with defeating this administration in 2012. I challenge you to find 1 person who voted for Obama and change their mind. Forward this to your conservative friends and challenge them. And when you change that persons mind, challenge them. Think about it....one person. (And if you are feeling ambitious...go for 2)

Fast and Furious

Look it up. Google it. Our government knowingly allowed guns to be in the hands of criminals. Agents who wanted to seize the firearms were told to stand down. Eric Holder is a liar. He knew exactly what was going on and so did President Obama. These guns have been found at 11 crime scenes. Americans are dead. Someone needs to be called to the carpet!

The Dangers of Political Correctness

A growing Conservative Social Issue is Political Correctness. It’s often seen as a slightly funny effort to keep from hurting the feelings of another. And today there are many do’s and don’ts drilled into our heads on what we can and cannot say. “PC” is not funny, however; it’s deadly serious. This is definitely a Conservative Social Issue. Look at its history below:

• “PC” was a movement deliberately started by Marxists in 1923 to do away with Democracies and draw people to Marxism. Under Marxism, the individual is nothing, and Political Correctness was a means of helping destroy Democracy, the stated goal of Marxists. The founders wanted to change speech and thought patterns to this end and to call this change something that sounds positive. They chose Political Correctness. The last thing the founders wanted was to have this new movement associated with the Marxist Movement, or its outgrowths, Socialism and Communism. They pretty well succeeded, because today, most people don’t know of this early history.

• Political Correctness has been used by most of the 20th century dictators to gain complete control over a country. One example is in the early years of Castro’s Cuba (1959) “PC” was used to whitewash the repression and violations of human rights happening under Castro, where thousands of people were jailed, killed, or never heard of again, and make the evil-doers doing the killing look like saints. Cubans learned early on what was safe to say and what wasn’t. Soon, Castro had complete control of speech, and then of Cuba. He used the tools of education and media to accomplish this.

• In the 1960’s, “PC” was the perfect tool for the student rebellion against the Vietnam War and the draft. Student rebels needed an ideology to legitimize their rants, “Hell no, we won’t go” and “Make love, not war.” One of the founders of Marxist Political Correctness, Herbert Marcuse, introduced “PC” on American college campuses. This became a completely free theory where one didn’t have to work, had no hang-ups, where there was a free-love-and-do-your-own-thing-like drugs mentality, and for 1960s rebels, “if it feels good, do it.” What a wonderful message for the 1960’s radicals.“Liberating Tolerance” became intolerance for anyone thinking differently from the then politically correct crowd.

America today is reaping the harvest of the growing conservative social issue, “PC”. Political Correctness has infiltrated our schools, our textbooks, our media, in fact, the very framework of our society. We actually have people punished for verbalized political thoughts. We are so afraid of saying something that isn’t “PC” we often don’t say anything. Certain groups are automatically seen as more important than others, and can say whatever they want. The terror of anyone who dissents from Political Correctness is well-known. Retribution is swift, careers lost, good people destroyed, while the “Sainted Ones” revel in the destruction of any who is deemed politically incorrect. It is easy to stick a label of bigotry on someone, and this person may very well be ruined forever. 
Today,“PC” has grown to be a huge conservative social issue that has a stranglehold on American society. Political Correctness is not funny. It’s growing, and it will eventually destroy anything we have ever defined as our freedom and our culture. It is the single most important conservative social issue today is fighting political correctness. If we conservatives, in rebuilding our conservative values, do not change or stop the encroaching liberal spin and revision of American history to make America and Americans look bad to the rest of the world, then we will have lost our right to freedom of speech and with that loss, our democracy. And the world will hate us more!

Insanity

This is absolutely unbelievable. Drop to the ground right now and thank the good Lord that you do not live in New York or New Jersey. At the present time, the toll to cross bridges in and out of New York City is $8....EACH WAY! So that means someone who has no choice but to cross those bridges in order to go to work.....pay $16 a day as it is....just to cross a bridge. NOW....they are going to hike the fee from $8 to $15.....and $17 during peak hours...EACH WAY. Which is when people who work will be crossing them. So.....now.....they will paying $34 A DAY TO CROSS A BRIDGE. That's $170 a week. That's $680 a month. TO CROSS A BRIDGE. That's not even counting gas money. These people have no choice but to cross those bridges. They have to go to work. And just like that.....they are going to cost each car that crosses that bridge an extra $350 plus a month. This is government trying to strong arm people not own cars and to use public transportation. Again....be thankful you don't live there. If you do...God help you New Yorkers and New Jersey people. Just pure insanity.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hudson_cro_to_bear_6MJBqlqUkgIauE8ze5EhMI

Melting Pot

Over the past several hundred years, people have made a mad dash to our country. People who wanted to be Americans. People that wanted to embrace our way of life. People who wanted an opportunity to think for themselves. People that wanted to control their own destiny. They MELTED into our society. That is what has made our country so great.

Only in the last few decades have people decided they want to come to the United States of America for a better life, but they do not want to become AMERICANS! They do not want to adopt our culture, they do not want to learn our language, they do not want to accept the fact that this is a nation founded on a firm foundation of faith in God. And we, in our politically correct society that we live in today, are letting others that come into our country dictate what is acceptable and unacceptable in our American culture. We are losing our identity. Don't misunderstand me, I embrace other cultures. But not people that come into our country and act offended at things we do. This is OUR country. Who do they think they are? And here is a little secret. It's the LIBERALs who are making it possible for these things to take place. You know why....because liberals are opposed to Americana culture in it's form right now, the way it has been for hundreds of years. Liberals want to transform our culture to fit more in the mold of the culture of the world. They value the world as a whole, more than they do the country. Period. But conservatives view point on it as a whole........is if you don't like it here, you don't have to stay. If you want to become an American, become an American. Bring what is good that exists in your culture to melt in with our culture, to make our culture better. What is so wrong about that?

We have to start standing up and fighting back. We can welcome those into our culture and embrace what they have to offer, but not to those who come over here and expect us to treat their culture as superior to ours. I WOULD NEVER go into another country and have those expectations. But yet....we are allowing that to happen here. We are going to look up and 30 years, and we aren't going to have an American culture.

Stand up. Hold tight to our traditions, our culture, our way of life. Or it's going to disappear right in front of us.

Obama Zombie

I have heard about this clip for years now....but just now saw it for the first time. And....WOW. That's all I can say. I have no words.

This guy is great!

This is digusting.

The progressive movement is now transforming Thomas Jefferson from one of the most important people in our nation's history, to a repulsive slave owner. Yes...he did own slaves. Everyone did back then. But what this video doesn't include is how Jefferson treated his slaves. His slaves respected him and loved him. How he wanted to set them free...but he just couldn't financially afford to.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/a-slave-holder-named-thomas-jefferson-is-smithsonians-new-race-exhibit-fair-to-founding-father/

Obama's Bus Tour

What is Obama's solution to the job situation in this country? Well...this is a shocker...but it's not creating jobs by stopping government intrusion into the private market. What's his solution? To go on a bus tour of the United States. That's rignt. And guess what. WE ARE PAYING FOR IT! Yes....the taxpayers of this country are paying for this bus tour. A presidential motorcade just from an airport to a venue a few miles away is quite an expensive undertaking, but how much does one that gallivants around an entire section of the country cost? How does getting in a bus and running around the country at taxpayer’s expense create jobs? It doesn’t, this is a campaign tour. Obama’s policies of wasting your taxpayer dollars and increasing the debt $3.9 trillion have failed; this is about his campaigning which you are funding, not about creating jobs. If it were, he’d be implementing policy. He isn’t. Instead he’s getting on a campaign bus and going to battle-ground states at your expense. In other words, he screwed up with your taxpayer dollars and killed millions of jobs, and now he’s trying to cover that mess up with more of your taxpayer dollars going to fund his campaign tour. Despicable.

And a bus?? That's not very green Mr. President. This "Do as I say, not Do as I do" policy makes me sick. And to top it off....today, during his bus tour, the President said to the auto manufacturers, "you can't JUST make money on SUVs and trucks". Thats not an economic statement, thats a moral statement. Obama thinks it's immoral for the manufacterer to sell, and for YOU to buy a pickup of SUV. All the while while he traipses across the country in a gas guzzling bus.....on OUR DIME!!! How many Chevy Volts would it take to replace his $l.2 million dollar buses he his cruising the midwest in?

It infuriates me. And I hope it does you too.

THE MYTH OF SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

The Liberals' standard fallback position: an outraged accusation of my alleged violation of the Constitution's ironclad requirement for the "Separation of Church and State."

But the Constitution doesn't contain the phrase "separation of church and state" anywhere. That phrase actually comes from a letter written by President Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to the Danbury Baptist Association, who were concerned that Anglicanism might become the official denominational preference of the new nation. Jefferson was trying to reassure the worried Baptists that no such "establishment" skullduggery was afoot.

The First Amendment's widely misunderstood Establishment Clause simply means that the state will not set up any official state religion, nor will it prohibit any person from freely exercising the religious dictates of his or her own conscience. However, this restriction on the Government's intrusion into the private religious convictions of its citizenry does NOT mean that all aspects of religion should be kept completely out of the affairs of the State. That secular ideology is entirely foreign to the original intent of the Founding Fathers — who drafted the Constitution, including its Bill of Rights, as a clearly defined limitation on the power of the Government to interfere with the freedoms of the people, but NOT as a limitation on the power of the people to control the Government according to the beliefs of their own hearts.

President John Quincy Adams, the son of the great statesman from Massachusetts who did so much to inspire the Declaration of Independence, stated the truth succinctly on July 4, 1821: "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."

How many Americans today even remember that it was the Great Awakening and the fiery sermons of the Patriot Pastors that sparked the American Revolution, or that the rallying cry of the Colonial rebels was "No King but Jesus"? No, sadly, most Americans today have been spoon-fed a poison porridge of revisionist lies that claim George Washington and Company were all rationalistic Desists seeking to advance the secular ideals of the French Enlightenment. (For more truthful information, see David Barton's website, http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/.)

It bothers me that so many schoolchildren in America are growing up ignorant of their country's religious heritage, which is so deeply rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition that even the Supreme Court of a century ago saw fit to declare officially that "our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian . . . this is a Christian nation." (Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892)

Fifty years later, the Liberal icon Justice William O. Douglas wrote for the Court: "The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State . . . We find no constitutional requirement makes it necessary for government to be hostile to religion and to throw its weight against the efforts to widen the scope of religious influence. The government must remain neutral when it comes to competition between sects . . . We cannot read into the Bill of Rights such a philosophy of hostility toward religion." (Zorach v. Clauson, 1952)

Still, many Americans mistakenly believe the phrase "separation of church and state" exists in the Constitution. It doesn't. Why are so many Americans so misinformed? Because three generations of secular humanist educators and atheistic ACLU ideologues have parroted this big lie so often that the dumbed-down, indoctrinated masses have finally begun to believe it, simply because nobody ever bothered to explain the true meaning of the First Amendment.

Liberals always claim to believe in the Constitution, even if they wrongly interpret it. But what we're dealing with here is not a difference of opinion on some debatable topic, but rather a willful ignorance (real or professed) of long-settled historical facts.

This blatant distortion of our nation's history is a slap in the face of American taxpayers, who are footing the bill for this widespread anti-Christian disinformation campaign. The public schools should be teaching our children the truth, not just what they want kids to believe. Those of us who know the truth need to hold the Liberals accountable for their insidious lies.

Rubio

I really do love this man! He is the next Ronald Reagan! Just give him a few years!

Scott Walker's Unbalanced Media Coverage

Here is a thought to chew on.

Remember Wisconsin? It's that little state run by Republican Governor Scott Walker. Unions and liberals couldn't hate the guy more, but the economy seems to love him. He has managed to created close to 50,000 jobs since the raid on Wisconsin's capital. Of those 50,000 jobs, 13,000 were created last month. Nationwide there was only 18,000 jobs created that month, so more than 70% of those were created in Wisconsin. Yet...did we hear about it in the mainstream media?? Where was the coverage? Where was the praise for him and what his policies have done for that state, in so little time? He certainly dominated the mainstream media when they were shredding him for taking on the unions.Who can argue now that the mainstream media is balanced??

And where is the mainstream coverage on the story that after the efforts of Wisconsin Union liberals to recall Republican legislators FAILED! After unions pumped MILLIONS of dollars into that state so liberals could take control of the Wisconsin legislature, they FAILED! Where was that story? I tell you....NOTHING on ABC. Period. Crickets. 47 seconds on NBC, and 3 minutes on CBS. Can you imagine if the results had gone the other way??? The coverage would have been mind boggling. Balanced??? Pshhhhh. There are still 2 democratic recall elections this Tuesday. I can bet you there won't be ANY coverage. Especially if one of those democrats get beat.

Now Governor Walker is creating jobs, and lots of them. As most educated people know, you need private sector taxpayers to support those working on the government payroll, so technically Governor Walker is saving a lot of public employee jobs with his actions. Even some of those private sector jobs could be union jobs. I wonder if some of the recipients of those jobs will look a little more favorably on Governor Walker now? Probably not.

By the way...Wisconsin kept there credit rating in tact. Just saying. Maybe Obama should take some notes.

Class Warfare

Class Warfare, two words I hadn't even thought much about up until about a year ago. After all, we live in America. America, where we are taught if you work hard and you are honest, you can become anything you want to be. America, where we are taught you don't have to settle for what you have. America, where you can get up every day, put in a days work and come home exhausted, but at the same time have a sense of worth and achievement that you earned a honest days work in order to provide for yourself and your family. That's what America is about. We control our own destiny.

But the ugly truth of this progressive movement that is occuring in our country is starting to shine through. The progressive movement in this country is dividing this country past the typical historical divides of political parties. No, the progressive movement in this country is dividing us, causing resentment and bitterness between us as Americans just because some of us happen to have more than someone else because of the hard work they have put into their career. The progressive movement in this country is creating a mentality amongst some of us that it's not fair that our neighbors have more than us. It's not fair that our neighbors get to go on vacations or own SUV's. But it's not just creating the mentality that it's not fair, but now, more than ever, the progressive movement is creating a mentality amongst some of us that we are entitled to what our neighbors have. It is creating a mentality that we shouldn't have to go out and work for what we obtain, that it should just be given to us. It is creating a mentality that wealth and possessions should be taken away from those who have worked hard for what they have, and be given to someone else who hasn't worked as hard, just so it's "fair". This is EXACTLY what is happening in London right now. Take a look at the turmoil. The liberal, progressive movement is finally taking its toll on that country, and it's just the beginning. There is such a divide between people over there that people who think they are entitled to things, are going onto what they consider "rich" people's property and STEALING things to make it FAIR?!?!?! Is this what you want for our country? And on top of that, the police in that country can't even protect themselves. No, the police in that country are NOT ALLOWED to have guns. And neither are the citizens, so they can't protect themselves either. So the only people who have guns in that country now.......are the CRIMINALS. Gun laws end up benefiting criminals, because regardless, they are going to get the guns. They're criminals. All gun laws do is disarmour the honest people who want to protect themselves if need be. But that is a whole other issue.

Be careful who you demonize. Be careful who you think don't pay enough taxes. Those business owners employ 70% of this country. They sign your paychecks. They keep this economy stimulated. What happens if you raise taxes on those people who get up every morning to try and keep their business afloat?? They have to cut wages. They have to cut jobs. They have to cut benefits. They have to raise the costs on their products so they can keep their doors open. What does all of that equal? Less money in the economy. Less money in YOUR pocket. Instead of that money in the economy stimulating it like we need it to be, it's being WASTED by our government. It is being sunk into entitlements, creating a class of people that EXPECT everything to be given to them. Don't misunderstand me, we need to take care of people who NEED it. We do need food stamps. We do need welfare. But it SHOULD NOT be treated like a way of life. It should be treated like a TEMPORARY aid until people can get on their feet. We need to reform these programs and stop enabling people to be lazy and creating a mentality that they need the government to take care of them.

We don't need new taxes in this country! We need new TAXPAYERS!!!! Let's get back to conservative fiscal policies that are going to encourage job creation and entrepeneurship! That is the answer to get our country on the right track again! But in order to do that, this administration MUST GO!!