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It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed, against the backdrop of a passive, hapless … people.
Liberals hardly notice when Rush Limbaugh makes a statement like that; its all in the Conservative talk radio noise. But when Russian journalist Stanislav Mishin makes it, every American ought to tune in and listen as intently as they would if E. F. Hutton opened his mouth. The quote is the opening sentence in Mishin’s article, American Capitalism Gone with a Whimper, which appeared in the April 27, 2009 edition of PRAVDA On-Line1, a Web-based reincarnation of the former official organ of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee, Pravda, which Russian Federation President Boris Yeltzin ordered shut down in 1991.2
 
Mishin derides America’s capitalist arrogance and inability to arrest Marxism’s influence. His article evinces sarcastic admiration for the speed with which upstart Marxist rookie, Barak Obama, and his comrades are showing up Russia’s Bolsheviks, who “wrote the book” on social revolution. In particular, Mishin cites profligate Government deficit spending and private industry takeovers by the Obama Administration as examples of their bold and aggressive style. 
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more than another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
Mishin continues, citing various social strategies statists have implemented to weaken American resolve against totalitarianism: 
… the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years … Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters … First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture … Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more than Sunday circuses …
Mishin concludes by exhorting fellow Russians who own businesses and industries in America to “look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.”
 
One of the things I take away from reading Mishin’s article, and it is telling, is this: When the Russian media become a more accurate and reliable source of information about goings-on in America than the American media, it is time to stop indulging America’s mainstream media by absorbing their spin on the “news.” Otherwise, the results can be disastrous—well-meaning Americans who would otherwise oppose the statists’ pernicious revolution, were they accurately informed, end up being its willing accomplices.
 
I would encourage everyone who reads this to go to Pravda On-Line and read Mishin’s article. If you happen to be one of the American mainstream media’s hapless victims, it is time to de-neutralize yourself and engage, as Mishin exhorts Russian business owners, “as fast as possible” and “while there is still value left” in the American dream.
 
© 2009 Unspun Publications.
 
1 PRAVDA On-Line is an Internet-based newspaper run by former Pravda newspaper employees and is unrelated to Pravda. (Source: http://www.wikipedia.org)
2 Pravda (Russian: "Truth") was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991. The Pravda newspaper was started in 1912 in St. Petersburg. It was converted from a weekly Zvezda. It did not arrive in Moscow until 1918. During the Cold War, Pravda was well known in the West for its pronouncements as the official voice of Soviet Communism. (Similarly Investia was the official voice of the Soviet government.) After the paper was closed down in 1991 by decree of President Yeltsin, many of the staff founded a new print newspaper with the same name, which is now a tabloid-style Russian news source. (Source: http://www.wikipedia.org)
 
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$1,000,000 Birth Certificate

People who know me will confirm that my fiscal track record is unlikely to garner an appearance on The Dave Ramsey Show. If a problem has two possible solutions, one costing $10 and the other $1,000,000, however, even I have enough fiduciary stock to be invested with that choice. I would not fail.
 
Barak Obama has a birth certificate problem. I know about the $10 solution because I read about it myself on Hawaii’s Department of Health (DOH) website. All Barak needs to do to get a certified copy of his birth certificate is go to the Hawaii Vital Records web page with a credit card, and for about the cost of three packs of smokes, they’ll ship it straight to the Oval Office. Strangely, Barak's approach involves paying high-powered attorneys about $1-million to make sure his birth certificate doesn't ever see the light of day. I don't know what the big deal is about $10 but maybe he wants to economically stimulate the attorneys. Or, maybe he's intimidated by the Internet. All I know is, the Obama team defined “tech-savvy" during the campaign, so I’m sure they’ll figure it out soon enough.
 
Lots of Americans believe Barak Obama’s a genius, a “miracle worker,” practically “divine.” Why Louie Farrahkahn even says he’s “the messiah.” He’s so smart, in fact, that he is healing the U.S. economy, right before our very eyes and for the first time in recorded history, by profligately taxing and spending it back from the brink of eternal destruction to the mount of economic transfiguration. They say he’s gonna do it with Cap and Trade (whatever that is) and Health Care Reform too. Every other country that has tried has failed, but they didn’t have “the messiah.”
 
I may not be an economic Einstein, but I'd spend the ten bucks and have certified copies of my birth certificate mailed to every plaintiff who has filed suit in a U.S. court alleging that I’m ineligible to be President because I’ve never produced it. I’d have never have guessed that spending a million dollars on attorneys to keep my birth record private is a better idea than the ten dollar option, but I guess that’s why Barak Obama is in the White House and I’m still paying rent.
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Letter to Chief Justice Roberts re Barak Obama's Citizenship

After I typed this letter to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, I learned of the case of US Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook who is balking at orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he does not believe Barak Obama is a natural-born US citizen and thus is ineligible to serve as President and Commander in Chief.  Cook’s attorney, Orly Taitz, has filed court papers requesting a temporary restraining order citing her client’s conscientious objection. Why would any US soldier be required to obey the command of a foreign national or someone who has never proven his status as a natural-born US citizen and thus his eligibility to be President and command US troops? As I have said many times before, this is not going away.


July 14, 2009

Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
Supreme Court of the United States
One First Street N.E.
Washington, DC 20543


Dear Chief Justice Roberts,

The New Testament epistle to the Hebrews states that there is no place to hide from the penetrating scrutiny of God’s holy gaze, but that “all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” (Hebrews 4:13)  In the book of Numbers it is written, “Be sure your sins will find you out!” (Numbers 32:23)  The truth always comes out.

Two months ago, I sent a letter to you asking you and your colleagues to schedule a full hearing on the matter of Barak Obama’s eligibility to serve as President of the United States based on his apparent refusal to produce a certified copy of his birth certificate.  There is mounting evidence suggesting that Mr. Øbama is not a natural-born US citizen, perhaps not a US citizen at all.

The burden of proof of citizenship rests with the candidate and his nominating party, does it not? The fact that Barak Obama has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyer fees to block dozens of legitimate attempts to gain access to his birth and education records, is itself prima facie evidence that he is hiding something. With respect to his birth record, what could he possibly be hiding but his place of birth?  Does a spurious PDF image of a “Certification of Live Birth” posted on a website serve as evidence enough for the Supreme Court to look the other way on this critical Constitutional issue?

If by some other means it comes to light that Barak Obama is not a natural-born US citizen, what will it do to Americans’ confidence in the Presidency, let alone in the highest court in this land? What will it mean if Barak Obama is indeed a Kenyan citizen as attested by his Kenyan grandmother who claims to have been present in the hospital delivery room when he was born in Nairobi? How will US military commanders respond to a “Commander in Chief” who isn’t constitutionally eligible to be President, let alone command US troops into battle? What kind of precedent will this set should future foreign-born individuals decide they want to run for office?

Are American citizens obliged to obey the Executive Orders of a man whose eligibility to be President is dubious? Are American citizens obliged to obey American National Guard troops who are commanded by a foreign national?  Can a majority of American citizens legitimately elect as President a man who isn’t constitutionally eligible? Can a majority of Americans override the Constitution by electing someone who is ineligible?

I realize that the truth might mean chaos for a time; in all likelihood, rioting, violence and even death might ensue. However, as the economy continues to deteriorate and more Americans are unemployed, or if some other civil or natural crisis occurs, will this issue not add to the civil uncertainty as a result of Americans’ loss of confidence in the White House? You see, Justice Roberts how avoidance merely delays the inevitable. Mark my words. The US Legislature and the courts will not be able to sweep this under the rug.  If you do not deal with this issue now, the day will come when you will curse the day you decided to ignore it.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died defending our freedoms since the Founding. I’d rather see American cities burn and be done with it than stand idly by while American liberty is slowly incinerated by a foreign-born national!  You do realize that if Obama is not a US citizen that Americans are under foreign occupation?

This doesn’t have to be a fait accompli. My appeal is not based on the false notion that Justices are “elected representatives.” I understand the Court is not a legislature. I am not an attorney—obviously—But I am well-educated, intelligent and most important of all, I have common sense. As an American, in the name of the Constitution of the United States which you swore to uphold, in the name of Almighty God who will judge the living and the dead, and on behalf of every American who has a right to know if Barak Øbama’s is a natural-born US citizen, I appeal to you to deal squarely with this issue. I have a right to make this appeal to you; I do not need to be an attorney to do so, any more than a Supreme Court justice is required to have law degree to be on the Supreme Court.

Please—Act before it is too late.  Act before America is lost forever.

Respectfully,
 
WHC
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Dreams of My American Father on America's 233rd Birthday

Barak Obama's treasonous attempt to vacate the US Constitution by occupying the Office of President of the United States as a foreign-born national

I, William Jr., am the first-born son of my deceased father, William Sr.  My father was a member of the Greatest Generation and a patriotic American.  On December 8, 1944, one day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the US Army Air Force. On July 21, 1944, on a bombing mission deep into Southern Germany, his B-24 Liberator, the “Lucky Buck,” took shrapnel and began to rapidly lose altitude. The crew bailed out and my father was captured by German troops. He was forced to march across Germany to a POW camp, Stalag Luft #3, where he remained a prisoner until VE Day, May 8, 1945. At 6-foot, 2-inches tall, my father weighed less than 100 pounds by the time his German captors released him into the hands of British forces. My brave father fought to defeat the same kind of tyranny America is facing today in IslamofacismHe risked his life to ensure that his and future generations of Americans would enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He volunteered because he believed in America’s greatness. These were The Dreams of My American Father and I am proud to claim them as my own.

I am a natural-born citizen of the United States. I have been a proud Virginian my entire life. My wife and I have raised five beautiful children in the Commonwealth. We have taught our three sons and two daughters that America is a land of liberty, justice, and equal opportunity for all. We taught them to love America as the Framers intended it, and to love the God who gave us this once-in-a-millennium, one-of-a-kind “Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.” As an ordained minister, I recently enjoyed the honor of presiding over oldest daughter’s wedding in Haymarket, Virginia. I have four siblings, five nieces and six nephews who also reside in Northern Virginia.

In two days, America will celebrate its 233rd birthday. Today, words are not sufficient to describe the grave concern I have over the direction our nation is being taken in. We are losing America! Our children and grandchildren are losing America.  A world in desperate need of freedom is losing Liberty’s Guardian, America. Or should I say America is being stolen from us!

Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution states,
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”  Therefore, it would seem incumbent on political parties to obtain certifiable documentary evidence of a candidate’s eligibility to occupy the Oval Office before nominating them, and to make that evidence readily available, not only to state governors, legislatures, election certification authorities, and legal inquisitors, but to any American citizen who asks for it. Since the burden of proof of eligibility lies with the candidate and his nominating party, it must be assumed that any Presidential aspirant who resists or is unable to provide such evidence, is ineligible to be President.

I am not an attorney or legal scholar, but simple common sense instructs me that a PDF image of a, some say, forged Hawaiian “Certification of Live Birth” (which is not a Hawaiian birth certificate) posted on a partisan political website doth not evidence beyond a reasonable doubt make. Were we voting for homecoming queen or the next HOA president instead of the President of the United States, certification of natural-born citizenship might not weigh as heavily in the vetting process. In matters as weighty as who will command US forces into battle, however, any corner-cutting by those responsible for fully vetting a candidate’s eligibility to hold office, is inexcusable and a treasonous dereliction of dutyOne who knowingly holds the Office of President in violation of the US Constitution should be impeached and tried for high treason. Anyone who aids and abets someone who is not constitutionally eligible to hold the office, commits treason and should be tried as a traitor.

The fact that Barak Obama has retained elite legal counsel and paid them hundreds of thousands of dollars to block any legitimate attempt to gain access to his certified birth record, when it would be much easer and cost only $500 to obtain and distribute fifty copies to inquisitors, is itself compelling prima facie evidence that demands a rebuttal, or delivery of the goods.  In the absence of these, it must be assumed that Barak Obama is ineligible to be President and that his removal from the White House, by force if necessary, is mandated.

How much more evidence do we need? Why are our elected representatives standing idly by while this fraud, who has not provided a single shred of certifiable evidence that  he is a natural-born US citizen, whose birth in Kenya has been attested to by family eyewitnesses, whose childhood enrolment in an Indonesian Madrasah suggests he would have had to renounce citizenship in any other country and become an Indonesian citizen, shreds the US Constitution?  It is time to remove this evil impostor from the White House or America is finished.

To Our Elected Representatives

How much longer do our elected representatives think the American people will stand for this masquerade?!  More than 50% of Americans are now aware of the questions surrounding Barak Obama’s eligibility and almost 50% are troubled by it or believe Obama should release all relevant documents, including his birth certificate.  Do our representatives and judges who are kicking the can down the road actually believe that allowing this sham of a Presidency to continue will be less destructive to America in the long run than dealing with the civil unrest that might ensue should the truth of Obama’s ineligibility be fully exposed and properly dealt with now?  Soon we will not have an America to contend for.

Do not defame our American military heroes! Do not desecrate the graves of the men and women who have paid the ultimate sacrifice over the past 233 years to acquire and preserve American liberty!  Do not trample the graves of our fallen heroes at Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Arlington National Cemetery, Gettysburg, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Do not mock the men who sacrificed everything by signing their names to the Declaration of Independence.  Now is not the time to shrink from duty, costly though it might be. This tyranny is precisely the reason we have come to this hour!

How can we, in good conscience, embrace our children and grandchildren, tell them we love them, coddle them on our knees, save for their futures, tell them America is great, reassure them of a bright future, and still look them in the eye while we allow this despot, a complicit sell-out US legislature, and their subversive enablers in the national media, to utterly destroy America and its future?  If we are not willing to sacrifice at least as much as our forebears did to secure American liberty, then we too are desecrating their tombs and deserve to have our own trampled!

Will it again become necessary
for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them?”  Will average American Patriots once again be bound to take matters into our own hands because our elected representatives are gutless cowards who have abdicated their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution of the United States?!  Stop being wimps and act like men!

William Wallace of Scotland’s speech before the battle of Sterling is instructive to anyone who might be tempted to retreat or capitulate in the face of this formidable tyranny:

Wallace: Sons of Scotland, I am William Wallace.

Short Soldier: William Wallace is seven feet tall!

Wallace: Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds, and if he were here he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse. I AM William Wallace. And I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What would you do without freedom? Will you fight?

Tall Soldier: Fight against that? No, we will run, and we will live!

Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die, run and you'll live. At least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

All:Alba gu bra! (Scotland forever!)


America
forever!  Nobless oblige! Nobless oblige!
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Barak and His Comrades

Barak looked like an old homeboy next to the Little Venezuelan Eggplant.  It was obvious he felt a little exposed tradin’ pleasantries with Chavez and cameras in the room. Do you realize how rare it is to catch two despots smiling in the same frame? That kind of scene usually requires Photoshop, but Barak did it! He did it! We’re talkin’ change, bro, change we can believe in.

Neither despot could hide his giddiness; they connected—big time. When O walked in the room, Little Big Mouth lit up! It was comrades at first sight.  Chavez sees in Obama an up-and-comer he can mentor like Castro mentored him. O's the little brother Chavez never had and Chavez's the big brother O's always wanted.  Welcome to the family, little bro!

Now that O's joined the gang, Venezuela’s Little Commie Who Could and Cuba’s Chewbacca can hardly believe their own press. They recognized O's despotic savantism right away and they’re elated; tickled red. The goal they’ve tried and failed to achieve for decades has just fallen into their laps! The two dictators are punch-drunk about having a despot in the White House. Chavez and Castro exchanged jabs and placed bets on how long it would take O to destroy American free enterprise.  By the looks of things, not very long. Evidentally, O is a quick understudy.

I just can’t wait to see what happens when O and Castro embrace.  Better yet, when O, Castro and Chavez do a group hug. I bet there’ll be “fireworks.”  I’ve always said, “There’s nothing like comrades, Coronas and Havanas together in a pub overlooking El Malecón. Maybe O and his peeps can meet over May Day and enjoy the festivities together. Heck, O should fabricate a diplomatic crisis in Honduras and use it as an excuse to hang with his homies through the US Independence Day holiday. Better yet, maybe he should stay for good. You feelin’ me bro?!

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US Healthcare: An Open Letter to the Democratic Apparatchik

Dear Senators, Congressmen and President,

This is a lengthy letter, but I encourage you (not just staff members) to read it in its entirety. At least 50% of Americans agree with the sentiments expressed herein, so you need to hear what I have to say.

Fortunately for law-abiding citizens, dumb criminals eventually end up in jail. But I am concerned about another more dangerous “super criminal” that is destroying our beloved nation right under our noses! I refer to them as "smart criminals." These high-IQ outlaws don't dabble in petty theft. They always go for the BIG heist. These banditos are some of the smartest desperados ever to brandish—well, a vote, a filibuster or a veto.

Once seated, smart criminals waste no time. With the drive of a crack addict in search of a fix, smart criminals will trample any liberty that gets between them and power. They rush to enact laws that ‘legitimize’ pickpocketing the American people and embezzle their constituents legislatively. No longer is organized crime at war with Government; they are bedfellows!

For the time being, a bunch of these power junkies have managed to gain majorities in the highest political assemblies in this Land as well as the White House. As Americans have observed at an alarming pace since the '08 presidential election, smart criminals and political power make a combustible mixture. To those of us who pay more than lip service to the Founders dream, these faux patriots are using the US Constitution as kindling for their national version of "Bonfire of the Vanities" and our liberties are going up in smoke. Next up for the pyre? The best healthcare system in the world.

The Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) has mastered its mendacious craft. Liberal Democrats mislead the American people continually and some Republican politicians have dissembled with them. The DSP has become a brood of vipers and the “light that is in you is darkness.” The DSP apparatchik uses “Sleight of Pseudonym” to conceal the true nature of their nefarious legislative initiatives. Democratic Socialists give euphemistic names to legislation in order to hustle the American people. In round one of their gang-rape of America, self-titled 'Progressives' slipped the “National Economic Suicide Act” by an unwary electorate by naming it the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.” One round wasn't enough to satisfy their lust, so the DSP and a few Republican deserters continue to "*!#$%^" the American people.  For their next major legislative caper, smart criminals only needed to remove the first two words from the "End of Affordable Health Choices Act."  I'd feel less violated by a thief pointing a gun in my face. At least the guy with the gun is honest!

Perhaps you think my line of reasoning is insulting or out of line. You should be grateful that a natural-born American citizen is willing to tell you the truth. There are a lot of naked emperors running around DC these days so consider my letter a friendly tap on the shoulder.

Now that the current brood of smart criminals has set its sights on the US healthcare system, and realizing that DSP members are always in a hurry to get back to "working for the American people," I have limited myself to one simple question.  I’ve even made it multiple-choice.

Which of the following five major Federal social programs enacted since the dawn of the American Republic in 1776 has 1) been so successful that it justifies seizure of an additional 20% of American GDP by today’s Federal Government; 2) stayed within the bounds of it’s enacting legislation, and 3) not far exceeded its original intent beyond anything it’s originators could have imagined? Place a check mark next to each program that matches each of these criteria.
 
   a   Medicare
   b   Medicaid
   c   Social Security
   d   Welfare
   e   Federal Income Tax
   f   None of the above

Historical background information for each program is provided below to facilitate informed responses.

Medicare and Medicaid:   In 1945, President Harry Truman asked Congress for legislation to establish a national health insurance plan. Contentious debate ensued with forward-thinking opponents warning of “socialized medicine.” By the end of his administration, Truman had abandoned his plan for universal health coverage. Fast-forward 20 years and its déjà vu all over again. In an act reminiscent of “Night of the Living Dead,” Truman is reincarnated as Lyndon B. Johnson and on July 30, 1965, signs Truman's exhumed dream into law as Medicare and Medicaid. Before you throw yourself on the back of the hearse headed to Johnson’s “Great Society,” however, you might want to consider the following facts.

In 1966, 19 million people enrolled in Medicare and 4 million in Medicaid with combined federal outlays in 1967 totaling $4.4 billion. Today, the Truman/Johnson dream has morphed into one BIG nightmare and the Federal Government has night terrors that a sleepwalking American public might awaken to the abysmal state of these programs. Today there are 43 million people enrolled in Medicare, 51 million in Medicaid, and combined federal outlays totaling $514 billion or 21% of the Federal budget! Facing the prospect of already below-cost Medicare payments being further reduced, Doctors are reluctant to participate or are fleeing Federal health insurance programs altogether. Can you blame me for wanting the Federal Government to keep its cotton-pickin’ hands off my healthcare?

Social Security:   In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The original Social Security tax rate was 1% for both employers and employees—on the first $3,000 earned. Seventy-four years later, the rate has nearly octupled to 7.65% for both employer and employee—on the first $102,000 earned. Social Security is expected to be unsustainable in a dozen years or so and rumor has it the current batch of criminals wants to do away with the cap altogether! I guess higher-paid Americans still aren't paying their ‘fair share.’ Do I have it about right?

Welfare:   America’s poorest of the poor used to receive aid from private individuals and organizations such as churches, and small state-based programs. In 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Aid to Families with Dependant Children (AFDC) into law. This initial “welfare” bill provided $18 per month for one child and $12 for each additional child. Since its birth in 1935, Aid to Families with Dependant Children (AFDC) has come a long way—baby! Says Michael Tanner in The Poverty of Welfare: Helping Others in Civil Society (August 2003),

Welfare may have started with the best of intentions, but it has clearly failed. It has failed to meet its stated goal of reducing poverty. But its real failure is even more disastrous. Welfare has torn apart the social fabric of our society. Everyone is worse off. The taxpayers must foot the bill for programs that don’t work. The poor are dehumanized, seduced into a system from which it is very hard to escape. Teenage girls give birth to children they will never be able to support. The work ethic has eroded. Crime rates soar. Such is the legacy of welfare.

Tanner ought to know what he's talking about. As a Senior Fellow and Policy Scholar at the Cato Institute, Tanner also leads research into a variety of domestic policies with emphasis on health care reform, social welfare policy, and Social Security. I'll take my chances with Tanner. Why don’t you criminals have a chat with Turner before you destroy healthcare.

The Federal Income Tax:   President Abraham Lincoln signed the Revenue Act of 1862 into law to help fund the American Civil War. No problem there. The Act also established a Commissioner of the Revenue and instituted the Federal income tax as a "temporary measure" that would terminate in "the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six.” No problem there either-serious times demand serious action. The Revenue Act taxed incomes above $600 at a rate of 3% and those over $10,000 at 5%. The Act required employers to withhold taxes from pay and send the money to the Commissioner. When the deadline to terminate Federal income taxes rolled around in "the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six,” total tax revenues had climbed to an all-time high of $310 million and a temporary Federal tax system that beneficent to the Federal Government wasn’t about to be terminated. By 2007, total tax revenues as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) had mushroomed to 28.3%. Compared to the amount of taxes Americans paid under temporary Revenue Act of 1862, today’s Americans quantify their taxes in the number of months out of each year they must work before The Godfather is paid off. Would someone who knows the actual meaning of temporary please speak up?!

"Stupid is as stupid does," so says Forrest Gump's Mama. How many times does a country need to be misled by smart criminals before it learns its lesson? Apparently, at least five. This legislation will push America closer to tyranny and finish off the Founders’ dream. Is this the legacy Democrats want to leave to posterity? Please, I implore you; do not do this to America. Do not do this to future generations of Americans.

William Cook

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Smart Criminals

Fortunately for law-abiding citizens, dumb criminals eventually end up in jail. But these are no ordinary criminals. These banditos are the smartest desperados ever to brandish a filibuster. I call them "smart criminals.  Smart outlaws don't dabble in petty theft. They go for the big heist—political power. Once in power, smart criminals can pickpocket the American people legislatively and embezzle their constituents legally by codifying their crimes before they commit them. No longer is “organized crime” at war with Government; they are bedfellows!
 
With the same recklessness that a crack addict goes after a fix, smart criminals will destroy anything that gets between them and power. For the time being, a bunch of these power junkies have managed to gain a majority in the highest political assemblies in the Land. As we have witnessed at an alarming pace since the 2008 presidential election, smart criminals and political power make a combustive mixture. Unfortunately for true patriots, America's smart criminals are using the US Constitution as kindling for their national version of "Bonfire of the Vanities" and our liberties are going up in smoke. Next up for the pyre? The best healthcare system in the world.

Using the same sleight of pseudonym they always use to obscure the true meaning of nefarious legislation, smart criminals name their bills antonymically to hide their true goals. Referred to as the "Give Your Legislation A Name that Jukes Your Opponents and Constituents Strategy," this antonymic device is taken straight out of "The Smart Criminals Handbook."  It greased the skids for the “Bacon Bill" which was called the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act." For their next major legislative caper, smart criminals only had to remove the first two words from the beginning of the "End of Affordable Health Choices Act." These guys are slick—really slick.  I'd feel less violated by a thief pointing a gun at my forehead.  At least the guy with the gun is forthright!

To those Americans who are clamoring for Federal takeover of the US healthcare system I have a non-trick question—Which Federal social program successes since 1776 give you "warm fuzzies" about turning an additional 20% of US GDP over to the Feds right now?  At the risk of pushing you outside of your comfort zone, might I suggest an objective review of the Government's track record on other major social programs?  If anyone can prove to me that any two among the following five Federal social programs has been successful, I might even begin to get a few warm fuzzies myself. Ready?  Here they are: 1) Social Security, 2) Welfare, 3) Medicare, 4) Medicaid, and 5) the Federal Income Tax.  In fact, prove just one and I’ll declare you the winner.

Social Security: In 1935, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, the original tax rates were 1% for employers and 1% for employees—on the first $3,000 earned. Since its inception, the Social Security tax rate has nearly octupled to 7.65% for both employer and employee—on the first $102,000 earned. Social Security is expected to be unsustainable in about ten years and rumor has it the Feds want to remove the cap altogether. Well, what do you expect? Someone’s got to secure Social Security before its too late!

Welfare:  The “poorest of the poor” in America used to receive aid from private individuals and organizations such as churches, and small state-based programs. In 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt signed “Aid to Families With Dependant Children (AFDC)” into law. This initial “welfare” bill provided $18 per month for one child and $12 for each additional child. Says Michael Tanner in, the Poverty of Welfare: Helping Others in Civil Society (August 2003),

“… Welfare may have started with the best of intentions, but it has clearly failed. It has failed to meet its stated goal of reducing poverty. But its real failure is even more disastrous. Welfare has torn apart the social fabric of our society. Everyone is worse off. The taxpayers must foot the bill for programs that don’t work. The poor are dehumanized, seduced into a system from which it is very hard to escape. Teenage girls give birth to children they will never be able to support. The work ethic has eroded. Crime rates soar. Such is the legacy of welfare.”

Far be it from me to take anyone's word, but Tanner ought to know what he's talking about. As a Senior Fellow and Policy Scholar at the Cato Institute, Tanner also leads research into a variety of domestic policies with emphasis on health care reform, social welfare policy, and Social Security. I'll take my chances with Tanner rather than those smart criminals.

Medicare and Medicaid:  In 1945, President Harry Truman asked Congress for legislation to establish a national health insurance plan. Contentious debate ensued with forward-thinking opponents warning of “socialized medicine.” By the end of his administration, Truman had abandoned his plan for universal health coverage.  Fast-forward 20 years and in an act that evokes images reminiscent of “Night of the Living Dead,” Truman reappears in the form of President Lyndon B. Johnson and on July 30, 1965, signs Truman's exhumed dream into law as Medicare and Medicaid.  Before you throw yourself on the back of the hearse headed to Johnson’s “Great Society,” however, you might want to consider the facts: In 1966, 19 million people enrolled in Medicare and 4 million in Medicaid with combined federal outlays in 1967 of $4.4 billion. Today, Truman's and Johnson's dream has morphed into One Big Nightmare with 43 million people enrolled in Medicare, 51 million in Medicaid, and combined federal outlays totaling $514 billion, or 21% of the federal budget. Facing the prospect of already below-cost Medicare payments being further reduced, Doctors are reluctant to participate or are abandoning Federal health insurance programs altogether. Can you blame me for wanting to stay with my nightmare scenario?

Federal Income Tax:  President Abraham Lincoln signed the Revenue Act of 1862 into law to help fund the American Civil War. No problem there.  The Act also established a Commissioner of the Revenue and instituted the Federal income tax as a "temporary measure" that would terminate in "the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six.”  No problem there either.  Serious times demand serious action.  I assume dates were spelled out back then.  The Revenue Act taxed income above $600 at a rate of 3% and incomes over $10,000 at 5%.  Employers were required to withhold taxes from pay and send the money to the Commissioner. Tax revenues reached an all-time high in 1866 at $310 million. A temporary Tax Revenue Act that beneficent to the Federal Government wasn’t about to terminate in 1866, or ever.  By 2007, total tax revenues as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) have mushroomed to 28.3%.  Compared to the amount of taxes paid under The Revenue Act that was supposed to end in "the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six," Americans in "the year two-thousand and nine" quantify their taxes in the number of months out of each year they have to work before Uncle Sam is paid off.  Would someone who knows what temporary means please stand up!

"Stupid is as stupid does," or so says Forrest Gump's mom. How many times does a country need to be misled by smart criminals before it learns its lesson? Obviously, more than five.  If we, the American electorate, allow our Government to seize control of our healthcare system, then, in behavior characteristic of the proverbial abused woman, who believing her man’s assurances that “it will never happen again,” goes back for more, we are stupid, and deserve what we get.

© 2009 Squatters Rights Publishing.

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Feline Hit Man Headed for the Pound

Michael Vick killed dogs, but Tyler Weinman committed the unthinkable—cat abuse.[1] Investigators have been combing through Weinman’s Internet history and veterinary records of the deceased cats to find out if Weinman’s is just another case of a sadistic adolescent thrill seeker or honor killing by a dog lover over Vick’s crimes against canines. Police also want to know if Weinman acted alone, but the cat’s got Weinman’s tongue.

The teenage kitty killer was released from jail today on $250,000 bond. Weinman will wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and remain under house arrest while he awaits trial on 19 counts of catslaughter. The question that has cat lovers choking on hairballs is “Why, would he stoop to such barbarism when there are humane ways to terminate Tabby?” One bereaved cat owner meowed, “Poor defenseless Tigger,” and fainted. Feline fanatics and police are both worried that there could be copycats.

Cat Coroner Henry Harebawl darted around the crime scene earlier today to assess the carnage. “These cats are in full rigor. I’m finding paws and claws everywhere!” he said. “By the looks of these carcasses, these puddy tats were probably catnapped around midnight and drugged with catnip; toxicology reports will tell us for sure. The toms usually go on the prowl for kitties around midnight. They were probably slain shortly after that; the Cat Examiner’s autopsy reports will pinpoint the times of death.” Harebawl also mentioned that “Cat owners, desperate to save their furniture, are so afraid of furtive feline rescuers that they won't carry kitty into a vet clinic in broad daylight. They end up turning to back alley cat butchers to get rid of their pissing pussycats.”

Callie Calico of Cats Against Cat Abuse (CACA) was on the scene early to make sure investigators didn't overlook anything. "I lost my kitty to a cat abuser," she said." Calico added, "After that traumatic experience, I founded CACA and have given my life to stopping this kind of abuse from happening to other cat lovers. We're working for a cat abuse-free world."

Weinman will be arraigned on July 6 and could get up to 158 human years in prison. That’s about 843 in cat years for the purr sadist. If the prosecutor makes this a hate crime, Weinman's sentence could be longer. The defense is hoping that prosecution will accept the lesser charge of involuntary catslaughter by reason of insanity in exchange for a no contest plea. Lead investigator Bloodhound Bill Bowser (a.k.a. “Snoopy”) dismissed rumors that Weinman could end up in the same prison cell as Michael Vick. “Not on your leash!" Bowser growled. "They’d end up fighting like cats and dogs."

If my satiric take on this story strikes the reader as insensitive or offensive, I've hit my mark. I refuse to raise an eyebrow over the wanton slaughter a few cats in a society that approves the wanton slaughter of 4,000 helpless unborn human beings who are butchered, poisoned, chemically burned, and dismembered in the sanctuary of their mothers' wombs each and every day in this country. Our priorities and indignation are perverse and our damnation is just.

I would only ask that readers be equally indignant over the wanton slaughter every year in America of 1.5 million unborn human beings who are of inestimable value to God who made them, certainly far more valuable than any number of cats. If your contempt for cat abuse exceeds your disdain for child killing, then there is something in you that is as twisted as the neurosis that motivated Tyler Weinman to torture cats.


© 2009 Spin Cipher Publishing.


[1] Actual story can be found on numerous online news websites doing a Google search on “South Florida Cat Killer.”

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Islam Rising in the West - A Prophetic Perspective

Early nineteenth-century Liberalism,1

… stresses the importance of human rationality, individual property rights, natural rights, the protection of civil liberties, constitutional limitations of government, free markets, and individual freedom from restraint as exemplified in the writings of Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Montesquieu, Voltaire and others … The qualification classical was applied in retrospect to distinguish early nineteenth-century liberalism from the "new liberalism" associated with Thomas Hill Green, Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, which grants a more interventionist role for the state.2

‘Liberal’ and ‘Liberalism’ as they are used today, bear little resemblance to their original meanings.  Today’s Liberalism equates to Statism3 and today’s Liberal is, for all intents and purposes, a Statist. Before they can plunder a society, however, Statists must first "bind the strong man” of truth, for truth is the statist's greatest enemy.  This goal is attained by infecting a society’s time-honored traditional values with pathogenic philosophies such as Multiculturalism, Feminism, Homosexuality, Hedonism, Abortion, and other reprehensible ‘isms.’  For purposes of this article,  I will refer to Statism as a plague—which it is.  The first phase of Statism involves co-opting the host culture’s language, particularly in the area of traditional values, which are a free society's first line of defense against tyranny.  To illustrate, American Statists have hijacked Classical Liberalism’s ‘individual liberty' by shackling it with an “anything goes” meaning that amounts to moral turpitude.4  Thus, Statists have turned America's time-honored value of individual liberty against us in much the same way that an autoimmune disease turns the body's own defenses against itself.

The Apostle Peter spoke of the days we now live in: “While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.” (2 Peter 2:19) The Psalmist wrote, “But unto the wicked God saith, ‘What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee.’” (Psalm 50:16-17) Why is this significant?

The West has tossed out God’s Law and a terrifying irony is unfolding as a result—a tyrannical ideology is rushing in to fill the spiritual and moral vacuum in Europe, Canada, and the United States. What is this terrifying irony and what is its prophetic significance?

Muslim populations and thus, Political Islam, are metastasizing indomitably across Europe, Canada and the United States. Muslim birth rates in the west are far outpacing native population birth rates. If these demographic trends continue, the only thing that stands between Eurabia, Canadistan, and Amerabia is time, and not much of it.

The terrifying irony is this: As Political Islam (a redundancy) ascends to prominence, the Law of the one and only God who is love, will gradually be replaced by an intolerant, oppressive, imposed Islamic morality that is at war with everything modern Liberals hold dear.

The neo-Liberal values the West has stubbornly refused to abandon will be forced upon it in the form of Sharia.5 Voluntary adherence will be replaced by forced subjugation to Islamic law which rejects Multiculturalism, Feminism, Homosexuality, Abortion and Hedonism and imposes austere penalties for law-breakers, capital punishment among them. Then the West which chose absolute “freedom” over the perfect “Law of Liberty” (James 2:12) will be given absolute tyranny.

As the scenario above plays out, the West will find itself in the horrible predicament described in the first chapter of Proverbs for those who reject God’s wisdom and counsel:

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. (Proverbs 1:24-31)

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1 Also known as Classical, Traditional, Laissez-Faire, and Market Liberalism. (Source:  Wikipedia entry titled Liberalism).
2 Ibid.
3 The Ayn Rand Lexicon describes Statism thus:  “the political expression of altruism [which] is collectivism … [statism] holds that man’s life and work belong to the state—to society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nation—and that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.” and “A statist system—whether of a communist, fascist, Nazi, socialist or “welfare” type—is based on the … government’s unlimited power, which means: on the rule of brute force. The differences among statist systems are only a matter of time and degree; the principle is the same.”
4 Vile, shameful, or base character; depravity. A vile or depraved act. (Source: dictionary.com)
5 The body of Islamic religious law. (Source: Wikipedia entry titled Sharia)
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The Good Ship Lollipop (a.k.a. The Supreme Court)

Good Ship Lollipop is a fitting metaphor for a Supreme Court that will be that much closer to weighing anchor for Candyland, as far as statists are concerned, if Sonia Sotomayer is confirmed by the US Senate. Captain Obama will only need one more oarsman and then he can sound the All aboooaaard! for statist interests. The Court is already listing hard to port. The weight of Sotomayer's activism might sink the whole Country.

Once Lollipop shoves off, the ships' navigator, the US Constitution, will have to walk the plank. Thus, the Supreme Court will be left blindfolded on a rudderless ship. Alito, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas will be reduced to four dissenting voices whose opinions will be stowed in the bilge directly below the poop deck. Initially, America, like the seemed-to-be invincible Titanic, will seem fine, but her fate will have already been sealed.

Don't be fooled! Obama wants Sotomayer on the Court for one primary reason; to leverage her ridiculous views and rulings on immigration so he can fling US borders wide open and ensure amnesty for illegals who, as a voting bloc, favor Democrats. As a card-carrying member of Partido Nacional de La Raza Unida, someone like Sotomayer is the right choice for Obama's agenda. This fits O's strategy to circumvent any legislative impediment, federal or state, to amnesty. If he can stack the numbers, he will ensure his reelection, regardless of how many Americans join Tea Parties.

Note:  Do you like the southwestern United States?  We are losing it. For a chilling reason why we need to be engaged on US immigration policy, watch this YouTube video on the Nation of Atzlan

So why does the Supreme Court accept cases at all?  In reality, a judicial ruling by fiat doesn't really need a legal case, does it?  Why doesn't the Supreme Court just cut to the chase, choose 6-12 social issues they feel need fixing, and render opinions on them? Why wait for a case?  Cases are a formality in a kangaroo court.  Besides, we need 'hope and change' now!

Forget the Constitution; I'd settle for a tiny bit of common sense! How did we manage to put a bunch of community activists with absolutely no common sense, on the highest court in the land?! It is embarrassing.

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Multiple Outbursts, The Pontiff of Bombastism, and Other Profanities

 
Why Rush is Right: The party of Buckley and Reagan is alive and well because of the politics of Limbaugh. A true conservative's rebuttal of Frum’s lament”
(By Spin Cipher)

The cover story of the March 7, 2009 edition of Newsweek Magazine features a contentious article by David Frum entitled, “Why Rush is Wrong: The party of Buckley and Reagan is now bereft and dominated by the politics of Limbaugh. A conservative's lament.” Frum opens his dirge with an outburst over an outburst (Frum’s term for any of Levin’s opening monologues) by Conservative talk show host Mark Levin in which he castigates pseudo-Conservatives using Frum as an illustration.

After his initial outburst over Levin’s outburst, Frum launches into another outburst, this time to bombast Rush Limbaugh for his bombastism. Realizing that bombasting a bombastic Conservative icon like Rush Limbaugh in Newsweek might not carry as much weight with Conservatives as it would say, in the American Spectator or Human Events, Frum precedes his bombastation of Rush with his CV of Conservative “bona fides.” He cites a meal with Mark Levin, volunteering for the Reagan campaign, attending Republican conventions, presiding over his law school’s Federalist Society, working on the WSJ editorial page, writing Bush II speeches, serving on the Giuliani campaign, voting for McCain, supporting the Iraq war and supporting Clinton’s impeachment, to prove he’s earned the right to bombast Rush.

In his bombastation, Frum insinuates that Rush’s bombastism typifies the views of a small but vocal Conservo-Fascist fringe and this, he argues, disqualifies Rush to be anointed “Conservative Pontiff.” He then explains why Rush as Conservatism’s ex cathedra bombastador would accelerate the current exodus from Conservatism and spell the end of the movement as we know it. I thought Frum was against Conservatism “as we know it?”

So let me get this straight, Frum’s participation in a bunch of Conservative field experiences makes him a bona fide Conservative? Considering the level of intelligence those activities demand, Frum must be smart enough to know that joining a Conservative “scavenger hunt” doesn’t automatically make someone is a true scavenger, any more than participating in Conservative activities makes someone a true Conservative.

The activities Frum lists would be expected of a model Conservative, to be sure. But they are only an indication that someone might be a Conservative, not dispositive proof. I don’t mean to be profane, but for Buckley’s sake! Judas participated in discipleship activities with Jesus for 3.5 years, heard his teachings, ate with him, and witnessed his miracles, but in retrospect, few would argue that those activities by themselves made Judas a bona fide disciple of Jesus. Neither does doing Conservative activities make one a bona fide Conservative.

I can’t recall ever hearing Rush Limbaugh say he wants to be anointed “leader of the Republican Party,” as Frum asserts, except perhaps as a tongue-in-cheek gadget to illustrate the absurdity of his detractors’ bombasts and outbursts. To be honest, we true Conservatives don’t “need” Levin to outburst or Rush to bombast for us, we can do it ourselves. We love Mark and Rush, not because they teach us what to believe, but because they espouse principles we already believe.

Conservatism is simple, really. “In a nutshell,” true Conservatism is a set of absolutes that derive from a Judeo-Christian understanding of right and wrong and a devotion to the United States Constitution as the Framers intended it. As such, Conservatism and bombastic Government are mutually exclusive; Conservatism and abortion cannot coexist, and so on.

Granted, it’s not always easy to tell who is and who isn’t a true Conservative. Some people who look a lot like Conservatives might actually be of the Heinz 57 variety, Liberoconservamoderate mutts if you will. But true Conservatives are, by definition, pedigreed purebreds. You can’t be a Conservative and have a little bit of Liberal in you. You can’t be a Conservative on every issue save one, such as abortion, and still be a Conservative. “Purebred mutt” is an oxymoron.

A Republican is a Conservative is a Republican does not hold up; true Conservatism is party agnostic anyway. Which brings me to another question: Is Frum a true Conservative or not?  Is he a purebred or a mutt?  Has he relaxed his Conservative values, or is he just now “coming out.” The difference is subtle, but the answer could explain why so many people who claim to be true Conservatives never were.

As for Levin’s outbursts and Rush’s bombastism, they comfort me. Why? Because they provide cathartic relief by mirroring the anger that has been building in me as I watch the irresponsible, dangerous, idiotic, America-destroying things that, as Frum decorates him, our “soft-spoken,” “conciliatory,” “never angry,” “always invoking the recession and its victims,” “devoted husband and father,” President and his appointees are doing to dismantle America. Again, not to be profane, but for Reagan’s sake! just because he’s smiling doesn’t mean he’s not destroying the country!

It is unfortunate that Mark Levin’s outbursts and Rush Limbaugh’s bombastism are offensive to David Frum and other pseudo-Conservatives, but it wasn’t Limbaugh or Levin who said, “Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder; it is a howling reproach.” It was ABC Nightline anchor, Ted Koppel, a noted master of artful confrontation. The only thing I see in Frum’s lament is an adolescent over-sensitivity to frank logic and tough love.

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We Will Fight On! We will Never Give Up!

Winston Churchill had ordered Operation Dynamo to commence. It was an ambitious plan to evacuate thousands of Allied troops who were stranded between an advancing German army and the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France. The rescue ‘armada’ included 860 boats. Among them were British navy ships and the legendary “little ships of Dunkirk,” whose civilian crews were pressed into service for the mission. In the end, 338,226 Allied troops — 198,229 British and 139,997 French — were ferried safely to England. It was On June 4, 1940, the final day of Operation Dynamo, that Churchill delivered his famous “We shall fight on the beaches” address to the British House of Commons. Following is one of the most notable excerpts from that speech.

Even though large parts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old.

In view of the ominous threat America now faces from radical Socialists who have seized control of the legislative and executive branches of our Government, I thought it fitting to adapt Winston Churchill’s words to inspire our current struggle to rescue America from the grip of tyranny that has infiltrated our country’s leadership.
 
Even though we and our ageless Constitution have fallen under the oppressive hand of tyranny and all the odious apparatus of Marxism, we who are patriotic Americans shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in every state, we shall fight in every city and town across the Fruited Plain, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in prayer, we shall defend OUR country, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight in the halls of every state and local government,  we shall fight in the halls of Congress, we shall fight in the courts, we shall fight on every sidewalk in America, we shall NEVER surrender to this tyranny, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, our beloved country or a large part of it were subjugated, we will draw on the strength of Almighty God who gives strength to the weary in their just cause, and we shall carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, this great nation, with all of its potential and promise, is liberated and returned to her rightful owners as “the Land of the free and the home of the brave!”

We must not allow fear or resignation to incapacitate us. We must not give up. We must remain confident in this our mission because God is with us and our intentions are just!

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Hijabs at a Harvard Gym: How the Frog in the Kettle Cooks Himself for Dinner

In her March 26, 2008 Washington Post opinion piece, "Hijabs at a Harvard Gym," editorial writer and columnist Ruth Marcus described accommodations made to Muslim believers by Harvard University administrators as “a measure of America’s multicultural journey over the past half-century.”  Marcus noted that “Harvard has closed one of its gyms to men for six hours a week so that Muslim women could exercise comfortably.”  She also cited Harvard’s decision to permit “broadcasting the Muslim call to prayer from the steps of Harvard’s main library during Islamic Awareness Week.”  If, as Marcus states, this is just another innocent expression of America’s "multicultural journey" then the frog in the kettle is almost cooked. (NOTE: "Multicultural journey" is a euphemism for “cultural death march.”)

Multiculturalism is a cardinal tenet of Liberalism and multi-cultists won't recant until there is no American culture left. Certain their magnanimity will eventually win the hearts and minds of their aggressors, multi-cultists, like earthlings who’ve stumbled on scary space aliens, begin every encounter with, “We mean you no harm!”  Then, quicker than you can say “Beam me up Scotty!” a well-meaning liberal blurts out, “Look! We’ll even let you on the Enterprise.”  With fundamentalist Islam, accomodation is a dangerous diplomacy.
 
Those brilliant Harvard administrators have probably read the tea leaves well enough to anticipate Islam in America becoming a political and economic force to be reckoned with. Start making concessions now. Feed the beast; maybe it will become sated and leave before eating you. This is where liberal thinking is dangerously un-aware about Islam. This beast will eat every appetizer you toss at him, but make no mistake; you are the main course, the pièce de résistance. There’s always room for dessert.
 
Somehow, broadcasting the Muslim call to prayer, including, "Allahu Akbar [sic “God is great”]. There is no God but Allah. Muhammad is the messenger of Allah,” outside Harvard’s main library doesn’t strike me as “the dawning of the Age of Aquarius” or the proper setting for a dogma that flies in the face of “academic freedom.” I’m stumped. Where is the multiculturalism in “There is no God but Allah?”  And did I just awake from a long coma? What became of all the concern over separation of church and state-funded universities?  Islamic Awareness Week?! Hello! McFly!  You have got to be kidding. Is there any earthling, besides Rumpelstiltskin or Sleeping Beauty, who is still not aware of Islam?  Maybe some of us are having difficulty embracing an “awareness” of Islam that asks us to believe that everything we’ve seen and heard (including the deafening silence from the Muslim community toward terrorist acts) since 9/11 is not really Islam.
 
Marcus also suggests that “the wisdom of the Framers” will keep us from going too far in cultural accommodations to Islam. Whew! [wiping brow] Now I feel better. You mean the way the wisdom of the Framers kept us from going too far in Dred Scott v. Sandford or Roe v. Wade? And I wonder where I got the idea that the wisdom of the Framers might not hold as much sway these days among liberal Ivy League university administrators. Silly me.

It is interesting to note that Harvard University Press, in a project that spans decades, is publishing The Adams Papers which chronicle the family histories and writings of Framer and second President of the United States, John Adams and those of his son, sixth President, John Quincy. John Quincy Adams, himself a Harvard Law graduate, wrote the following about Islam:

"In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar (Mohammed), the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic Law, the doctrine of one omnipotent god; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE [emphasis added] ... Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is yet flagrant ...While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon the earth, and good will towards men." (From "Unsigned essays dealing with the Russo-Turkish War, and on Greece,” written while Adams was in retirement, before his election to Congress in 1830; originally published in The American Annual Register.)

Call me Pollyannaish (like those Age of Aquarius folks), but I am certain JQA never dreamed that the Muslim call to prayer would one day reverberate from the steps of his university's main library. In JQA’s day, such action would have been sufficient reason for another call but not a call to Muslim prayer. Unfortunately, with so much animus today toward the Framers' original intent by those in higher education and in our own Government, the Adams family would be outcast like The Addams Family monsters and after a multiculturally-insensitive remark like the one above, John Quincy wouldn't pass Congressional scrutiny for a job as Lurch the Butler.

Granted, Marcus says “accommodation has its limits.” Ok, what are the limits?  Shouldn’t we know what “the limits” are going in?  And, when do we non-Muslims start getting some accommodation from our (we’re certain) multicultural Muslim friends? Marcus advocates a “regime of reasonable accommodation,” but she does not define “reasonable.” Shouldn’t we know what our non-negotiables are before we start to accomodate?

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A Conservative's Open Letter to President Obama

Dear President Obama,

I am Conservative. Unlike Liberals, Socialists and Marxists, tyranny's three neopolitan flavors, we Conservatives do not need a media icon to tell us how or what to think. Our ideals were not given to us by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Mark Levin. These radio talk show hosts merely reflect what we already believe in our hearts and articulate it in ways that encourage us and reassure us that we are not alone or going insane as we listen to the never-ending barrage of foolishness Liberals spew.  Yes, Rush, Sean and Mark encourage us, but if even if they are censored tomorrow, we will still find ways to encourage ourselves and fight on.

You see, Mr. President, Conservatives' thinking has little to do with any Talk Radio host and much to do with ground truth. We think as Conservatives because we believe fundamental truths that do not evolve to accommodate changing public opinion. Unlike the Liberal Party of Polls, we are the Conservative Party of Principles. You may be able to slow us down at times, but you will never stop us for good, nor will you silence us. We are not like Liberals who rely on ‘market intelligence’ or retreat at the first sign of negative public opinion. We continue our steady march forward because our heading is just, not dictated by changing wind direction.

When Liberalism comes apart at the seams, our principles will guide and strengthen us. Conservatism is a strong tower of refuge in times of tyranny or trouble. Our ideals steady us, enabling us to stand strong against the stormy gale of Relativism. Death cannot stop us and adversity can’t defeat us. Our ideals represent the most potent threat to your tyrannical control and lust for power. That is why you are afraid of us, Mr. President. That is why you want to silence us.

We Conservatives know why and what we are fighting for; they are worth everything to us, even life itself. When self-motivated, power hungry politicians such as yourself think they are threatened, they wither and flee because America is not worth it to them. We, on the other hand, run to the battle.  Knowing in advance that you have no will to fight, we take up the banner of America and fight for you, Mr. President. We fill the breaches Liberals abandon. Why then, do you want to stop us? Why do you want to silence us?

When the violent storms which you and your federation of fools have unleashed on this nation have finally passed, Conservatism’s house will still be seen standing because it is built upon an enduring foundation of truth and courage. Liberalism’s house, built upon the shifting sands of public opinion and lust for power, will be swept away in the flood.

Know this, Mr. President, that you have awakened a ‘sleeping giant.’ You and your party are in for the fight of your lives. And even if you somehow manage to silence our Talk Radio heroes, pass laws to end free speech, or even go so far as to imprison or deport every Conservative American, you will not be able to stop us. For, our hearts constantly remind us that Man is made in the image of the Creator who is Love and Truth, untamable and free. Tyranny has never been able to silence Truth. Truth has never been a slave to any tyrant.

While many men are too calloused or lost to understand they are enslaved by Liberalism, others will hear the distant cry of their own hearts for the true freedom only Truth can deliver. No matter what you do to weigh us down, no matter how many shackles you use to bind us, no matter how strong a prison you lock us in, no matter how far you throw away the key, this divine heart-cry for freedom will always find a way to fight its way out of human hearts and contend with tyranny. The fight may be difficult and long and you might do away with every one of us, but still others will arise to replace us.

We are not alone in this fight, Mr. President. Our convictions do not emanate from ourselves. but are infused in our hearts by a generous, freedom-giving God who inspires our thoughts and empowers our actions until, finally, the meek [shall] inherit the earth.

It is a pity, really. You began your vocation with such noble intentions but now you have been compromised. Even though you won the last Presidential race by masquerading as someone you are not, and even though a far-left national media dissembled with you, you are still owned. Even so, you still possess a rare gift and opportunity to achieve true greatness. Without the Almighty’s backing, however, I do not believe you have what it takes.

Perhaps in this life, certainly in the next, you will come face with what you have done and the condition you have left this great country in. America will have been weakened, but not by a foreign power. America’s greatest enemies hide within the Trojan Horses of Liberalism, Socialism, and Marxism, which I mentioned at the beginning of this letter. Will you return to nobleness, or remain intractable against what is right?

Finally, Mr. President I have this from the Lord, that America is about to go through unimaginable hardship never before seen in our brief 233-year history. I also know you have already rejected all that I am saying as the ranting of a self-initiated, lunatic. If even as a lunatic, then, I implore you; read on.

You and your administration will be shaken to the very core by the things that are coming on America. The repercussions of the policies you have implemented, that you knew full well could damage America, will backfire. They will last longer and be far more serious than you or your advisors ever thought possible. But it will be too late to change course; you will not be able to stop it because it is God who loves us, who is chastizing us. You see, Mr. President, despite the deception and manipulative skill you employed to get elected, it is God who put you in office, not because your ideals are noble, but to chastize this nation which has forgotten Him days without number.

Some in your administration will crumble under the fear and pressure. Others will abandon you or turn against you. At that time, Mr. President, you will be faced with another 'defining moment' during which you will be weighed in the balances to find out if you are wanting or not. At that time, you will swallow your pride, reject the Liberal dissenting voices of your advisors, and lead this country out of tyranny and back to the only true Judeo-Christian God who shed His amazing grace upon America the Beautiful, who you claim to have a relationship with. Or, you will stubbornly persist in ineffective Liberal inventions that will have brought us to that point. Thus you will make matters worse and allow America to sink deeper into difficulty and despair.

When this comes to pass, the only hope for American will be to turn away from all that is evil and implore a just, holy, and lavishly merciful God to forgive us and relent of the evil He has brought upon us. I am praying that you will turn away from vain pretention to your professed faith, to true faith in Jesus Christ. I am praying that you will diligently seek Him and His forgiveness and strive to govern this great nation in truth, justice and righteousness before it is too late.

Sincerely,

Spin Cipher
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Praise for Mark Steyn Article (not that he needs it from me)

Insightful! Brilliant! Hilarious! Terrifying!  These are my adjectives for the linked article by Mark Steyn, "The problem with not having kids: Saving the planet for the next generation by not having a next generation is a bad idea."  Things I think have been known to not matter, so to be safe, I've included a Money Back Guarantee as well as a fine print disclaimer for readers to sign at the end.

This article and all of Mark's writings are an intellectual "energy drink," journalistic "Ginko Biloba" to sharpen your senses and fire your synapses. They are chock full of insights that satisfy down to the very last syllable. You won't be able to eat just one!  Are you ready?  Go here ...

http://blog.macleans.ca/2009/02/24/the-problem-with-not-having-kids/2/

Money back guarantee: If for any conceivable reason, including contrived reasons, the reader is not completely satisfied with the contents of Mark Steyn's linked article, return the link along with a 10-page or 1000-word essay, whichever is longer, describing the reasons for your disappointment, in the enclosed pre-addressed, postage-paid sealed envelope for a full and immediate refund.

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