A friend of mine, and I guess someone who is now leaning towards Ron Paul, told me that Newt wants to give up our liberties for alleged security. He sent me this link and warned that Newt supports the patriot act. http://www.ology.com/politics/ron-paul-newt-gingrich-clash-over-patriot-act-video Honestly, the Patriot Act has been on the books, for what 10 years, and I don’t feel any less free. On the other | Read More »
Phase 1: (the length of time in each phase is as yet unspecified) Give people the choice between: Paying a 20% modified flat tax with generous exemptions for all and for those earning under $500,000 certain favored deductions, or Paying the old progressive tax. Adopt a parallel program of reducing government expenditures. Phase 2: Exorcise all refundable credits (ACTC, EIC, etc.) from the old progressive tax code | Read More »
53 million human beings have been legally killed in the U.S. since 1973 in most cases simply to convenience others, but according to PETA the real tragedy is that 6 whales are being held captive at SeaWorld where they are better cared for than are most people in the world today… What do you say to people like that? The irony of a movement that ignores the savage treatment of | Read More »
In the interest of full disclosure, I like Cain’s moxie, but the idea of a national sales tax coupled with the income tax is a nonstarter. Perry is my first choice, followed by Newt, then Cain (if he drops that last 9). The problem with 9-9-9 is that there are too many 9s, and 9+9 comes too close to 18% for many poor and retired | Read More »
In the interest of full disclosure I’m no lawyer or accountant, I don’t like the idea of a national sales tax, I think the current system is out of whack, the government needs to get off our backs, and if our elected leaders can’t fix it, then I want my money back. Oh, and Rick Perry is my first choice. Neither earning great amounts of income nor consuming great | Read More »
The way Progressives treat (interpret and apply) our Constitution, you’d think that this was the document they were reading when (if) they ever do bother to read the Constitution: We the People of the United States of America, in order to do whatever we want, do establish and empower the National Government of the United States to tax and to regulate anyone and everything. I | Read More »
The Obama administration is seeking to bailout teachers. Mr. President, I am a public school teacher and I’d just like to say no thank you. Last summer my salary was cut and we switched to a cheaper health insurance to help my district balance its budget, and next year all teachers in my state will take a cut in salary to offset retirement costs. We | Read More »
I came across this little story printed in the London Telegraph about a preacher who was arrested for hate speech because he basically said in public that homosexuality is a sin, and it reminded me of a speech in the movie “The American President.” (It was a awful little film that’s basically a 114 minute campaign commercial for the Democratic party) In this speech, the President starts by saying | Read More »
Arizona recently passed a law that requires nothing more than what is currently required by the federal gov’t and nearly every government in the world (that immigrants carry documentation and present it to its officers when requested). The major differnce between Arizona’s immigration law and the federal government’s is that Arizona intends to enforce theirs. In response to Arizona’s effort to combat the flow of drugs and violence into | Read More »
This is an excerpt from an email I received from my sister a couple of days ago. I love her, but her attitude in this email demonstrates why there is something terribly wrong with how unemployment compensation is handled by the government and by many of its recipients today. My unemployment ends after this month, so yes it is time to wean myself off the ‘free money‘ nipple. | Read More »
Okay, for all our progressive free-ride-advocate co-workers and relatives, it’s time for a simple and easy to understand constitutional lesson. Hey, tell them it’s free, and maybe they’ll take their anything-the-other-side-says-is-nonsense ear muffs off for a second and learn something, like why Leader Obama is not the scholar he has been hyped to be. Lesson 1: A national tax for doing nothing (i.e. being taxed | Read More »
Throughout history, Democrats, also known as liberals, progressives, and dumbasses have fallen into at least one of two categories: (1) Naïve do-gooders who don’t know the meaning of too much of a good thing, and think that giving until it hurts is sage advice. (2) Narcissistic control-freaks who all dream of being the beloved Caesar or slave master, and truly believe that freedom is tyranny | Read More »
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.* As a general rule and with few exceptions….. Conservatives believe the right to property entitles you to deny others the use of your property. Liberals believe they are entitled to deny you the use of your property. Conservatives believe the right to property entitles you | Read More »
I teach government and recently in our discussion of politics, a group of my students explained that a major reason why they support the Democrats and Obama was due in major part to their desire for social justice, and their belief that Obama and the Democrats were working to achieve social justice while the Republicans and Conservatives were not. Some even pointed out that they believed | Read More »
I was reading the google translation of the Honduran Constitution from Spanish to English, and something didn’t look right with article 374: Article 374 .- It may be reformed, in any case, Article, this Article, the constitutional articles which refer to the form of government, the national territory, the presidential term, the ban to be new President of the Republic The citizen who has played | Read More »
MSM Disregards the Most Crucial Facts in Honduras Every time I read or view a story on the alleged Honduran coup, I want to pull my hair out (luckily I have very little to pull) because 9 times out of 10 they (MSM) completely miss the most crucial facts: First, according to the Honduran Constitution, if the President violates the article against consecutive presidential terms | Read More »
(I originally posted this as a reply to another diary, but as I want to say more on this subject later I have chosen to make it a separate diary) I believe our founding fathers would trade what currently masquerades as federalism in this country today for what they had under British rule in a second. In 1994 we Republicans had the Contract w/ America, | Read More »
Is this the America we have all loved and supported, and for which some have even fought and died?Obama Supports Wealth Redistribution Is this where Barack AKA Captain Amerika and his Congress of the Democratic Suporter Majority will be taking us? Are my fellow Americans so far gone that they are willing to trade their freedom from government for a free lunch from government? Are | Read More »
Senator Obama criticizes John McCain’s economic plan as a phony plan that only helps the rich while neglecting the needs of the middle and lower classes. He criticizes it and mocks it, and calls it a trickle-down scheme. But the only thing phony here is (Senator Obama) his reasoning. Senator Obama believes the best way to help people is to simply give them the stuff, | Read More »
Thank you Joe the plummer for saying it, you were the one, you did it, you finally got the message out. Many of us here have been beating this drum for a while now with no success, but you did it. For myself, I was starting to wonder if McCain had some sort of mental disability when it came to arguing for simple conservative economic | Read More »
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