http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:02:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This all started on Sunday morning as I switched through the TV channels I caught an exchange on This Sunday between Al Sharpton, Ron Brownstein, and George Will. Ron Brownstein said that there are many people who are attending Tea Party events and Town Hall meetings to express their ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/11/05/how-al-sharpton-led-me-to-oppose-term-limits/ Today Walter Williams writes and excellent column, American Idea. I encourage you to read the entire article. He basically describes how the major difference between Americans and the rest of the world is the healthy distrust and suspicion Americans have had for government. Unfortunately these sentiments are ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/10/21/is-such-government-involvement-in-our-lives-permissible-under-the-us-constitution/ Barack’s America is a land in which women would be forced into having abortions, conservatives would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down conservative talk-radio hosts’ doors in raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about American exceptionalism, conservative writers and artists would be censored at the whim ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/10/16/baracks-america/ I am thinking that some of you folks or your staff in the US House and US Senate read conservative blogs. I know. I know. You have not asked me for any advice, but that brings me to my first bit of advice. Nancy, Harry, and Barry are ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/10/06/some-unsolicited-advice-for-lindsey-graham-et-al/ This Hoosier has packed up after 57 years of living at the crossroads of America. Thirty-six of those fifty-seven years involved working in the belly of the beast as a state government employee. Now this transplanted Texan residing in the Permian Basin region can get back to writing ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/10/01/a-loyalist-or-a-patriot/ This first aired on TV in 1976, and I love it. It helped, by using a music jingle, for people to know what is written in the Preamble of the United States Constitution. My favorite couplet was Secure the blessings of liberty To ourselves and our posterity ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/08/20/secure-the-blessings-of-liberty/ All honor to Jefferson--to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/08/09/once-was-blind-but-now-can-see/ It is really coming down to the wire whether or not the House is going to pass a health care bill before the August recess. The Republicans are not plentiful enough to be an issue for Speaker Pelosi to even take into consideration. They only need 218 votes ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/07/26/let-freedom-ring/ It was the original intent of the Founding Fathers to carefully limit the areas of responsibility of the federal government. James Madison pointed out that the Constitution was structured so that the powers delegated to the federal government are few. He also pointed out the number of individuals ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/07/24/how-it-was-created-what-it-has-become/ It is getting down to crunch time for President Obama to get a bill through the Congress that drastically changes how residents in the USA will get medical services. They have tried in vain to convince everyone that they only need some more money from the super rich, and ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/07/19/obamacare-has-chosen-the-soup-nazi-approach/ Chapter 8 of W. Cleon Skousen's book is titled Prosperity Economics. I have read thirteen chapters out of thirty-one, but I feel compelled to write this diary before I finally finish the book. The Founding Fathers made this country a land of fantastic economic opportunity because they wrote a Constitution ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/07/12/a-nation-founded-on-prosperity-economics/ Lately I have been reading a book I borrowed from my public library written by W. Cleon Skousen, This is the author of a recent bestseller, The 5,000 Year Leap. The book I am reading is The Making of America (888 pages). I have only read 202 ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/07/09/a-nation-founded-on-judeo-christian-principles/ Michelle Malkin has posted an analysis by one of her readers, MINER51. He took the time to break down the House members who voted Aye for the Cap and Trade bill by coal producing state, and he put it in a spreadsheet. I took the time to list ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/06/30/payback-for-biting-the-hand-that-feeds-you/ I ran across a blog by a Honduran that is titled What We Hondurans Want. I encourage you to read the entire article, and Digg it if you deem it worthy. While it is very helpful in getting an understanding about life in Honduras, I believe ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/06/29/lessons-we-can-learn-from-a-honduran-blogger/ So often it seems like there is a sickness in politics that spreads a belief the Federal Government is a delightful sugar daddy able to provide for our every want and need. This is especially true of the Democratic Party, but is also evident to a degree in the ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/06/27/we-need-another-guardian-president/ Monday, June 15th Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote this article, Obama Should Speak Truth to Islam Because Others Can't. I encourage everyone to the read the entire article for the knowledge you'll get about the Muslim world as well as the excellent political analysis. One thing I learned is that there ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/06/16/an-i-pod-for-the-queen-of-england-how-about-kindles-for-the-muslim-world-leaders/ I just finished reading New Deal or Raw Deal? written by Burton Folsom, Jr. So much of what he writes about is so applicable to the current Obama administration plans with respect to the economy. He asks the question why would they be so eager to manipulate the ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/06/14/those-violators-of-fair-competition/ Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote an article for AEI, It's Time Lily-Livered Europe Stood Up to Muslim Bigots, that makes a compelling argument that Europeans are lily-livered weenies that will not stand up to Muslims. There have been a lot of news stories about the suppression of freedom of expression, ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/06/13/if-europe-falls-blame-the-lily-livered-europeans/ I just stumbled upon an article in The Brussels Journal, Wilders causes another row. Pre-captivity Stockholm-Syndrome. In a speech in the Dutch Parliament last Thursday, the Dutch opposition leader Geert Wilders referred to Joanie de Rijke’s case. “She was raped, but she was not angry. The ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/06/08/they-are-not-monsters/ Russia in terms of land mass is the largest country on the the planet.  Its size spans ten different time zones, and overlaps two continents (Europe and Asia).  This country introduced to the rest of the world the concept of a Czar, and President Obama has moved with lightening speed ... http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/06/06/it-took-russia-three-centuries-to-do-what-obama-did-in-three-months/