White House or “There’s No They’re There” We have entered the most dangerous period of time America has ever known, and our adversaries are taking note. Men who believed somebody was there in the White House when they called for help died in what Mr. Obama declared this week to be a Republican party, “side show.” Like a juvenile might do in seeking to deflect | Read More »
“I know in my heart that man is good…and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.” — Epitaph etched on wall at the grave site of Ronald W. Reagan The juxtaposed view of the value of life couldn’t be more glaringly transparent than when we compare Ronald Reagan’s value for all life against the constant complaint of the left… That some | Read More »
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” — William Wilberforce Americans can smell a donkey and see an elephant from a mile away. They don’t need the politics of left or right to clarify the facts speaking for right or wrong. “Benghazi happened a long time ago,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney | Read More »
Americans in the Garden of Good and Evil “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for evil.” –Isaiah 5:20 Words used to have universal meanings. For example, “Woe,” is a biblical term meaning, “uh oh” and “big problems are coming.” I think everyone “gets it” even | Read More »
“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.” –George Orwell Perception can be as dangerous as lies. Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D LA/CA - Feb 28th) stated with a sober face as she was backed by colleagues, that the US would lose 170 million jobs due to sequestration! Oops… Only 154 million in 2009 census of the civilian workforce and we’ve lost more than 10% of those since | Read More »
“No law can give me the right to do what is wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln A Moral Nation and a Crossroad In Post #1 , the “Introduction” to RIGHT and WRONG, Not Left and Right, America’s Third Option – a manuscript — opens with these words from Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1831 Democracy in America: “America is great because she is good. When America ceases to be good, America will | Read More »
“No law can give me the right to do what is wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln A WORLD AT WAR? Hot wars are always preceded by soft wars where values become so polarizing that killing and conquering seems the only recourse. While there will always be militaristic zealots for causes making national self-defense an answer to physical attacks, the answer to all war is founded upon | Read More »
“After we have mastered the wind, the waves, the tides, and gravity we shall harness the energies of love. Then for the 2nd time in the history of the world man will have discovered fire.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin My take on Roe vs Wade 40 years later: I was born “dead.” My mother says the umbilical chord was wrapped around my neck. She | Read More »
Last week I offered Part I to a story not believing there would be a Part II. Read on… TODAY: The Mail Online offers: Romney aides blast ‘hypocrites’ who asked for cabinet jobs just before election and are now trashing him Presidential candidate has come under fire from Republicans after loss But aides say figures like Bobby Jindal and Newt Gingrich were desperate for positions | Read More »
TO THE PROMISED LAND Thanksgiving celebrations have special significance to Americans. For one day in November family, food, faith, and football bring us together in a spirit of gratitude unlike anywhere else in the world. My ancestry goes back to Mayflower pilgrims and earliest settlers of the Massachusetts and Connecticut where freedom to worship was as important to being American as any other freedom Americans | Read More »
“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.” ~ Thomas Paine Truth and reason stand the test of time in a cause and effect relationship of applying principle for a reliable outcome. Truth is made of stiff stuff because it is things as they really were, are, and always will be. When truth is inconvenient the troubling temptation for | Read More »
The Rise of a Mexican Brand? “BIMBO” is a respectable brand name in Mexico. The brand is owned by the wealthiest man in the world. No, not this guy. THIS GUY! Mexican business mogul, Carlos Slim, has the taste for savvy acquisitions of brands others destroy, proving that free markets work, capitalism is the answer, and shipping jobs overseas is hardly the workers fault, unless they are in league whole-heartily with | Read More »
“The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet’s fool: come and see.” Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, 1.1 ROME BC Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra opens with a line from Philo who is lamenting the transformation of Rome’s greatest general, Marc Antony, into a fool because of the allure of Cleopatra and the opiate she had become to him. Thus ended the constitutional | Read More »
“REMEMBER THE ALAMO!” UPDATE: 9:15 pm EST Note: This is about individual citizen venting, not tied to actual state governments, and carries no official weight — simply an exercise of First Amendment rights. It should be viewed in the context of a citizenry voicing healthy concerns in a conservative-liberal debate over Federal policies and centralized government invoking Federal over state rights — a legitimate citizen concern. Texans | Read More »
“Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have rejoiced in their loss of freedom who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious. – Cicero REALITY SHOWS Modern hillbilly moonshiners and swamp people get more air time on “Reality TV” than conservatives get on any TV. Yet, we rely upon two and | Read More »
“The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing…” Carl Jung One of the great wonders of the ancient world still exists for us to marvel at. Its construction was beyond compare for its times. It was built to entertain the ancient masses of Rome where more slaves existed than masters. It appears that Obama’s “get revenge” politics, as articulated by him in his | Read More »
INTERNAL POLLING ROMNEY-RYAN WIN IN LANDSLIDE! The professional pundits and pollsters know the November 5th major polls 50% tie (see Gallup Rasmussen) means a Romney win. The internal polling suggests Romney-Ryan will be celebrating in 24 hours with those of us who have fought so hard for them and conservatism for the last four years. You can lose 67 votes from my list (see below) and Romney | Read More »
Brevity with a clear message is the essence of intelligent communication. Through a historical lens, Krauthammer points out, in concise terms, what this election may mean. Tuesday will offer either a “turn around” for America, and thus renew as Reagan put in 1964, “the last best hope for man on earth,” or in a downward spiral American freedom and growth may become nothing more than darkness at | Read More »
John McCain Sets CBS Up for “Cover Up” Story Mainstream Media Failure Starting with “the film made them do it” to admitting “it was a terrorist act” to a proverbial catch-all excuse in the final week run-up to the election of, “we don’t know but we will get to the bottom of it,” the incurious mainstream press has not pushed a reticent Obama Administration to account for false narratives | Read More »
1o/29/12 UPDATE to Post of 11/27/12: Everyday the mainstream media ignores this story and the string of either lies or incompetence out of the Washington continues, the suggestion of coverup grows. As I write this Rush Limbaugh is speaking about the expectation former SEALS Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty had of air assets coming to their rescue at the CIA Annex in Benghazi. And why wouldn’t | Read More »
LEADERS, REPUTATIONS and ENDORSEMENT! Leaders act. Pretenders talk. Heroes run to the fire and cowards walk. Republican, Four Star General, former Secretary of State, and former National Security Adviser Colin Powell is a proven leader. He endorsed the sitting President on October 25, 2012; this the second time in four years. As a private citizen this great man has rolled the dice on transparent Presidential failure and | Read More »
When Barack Obama chose to send a message to Vladimir Putin this spring at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Korea, he couldn’t have know the mic was on as he conveyed words meant to be privately relayed to the Russian strong man. If a Republican President had done what he did on that day in March the US media would have never let it go and the | Read More »
The choice of wording used by President Obama today on Comedy Central was not “optimal” when you consider that four men loyal to their duties and country surrendered their lives during a six hour firefight on American property in Benghazi Libya on 9/11/12 hoping that someone would hear their calls and come to the rescue. COMEDY CENTRAL — REVEALING A DISPLAY OF CHARACTER — Or Not | Read More »
Third World Media, Debates and Leadership Revealed We have never seen anything like this present political scene north of the Mexican border. A carefully crafted illusion backed by a complicit American media machine is melting before our eyes. I lived for two years in a strong-man socialist Latin American country where all media messages were carefully controlled by the regime, and I can assure the | Read More »
September 2012 should be a month of scandal and sure defeat in the upcoming election for any sitting President… …but we live in a world of pop culture elections, fake noise to distract, and teflon media coverage making it difficult to identify real leadership. PART ONE of THREE REPORTS Leadership is not something you hear. Leadership is not something people say. Leadership is action. And in America leadership deserves to be reported | Read More »
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