The president is on tour overseas, staying business apologizing for the country which elected him.   While at the G20 meeting, the president took time to pay homage to the King of Saudi Arabia, bowing deeply to the monarch of the nation which was home to 15 of the 9/11 terrorists.   I've said it before, Obama despises the country he was elected to lead and desires to radically change it.

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I've often wondered what it take for conservatives to go beyond mere gripping and actually copy the left and go to the street as a form of protest.    As best I can tell, apparently nothing.  We shall pat ourselves on the back for being good, peaceful and law abiding citizens as we progress to our destruction.

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There is one group of people who are in open revolt against the rule of law.   In fact, this group is winning.   They are judges, who are waging war against the democratic republican form of government and the Constitutions of the United States and the several states.  The latest victory of these rebels is the decision of the Iowa Supreme Court to strike down that state' s statute against homosexual marriage.   Since noting in the history of the Federal or any state constitution or the traditions of our people supports such a decision, the Court did what courts do these days: it made up a rationale out of thin air and pronounced it convincing.     The political class does not oppose gay marriage so don't expect any push back from the Iowa governor or legislature.   What has to be done, and I hope one day to see, is the people simply defy these decisions.   If the great mass of the people refuse to yield to the outrages of these black robed tyrants, then they will stop.   Until then, the assault on republican government by the judiciary will continue.

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Speaking of judges, a Federal judge has ruled that Taliban captured AND HELD in Afghanistan, has the right to challenge their detention in Federal court.    Think about that for a second.    Enemies of the United States, captured by American troops OVERSEAS and held OVERSEAS, can go to an American court and demand their release.   This is insanity.    It really makes one wonder if the judicial branch of government actually considers itself part of the American government.    I have my doubts.

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The Secretary of the Treasury states he will not hesitate to fire executives of banks and replace the boards of directors of these institutions, which have received financial assistance from the Federal government, when the bank is not performing to his standards.  President Obama has already fired the head of General Motors and told some of the bankers that his administration was all that stood between them and pitchforks.   I looked my copy of the constitution in vain for any provision which seems to give the Secretary or the President the authority to ax the executives or boards of private companies.   This administration is claiming power alien to our form of government, with the potential for abuse as we have never seen in our country.  

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North Korea has successfully lauched an ICBM capable of carrying a nuclear warhead which has the range to strike Japan and even Hawaii.   At virtually the same time President Obama made a speech expressing his intent to work for nuclear disarmament.   It is painfully obvious that Mr. Obama is terribly naivate about what motivates foreign governments and, more importantly, American's enemies.   He projects an image of weakness; we are going to suffer for it.

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President Obama gave the Queen of England an I-Pod which contained (among other things) the collected speeches of Barack Obama.  A kind of "greatest hits" collection I suppose.    Really, our president is so egocentric that his arrogance can be funny.    First he gives the British prime minister DVD's which can't be played in England and now this gift to the Queen.   Wonder if he gave a present to the Saudi king?  

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Obama's tour doesn't include a stop in Israel.   The change of government in Israel brings to power a new realism about dealing with its Palestian neighbors and Iran.   As Obama's foreign policy has little to do with reality, it will soon collide with Israel's interests.   Nothing Obama or his administration has said or done about the Middle East can instill confidence in Israel about the direction of American policy.   Isreal's enemies see Obama as an ally in their war against the Jewish state; I think they are right.

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Municipalities are raising taxes. States are raising taxes.  The Federal government will raise taxes.   I've worked for both state and local governments.   I can state without fear of contradiction that no matter how much money a government gets, IT WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH!    Government is an unthinking giant parasite sucking the life from the economy.    No amount of taxes will ever be enough.  There will always be some new project, some new service, some needed pay raise.   One day, the host of the parasite dies.   Government will never be satisfied.  

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Legislation has been introduced in Congress to give the President the power to control the Internet, in the vent of an "emergency."   The leftists control the legacy media, want to strangle conservative talk radio with the fairness doctrine, and with this legislation, if it becomes law, and shut down the internet.    Smoke signals are out because the EPA would declare smoke a pollutant.   I guess conservatives will have to return the old practice of oral tradition.  

The Obama administration has decided to refer to terrorist attacks as "man made disasters."  I prefer to think of such attacks as "enemy action."   A man made disaster occurred on November 4, 2008, when the American people elected Barack Obama president of the United States.   The event has every prospect of being the greatest man made disaster in American history.

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The administration wants Congress to enact legislation to allow the secretary of the Treasury to seize control of a business entity whose failure would pose a systemic risk to the nation's financial system.  So if Wal-Mart's sales fall and its stock declines is the financial system at risk?  Have the American people become completely comatose?   The Congress is being asked to empower the executive to SEIZE CONTROL of any American business whose failure the executive deems poses a risk to the financial system.   Do not believe for a second that this would be the end.  The Federal government will not stop with business failures that discomfort the financial system.   In fact, it has already disregarded that limitation in propping up General Motors and Chrysler, and in this past week, auto parts suppliers.  Certainly the failure of GM or Chrysler, or parts companies, while distressful to the folks employed by these companies, would not pose a risk to the financial system of the country.   What would follow in short order from Congress passing the requested legislation is the government asserting the obligation to interfere into any aspect of the economy the president, acting through the secretary of the Treasury, deemed to be in the "national" interest. 

In 1933 a leader took office during troubled economic times.  The new leader was a charismatic politician who argued that the national ills could be more effectively addressed by concentrating power in the national executive.   His legislative program, however, was encountering opposition in the national assembly.  Then "something" happened that aroused and angered the public, an event which the charismatic leader used to bulldoze the opposition and secure the passage of the signature piece of legislation, called the "Enabling Act."  This legislation served as the legal basis for the leader to concentrate every growing power in his office and person, until, in a few short months, he had eliminated all organized opposition and had established an absolute dictatorship.   This charismatic leader was Adolf Hitler.   The legislation that he wants Congress to enact is the modern equivalent of the Enabling Act the German Reichstag passed at Hitler's demand.    It can't happen here you say?   Civilized Germans believed the same thing.   The logic of the liberalism is tyranny.  Liberalism never succeeds but liberals never accept its failure.  Instead, failure must be the fault of them, i.e., conservatives, Federalists, Christians, the "rich."   If only liberals had the power to move "them" out of the way, then the success of the liberal agenda would be assured.   If, in moving them out of the way, some people get hurt, well, they had it coming.  My friends, Obama is a leftist fanatic who thinks this way.  I know it is hard to believe that we have a president whose every instinct is contrary to the spirit of liberty which founded and guided this nation since its founding, but to close our eyes to the truth is to invite destruction.   Giving Obama power is like giving a Islamic terrorist the pilot seat in a passenger jet.   You can call it a "man made disaster."

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Here are some questions to ponder:  What if we have come to the point that a majority of the American people want socialism?  What if the majority embraces statism?  What is the majority favors the creation of a European nanny state, with the massive taxation and governmental bureaucracy needed to run it?   In other words, what if  Obama's election represents not just a terrible mistake by the American people, but the decisive defeat of principled conservatism, a rejection of the original Constitutional framework of federalism, and of the free market?   The reader can think of more, but these will do for a start.

Why doesn't Congress simply legalize the torching of AIG's building in New York and the stoning of AIG employees?  Would that satisfy everybody?    Good heavens, there is far less anger toward bona fide terrorists than a small group of brokers and employees of AIG, who were paid PERFECTLY LEGAL BONUS' ALLOWED BY LAW!!

Never in my lifetime have I witnessed the level of demagogy and phoniness exhibited by our erstwhile representatives in the U.S. House on Thursday, March 19, 2009.   It was shameful, disgusting, and insulting to anyone with a wit of intelligence and perspective.  The U.S. House of Representatives became a mob, a mob seeking blood from an unpopular group.   Whether AIG should have paid bonus' is one thing, but this utterly out of proportion response is truly frightening.   Ninety percent taxation?   If Congress can do this to today's disfavored group, who will be next?   Why not gun and ammunition sellers?  That would dry up the firearms business fast, wouldn't it?  No need to worry with pesky firearm restrictions, just tax the heck out of the gun merchants and watch that industry disappear. 

If the Federal government can manipulate the tax code to confiscate perfectly legal compensation paid to an unpopular group, then the Constitution means nothing.    Anyone, ANYONE, can be the next target.
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And of the damage this will do to our economy?    If one was a talented broker, banker, financial planner, etc., and had the opportunity to migrate, why would you remain in this country, where the government is engaged in a jihad against your profession?   Why person or entity with money to invest would chose the United States?    The rule of law provides no protection against mob hysteria right now.   The Congress and Obama administration are stoking the outrage.    Contracts can be retroactively abrogated or the proceeds earned from lawful bargains taxed at confiscatory rates.  These are not the acts of a mature republic but of a confused, incompetent and jealous populace. 

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It would help if there was an adult at the helm of the ship of state.  However, with Barack Obama, we have the the nation's first celebrity president.   My doesn't he enjoy the role!   He gets to appear on the Tonight Show and make jokes about handicapped people.  Class act, our President Obama.   It's nightmarish to contemplate the fact that Obama's term has 46 more months to run (assuming we survive to its end).   Reasonable knew what we were getting with Obama:  a thoroughgoing leftist radical, a Marxist-light, whose idealogy blinds him to inconvenient facts and whose goal is to remake this nation into the socialist "utopia" beloved of leftists.   He is also clueless about the real world and too arrogant to realize his ignorance.   Only by the grace of God will we survive his tenure in office.

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Lest I appear too hard on our belove president, let us stipulate that the Congress, for the most part, is composed of a staggering collection of venal, babbling idiots.   The level of downright stupidity, malfeasance, misfeasance, and adject stupidity demonstrated everyday by these folks goes well beyond the norm we have come to expect.  At this most critical time in history, the elected great majority of the national representatives of the United States are incompetent to fulfill their duties. But you know, I really don't blame them.   These people were elected by an electorate dumbed down by 40 years of mis-education and cultural rot.   The fault for this mess lies with the Baby Boom generation, which embraced the religion of political correctness to corrupt our society.   And we are not finished.   As the Boomers age they have adopted a new religion, environmentalism, to destroy the economic foundation of the country.  A final legacy to our progeny.   We will wreck the culture and the economy.  The Baby Boom generation has have dissapted the legacy left it by its parents and grandparents, and mortgaged the future of subsequent generations to paid for its comfort and perversions.   The United States is being wrecked by the most selfish generation the Earth has ever seen.  To borrow a phrase, "America's chickens have come home to roost." 
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Back to Mr. Obama.   It seems he gave the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, a collection of DVDs as a present.  Leaving aside the fact this was a pitiful gift, it now appears that the DVDs will only play on North American region DVD players.    Unfortuntately, Great Britain is part of Europe and the DVDs won't work on Mr. Brown's player.   Perhaps this was planned all along -  now Mr. Obama can give Mr. Brown a new DVD player when they see each other again.   No, that would require some degree of forward thinking and competence, neither of which has been demonstrated by the Obama administration.

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ACORN has contracted with the Census Bureau to assist in the 2010 national census.   Wow, that's a relief.   I was apprehensive my prediction that the Democrats would fix the census might be inaccurate.

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I predict that within twenty-four months the U.S. dollar will be worth fifty percent less than it is today.    A nation cannot print money as we have done and not kindle raging inflation.   Salaries, savings, retirement funds, all will decline in value.   It is inevitable.

The Obama administration has dropped the designation of detainees as "enemy combatants."  I don't know what they have come up with as their new designation, but I suggest that henceforth detainees be described as "individuals needing secure and nurturing environments" or INSANE.   I this acronym accurately describes the detainees and the Obama's new policy.

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The Obama administration has backed away from its proposal to make veterans pay for their own medical care for service related injuries via private insurance.   To describe this proposal as outrageous and evil is too mild.   It is incomprehensible that an American president would consider, even for a moment, the proposition that American servicemen and women, wounded or injured while serving their country, should have to pay for their own care.  The very idea is repugnant to any notion of honor or loyality.   Honor or loyality, however, has never been a virtue of the leftist Democrat.  The Armed Forces are already wary of Obama; this sort of proposal gives more reason for their mistrust.  No commander-in-chief worth the title would even have considered this abomination.   

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Apparently when Obama promised that no one earning under $250,000  annually would have their taxes raised he omitted a few facts.  Such as taxing the health care benefits of working Americans.   For many folks, none of whom anyone would think as rick but who have great employee medical insurance, this translates to a potential tax liability in the thousands of dollars.   Pair this idea with the insanity that is "Cap and Trade" to tax cardon emissions, which will cause massive increases in utility costs for all Americans, and the Obama administration will achieve in a single term the pauperization of the whole nation.

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The publicly owned insurance giant, AIG, paid many executives and employees six figure or greater bonuses.  This was ill advised and has resulted in an uproar.  What is even more deplorable, however, has been the pathetic demagogy writ large by members of Congress.  These legislative titans are howling about bonuses which they specifically, in the stimulus legislation, allowed to be paid.   There defense for this, should as it is, is that they didn't have time to read the legislation they passed and didnt' realize everything in the bill!   What sort of idiots are these people?

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The Obama administration's foreign policy so far as flown under the radar, which is too bad because it has been every bit as disasterous as his domestic moves.   In less than two months Obama has insulted the British prime minister, aliened Israel, and caused allies all over the world to question American resolve.   Simultaneously our enemies have been emboldened.   China harrasses our ships in international waters.  Russia is rearming.  Iran slaps our open hand away and threatens our destruction and the destruction of Isreal.  North Korea prepares to test intercontinental ballastic missiles.  Our enemies sense weakness in Obama  and  our enemies are right.

We are told by the media that Barack Obama is a smart man.  I suppose of evidence of this is that he has written two works of  fiction and sold them as biographical, and that he reads a speech well off a teleprompter.  Our president obviously believes he's an intellectual; he's mastered the condescending smirk/smile and manner of address so common to the left, whose members look down their nose at regular folks and conservatives. 

I bring this up because Mr. Obama stated today that the United States could not return to the old ways of boom and bust in the American economy.   This remark is comparable to warning that it is no longer acceptable for the weather to change from hot to cold.   For Mr. Obama, if we are maintain a free society and a free market, can no more guarantee the economy will not experience boom or bust cycles any more than he can guarantee the weather will always be mild.    The only way to eliminate economic cycles is to force on the country a command economy similar to the old Soviet Union and at work in Cuba.   This is actually what Mr. Obama, a Marxist at heart, wants, and what his remark telegraphs to anyone with ears to hear.   In keeping with one of this administration's unstated reasons for existence, forcing a command economy on the country will have the virtue of squaring accounts with the rich (defined as anyone with any assets or decent job or who is a male or white) for their past "crimes," centralizing maximum power in the federal power via regulation and control over distrubtion of income and assets, and increasing dependency of the population on government handouts, since the only a subsistence living standard  which results from a command economy.  

So either the president is too stupid to know that boom and bust are inherent in a free market, or has inadvertently indicated his intentions.
In either case, the hubris of this administration manifests itself in ways big and small everyday.   Pride, the Bible tells us, goeth before a fall.   Let's hope the fall is of this administration and not of this country.

I watched Mr. Obama take the oath of office and deliver his speech.   I thought the speech was flat and filled with cliches.   His acknowledgment of his predecessor’s service was begrudging and de minimis.   Obama seemed to hurry the speech and spelled on the few applause lines.  By no matter, the fawning media will elevate the performance to mythical status soon enough.

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I admit that the ceremony left me saddened..   I cannot shake the feeling that Obama’s induction to the presidency represents in a real and deep way an adieu to the country I grew up in and love. Obama represents the coming to power of a world view and morality which is foreign to mind.  While Obama’s speech referred to responsibility and continuity, in fact he and his expressed policies represent a rejection by the voters of so much which makes America unique: limited government, free markets, and individual responsibility for success or failure.    But the horse left the barn in last September when the House of Representatives reversed itself and approved the    $ 700 billion bailout for the American financial system.   

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The president has promised government spending on a scale never before seen to address the nation’s economic doldrums.   He foresees trillion (that’s with a T) dollar federal budget deficits for years to come.   Let’s cut to the chase: Obama is telling us that he and a cooperative leftist Congress dominated by Democrats will bankrupt the United States, wreck the domestic economy, destroy the savings of millions, and leave the great mass of Americans dependent on government for their very survival.   In a figurative twinkling of an eye, the people of the United States elected a unapologetic socialist and skilled demigod as president and embraced the European nanny-state.    So this is how the American capitalism expires, with barely a whimper of protest?   Indeed this is a frivolous and weak generation, willing to sell the legacy of past for  promises that the mother-government will care for our future.    We will learn that these promises will carry the same value of our currency - worthless.   At least Esau received a bowl of soup in exchange for selling his birthright to Jacob.   We will be left with ashes.

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It seems that Mr. Obama’s nominee for the secretary of the Treasury failed to pay his income and social security taxes for several years, and consequently has been forced to amend his tax returns for these years and something like $35,000 in taxes and penalties.     Let not your heart be troubled however.   No senator, Republican or Democrat, seems to believe this omission disqualifies Mr. Geithner from becoming the Secretary of the Treasury.  Of course, not paying income taxes hasn’t prevented Charlie Rangel was remaining chair of the House Ways and Means Committee either. Apparently at some point an individual graduates into that an elite club whose membership enjoys immunity from those laws and rules which trouble the rest of us.   Paying income taxes on time and in the right amount is only for suckers, viz., the ordinary American worker.   Everyday brings fresh evidence for the need for a second American revolution.

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Carol Browner is Mr. Obama’s environment czar.  She is also a member of the Socialist International and a member of the church of the global warming.    Is this one of “centrist” appointments that Beltway Republican commentators are pleasantly surprised by?

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Wouldn’t it be nice it there existed an actual opposition party to Obama and the leftist Democrats?     At present, an incoherent, confused and rudderless blob known as the Republican Party is the nominal opposition.   What is it about Washington, D.C., that emasculates Republicans and renders them sterile?   Every utterance from Congressional Republicans gives evidence they are still clueless about how to confront the Democrats and dangerously out of touch with their own conservative base.   
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George W. Bush leaves office having successfully prevented another terrorist attack on the United States.  For this he deserves the thanks of all Americans.   His refusal to countenance defeat in Iraq was an act of genuine presidential leadership.   But . . . on immigration he was an unmitigated disaster, the best president Mexico ever had.   In the last months of this term Bush succumbed to the hysterical advice of his economic advisers and moved the nation into socialism.   He failed to veto bloated bills passed by Republican Congresses, which contributed to Republicans losing their reputation as the party of fiscal conservatism.  Bush failed to prevent North Korea from developing an atomic bomb and Iran from being on the verge of doing so.   He apparently stopped Israel from attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, a wrong-headed decision which will have tragic consequences for the Middle East and the United States.  With all that, I never for one moment doubted that George Bush is a good and decent man who acted as his conscience directed and what he believed to be the best interest of the country.    He and his wife are people of class and grace.   We will miss them.

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A spokesman for Mr. Obama has stated that Obama will eliminate the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regarding homosexuals serving in the military.   According to polls of military personnel, a significant percentage will opt to retire or decline to re-enlist if the policy is jettisoned.   Who knows how many who might be considering enlisting will not do so if the policy is changed?   The push to legitimize homosexuality will be the ruin of our society.   Man cannot contravene God’s law and expect to prosper.   Homosexual conduct is perversion; it corrupts all it touches. 

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Conservatives are arguing among themselves whether we should wish Obama a successful presidency.    I hope he’s successful in thwarting attacks on our nation and having terrorists killed in Afghanistan or wherever else they are found.   On just about everything else, unless he changes his positions, I hope Obama fails.   I don’t want abortion on demand, homosexuals in the military, increased taxes, nationalized health insurance, a nuclear armed Iran, a hallowed and demoralized military, a larger federal government, more environmental regulation suffocating industry and business, and ultra-leftist judges, just to name a few things. 



Reading the headlines everyday enforces my feeling that insanity has gripped the population.  It will take some sort of great shock to snap us out of it.    Between Obama, the Democrats and the terrorists, we can count on getting one soon.

 

Some conservative commentators have expressed the view that President-elect Obama is demonstrating unexpected moderation in his cabinet choices. I call this grasping at straws. So what if Mr. Obama has window dressed his administration with moderate left wingers and malleable Republicans? To borrow a phrase, this is putting lipstick on a pig. Mr. Obama has not changed. He remains a far left socialist/Marxist. The public faces of his administration will serve only to distract from the real work being done by the army of assistant secretaries, under secretaries, deputies, etc., who populate the Federal bureaucracy. These folks will be the hardcore leftists, the true believers who like termites will eat away and weaken our liberties and diminish our freedoms. As Mr. Obama demonstrated in his campaign, he is a master of concealment, and his cabinet serves to distract from what will be going on behind the curtain.

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Rather than wasting money on bailing out the Detroit branch of the domestic automobile industry, why not simply give every American household $25,000 with the proviso that the money must be used to buy a new vehicle made by GM, Ford or Chrysler? They’d get needed cash and we’d all get a new car. If we’re going to burn money at least let the taxpayer get something out of it.

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Everyone knows that the courts have misconstrued the First Amendment’s free exercise and establishment clauses respecting religion. During Christmastime this manifests itself with arguments about nativity scenes and crosses on public property. Under the prevailing rule it seems that such displays are legal only if they are overwhelmed by surrounding bells and whistles so as to be unnoticeable. Maybe we should describe the legal standard as a sort of sliding scale: the greater the Christian is offended and angry by the disparagement of his faith, the more constitutional the display in the eyes of the court system. How long, O Lord, how long, will thy people put up with a tyrannical judiciary? Where is the man who will tell these robed dictators, "NO, I WILL NOT YIELD?"

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I read that a Russian journalist predicts the crackup of the United States into six countries. You know, he may be right about the crackup, though his description of what follows one is wildly off base. There are many explosive pressures lose in our nation which, if unresolved, may well lead to a violent blowup. The emasculation of the public school system by the left has resulted in a populace largely ignorant of American history and government. A large number of our fellow citizens have little to no attachment to the United States. The public has an entitlement mentality which transforms every desire into a "right" which government must honor. People think they have a right not to be offended. The United States reminds me of a married couple who remain together from habit and inertia, where communication, affection and dedication have fled. All that such a situation is waiting for is an excuse for a bust up.

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Where is the money coming from to pay for all these bailouts?  How long can the dollar retain any value? We are headed for either a depression or hyperinflation, either of which will sorely test the fabric of American society.  How will the soft and pampered American public react when food is scarce? Baton down the hatches everyone, it’s going to be a bumpy time ahead.

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Obama hasn’t even been sworn yet it already seems that he has been around for forever.

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Wouldn’t it be nice if a few hundred thousand voting age born-again Christians moved to San Francisco? It does seem to be a place in need of missionary work and has the benefits of wonderful climate and beautiful scenery. Maybe our churches should seek out volunteers and agree to subsidize Christians who move there for a period of time. Even the addition of only 100,000 new conservative voters would work a dramatic change in the landscape. Well, it’s just a thought.

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Newsweek magazine has published article in favor of homosexual marriage and essentially calling an idiot anyone who bases their moral beliefs on the Bible. Homosexual marriage has never only been about same sex unions but a declaration of war against the God of creation who made marriage between a man and woman.  Newsweek has contributed to bringing into focus the conflict between perverts and Christians who believe the Word of God.

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Its hard to pin the socialist label on Barack Obama when a Republican president’s administration nationalized the nation’s financial sector. Now it appears the automobile industry is next. When does this end? The money behind these bailouts is a fiction, sustained only by the suspension of logic of America’s creditors. Sooner or later someone is going to call in their chips.

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Homosexuals have reacted with a temper tantrum to the passage of Proposition 8 in California, which amended the California constitution to reinstate the traditional definition of marriage into that document. Particular targets of their wrath have been blacks and Hispanics, who supported the amendment by strong majorities. Perhaps blacks have a clearer perspective about what actually is a civil right, as opposed to a sexual practice. Regardless the reaction has been instructive. For homosexuals, the democratic process is legitimate only when they prevail; other adverse majorities are perforce illegitimate, to be vilified and intimidated into submission and silence. Democracy for me, not for thee!

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Homosexual "marriage" is an issue on which compromise is impossible.   In my view, the whole business illustrates the proverbial slippery slope where the initial concession inevitably leads to the next one, and then another. Advocates of traditional marriage never should have conceded the propositions (1) that homosexual unions are morally acceptable or (2) should receive legal recognition through civil unions.  For the Christian whether homosexual conduct is acceptable should not be an issue; the Bible is clear that homosexual conduct is a sin, in fact, an abomination before God, a corruption of the natural order. If, as the Bible states, God Himself has declared homosexual conduct sinful, and an abomination, how can a Christian hold to the contrary? When did God cede to any group of humans the right to define sin?

For the advocates of traditional marriage, once homosexual unions were viewed benignly and conceded to deserve legal recognition the debate has been all downhill.  Sure same-sex unions can’t produce children but neither do all traditional marriages. Trying to debate marriage separate from religious considerations is like fighting with one arm tried behind your back.  The simple truth is that marriage is a divinely ordained institution uniting persons of the opposite sex.  By definition, marriage cannot involve partners of the same sex. The courts may one day force homosexual unions on an unwilling public, but they will not be marriages.

In my humble view, Christians should never agree or concede that homosexual conduct is morally acceptable and homosexual unions deserving of any legal recognition or protection. While we are enjoined to submit to civil authority, when the civil authority acts in a manner directly contrary to the command of our God, God trumps the civil authority.  If the courts legislate homosexual marriage, it will be the job of Christians to refuse to heel to this sort of judicial tyranny and decline to recognize the legitimacy of such unions.  If the nation is determined to go to Hell, let it do so without our help.

The fact there is even a debate about homosexual marriage reveals the extent insanity has taken a hold in the culture of this country. No society, even polygamous societies, has ever recognized homosexual marriage. Ten thousand years of human history, tradition and the tenets of EVERY major religion are not be discarded in less than a generation simply because one group of malcontents wants social acceptance of their perverted sexual practices.

Homosexuals are counting on people being intimidated into silence by the fear of being labeled a bigot or homophobe. Militant homosexuals have become emboldened and now invade and desecrate houses of worship and attack old ladies holding the cross. So much for tolerance!   Once corruption is let lose it recognizes no law but its own desires.   Homosexual conduct is evil and deserving of no legal protection in any form.   Bowers v. Hardwick, the 1986 U.S. Supreme Court case which upheld the right of the state to prosecute sodomy, was correctly decided, and Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 case which overruled Bowers, is wrong.   Regardless of what the courts conjure up,  I do not and will not accept, agree with, or submit to, any court decision, legislation, or popular referendum which purports to authorize homosexual marriage or anything like it. If such a thing ever comes about in the United States of America, we will reap the Devine punishment due a society which embraces perversion as normal.

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Until Mr. Obama was elected I never realized that we had an Office of the President-Elect, with its own seal.

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Between bailouts, environmental regulation, increased taxation, etc., will the average citizen have anything left to call his own? What is to stop government from taxing you into the poor house but the fear office holders have of losing power? That fear is going away. There will soon be, if not already, a majority of the electorate which pays no income tax and who directly benefit from the socialist policies redistributing wealth. These folks have no incentive whatsoever in electing representatives who will lessen the tax burden on the working minority. At all levels of government there is an insatiable appetite for more taxes, more money, more everything. I’ve worked in both state and municipal governments and I can speak with confidence that government WILL NEVER stop grabbing for more money. We are on the road to serfdom or the collapse of a civil society.

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The American automobile big three, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, want the U.S. government to contribute billions of dollars to sustain their operations. Actually, what is being sustained is the flow of money to UAW members and retirees for salaries, pensions and medical benefits. We may be getting a preview of the future of all American industry when the Democrats payoff the unions for their political support by passing legislation to eliminate the secret ballot when workers vote whether to unionize. Increased unionization will drive up employer costs, which of course, must be passed on to the customer. Foreign competitors will not have that problem. A priori, trade barriers must be erected and protectionism resurrected to keep the newly unionized industries afloat. The consequences for you and me, less competition and higher prices, to say nothing of the loss of workplace freedom.

 

 

 

America is indeed the land of opportunity. What other country would select a man who has never managed so much as a McDonald’s restaurant as head of the executive branch of the national government and commander-in-chief of its armed forces? Not every land would elect such a neophyte president of the United States. Is this a great country or what?

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By the way, when will I get my letter from my mortgage company telling me I don’t have to pay my mortgage anymore?

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John McCain was the worst Republican presidential candidate of my lifetime. Even worse than George H.W. Bush in 1992. Honestly, I wonder if McCain actually wanted to win this election. Certainly he did not campaign as if he wanted to. His only decision wish indicated to me that he has any understanding of how to win was his selection of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential candidate. She was the only bright spot of the campaign for conservatives. Now, of course, McCain’s staffers are busy backstabbing Palin, who I’m sure has to wonder why she ever consented to run with such a bunch of losers.

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I agree with Rush Limbaugh; to heck with this gracious in defeat business! We lost to a socialist nee Marxist candidate whose tenure in office will be a disaster. Everything said about Obama during the campaign was true and the fact he won changes that not a whit. Obama was and is unqualified to be president; the fact he will be demonstrates that 52% of the voters on November 4^th simply refused to accept the truth. Voters acting stupidly is not an uncommon phenomena but I fear the corruption of the public education system will make this occurrence all too common in national elections.

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There is a lot of whistling past the graveyard talk from some conservatives that Obama will govern from the center. Poppycock. Nothing in Obama’s background or in his campaign gives proof in support of this belief. Obama is the wholly owned creation of the extreme left of the Democrat party and the pressure to enact their agenda will prove irresistible. If for no other reason, Obama knows the flood of money which won him this election came largely from the occupants of the fever swaps on the wacko left fringe. Obama can’t afford not to placate them. But make no mistake, he actually shares their agenda.

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The conservative civil war which will be raging for a next few months will render organized Congressional opposition tepid at best. The apostates who trashed Palin and argue for a re-definition of conservatism, such as David Frum, David Brooks, and Kathleen Parker to name but a few, should not have a place in the new conservative movement. There is no room for the pusillanimous and ideological fellow travelers in the conservative movement. These people elected to stab conservatives in the back during the most important presidential election since 1860 or perhaps in all our history, to look good to their cocktail party buddies, and I, for one, don’t wish to be associated with them.

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It’s going to be hard to be conservative for the next few months. Backing Obama will be the trendy and stylish thing. We will be inundated with flattering media about the new president, first lady, and new administration. The Obamamedia (formerly called the mainstream media) willingly destroyed what remained of its reputation for objectivity to elect Obama and ca n be counted on to continue to call his every move "brilliant," "innovative," or "historic." By the time we get to January 20^th I expect more than a few commentators to go orgasmic.

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Foreign policy took a backseat during most of this campaign. Iraq was hardly mentioned. However, given Obama’s stated positions on Iraq and Afghanistan, we can only hope that our brave soldiers and marines can finish off the opposition before Obama takes over and retreats from both countries. Never fear, I predict that foreign policy will wind up dominating the first term of the Obama administration. Obama’s world view will lead to policies and decisions resulting in a diminution of American influence and power. We and our allies will be in greater danger of terrorist attack because the Democrats don’t believe we are in a war with terrorists and will undo much that has been done to protect our security.

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Well, what can we expect right off the bat? The Democrats owe the labor unions big time, so expect the check-card legislation, which does away with the secret ballot when workers chose whether to join a union, to be at the top of their list of legislation. I doubt the Senate Republicans can sustain a filibuster to block the bill, so expect that to become law.

Abortion is a religious sacrament to liberals, so expect quick repeal of the federal Partial Birth Abortion ban. Indeed, Obama has pledged to sign federal legislation which preempts even state abortion regulations (don’t ask me how that is constitutional). It’s easy and quick to pass such a bill and it pays back a vociferous pressure group in the Democrat party.

Homosexuals are another group in line for a payoff. The Defense of Marriage Act, passed in 1996, will be target no. 1 for the gay rights lobby. Target no. 2 will be the military’s "Don’t ask, don’t tell" policy on homosexuals in the military. Expect the Democrat Congress to cater to the homosexual lobby on these issues. Expect the federal bureaucracies to enact rules making it much harder or impossible for faith based groups to receive federal funds.

Unlike some, I think Obama and the Congress will enact some sort of tax "cut," or at least something which can be spun as a tax cut. The memory of Bill Clinton going back on his tax cut pledge is too fresh in their minds to fail to pass something. But of course all the money (and more) will be recouped through soak-the-rich increases on upper income brackets and allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire. And the leftists may go for the whole ball game and nationalize 401(k) and other private pension plans. After all, they have to find money somewhere to pay for all their programs to ensure "fairness" and equitable distribution of wealth.

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It occurs to me that Obama represents a more urbane, chic version of Huey Long. He also will be our first rock star president. Most troubling, however, is that Obama is for so many of his followers an object of worship. In this regard he is sui generis as president; we’ve never had an object of cult worship as the chief executive. If you saw the raptous looks given Obama by the Grant Park crowd can you doubt they would follow him anywhere? A mindless crowd following a charismatic leader is the prescription for fascism. The republican form of government in this country is in serious trouble. A messiah can’t afford to disappoint the masses.

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I suppose I should say something positive about Obama. He read a speech well, he’s well tailored, he’s very clean (watch the Beatles movie, "A Hard Day’s Night"), he’s seems a good family man and his victory has brought joy to lots of people.

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I keeping hearing that this is a center-right nation. If that’s the case, why is Obama the president-elect and the Congress dominated by liberal Democrats? Why does my home state of Arkansas keeping electing liberal Democrat senators, congressmen, and state officers? People may talk a good conservative game but they have not voted that way.

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I hope to see the day when the conservative intelligentsia and elite understand that it is more important to defeat liberals than to be liked by them.

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Finally, I recommend that we all learn Spanish. Immigration "reform," legalizing millions of illegal aliens and fast tracking them to citizenship and the right to vote (for Democrats of course), is a certainty.