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It’s Time For Republican Cage Debating…

H/T Brian Walker at Ohio Free Press: It’s time for cage debating…

I can't just plagiarize repost someone's entire article without commenting, so here goes: Hey Brian, I still owe you for that T-Shirt.  Oh, and by the way, that looks like you in the picture...is that you, just a coincidence, or is it Photoshop?  Who is that man on the outside of the cage?  I'm just sayin'...

...but enough about what I'm sayin', let's read what Brian Walker at Ohio Free Press has to say:

Maybe I get easily bored. Or maybe I have heard the same things over and over.  Or maybe I haven’t had my morning coffee just yet. But the Ohio 18th district debates have been, well, a little dull. Let me explain.

I have attended, heard, or seen several of the debates. Now, granted, these debates are usually the first time that potential voters get a chance to see the candidates in person and hear their positions on a wide variety of topics. However, does this really give the voters who are going to electing their candidate to run against Zack Space a real feel for who it is they are pitting against an established incumbent? I don’t think so.

In the wrestling world there is a small segment of fighting called “cage fighting”.  Cage fighting is a mixed martial arts fighting competition that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques and skills with no holds barred. In other words you better know what you are doing in the fighting ring or you will get your clock wiped clean by the competition.

I propose “cage fighting” for the Republican debates. I think that they need to see a little more jousting and fighting in the Republican debates for the Ohio 18th district. There are eight different candidates vying for the same “title”, or coronation, to take on Zack Space in the November elections. Granted, all these candidates are nice, well spoken, dress well, speak well and they are extremely cordial to each other on the stage during the debates. I am glad that they get along (most of them) and I even heard a couple of them car pool to get to the debates together. Now that’s really something you don’t see or hear about much.

However, everyone playing nicey-nice with each other during the debates is not giving voters a feel for who these candidates really are when the heat is on. Let them cage fight each other. Let’s see what happens when the fire is in the ring and the tough questions are posed by the candidates to the candidates. How are they going to respond? Will the presentation they’ve been giving people at the previous debates be burnt away revealing a different person, will they shrivel like a prune in the California sun when the heat is being applied to them, or will they be refined, tried and turned into a more valuable candidate?

I would hope the Republicans see a sifting of the candidate field. I would hope that, the voters would be allowed a different insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates they are looking to nominate for the Republican slot in the May election.

Some might be saying I am advocating mud slinging and character assassinations with the proposed “cage debating”. That would be about as far from the truth as it could be.

I present this to the thinking person. If the Republicans think that the Democratic incumbent and the democratic machine will be playing nicey-nice come the run up to November’s election, think again. Many of the democratic seats are in potential trouble due to the massive undercurrent of voter disgust with Washington. When you corner an animal and they are afraid for their lives, they will do anything and everything in the effort to preserve themselves. I have a feeling that, if the Republicans don’t properly vet out a suitable “cage fighter”, the cornered incumbent will tear them to shreds due to lack of experience.

And that’s just here in Ohio 18. Washington and the wolves that reside there are a whole different breed and much more numerous.

The Republicans need to make sure that the $174,000 year fight prize being offered can go to someone who is able to cage fight for 10 rounds and still go for the knock out.

That’s just an honest look at the situation. 

I know that Rahm "Rahmbo" Emanuel is a good cage debater.  Yeah, Brian, whoever goes to Washington, D.C. would need to be ready to Rumble With Rahm.  The Left has already taken The Constitution to the cage, so if the Republicans become the Majority Party, it should be expected that The Left will invite them into the Capitol Hill Octagon as well.  All over the USA, not just in Ohio-18, potential new Members of Congress need to be in hard training. 

 

Coach Dave Daubenmire Plants The Flag at TEA Party Express III Rally In Ohio

I have been involved with the Coach Dave For Congress campaign and I have not posted in several days.  I'm going to try to do a daily post from now on, but since we're focused on the May 4th primary in Ohio-18 Congressional District, it may be dicey to do so.  Anyway, I'm taking the easy way out today and posting a video I shot of Coach Dave at the TPXIII Rally near Cleveland, Ohio on Sunday April 11, 2010.  I had to edit it to get it under 10 minutes so YouTube would post it and you can tell that my editing skills need to develop further, but nonetheless it will be a quick 10 minutes if you watch it because Coach Dave has a way of keeping you on the edge of your seat.  Pray for me and especially for Coach Dave.  We've already had our share of dirty tricks played on us, and we're still in the Republican Primary, although one of the opponents is from Illinois, so go figure. We're on FaceBook HERE and our Twitter username is "coach4congress". 




Here the TPX III buses roll into the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds.  These folks are putting everything they have into this. They are scheduled to be in Washington DC on April 15th. 

I've got photos and some other video of Patriots at the rally that I'll post ASAP, I just haven't had the time because the campaign is keeping me hopping, but to all the people whose photos I took at this rally, I promise to get them posted. 

Today You Voted

I don't usually repost email that I get, but this one is too good.  This one comes from our friends Sam and Linda Smalis of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.   They are Patriots and are in the fight:

THIS IS A NONPARTISAN JOKE THAT CAN BE ENJOYED BY BOTH PARTIES!
NOT ONLY THAT-- it is POLITICALLY CORRECT!!
 
While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit by
a truck and dies.
 
His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
 
"Welcome to heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems
there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts,
you see, so we're not sure what to do with you."
 
"No problem, just let me in," says the man.
 
"Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do
is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you
can choose where to spend eternity."
 
"Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in  heaven," says the
senator.
 
"I'm sorry, but we have our rules."
 
And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes
down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself
in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse
and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians
who had worked with him.
 
Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him,
shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while
getting rich at the expense of the people
 
They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar
and champagne.
 
Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who
has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a
good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go.
 
Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator
rises...
 
The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven
where St. Peter is waiting for him.
 
"Now it's time to visit heaven."
 
So, 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls
moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a
good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.
 
"Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now
choose your eternity."
 
The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: "Well, I would
never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but
I think I would be better off in hell."
 
So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down,
down to hell.
 
Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a
barren land covered with waste and garbage.
 
He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and
putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.
 
The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder.
"I don't understand," stammers the senator. "Yesterday I was here
and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and
caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now
there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable.
What happened?"
 
The devil looks at him, smiles and says, "Yesterday we were campaigning.. .

Today  you voted."

America Is Still Standing Even Though Day-by-Day The Constitution Slips Away

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H/T Chris Muir: Day-By-Day Cartoon

Imprimis: America's War On Islamist Terror...Or Is It?

Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College

In an article adapted from a speech delivered on March 5, 2010 at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., Mr. Andrew C. McCarthy gives several insights into the effect of the phenomenon of "Judicial Legislation" and the evolution of the process over the last 70 years: 

It has become fashionable these days to invoke the “rule of law” as if it means the rule of lawyers—and in particular, the rule of judges. But that has never been the term’s meaning. In the U.S., the rule of law is embodied in the Constitution and resides in the statutes, treaties, rules, and regulations adopted pursuant to the Constitution. The rule of law does not refer either to judges or to elected officials, who are themselves servants of the Constitution.

It has also become trendy in recent years, especially among our legal elites, to declaim piously that “the Constitution is not suspended in wartime.” And, of course, no true patriot believes that the Constitution could ever be suspended. But the Constitution is not—nor has it ever been—the imposition of judicial rule. Indeed, the Constitution imposes strict limitations on the judicial power, just as it does on Congress and the executive branch. It has never been the case that where judicial power ends, anarchy begins.

Mr. McCarthy also looks into the specifics of the recent case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who could have provided an intelligence coup and possibly large progress in the continuing conflict against Islamic Terror.  He contextualizes the US response to Abdulmutallab ( the "Underwear Bomber") with a comparison to the response of Franklin D. Roosevelt in dealing with a similar challenge in 1942:

President Roosevelt grappled with similar challenges during World War II. In June 1942, when the outcome of the war was anything but clear, eight German saboteurs were captured after landing on the coasts of Long Island and Florida. They had been sent by Hitler to commit acts of terrorism against civilian infrastructure, and Roosevelt decided to make an example of them. He wasn’t concerned with the fact that the federal courts were open and functioning. Nor was he swayed by the fact that one of the saboteurs was an American citizen. He directed that all eight of them be detained as enemy combatants and tried by a military commission. Nor did he perceive the need to festoon the proceedings with trappings of a martial setting: the trial took place in an FBI conference room in what is now the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building.

The saboteurs’ defense lawyers naturally cried foul, filing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Supreme Court and claiming that this military commission violated the Constitution. Upon hearing of the petition, Roosevelt summoned Attorney General Francis Biddle and directed him to tell the Chief Justice that he did not care what the Supreme Court thought; that the Constitution made him, not the justices, responsible for the lives of the American people and the successful prosecution of the war; and that he would not be releasing the prisoners, regardless of the Court’s disposition of the case.

This provided a judicial “king has no clothes” moment of clarity such as we have not had in the ensuing 68 years. The fact is that courts have no power to enforce their edicts.

How do we get from the decisive actions of Roosevelt to the Obama administration’s stunning mishandling of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab? Recall that this terrorist tried to detonate a chemical bomb on an airplane—an attack that would have killed all 288 innocents onboard and an untold number of Americans on the ground. Recall that he was a trained operative of al Qaeda—a transnational terrorist network with which we are at war. Recall that he was a Nigerian national sent from Yemen to attack us, and had no claim whatsoever on the protections of civilian due process. What’s more, our intelligence community tells us that Yemen is now one of the prime launch points of Islamist terror. Abdulmutallab had spent four months there. He knew the training camps, the trainers, and the identities of other terrorists (evidently, scores of them). In light of these facts, his capture alive should have been one of the great intelligence coups of the war. Instead, he was questioned for a mere 50 minutes before being given Miranda warnings and a lawyer—at which point he invoked his supposed right to remain silent, was consigned to the civilian justice system, and was charged in an indictment that gave him plea-bargaining leverage in any further negotiations over what he would tell us.

This approach was not only unnecessary, it was wrong. The terrorist could and should have been designated an enemy combatant and interrogated without the interference of a lawyer or the complications of a civilian prosecution. Even if one believed—as the Obama administration says it believes—that it is important to our reputation around the world to endow him with the rights of the Americans he was trying to slaughter, there was no legal requirement that that be done immediately. He could have been turned over to civilian authorities two or three years from now, once his intelligence reservoir was fully tapped. We’d have lost nothing in the meantime except the ability to introduce any confession at trial—and no confession is needed when a terrorist tries to bomb an airplane in front of nearly 300 witnesses.

I have always found Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College, to be both interesting and informative.  The entire article can be read HERE.

The Republican Party Does Not Get It, Or The GOP Does Not Care. One Of These Things Is True.

Last evening I attended a Candidate Forum for candidates in the May 4th Primary election in Ohio-18, which is currently the seat held by Blue dog Democrat Zac Space.  This forum was sponsored by Ohio18.com.  Congressman Space did not attend (and in all fairness he has no legitimate challenger in the primary) but he was invited.  On the GOP side, 7 of the eight candidates on the ticket did attend.  There were a few hundred people, average citizens, who were in attendance as well.  Representing the media was Ohio Free Press, a truly refreshing alternative to the Old Media, along with the local NBC television affiliate, and some print media as well. 


One of the candidates in this race has been endorsed by the following:

• Ohio Right to Life
• US Republican House Leader John Boehner 
• Congressman Bob Latta
• Congressman Steve LaTourette
• Congressman Steve Austria
• Holmes County GOP Chair Rob Hovis
• Holmes County Republican Party
• Ross County GOP Chair Diane Carnes
• Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell
• Ohio Senate President Bill Harris
• Ohio House Republican Leader Bill Batchelder
• State Senate President Pro-Tempore Tom Niehaus

(This is not a complete list of the endorsements, but you get the idea.  This is the "endorsed" candidate.) 


So what stood out about the endorsed candidate?  He was an average communicator at best, gave the most tepid answers to questions, and was generally uninspiring.  My gut feeling about this gentleman was "RINO".  He carries the GOP mantle and has the largest war chest of any GOP candidate.   He is polling well.  He would certainly be a good fit for Washington DC and would likely be a good little sheep to follow the lead of the GOP leadership in whichever way the Political Winds of The Potomac would blow.  The only problem with all of that is that he seemed to be the least representative of the people in the room, and my gut screamed that he would be more responsive to what the GOP in DC wanted than to the desires of his constituents at home.


In a year that is maybe the most potentially pivotal in the history of the USA and certainly in my slightly more than one-half century of life, I am disheartened that the GOP does not seem to understand that the same-old same-old is not what they need to endorse and support. Does The Party Of Lincoln not recognize that there is a Bloodless Coup going on in Washington and people are taking to the streets in protest because they literally do not want to have their country stolen right out from underneath them i.e. this current political climate is NOT "business as usual"?  


This country was built on risk-taking and courage.  The Republican Party, at least in the case noted here, is showing none of these things.  Why take a  tepid approach in this year where people are marching in the streets of cities from Washington, DC to Searchlight, Nevada and are truly concerned that they are losing their country to enemies from within?  The GOP thermostat is set to "Lukewarm" when it needs to be set to "Hot" in response to the current leadership crisis in our country.


The Democrats, on the other hand, are moving at the speed of light and show no uncertainty about what they stand for nor any desire to compromise, and are risking everything to put their entire agenda in place no matter what the cost.


Those citizens who oppose the Democrat agenda are hungering and thirsting for that kind of focus from someone, anyone, who will represent them.  I have never in my lifetime seen anything close to the passion and concern that the majority of average citizens that I come in contact with show in this regard.  They want Representatives who understand that passion and concern and will represent that for them in Washington.  I saw and heard some people sitting at the candidate table last night who could fill that bill for me; apparently, and unfortunately, the GOP doesn't seem to see it the same way I do, because their endorsed candidate is not one of  those.

Maybe Tony Perkins is on to something when he suggests that citizens not donate money to the Republican Party and instead support individual candidates directly based on their positions and not their affiliation.

MAinfo: Christians And Jews = Dhimmis Under Obamacare?

MAinfo: Christians And Jews = Dhimmis Under Obamacare?

The glossary comes first in this post:

1) Dhimmi:
The Dhimmi is the Arabic term that refers to its non-Islamic embracing population that has the ignominious dishonor of living in Islamic conquered lands.  The dhimmi is a distinctly subjugated second class non-citizen almost slave who is subjected to dictatorial deprivation of any legal and human rights since he is a non-Muslim permanent resident in a Muslim state.

2) Jizya:
Jizyah or jizya (جزْي) is the extra tax imposed on non-Muslims (Dhimmis) who live under Muslim rule according to the Qur'an and hadith.

Now on to the article from Opus at MAinfo:

Let’s Get this Straight:

President Obama Vice President Biden Speaker Nancy Pelosi Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid White House Staff Cabinet Secretaries Congressional Staff** Amish American Indian Tribes Criminals Scientologists Christian Scientists Muslims   Baptists Catholics Lutherans Jews You

Exempt from ObamaCare Exempt from ObamaCare Exempt from ObamaCare    . Exempt from ObamaCare Exempt from ObamaCare Exempt from ObamaCare Exempt from ObamaCare Exempt from ObamaCare Exempt from ObamaCare Exempt from ObamaCare Exempt from ObamaCare Exempt from ObamaCare Exempt from ObamaCare NO Exemption NO Exemption NO Exemption NO Exemption NO Exemption

**Congressional staffers who wrote ObamaCare, staffers working in a leadership office or for a Congressional committee all receive an exemption.

How is this happening in America?

We need to come to the realization that The Constitution no longer applies to our daily lives.  Oh, it is still a piece of parchment in a bomb-proof case in Washington DC.  It just has lost its relevance to the reality of life in the USA.  It is no longer a case of keeping our Republic.  It is a question of whether it can someday be restored.  

No One Has The Right to Strip Faith from American History

H/T Kerry J. Byrne posted at Big Government:
Leftists Have No Right to Strip Faith from American History

Before modern electronic technology, before the harnessing of electricity, human beings were more aware of their reliance upon God for their daily needs.  Although the reliance on God has not changed at all, the perception of human beings has changed simply because of the scope of presence of technology and it's effect on almost every aspect of daily life in the developed world.  In this current age, it is possible for someone to easily overlook God even though it is by His Grace and Mercy that we take our next breath and have our heart beat one more time, and it will be ever thus.

Kerry J. Byrne has an excellent article that is posted at Big Government that points out the progression of the removal of the heritage of Faith in God that was cornerstone to the foundation and establishment of our country, the USA.  I'll copy some of the highlights below although you should really consider checking out the entire article HERE. 

The left has been at war with traditional American values for decades: the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, free enterprise, Christianity. All are objects of scorn and ridicule by those who hope to “remake America” – to use President Obama’s phrase – into some sort of leftist utopia on the model of those that have already failed all around the world.

Personally, I don’t care who you worship, whether it’s Jesus, Mohammad, Moses, Buddha or a corn chip with the face of John Lennon baked into it. You’re free to do whatever you please. But you cross the line when you try to rewrite history.

...it pays to remind folks that Christianity and liberty have marched arm and arm from the very beginning of the nation.

“Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic.” - The Mayflower Compact, Nov. 11, 1620

“Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof.” – Inscription on the Liberty Bell, from Leviticus 25:10

“Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation; Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just; And this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’” – Fourth verse of the Star-Spangled Banner, 1814

“We must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus … There will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man.” – Thomas Jefferson, Oct. 13, 1813
[Did you know that the author of the Declaration of Independence was drinking the Jesus Kool-Aid? Did you know that he wrote a tribute to Jesus known today as “The Jefferson Bible?”

Probably not. Because leftists, especially those in academia, have worked diligently to strip the Christian beliefs out of the history of the Founding Fathers, choosing instead to paint them as non-denominational Deists.

Jefferson’s own faith has been hotly debated. He was not a faithful church attendant. But he openly embraced Christian principals and, in his own words, considered Christ, not Locke or Voltaire, “the most sublime and benevolent” philosopher.

“The Jefferson Bible” was finally published after his death with the subtitle “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.”]

“Laus Deo” (“Praise be to God”) – words atop the Washington Monument, completed 1884

“The religious atmosphere of the country was the first thing that struck me on arrival in the United States.” – Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

“Another and better day is dawning; every influence of literature, of poetry and of art, in our times, is becoming more and more in unison with the great master chord of Christianity, ‘good-will to man.’” – Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the preface to “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” 1852

“I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” – Abraham Lincoln, Oct. 3, 1863

“In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea; With a wisdom in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free.” – Julia Ward Howe, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, 1861

“Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity … Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.” – President Roosevelt’s D-Day prayer, June 6, 1944

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth; And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep; And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light; And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” – William Anders aboard Apollo 8, Christmas Eve, 1968

“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!” - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., April 3, 1968

Mr. Byrne expands on each quote in the post in a brief and concise manner that is most informative.  It is worth reading the whole thing, even if you think that our Christian heritage is revisionist history and that the revisionist history that denies our Christian heritage is the truth; especially if you think that, actually.  Come on, be open-minded...check it out. 

 

Government Takeover Of Education: Dressing Up Standards, Dumbing Down Schools Or How To Create A Nation Of Sheep

H/T Terrence Moore at Big Government: Dressing Up Standards, Dumbing Down Schools

Any government that seeks control over it's citizens must include the fundamental aspect of control over the education of the youth.  This would begin with a foundation to build on that would eventually lead to an indoctrinated way of thinking within the populace.  The easiest way for this goal to be reached is to have a single standard controlled by the federal government as opposed to state standards which could diverge from one another, notwithstanding the relative uniformity of doctrine of the National Education Association which is followed by the various state education associations who have the majority of government school teachers as members.  The National Governor's Association Common Core State Standards provide a firm foundation for federal government control of education starting in 1st grade.  Terrence Moore's article elaborates on this point:

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, Homer teaches us, something every school child used to know. Beware of politicians and expert educators bearing standards, the last seventy years or more of Progressive education should have taught us. But we are slow to learn.

We have been given almost a month to digest the hundreds of pages of the new National Governors Association’s Common Core State Standards that could well become national standards pressed in some way upon every child who attends a public school in America. So we had better read, write, and think fast. Pundits and educationists, even some stalwarts of education reform, are beginning to praise these new standards as being more comprehensive than any before, far better than what the diverse and unreliable states are providing. Schools will now be held accountable to “higher standards”; teachers will know what they are responsible for teaching; students will be swept up in “the vision of what it means to be a literate person in the twenty-first century,” which, we must surmise, is very different from what it meant to be literate in, say, the eighteenth century, when the likes of Thomas Jefferson read Latin and Greek for fun.

As a college professor I teach freshman every year, not those from the inner cities, where we admit schools are failing, but from the suburbs of our major cities as well as small towns. The students from public schools (unlike most of those who attend classical or Christian schools or are home-schooled; i.e. not bound by state-mandated standards) know virtually nothing. Public-school students know no facts or events from history. They have been impressed by no work of literature. Yet they have all taken standardized state tests. 

I ran a K-12 classical charter school for seven years. Not once did I or any of the teachers look at a state standard in reading or writing (math is something of a different case). The students did no test prep. When our students took the state exams, all they did was complain about how easy and worthless they were and how they wanted to get back to real learning. Every year the high school ranked in the top three in the state, twice coming out first. The secret was breathtakingly simple. The way to teach literacy for the twenty-first century turns out to be the same way it has been done in the last thirty centuries of civilization: to hire the brightest and best-educated teachers (usually not those coming out of a school of education considered “certified”), to put in their hands the best works of literature and history and philosophy, to invite young people to have a conversation about what it means to be a human being, and to require those students to work hard and demonstrate good character while doing so.

I had an associate when I was younger who had a Welsh mother and an Iranian father.  His father's family were supporters of The Shah of Iran.  This young man's father had left Iran to marry his mother before the Shah was deposed, but the family members who were left behind were never heard from again.  My friend related to me that the Mullahs who had gained control of the country imposed strict controls on who was allowed to have formal education and what that formal education was to consist of. Within a single generation Iran, the ancient nation of Persia, went from one of the most educated and prosperous countries to a land of tribal warfare, a country where females were no more than a slave class for the most part and were not allowed to receive any formal education at all.  

If you read the entire article referenced above, you will see that the government education system in the USA is going away from a foundation of sound educational standards and toward a system that ultimately creates a populace with the inability to think critically, with the end result being a people who are easily controlled.  Whether this is government incompetence or the natural evolution of progressive education, it presents a threat to all of us unless it can somehow be stopped and reversed.  The proposed National Standards would in fact advance the decline and are counterproductive to substantive education, but are perfect if producing a Nation of Sheep is the desired goal.   

Black Democrat Race Exploiters Trash Diverse Tea Party

H/T Lloyd Marcus writing at Big Journalism:   Black Democrat Race Exploiters Trash Diverse Tea Party 

What is the central issue of the TEA Party protests?  The abandoning of the Constitution, of course.  On The Left, the Constitution is seen as a sort of suggestive guideline that can be molded and shaped to fit the Conventional Wisdom of the day.  On The Right, it is seen as a foundation of the law in a nation of laws that can only be changed by the amendment process described within the Constitution itself.  Everything flows from this central and basic premise.

The Left, including the Leftist Mouthpiece that is the Mainstream Media, has the goal of creating distraction from this focus on The Constitution and its destruction in order to buy enough time to accomplish that destruction.  One side issue that is put to the fore is the issue of skin color.  Well, The Left calls it the issue of Race, but there is only one race, The Human Race, and within that race there is various apportionment of melanin which causes skin to have different shades.  Lloyd Marcus offers his take on this at Big Journalism:

So, I am on the Tea Party Express bus traveling to our next rally in Omaha, Neb., when the faces of black democrats Maxine Waters and Charley Rangel appear on TV on the Fox News channel. Both were saying racism was at the core of the Tea Party protester’s disagreement with President Obama. Please excuse my crudeness, but I wanted to puke.

These two race exploiters are calling the Tea Party protesters racist. Meanwhile, I am a black performer/activist traveling on my third national Tea Party Express tour. We just finished our rally in North Platte, Neb. Two white families asked me to hold their newborn babies and pose for pictures. Excited white grandparents who are fans of my articles and music asked me to pose for pictures with them and their grand kids. Numerous white patriots shook my hand with tears in their eyes thanked me for what I was doing for our country. A white woman who said she was 86 years old gave me a big hug in thanks for my efforts.

Polatik, our young Hispanic conservative rapper, got his usual huge positive response from the mostly older white crowd. These are the decent hard working great Americans, Waters, Rangel and the left continuously attempt to portray as racist.

Someone informed me the left-wing Huffington Post blog trashed me for my proclaiming at Tea Parties that I’m an American rather than a hyphenated African-American. Perhaps, one of the left wing blogs inspired the hate emails I have received. They call me everything from an idiot to an MF-ing stupid “N” word. Why does simply calling myself an American inspire such anger and rage from the left?

And yet, the media lauds the left for their tolerance and compassion. The left attempts to brand us Tea Party patriots as haters, while in reality they are the ones spewing hate from deep within their souls.

Since I began traveling with the Tea Party Express, (over a hundred rallies), I have been surrounded by great Americans who love their country and simply do not want to see it transformed into Europe.

Obama Nation: The Check List

Obama Nation: The Check List

A Political Stimulus And A Stimulus Toward Full-Fledged Socialism, Not A Job Stimulus

H/T Veronique deRugy at Big Government:    Political Stimulus, Not A Job Stimulus

The promise of "The Stimulus" was that there would be a "guarantee" of less than 8% unemployment if it passed.  There was also a threat, sold with a fearful picture of economic collapse if it did not pass. It was the first of the "Unread Legislation" that had to be "passed so we could see what was in it".  

As the USA languishes in double-digit unemployment and record job-losses, we are not only finding out that spending over $700,000,000,000.00 on "The Stimulus" did not deliver the promised results in regard to unemployment but now we also get to "see what's in it.  

...data published here showing that on average Democratic districts are getting almost twice the amount of stimulus money than Republican districts. Republican districts also received smaller awards on average. The average dollars awarded per Republican district is $260,675,663, while the average dollars awarded per Democratic district is $471,533,539. 

 

Several readers asked if the difference could be explained by the fact that Democratic districts have many more people than Republican districts have. So I looked at the numbers and here is the result. It’s not.

Republican districts get $362 per capita on average

Democratic districts get $692 per capita on average

Also, on average, Democratic districts received one-and-a-half times as many awards as Republican ones. Democratic districts also received two-and-a-half times more stimulus dollars than Republican districts ($122 million vs. $46 million). Of course, there are more Democratic districts than Republican districts in the Congress. 

Is the politics part of the allocation decision?

Well I checked for the correlation between political indicators and stimulus funding. I found that there are no effect of political variables (leadership, tenure in office …) on stimulus funds allocation with one exception: the district’s party affiliation (whether the district’s representation was Republican or Democratic) does matter.

On the other hand, I can tell you what factor was not a part of the allocation decision: the level of unemployment in each district or the deterioration of unemployment in each district. In other words, unemployment levels didn’t matter. That’s not what the money was supposed to address. Or was it?

I got tons of grief when I posted last year about the uses of this stimulus money including a re-election slush fund for Democrats, and that it would be used for vote buying.  I'm no genius, far from it, but it looks like this is correct to some degree.  

Really, after what he Current President and his allies in Congress have done since January 2009, would anything surprise you?  I don't know the answer to that question on your part, but I can tell you for sure that I expect that there will be many more revelations such as this, and maybe more still that never comes to light.  

The Current President wants nothing more than the collapse of America, to make We The People helpless and at the mercy of our government.  This is exactly what the Founding Fathers strove to avoid when The Constitution was drafted.  Once we got away from "the laws of Nature and of Nature's God", it was all downhill from there. 

 

ATLAS SHRUGS: English Defence League Protests Muslim Invasion Of Great Britian And Is Smeared By UK Media Like TEA Party Is Smeared Here In USA By US Media

H/T Pam Geller at Atlas Shrugs:  EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: UAF Fascists Disrupt Caged EDL Anti-Islamisation Protest in Dudley, Nine Arrested UPDATE: EDL Member stabbed, Another attacked by Muslim with Broken Bottle

The EDL is being smeared like the tea party activists in the States. The media is corrupt.

UPDATE: Here's an on-scene report from UK David:

The EDL were driven into a huge metal cage with high fences all around and kept tightly packed in for over two hours. They were told by Police officers ''you wanted this demo so now you can stay in there!'' I have been told by a very good friend present, it was mayhem, claustrophobic and people thought they were going to get trampled on once a surge of anger started and pleas for release as many by this time wanted to go home, were ignored by the Police. The UAF and Muslims who were were running freely on the streets, one stabbed an EDL marshall, another had a broken bottle put into his neck by a Muslim yob whilst the Police did nothing!Nothing at all mentioned about this demo on Sky News or the BBC that I could see tonight even though they had crews there filming this and some of the EDL were asked to give interviews. So who exactly is being informed, the USA? It seems its taboo to inform the rest of the English of whats been going on in their own land.

Exclusive Photos from UK Atlas reader Sir Bluff

Read the entire report including exclusive photos at ATLAS SHRUGS.

Six-Thousand Person Ready-Reserve Army For Domestic Use Only Is Included In Health Care Takeover

H/T The National Conversation Raw

The video is 6:15 in length.  Watch it.  I did.
 

Representative Phil Hare (D-Land Of Lincoln Not So Much): "I Don't Worry About the Constitution"

Rep. Phil Hare (D-IL): I don't Worry About the Constitution

At least he openly admits that he does not care about The Constitution.  That is the whole crux of the issue. Watch the whole video (about three minutes) because the ending is classic in symbolism of the whole Democrat response to We The People.

Head Of Family Research Council Tony Perkins Urges Conservatives To Stop Giving Money To RNC And Give Directly To Candidates Instead

POLITICO: Tony Perkins urges conservatives to stop giving money to RNC - Ben Smith - Tony Perkins urges conservatives to stop giving money to RNC

Michael Steele, the Chairman of The Republican National Committee, has irked the Conservative part of Republican Party in many ways.  The Big Tent approach is a chronic source of chafing, and added into that mix is expense accounts that are likely interesting reading if recent revelations are any indication. 

Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council and an influential social conservative, is urging his members to stop giving money to the Republican National Committee, POLITICO has learned.

"I've hinted at this before, but now I am saying it: Don't give money to the RNC," Perkins will tell FRC members in the group's next e-mail newsletter.  "If you want to put money into the political process, and I encourage you to do so, give directly to candidates who you know reflect your values."

Perkins' move comes two days after it was disclosed that the committee spent nearly $2,000 at a lesbian bondage club near Los Angeles — a revelation that has revived Republican griping about Chairman Michael Steele and the national party.  

In his missive, Perkins also lamented that the RNC had touted their hiring super-lawyer Ted Olson to represent  them in a campaign finance case.

"Yes, this is the same Ted Olson that is trying to overturn the results of the marriage amendment in California," Perkins writes.  "The outcome of Olson's challenge to Prop 8 goes far beyond nullifying the votes of nearly 7 million voters in California; his efforts could lead to the overturning of amendments and laws in all 45 states that currently define marriage as the union of one man and one woman."

The saying is "If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything".  Conservatives have been saying for a few years now that the Republican Party doesn't really stand for Conservatism anymore (see Big Tent above) and discontent with this has been on the upswing.  

Will this abandonment of Conservatism by Republicans cost the whole USA the chance to stop the bondage of Socialism that the Democrats are trying to bolt in place and chain down?  We'll see what happens as this unfolds.  One thing is for certain, the RNC no longer has grounds to make any pretense of representing Conservatives in the USA.  Years ago, Ronald Reagan said "I didn't leave the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party left me".  Conservatives need to consider that the Republican Party is now making the same move away from them.

Freedom Is Never More Than ONE GENERATION Away From EXTINCTION

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free" -- Ronald Reagan.

Welcome to the Real Revolution, Alinsky Fans: It Ain’t For Wimps Or Sissies

Welcome to the Real Revolution, Alinsky Fans: It Ain't For Wimps Or Sissies

I did purchase the above tome (although without the original cover and for $14.95 rather than the original $1.95 cover price shown here) and I must report that it is a short and simple read.  For all of the purported intellectual cachet of The Left, their modus operandi is as stark as the dedication quote inside from Mr. Alinksy: 

"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - LUCIFER"

The central tenet of Saul Alinksy philosophy is deception, so it is no wonder or surprise that he idolizes Satan himself.  

Here is Kyle-Anne Shiver's take:

How far will Democrats go to ensure that their revolution against American liberty succeeds?  As for me, I put nothing past them now.

Will Collier has just explained in exacting detail the most probable explanation for how Nancy Pelosi (along with Axelrod and Emanuel) could have staged their “confrontation” with Tea Partiers outside the capitol on March 20.  Claims that the N-word and spit were employed as weapons by Tea Partiers have yet to be corroborated by a single witness or video recording.  This in spite of Andrew Breitbart’s bold offer of a $10,000 reward – since upped to $100,000 – for the production of a single piece of corroborating evidence.

Having studied the revolutionary manuals of Saul Alinsky as well as his biography for two years now, and having documented much of the Democrats’ – especially Obama’s – use of Alinsky tactics, I see nothing whatsoever amiss in Mr. Collier’s proposition that the Democrats made it all up and that it was fully orchestrated.

Alinsky himself employed this method, quite deviously.  Alinsky biographer, Sanford D. Horwitt provides an anecdote using precisely this same diabolical tactic to deceive the people.  From Horwitt’s Let Them Call Me Rebel:

…in the spring of 1972, at Tulane University…students asked Alinsky to help plan a protest of a scheduled speech by George H. W. Bush, then U.S. representative to the United Nations – a speech likely to include a defense of the Nixon administration’s Vietnam War policies.  The students told Alinsky they were thinking about picketing or disrupting Bush’s address.  That’s the wrong approach, he rejoined, not very creative – and besides causing a disruption might get them thrown out of school.  He told them, instead, to go to hear the speech dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan, and whenever Bush said something in defense of the Vietnam War, they should cheer and wave placards reading, ‘The KKK supports Bush.’  And that is what they did, with very successful, attention-getting results.

Planting major falsehoods has been a favorite Alinsky strategy from the start.

The source of the title of "Let Them Call Me Rebel"?  Another quote on the dedication page, just above Alinsky's own tribute to Beelzebub:

"Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils were I to make a whore of my soul..." - Thomas Paine

Thus does Alinksy embrace the cloak of legitimate patriotism by invoking a quote from a legitimate Patriot.  This is just another example of Leftist Deception. 

Back to the article:
 

Tea Partiers should now fully expect that they will be infiltrated by Democrat shock troops, ready to hurl actual racial epithets from within their ranks.  Whether the infiltrators will actually don white robes is anyone’s bet, but I certainly would not put it past these hell-bent revolutionaries.  We ought also to expect to see a burning cross or two or three.  Then, there’s the old hang-a-noose-in-public ruse.  Again and again, these incidents are found to be hoaxes, but retractions are too little too late to stop the tide of public opinion.

On that front, I suggest that Tea Partiers begin to question every family member, friend and co-worker on the source of his news.  Those that still get their news only from “mainstream” sources ought to be mercilessly ridiculed for their dumb-sheep political mentality.  There ought not be an American left by year’s end who feels proud to tout what he heard on any of the alphabet networks or CNN or MSNBC.  Dumb sheep.  Dumb sheep.  Dumb sheep.  Call out the idiots at every single opportunity.  As Alinsky so wily noted, “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”

In order to succeed, Tea Partiers need to be constantly on guard against fabricated claims and infiltrators.  In short, this fight isn’t for the naïve.

Every Tea Party participant needs to be on guard and carry video recording equipment to every event.  Anyone suspected of being a planted subversive needs to be exposed quickly and decisively.  And anyone making the charge of racism needs to be challenged immediately.

Welcome to the revolution.

It’s ain’t for wimps or sissies.

Saul Alinksy directed his followers to infiltrate their opposite members.  We witnessed an example of this while in Washington DC on March 21, 2010.  A young lady made an announcement that tickets for The House of Representatives Gallery would be made available in exchange for the cooperation of anyone who took one of these tickets.  The Deal?  The takers must "boo" on cue when Bart Stupak stood to debate on the House Floor.  I have read "Rules For Radicals" so it I turned around and walked away when I heard the deal being explained.  However, I was the only one who did so, and regrettably I didn't warn my fellow Patriots off.   Here is a video as they troop off to the House Visitor Center to be used as tools by The Left.  

Folks, read "Rules For Radicals".  Engage your brain along with your heart.