Friday, December 28, 2012

'Marilyn Monroe Productions is filled with communists': The FBI file that shows how agency tracked actress and investigated her for communist ties in the 1950s | Mail Online

'Marilyn Monroe Productions is filled with communists': The FBI file that shows how agency tracked actress and investigated her for communist ties in the 1950s | Mail Online

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Reason for the Season

Twas the month before Christmas When all through our land, Not a Christian was praying Nor taking a stand. Why the PC Police had taken away The reason for Christmas - no one could say. The children were told by their schools not to sing About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things. It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say December 25th is just a ' Holiday '. Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it! CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-Pod Something was changing, something quite odd. Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda. As Targets were hanging their trees upside down At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found. At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears. Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-is-ty Are words that were used to intimidate me. Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton ! At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter. And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded The reason for the season, stopped before it started. So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree' Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me. Choose your words carefully, choose what you say Shout Jesus is Lord not Happy Holiday! Christ is The Reason for the Christ-mas Season!

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Letter from a Dear Friend

Fellow Countrymen, The following will serve as my last will and testament. I am dying. It will not be long now until I am gone. No doctor or politician has the ability to fix what is wrong with me. I leave to you nothing that I have not given already. I have given to you freedom yet you have chosen slavery. I have given to you liberty yet you have chosen tyranny. I have given you the ability to choose your own leaders but you have allowed the system to be high jacked leaving you no real choice at all. My passing is a direct consequence of your actions. I have given you freedom, the freedom to choose the things that are best for you and your family. I have given you the freedom to worship as you please, the freedom to speak what you believe, to write what you see fit, to gather as you’d like and to speak up to any powers that would prohibit the above. The freedom to defend yourself and those you love against any and all who would seek to cause you harm, regardless of their position. I have given to you the freedom to peaceably live in your home without it being invaded by government officials either physically or through the means of technology. I have given you the right to due process of the law, a right dating back to the Magna Carta and the right to be judged by your peers. Most importantly I have given you the freedom to self-govern in whichever locality you choose to live. In spite of these freedoms you have chosen slavery. Not slavery in the sense of chains and cages but a type much more nefarious. You have surrendered your ability to think for yourself and speak what you believe for you know not what it is that you believe in. You believe what you are told to believe and you think what has already been thought for you. You have surrendered your ability to defend yourselves because you believe that someone else can protect you. You have surrendered your ability to live peacefully in your own homes. Fear has caused you to openly welcome your would be protectors whenever they see fit to stop by. This same fear has led you to believe that you are safe while others simply disappear taken by a government that has your best interest at heart. These protectors do not care for your survival. They demand your loyalty. That is not freedom it is slavery and the most dangerous cage is that which you refuse to see. I have given you liberty yet under the guise of equality you have chosen tyranny. You have the liberty to succeed or fail based on your own merit. Liberty is the ability to pursue your own happiness. If you fail to catch it you should try harder. Instead you choose to alter your definition of happiness and believe that those who have worked to catch theirs should supplement yours. You are not strong enough to succeed on your own so you choose leaders who promise to take from those who have. When the takers have taken too much and the givers have no more to give there will be bloodshed in the streets. Then you will know tyranny for you will no longer be useful to the tyrants who actively sought your allegiance. When you finally meet tyranny you will know misery and it will be too late. I have given you principles yet you choose to ignore them. I have given you the resources to feed and warm hundreds of millions yet you choose to scoff at them. These are all choices that you have made but you have been lied to. You have been led to believe that there are only two choices when in reality you have been able to choose whatever and whoever you desire all along. The answer is not red or blue. The direction is not left or right. The answer is not forward or backwards. The answer is liberty and it can still be yours. I am 236 years old but I do not have to die. I am an idea and ideas can live forever. They just need to be rediscovered. Yours truly, The Constitution of the United States of America

Thursday, August 9, 2012

In Real Estate Deal, Mitt Romney Made His Loss a Couple’s Gain - NYTimes.com

In Real Estate Deal, Mitt Romney Made His Loss a Couple’s Gain - NYTimes.com

Racist Democrats attack black Republican: New Allen West Attack Ad Features Him Beating Old and Young Women And Stealing Form Families | Video | TheBlaze.com

New Allen West Attack Ad Features Him Beating Old and Young Women And Stealing Form Families | Video | TheBlaze.com

Obama: Let's repeat auto industry success, with every Business: POLITICO.com

Obama: Let's repeat auto industry success - POLITICO.com

Pelosi 'Swears' Spirit of Susan B. Anthony Spoke to Her in White House | CNSNews.com

Pelosi 'Swears' Spirit of Susan B. Anthony Spoke to Her in White House | CNSNews.com

Over 100 Million Now Receiving Federal Welfare | The Weekly Standard

Over 100 Million Now Receiving Federal Welfare | The Weekly Standard

Caught in lies and smear, Obama camp denies knowledge of cancer tale it told in May | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Obama camp denies knowledge of cancer tale it told in May | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

A lesson in economics as well as political theory

The $50 Lesson
Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in the front yard, my neighbors stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their dog.

During our friendly conversation, I asked their 12 year old daughter what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day.

Both of her parents - liberal Democrats - were standing there, so I asked her, "If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?"

She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."

Her parents beamed with pride!

"Wow...what a worthy goal!" I said. "But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that!" I told her.

"What do you mean?" she replied.

So I told her, "You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my hedge, and I'll pay you $50. Then you can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house."

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?"

I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."

Her parents aren't speaking to me any more.

Chuck Grassley: Colombian prostitutes or Russian spies? - Mackenzie Weinger - POLITICO.com

Chuck Grassley: Colombian prostitutes or Russian spies? - Mackenzie Weinger - POLITICO.com

Former SNL actor, Jon Lovitz calls Obama an Ass Hole, for Class War Rhetoric The Daily Caller

Jon Lovitz | Obama | Asshole | The Daily Caller

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

NBC issues apology on Zimmerman tape screw-up - Erik Wemple - The Washington Post

NBC issues apology on Zimmerman tape screw-up - Erik Wemple - The Washington Post

Obama Instructs Journalists On How To Report His Positions | RealClearPolitics

Obama Instructs Journalists On How To Report His Positions | RealClearPolitics

Associated Press Chief Offers Lavish Praise for Obama | The Weekly Standard

Associated Press Chief Offers Lavish Praise for Obama | The Weekly Standard

LOL!!--> $21,000 spent on a Windmill, Produces a $4.00 savings!: Energy windmill program generates rebates, little electricity - Friday, March 30, 2012 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun

NV Energy windmill program generates rebates, little electricity - Friday, March 30, 2012 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun

The Constitution and Freedom (1/4)

Another $2Billion wasted: Solar company bankrupt despite 'win-win' DOE loan | Washington Examiner

Solar company bankrupt despite 'win-win' DOE loan | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Owebama Admin. Kings of Crony Capitalism: LightSquared | CEO | Resigns | The Daily Caller

LightSquared | CEO | Resigns | The Daily Caller

Quiet fade-out for Obama’s faith council - POLITICO.com

Quiet fade-out for Obama’s faith council - POLITICO.com

Stephen Hawking visits California swingers' sex club | Mail Online

Stephen Hawking visits California swingers' sex club | Mail Online

Ohio High School shooter inspired by Obama's class warfare? His Facebook post before the shootings.

The following was allegedly posted by T.J. Lane on his Facebook page on December 20, 2011:

In a time long since, a time of repent, The Renaissance. In a quaint lonely town, sits a man with a frown. No job. No family. No crown. His luck had run out. Lost and alone.
The streets were his home. His thoughts would solely consist of "why do we exist?" His only company to confide in was the vermin in the street. He longed for only one thing, the world to bow at his feet.
They too should feel his secret fear. The dismal drear. His pain had made him sincere.
He was better than the rest, all those ones he detests, within their castles, so vain. Selfish and conceited.
They couldn't care less about the peasents they mistreated. They were in their own world, it was a joyous one too. That castle, she stood just to do all she could to keep the peasents at bay, not the enemy away.
They had no enemies in their filthy orgy. And in her, the castles every story, was just another chamber of Lucifer's Laboratory. The world is a sandbox for all the wretched sinners.
They simply create what they want and make themselves the winners. But the true winner, he has nothing at all. Enduring the pain of waiting for that castle to fall. Through his good deeds, the rats and the fleas.
He will have for what he pleads, through the eradication of disease. So, to the castle he proceeds, like an ominous breeze through the trees. "Stay back!" The Guards screamed as they were thrown to their knees. "Oh God, have mercy, please!"
The castle, she gasped and then so imprisoned her breath, to the shallow confines of her fragile chest. I'm on the lamb but I ain't no sheep. I am Death. And you have always been the sod. So repulsive and so odd.
You never even deserved the presence of God, and yet, I am here. Around your cradle I plod. Came on foot, without shod. How improper, how rude. However, they shall not mind the mud on my feet if there is blood on your sheet.
Now! Feel death, not just mocking you. Not just stalking you but inside of you. Wriggle and writhe. Feel smaller beneath my might. Seizure in the Pestilence that is my scythe. Die, all of you.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2107152/Chardon-High-School-shooting-Bullied-Ohio-student-arrested-killing-1-injuring-4.html#ixzz1ngdTnDPr

Monday, February 27, 2012

Poll: Vast Majority Think Rich Already Pay Their Fair Share | Washington Free Beacon

Poll: Vast Majority of Likely Voters Think Rich Already Pay Their Fair Share | Washington Free Beacon

Guns Save Lives: 90-year-old man tells how he tricked, then shot at, burglar in his home - San Jose Mercury News

90-year-old man tells how he tricked, then shot at, burglar in his home - San Jose Mercury News

White House Uses Espionage Act to Pursue Leak Cases - NYTimes.com

White House Uses Espionage Act to Pursue Leak Cases - NYTimes.com

Owebama cutting active duty Healthcare: Trashing Tricare | Washington Free Beacon

Trashing Tricare | Washington Free Beacon

More bad news: U.S. water bills to triple | Washington Examiner

More bad news: U.S. water bills to triple | Washington Examiner

Ticked off Canadian Woman...Who is right on the money!

Written by a housewife in New Brunswick , to
her local newspaper. This is one ticked off lady...


"Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was
it or was it not, started by Islamic people who
brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001
and have continually threatened to do so since?


Were people from all over the world, not brutally murdered
that day, in downtown Manhattan , across the Potomac from
the capitol of the USA and in a field in Pennsylvania ?


Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?

Do you think I care about four U. S. Marines urinating on some dead Taliban insurgents?

And I'm supposed to care that a few Taliban were
claiming to be tortured by a justice system of a
nation they are fighting against in a brutal Insurgency.

I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle
East, start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere belief
of which, is a crime punishable by beheading in Afghanistan .


I'll care when these thugs tell the world they are
sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's head, while Berg
screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.


I'll care when the cowardly so-called insurgents
in Afghanistan , come out and fight like men,
instead of disrespecting their own religion by
hiding in Mosques and behind women and children.


I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow
themselves up in search of Nirvana, care about the
innocent children within range of their suicide Bombs.


I'll care when the Canadian media stops pretending that
their freedom of Speech on stories, is more important than
the lives of the soldiers on the ground or their families waiting
at home, to hear about them when something happens.


In the meantime, when I hear a story about a
CANADIAN soldier roughing up an Insurgent
terrorist to obtain information, know this:

I don't care.

When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the
head when he is told not to move because he
might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank:


I don't care. Shoot him again.


When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed 'special' food, that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that his holy book is being 'mishandled,' you can absolutely believe, in your heart of hearts:

I don't care.


And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes
it's spelled 'Koran' and other times 'Quran.'
Well, Jimmy Crack Corn you guessed it.


I don't care!!


If you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on to
all your E-mail Friends. Sooner or later, it'll get to
the people responsible for this ridiculous behavior!


If you don't agree, then by all means hit the delete
button. Should you choose the latter, then please don't
complain when more atrocities committed by radical
Muslims happen here in our great Country! And may I add:


Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering, if
during their life on earth, they made a difference in
the world. But, the Soldiers don't have that problem.

I have another quote that I would like to
share AND...I hope you forward All this.


One last thought for the day:


Only five defining forces have ever offered to die for you:


1. Jesus Christ


2. The British Soldier.


3. The Canadian Soldier.


4. The US Soldier, and


5. The Australian Soldier


One died for your soul,
the other four, for you and your children's Freedom.




YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS THIS ON,
AS MANY SEEM TO FORGET!


AMEN! GOD BLESS CANADA AND AMERICA .

Friday, February 24, 2012

James Madison (Father of Constitution), commenting about the "General Welfare" Clause

James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, elaborated upon this limitation in a letter to James Robertson:
With respect to the two words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators. If the words obtained so readily a place in the "Articles of Confederation," and received so little notice in their admission into the present Constitution, and retained for so long a time a silent place in both, the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything, had the former meaning taken for granted.

The Leading Atheist, Richard Dawkins: I can't be sure God does not exist - Telegraph

Richard Dawkins: I can't be sure God does not exist - Telegraph

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Chart: 'America’s Per Capita Government Debt Worse Than Greece' | The Weekly Standard

Chart: 'America’s Per Capita Government Debt Worse Than Greece' | The Weekly Standard

Newt outraged over Owebama's apology to Karzai

News from The Associated Press

I'm so glad Liberals closely follow Bible Teachings!

Our orders-backed up by the Master, Jesus-are to refuse to have anything to do with those among you who are lazy and refuse to work the way we taught you. Don't permit them to freeload on the rest. We showed you how to pull your weight when we were with you, so get on with it. We didn't sit around on our hands expecting others to take care of us. In fact, we worked our fingers to the bone, up half the night moonlighting so you wouldn't be burdened with taking care of us. And it wasn't because we didn't have a right to your support; we did. We simply wanted to provide an example of diligence, hoping it would prove contagious. Don't you remember the rule we had when we lived with you? "If you don't work, you don't eat." And now we're getting reports that a bunch of lazy good-for-nothings are taking advantage of you. This must not be tolerated. We command them to get to work immediately-no excuses, no arguments-and earn their own keep. Friends, don't slack off in doing your duty. If anyone refuses to obey our clear command written in this letter, don't let him get by with it. Point out such a person and refuse to subsidize his freeloading. Maybe then he'll think twice. (2 Thessalonians 3:6-14 MSG)

Deceit Exposed: Formerly secret telexes offer window into Iran’s nuclear deceit - The Washington Post

Formerly secret telexes offer window into Iran’s nuclear deceit - The Washington Post

I've got 5 Years Coming: Obama makes bold reelection prediction

Obama makes bold reelection prediction

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

More Owebama FAIL: Tesla Motors' Devastating Design Problem

Tesla Motors' Devastating Design Problem

Florida Drivers Shelling Out Nearly $6 A Gallon At Some Gas Stations « CBS Tampa

Florida Drivers Shelling Out Nearly $6 A Gallon At Some Gas Stations « CBS Tampa

Democrat Bias: Sale of Philadelphia newspapers raises bias concerns - Washington Times

Sale of Philadelphia newspapers raises bias concerns - Washington Times

Headdesk--> Carney: Obama Didn't Turn Down The Keystone Pipeline | RealClearPolitics

Carney: Obama Didn't Turn Down The Keystone Pipeline | RealClearPolitics

Dumb ass--> Valerie Jarrett: 'People Who Receive that Unemployment Check Go Out and Spend It and Help Stimulate the Economy' | The Weekly Standard

Valerie Jarrett: 'People Who Receive that Unemployment Check Go Out and Spend It and Help Stimulate the Economy' | The Weekly Standard

British Tax Increase fails to boost revenue!: 50p tax rate 'failing to boost revenues’ - Telegraph

50p tax rate 'failing to boost revenues’ - Telegraph

Percentage of Americans paying No Income tax, Rises: Nearly Half of All Americans Don't Pay Income Taxes

Chart: Nearly Half of All Americans Don't Pay Income Taxes

Monday, February 20, 2012

The Idiocy of gun control, explained...

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. – Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria, “On Crimes and Punishment”

Ted Nugent: Defenselessness is unnatural...

“To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.” – Ted Nugent

Robin Williams making fun of British, gun control...

“In England, if you commit a crime, the police don’t have a gun and you don’t have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say ‘Stop, or I’ll say stop again.’”
- Robin Williams

Thoughts we've all experienced, while listening to Liberals speak...

“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!” – Samuel Adams

James Madison: Governments which forbid guns, do not trust citizens

“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” – James Madison

A simple explanation of Progressives & Liberals...

“A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn’t own.”

Lack of Gun Control: Hard to argue with results...

“25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it’s crazy. However, four out of five US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who’s crazy?” – Andrew Ford

Admiral Yamamoto: Impossible to invade the mainland United States!

“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” – Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

George Orwell: Its our duty to protect gun rights for common man!

“That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer’s cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” – George Orwell

God is in favor of arming yourself!

He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. – Luke 22:36

Now go get yourself protection..Thus sayeth the LORD!!

George Washington: Describing the "Teeth" of Liberty!

“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.” – George Washington

Gun control... only assures criminals have advantage over your life!

“Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It’s quicker to pull your Smith and Wesson than to dial 911 if you’re being robbed.” – Lieutenant Lowell Duckett, President of the Black Police Caucus, Special Assistant to the Washington, D.C. Police Chief

Thomas Jefferson ~ Free men Bear Arms

"No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-- Thomas Jefferson, Proposal Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334,[C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950]

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Major Solyundra investor forms new company & Buys assets cheap: Sold Assets Cheap to a New Business closely tied to company's biggest investors

Blog: Solyndra Sold Assets Cheap to a New Business closely tied to company's biggest investors

GOP turns Michigan deficit into surplus: Michigan Must Decide What to Do With an Unexpected Surplus - NYTimes.com

Michigan Must Decide What to Do With an Unexpected Surplus - NYTimes.com

Global Warming Not Happening!: Breaking Global Warming Taboos: 'I Feel Duped on Climate Change' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Breaking Global Warming Taboos: 'I Feel Duped on Climate Change' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Taxpayers paying cell phone bills for poor: Washington Footing the Cell Phone Bill for Millions of Low Income Americans - Yahoo! News

Washington Footing the Cell Phone Bill for Millions of Low Income Americans - Yahoo! News

Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran's nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News

Rock Center with Brian Williams - Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran's nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News

Sunday, February 5, 2012

President Owebama, Needs a Bible Lesson!

The President quotes Luke 12:48. "To whom much is given, much will be required." Funny thing about this, I dont see any requirement of Christians to give more to Government, which was Owebama's point. He doesnt read 2 Thessalonians 3:6-15 (New English Translation or Message Bible), nor Genesis 3:19 (Contemporary English Version)"You will have to sweat to earn a living; You were made of soil, and you will once again turn into soil." Scripture after scripture tells us we must work to make a living, or we must work if we wish to eat! I can find NO scripture which says we may slumber, while others work to provide funds for Government, which they'll pay to us...

I like Liberals who try and take our book out of context! It reminds me of the admonishment our Sunday school teachers gave us. They told us to read the Bible and know what it says! People will try and use your book & teachings of religion against you! They have hopes of making you agree with their Socialist-Marxist policies! I always tell my opponents...the Jesus wrapping paper, you have wrapped around your Marxism, doesnt make it more attractive to me!

Dont be suckered by evil doers, who try to use your Bible or religion against you! Read it and KNOW what is says! That's your best weapon against deception!

Breitbart.tv » Mass Voter Fraud Discovered In Florida

Breitbart.tv » Mass Voter Fraud Discovered In FloridaZ

$480.00 fines: Red-light cameras boost coffers, rile drivers

Red-light cameras boost coffers, rile drivers

Insight into Liberal thinking. JFK, Rather his kids be Red than Dead: Teen mistress addresses relationship, pol's Cold War fears in memoir - m.NYPOST.com

Teen mistress addresses relationship, pol's Cold War fears in memoir - m.NYPOST.com

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Overpriced for Mediocrity: Obama Chrysler On eBay: No Sale at $1 Million - Driver's Seat - WSJ

Obama Chrysler On eBay: No Sale at $1 Million - Driver's Seat - WSJ

Were we born last night?: Holder: No Cover-up In 'Fast And Furious,' No Effort To Hide Details Of The Operation | Fox News

Holder: No Cover-up In 'Fast And Furious,' No Effort To Hide Details Of The Operation | Fox News

George Washington: Project Strength, Be prepared for War, at all times!

There is a rank due to the United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.

George Washington, Annual Message, December 1793

George Washington: Favored Freeing Slaves from Bondage

The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work.

George Washington, letter to Marquis de Lafayette, April 5, 1785

Sunday, January 29, 2012

George Washington: People who govern should consider future generations in decisions

It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.

George Washington, letter to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, September 5, 1789

Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again) | Mail Online

Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again) | Mail Online

George Washington must have known a few Democrats

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796

George Washington: Men allowed to pursue profit, can achieve anything

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

George Washington, letter to Benjamin Harrison, October 10, 1784

Thomas Paine: Every generation needs to take care of its own problems

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776

Thomas Paine: Guard Liberty for all

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine, Dissertation on First Principles of Government, December 23, 1791

James Madison: Charity has no place in Government: States power more broad than Federal

[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

James Madison, speech in the House of Representatives, January 10, 1794

James Madison: Too much Government power, makes people into slaves

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

James Madison, essay in the National Gazette, March 27, 1792

James Madison: Congress shouldnt appropriate money for worthless reasons

There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises. To say that the United States should be answerable for twenty-five millions of dollars without knowing whether the ways and means can be provided, and without knowing whether those who are to succeed us will think with us on the subject, would be rash and unjustifiable. Sir, in my opinion, it would be hazarding the public faith in a manner contrary to every idea of prudence.

James Madison, Speech in Congress, April 22, 1790

James Madison: People must be vigilant about choosing politicians

Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.

James Madison, speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 20, 1788

James Madison: Free Commerce is better without Government interference

I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic — it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.

James Madison, speech to the Congress, April 9, 1789

James Madison: Individual Private Property Rights

Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own.

James Madison, Essay on Property, March 29, 1792

James Madison: Federal Government encroachment on State Government authority

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm... But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.

James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788

Saturday, January 28, 2012

John Adams warns, a Democracy can quickly change into Anarchy!

Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

John Adams, An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, August 29, 1763

John Adams on Private Property Rights

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If `Thou shalt not covet' and `Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.

John Adams, A Defense of the American Constitutions, 1787

John Adams thoughts about Government

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.

John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776

Samuel Adams, Calls Patriots to Duty!

"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
-- Samuel Adams (1722–1803)

Yemeni Leader Arrives in U.S. for Medical Treatment - NYTimes.com

Yemeni Leader Arrives in U.S. for Medical Treatment - NYTimes.com

FLASHBACK SHOCK: New York Times, at one time, editorialized against Income Taxes!!

"When men get in the habit of helping themselves to the property of others, they cannot easily be cured of it."
-- The New York Times, in a 1909 editorial opposing the very first income tax!

Government was never supposed to be used as a charity!!

In a famous incident in 1854, President Franklin Pierce was pilloried for vetoing an extremely popular bill intended to help mentally ill. The act was championed by the renowned 19th century social reformer Dorothea Dix. In the face of heavy criticism, Pierce countered: "I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for the public charity." To approve such spending, argued Pierce, "would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded."