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A Gift From Ted

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Monday, August 31, 2009 10:51:25 AM
The death of Ted Kennedy has given some on the left even more resolve to get their health care bill through Congress.
 
I say let's grant their wish.
 
Kennedycare for all. We'll wrap it up in a nice box with a bow if you like. Guaranteed to please.
 
We would be indebted if the left would take this gift.
 
And here it is...
 
You propose a bill in Ted's name, and it will contain tort reform/penalty caps, some reform of pre-existing condition issues, and an improvement on portability. You can put healthcare savings accounts/ subsidies in there if you like. And potential recipients have to provide passport and picture ID and be run through an E-verify type database. And you fire the "czars", all of them.
 
What a gift to his legacy.
 
Especially considering the vile acts, both personal and professional, that he engaged in thoughout his life. The debauchery, the callousness with which he doomed millions to destitution, much less the outright crimes he committed. In the name of the poor he gave a handout to, instead of a hand up to. In the name of the millions of dead infants he was complicit in killing. For actively seeking to undermine human desire and devalue human capital. For adultery, and shockingly gross behavior.  
 
What a gift indeed. Public redemption and rehabilitation.
 
Kennedycare will be completely bi-partisan, targeted, easy to understand and implement. It will be effective and tax-neutral. It will not grow government substantially. It will turn off  a critical draw to illegals, just as effective as any fence that could be built. It will restore some transparency to this administration.   
 
No public option, no government option.
 
We will see that a bill like that gets through to the president's desk and that he signs it.  
 
If you refuse to give this gift from Ted, the one we know Ted had hidden deep within himself, that only he can give, we have to believe you're not really serious about helping your constituents or  about bi-partisanship.
 
Then, it's game on.
 
Keep fighting amongst yourselves, keep tossing away any shred of legitimacy you may have left, and we'll keep pushing on issues at townhalls and tea parties...or maybe we'll just start camping in the capitals and city halls. And Congress. Gridlock will be the order of the day.
 
Or you can leave him with a reason to deserve all of the posthumous praise that has been heaped upon him.
 
Because, why should we waste a perfectly good crisis? 
 
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The Enemy of My Enemy...

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:23:54 AM
The reasons to sink the newly-minted Kennedy-Care are myriad. They've been parsed, hashed and re-hashed ad-nauseum here at TH and all over the blogosphere and on talk radio. We all know why it's a bad idea. And no, I don't think it's improper to be discussing the issue while Ted's still having the flotsam and jetsam vacuumed out of his body.
 
Fraud, waste, and abuse seem to be the watchwords when anyone starts talking about reforming the medical profession. And let's be honest, it is the whole medical profession that is under fire. When the president is accusing doctors of financial motivation driving amputations and tonsilectomies, it's not just about health care or insurance. Of course, it should be no surprise, as his oft-stated goal is to "transform America". And, like it or not, all of us along with the medical profession fall under that umbrella. And we all know that whatever system is infiltrated by the tentacles of government falls prey to varying degrees of fraud, waste and abuse. If only we could attack those three demons and root them out...
 
Well, here comes Harry Waxman (D-CA) to the rescue. According to this piece in the NYTimes (h/t to Hot Air), Waxman is seeking to undo the deal struck by Obama and Billy Tauzin that enlisted PhRma in the effort to tout Obama/Kennedycare on the airwaves in a quid pro quo for what is essentially an $80 billion price control on prescription drugs.
 
""You not only break the deal, but you break the bank for us,” said Billy Tauzin."
 
"“We want it back,” Mr. Waxman said in an recent interview. “We want to make sure the windfall for the drug companies does not continue, and we want to recover the money that has been a windfall.” "
 
Read the rest of the article for the policy details if you like, but what is most interesting to me is the dominos that will fall around this scenario. If Obama DOESN'T have a deal with Tauzin because Waxman has torpedoed their plan, how do Obama and Tauzin react? Tauzin can take his ball and go home, and what is already looking like a failed effort to ram any kind of reform through takes another punch to the mouth. Do Obama and Waxman go toe-to-toe in public or via the media? Does Obama tell Nan to rein in Waxman? And would he even listen if she did? Or does he fold up like a cheap Wal-mart lawn chair? Which side does "Stretch" Pelosi take? Make no mistake, she is stuck right in the middle, and that alone makes this whole thing delicious. Does Tauzin turn his ire and air time against Obama and/or Waxman or the reform effort in general?  
 
This whole thing is unraveling just as sure as someone pulling the thread out of a cheap sweater. If the passing of "Chappaquidick Ted" has "re-energized" the left to get this done, this drama can (and should) de-energize it. When you don't have the truth or reality on your side, getting anything done has to be more difficult than herding cats. The disparate interests at work here are legion, and self-interested to boot. 
 
For the life of me, though, I can't bring myself to cheer on Henry Waxman. However, I can easily cheer on the defeat of the effort by the left to get their Holy Grail, socialized medicine.
 
I think I see a white flag on the horizon.
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Under-qualified...And In Charge

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 7:32:10 AM
I haven't seen much about the naming of union activist Denis Hughes to head of the NY Fed anywhere except this bit from IBD.
 
"His ascent to one of the world's most important financial posts is another troubling sign of this administration's too-tight embrace of organized labor."
 
"He has no significant finance experience. Nor does his educational background — "Brother Hughes," as the AFL-CIO's Web site calls him, has a B.S. degree from the Harry Van Arsdale School of Labor Studies at Empire State College — reassure us.
Of greater concern is his career as a bought-and-paid-for union official and political operative. The New York Fed chairmanship is hardly a place for a person whose entire career has been spent fighting and strong-arming the very people he'll now be regulating."
 
"Putting this key Fed bank in the hands of a person whose experience suggests a bred-in-the-bone hostility to capitalism strikes us as bizarre at best and dangerous at worst. And it bears the unmistakable imprint of the White House. "
 
An interesting side-bar: Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University, has been named vice-chairman.
 
Payback all around. If you recall, Obama is an alumni of Columbia. Or so they say...
 
Wall Street and those in the corporate world who contributed to Obama's campaign should be very worried. I'm sure they thought all of his rhetoric about "being dropped behind enemy lines" when he went to work for a brokerage was just that...populist rhetoric. Another instance of Obama putting a sharp stick in the eye of capitalism.
 
Is this a sign that card check is not far behind??
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Crisis Management

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Monday, June 29, 2009 9:05:35 AM
Quite an eventful week last week, wouldn't you agree?
 
Iran nearly imploded, Waxman-Markey passed the House after much wheeling and dealing, North Korea threatened us a number of times, we killed a number of Taliban in Predator strikes in Pakistan, and Obama tried to sell us some health insurance on network TV.
 
Ask most people what happened last week, and the first answer will most likely be "Michael Jackson died." You may get a few people that say "Farrah Fawcett died", or "Ed McMahon died", but I would bet my last dollar on MJ.
 
While all of these deaths are tragic in their own right, I have to wonder if any of them outrank what is really going on in this country? Jackson is certainly one of the more popular entertainers of this generation. But he was just that, an entertainer. Apparently he was more than just an entertainer... a seriously ill, drug-addled, homosexual, pedophile, with criminal handlers and enablers, according to Ian Halperin of the Daily Mail Online. A washed up, possibly suicidal entertainer who had long ago ceased being an entertainer.  Certainly, his death is newsworthy, but 24/7 coverage all day, every day? I think not.
 
And now comes sad truth from AP that his death may have helped to drive the Iranian revolution back into the underground-

"As the protests dwindle amid intensifying official pressure, the opposition may suffer from a decline in international attention. The protests and violence dominated Western news broadcasts for nearly two weeks, with the reports substantially bolstered by videos gleaned from Internet sites and by commentary from social networking sites.

Such sites were a key pipeline for the opposition amid the tight restrictions on foreign media in the country.

But along with the diminished action on the streets in Iran, other stories have arisen to siphon away attention - especially the death of pop star Michael Jackson. Television coverage of Iran's turmoil has fallen since Jackson's death Thursday; on the Twitter micro-blogging site, Iran remained among the most discussed topics, but fell below Jackson and comments about the movie "Transformers 2.""
 
What else is the media missing while being distracted by the Jackson feeding frenzy? The Honduran military has ousted and exiled President Manuel Zelaya after he alienated the Army, the courts, and Congress with efforts to extend his term. Zelaya is an avowed leftist, and counts Hugo Chavez as one of his staunchest allies. Chavez has threatened military action, and the coup presents another foreign policy challenge for Obama. Most interesting to note is that Barry tried to intercede on Zelaya's behalf. Sounds like meddling to me, although I could've sworn he was against that. I guess when it's a leftist he is willing to lend the weight of the office of POTUS, but when it's for freedom-seeking revolutionaries in Iran, not so much.  
 
Speaking of freedom, the Obama administration is considering "an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations" according to the Washington Post. Good thing Jacko kicked, or else a good portion of the "blame America first/we are a terrible country" portion of Obama's base would be throwing a hissy fit. Just another case of Bush having been right. And another case of Barry's mouth writing a check his rear end can't cash. I'm thinking the executive order closing Gitmo may ultimately be rescinded by the end of the year. Look for that to happen on a friday night or a holiday weekend.
 
The ridiculous over-reach by this administration and a complicit Congress continues, with plans to take up health care and immigration, as well as the Senate debate on cap and trade, each vying for passage under the radar and away from the bright light of truth and scrutiny.
 
Who knows who and how many will have to die to cover up all of these items? 
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Sun King

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:21:25 AM
I had an interesting encounter on Mother's Day with a relative who shall remain nameless, since I need to keep the peace. He was chiding my oldest son about the carbon footprint left by my son's incessant texting. While I'm fairly sure it was meant somewhat in jest, I had to intercede, if for no other reason than to ensure some balance. Opting for my usual tactless approach, I asked why leaving a carbon footprint is a problem. He looked at me and asked if I was kidding, and when I assured him I wasn't, I proceeded to inform him that man contributes just .28% of the greenhouse effect. He put his hand up, rather dismissively, and told me that if I didn't believe in man-caused, carbon-based global warming, there was no point in discussing anything else and he walked away. I was a little upset, because NO ONE does THAT to ME!! I took 2 hours the next day to compose a long email to him, but thought better of sending it. Someone's gotta be the adult in the family.

Instead, I will just continue commenting on some of the low-hanging fruit relating to the increasingly contentious subject of global warming/climate change.  Revenge is a dish best served unimpacted by global warming...or cold, if you will. Call me a denier.

The latest....

On the heels of Queen Nancy's escape from the Gitmo torture debacle in D.C. to China to chide them about the climate, we got the news last week from NASA that sunspots and solar flare activity have been at very low levels.
 
"If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78," says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center."
 
While this flies in the face of the carbon-based AGW evidence, it is certainly not a cause for celebration.
 
"Even a below-average cycle is capable of producing severe space weather," points out Biesecker. "The great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size we’re predicting for 2013."
 
The 1859 storm--known as the "Carrington Event" after astronomer Richard Carrington who witnessed the instigating solar flare--electrified transmission cables, set fires in telegraph offices, and produced Northern Lights so bright that people could read newspapers by their red and green glow. A recent report by the National Academy of Sciences found that if a similar storm occurred today, it could cause $1 to 2 trillion in damages to society's high-tech infrastructure and require four to ten years for complete recovery. For comparison, Hurricane Katrina caused "only" $80 to 125 billion in damage."
 
I've addressed the issue of sunspots (or lack thereof) in a previous post ("Cool Thoughts on Global Warming"), and it is just one of the more vexing issues contradicting the greenie's emphasis on CO2-based "global warming". I've yet to hear a compelling refutation. Believe me, I've been looking.

On another front, while king bho and the car "czars" position themselves to dictate GM's product line (too small and too dangerous) to combat the "scourge" of carbon-based AGW, the Heartland Institute is releasing "Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC),” (link here), "challenging the scientific basis of concerns that global warming is either man-made or would have harmful effects." This report is a rebuttal of the UN's International Panel on Climate Change report, and "demonstrates overwhelming scientific support for the position that the warming of the twentieth century was moderate and not unprecedented, that its impact on human health and wildlife was positive, and that carbon dioxide probably is not the driving factor behind climate change." Let's hope that the good Representatives Waxman and Markey have the good sense to examine some of this evidence before they try to cram their bill down our collective throats. Unfortunately, Waxman has already admitted that he didn't even know what was in the bill. Given the tax revolt percolating in California, it's possible he will get voted out in 2010. We can only hope. 

On the legal front, there is this answer in the Seton Hall Law Review to a lawsuit filed by the Inupiat Eskimo community of Kivalina, Alaska against Exxon in 2008, alleging that carbon and other greenhouse "pollutants" emitted by Exxon, one of "the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the United States", had destroyed the ancestral habitat of the tribe. A fascinating read, the legal team tears down the case against carbon being labeled as a pollutant by the EPA, noting that  "Carbon dioxide is one of the most ubiquitous substances in nature. It is an essential element of both inorganic earth processes and of the organic cycles of the biosphere. The sources of atmospheric carbon dioxide are vast and are part of an enormously complex chemical system with many unknown or poorly understood variables. Even in its present-day atmospheric concentrations carbon dioxide can be considered neither an “irritant” nor a “contaminant,” but is simply an integral part of the biogeochemical carbon cycle" and therefore cannot be responsible for habitat destruction for purposes of litigation. Once again, hope enters the picture...I hope that this whole cap-trade/carbon tax nonsense ends up in court if Congress is silly enough to pass any legislation based on carbon as a pollutant.
 
In the mean time, Michael Moore of "Roger and Me" fame weighed in on the demise of GM, and he couldn't resist the obligatory "green" diatribe. "The products built in the factories of GM, Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps. The things we call "cars" may have been fun to drive, but they are like a million daggers into the heart of Mother Nature. To continue to build them would only lead to the ruin of our species and much of the planet." Moore wore out his welcome long ago. While "Roger and Me" was certainly an interesting documentary, he has partaken of way too much liberal Kool-aid to be taken seriously ever again. His movie "Sicko" was a sick joke and demonstrates just how far gone he really is. Unfortunately, he is probably just as much an expert on "climate change" as Al Gore or anyone in Congress...
 
 
On a more positive note comes this tidbit via National Review Online and their Planet Gore blog-

Read Their Lips: No New Energy Taxes   [Chris Horner]

. . . as Benny Peiser notes today:

All over Europe, the centre-left has been haemorrhaging core voters. The fact that UKIP, an openly climate sceptical party, has beaten Labour to second place is a clear signal. It suggests that any party promoting unpopular climate policies and green taxes that will further increase the cost of energy, transport and travel for ordinary families risks being punished in future elections. As far as Britain is concerned, the Labour government and its green agenda is finished. Let that be a warning to President Obama and other would-be salvationists.
 
 
Here's the bottom line. The sun is the ultimate arbiter of the earth's climate. Seasonal weather patterns can be affected by any number of minor contributors, including El Nino and La Nina, but it is obvious that there is still much to learn before we take the planet and all of the world's economies back to the Dark Ages. Most of us intuitively believe in the "Sun King" and his effects, but there is a very vocal minority that believes in his arch nemesis, the one I've named after the Beatles song "Gnik Nus," who consists of carbon, methane, and whatever other substances the greens can try to tax. Although barry and his ilk are intent on "leveling the playing field" by taking us all down to poverty levels not seen since early last century, it is imperative that we attack them with the truth at every turn. I've said it before, and I will keep on saying it until they reverse course or they are defeated-the "climate change crisis" is one of the biggest weapons the statists will use to redistribute the world's wealth. I hope all of you will stand with me and say "Not On My Watch".
 
The Sun King Rules!


 
 
 
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Green Shoots

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Monday, June 08, 2009 5:08:17 AM
It's been an eventful weekend-it appears democracy is on the march once again, our fearless leader's actions notwithstanding. Witness:
 
From Reuters-

"U.S. allies hand Lebanon's Hezbollah election blow"

"The outcome was a blow to Syria and Iran, which support Hezbollah, and welcome news for the United States, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, which backs the "March 14" bloc, named after the date of a huge rally against Syria's military presence in 2005."
 
This also from Reuters-

"INSTANT VIEW: Centre-right wins European assembly vote"

"The most striking feature of the election results, and I'm speaking, of course, as of now, is the fact that the center-left parties across Europe, the Social Democrats and Socialists have not been able to give a plausible answer, political answer, to the economic crisis.

 

"We haven't seen ... a far-right wave washing across the European continent. That has not happened."
 
From the AP via Google-
 
Pakistanis rise against Taliban after mosque blast
 
 "More than a thousand armed tribesman seeking revenge for a mosque attack surrounded two Taliban strongholds and destroyed the homes of Taliban fighters — including some commanders — in Pakistan's northwest"
 
"military officials say that as they've proceeded with the operation in Swat, local residents who have remained in the region have grown increasingly cooperative, providing tips on militants' hide-outs and more."
 
 
And some potentially good news from Iran, via the LA Times-
 
"In Iran, disparate, powerful forces ally against Ahmadinejad"
 
"We can't run Iran like North Korea," said Saeed Laylaz, a newspaper editor and analyst with contacts among the political elite. "A group of militarists cannot stuff this civilization into a can and put it away. Iran cannot make up for its lack of economic might with nuclear technology, missiles and proxy threats in Lebanon and Palestine and elsewhere."
 
Meanwhile, The Chi-coms have decided to add web-censoring software to all new PCs sold their effective July1. Ostensibly used to block porn, there are quite a few not-so-pornographic sites currently blocked, including Amnesty International and the new search engine Bing.
 
 
Not to be outdone, their wards the NoKos have banned ships from their northeast coast, signaling another possible missile test. It's anyone's guess how this will play out, although Hillary has threatened to put them back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism.  I have a funny feeling they are not too concerned. Bombs away.
 
 
I'm trying to regain some optimism, but it looks like every day is 2 steps forward, 3 steps back. I'll take the green shoots of growing democracy and liberty where I can find them. Baby steps... 
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Kentuckyfornia?

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:18:27 AM
KY tax-revenue
 
 
 
 
 
Although my home state of Kentucky doesn't boast an economy the size of California's (8th largest in the world), our budget shortfall is looking just as problematic.
"State revenue plunged 12.1 percent last month compared with April 2008" according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. There are a few bigger issues at play here.
 
First and foremost, I was pleased with Republican Senate President David Williams' response to  remarks by Governor Steve Beshear that all options were on the table to close the shortfall. "We've given this governor as much money as he's going to get."
 
Just as compelling were Democratic House Speaker Greg Stumbo's remarks-"Now is not the time to raise taxes on Kentucky families. There are other ways to raise revenue." Surprising, coming from a Dem.
 
Also interesting to note is the 36% drop in Corporate Income Tax in the table above. I would be curious to know how many businesses have moved out of the state due to the tax rate.
 
But what I found most interesting was this little tidbit-"Eric Gregory, president of the Kentucky Distillers Association, said a 58 percent decline in revenue from the wholesale tax on liquor in April reflected an "alarming" drop in sales as a result of the tax increase."  The increased tax was passed earlier this year on alcohol and cigarettes, and looks to be backfiring already. I've heard anecdotal evidence that cigarette sales are already down over 3%. Local news mentioned that lawmakers were "surprised at the drop in revenue." No kidding.  
 
And there, my friends, is today's object lesson. When taxes are raised to increase revenue without cutting spending, people will opt out at every possible opportunity.
 
I pray that the legislators in every other state in the Union take a long, hard look at what has happened to California.
 
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone"  Frederic Bastiat
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A Momentary Distraction

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:16:02 AM
Coach Cal
With the constant barrage of news regarding all things political, I am happy to take a minute and let my mind wander to other, more important issues.
 
According to USA Today, University of Kentucky coach John Calipari landed the nation's best point guard, John Wall. With that signing, UK is  "the No. 1 class and a pretty decisive No. 1 class," Rivals.com scout Jerry Meyer said. "You're taking about a six-man class that is stacked with players in the top 40 or above."
 
I know there are a number of folks in Bobbie's Band of Bloggers from rival states like NC and TN. I'm not sure how many are college hoops fans, but regardless, I'm pretty happy with the developments that have transpired since the end of one of our worst seasons in 20 years.
We had a (long) season in the wilderness, now it's time to shine.
 
Interesting how sports sometimes offers up some real-life lessons...
 
See you in the Final Four!
 
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Evil Incarnate

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Thursday, May 14, 2009 4:22:33 AM
Barry GU-Damien?
   Ok, ok, I'll stipulate that the title is extreme, maybe even over-the-top. But after my most recent visit to the dentist, I'm not so sure.
   
   I've been going to my dentist for 15 years and most of my visits are pretty non-descript. I usually go twice a year for cleanings, and haven't had occasion to go more often for anything severe (cut to me knocking on wood). The same crew has been there all along, and most of the conversations are pleasant, but strictly business. Every one is personable, but it's hard to talk when you have your mouth stretched wide open and any number of instruments doing things that would make Torquemada proud. I've noticed that everyone that works there seems to have an evangelical bent, but they aren't preachy, which is fine with me. I'd rather listen to something besides the local Christian radio station while my teeth are getting scraped, but no matter. Every visit is pretty routine, and I like it like that. Don't need drama at the dentist office when the potential for drama is already inherently high.
 
   The recent visit was a little different, though. Connie, the receptionist, asked me to fill out a new medical history, since the one on file was the one I filled out back in '94. We got to talking about insurance (I have a new carrier as well), and that conversation quickly turned to the possibility of universal healthcare. If looks could kill...sweet Connie, the evangelical receptionist, adopted a countenance, which, truth be told, scared the bejesus out of me. "They better not pass that", she said. I concurred... and quickly.
 
  "What are they thinking? They couldn't sell it back when Clinton tried, how can they think now will be any different?"  I asked.
She looked at me-"Bryan" she said, "I've been a Democrat my whole life. I've never voted for a Republican. But this guy, Obama, he scares me. I think he might be..." Long pause. She was trying to decide if she trusted me enough to let me hear her deepest thoughts.
  
    I dove right in, knowing exactly where she was going. "The anti-Christ?" I said, only half-joking. The look on Connie's face was priceless. "Oh, my God" she said. "I can't believe you read my mind!!" as she reached out to high-five me.
   
   "Well, we probably aren't the only two people in the world that have thought that," I told her.
 
   "He's got to go, and soon, before he wipes us out," she said. "If he's not evil, I don't know who is."
 
   "Amen to that, sister."
 
   I got called in by the hygenist shortly after, but the whole episode set me to thinking...could a case be made that this political novice who ascended to the office of POTUS on a wafer-thin resume may have had supernatural assistance, and might indeed be the "anti-Christ" from John's Revelations? 
 
 Let's look at some of the evidence.
 
   First of all, the issue surrounding Barry's speech at Georgetown University, in which the WH requested that the "IHS" symbol over the stage and other religious symbols be covered up presents an interesting possibility in and of itself. Under what scenario would these symbols be problematic for the President? In a country founded on Judeo-Christian principles, at a university rooted in Catholicism/Christianity, what else would he expect to be on the premises? Even more curious, why not just move to a more secular setting on the campus? I believe the gesture of the WH asking (and the school acceding to the request) is the real story here. The level of disrespect and contempt shown by this POTUS to religion in general is unbelievable. I believe he was very deliberate in his process, and he knows this was a sharp stick in the eye to Catholics specifically and Christians in general. His ex-pastor, Jeremiah Wright, warned us..."Politicians say what they say and do what they do because of electability," he said. "He has to distance himself because he's a politician … "  Especially a politician that counts among his supporters a vast number of secular types, nearly all the gays in this country, and the Glitterazi from Hollyweird and NYC, as well as academia. Most of these folks are agnostic at best, fervently anti-religion at worst.  The rest of us are still clinging to our guns and our religion. Unlike the anti-Christs.
 
   Another item to consider is the president addressing Notre Dame. Even though he has been called the "Obamessiah", it is beyond me as to why a Catholic university would invite an ardent abortionist to speak to their graduating class. Unless, of course, the abortionist-in-chief had some type of sway over a left-leaning administrator or a mis-guided priest at the institution. If the address itself is not egregious enough, Notre Dame is awarding "the one" with an honorary degree, a position that is indefensible in most people's minds. I can't imagine why this bastion of Catholic thought would believe this is a good idea.    
 
   The more obvious case-in-point is Obama's deliberate choice of pro-abortion cabinet members and his actions expanding funding for abortion in the US and worldwide, and his federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.  The Cloakroom, the blog page for the Family Research Council, has this list of all of the pro-abortion activities undertaken by Barry since he was elected. The list is fairly exhaustive, and truly depressing.  Two of the most telling examples occurred as soon as Obama took office. On January 22nd, he issued a statement commemorating the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The very next day, he overturned the Mexico City Policy, so that  "now millions ($461 million in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008) of dollars are taken away from family planning groups that do not promote abortion, and delivered into the hands of organizations that are the most militant in promoting abortion as a population-control method - especially in countries that find abortion objectionable on moral grounds." Likewise, on April 22, " President Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, testifies in a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing that the Obama Administration believes that “reproductive health” includes a right to abortion and that the policy of the Obama Administration is to work to overturn pro-life laws in other countries." Sebelius, Koh, Kagan, Clinton...a Murderer's Row of Abortionists and Eugenicists, all political appointees of  "the one" (no caps intended). Likewise, judicial nominees like David Hamilton, enthusiastically supported by NARAL, or Sonia Sotomayor, will undoubtedly be anti-life. Nothing like promoting a culture of death worldwide when you hold the office of POTUS, the most powerful man in the world...fitting behavior for an anti-Christ.
 
   Likewise, the Freedom Of Choice Act (FOCA) is especially outrageous. Again, any person that calls themself a Christian that advocates policies that engender a culture of death is acting in direct contradiction to Christian teaching. Maybe this is one of the reasons Barry and Michelle have yet to pick a DC church. If they have, it's not been made public to my knowledge. And how else do we explain his decision to privately observe National Prayer Day? Seems to me, aside from his attendance at Wright's South Chicago church (which we all know was a politically expedient choice as opposed to a religious choice), Obama has purposely and literally distanced himself from all things religious. Again, typical anti-Christ behavior.
 
   With regards to the rest of his policies, his embrace of Chavez and Aqua-velvajad, his bow to King Abdullah, and his lack of backing for Israel, when taken in this context, all belie a true understanding of the juxtaposition of  Judeo-Christian thought and American history. Or a willful ignorance. Or, possibly, a conscious choice. In any case, none of these options are acceptable for the POTUS. And if these are truly conscious decisions by Obama (or by some outside force i.e. Soros), the insidiousness is obvious, and the potential consequences are indeed grave. 
   
   Now, let me state for the record, I've always been spiritual and religious, without being a zealot. That's not to say I've never sinned. I'm as guilty as the next man of many transgressions. That's why I go to church, to pray and ask forgiveness. Truth be told, in some ways I wish my passion for politics was more directed at my religion.  I do read a lot of religious philosophy (Merton, Lewis, Chesterton etc), but unfortunately I seem to be more interested in the philosophical angle than I am in the Bible itself. I have read the Bible, but I don't claim any vast understanding of all of the nuance or to be a scholar of any sort. I do understand enough to know what is right and wrong, however. That being said, Wikipedia's definition and discussion about the Anti-Christ is certainly instructive, and I have to say, there are a number of items there that pique my interest. Of particular interest is this statement from theolgian William Barkley in the Daily Study Bible: "antichrist is not so much a person as a principle, the principle which is actively opposed to God and which may well be thought of as incarnating itself in those in every generation who have seemed to be blatant opponents of God.""
   
   I will leave the interpretation to you, the reader, as to what all of this means. Personally, I believe it's possible that Barry, with his many issues that would make Freud proud (fathered out of wedlock, abandoned by his father, mother, and stepfather, mentored by a pedophile, the heavily guarded secrecy surrounding aspects of his past, and his socialistic/communistic policies, etc etc), could indeed be at least an anti-Christ, if not THE Anti-Christ. The evil is plain to see, and not really debatable. For us, the readers and posters here at TH, we need to remember what Burke said- "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing." 
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Maybe Joe Was Right

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 6:16:33 AM
   Most of us remember the stern warning issued by Slo' Joe Biden back in October, in which he stated that candidate Barack Obama, if elected, would be tested by the international community within his first six months in office. While that's really not much of a prediction, as most world leaders are tested in some way on a daily or weekly basis, the remarks caused quite a commotion, even though the whole thing could really just be chalked up to "Joe being Joe".  In reality, though, the number of international foreign policy "tests" have been numerous for our new "fearless leader". With the Somali pirates' timely demise via well-placed Navy Seal headshots now in the history books as a successful outcome, I took the opportunity to ruminate on these tests, causing me to wonder, which one, exactly, is the test Sir Gaffe-A-Lot was speaking of?
     
    Maybe the test came during one of Barry's numerous exploits with various EU leaders, such as the infamous Irish PM/TOTUS incident. Well, first of all, that was a TOTUS test, and TOTUS failed that one. Barry had a rather comedic recovery, but I would hardly call it a foreign policy "test" in the true sense of the word.
   
   I know- it was the incident involving Great Britain...well, ok, there's been a few. Was it when Obama sent Churchill's bust back to England, for no good reason? Or when he gave Gordon Brown a selection of 25 useless DVDs? While these qualify as problematic, and would certainly be viewed as failures, they don't necessarily rise to the level of foreign policy "test".
   
   The letter "The One" sent to Jacques Chirac was a well written piece, I'm sure...only problem is, it probably should have been sent to the actual current French president, Nicolas Sarkozy. Chirac and Sarkozy have quite a strained relationship and this probably didn't help, but, no matter. We're repairing our standing in the world. Just another in a string of minor failures.
    
   Obama's apology tour surrounding the G20 summit wasn't so much a test as another self-inflicted wound, but given that he requested increased troops from the EU for Afghanistan and got nothing to speak of from anyone, the case could be made that this was a failure. When you add in "The Bow" to Saudi King Abdullah, the case becomes even stronger. But it wasn't a "generated crisis" of the type that Biden was describing. Except, directly following the TOTUS speech in Prague, in which he called for disarming the world of nukes, we got...
   The North Korean missile launch , which would certainly qualify as a test. The response?
 
 "North Korea said on Tuesday it would quit international nuclear disarmament talks and restart a plant that makes bomb-grade plutonium after the United Nations chastised it for launching a long-range rocket"
 
   In the meantime, the Iranians just announced that they had installed 7000 centrifuges  at their facility in Natanz.  Who knows, maybe this is just a bit of dis-information for the Israelis, who have been adamant about their plans to attack Iranian nuclear sites.  Another "test" for BHO on the near horizon.
   
   Russia presents a whole different set of potential tests, given their expanding relationship with Venezuela and their provocative statements regarding the establishment of bomber bases in Venezuela and Cuba. Given that some of the arms being used by the Mexican cartels may have also come out of this disturbing relationship, it's mandatory that Obama's reactions need to be effective. So far, there's been no evidence at all to suggest he "gets it".
   
   The Somali pirate issue? Anyone would have made the right call on that, especially given that, from my understanding, the US Navy doesn't "need" any signed executive order to use deadly force in the type of situation that was presented, with American lives at stake. The true "test" surrounding this scenario occurs when and if Barry decides to take out these pirates via some military attack on their ground bases. But credit where credit is due. The Navy performed superbly, and even though the Adminstration took 5 days to negotiate in a quasi-law enforcement posture with the FBI in charge, the end result was probably the best that could reasonably be hoped for. At least Barry didn't get in the way.
 
   At this point the question becomes, however, can we afford to wait and see whether or not Obama will actually pass a real "test"? So far, on nearly every foreign policy issue, the operative phrase seems to be "misstep". Personally, I'd love to sit back and gloat and say "told ya so", but that would entail a scenario in which we, as a country, are in more danger than we had been up to that point. For the sake of all of us, I'd rather be wrong.
 
   Unfortunately, I am not too confident in the likelihood of that being the case. 
 
 
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Ball Of Confusion

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Monday, March 30, 2009 4:59:37 AM
   Even though I was only 7 years old when this song came out, "Ball Of Confusion" ranks as one of my favorite songs ("Papa Was A Rolling Stone" was first on my list) from The Temptations. The interplay of the bass and the high tenor vocals was fascinating to my young, potentially attention-deficited mind, and I'm still kind of surprised that my dad didn't turn the station when it came on, given the racial tension that was prevalent back in the day.
   
   To my larger point, I've wondered whether or not the underlying theme of the song was to blame Nixon and the GOP for many of the issues mentioned, but, it may have just been a purely anti-government rant. That would certainly have been more accurate, given the previous 2 administrations were democratic...and we all know the Democrats have made a living under-serving minorities.
 
   Here's the lyrics (although most of you know them well enough to sing along)...I thought it would be interesting to plug the complaints listed in the song into present day US of A and see just how relevant the themes still are. "Vote for me and I'll set you free". Once again, it seems past is prologue. Not sure who the great googalooga is...any guesses?
 
BALL OF CONFUSION (THAT'S WHAT THE WORLD IS TODAY
WRITERS NORMAN WHITFIELD, BARRETT STRONG

1, 2... 1, 2, 3, 4, Ow!
Eddie: People moving out, people moving in. Why, because of the color of their skin.
Run, run, run but you sure can't hide. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Vote for me and I'll set you free. Rap on, brother, rap on.
Dennis: Well, the only person talking about love thy brother is the...(preacher.)
And it seems nobody's interested in learning but the...(teacher.)
Segregation, determination, demonstration, integration, Aggravation, humiliation, obligation to our nation.
Ball of confusion. Oh yeah, that's what the world is today. Woo, hey, hey.
Paul:
The sale of pills are at an all time high.
Young folks walking round with their heads in the sky.
The cities ablaze in the summer time.
And oh, the beat goes on.
Dennis:
Evolution, revolution, gun control, sound of soul.
Shooting rockets to the moon, kids growing up too soon.
Politicians say more taxes will solve everything.
Melvin:
And the band played on.
So, round and around and around we go.
Where the world's headed, nobody knows.
[Instrumental]
Oh, great googalooga, can't you hear me talking to you.
Just a ball of confusion.
Oh yeah, that's what the world is today.
Woo, hey, hey.
Eddie:
Fear in the air, tension everywhere.
Unemployment rising fast, the Beatles new record's a gas.
Dennis:
And the only safe place to live is on an Indian reservation.
Melvin:
And the band played on.
Eve of destruction, tax deduction, city inspectors, bill collectors,
Mod clothes in demand, population out of hand, suicide, too many bills,
Hippies moving to the hills. People all over the world are shouting, 'End the war.'
Melvin:
And the band played on.
[Instrumental]
Great googalooga, can't you hear me talking to you.
Sayin'... ball of confusion.
That's what the world is today, hey, hey.
Let me hear ya, let me hear ya, let me hear ya.
Sayin'... ball of confusion.
That's what the world is today, hey, hey.
Let me hear ya, let me hear ya, let me hear ya, let me hear ya, let me hear ya.
Sayin'... ball of confusion.
 
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Lights Out!

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Friday, March 27, 2009 10:18:32 AM
Can't believe I was in the dark about this one...Earth Hour is this saturday, 3/27/09 from 8:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. local time wherever you are. Apparently, it is a burgeoning effort to show worldwide solidarity behind the notion of solving global climate change. Notice, once again, that it's no longer global "warming". There are a number of heavyweights behind this, including Google, UN SecGen Ban Ki Moon, and hundreds of cities worldwide. This movement has been around for a couple years, although it's the first I've heard of it, and appears to be growing. Well, I think it's time to shut this nonsense down.
 
Jim Quinn, consevative radio commentator, called the people behind this movement Luddites, and I would have to agree. We need to celebrate human aspiration, human innovation, and human acheivement, not regression and a return to the Dark Ages. We have ample resources and ingenuity to sustain our population for centuries to come, if the statists would just get out of the process and let us use the market to increase our prosperity.
 
Do your part this weekend. If you're home, turn all of your lights on between 8:30 and 9:30. If you're out, go where the lights are bright and celebrate the light that burns inside all of us, the beacon we know as LIBERTY and FREEDOM!!
 
 
 
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Free Choice...or Not?

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:00:00 AM
   For those of you who read my last post, you may recall that I mentioned one of the speakers at the Tea Party in Lexington, Kathy Gornik from Bluegrass Institute For Public Policy Solutions. Yesterday she was on C-Span 3, testifying to a Senate Republican Conference on Unionizing, more specifically regarding the Employee Free Choice Act. The conference was chaired by Orrin Hatch, R-UT,  and included some compelling testimony from all of the participants. Here is the video.  It is well worth the hour or so to watch it.  
 
   Aside from stories about real-life union intimidation (I know, I know, shocking),  Kathy's narrative was especially effective. Her conclusion regarding what will most likely occur in her company and many small businesses (most others?) around the country if this travesty of a law gets passed is sobering, to say the least, but certainly understandable and predictable. I was very encouraged by the receptiveness of the senators chairing the conference, and I have no doubt that they understand the implications of what could happen.
I am proud that she has represented the business community in general in such an honest and outstanding fashion, and doubly proud that she is from right here in Lexington.
 
   Stay tuned for more on this true patriot.
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A Great Day For Freedom!

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Sunday, March 22, 2009 2:19:51 AM
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What a fantastic day! I feel so invigorated and energized, better than I do after I have put pen to paper (figuratively speaking) to vent here at TH. I went to the Tea Party in Lexington, KY today, and it did my soul good to see so many like-minded people there, from so many different backgrounds, with so many worldviews, uniting behind a common cause. I'm pretty sure there were more than 400 people there, and the news that we are having another rally in Applebees Park (home of the Lexington Legends  AA baseball team) on April 18th was especially encouraging. What an accomplishment it would be to fill the 6,500 seat stadium. Of course, the fact that my wife called me a "radical" helped get me fired up as well.
 
Our local rabble-rouser, Leland Conway, did a great job of getting the word out through his daily radio show and his web-site, The Conservative Edge. For those of you that may not have heard, Leland sent over 1500 bags of donated pork rinds to Chuckie Schumer after his "chattering classes" remark. I have a feeling Schumer didn't eat any (just a guess)...but Leland is now officially my local hero.
 
There were also folks there from The Bluegrass Institute For Public Policy Solutions, including board chair Kathy Gornik, who will be appearing on C-Span this coming monday (3/23/09 at 3 pm EST) as part of a business roundtable discussion relating to the economy and how it's impacting businesses. She gave a truly heartfelt and inspirational speech, even though she said she hates public speaking. On a side note, I found it interesting that she was recently named the first-ever recipient of the Bastiat in Business Award in recognition of her distinguished effort to promote free-market ideas. The Bastiat Society is a nonprofit foundation created to spread free-market ideas among business people. She will also be speaking to the Bastiat Society (where I linked to her above) on April 1st. You may remember that my last piece was about Bastiat's "The Law". I got some goosebumps when I found that out (cue "The Twilight Zone" theme).
 
One of our state representatives, Stan Lee (not to be confused with the comic book artist/creator) spoke as well...I'm sure his ears were burning throughout the other speeches, as everyone was railing against DC pols specifically, and politicians in general.
 
The only relatively sour moment(s) occurred when Gatewood Galbraith went off the reservation during his speech, advocating for Kentucky's legalization of marijuana. Most of the crowd may have been ok with that 20 years ago, but now...not so much. Those of us who follow Lexington politics knew this was coming as soon as we saw him, so it wasn't much of a surprise. I will say, his mention that California has already opened up this Pandora's box only begs the question, will Kentucky be second to do it, or last? The fact that so much drug money goes to terrorists and drug cartels, and could be taxed, is certainly intriguing. But, as Bastiat would caution, we have to explore the unintended consequences. And I personally believe we can't go down that road.
 
The other low point occurred when I spotted two "Obamabots" who looked to be "spying". They actually had the nerve to show up wearing their "Obama/Biden" shirts and buttons. Young, twenty-something artist looking types, they were busily texting on their Blackberries, standing well back of the crowd. I approached them very casually, and tried to hand one of them a 912 Project flyer. He looked up from his texting, and said "you better take your smug self somewhere else." My, they are a testy lot. I looked at the other guy, and said "here ya' go, this is a copy of the Constitution. You might want to try reading it." All he could say is "we support the President." I told him to take the copy, it was free. He says "we are the majority, and we won." Snarky. I told him that he was quite the minority where we stood...then I decided that a scene was probably not what the group needed. I left him with a "good luck with that whole majority thing" and a smile. I seem to remember W had a majority,  and we all know how that turned out.
 
The high point of the day was Leland's speech, when he exhorted the crowd with his directive to DC-"Fear This!!" Our elected representatives as well as the "Administration" would be wise to follow his advice. Smaller government, less spending, transparency...all of the speakers hit these subjects hard and often. Leland was very articulate, however, and very dynamic. One point he made was that "we're not angry, yet." A subtle, but powerful  point that was. There is quite a bit of upside to this movement. The anger has yet to boil over, but it won't take much more.
 
Interestingly enough, the event was scheduled to end at 2 pm, and right on cue, the power to Leland's mike went out. He was wrapping his speech up with no sound, and astutely gave credit where it was due (to the government for cutting him off, right on time), before the tech folks kicked on the generator for his finale.
 
For all you folks that haven't been to one of these events, I highly recommend it. Washington is noticing, and it won't take many more of these before the moderates realize they are on the wrong side of these issues. We did it to the Immigration bill, and we can sidetrack this budget/bailout insanity as well, if we stay on message and stay united behind the cause. Here is the link for the National Tea Party Day. Sign up, attend, and call and write your representatives. The spark has ignited the tinder, and the flames are spreading. Keep adding your fuel to this wildfire. It's now or never...
 
If you're interested, there are a number of great photos (many that I've uploaded) at Meetup.com on their "Lexington, KY-We Surround Them" page. Some great signs and costumes, and I want to personally thank all the folks for being so willing to pose for pictures.
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Breaking The Law

Posted by Sgt.Stryker on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 4:51:55 AM
Not long ago, I read a fascinating bit about Frederic Bastiat's Parable Of The Broken Window. It was used to explain why increased government spending was a bad thing and why the stimulus would not work, due to adverse unintended consequences. While an examination of the parable may be a worthwhile debate on TH, my purpose here is to discuss something even more intrinsic to our current economic situation.
 
Bastiat, for those who aren't familiar with his work, was a brilliant 19th century French economist and political philosopher. Ultimately, his work focused heavily on the benefits of capitalism and the deleterious effects of statism. After reading about the Parable of the Broken Window, I was intrigued to the point of searching out his works, at first in local book stores and libraries (I'm still old-school like that), but those attempts were fruitless. I ended up getting on Amazon and securing a few of Bastiat's books, as well as some Friederich Hayek and Milton Friedman. In retrospect, I wonder why none of these fabulously talented economists were taught in my university Econ classes (oh, yeah, state school...never mind). Keynes certainly was...but I digress. I can't wait to read all of these works, and a more in-depth post will certainly follow. In the meantime...
 
The first book I received was Bastiat's "The Law", an 80 page treatise which sought to define concepts such as "justice", "the law", and "plunder". Now, while I don't want to do a book review/report per se, I do think it is instructive to examine some of Bastiat's writings on these subjects, as they relate directly to our current plight.
 
First and foremost is the concept of "law".  Bastiat says it is "the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defence." (4) He goes on to state that the law has been perverted by some in government and society, to the point that they have "converted plunder into a right, that it may protect it, and lawful defence into a crime, that it may punish it." (7) Furthermore, this perversion has occurred "through the influence of two very different causes-bare egotism and false philanthropy." (8)  The origin of property and man's tendency towards acquiring it comes "from a perpetual application of his faculties to objects, or from labour." More importantly, the origin of plunder comes from someone "seizing and appropriating the productions of the faculties of his fellow-men." (9) Ultimately, "Law is Justice." (72)
 
Follow along with me, now...
 
We elect politicians to create and enforce laws, and we expect these laws to protect us from plunder while allowing us to operate freely in pursuit of our aspirations. However, egotists and false philanthropists in politics believe that they are the sole arbiters of who benefits from their decided application of the law. They believe that "mankind itself tends towards degradation, and is only arrested in its tendency by the mysterious hand of the legislator." (36)  They also believe that mankind need only be passive, and this unseen hand of the law, "moves, animates, enriches, and regenerates mankind." (37)  Under state control and  state planning, one can never escape the influence, and therefore, the plunder, of the state. But, in a just and free society, one can always choose to participate to any degree they desire in a free market...this notion is fundamental to the whole equation. The law, when wielded by statists, compels people to act against their natural condition, one of free will and liberty.
 
While all of these ideas have already been explored by any number of political philosophers, including the Founding Fathers, this examination causes me to wonder...do statists ultimately believe that they'll never run out of people to tax? Surely they must know that in guaranteeing their potential voting bloc by making everyone "equal" in their dependence on the government, which is inevitable if you destroy people's ability to exercise their free will, they are ultimately forcing the demise of the society as a whole. Diminishing legitimate choices and enforcing plunder can only be viewed as a diminishment of our liberty, and by extension, our natural state. Capitalism and the free market are inextricably linked to this natural state of choice and freedom. Any effort to impede these endeavors must be resisted. 
 
History teaches us that the tyranny of plunder can and does occur. FDR with his 100% tax on earnings over $25,000 (some New Deal), Chavez in Venezuela today, nationalizing industries and resources,  the U.S.S.R. with it's Central Planning, Zimbabwe's failed economy...the list is rife with failed socialist/Marxist/statist governments. They all have one thing in common-a government mandated plundering of private capital and wealth. Yet Obama and his minions are leading us straight down that road. And he's in a big hurry, since the current economic crisis is too good to waste.
 
And we're letting him.
 
Shame on us.
 
But, not all is doom and gloom. I believe that the majority of people in this country, when forced to make a choice, will come down on the right side; the side that doesn't accept socialized health care, or the confiscatory taxes needed to pay for it, or every other form of government plunder that is coming down the pike. The country is getting quite the indoctrination, and will be more educated about the vagaries of the march to statism. I believe we will take back the House in 2010, and the WH and possibly the Senate in 2012.
 
The over-reach from the left has been swift and extreme, and the moderates are moving towards buyer's remorse already. Obama's 60% approval rating has dropped to the mid 50's, and his disapproval rating is nearly up to 50%. (Rasmussen)  It will only get worse, don't worry about that. It always does...Carter certainly proved it. Dick Morris posited on Hannity last night that Obama's favorable rating would be down to 30% within the year.
 
If not, we have only ourselves to blame, because we didn't call the leftists exactly what they are: socialists, communists, Marxists, and statists. Bastiat knew what the potential for harm was over 150 years ago, and our Founding Fathers knew long before that. You can't fight a problem if you can't define it...we have met the enemy, and it is the law.
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