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Monday, April 23, 2012

Washington Times: Dr. Milton R. Wolf- 'Kathleen, I’ve Got a Feeling You’re Still in Kansas'

Source:Ballotpedia- Dr. Milton R. Wolf.

Source:The Daily Post

"Liberals are a curious breed. They actually believe the government can mandate you into prosperity. They wave a magic wand, and the universe bends to their whim. At the end of each day, they rest their weary heads blissfully - willfully - unaware of the damage they cause.

Witness Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Before she was wielding the iron fist of power granted to her by Obamacare, she was the Kansas’ governor and, before that, the Kansas insurance commissioner. Health insurance mandates were her stock in trade, and with each new government dictate, Kansans saw their premiums increase. No matter how well-intentioned, the very nature of a mandate is that it forces consumers to buy something they don’t want, or why the need for a mandate? It’s unavoidable, then, that Kansas families’ costs increased and many simply could no longer afford insurance.

The net result? Mrs. Sebelius chased nearly a dozen health insurance companies out of the state, leaving behind 40,000 Kansans who no longer had health insurance. That President Obama would choose her to head HHS and implement Obamacare is telling and terrifying." 


Replace Liberals with Leftists, especially Socialists and I probably agree with everything that Dr. Wolf said in his column. But he's wrong about Liberals and the Affordable Care Act. And I understand a doctor being wrong about liberal since he's not a political scientist or philosopher. But it's the Affordable Care Act which was designed by Center-Right Republicans in the early 1990s and signed into law in Massachusetts by Governor Mitt Romney in 2006, that I'm having a hard time figuring out how the good doctor could be so wrong about Romney/ObamaCare.

“Constitutional Accountability Center interviewed several tea partiers in front of the Supreme Court during oral arguments in the Obamacare cases in March 2012. Many of them feel strongly that the law is unconstitutional, and many of them proved that they have absolutely no idea about what the Constitution actually says.” 

Source:CO-Progressives- covering Tea Party opposition to ObamaCare in 2012.

From CO Progressives 

This video could be very slanted and that CO Progressives went to the American Dumbass Convention (also known as Dumbasses of America) that was gathering in Washington and found the Dumbasses that know the very least about the U.S. Constitution and just decided to interview those people. Instead of interviewing people who’ve at least heard of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution and can actually explain it. COP talked to people talked who apparently aren’t even aware of why they oppose ObamaCare (also known as the Affordable Care Act) let alone can articulate why they think it’s unconstitutional.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Hoover Institution: Uncommon Knowledge With Peter Robinson- ‘Pat Buchanan on Suicide of a Superpower’

Source:Hoover Institution- right-wing columnist and author Patrick J. Buchanan, talking to Peter Robinson.

Source:The FreeState 

“This week on Uncommon Knowledge, author and commentator Pat Buchanan discusses the disintegration of the United States as a superpower and a united nation.”


What Pat Buchanan is essentially doing here and doing in his book is making the same argument that his fellow right-wing columnist and author Ann Coulter makes, which is immigration, especially from Latin America and Asia , and the third world, is ruining America. That non-European immigration and even non-Northern European immigration is changing the culture and complexion of America.

Not calling Pat Buchanan a racist (necessarily) but he is a Nationalist and even a European-American-Nationalist (if you want to put it in ethnic and racial terms) who represents a faction of the country that believes that the Anglo-Saxons (English Americans) and other Northern European-Americans are the real Americans. Arguing that they built America and made it great and these outsiders (meaning Latin-Americans and Asians) are coming to America to escape from the third-world and living off and even stealing what the Anglo-Saxons and other Northern-Europeans created in America.

What the Pat Buchanan’s and Ann Coulter’s of the world want to do is take America back to pre-1965 when most of the immigrants in America were Northern-Europeans of British, Nordic, and Germanic ancestry and where even Jews, Slavs, Italians, and Spanish-Europeans, had a hard time emigrating to America. If you want to know why Pat Buchanan is known as a cultural warrior, its because he makes these arguments and pits cultural’s versus other cultural’s.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Richard Nixon Library: ‘1969 Inauguration of Richard Nixon’



Source:Richard Nixon Library- President Richard M. Nixon (Republican, California) being inaugurated as President, January, 1969.

Source:The FreeState 

“From the holdings of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library

From the Motion Film File

File ID: MFF 624 and MFF 625

NARA Record Group: 128.2

Produced by Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies and Naval Photographic Center.

Technical production by the Senate Recording Studio and the Naval Photographic Center.

1/20/1969

For more information contact the Richard Nixon Presidential Library

nixon@nara.gov

http://www.nixonlibrary.gov
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This film just gives you a good idea of what everyone goes through before the actual official inauguration of the new President and that ceremony takes place. As well as the last day of the outgoing President who happened to be President Lyndon B. Johnson on this day. As well as how power is transferred from one President to the new President who was Richard Nixon on this day. And the transfer of power from The White House from the Democratic Party which had it since 1961, to the Republican Party in 1969.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Real Time With Bill Maher: Overtime With Ann Coulter

Source:Real Time With Bill Maher- talking to Alt-Right loudmouth Ann Coulter.

Source:The Daily Post 

“Bill and his roundtable guests (Ethan Nadelmann, Chaz Bono, Ann Coulter, Amanda Foreman, Christopher Hayes) answer fan questions.” 

From Real Time With Bill Maher

I’m not sure if I’m willing to give credit to anyone who is willing talk to Ann Coulter about anything, or just think maybe that person has more time to throw away than me, which would be a good thing, or just think maybe this person is just very chartable. Because generally I think she’s just doing a crazy monologue and not expecting to be taken seriously, except she doesn’t seem to have a comedic timing and just throws out all of this crazy nonsense (to be overly generous) with a completely straight face and acting like she’s being serious.

Ann Coulter actually said on Real Time With Bill Maher that the Obama Administration threaten to bomb Egypt, if their dictator Hosni Mubarak didn’t leave office. That’s just one example and she was completely serious about that.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Washington Times: ‘The Left’s War On Rednecks’

Source:The Washington Times- Real Time With Bill Maher.

Source:The Daily Post 

“In their own minds, liberals are open-minded and promote diversity – unless they’re talking about a white, southern, conservative believer. In that case, it’s open season for intolerance.

Tuesday’s Republican primaries in Mississippi and Alabama brought out the worst in some liberal commentators. HBO’s Bill Maher added to his recent difficulties by tweeting “Toothless Tuesday too tight to tally! We’re gathered around the magic picture box with a bowl of grits watching the returns come in!” This was a mean-spirited dig based on cartoonish stereotypes of the South.

Mr. Maher’s defenders might point to Jeff Foxworthy’s brand of humor, listing the alleged characteristics of rednecks. Mr. Foxworthy – who last week endorsed Mitt Romney for president – always delivers his lines with a wink, whereas Mr. Maher has developed a permanent smirk. Mr. Foxworthy’s blue-collar fans might nod and admit that some jokes ring a little true; Mr. Maher’s privileged left-wing devotees are already certain that the people in those states are illiterate hillbillies. To paraphrase Lynyrd Skynyrd, southern folk don’t need them around anyhow.”


I agree with The Washington Times (which is a big city, Mid-Atlantic newspaper, in the heart of Blue America) as far as how the American-Left defines rednecks and Southern-Anglo-Saxon-Protestants in America. But similar to how making fun of ghetto people and hip hop culture or left-wing elitist culture is not bigoted or racist, neither is making fun of SASP (Southern Anglo Saxon Protestants) either.

Both sides have their faults and their strengths. I’m not comfortable with either group, because I tend to see urban leftists as snobs, bigots, and even at times as racists towards European-Americans, or at least English-Protestants. And I tend to see political rednecks as bigots who seem to be stuck in some 1950s time warp and never got the memo (perhaps because they can’t read) that America has moved past Ozzie and Harriet’s, Beaver Cleaver, John Wayne’s 1940s and 50s America.

We’re just a lot more diverse as a society now and not just ethnically and racially, but culturally, with all sorts of new, mainstream lifestyles and definitions about what the American Dream is and what it means to be a real American today.

Rednecks or the Christian-Right has been revolting against the Cultural Revolution since the 1960s and again wants to take us back to the 1950s culturally and politically. Urban hipster-leftists, would try to erase redneck or (SASP) culture and force their way of life onto everyone else. Which is why you have this modern culture war going on between these two political fringes.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

The Daily Caller: Nicholas Ballasy- U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr: 'President Obama Should Declare a National Emergency'

Source:The Daily Caller- U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr (Democrat, Illinois) talking about a direct government jobs program.

"Jesse Jackson Jr Obama should declare a national emergency." 


Representative Jesse Jackson who's not shy when expressing his opinions (similar to Muhammad Ali, who he resembles) he's one of the most vocal members of Congress we have as far as expressing exactly what he's feeling, his opinions are always clear. And I'll give him a lot of credit for that, he's one of the most honest members of Congress that we have. (Which is like being the best rapper from South Dakota) 

Whether you agree or disagree with Representative Jackson (from Chicago) or not, I generally disagree with him, Representative Jackson who is with the so-called Progressive Caucus (closeted Democratic Socialists, in actuality) a bit left of myself. (To put it mildly) And I'm a Liberal Democrat. 

What Representative Jackson is talking about here is having President Obama essentially declare a state of emergency as it relates to the American economy. That our economy is so bad that so many people are unemployed right now, that the Administration can't wait for Congress to (get back from playing golf or raising campaign money) solve our economic problems. That President Obama has to step in and solve these problems on his own. And essentially try to solve these problems and implement his American Jobs Act by executive order. 

Executive orders aren't laws (otherwise they would be called executive laws) they can be repealed simply by Congress. The House and Senate coming together to repeal them and with a divided Congress, thats not likely, unless the President writes and executive order thats clearly Unconstitutional and is very unpopular. 

The problem that the President would have is essentially implementing new law constitutional or not, Representative Jackson has called Congress a "Rebellious Congress" similar to the times of the Civil War. That Congress wants to prevent the President from passing any new agenda by essentially not doing anything, that the House has blocked the American Jobs Act by not taking it up. And the Senate Republican Leadership, even though they are the Senate minority, has blocked the AJA with the cloture rule. 

It takes sixty votes in the Senate to debate or pass anything. So what Representative Jackson is saying is that President Obama should circumvent Congress and implement the AJA on his own administratively on his own and bypass Congress. Saying that Congress won't get around to passing the AJA or any jobs bill, we have almost no economic or job growth in the Country right now. We have 9.1% unemployment and that the President should declare a national economic emergency and deal with these issues on his own with his Administration, because no one else is prepared to deal with these issues. 

This is a very risky advice that could bring Congressional investigations. (House and Senate) I don't see how the President could do this without bringing a lot of heat to him (while he's up for reelection) and causing a lot of political problems for him that President Obama doesn't need. 

What the Obama Administration should be doing is trying to pass the AJA in several different steps: focusing on infrastructure investment in one step. Regulatory reform in another step. Tax reform in another step. 

Congress has already passed three trade agreements and then tax reform. Thats the best shot that President Obama has at passing a jobs bill. 

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Commentary Magazine: Alana Goodman- ‘Rick Santorum Wants to Ban Gambling’

Source:Commentary Magazine- columnist Alana Goodman.

Source:The FreeState

“National Review’s Jim Geraghty wonders whether there might be a business-related reason behind casino magnate Sheldon Adelson’s reported opposition to Rick Santorum. Take a look at what the former Pennsylvania senator had to say about gambling during a recent interview with Jon Ralston:

I’m someone who takes the opinion that gaming is not something that is beneficial, particularly having that access on the Internet. Just as we’ve seen from a lot of other things that are vices on the Internet, they end to grow exponentially as a result of that. It’s one thing to come to Las Vegas and do gaming and participate in the shows and that kind of thing as entertainment, it’s another thing to sit in your home and have access to that it. I think it would be dangerous to our country to have that type of access to gaming on the Internet.

Freedom’s not absolute. What rights in the Constitution are absolute? There is no right to absolute freedom. There are limitations. You might want to say the same thing about a whole variety of other things that are on the Internet — “let everybody have it, let everybody do it.” No. There are certain things that actually do cost people a lot of money, cost them their lives, cost them their fortunes that we shouldn’t have and make available, to make it that easy to do.”


“Rick Santorum completely self-destructs in an interview with Neil Cavuto” 

Source:Fox News- anchor Neil Cavuto interviewing Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum.

From Neil Cavuto 

I’m thinking about starting a brand new blog about Rick Santorum. I’m going to completely dedicate it to the former member of Congress who’s benefited greatly since leaving Congress, as so has the rest of the country. I might call it the World of Big Government Courtesy of Rick Santorum. The beauty of it would be, that Senator Santroum would provide me with all the material on his big government position of the day. I might even pay the former Senator royalties, for his contributions to this blog.

The problem with this potential blog, is that it would take up all my time. Forget being a political junky, I would end up becoming a Santorum junky. All Rick 24 hours, seven days a week all the time. Because Rick comes up with a new big government position basically everyday. Stick around and I’ll go through them with you.

In the last two weeks, Rick Santorum has come out of favor bf banning heavy metal music, which is why Dave Mustaine endorsed him. (Perhaps Dave Mustaine is losing his nearing now thanks to all of his head banging) Trying to suck up to the Senator with a straw and has lost so many brain cells from heavy metal, which is why he endorsed Rick Santorum and why Rick wants to ban heavy metal. The distinguished Senator came out in favor of banning pornography, trying to lure Michele Bachmann wing of the nut house to endorse him. Condoms, birth control, and now today gambling.

Calling Rick Santorum a Conservative is like calling a midget a giant or a cow a horse, a dog a cat, water, fire, it doesn’t past the laugh test, unless you don’t have a sense of humor. And if that’s the case you shouldn’t read this piece either.

Rick Santorum would give any Socialist you want to name a great run for being in favor of big government: David McReynolds, Bernie Sanders, and Dennis Kucinich have nothing on this guy. They would all be midget’s compared with Rick. (Not just Dennis Kucinich) And every time he finds a new way in how to protect people from themselves, lovers of liberty need to call him out on it.