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Friday, October 31, 2008
Obama Election: Running a Red Light With a Left Turn
Read Daniel Henninger’s The True Meaning of ‘Historic Vote’ in the Wall Street Journal.
The goal of Sen. Obama and the modern, “progressive” Democratic Party is to move the U.S. in the direction of Western Europe, the so-called German model and its “social market economy.” Under this notion, business is highly regulated, as it would be in the next Congress under Democratic House committee chairmen Markey, Frank and Waxman. Business is allowed to create “wealth” so long as its utility is not primarily to create new jobs or economic growth but to support a deep welfare system.
The Foreign Policy Outlook is Disquieting
No matter who wins the presidential election, the United States faces dangerous times. Read Frederick W. Kagan’s Security Should Be the Deciding Issue, in the Wall Street Journal.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Crowding Obama
The mindless throngs assembled to worship their savior, Senator Obama, bring to mind Jos
Street mobs and mass demonstrations are a product of socialism, beginning with the Parisian mobs who assaulted the Bastille on July 14, 1789, then dragged government ministers from their homes and hanged them from the lamp posts.
Everything about these mass demonstrations is anathema to the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, which was intended to protect individual political liberties from the power of the mob. Today, liberal-progressive Federal judges justify abrogation of individual liberties, particularly property rights, by reference to mob sentiment.
A fundamental part of Senator Obama’s campaign rests upon confiscating people’s wealth and redistributing it to the lower income elements of the mob.
In The Masses Today, I noted:
Writing in 1929, Jos
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Labor Unions: A Brood of Vipers
Labor unions make us poorer and they prolong recessions.
Senator Obama’s short-sighted support for wealth-redistribution taxation and for socialist labor unions is nothing new for Democrat/Socialist politicians.
Both in England and in the United States, labor unions led the political assault to overwhelm the individualistic traditions that made those nations great and to impose socialistic planning and regulation.
Between 1933 and 1940, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal nationalized agriculture, promoted the expansion of membership and power of communist-led labor unions, and pushed businesses into the National Recovery Administration (NRA), an imitative version of Mussolini
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The UN Con Man
Doing well by doing (supposedly) good.
Maurice Strong resembles a self-righteous drug dealer, assuring himself that fostering destructive programs is really a benefit to humanity.
Read Claudia Rosett’s interview with the former UN official.
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Wall Street Regulatory Overview
Read Nicole Gelinas’s opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal.
Gary Kelly’s Take on the Election
“A vote for any Democrat is a vote for socialism/Marxism/communism…
Because Preachers have preached “from their heart” they have neglected to preach what they were commissioned to preach, the Word of God, people no longer go to church, they go to their government.”
Election 2008: “We the people” or “We the sheeple?”
By Gary Kelly
EarsToHear.net
A vote for any Democrat is a vote for socialism/Marxism/communism, increasing government control over “We the people,” stalinizing us into “We the sheeple.”
“Politically Correct” means using unrighteous deception and requires a lack of Biblical Moral Virtue. Being “Politically Correct” is not only foolish, but dangerous.
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” - James Madison (speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 16 June 1788) Reference: Bartlett’s Quotations (352) - The Patriot Post Founders’ Quote Daily
The sheeple have, and are being duped by the socialist biased humanistic politically correct mainstream media. The MSM allies are more than willing defenders of the Democrat Party. The MSM is successful in keeping all the FACTS and opinions from the sheeple. Democrats simply rely on their ally, the MSM, to keep the sheeple, well, sheeple, by not questioning the rhetoric, distortions, and lies of Democrats as they do Republicans. Democrats can count on the MSM as both rely on the shallow sheeple who like the rhetoric and ignore the facts.
Americans must choose which they subscribe to? “We the people” or “We the sheeple?” Remain a Republic or become a Socialist State of massive cradle-to-grave-nanny-state taxpayer funded entitlements with the failed bureaucracy of government control? Do we want our American descendants to know Biblical moral virtue or political correctness? In 1787, when the Founding Fathers had hammered out the U.S. Constitution in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin told an inquiring woman what the gathering had produced, “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.”
“We the people” are a product of the Republic of limited government established by Founders who possessed Biblical moral virtue.
“We the sheeple” are a product (subjects) of big (more) government control intrusion (cradle-to-grave-nanny-state) being instituted and mandated by liberal secular judges. Mostly Democrats and deceived by a liberal biased mainstream media and by secular humanists government-run schools and “higher” education. (Suggest if you lack Biblical moral virtue and prefer liberty mandated by government and not “liberty from God,” you are free to move to any Socialist country that will have you.).
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” ... “The worship of God is a duty…Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature? I never doubted the existence of the Deity, that he made the world, and governed it by His Providence…The pleasures of this world are rather from God’s goodness than our own merit… Whoever shall introduce into the public affairs the principles of primitive (essential) Christianity will change the face of the world… Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” - Benjamin Franklin
“[D]emocracy 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, 29 August 1763) Reference: Original Intent, Barton (338); original The Papers of John Adams, Taylor, ed., vol. 1 (83)
Are you “mainstream?” I.E. Do you possess Biblical moral virtue or have you been duped by liberals and the MSM into being “politically correct?”
The sheeple, instead of enjoying liberty from God (as prescribed in the Declaration of Independence), appear to prefer to have their liberties as mandated by the government, which as the “Politically Correct” anti-Judeo-Christian agenda reveals, shows utter contempt for the Righteousness of God as designed and defined according to the Word of God.
- “We the sheeple” prefer a way that seems right unto man, even though that way leads to death. (Proverbs 14:12 and 16:25) - Why is it many Americans continue to vote for socialists, masking as democrats? - Do they really want government to a socialistic nanny-state providing all their needs from cradle to the grave? - Do they really want government to be their god? - Are they too busy, cynical, and apathetic and choose to let others decide the future of their children? - Are they too complacent, comfortable and complacent in their American Way of Life, howbeit it came with a price? - Are they too busy to be concerned for America’s future generations? - Are they just self-centered and selfish? - Maybe it is not that complicated. Perhaps they are just so shallow the socialists and their co-defenders, the liberally biased media, are simply taking advantage of their apathy and lack of concern? Not until the MSM is fully revealed in this deceit, AND corrects itself by providing fair and balanced coverage, will ?we the sheeple? finally hear both sides of every issue. Only then will the voters see exactly where the ?Politically Correct? Democratic Party of liberals are leading America.
The problem and the cause.
Seek ye first the politics and political commentary or seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness.
Because Preachers have preached “from their heart” they have neglected to preach what they were commissioned to preach, the Word of God, people no longer go to church, they go to their government.
“...because it is not the responsibility of the Christian or preacher to convict and convince. The Christian?s calling is to preach the Word of God, for the power of God follows the Word of God, not the preacher. Christ alone draws all men to Himself.” John 12:32. (Lessons of the Holy Spirit -
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Monday, October 27, 2008
Abusive Power vs Political Liberty
Read Frodo in a World of Boromirs.
Writer Kurt Luchs’s key points are:
Another reason that centralized government social engineering simply doesn
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Liberal Cronyism
Read Democrats for Despotism.
There will be more, much more, of this sort of thing with San Francisco socialists unimpeded in Congress and the White House in the hands of a Weatherman acolyte. We’ve already had a glimpse of it with Senator Obama’s earmark funding for socialist groups in Illinois.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
The Coming Economic Class Warfare
As expressed by Congressman Barney Frank (motto: Rich people have too much money, and I intend to take it away from them), a Democrat/Socialist administration will hike taxes in the name of socialism’s social justice, while expanding the welfare-state and paying for it with inflationary expansion of the money supply.
In other words, the plan is to go back to the Great Society policies of President Lyndon Johnson that gave us simultaneously massive unemployment, soaring inflation, and destructively high tax rates.
See An Obamanomics Preview and then Obama and the Tax Tipping Point.
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