So, you oppose homosexual marriage? You’re a homophobe. Oppose sharia law? You’re an Islamophobe. See how this works?

Now, let’s reason together shall we? A phobia, of course is a fear. When a liberal labels you a homophobe, he is implying that you fear homosexuals. Really? Oddly enough, though, it’s liberals that do suffer from this condition. They are so scared that someone’s gonna call them a homophobe if they disagree with the homosexual agenda that they become what they’re attempting to avoid. They fear the label to the point of branding anyone who doesn’t fear the label with the label. Who’s scared? Newsflash: marriage is the union of a man and a woman. Stating that fact doesn’t make you a homophobe; refusing to state that fact due to fear of name calling does. Grow a pair, you homophobic liberal weenies.

Islamophobe. Same principle. Upholding the United States Constitution in the face of the threat of sharia law doesn’t imply a fear of Islam, it implies common sense. This is, in spite of the whiny claims otherwise, a nation rooted and founded on Judeo-Christian principles. These principles are found in that ever present thorn in liberals’ side; the Bible. Don’t like that? Tough titty. It is what it is. You are free to worship any way you please, or not at all; but put away your petulant denial of the heritage of this nation. The ideal of America is that all men are created equal, which finds it’s root in the Bible’s proclamation that God is no respecter of persons. Sharia law flies in the face of that; just as slavery and Jim Crow did.  Stand up to Islamic threats and liberals call you Islamophobic; but they’re the ones suffering from Islamophobia.  Don’t believe me? Watch them mock and ridicule Christians with impunity, but become deaf and dumb when it comes to Islam? Why? Because they know that Christians will not issue a fatwa in response to their insults. Grow a pair, you Islamophobic liberal weenies.

One thing I’ve noticed about liberals is that whatever they are, they accuse conservatives of being. They’ve been screeching about a conservative war on women while they whole-heartedly condone the deaths of millions of young girls through the atrocity of abortion. They accuse conservatives of racism while whole-heartedly condoning the oppression of black Americans through social welfare programs that do nothing but promote an atmosphere of dependency that unproportionally targets the black community. They accuse conservatives of granting tax breaks for the rich at the expense of the poor while they continually promote policies that hamper the production of affordable energy; the one thing that, more than anything else, will help the poor in this nation rise above their poverty. They accuse people of faith of seeking to impose a theocracy while simultaneously trying to force the American people to submit to a cultish form of Gaia worship with their environmental regulations, at gunpoint by an out of control EPA.

Hypocrites; the whole lot of them.

We’ve all heard liberals quote this verse when they begin to try to justify government sanctioned theft of your hard earned money. They are quick to use the Son of God if they feel He will advance their socialist agenda. They attempt to wrap themselves in moral superiority by the twisting of Scripture to satisfy their worldview. What they don’t do, and never will do, is quantify exactly what the things of Caesar are.

In the United States of America, the things of “Caesar” are enumerated in the Constitution. It tells us exactly what the powers and responsibilities of “Caesar” are. “Caesar” is established in three branches of government: the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judiciary.

The Legislative body, the Congress, is granted specific duties:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;–And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof

The Executive branch, the President, is also granted specific duties:

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

Likewise, the Judiciary is granted specific duties:

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;–to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;–to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;–to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;–to Controversies between two or more States;– between a State and Citizens of another State,–between Citizens of different States,–between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.

The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.

These are the things that are “Caesar’s”. 

When Caesar begins doing things he isn’t constitutionally authorized to do, we have a problem. When Caesar starts social programs for the poor and “for the children” (the same Caesar that condones abortion on demand) and begins to steal your hard earned money, we have a problem. Caesar promotes angst among the populace. When Caesar begins doing things he isn’t constitutionally authorized to do we end up with money we don’t have being “invested” in bankrupt solar panel companies that have been bankrupted by morally bankrupt people. When Caesar begins doing things he isn’t constitutionally authorized to do, we lose our freedom. Period. Caesar begins to rule our lives with fists of iron. He begins to involve himself in every little aspect of our lives with onerous regulations and demands. He begins to impose on us his warped sense of morality, in which the people are oppressed for the good of the collective, and the state becomes a god.

Caesar has no business in business. He has no business in health care. He has no business in your refrigerator. He has no business in the rearing of your children. He has no business in the education of your children. He has no business under the hood of your automobile.  He has no business in your retirement. He has no business in your mortgage. He has no business interfering with energy production. He has no business interfering with contract agreements. He has no business mandating the income you can earn. He has no business mandating what you can do with your money. He has no business telling you how much water your toilet can use. He has no business monitoring your thermostat. He has no business telling you how high a hand rail should be. He has no business monitoring your salt intake. He has no business bailing out bankrupt companies. He has no business picking winners and losers. He has no business promoting class warfare. He has no business doing anything other than that which he is constitutionally granted the responsibility to do, period.

…and render unto God the things which are God’s.

Faith. Hope. Charity.  Caesar is good at promoting himself as the source of hope, the object of faith, and the means of charity, but he isn’t. These are the things of God, and Caesar is out of his element here. When a government promotes itself as an alternative to God, and begins to usurp the place of God, it is in trouble. 

You shall have no other gods before Me; and yet Caesar demands it be so.

You shall not steal; and yet Caesar steals from some to give to others with no constitutional authority to do so.

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house……….or anything that belongs to your neighbor; yet Caesar promotes it and enforces it by threat of force.

I am (Yahweh), that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.–Isaiah 42:8

Caesar has placed himself in a dangerous predicament. 

Our problem is not the we haven’t rendered unto Caesar the things of Caesar, it’s that Caesar has, by force, rendered unto himself that which doesn’t belong to him. It’s high time freedom loving Americans once again render unto Caesar only that to which Caesar is entitled, and nothing more.

Are you ready? It’s go time.

Johnny Mac

Coming to you from a small town in rural Georgia, JohnnyMac likes to call himself a constitutionalist. He finds himself disillusioned by both the Democratic and Republican parties, and advocates for simple Constitutional government.

Many supporters of Ron Paul are not libertarians in the Libertarian Party sense, but rather Republicans who wish to see a return (by both party and the country) to a truly Constitutional limited government.  Were they given a candidate who shared that goal, they would run to the polls in excitement the way New England liberal Republicans like Chris Christie undoubtedly will for Romney.  That’s not what those voters were given — and now we run the risk of our most Constitutionally-dedicated demographic staying home on election night.  We can’t afford to let that happen.

With Ron Paul not seeking a 3rd Party run nor another term in Congress, his newest, more mainstream supporters may be hesitant to shift to Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson.  Like Congressman Paul, he served with an (R) behind his name because the Republicans are at least occasionally open to those opposing big government.  He is a true big-L Libertarian in the sense that he wants to decriminalize/legalize drugs nationally – and not simply so it can be handled on the state level as Congressman Paul and his son Senator Rand Paul demand, favors national same sex marriage rights, and is pro-choice on abortion.  Being pro-life and libertarian are not mutually exclusive, (nor, as I’ve written before, are being conservative and libertarian mutually exclusive) but it does offer another contrast between Gary Johnson and Ron Paul as to why some of Paul’s voters might be uncomfortable jumping third party to vote for Johnson.

If the GOP’s goal is to keep former Ron Paul’s voters from staying home now that he won’t be on the ticket, it is the shared responsibility of Tea Party groups and other pro-liberty activists to rally behind Johnson to ensure that no lovers of liberty stay home.  Tea Party Nation’s leader, Judson Phillips, seemed like he might be open to accepting that responsibility when he told the Daily Caller:

 “While that number will change as we get closer to the election, Romney has a  huge problem with the conservative base of the GOP,” Phillips said. “He had  better do something about that ASAP or he won’t have to worry about that moving to the middle nonsense. Without the GOP base, he is a lost cause.”

“Most of us,” he added, “are focusing on Senate and House races now.”

Indeed, the biggest reason we can’t afford potential 3rd Party voters to sit out is that it is the House and Senate races which will be as crucial to win as the White House.  The reason President Precedent’s budget failed without a single yes vote in the Senate while Paul Ryan’s passed in the House down party lines is because of the success we made in the midterm election to gain seats.  Whether it’s to seat a Congress willing and capable of reigning in Obama’s unconstitutional tyranny or one with enough solid liberty-loving Representatives and Senators to push Romney’s Presidency more toward Reagan’s and away from Dubya’s, the Executive branch is not and should not be the primary focus for the election.

For as simple as it would seemingly be to get people pumped up to vote for a 3rd Party candidate, suggesting that people make a protest vote rather than vote for the nominee is perhaps giving up on the opportunity to gain the trifecta of power that was handed to the Democrats in 2008.  If the GOP is unsatisfied with picking up wins in the House and Senate, all Romney has to do to is win over the voters who would otherwise stay home or vote 3rd Party — and for that he needs to pick a libertarian for his Vice President and turn 3rd Party voters into Republican voters.

Some conservatives, scorned by the failure of the McCain/Palin campaign, feel that Romney should not repeat McCain’s mistake of shunning his appeal to more moderate voters.  In spite of liberal claims that Sarah Palin cost McCain the election, polls show that she made a huge impact on support for the campaign, and that it was McCain’s sameness with Obama and votes for the bailouts that spurred his loss.  Though unsuccessful in the ultimate goal, Palin was a great choice by McCain, and posed so much of a threat to the establishment of the left that they’re still making movies and premium-network TV shows trying to attack her image.

The GOP needs to find Romney a pick who can counter his New England-style Republican-lite with a VP big on liberty and the Constitution, and decidedly not big on big government.   If his campaign chooses wisely, Romney could see a landslide victory of Reagan-esque proportions.

Who could it be?  It would need to be someone libertarian enough to keep Ron Paul supporters, Constitutionalists, and conservative-libertarians voting for Romney over the Libertarian Party nominee, Gary Johnson.  It must be someone who understands that our deficit crisis is but one of many that threatens the sovereignty of our Republic.  At the same time, it would have to be someone who has a proven record on fighting for the Constitution at all opportunities, someone who is the kind of conservative embodied in Ronald Reagan’s quote:

 I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

The top of the Republican ticket is already going to be a compromise in the most unpleasant of ways; if the GOP’s goal is to make voters — especially libertarian voters — forget their disappointment over the nominee, it’s just as important who the Vice Presidential candidate not be as it is who they are.

For as much as the right seems to adore Allen West, his record since entering Congress is not half as impressive as he was as a candidate.  He ran primarily on the promise to repeal ObamaCare and return America to the Constitutional republic that he fought to protect.  However, not only did he vote against House bills defunding ObamaCare piece by piece, he also voted for the debt ceiling increase (in spite of pledges not to do so unless significant cuts were made in tandem) — then had the audacity to call the Tea Party schizophrenic for not embracing his broken promises.  Similarly, any promise he initially showed of being a force for liberty in Congress was obliterated by his voting record.  Initially he claimed that the Patriot Act was an unconstitutional and unnecessary violation of our rights and voted against partial renewal; yet in a move that can only be described as proving himself to be the schizophrenic, he unapolagetically voted in favor of extending other provisions.

In case that weren’t enough reason to be embarassed at having enthusiastically cheered him on during his campaign, he also voted in favor of NDAA before straight-up lying about whether or not the bill allowed for indefinite detention of American citizens (it does) by quoting the bill summary rather than the actual text what was voted on.  For conservatives and libertarians who would otherwise stay home or vote third party over Romney, this is not the type of man who would raise excitement about voting for the Republican ticket.

Marco Rubio’s Latino charms are undeniable — though it seems that there’s nothing more to the hype than that.  Hopefully his repeated promises that he will not be the VP pick turn out to be true, because I cannot imagine a more empty suit than a junior senator whose only trademark legislation is his sponsorship of the internet censorship bill SOPA.  He can’t even take credit for that.  When the going got tough and outrage spread, he backed out.  Statism is bad enough, cowardice is even worse.  There’s also the nasty possibility that he is Constitutionally ineligable to serve.

While he too falls short, Paul Ryan is at least deserving of the buzz.  His eagerness to draft alternatives to the administration’s bills is impressive, whether they address healthcare reform or the budget.  His FY2013 budget easily passed the House shortly after Obama’s was unanimously voted down, proving Ryan capable of the compromise so often begged for on both sides of the aisle.  But is that a good thing?  Not if compromise means voting yes on TARP and bailouts – the same RINO move that sealed McCain’s 2008 loss.

The reason so many libertarians claim that the two party system is merely two sides of the same coin is that compromise and bipartisanship is exactly what has allowed America to sink so low.  The only silver lining in a flip-flopper like Romney is that he is not a shameless ideologue in the vein of Obama and his ilk, he is the Republican version of Clinton — a born politician, willing to bend to pressure as a shameless populist.  This can work to the GOP’s favor if his Vice President is someone whose stubborn demands for a strict Constitutional government can keep him in line and shame his party into acknowledging its many flaws.  Though I unabashedly look for any flaw in those the Republican party seeks to idolize, there is one man who has not only kept his promises and met expectations, but repeatedly exceeded them.

Rand Paul has already accomplished more in the year since his swearing-in than most Senators achieve in a lifetime.  He’s earned his libertarian street cred by filibustering renewal of the Patriot Act, refusing to allow a vote on the national criminalization of synthetic marijuana on the basis that it encroached upon the 10th Amendment right of the states to decide such matters, refusing to let Iran sanctions pass via an unaccountable unanimous consent (non-)vote, opposing foreign aid to all nations even when it meant being falsely labeled an anti-Semite, questioning whether interference in the Libyan conflict would put dangerous enemies of Israel in power, and repeatedly  embarrassing alphabet agency bureaucrats in Senatorial hearings.

All the while, he’s also displayed the kind of principles that traditional conservatives embody.  His Life at Conception Act would repeal Roe v. Wade without need for a Constitutional amendment or SCOTUS reversal, he’s fought to end the UN’s global gun grab, and broke step with his father on the threat Islam poses by opposing the Ground Zero mosque and — while he opposes roundabout acts of war against Iran without any official declaration thereof — he has to always supported Israel’s right to self defense and vowed to oppose those who seek to harm her.

His crossover appeal doesn’t stop there.  He’s also drafted a budget that puts Paul Ryan’s to shame.  For the second time in the 14 months Rand Paul has been a Senator, he introduced a budget that blows all others out of the water.  His budget for FY2013 was officially endorsed by the FreedomWorks Foundation for the plan’s un-sacrificing fiscal conservatism and balanced approach to cuts.

Rand Paul has it all.  Romney’s handlers should snag Rand Paul up as his running mate, and while the GOP establishment campaigns with gusto delighting that they get to do so with their candidate of choice the Republicans wouldn’t have to hope that liberty-lovers would turn out for Gary Johnson and vote for their Congressional and Senatorial candidates while in the booth.  They’d have sufficient bait to lure voters out for the GOP ticket the way the traditional right-wing base turned out for Sarah Palin.

Whether Romney wisely picks a libertarian-friendly Vice President, or chooses poorly and forces the Tea Party to back Gary Johnson’s Libertarian Party run, the outcome either way is clear: the Republicans ignore potential 3rd party voters at their own peril.

A warrior for the middle class? Really Mr. President? You are a liar. If you were a warrior for the middle class, you’d actually fight on behalf of the middle class. Instead you fight for your cronies of like-minded socialist experimentation. 

If you were a warrior for the middle class, Mr. President, you’d fight tooth and nail for the one thing that would benefit the middle class and the poor in this nation more than anything else. That one thing is abundant, affordable energy. Even the poorest of Americans need food and energy, but you don’t really seem to give a fig about that. If you did, you wouldn’t keep imposing moratoriums on offshore drilling. You can’t limit domestic energy production and expect it to not directly harm poor and middle class Americans.  Mr. President, your own energy secretary, Steven Chu, has let the cat out of the bag on fuel prices.  Everything we buy, from the food we eat to the shoes on our feet are delivered to us using diesel fuel. The higher the cost of diesel fuel, the higher the cost of  the goods needed by poor and middle class Americans.  

A warrior for the middle class would also pursue affordable electricity. Yet, from you, this is what we get concerning power generation. You want to pursue policies that will necessarily skyrocket the cost of electricity, which is needed by the poor and middle class in America. You’ve also emphasized the bankrupting of energy companies.  These are not the ideals of a warrior for the middle class.

Mr. President, you have called for a reduction of corporate tax rates while closing “loopholes”; in essence, simply rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. If you were a warrior for the middle class, you’d propose something radical. If you really wanted to help the poor and middle class in America, you’d propose eliminating corporate taxes altogether. Corporations do not pay income taxes anyway; they factor that cost into the goods and services they provide. Who ends up paying those corporate tax rates? The middle class does. Imagine how much the poor and middle class in America would benefit if the price of everything was lower simply due to elimination of hidden corporate income taxes factored into the price of every product. More buying power from every dollar means more spending, more spending means more demand, more demand means more need to meet the demand, more need to meet the demand means more jobs, more jobs means more consumers, more consumers means even more demand. Mr. President, this isn’t rocket science; this is common sense.

If you were a warrior for the middle class, you wouldn’t be subjecting the children of the middle class to a future of uncertainty and unsustainable debt. Mr. President, the current national debt stands at $15,621,445,734,132. That’s a lot of debt, Mr. President. Just how large a number are we talking here? Well, let’s think of it in the context of time and see if our brains can wrap around it. How long a period of time is 15,621,445,734,132 seconds? Well, there are 31,536,000 seconds in a year (rounded to an even 365 days), so a simple act of division is needed. 15,621,445,734,132 divided by 31, 536,000 is equal to 495,352 years.  Mr. President, do you really think our children deserve this? Granted, you have only overseen a third of this debt accumulation, but come on.

Mr. President, don’t pee on our legs and tell us it’s raining. You, sir, are not a warrior for the middle class at all. You are a warrior for failed liberal socialist ideals. Your hope is despair, and your change is catastrophe. 

      -A national health service
     -Minimum wage laws
     -A federal securities commission
     -Farm relief
     -An inheritance tax
     -A proposed constitutional amendment allowing for an income tax

The Progressive Party helped to split the Republican vote in 1912, allowing for the election of Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

     -The Federal Reserve Act
     -The Federal Trade Commission Act
     -The Federal Farm Loan Act
     

The sixteenth amendment to the Constitution was also ratified, implementing a Federal income tax.  Compare the accomplishments of Wilson with the party platform of Roosevelt, it’s almost identical.

According to the Mayo Clinic, most people infected with HIV experience an episode of flu-like symptoms within a month or two of contraction.  This is something that is easily overlooked by the patient as a simple cold or flu case.  No worries. Unfortunately, the viral load (amount of virus in the bloodstream) is very high at this time, making transmission of the virus easy and efficient. 

In 1912, America didn’t have anything but a few sniffles.  No big deal, but the virus was in the bloodstream, replicating, quietly assaulting the immune system of the nation, and waiting.

America’s illness went into a decade of remission from 1920-1929 under the presidencies of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge.  But the invisible beast began it’s covert attack in earnest once again with the election of Herbert Hoover, and continued at breakneck speed through the administration of Franklin Roosevelt, cousin of the initial source of infection.

After the stock market crash of 1929, and 2 years of misery under Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt was elected President of the United States.   Roosevelt, with the aid of a yes man Congress began to enact his New Deal.  Under the first New Deal massive amounts of new legislation were signed into law, including:

     -FDIC
     -The Federal Emergency Relief Agency
     -The Civilian Conservation Corps
     -The Agricultural Adjustment Administration
     -The National Industrial Recovery Act (which the Supreme Court found unconstitutional)
     -The Securities and Exchange Commission
     -The Tennessee Valley Authority

Roosevelt also issued Executive Order 6102 which forced all privately held gold to be sold to the U.S. Treasury.

After the 1934 midterm elections, the virus rampaged more with the inception of the second New Deal which included:

      -The Works Progress Administration
     -The Social Security Act
     -The National Labor Relations Act
     
Without treatment, HIV usually progresses to AIDS in about ten years.  With America, it has taken about 10 decades, but we are here.  A strong, vibrant nation needs a strong immune system to stay that way:
     
     -A strong economy
     -A strong military
     -A strong work ethic
     -A good and moral populace

America once had these things, but they’ve been decimated by an infection that has attacked the heart of the nation.

America’s economy is a shambles.  It has been attacked unmercifully by the mentality that businesses are just a feeding trough for government largess.  All of those social programs enacted over the last century come with a hefty price tag, and that bill is laid on the backs of the entrepreneur and working taxpayer.  Add to that the sheer volume of government interference and regulation into every aspect of the businessman’s business, and it’s a recipe for economic lethargy at best, and collapse at worst.

America’s military is the most advanced fighting force the world has ever known, but it is under assault as well.  The military is spread thinner and thinner, with ongoing wars in the Middle East that no one seems to want to win.  The military also suffers from the depression of the economy.

America’s work ethic has died.  When half a population expects to be sustained by the other half, and the other half comes to the realization that they don’t enjoy the fruits of their labors anymore, we have problems; big problems.  Trouble is on the horizon.

The morality of America is in decline.  The faith of those who founded this nation and the Rock upon which they built that foundation is under constant assault.  It has been under quiet attack for some time, but now the animosity is blatant.  The underpinnings of this great nation are being sheared.

America now has full-blown AIDS, and into that condition steps Barack Obama.

Barack Obama is not the root cause of America’s problems, he is pneumonia.  He has attacked the lungs of an America whose immune system has been decimated by 100 years of progressive HIV.  America’s ability to breath is being choked off by Obama’s progressive socialist policies:

     -Obamacare
     -The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
     -The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

In addition, Obama is choking off energy production by

      -Placing a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
     -Enacting crippling regulations on coal-fired power plants
     -Rejecting the Keystone pipeline
     -Continuing to ban drilling in ANWR
     -Opposing fracking

Pneumonia can become the cause of death for the AIDS patient because the body’s ability to fight has been decimated.  America is an AIDS patient under the assault of pneumonia.  Does she have enough left in her to fight it off? I don’t know, but I sincerely hope so.

With the exception of a comment about the shooting victim resembling his son if he had one, Obama has so far stayed clear of the obvious mistake of taking sides on the issue publically like he did during the Cambridge Police/Gates fiasco.  Obama was left with a considerable amount of egg on his face after his very un-presidential comments on that issue.  His minions in the Congressional Black Caucus and the lame stream media however have picked up the slack and gone a bit overboard drum beating and publicly lynching the shooter with the desired results.  The black community is outraged and rallies have been held all over the country in the past few days to demand justice, or rather to bypass justice and move forward with punishment of the shooter George Zimmerman.  The New Black Panther Party or Eric Holder’s personal militia as I like to call them, even went so far as to offer a $10,000 bounty for Zimmerman, a man not wanted or charged with any crime.  The irony is that the leader of the Black Panthers that offered that reward was arrested a few days ago on an unrelated weapons charge and his bail was set at $10,000.

The rhetoric in the reporting on this tragedy has been predictable, the media selected a photo of Martin from five years ago when he was an innocent looking 12 year old, instead of more recent photos.   And they searched for and found a mug shot of Zimmerman from seven years ago after he was arrested in a case where the charges were all dropped, instead of the readily available picture of him taken recently in a suit and tie.  They continually use the term “unarmed victim” to describe Martin while using terms like “overzealous”, “concealed handgun carrying” and “vigilante” to describe the shooter.  And of course they shy away from reporting any actual facts about the case, and facts are stubborn and inconvenient things when you have an agenda to promote.   I am reminded of a great line from the movie “The Green Berets”.   “Well, that’s newspapers for ya, you can fill volumes with what you don’t read in them”.  

Let’s examine a few facts that the howlers in the black community and the media would like to ignore.

1. The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that police sources say Martin was the aggressor on Feb. 26, knocking Zimmerman to the ground with a single punch and then climbing on top of the 28-year-old neighborhood watch captain and slamming the back of his head into the ground. Police say this account, given by Zimmerman, is supported by eyewitnesses, according to the Sentinel’s report.
2. According to witnesses, Trayvon and another man were wandering around in the gated community (in which they did not live by the way) with hoodie’s on looking suspicious.
3. Police say Zimmerman was bleeding from the nose, had a fat lip and confirm that the back of his head was cut. He received first aid at the scene but refused to go to the hospital and received medical treatment the following day, according to the Sentinel’s sources.
4. Martin was suspended from school during the incident for being in possession of drug paraphernalia and had been suspended three times.  Once for spraying graffiti on the school.  That time he was found with a large flat blade screwdriver (the type used to force door jambs) and a bag full of women’s jewelry.
5. Zimmerman was heading to the grocery store when he spotted Martin and called police to report a black youth acting suspiciously.  He was not on patrol with his neighborhood watch group, he was just leaving his home.
6. Zimmerman told police he he’d lost sight of Martin and was heading back to his car when the youth suddenly stepped into his path. According to the Sentinel, Martin asked Zimmerman if he had a problem. Zimmerman said no and reached for his cellphone. Martin then said something like, “Well, you do now” and punched him, according to the Sentinel’s sources.

Now I don’t know about you, but if I have a weapon and some 6’2” black kid is on top of me smashing my head into a concrete sidewalk, I would not only have shot him, I would have emptied my clip into him.

So what we have now are rallies all across the nation and what is being billed as a “Million Hoodie March to demand action and the arrest of George Zimmerman even though he apparently committed no crime.  I am sure this issue will be kept on life support regardless of the facts until November in order for despicable politicians and the re-elect Hope and Change team to capitalize on the killing.  I guess Obama’s minions finally got him his own tea party.

UPDATE:  A photo was originally posted on this piece of Trayvon Martin that was not the same boy that was killed.  It was from another Trayvon Martin’s Facebook page.  My apologies for the error.

Johnny Alamo

I began to notice the stalking of my person back in the 70’s.  This stalker was prying into my personal information in a way that could only be construed as illegal.  He knows where I live, and where I work.  He demands that my boss relinquish personal information about me and even that my employer send a portion of my wages to him.  He extorts this money at gunpoint and gets away with it.

He knows what kind of vehicle I drive, where I bought it, and what county it is in.  He has demanded that I contribute money to car companies that only employ workers that he approves of and build cars that nobody wants to buy.  He has also forced me to give money to failed financial institutions to prop them up for making bad business decisions that he has forced them to make.  And then he strong arms me to give money to people that won’t work for a living so that they can have the same or a better level of comfort in life than I have.

He knows what weapons I purchase for protection, where I buy them from and is attempting to prevent me from buying more.  He also tells me which weapons I can buy and which ones I can’t.  At the same time he compels me to buy weapons for drug cartels in Mexico so they can kill our border agents with them.

He knows if I have health insurance or not and can make me purchase it even if I don’t want to.  He is attempting to gain access to all my medical records as well.  He will also determine what health care procedures I can have and which ones I can’t.  And if I get too old he will determine that I am not worth many life saving procedures any longer.

He increasingly knows my whereabouts at all times and knows where I travel to and when.  He also has sexually accosted me in airports and invaded my privacy in numerous ways when I travel.  He even has machines that will take nude photographs of me and does not allow me to see them or know what he does with them.

This stalker even is trying to tell me what I can feed my family and myself.  He forces the food establishments that I frequent and companies that I purchase packaged food products from to limit my choices to what he deems healthy and suitable for my ingestion.

If I buy a piece of land, he tells me what I can and can’t do with it, if I start a business he tells me what I can and can’t sell and even tells me what I can charge for it.  If I want to move my business to another state that is more friendly to the environment we operate in , he tells me I can’t.  If I hire employees he tells me how much they will make, what benefits I will provide and that I can’t fire them if I want to.

In short, this stalker has intruded into every aspect of my life in one way or another.  In fact, I could charge him of many more crimes than stalking.  So how could any court of public opinion condemn me for protecting myself from this monster?  If I could only find a law enforcement agency or court to file a complaint with that this stalker does not already control his money, influence and intimidation like Don Corleone.  I could tell them where to find him…………

I’m constantly amazed that modern Democrats have evolved beyond living in caves.  I mean what other animal on this planet can disregard all common sense and logic and survive?  Scientists have recently discovered that even giant sea slugs that do not possess a brain as such can learn from past experiences.  That puts them a leg up over the current crop of liberals in this country.   I used to subscribe to the adage that liberalism was a mental disorder, but even Rainman would have a hard time buying into the standard mantra of the present day Democratic Party. In order to believe that Democrats have the answer today, you would have to believe:

That you can grow the entitlement class beyond the taxpayer class and never hit critical mass where there is no money left.

That using the military to oust a murderous thug dictator in 2003 was criminal, and using the military to oust a murderous thug dictator in 2011 was noble.

That the best way to grow the wealth of the private sector is to take all the money out of it.

That the best way to make us energy independent is to block any effort to produce more petrocarbons in this country.

That the best way to create jobs is to increase taxes and regulations on the job creators.

That the best way to stop arms from this country from getting into the hands of the drug cartels in Mexico is to provide arms to the drug cartels in Mexico.

That all the ills of the economy are due to the fat cat banks and other corporations, and the best way to deal with that is to provide billions in bailouts to the fat cat banks and other corporations.

That more unemployment checks create more jobs.

That investigating the background of George W Bush to the point that you have color photographs of his colon is proper vetting of the Chief Executive, but asking for Barack Hussein Obama’s college records or for information on his association with a known terrorist is racist.

That somehow making firearms illegal will prevent criminals from using them.

That the life of a murderer on death row is sacred, but an unborn baby’s is not.

That the best way to overcome our racist past is to enforce racist affirmative action policies.

That people who are too ignorant to get a free state issued I.D. card are smart enough to vote.

That the best way to overcome our current spending crisis is to spend more money.

That the federal government with no competition can provide a better health care product than the private sector with competition can.

That a grandma in a wheelchair is a bigger potential threat on an airplane than a guy with a name that takes phlegm to pronounce.

That we need to be sensitive to the feelings of people that subscribe to a religion that teaches that we all should submit to their version of righteousness or face beheading, but should demean and diminish those that believe in the religion that teaches we should love and embrace our neighbors no matter what religion they belong to.

That poll watchers who want to ensure that election laws are observed and the vote is without fraud are intimidating voters, and black radicals with clubs in front of a polling place are not.

That ice ages and the warming periods in between were not caused by man’s influence on the earth but a half degree rise in average temperatures over 30 years is.

That using the equivalent of two gallons of fossil fuel to produce one gallon of ethanol makes sense because it is “renewable.”

That a picture of a female guard in Abu Ghraib pointing at the genitals of a terrorist and laughing is deplorable but those same goofballs setting off an IED and killing our troops are just freedom fighters.

That a 70 year old woman with a Gadsden flag is a radical but an OWS protestor that defecates on a police car and breaks windows of businesses is a frustrated citizen.

That in spite of the fact that one third of the world is hungry it makes more sense to use food for fuel than drilling for a fuel source that nobody can eat.

The simple fact is that Democrats are the Dodo birds of the human race.  The Dodo was discovered by Portuguese explorers in the late 1500′s.  The name comes from the Portuguese word “Doudo” which means simpleton.  They called this bird a simpleton because in their minds it lacked any common sense whatsoever.  That lack of common sense or survival instinct eventually led to its demise as a species.

Wait a minute, that’s not really fair of me, I shouldn’t equate Democrats to a simple minded flightless bird that was too stupid to run from predators.  The Dodo had a job foraging for food.

Originally Published at American Thinker

Republicans  like to villainize libertarians for infiltrating their party — but refuse to  acknowledge that being libertarian and being Republican are not mutually  exclusive.  I wish someone had told me, but apparently all self-identified  libertarians are the same caricature of a Ron Paul supporter who refuses to  debate and instead just shouts “Neo-con!  Neo-con!” at everyone with whom  he disagrees.

I’m  not what you’d call a “Ron Paul libertarian”; I don’t think he’s the end-all,  be-all personification of what a libertarian is or what libertarians must  believe to fit the title.  Love him or hate him — which seem to be the  only two options — I’d like to believe  that everyone on the right can admit that Ron Paul has brought the mainstream of  the far right a little closer to libertarian beliefs.  Without Ron Paul,  you wouldn’t have candidates like Rick Perry and Rick Santorum pushing for  trillions of dollars in spending cuts,  nor would they be promising to outright eliminate regulatory  agencies.

When  I “came out” as a black conservative, I had to explain ad nauseam how the two  were not mutually exclusive.  I’m finding myself having to make the same  point over and over with regards to libertarianism — that the most vocal  members of a given group do not speak for the whole.  There is as much  diversity of thought between fellow libertarians as there is in either the  Democrat or the Republican Party.  While I self-identify as a conservative  libertarian, many people react to that label as though I cannot be both  simultaneously.

Being  a conservative libertarian isn’t a contradiction of terms; it’s actually a  description of me as a whole more than just my political beliefs.  I am  conservative in my values system, libertarian in the belief that truly  constitutional government should be small and have a limited impact on one’s  life.  There’s nothing ideologically impure in that.

Pundits  like Alfonzo Rachel are dead-on when it comes to explaining why the Democratic  stronghold on the black community is both destructive and ironic.  Zo’s  Angry Black Man schtick is great, and it explains the benefits of capitalism and  curse of the welfare state in a way that transcends racial politics.  But  it’s his awesomeness in that regard that makes it all the more disappointing  when he stoops to ridiculous claims, including that  libertarians are inviting bigger government.

Aside  from the queer suggestion that opposing something too adamantly invites more of  it (somehow I can’t picture him making that same argument about pro-lifers  inviting more abortion), Zo’s whole argument is based on the straw-man  caricature of a libertarian that he feels more comfortable taking down.   Given that Alfonzo Rachel spends so much of his time explaining his  self-identity as both a conservative and a black man, it’s ironic that he’s so  quick to alienate and mischaracterize a group that, by and large, agrees with  him.

A  lot of times, the only difference between a conservative and a libertarian is  the “why.”  As a libertarian, I want Roe v. Wade overturned in  part because the basis of the judiciary’s ruling was in regard to the safety of  abortion (which holds no bearing on the constitutionality of it) and also  because abortion infringes upon the rights of others in the most obscene of  ways: infringing upon their right to life.  Many conservatives’ argument  against abortion is that it is morally abhorrent and a sin against human life  and against our Creator.  I agree on that, but I don’t agree with Perry or  Santorum on an all-out federal ban on abortion.

Personally,  I believe that abortion being nationally unconstitutional and the resulting de  facto illegality would — and should — provide states with the opportunity to  draw the line on when the infringement upon the life of the unborn could be  justified by any possible harm to the mother.  Last month, a pregnant teen  refused cancer treatment so that her unborn baby would have a chance at being  born.  She ended up giving her life for her child in the most literal of  ways.  Her choice was a noble one, but I believe that women who find  themselves in that position should not be denied the choice to save their own  life.

That  is one example of where, in essence, conservative values and the principles of  libertarianism have a great deal of overlap — and the nuances involved in that  overlap is where you’d find conservative libertarians like me and Republicans  such as Barry Goldwater and Rand Paul.

Goldwater  took a stand against his party in the name of libertarian constitutionalism  several times.  He demanded that we “get the U.S. out of the U.N.” and  voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act after a lifetime of supporting the Civil Rights movement because he found the  bill’s wording unconstitutional.  (Rand Paul would later take heat from  both left and right after he admitted that he likely would have done the  same.)

Goldwater’s  willingness to be, for lack of a better phrase, “wrong for the right reasons”  earned him an endorsement from Ayn Rand — who, in spite of her legacy of being  the matriarch of modern libertarianism, rejected the Libertarian Party for many  of the same reasons I do.  Among them, there is the consideration that many  of the party’s platforms focus on protecting a singular view of  what choices freedom should allow, rather than protecting the individual  liberty of being able to decide that for oneself.

With  DHS guidelines on terrorism being ever-expanded to cover patriots instead of  jihadists, more Americans than ever are recognizing that traditional values  cannot exist without the liberty to protect those values.  I can’t  speak for all other libertarians, because they are as ideologically diverse as  the right wing itself is.  What I can do, however, is try to get  conservatives to realize that we’re not infiltrating the GOP.  In a way,  simply by virtue of being libertarian, we are proving ourselves more  conservative than the Republican Party.

Originally published at American Thinker

Upon first hearing of the incident my initial reaction was “meh, big whoop”.  I personally thought it was a bit crude but couldn’t really criticize those brave young troops who are daily engaging an enemy with no sense of honor or humanity.  There is no doubt in my mind that the subhuman filth that were assuming room temperature in the video would have done much worse to our dead as they have shown repeatedly in the past.  So I was a bit surprised at first to hear criticism of our servicemen from the right side of the aisle.  After hearing the critics explain their positions I better understand where they are coming from.  Their concerns are that “we are better than that” and that the left and the bad guys will automatically point to this episode as further proof that we are the barbaric baby killers they claim we are.  And of course that it will serve as a recruitment tool for the Taliban and al-Qaeda and further outrage the “Arab Street”.

In my honest opinion, it really doesn’t matter.  The liberals don’t need any more proof to make up their minds that our military is made up of a bunch of uneducated Hitler Youth.   And the “Arab Street” is already 100% saturated in unhinged psycho self-righteous outrage anyway so this neither adds to nor subtracts from their hysteria.  In regards to the “we are better than that” argument, yes, perhaps we are.  However, the frustration of the young men and women of our military that have worked diligently over the past decade to provide a better life and path for the people of this region is understandable. The fact is that they are still attacked and maimed– or worse– tortured and killed by an un-uniformed, un-civilized barbaric enemy that continues to receive widespread public support in spite of all the humanitarian efforts we have made.  Peeing on corpses doesn’t “lower ourselves to their level” any more than burning Qurans would have.

Yet another side of the argument is that “this is war”.  The meaning I assume is that in a situation where hot steel is hurtling through the air constantly threatening to rip your body to shreds and possibly visiting sudden death upon you at any minute, perhaps a little well placed urine is a pretty minor thing in the big picture.  While it is hard to argue with that position, the problem is this is not a war.  From a legal standpoint it never has been.  Congress has never declared war and we have not ever stated that we are at war with a country and its people.  Our mission, as described, is to go out and round up and kill off those fanatics that would do us harm around the world.  An argument could be made that we should have declared war and waged a “total war” on the persons and the countries that harbor and support them.  But the fact remains that we never did that.  Now as far as the average Mark the Marine out there goes, he does not struggle with the concept of whether or not we are formally at war.  From his perspective there are people out there trying to kill him in the most hideous ways.  I cannot doubt that he really does not care what the status of the conflict is.

Bottom line, I can’t condemn these servicemen for their actions.  In the heat of combat with buddies killed and wounded, unfair and uncivilized tactics being used by the enemy and a confused message from our political leaders about the mission, anything they do to relieve some steam like this is no big deal.  Now there is some question whether or not any real urination took place.  A friend of mine sent me the following video and for the life of me I cannot “see the pee”.  (warning graphic content)  The only criticism that could possibly be leveled is that, just like at Abu Ghraib, the idea to bring a camera to the party was not very bright, and for that little indiscretion, unfortunately, they will be court-martialed and quite possibly face jail time.

(video provided by Darwin Teague)