What Makes You an American?
Are you an American? If you are, can I ask you a question? In your way of thinking, what makes you an American? Is it where you were born? Is it because of where you presently live? Does a SSN make...
View ArticleWill We Be Ignorant or Free?
You have to choose: ignorant or free. “Anyone who desires to be ignorant and free, desires what never was and never will be.” Let me quote Thomas Jefferson again, “Anyone who desires to be ignorant...
View ArticleOn Conservatism
If you listen to talk radio, you get a steady stream of rhetoric promoting what is called conservatism. I hope in the next minute or so to get you thinking about whether being conservative is really...
View ArticleExecutive Overreach: False Premises of “I’LL DO IT MYSELF”:
In a clear case of executive overreach, Barack Obama has repeatedly threatened that if Congress doesn’t give him his way on immigration and bailouts and Obamacare, he’ll just do it himself. After...
View ArticleReality or Make-Believe? “Civil Rights” In Ferguson
If your home is like my home, you have a kitchen where you, among other things, prepare and maybe also eat your meals. Again, if you are like me, you, of course, stand and walk around on the floor of...
View ArticleLefty and Righty’s “Fake Fight”
Imagine yourself on a Saturday afternoon. You worked hard all week. This morning you got caught up on your household chores and your errands, and you sit down before the fireplace with a good book....
View ArticleThe Tyranny of Democracy
Does it drive you crazy when you hear politicians and talking heads refer to America as a “democracy”? If it does, I sympathize with you. And so do the founders. Here’s what James Madison, our fourth...
View Article"Blessings of Liberty?" Will I Despair or Will I Declare?
Recently while driving and listening to talk radio, a gentleman who called in to make a comment really touched my heart. I didn’t catch his name but from his remarks he seemed to be a very bright man...
View ArticleIs America Really “Outraged” into War?
We tend to think, or at least most of us tend to think, that when nations, including these united States, make public statements or take policy positions, these statements or positions are based on...
View ArticleThese Are the Times that Try Men's Souls
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right…” So wrote Thomas Paine in a pamphlet called Common Sense, which caused quite a stir back in 1775. It is...
View ArticleFDR’s Second “Bill of Rights”
This is, perhaps, the most remembered phrase attributed to the cartoon character Pogo in a syndicated cartoon strip of the same name. Pogo was the invention of cartoonist Walt Kelly and first...
View ArticleMulticulturalism: Good or Bad for America?
How is this multiculturalism working out for our culture? In 2008, during Obama’s first national campaign, Barack Obama is on record saying that America is not a Christian Nation. “Whatever we once...
View ArticleThe Larceny Is Larger than You Think!
Government larceny has been going on a long time. The Houston subpoena of sermons was only the latest outrage. Last week the mayor of Houston enraged many Christians when the city subpoenaed the...
View ArticleConstitution Not a Self-Enforcing Document
You and I must enforce the Constitution. The Constitution is not a self-enforcing document. Although the Constitution is the supreme law of our land and provides limits on the powers and authorities...
View ArticleNo Jesus, No Rights!
If there is no Jesus there are no rights. Imagine you were playing football against a very determined opponent and a new rule was introduced. According to this new rule of play, your team could...
View ArticleWhat Does the Republican Victory Mean?
A Republican victory will have meant something if we see real change. According to many pundits, the results of the November 4th elections, where Republicans gained at least seven seats in the US...
View ArticleLies about Obamacare: Are You Really Surprised?
Did you even believe the lies about Obamacare? Before last week, you had probably never heard of Jonathan Gruber. Gruber is the MIT economist who was once considered to be the intellectual architect...
View ArticleJonathan Gruber: Lies and Glue
The lies of Jonathan Gruber and his friends undermine the glue that holds society together. The recent revelations of statements by a professor from MIT named Jonathan Gruber, about how the Obama...
View ArticleGovernment Mandated Mind-Reading
A government that outlaws thoughts is claiming to be a mind-reading government. Can you read my mind? Well the federal government is now saying that it can read my mind – and your mind. And it is...
View ArticleAgenda 21 and a Republican Approach to Fair Housing?
I have been a Republican elected official in Anne Arundel County now for about eight months. This has been an exciting time and a learning experience. Some things that I had hoped to accomplish I am...
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