tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5185235194974452892012-02-03T14:40:11.550-05:00Welcome to my home. It's not much, but I was raised by frugal parents who taught me to read and think and live by traditional means. Here is the non-medical perspective of a small town respiratory therapist. My goal here is to create an arena for intelligent political, historical & philosophical discussion.Rick Freahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01132949384071592216noreply@blogger.comBlogger5691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518523519497445289.post-10799161340583803262012-02-03T12:16:00.002-05:002012-02-03T13:16:29.770-05:00

Mitt Romney has offered me a nice segue to the next topic I wanted to pursue on this blog:  the economy.  Now I know most people think the economy is BORING, yet I think that's half the problem.  Because it's boring most of us are ignorant and easily thwarted toward myths of how to get the economy rolling.  Surely I won't be able to make economics fun, yet I can make it EASY. When it comes to

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I wrote a series of posts a few years ago titled, "Liberal Fallacies Clarified."  I think this was important to write about because there are a lot of people who vote democrat because of these fallacies, which are: Republicans are going to take away our social security Republicans are anti-choice Republicans are anti-gay Republicans are against stem cell research Republicans are uncaring,

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Section 1  Congress shall balance the budget by the end of each fiscal year Section 2 Members of Congress, the Senate, and the President of the United States shall forfeit their salary, on a per diem basis, for every day past the end of the fiscal year that a budget for that year remains un-passed.

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Section 1:  The right of members of a political party to choose from their own ranks a candidate to run for the office of President of the United States. Section 2:  To vote in a party's primaries, a member must be of voting age and a registered member of that party for no less than two years prior to the date of the primary.    All primaries for that party shall be held on the same day so all

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Detroit Tiger Prince Fielder I'm pumped!!!!  Detroit Tigers General Manager Dave Dumbrowsky once again stuns the baseball world by signing a HUGE star.  This time t's Prince Fielder to a whopping $200 million contract for nine seasons.  I'm literally pumped.  "The Tiger's are going to frickin ROCK!!!" wrote one Tiger fan at ESPN.com.  Surely this is reason to get pumped, yet this could

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Last Friday Rush Limbaugh asked his audience what they learned from the last two presidential debates. He likewise asked if those debates changed any minds*. The general consensus was that many minds were changed.  Yet Rush said he got something out of those debates that no one else did, yet he said he wasn't going to reveal what it was until the end of the segment. Well, after the

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Obama gave several speeches lately in which he blamed the Internet and ATMs for high unemployment, said the rich people are unfair, Americans are lazy and America has never worked. Surely Obama sounds like a Socialist.  Yet he's also wrong.  Here's why: 1.  The Internet:  It's responsible for the creation of millions of jobs including a hobby I never would have if not for the Internet. 2.  

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In honor of Thanksgiving, I've decided to post here the very first Thanksgiving proclamation by our First President, George Washington. He wanted to create a Holiday where we give thanks to the Lord for helping us create this great nation. Note that he does not mention anything about Pilgrims and Indians. WHEREAS, It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to

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Newt Gingrich is my personal favorite of all the republicans candidates for president.  He's also the smartest, and the candidate I think would hold up best in a debate.  Yet he may also be a quintessential example of how your greatest strengths can become your greatest weakness. Gingrich is also a perfect example of how experience can hurt you in the run up to president.  For one thing, it's

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Romney appears to be the most viable candidate for 2012 It's way too early to be endorsing any candidate, yet I think this is a good time to research and do a little write up on all the potential candidates so we can make an educated decision. The first candidate on my list is Mitt Romney. Romney is being written off by some because of Romneycare.  A majority of republicans hate Obamacare and

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I've been reading a lot from the media lately about how Joe Biden is claiming that Obama's jobs bill will decrease crimes and decrease fires and make our education system worse.  He's been claiming that a vote against Obama's jobs bill will be a vote for more rapes, more murders, and worse educated kids. The idea here is that Obama's administration is falling for the idealist claim that more

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A recent poll showed that 81 percent of Americans believe to pay off our debt we should raise taxes on people making over a million dollars.  Yet I would like to state here that that 81 percent is wrong and, perhaps, even brainwashed. Liberals have been saying for the past several years that we could pay off our debts by taxing the rich.  So taxes were raised on the rich and the debt still

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One of the best things about our U.S. Constitution is the separation of powers.  Many will contend all this does is cause gridlock that prevents progress from being made, yet the founding fathers would say this is good.  Very few countries have a bicameral legislature and a separate executive.  Most have an executive branch that is of the same party as the legislature, and there is rarely any

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The founding fathers new, and preached often, that in order for a society to last the rules must be etched in stone and not left to the whims and wishes of the people.  These rules should be binding on everyone in that nation from one generation to the next.  The reason is to create stability.  A stable basic set of laws will allow people to make plans for the future.  They won't have to worry

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All men have certain duties they must perform in life, wrote W. Cleon Skousen in "The 5,000 Year Leap"   There are basically two types of duties, which the founding fathers would refer to as unalienable duties.  We are all indebted to these duties to keep society together. There are essentially two duties 1.  Public duties:  You should be moral when serving the general public.  They are

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On the campaign trail today Mitt Romney attacked Rick Perry's view of social security by saying, "You can tell social security has been a success by the number of people who depend on it." He was responding to Rick Perry's assertion in his book that social security is a failure and should be handled by the states instead of the federal government. Rick Perry said Romney is sounding more and

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No society can exist without a virtuous people.  The founding fathers new this by their study of history, and they debated this topic long and hard.  They wanted to make sure that virtue was inculcated into the minds of every American, starting from the very young. Thomas Paine in his book "Common Sense" wrote that the only way a republic can survive is if the people are "industrious, frugal,

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Thomas Sowell over at National Review wrote an excellent post on September 15, 2011explaining why it is a bad idea to tax the rich in his article, "You Can't Tax the Rich?"  Actually, you can tax the rich, he writes, it's simply a bad idea. Why?  Because the rich have access to ways of hiding their money so it cannot be taxed that small business owners do not.  If you're the CEO of a million

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We here a lot of talk about unalienable rights, those rights that cannot be taken away.  Yet we also here folks talking about other rights that are not unalienable and they refer to them as though they were.  I'll provide you some examples of things that are not unalienable rights: 1.  A good job 2.  A good IQ 3.  Good health 4.  Good vision 5.  Retirement 6.  Good genes 7.  A good wife or

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One of the things we have gotten away from in this country is telling people about absolute truths because we are afraid of offending people.  We've gotten away from this in church, courts, school, politics and, you guessed it, the medical field.  The result has lead to many of the problems we face today. There are two things we are told never to discuss with strangers, and these are religion

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The founding fathers believed that the only way to have a just and stable society is for men to adapt the principles of Natural Law as set forth by Nature's God.  So, what are natural rights. Natural Rights:  This is a basic code of laws that provides each person, at birth, certain rights that cannot be taken away but by other people by the governments they create.  Natural rights are referred

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George Bush once quipped that he hoped creating a stable democracy in Iraq would cause democracies to spread across the Middle East.  This would be good, he hoped, because only one time in world history did two democracies go to war with one another. So here we are several years after that quip, and protests are raging across the middle east.  George Bush was right that once people get a taste

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The founders of the U.S. wanted to form a republic rather than a democracy because they knew that democracies can lead to chaos, and they didn't want the new nation to be chaotic.  The founders knew that democracies never work. The book, The 5000 year leap:  Principles of Freedom 101," reminds of of this, and notes the following: "There are many reasons why the Founders wanted a republican form

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There are some in Washington -- and among our friends -- who believe we don't have a spending problem we have a revenue problem.  They surmise that what we need to do -- and Obama proposes this -- is to raise taxes on the rich. Yet the UK Daily mail has a nice little article called "IRS:  Not enough rich to cover the debt."  The article proposes that even if we took all the profits to the

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FDR was irritated with the Supreme Court for finding some of his programs unconstitutional, so he threatened to stack the Supreme court with liberal judges and he threatened a 2nd Bill of rights. He hated the separation of powers. He wanted to be a totolitarian dictator and force socialism on the nation in the name of social justice.He did not like the Supreme Court overruling ideas and

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Another misinterpreted amendment is the 14th. Somehow this got twisted so that people think it gives anyone born in the U.S. citizenship. Consider the amendment: "All persons born or naturalized... within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." This amendment was written to make sure black people born or naturalized in the U.S. have the same Constitutional rights as any other

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I was actually for the balanced budget amendment before I was against it.  On the surface it sounds like a good idea to make the government balance it's budget, yet in reality it's not a good idea at all.  In fact, it's even unconstitutional. It's also stupid.  You look at America and you'll see that most of us live in debt.  I live in debt and so does every one of my neighbors.  The only

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I think the debt ceiling should be raised, and republicans should compromise with democrats to get it done. Anything other than this will make republicans look like they're holding up progress, and voters will be angry. This can have no worse effect than to bolster Obama's re-election campaign. Most Americans would like to see major spending cuts, yet no one wants money they receive from the

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The U.S. Constitution only grants the Federal government to make laws in 7 areas that supersede State Rights: National Defense Immigration Issuing currency Raising revenue to operate national government Foreign relations Resolving conflicts between states Few others The 10th amendment is worded to reserve all other decisions to the states or to the people: "The powers not delegated to the U.S

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The republican party needs a message.  I think that message should be for staying united as one nation.  We should cater to ALL Americans not just one income group or one race or one creed.  We should have a message for all Americans. We must stand together as one in order to move forward and to lead.  We should stand by the U.S. Constitution in all decisions we make.  We should encourage the

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Social Security is often called the Holy Grail of politics. If you mess with it, you will never win elected office again. And for that reason alone, not one President has made an effort to fix the problems that exist with the program.Personally, I think it is good that we take care of the elderly and the sick in this country. The problem with Social Security is that many Americans rely on it

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Other than Calvin Coolidge, not one President of the United States has ever succeeded at cutting government spending.  A few others have promised to do so -- or were promised by Congress -- yet Congress reneged on that promise each time. In 1982 Ronald Reagan signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982.  As a prelude to this act President Reagan was promised that for every dollar he raised

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One of the biggest fears of enacting a new entitlement program is most tend to benefit only a few at the expense of the many.  And most of us don't even want to spend this money.  Yet the few who are receiving money from entitlements don't want to give it up.  That's the problem with entitlements. Worse, no government official wants to be the person to make spending cuts that will make a

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Yesterday I asked a simple question:  would you be willing to sacrifice money to save freedom?  I know there are many of you who would answer that question with a flat out:  NO!  I know because I know some of you. Why?  There may be several answers to that question. You don't believe there is a problem You think a national debt is the way out of a recession You don't believe a collapse of the

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The solution to the budget troubles of the United States will not come from tax hikes as some in Washington would have it, the solution will only come when Washington decides to manage it's budget the way we do in our homes.  The government must wise up and become frugal. Likewise -- and I'm going to get a lot of slack for saying this, yet I'm going to say it anyway because someone has to -- all

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People are not brainwashed, or mind numbed robots, who listen to men like Rush Limbaugh on the radio or Glenn Beck on Fox News, as many liberals will contend. We are not brainwashed any more than the average citizen is who watches CBS News or CNN. The truth is, we watch or listen to opinion shows not because we want to learn what we do not already know, but to have our views heard. It's nice

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I think that republicans, particularly members of the tea party, should get together and decide how they are going to win back the presidency in 2012. I think the number one priority is to make sure there aren't two conservative candidates running against each other, and thus allowing for the opportunity for a progressive to slip through the cracks and be nominated.I'm talking about during the

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One of the neatest things about the American Constitution is it protects our natural born right to free speech. This is great because every opinion, every fact, and every new idea can be communicated.  This allows us an opportunity that many of our ancestors did not have. In the past most people received all their news from one or only a few sources.  Most of the time it was from the government.

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The following is how you describe yourself politically. Where do you stand on these issues: 1.  Socially 2.  Economically 3.  Foreign policy

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1.  George Washington 2.  Herbert Hoover 3.  Ulysus S. Grant 5.  Dwight D. Eisenhower 6.  Zachary Taylor 7.  William Howard Taft Some of these guys were pretty darn good presidents.  So I don't buy you need experience to be a good president.  In fact, sometimes I think inexperience might be a good thing.  What do you think?

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I am the Freadom Nation Dictator. Yes, you heard (read) that right. Freadom Nation  is a blog, and I am the Dictator of it. I have complete and total control over everything you see on this blog.  Freadom Nation is the only thing in my life I have complete control over -- AND I LOVE IT. It's fun.  It's a hobby.  It's my way of articulating ideas.  It's my way of making myself feel good.  I think

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I have learned through the course of time that liberals tend to be more progressive than republicans, and the progressive tends to want to move away from the individual rights of man the founders believed in and more toward a state controlled government. Since this is true, progressives tend to be statists.The problem with creating a statist government in the United States are two fold:The U.S.

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I don't have a problem with the global warming theory.  The problem I have is with some of the people who believe in global warming and the techniques they use to force it on everyone else. The three problems I see are this: 1.  They treat global warming as a religion as opposed to the theory it is.  When I refer to global warming I generally say things like, "Yes, this could be blamed on the

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The 1920s and the 1980s are the best examples of how capitalism pure and simple works to better society both socially and economically. They are examples of how if the government steps aside, people prosper. While the 1920s were perhaps the best example of how capitalism works, the 1980s might just be the best second example. And this was all lead by the conservative Ronald Reagan. The

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Men and women are born with the natural right to choose.  They have a right to try, a right to reep the rewards of their efforts, and a right to fail.  It'a called personal responsibility and accountability.  Yet while it's often necessary, we also have a natural tendency to HATE being told what to do. The parent-child relationship is a perfect example.  Parents don't want their kids to make the

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Here's a question posed to me at work yesterday: Why is it that the rich have to pay for government programs that don't even benefit them? Where in the Constitution does it say that some of us have to take on a greater burden of the government debt?Or, worded a better way, why is it that the rich have to pay a greater share of wasteful government programs? What did the rich do to be forced to pay

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So not only is Obama pent on destroying the United States, he might also be aiding enemies of Israel in both Europe and the Middle East in the complete annihilation of Israel. At least that's one one might come to think after his speech yesterday when he proposed Israel ought to go back to pre-1967 borders.Every single country surrounding Israel wants to destroy Israel, and that doesn't include

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Here's a good quote by Rush Limbaugh from his program on Thursday November 4, 2010, about Obama's vision for the future of America. This is a perfect example of why Rush sticks by his quote: "I hope he fails.""Now, who made Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid or any Democrat, I don't care, any Democrat, who made them the decider on what anybody should make and then what level of taxation

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I have written on this blog before that the intent of progressives in the U.S. is to collapse the U.S. system so that the U.S. will have no choice but to submit to the UN, and at this time a New World Order (NWO) will have been created. So once we have a NWO, what will be be submitting to? The following is what will happen once the NWO is created: 1. Churches will be destroyed. The Bible

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I have a couple friends who are liberals, and every time one of my conservative friends makes a valid conservative point, both my liberal friends say, "What? Did you hear that on Rush Limbaugh?"I have yet to come up with a good response to that question, yet I've been thinking of one. I keep thinking of it because the next time we discuss politics, I'm confident someone will repeat that

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Franklin Deleno Roosevelt may have been the closest of any one President to being a totalitarian ruler of the United States, yet he wasn't the only one. This may sound far fetched, yet when you consider the facts, you can see for yourself, and decide for yourself, if I'm right.Consider for a moment the definition of totolitarian from Dictionary.com:Of or pertaining to a central government that

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As noted here, FDR raised taxes to unprecidented levels, he ordered Americans to sell their gold or face prosecution, he jailed people who spoke out against his policies, he put Japanese Americans in Concentration camps, he threatened businessmen with even higher taxes if they didn't support his programs.Utterly said, despite what we learn in schools, FDR was a scary President. And many people

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There are many people who read the Bible, and every one of those folks might have a unique way of interpreting different parts of the Bible. This actually occurred recently between myself and one of my patients. We actually both had unique interpretations about the Tower of Babel.However, in the end, we both decided that every Christian, every person who believes in God, or studies the Bible

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Rights are things that you are born with. You do not get rights from the government. You get rights from birth. The only impact the government can have on rights is that the government can take rights away from you.Every human is born with the same rights. We are all born with the right to speak, the right to defend ourselves, the right to arm ourselves, the right to a fair trial among our

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Why is it that when I go on the Drudge Report I'm "reading trash," according to my fellow liberal coworker.Why is it that when I make a quote that challenges the idea that FDR was a great president and he ended the Great Depression, my liberal friend says, "What? Is that something you learned from watching Rush Limbaugh?"Why is it that when I'm watching Glenn Beck on Fox News, my liberal

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Teach a man good principles and let him govern himself. You can't solve problems by telling people what to do. This is why liberalism never works. It's a simple fact that people do not like to be told what to do. They like to be independentA good example of this is that kids in America are getting too fat. So we have this problem, now how do we solve it.The conservative, or traditional America,

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I've written before how conservatives are more in touch with America than progressives. Obama is out of touch with the common American, and that is perhaps the number one reason Obama is down in the polls.Let's check out some statistics:90% of Americans believe in God, yet...10% of scientists believe in God60% of Americans lean conservative10% of Teachers are conservative10% of of journalists are

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I talk a lot about priorities. Those who fear God, or about 90% of Americans according to most polls, prioritize as follows:GodWifeChildrenOther peopleBirdsDogsOther animalsPlantsTrees EarthYet those who are progressives believe their religion is the state, and their priorities are as such:EarthTreesPlantsOther animalsDogsBirdsThe StateOther peopleChildrenWifeThis explains why science is often

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Why is it that there is a moratorium on America regarding because of public safety and for the safety of the government, yet at the same time our government funds such drilling in other nations such as Mexico.This is a hypocracy that I don't understand. Actually, I think the moratorium has nothing to do with safety, nor the environment. It has to do with the fact that progressives, Obama

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Separation of church and state is a farse. It's one of the most misused statements, especially considering it is not in the Constitution. It was actually written by Thomas Jefferson in a letter he wrote to the Connectucut Baptists because Baptists feared their Government might interfere with how they wanted to do things.Thomas Jefferson, by writing about the Separation of Church and State, was

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When my daughter grumbled into the kitchen this morning she asked me if she could have some juice in her water jug instead of just water. She said, "Some of the other kids bring juice, and I want some too."I opened the fridge and grabbed the juice and poured it into the jug she held out for me. Then my wife entered the room and said, "You can't take juice to school.""Why not?" I asked."Because,"

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Creating a New World Order: Part IX The only way to stop progressives is with God and returning to the founders vision for America. We must cut taxes. We must decrease spending by a lot, which will mean upsetting some voters by cutting government programs. We must cut government jobs. We must stop paying government workers twice what average workers make. We must stop giving government

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To get a majority of the colonies to approve of the U.S. Constitution state soveirinity had to be protected. I think it is this Federalism that has allowed the U.S. to have the longest lasting Constitution in the history of the world.The Constitution only gives the Federal government the right to make laws in seven areas. The 10th Amendment aptly states that anything not mentioned in the

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A more recent goal in the process of creating their perfect world is to create a single payer healthcare system in the U.S. This will nip two birds with one stone, per se. It will create the single payer system, and it will also work to create a more unstable market, which is needed, because when the U.S. market crashes, the NWO will have to take over, and the U.S. Constitution will be

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Is Obama against state's rights? Is he trying to use authoritarian powers to influence the states, and force them to do things his progressive way? Obama has taken the side of the unions that are protesting in Wisconsin. He says that the state's trying to balance it's budget is an assault on unions. He's attacking an elected state governor, and bullying him, to give into the demands of the unions

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The goal of progressives and radical Islam, according to the chaos theory, is to cause chaos by convincing the youth to protest. And even while it's only 1% of the population protesting, the goal is to make you think everyone thinks there's something wrong.The ultimate goal: collapse of the West, and build up of the New World Order.For those who want to disregard this theory, consider the

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What's going on in Wisconson today is exactly what Glenn Beck had predicted. Those in power decided to cut spending, and those who were the beneficiaries of the programs that were cut are now protesting in the streets.The protestors are upset because they will no longer get what they want. What's wrong with this is they are putting their own desires -- their wants -- before their nation. It's

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Creating a New World Order: VIIWhen you understand the progressive agenda, it's easier to understand why they do certain things. To you and me it doesn't make sense to increase taxes in a recession, or to give loans to Africa when we had to borrow the money in the first place.Yet if you know the agenda, you understand them.The agenda is simple. It's redistribution of wealth. This doesn't simply

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A good point was made by the blogosphere recently is that 1 percent of the people of Egypt are rioting in the streets, protesting against Mubarak, and Obama decides the people have spoken and the people are right. He decided to back the people and insist Mubarak step down.Yet in the United States 60% of the people, two-thirds of them, are against his Obamacare, and a judge even ruled it to be

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We can see celebration in the streets of Egypt, and celebration around the rest of the world as they see that the youth in Egypt got what they wanted: Mubarak to step down. So many feel good today, yet what happens tomorrow?Celebrate today, because an evil dictator has been removed. However, we must be leary, because this evil dictator was not so evil, because he had a peace deal with both the

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Mubarak is out in Egypt: now what???When new democracies were formed in Europe the United States sent in people well in advance to help the people of those nations make a smooth transition into democracy. It took years. Yet Egypt has been run by Pharaohs, kings and dictators for over 4,000 years, so such a transition may be difficult.In fact, some wonder if it's even possible to form a democracy

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About a year ago a doctor said to me, "If I had known the direction that Obama was going to take us, I never would have voted for him."I didn't say anything to that. I couldn't because I knew what direction Obama was going to take us because I watched the news and paid attention to the things Obama said before he was in campaign mode. I also paid attention to the people he associated with.I

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When the founding fathers were working to create this nation they did a ton of research in order to learn from the past and not to repeat the mistakes of the past. For this reason it is essential that in order to maintain this great nation we must continue to learn about the past so that we do not repeat the mistakes that were made.Yet what we are experiencing right now in the United States is

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Once again the people have caught on to the shenanigans of progressives. You can see this by the T-Party movement, by dropping Obama ratings, and by the latest Gallup poll which shows the the republican party might win 100 seats in the House, and have their biggest gains since 1895.People -- God fearing capitalists -- know that redistribution of wealth does not work. That america will fail if we

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There is a theory abounding that part of the "revolution" in Islamic communities of late is an attempt by radical Islam to create what is known as a Global Caliphate. So what is a caliphate? Is this "theory" something we should take seriously. I will take the following definitions from this post at Dictionary.com: Khalafa: Arabic root word for successtion, or to come after. A person who

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I thought it was interesting to see that the word caliphate (as noted here at Dictionary.com) was a barely searched for word until Glenn Beck mentioned it on his program which originally ran at 2 p.m. on February 1. Right about that time Google searches for the word spiked significantly.Beck said on his program that his theory is that some radical Islamic groups yearn to create a Muslim caliphate

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The Muslim Brotherhood says they want to create a democracy in Egypt, and that "might be" the reason for the riots in the streets calling for Hosni Mubarak to quit. Considering Mubarak's Egypt has been a major ally of the U.S. for over 30 years, and considering some Muslim-democracies are fake, Obama must continue to be leery.A democracy was created in the Gaza strip, only for that democracy to

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The movement to create a New World Order did not end with the failure of the League of Nations. It was merely slowed down. The movement did not end with the death of FDR. Again, it was merely slowed by yet another obstacle.Likewise the American people did not stop the movement, the progressives just had to regroup and slowly inculcate their values into the minds of Americans. This was all part of

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I read "Letter to America" on Earworm's great blog and I think his view of partisanship in the U.S. is actually quite common. I know of many people in my circle of life who have said they wish people in Washington would just get along and get something done.Yet that's one of the neat things about the U.S. Constitution is it inadvertently created a two party system, and at many times in our

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Union means we are united against the greater causes. We are a melting pot and all in it together. It does not, however, mean that we all have to agree. It also does not mean we all have to get along.The truth is, there was as much partisan divide way back when John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were hashing it out for the office of the President of the United States as there is today. So I don't

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Despite what our kids are taught in school, FDR did not end the great depression. Likewise, WWII never ended the Great Depression either. If FDR ended the depression, then why was unemployment higher when he left office than when he entered? Why did it take 25 years after the 1929 stock market crash for the market to get back to pre-Great Depression levels? Likewise, if WWII ended the

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Creating a New World Order: part IIIWhy is it that liberals and socialists are always trying to get rid of God in our lives? Why are they secularists? Why is it so important to get God out of schools? Why can't we have Nativity scenes in public places? Why did Stalin say getting rid of God was the most important part of advanting Communism?Why? Because God and the Bible Preach

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Tucson killer Jared Loughner appears to have been a very troubled and mentally disturbed person. He tried to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and probably succeeded in changing her life forever. He also succeeded in killing six others, including a nine year old girl.Yet, to make matters worse, progressives in Washington and around the world are making gallant attempts at trying to link Jared's

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Here are some facts about past Michigan governors. Perhaps this will come of use some day in a trivia game. Or perhaps you're a nerd like Rick Snyder and me and just like to know some useless facts.Here we go:1. Steven T. mason (1836-1840): Our first governor2. William Woodbridge (1840-1841): He blamed mason for all states problems, including the $400,000 budget deficet (which pales to Granholms

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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 gave progressives an opportunity the opportunity they had been waiting for. They would use this as an opportunity to blame capitalism for the stock market crash (even though it was a progressive republican and not capitalism per se as you can read here), and make an attempt to further the progressive goals of creating a perfect society.While classical liberal

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Progressives (aka liberals) learned after Woodrow Wilson's failures that the Big Revolution they yearned for to transform America to the way they want it to be is not possible. It's not possible because there's this thing called the U.S. Constitution that stands in their way.Progressive policies were very popular in the early 20th century as we can see by various changes to the Constitution

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One of my liberal friends told me I was an "Idiot" for my conservative political views. John Kerry recently said to explain the recent conservative trends that we are living in a "period of know nothingism." So why are we conservative anyway? What is conservatism?Another interesting fact is that polls shows we are a conservative leaning country, and always have been. A recent poll I read showed

Rick Freahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01132949384071592216noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-518523519497445289.post-56935411458821228672010-12-29T09:21:00.002-05:002010-12-29T09:22:27.791-05:00

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));try {var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-10856501-2");pageTracker._trackPageview();} catch(err) {}Jeniffer Granholm's tenure as Governor is coming to a close. What her legacy

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The 2010 Census provides more evidence that liberalism (i.e. progressivism or socialism) does not work and that conservatism (i.e. capitalism) does. The Census results will allow the republicans to gain a half dozen seats by 2011, and many democratic leaning states will lose seats.I also found it interesting that Michigan was the only state to lose population during the last decade. Of course

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I never think people are ignorant for holding a political view. You can be a socialist and still be smart. You can be a far right wing libertarian and still be smart. You can be a terrorist thug and still be smart. You might be wrong, and I might disagree with your view of the world, but you are definitely not always ignorant.Yet some people are ignorant (a fact) and wrong (my opinion). While I

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There have been many polls I've seen lately that pretty much rough it out that 20% of Americans say they are liberals, 40% say they are conservative, and 38% say they are independent. Are these statistics accurate?The polls are accurate and consistent. And these polls make sense considering most Americans tend to lean center-right. Yet considering liberalism has infested both the republican and

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Report is democrats and republicans in the House are closing in on a deal (as you can read here) on an extention of the Bush Tax Cuts and an extension of jobless benefits. What this generally tells us is that this lame duck Congress has no clue why the people kicked democrats out of Congress.The tax cuts are good, yet an extension of jobless benefits would pretty much wipe out any gains of

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First of all, any one who is responsible for leaking top secret Federal information should be prosecuted and charged with treason. There should be no slaps in the wrist here.Second, other than that, there really are no surprises that have come out of the wikileaks scandal. Nothing learned is new. Nothing learned is amazing. Nothing.Many people are wondering why Obama is silent on the matter. Many

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Everyone knows that the devil is manipulating. Yet few people in the past 100 years have realized the manipulating ways of the progressives. In this way, Satan has created chaos right here in America by insidious means.There are three methods he uses to manipulate:DeceptionReasoningLife and DeathBy deception, he makes something bad look good. An example of this is sexting. People are

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Liberals tend to anger easily (as I write here), and when they get angry want to stop the debate or they throw curses your way. So it's better not to discuss politics with them.Liberalism is all about knowing what is best for people. That's what liberalism is: having experts and expert committees deciding what's best for people and making laws to enforce themSo since they know all, it's hard to

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The ultimate goal of progressives and socialists is to create a perfect, euphoric society where everyone has the same opportunity and everyone makes the same money, and there are not bad guys. The problem with this ideal world, however great it would be, is that it is not possible.Think of it this way, if it were possible to create a perfect world, wouldn't God have done so long ago. The truth to

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So we hear a lot about narcissistic politicians. Is Obama? Was Bush? What exactly do we mean when we are referring to the narcissistic politician.Allow me to define narcissist, and we'll move on from their.According to dictionary.com, it's an inordinate fascination with one's self; excessive self love; self senteredness; smugness.Globalpolitician.com, in a post by Sam Vaknin, "Barack Obama -

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Today I'm going to put a stop to two fallacies we often hear from progressives:1. That republicans are to blame for the recession we are currently in2. That during Obama's first two years in office republicans are to blame for blocking progressNow here's the truth about the above:1. The economy was growing at record levels, unemployment was relatively non-existent at 4% (4% or less is considered

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Glenn Beck has been on a rampage recently about how progressives have been trying for the past 100 years to overtake the United States and create a New World Order, or a socialist society. Is Beck basically a conspiracy theorist as some in the media propose, or is he being factual? Should we heed his advice and stock up on food because the ultimate goal of progressives is to collapse the

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This is just a thought, but do you think it's possible that liberals, progressives, and mainly democrats, put themselves before the nation. I mean, I'd like to have more money myself, yet I always like to think I'd rather have a nation before a better pension.I say this because tonight I had a discussion with a teacher friend of mine, and she said first off that she didn't want to discuss

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