Economist Thomas Sowell: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that he wants a 'clean' bill from the House of Representatives, and some in the media keep repeating the word 'clean' like a mantra. But what is unclean about not giving Harry Reid everything he wants? If Senator Reid and President Obama refuse to accept the money required to run the government, because it leaves out the money they want to run ObamaCare, that is their right. But that is also their responsibility. You cannot blame other people for not giving you everything you want. And it is a fraud to blame them when you refuse to use the money they did vote, even when it is ample to pay for everything else in the government. … Unless the Republicans get their side of the story out – and articulation has never been their strong suit – the lies will win. More important, the whole country will lose.”
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Showing posts with label Patriot Post. Show all posts
Who Shut Down the Gov't?
Economist Thomas Sowell: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that he wants a 'clean' bill from the House of Representatives, and some in the media keep repeating the word 'clean' like a mantra. But what is unclean about not giving Harry Reid everything he wants? If Senator Reid and President Obama refuse to accept the money required to run the government, because it leaves out the money they want to run ObamaCare, that is their right. But that is also their responsibility. You cannot blame other people for not giving you everything you want. And it is a fraud to blame them when you refuse to use the money they did vote, even when it is ample to pay for everything else in the government. … Unless the Republicans get their side of the story out – and articulation has never been their strong suit – the lies will win. More important, the whole country will lose.”Altering the Deal
"They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men." --John Adams
Another week, another behind-the-scenes bureaucratic change to ObamaCare. Barack Obama continues to use power he doesn't have to alter the deal, making changes to his signature health care law to suit his political ends. To quote Lando Calrissian in "The Empire Strikes Back" after Darth Vader changed the terms of an agreement, "This deal is getting worse all the time."
Part-Time Nation
The Foundation
"[I]t is of the greatest consequence that the debt should ... be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of the nation to a level with its income. Till this shall be accomplished, the finances of the United States will never wear proper countenance." --Alexander Hamilton
What ObamaCare Is Going to Do to Your Doctor
You should care a lot about how health reform will affect your doctor. The reason: it will also affect you.
Memorial Day: Honor and Reverence
The Foundation
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can
gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business
of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience
approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." --Thomas
Paine
The 'Plead the Fifth' Administration
"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but
bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." --Thomas
JeffersonThe IRS official overseeing the targeting of conservative groups went to Congress to plead the Fifth Amendment after declaring her innocence. Only it doesn't work that way. (Try it during an audit.) Also, more on the DOJ targeting journalists, the cost of regulation for the average family, Obama's national security speech and blaming the Oklahoma tornado on global warming.
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Voice of Essential Liberty
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold on us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered." --Thomas Jefferson (1781)
A Battle of Wits
“Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason.” –Benjamin Franklin
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In the 1987 quotable classic film “The Princess Bride,” a favorite scene pits the heroic “Man in Black” against the villain Vizzini in a “battle of wits” to win the damsel in distress. After Vizzini runs rhetorical circles around himself trying to outsmart the hero, the Man in Black wryly remarks, “Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.” Vizzini replies, “Wait till I get going! Now where was I?” Such is the case with ObamaCare. Wait till it gets going!
Patriots' Day 2013
Liberty in the Balance
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance." --Thomas Jefferson (1822)
Patriots' Day (April 19th), though not widely celebrated, commemorates the substance of the eternal fight for Liberty as "endowed by our Creator." More than just the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Patriots' Day embodies the spirit of the first American Revolution and the original Sons of Liberty.This week in which we observe with reverence the sacrifices of our Founding Fathers and successive generations of American Patriots who defended Essential Liberty, there was notable news of the good, the bad and the very ugly.
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As Iron Sharpens Iron — The Patriot Post
"If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be the fruits of our establishments, the cause of Liberty will acquire a dignity and lustre, which it has never yet enjoyed, and an example will be set, which can not but have the most favorable influence on the rights of Mankind." --James Madison (1783)
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Trouble in Cyprus
It Can Happen Here, Too
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence." --John Adams
Memo to the GOP: Liberty Is Colorblind
Promote Freedom in Every Quarter of America!
Shortly after CPAC concluded, the Grand Old Party released an election 2012 "after action report" with GOP initials -- the Growth and Opportunity Project. The first step for the GOP is to understand that Liberty is colorblind. It's not a "white thing." The concept of Liberty is timeless and transcendent, and it can have the same appeal to all people if the messenger will only remember that.
A Tale of Two Budgets
"The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson
'There Oughta Be a Law'
Joe Biden, holding the only acceptable firearm
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." --Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer XVIIIEver since the mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the Left has rabidly pursued all manner of unconstitutional gun control legislation. Federal, state and local, the NeoComs stop at nothing to deprive us of our unalienable rights, endowed by our Creator. Yet all is not lost as long as we stand firm.
The National Institute of Justice, the research branch of the Justice Department, recently leaked a memo evaluating many of the White House's preferred gun control measures. For example, the NIJ says that Dianne Feinstein's defensive weapons ban is "unlikely to have an impact on gun violence" because -- wait for it -- those firearms "are not a major contributor to gun crime." Therefore, concludes the NIJ, in order for a ban to be effective, it would have to include no exemptions and be paired with a mandatory buyback program.
The Next Sunrise --
The Light of Liberty
Illegitimi non Carborundum!
"No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm." --George Washington (1786)
Obama's Progressive State of Disunion
Pinocchio/Picasso Politics -- All Lies and Distortions
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." --Article II, Section 1, Constitution of the United States
Centralizing Power Is Really Expensive
The Foundation
"[W]hen all government ... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another." --Thomas Jefferson
A Patriot Christmas
Merry Christmas
The Birth of Jesus: "In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.
American Patriot Defined
Patriots' Day: Their Sacred Honor in Defense of Liberty Endures
"Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations." --George Washington
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