Reagan's response to Obama

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/09/reagan_responds_to_obama_and_h.html

Is Justice Blind?

Listen to these interviews following the recent Department of Justice hearings on the Black Panther case and the selective application of Justice. It is astounding!!!

http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=174&load=4189

Fabulous insights from Victor Davis Hanson

We can easily outdistance any country should we remain the most free, law-abiding, and economically open society as in our past. A race-gender-ethnic-blind meritocracy, equal application of the law, low taxes, small government, and a transparent political and legal system are at the heart of that renewal. America could within a decade become a creditor nation again, with a trade balance and budget surplus, drawing in the world’s talent and capital in a way not possible in the more inflexible or less meritocratic China, Japan, or Germany. Again that is our choice, not a superimposed destiny from someone else.

http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson092210.html

The president is not interested in nuances. He does not care that 40 percent of Americans pay no income taxes, or that the top 1 percent of earners pay 40 percent of aggregate collected income-tax revenue. Yet many of the people in these brackets were not always so rich and probably won’t be for long. Top incomes are transient. Millions of Americans strive to reach them for a few years to provide for retirement, or college expenses, in the expectation that they will fade quickly.

http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson091810.html

Larry Summers leaves the White House

Comparing the Great Depression to the Great Recession

President Obama has often remarked that the Great Recession (2008–10) is the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. It’s interesting to study the many parallels between the Great Recession and the Great Depression.

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/our-economic-past/comparing-the-great-depression-to-the-great-recession/#

A Depression may be our best Hope

A reaction opposite that of the 1930s is likely. Government is now seen to be the problem. It is no longer viewed as reliable, trustworthy, or a solution. Freedom is deeply ingrained in the American culture, and most of us recognize how much we have already lost. The resurgence of books such asThe Road to Serfdom, Atlas Shrugged, and others of their ilk indicate that the public is interested. Historically low poll numbers for all politicians and the rise of the Tea Party movement are further indicators. The economic trauma may provide the catalyst to return to the founders' concept of government.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/a_depression_may_be_our_best_h.html

Capitalism

We are often told that capitalism has failed. Most of us really don't understand the true meaning of capitalism. Ayn Rand summed it up well in her book published in 1961 entitled "For the New Intellectual". She said:"Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him. His success depends on the objective value of his work and on the rationality of those who recognize that value. When men are free to trade, with reason and reality as their only arbiter, when no man may use physical force to extort the consent of another, it is the best product and the best judgment that win in every field of human endeavor, and raise the standard of living- and of thought- ever higher for all those who take part in mankind's productive activity".

Is this administration socialistic?

Judge for yourself

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/blaze-mix-video-top-20-pro-socialism-sound-bites-of-obama-advisors-allies/

It's a long way back to the Constitution

Regarding federal power, here's what the father of the Constitution, James Madison, has to say:

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.

The "progressives" in power have us on the wrong road in the name of progress. But as C.S. Lewis writes: "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/its_a_long_way_back_to_the_con.html

Incredible insights from Dinesh D'Souza

Here is the recent article from Dinesh D'Souza, published in Forbes Magazine, describing Obama as an anticolonialist. He makes the case that Obama was heavily influenced by his "Dreams from my Father".

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem.html

Andrew Klavan on Liberty and Freedom

Usually Andrew Klavan does political satire for PJTV. On this occasion, 9/11/09, he waxed eloquently on liberty and freedom. Enjoy the clip.

http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=80&load=4125

A twist on Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals"

Rules for republicans/conservatives

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/rules_for_republicans.html

Constitution Day - WE THE PEOPLE

This posting and content are a day late, but "better late than never". Share the Heritage Foundation link with your friends and family.

Happy 82nd birthday Dziadzu!!!

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/09/17/morning-bell-constitution-day-and-the-perilous-future/

"On every question of construction [of the Constitution] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the

probable one in which it was passed." -- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

Thoughts for the Day

"Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration ... that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."

"When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),

US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

Thoughts on Black Liberation Theology

Why is Glenn Beck so interested in the association between president Obama and Jeremiah Wright? In the interest of public enlightenment, this author throws a few substantiated facts into this little fray, which will demonstrate to anyone with a grain of Christian education exactly why Beck's "obsession" with Black Liberation Theology is indeed thoroughly justified.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/becks_obsession_with_black_lib.html