A Holocaust Celebrated

This week one of the country's foremost icon's of economic freedom sucker punched lady liberty. The Empire State building was lit up red and yellow to celebrate 60 years of chinese communism.

On October 1st, 1949 Mao Zedong defeated the U.S. supported Chiang Kai-shek and established The Peoples republic of China. During his life Mao Zedong was resoponsible for the deaths of 50,000,000 innocents (hitler killed upwards of 12 million, Stalin murdered around 60 million). Mao set a legacy of genocide, tyranny and fear which is contiued today with forced abortions, religious assault and the stealing of private property.

On Wednesday of this week New York decided to honor this legacy of blood when the Empire State building shone with the colors of the chinese flag. When the lights were lit Mr. Joseph Bellina the building's manger said that this represented a proud relationship between 'our countries and our people'. The people's republic established by 'monster Mao' is clearly not a republic and it is certainly not the people's. My favorite linguist Mr. Noah Webster defines a republic as 'A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people.'

The decision was made by the Empire State Building (ESB) Lighting Partners but where was Mayor Bloomberg? Imagine the outrage fom the Mayor's office if the E.S.B. Lighting Partners chose lights in the shape of a Swastika.

Live Free or Die

While the health care debate rages on into it's fifth month a challenge presents itself to those who claim to be conservative.

As a pro-life conservative I have become increasingly annoyed with christian conservatives who embrace the sanctity of life but are indifferent to all other issues. As if children have nothing better to do but exist. So once the children are born is it acceptable to subject them to a life of involuntary servitude to an all powerful state? If the 'health care takeover bill' did not include universal access to abortion (which it most certainly does), the bill would still be unacceptable.

I can hear 'God-fearing conservatives' discussing a candidate; "He's for redistribution of wealth, well I really don't mind much because those folks don't need that much money! Is he pro life?" A politician in favor of stealing from one individual and giving to another is not worth supporting regardless of where he stands on abortion. Taxation without representation is stealing and should be treated as a cultural issue just as preserving the life of the unborn.

Yes we should still fight passionately on behalf of the unborn but let us not forget that a life lived in slavery is hardly worth living. Here are some words from Patrick Henry;

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."

Where's our Daniel Hannan?

A couple of weeks ago, Daniel Hannan M.E.P. (Member of European Parliament for southeast England) slammed P.M. Gordon Brown and the Labor Party 'goons' for tanking the British economy. Mr. Hannan's comments were enough to make any patriot cheer. But between the 'atta boys', and the 'Hip Hip Hoorays!' one can't help asking; Where is our Mr. Hannan?

Outside of talk radio and the 'new media' no one has had the courage to stand against the 'bailout' orgy that's enslaving our culture. Are there any politicians willing to be statesmen? Is there an individual willing to stand on the rights of 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of property' regardless of the next election? This week Alabama congressman Spencer Bachus stated that 17 of his colleagues are in fact socialists. Mr. Bachus stopped short of naming them. Now it's a fair bet that if you are still reading this that you could identify to whom the congressman was referring. If only he had shown a little more courage.

The answer is in the hearts and minds of the people. So turn off 'American Idol', and go join a tea party!

"It's all just a little bit of History Repeating..."

Mr. Noah Webster defines History as "A narration of events in the order in which they happened, with their causes and effects.

I am generally not one who would subscribe to the view that history is simply a cycle that goes round indefinitely without meaning, purpose, or design. However I couldn't help but rethink my view of history this week. If you saw President Obama's town hall style meeting in Fort Meyers, Florida you too may have been experiencing a little De'ja' vu. Julio Oseguedo, a 19 year old college student donning an Obama t-shirt complained that he had been employed at Mcdonald's for 4 1/2 years unable to get another job and wanted to know what the President could do for him.

If you are a political junkie the name Denton Walthall may sound familiar. I'll give you a second to rattle your brain! No- you got nothing!!O.K. Mr. Walthall was the gentleman who reared his 'pony-tailed' head at the 1992 presidential debate in Richmond Virginia to ask then President George H. W. Bush, Governor Bill Clinton and Millionaire Business man Ross Perot to imagine that the president of the United States is the father of us all and essentially went on to ask the same thing as Julio.

I find it maddening that leftists refuse to live up to the words of the one they revere more than any other. "Ask not what your country can do for you..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMJM4GoDOXM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01MNZBTt4K4

'Facts Are Stubborn Things'

During the heat of last summer's presidential campaign, Senator McCain's senior economic adviser (fmr) Sen. Phil Gramm said that the American people were 'a bunch of whiners'. Mr. Gramm was promptly thrown under the 'straight talk express'.
After doing some research on our great founding fathers I can't help wondering if Mr. Gramm was right. You decide...
(I include everyone from Jefferson to Adams discussing various aspects of Liberty. I even threw one in from William Pitt who served as Britain's Prime Minister from 1783-1801 and again from 1804 until his death in 1806. *see last picture)

"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." Benjamin Franklin

"... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson

"Can the liberties of a nation be sure when we remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that these liberties are a gift from God? Thomas Jefferson

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson

"You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe"
John Adams

"We have a government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest chords of our constitution as a whale goes through the net. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they can not alter the state of facts and evidence." John Adams

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." George Washington

"We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." James Madison

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves." William Pitt

Faithless Conservatives?

For those of us that embrace liberty there has been little for which to be cheerful. When our friends and neighbors so willingly grovel at the feet of the 'nanny state' I can't help but wonder what's next for those who claim the birthright of freedom.
We've elected a new president who seems to be quite enamored with the notion that the state controls all things so well that perhaps they should try their hand at health care. In Congress The controlling party sees at as their prerogative to tell good American folks what talk radio shows are acceptable.
So how can we as conservatives win against the tide of environmental tyranny, greater access to abortion, and a foreign policy run by 'Amnesty International'? Speaking to the graduates of Christendom College in 2003, then Senator Rick Sentorum (R-Pennsylvania) said the following; "I want to challenge each and every one of you to be a radical, to be a rebel, to rebel against the popular culture. Your task will not be an easy one. You must overcome the temptation of silence." Mr. Sentorum went on to state that "God hasn't called us to be successful, He has called us to be faithful."
Can we expect to be successful rolling back a rising socialist tide? The answer is probably not. Someday however we will stand in the arena surrounded by a strangely familiar host. I hope to God that those words ring clear in my ears. "Well done good and faithful servant!"