Actually I have a problem with the political process that extends well beyond individual politicians or even political parties.  I am addressing no other nation’s politics but that of my own, the United States of America.  I love the humorous but deadly serious quote from Ronald Reagan, “It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.  I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” 

Politics is a necessary part of a Republic with a Constitutional Representative Democracy.  Politics is described and defined as, “the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.”  Without the political process we would have a totalitarian dictatorship or complete anarchy not a Constitutional Republic and in many ways we have at best an Oligarchy and are moving rapidly toward a more totalitarian dictatorship and that saddens me as an American citizen and veteran.

Most are familiar with the story of Benjamin Franklin emerging from Independence Hall in Philadelphia and being asked, “Dr. Franklin, what kind of government have you given us?”  Mr. Franklin’s reply should have long been a clarion call for diligence on the part of the public and politicians but for long decades has fallen on deaf ears.  He said, “A Republic, madam, if you can keep it.”   The founders hammered out the best system they could conceive and I personally believe were guided by the divine hand of providence.  They also understood that if WE THE PEOPLE failed to remain diligent and professionals were allowed to hijack the process with elitist oligarchical mindsets the Republic could not survive.  The euphoria of this new found independence and the prosperity of successive generations as well as the enjoyment of personal liberties by the citizens muted their warnings.  We are paying an almost unpayable price for that failure.

The infamous quote attributed to George Santayana is worthy of consideration and remembrance.  He said, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”  The original quote is more likely, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  Sadly, in 21st Century America we are on a “damn the torpedoes full steam ahead” approach to sanitizing history to make it politically correct and thereby deemed acceptable.  To ignore history or remove certain elements of our past from the record does not change the past nor does it advance the future.  If we are to advance as a civilization, maintain our Republic and insure our Constitutional guarantees, liberties, rights and privileges are held intact we dare not make that mistake of politicizing history.  If we are to benefit from the mistakes of the past we must know them.

Politics as some have humorously but often accurately defined is:  The word is derived from two words.  Poly = many and Ticks = blood sucking parasites.  Therefore according to this definition politics and politicians exist to drink the blood of the citizens making them creatures of the dark and even vampire world.  We live in a very dark world controlled by corruption, the pursuit of graft, greed and power.  Politicians frequently sell their votes like prostitutes sell their bodies and we the people are the victims largely because we ‘trusted’ the politicians to protect and defend the constitution and ‘abdicated’ our responsibilities.  The latter has been, at least partially, because it either did not impact us personally or in our bottom line or we deemed the task too daunting and sat silently as the Republic crumbled.  Edmund Burke had it correct saying, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

The Bible addresses this in Galatians 6:9 by saying that if we do not faint or quit in doing what is good and right we will reap the harvest of those efforts.  I have long told those who would listen, “The only way the devil can win in our lives is for us to quit.”  We have a hope!  America was established as a Democratic Constitutional Republic rooted in the principles of God’s Word.  The founders provided a system of checks and balances and repeatedly warned that the true caretakers of the Republic were THE CITIZENS. 

So politics does not bother me the greater problem are professional elitist politicians and an apathetic populace.  I am tired of the blood sucking parasites draining the life out of my Republic and issue the call to “Take It Back!”

            God bless you and God bless America!

For seven years I have watched the systematic and consistent assault on the United States Constitution by this president and his followers and it has disturbed and angered me.  In the very beginning of his reign (his apparent thoughts regarding his term in office) he and his wife have trashed America, talked down American Excellence and consistently apologized for what they apparently view an evil empire called the United States of America.  That could cause one to believe that he wants to completely destroy this nation but is that his objective?

I believe that he fully believes his rhetoric and narcissistic view of himself that he is the savior of the planet and commissioned by all that is divine to right the perceived wrongs of this nation from its inception.  He is so filled with his distaste for America and most of the West it cannot be hidden.  However, I have come to believe that his objective may not be the TOTAL DESTRUCTION of America but, as he promised, the “fundamental transformation” of her.  The only question is “transformed” into what?

He, like most communist and socialist before they taste the power of rule believe the propaganda of a utopian world in which all is equal and everyone shares and shares alike.  The problem is those in charge do not want to share, do not believe they are required to share and therefore live as royal potentates while their subjects live in abject squalor.  There is no remorse or twinge of conscience over that disparity for they believe that it is through their superior intellect, morality and knowledge of what is right and best they have earned respect and worship of we lesser mortals and it is their divine right to reap the benefits at our expense.

            He like most leftist believes that the United States is and has been an arrogant nation needing to be taken down a peg or two and they are diligently working to accomplish that.  They believe ‘redistribution of wealth’ will create equality and provide a certain reparation for the gross evil of those who risked, earned, developed, created and grew businesses and wealth.  In short, they view capitalism as the evil enemy and a target to be destroyed.  They fully believe that government is god and that only government can create wealth, jobs, a stable economy and a utopia and therefore anyone who is conservative or a constitutionalist is a mortal enemy and must be destroyed without remedy.  For them, defeating constitutional conservatism at the polls is not enough the individuals and organizations so identified must be eviscerated, annihilated and completely eradicated from existence or forced into submission.

They see in the demise of the Republic as it was created a new Phoenix rising from the ashes and a New American Utopia established in its stead.  They seem to truly believe that America was founded by evil, selfish, hate filled white men.  The amazing thing is some of them have amassed fortunes from the very system they seek to destroy and are white but still they advance that agenda religiously.  (It is a religion).  They work in conjunction with the A.C.L.U., Moveon.org, and the Center for American Progress, Media Matters and other leftist organizations.  They also join with Islamic groups such as CAIR and seek to use America’s freedoms as weapons against this great nation.

            Although I believe that Barack Obama and his followers want to solidify and create a Democrat Party that is so overpowering it is undefeatable I do not believe he cares as much about the party as his legacy and place in history and his ascension to Grand Potentate of the Universe.  Is he that naïve, narcissistic, ideological and delusional?  YES!  Is he destroying America?  YES!  If another Democrat is elected will his agenda be advanced to the point of no return?  YES!

The grand tragedy is that there are millions who do not believe he wants to REMAKE America and millions who agree with his antipathy for America.  If you listen you will hear the voices like Jeremiah Wright ‘condemning’ America and becoming almost giddy when she suffers at the hands of those who want to destroy us.

This next election cycle is about far more than the White House or which party controls Congress it is about the Constitution, the Republic and Freedom.  If we do not evict those who refuse to stand firm constitutionally and elect people with patriotic courage, integrity and dogged determination to see America restored we have lost.  God can deliver us if we fall on our faces repenting and praying.  If we sit on our hands in our ivory towers and continue to declare that Christians cannot be involved we have lost. 

America the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave once a reality is in danger of becoming a memory.  What say you?  Will you stand for America and do what must be done to see her restored?

God bless you and God bless America!

I know, I know, that statement makes me a ‘conspiracy theorist’ regarding this administration and the left’s desire and push for gun control legislation.  It is going to come either as congressional legislation or an executive order issued as an emergency measure under the guise of stemming the violence taking place across our land.  You can doubt this if you choose but I fully believe a last ditch effort toward total confiscation of firearms from the citizens will take place before Obama’s term is up in January 2017.

Will that push us into a total civil war when law abiding private citizens are faced with the choice of complying with a law or edict from Washington to turn in their firearms or resist and stand on their unalienable rights?  Will it be that the vast majority passively or complainingly comply while a few million resist?  Will it result in the incarceration of many 2nd Amendment supporters who are largely conservative in their politics and further solidifying the voting advantage for the leftist?  Will America survive if they are successful?  These are all questions that cannot be fully answered but I have little doubt each of you has an opinion if you allow yourself to speculate in the scenario aforementioned.

      This president and the left ignore the incredible number of homicides within the inner cities of our nation where much of the crime is black on black as young blacks are mercilessly slaughtered by other blacks.  However, let a situation where the police shoot a black man regardless of the circumstances or a horrific situation like the AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina and the IMMEDIATE push is to label guns as the problem.  That is ludicrous!

I tread lightly as I in no way want to even hint that I am less than horrified and angered by what took place and condemn the actions of Dylan Storm Roof a 21 year old white male who apparently out of racial hatred, paranoia acted.  We know he was possibly on some mind altering substances before this took place as well.  Would he have committed this act without the drugs?  Who knows?  Is he to be condemned?  ABSOLUTELY!  Any act of terror is to be condemned and has no justification!  That is not the point I am approaching this from.

The tragic fact that something like this draws an IMMEDIATE reaction from Mr. Obama and the left that ‘guns are the problem’ is disturbing.  Forget the myriad of murders in the inner cities.  Forget the acts of terrorist and criminals using guns, knives, bombs, etc.  Forget all that and take advantage of the fact that a white male used a gun.  That means we must ban guns and if we have a law that controls or bans guns there will be no more gun violence.  I KNOW YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THAT!   Criminals and terrorist will not comply with the law. 

            Mr. Obama’s declaration that things like this do not happen in advanced countries is absurd.  He must not be aware of any acts of violence in any country in the world to make that statement or maybe he knows he can ignore facts and spin his agenda and those who support him and the media will jump on it like stink on a June bug.  America if we allow them to ‘ban guns’ for private law abiding citizens we will see the quick eradication of most if not all of our other constitutional rights.  I won’t go so far as to say that taking our guns would result in a Nazi-like move by the tyrants and would be gods in politics but they will strip our constitution to where it is a meaningless piece of paper and thereby enslave all.  I am fully convinced their agenda is to go far beyond guns but let it suffice to say the next move would be free speech, freedom of religion, unlawful and unreasonable search and seizure.  Just go down the list and check them off for our unalienable rights will be systematically and quickly eliminated.  We will be like the proverbial frog placed in a pan of water and the heat slowly turned up.  Rather than jumping out of the pan we will be boiled to death constitutionally or unconstitutionally.

THIS COMING ELECTION is about more than just who occupies the White House although that is critical.  It is about our constitutional rights and that means we MUST elect people to Congress who will rigidly defend the constitution and protect our rights afforded or identified by it.  If we fail to evict those who have shown signs of faltering on that front and send people to Washington and the State Houses who will protect and defend the constitution we are signing our own death warrant constitutionally.

I am convinced that in the wake of Charleston, SC and whatever subsequent police situations or other shootings take place Mr. Obama will do whatever it takes to make possessing or owning a firearm so tedious that many will give up the effort.  What will likely happen is enough citizens will resist that we will move to the next step calling it a National Emergency and via martial law declare guns in the hands or homes of citizens illegal.  That will leave the military, police and criminals armed if we comply.

            FULL ASSAULT ON THE CONSTITUTION IS COMING!  Label me whatever you please but remember what I am saying and watch what sneaky steps take place over the next few days, weeks and months.   We are on the precipice of losing our Republic totally and forever.  Will we keep it?

God bless you and God bless America!

I believe that Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote is quite germane: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”  Ronald Reagan said, “As government expands, liberty contacts.”  John Adams declared, “A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.  Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”  All should be warnings against the ever increasing rise in size, scope and power of the federal government.  The insatiable desire to tax and spend should cause the alarm bells to constantly ring within our hearts and minds in this great land.

The sad reality is that we appear to have evolved to a position and condition in American society where we want government to intervene when it can intervene on our behalf against anyone or anything in opposition.  We have groups today who clamor for the federal government to mandate everyone accept them or their ideological position.  It matters not to them that the pursuit of their perceived rights may well trample on the rights of another for only their rights are important.  It really does not matter what group or issue we are talking about when you seek the federal government to control and mandate that everyone comply with your platform you have entered a most dangerous realm.  A realm that will, at some point, prove to be your downfall and that of society.

There are those so desirous of assistance from the federal government in the form of cash, services, goods, or advancement of their cause they are willing to risk the impending loss of liberty that accompanies that control.  The federal government gives nothing without demands.  Are we really comfortable with allowing the federal government to regulate virtually every aspect of our lives?  Can we not see the ominous cloud that is rising with each abdication of our individual liberties?  Do we trust government or politicians to DO THE RIGHT THING?  No we do not and yet we want them to regulate and assist in our cause.

            What are we willing to give up in order to continue to receive our monthly check from Big Brother?  What are we willing to give up in order to have our group or cause recognized and heard?  What are we willing to give up to have a temporary sense of security and safety?  What we are willing to give up is a drop in the bucket of what the Government demands.  The old saying, “Give him and inch and he will take a mile” applies perfectly to the federal government.

Power corrupts and the more power the more corruption.  Most people tasting power develop an appetite for it, seek to entrench themselves in it and become convinced they are destined and deserving of it.  Despots and tyrants throughout history have evolved to the place where the citizenry became or become nothing more than subjects whose singular purpose was or is to serve them.  If we produce they increase and if we fail to produce the desired quantity and quality we are expendable.  They can live in splendor while the world around them lives in abject poverty with no noticeable troubling of their conscience.

            We have transitioned from a limited government in which the States maintained their individual rights and we the people controlled the government and policies of our State and thereby limited the federal government.  Today, the cart is before the horse and the federal government usurps the constitutional guidelines, national politicians enjoy position, power and privilege and WE THE PEOPLE are no longer truly represented and viewed as the true owners of the government as dictated in our constitution.

Mr. Franklin you were right and your warning has gone unheeded regarding our need to “Keep the Republic” you and our founding fathers so valiantly labored to provide.  God help us!  We are a society in which it appears there is a willingness to give up rights and liberties for whatever government assistance we seek.  It matters not if that is money, goods, services or elevation of our group or cause to the forefront.  If we get what we seek we seem willing to allow the federal government to take another piece of the Liberty Pie off the table.  How long before only crumbs remain?

            God bless you and God bless America!

One of the reasons I am not supportive of the U.S. Department of Education is the complete erosion of factual history and the complete revision of other disciplines.  The revisionist of the left have virtually rewritten our history.  We now have a generation that has been exposed to the New History and New Science since Kindergarten and many of them now have college degrees and even advanced degrees and it has completely shaped their worldview.

The liberal left virtually controls Education, especially at the institutions of higher learning as colleges and universities are called.  Anyone that disagrees with their ideological beliefs and views is ostracized, shamed, ridiculed and made to appear ignorant, intolerant and failing to progress and evolve with societal changes and mores.  Innocent young minds are conditioned at an early age to ‘accept’ the leftist pabulum and believe that if it is in the textbooks it has been validated, examined, tested and proven as factual.  Professors become virtual gods and students parrot the dogma presented either out of fear of receiving a bad mark or failure to use rational reason.

When education becomes a ward of the Federal Government and Institutions of learning become factories of liberal, environmental and progressive thought it is dangerous.  When successive generations are funneled through that system without a counter argument from parents, media, educators, politicians and/or clergy the Generational Brain Washing is complete and effective.  Are we now at the place where a 2nd or 3rd generation of students have come forth?  If we are and I fear we are then Constitutional Conservatism will be dealt a blow that will prove to be incredibly difficult to overcome and the Republic is hanging by a thread.

           I saw a recent poll that stated that revealed that over 54% of Americans believe that Hillary Clinton is dishonest and untrustworthy and only 38% believe her.  However, 62% of those consider her a capable strong leader and presidential material.  In head to head polls with Republicans she beats them all which is mind-numbing to me.  How can you consider her dishonesty, untruthfulness, culpability in Benghazi and more and still support her for President of these United States?  Have we been so brain washed and our moral values so eroded that this is the state of American politics?

Let me state that I believe in Education!  I believe that the information presented to young minds should be factual, informative and create an environment for them to inquire, investigate, examine, test and process.  It should cause them to THINK not simply become parrots of an ideology or theory presented as Law and Gospel by those molding and shaping their young and impressionable minds.  We should be producing people who have a quest of truth and determined to test and prove theorems and theories rather than being echoes of their professors.

Generational Brain Washing has been the objective of groups such as the Fabian Socialist for over 100 years.  It is the demonstrated objective of many educational groups and organizations.  In my view, seeking to Brain Wash young minds is demonstrating a lack of confidence in your belief and fear that if allowed to think for themselves they will disprove your argument.  It is a cowardly approach to education and life.

            Education and being informed are incredibly important components for an individual or nation which makes honesty, integrity and transparency requisite for political office.  If something is true it will bear examination and exposure to differing views.  If it is not true and only a hypothesis rather than proven fact then it should be, no must be tested.  How are we to combat this societal and educational dilemma?  They reject us as lunatics and fringe thinkers so we have no inroad to educate them.  They consider any conservative news outlet, blog or educator as out of touch so they do not listen.  We are tuned out before we are able to present our argument and sadly many Republican politicians are incapable of articulating the conservative philosophy and come across as ‘deniers without a reasoned argument.’

How do we combat this?  We must outnumber them at the polls.  We must somehow get the attention of those elected to hear and heed our voices.  We must become a nation of prayer once again for I am convinced that short of a miracle from God we have waited too long to become active, engaged and enraged at the assault on our Constitution, Freedom and Nation.  If we do not wake up, rise up, and stand we have lost!   You may find politics distasteful and even disgusting but if you treasure Freedom and Liberty you sometimes have to wade into the mud and push the wagon.

            God help us and God bless America!

In a perfect world, No.  But last time I checked we are not living in that place or condition.  Used car salesmen get a bad rap in the stereotype of all being shysters, crooks, cheats and con men and some are but it is unfair to lump all car salesmen or any salesman in that same pile.  I sold cars for a short time and refused to be dishonest.  It eventually cost me my job but my integrity was worth more than any sale.

John Adams once said, “There is danger from all men.  The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”  That was incredibly wise and even prophetic when we look back on American and world history.  Even Franklin D. Roosevelt, a president that would have suspended the constitution for his personal political end said, “Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.  The ultimate rulers of our democracy (republic) are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”  I somehow feel we have lost sight of that and feel certain that those in Washington do not agree, believe or intend for that to ever be reality again.  Power corrupts and ultimate power corrupts ultimately!  Thomas Jefferson said, “A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.” 

There was a time when politicians and citizens recognized and respected the constitution and that WE THE PEOPLE were supposed to be the FINAL VOICE and VOTE in all matters government.  That ship has sailed and while Barack H. Obama promised in his first campaign to be President that his would be the most TRANSPARENT administration in American history transparency seems to be that they have no regard for the people or the constitution.

            One can claim to have done great things, get people in powerful positions of influence using vast mediums of dispensing information to agree but that does not mean it is true.  One can plan deception and weave a web of deceit so intricate that even those closest to it are baffled by it and begin to believe it but it is still deception.  History is replete with examples of how Tyrants used deception and distortion in the guise of government helping to seize power and become tyrannical despots.  Is America in the process of succumbing?

Adolf Hitler was declared “Time’s Man of the Year” in 1938 and campaigned on a platform of benefit of the people.  How did that work out?  Hitler was a despotic madman with an evil agenda and hatred for Free Governments.  He ‘fundamentally transformed’ German into his evil empire and was a clear threat to the entire Free World and even much of the Communist World.

Josef Stalin was the “Man of the Year” in 1939 and 1942 a man that FDR called ‘Uncle Joe’ during the 1930’s.  He exterminated at least 20 million of his own people but campaigned as a man of and for the people and against those of power and position.  Sound familiar?  How did that work out for Russia or the Soviet Empire?

Nikita Khrushchev was “Man of the Year” in 1957.  He proudly declared, “We will not have to destroy America with missiles; America will destroy itself from within.”  Could it be that he saw through the crystal ball of life and knew what was happening with the Fabian Socialist and other Anti-American factions slowing making headway within our government?

The Ayatollah Khomeini was the “Man of the Year” in 1979.  A despot who rose to power with the help of Jimmy Carter and waged savagery on his own people using the youth to torture, rape and execute political opposition.  Ronald Reagan called him, “a maniacal fanatic who has slaughtered thousands and thousands of people, calling it executions.”

Those are just a few.  Cuba’s revolution heralded a Freedom Fighter in Fidel Castro supposedly with the interest of the Cuban people at the heart of his campaign.  How has that worked out?   We could cite case after case of Despotic Tyrants in history and almost every time the common theme would be “We are here to help!”   With that kind of help we need no opposition. 

Today we are labeled ‘racist’, ‘phobes’, ‘bigots’ or something worse if we oppose what the bloated, overreaching and intrusive Big Government is doing.  After all, we are supposed to quietly, passively be docile, drink the Kool-Aid and praise the work of THE GOVERNMENT.  They would never deceive us, would they?   After all the government is US, isn’t it?  Therefore, if it is deceiving us then we are deceiving ourselves.   We can be sheep or citizens.  We can think or be mindlessly ignorant and fail to even casually observe.   Big Government is not the friend of Freedom and never will be.   WHAT SHALL WE DO AMERICA?  WHAT SHALL WE DO?

            God bless you and God bless America!