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Monday, December 7, 2009
The Foundation
"I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty." --Thomas Jefferson
Hundreds of private jets and limos bring smog to CopenhagenLiberty
"With 20,000 delegates, advocates and journalists jetting to Copenhagen for planet Earth's last chance, the carbon footprint of the global warming summit will be the only impressive consequence of the climate change meeting. Its organizers had hoped it would produce binding caps on emissions, global taxation to redistribute trillions of dollars, and micromanagement of everyone's choices. China, nimble at the politics of pretending that is characteristic of climate change theater, promises only to reduce its 'carbon intensity' -- carbon emissions per unit of production. So China's emissions will rise. Barack Obama, understanding the histrionics required in climate change debates, promises that U.S. emissions in 2050 will be 83 percent below 2005 levels. If so, 2050 emissions will equal those in 1910, when there were 92 million Americans. But there will be 420 million in 2050, so Obama's promise means that per capita emissions then will be about what they were in 1875. That. Will. Not. Happen." --columnist George Will
Political Futures
"[W]hatever the final verdict on the [Climatic Research Unit's] shenanigans, two things are already firmly established by even a sympathetic reading of these documents. First, the climate-change industry is shot through with groupthink (or what climate scientist Judith Curry calls 'climate tribalism'). Activists would have us believe that the overwhelming majority of 'real' scientists agree with them while the few dissenters are all either crazed or greedy 'deniers' akin to flat-earthers and creationists. These e-mails show that what's really at work is a very large clique of scientists attempting to excommunicate perceived heretics for reasons that have more to do with psychology and sociology than physics or climatology. Second, the climate industry really is an industry. Climate scientists make their money and careers from government, academia, the United Nations, and foundations. The grantors want the grantees to confirm the global-warming 'consensus.' The tenure and peer-review processes likewise hinge on conformity. That doesn't necessarily mean climate change isn't happening, but it does mean sloppiness and bias are unavoidable." --columnist Jonah Goldberg
Remembering Pearl Harbor
"December 7, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. ... Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory. ... With confidence in our armed forces -- with the unbounded determination of our people -- we will gain the inevitable triumph -- so help us God." --Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat far removed from today's crop of defeatists
On that fateful "Day of Infamy," 353 Japanese planes attacked a military target killing 2,390 American servicemen and civilians and wounding 1,282. The attack sank or damaged eight battleships, three cruisers, three destroyers and one minelayer and destroyed 188 aircraft. It took four years and the full military-industrial capability of the United States to defeat Japan. It is with honor and respect for those who died or suffered terrible injuries that Sunday morning that we should never again fall into the slumber that allowed such a tragedy as Pearl Harbor -- or the attack on Sept. 11, 2001 -- again.
The Gipper
"The fact is that in the past few decades we have seen a dramatic shift in how we spend the taxpayer's dollar. Back in 1955, payments to individuals took up only about 20 percent of the federal budget. For nearly three decades, these payments steadily increased and, this year, will account for 49 percent of the budget. By contrast, in 1955 defense took up more than half of the federal budget. By 1980 this spending had fallen to a low of 23 percent. Even with the increase that I am requesting this year, defense will still amount to only 28 percent of the budget. The calls for cutting back the defense budget come in nice, simple arithmetic. They're the same kind of talk that led the democracies to neglect their defenses in the 1930s and invited the tragedy of World War II. We must not let that grim chapter of history repeat itself through apathy or neglect. ... Free people must voluntarily through open debate and democratic means, meet the challenge that totalitarians pose by compulsion. It's up to us, in our time, to choose and choose wisely between the hard but necessary task of preserving peace and freedom and the temptation to ignore our duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by day." --Ronald Reagan
Re: The Left
"[T]here was too much 'I' in [Obama's West Point] speech. George H.W. Bush famously took the word 'I' out of his speeches -- we called them 'I-ectomies' -- because of a horror of appearing to be calling attention to himself. Mr. Obama is plagued with no such fears. 'When I took office ... I approved a long-standing request ... After consultations with our allies I then ... I set a goal.' That's all from one paragraph. Further down he used the word 'I' in three paragraphs an impressive 15 times. 'I believe I know' 'I have signed' 'I have read' 'I have visited.' I, I -- ay yi yi. This is a man badly in need of an I-ectomy. After the president announced his plan he seemed to slip in, 'After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home.' Then came the reference to July 2011 as the date departure begins. It was startling to hear a compelling case for our presence followed so quickly by an abrupt announcement of our leaving. It sounded like a strategy based on the song Groucho Marx used to sing, 'Hello, I must be going.'" --columnist Peggy Noonan

Opinion in Brief
"Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America's new strategy for Afghanistan. It seemed like a campaign speech combined with Bush rhetoric -- and left both dreamers and realists feeling distraught. ... It was the least truthful address that he has ever held. He spoke of responsibility, but almost every sentence smelled of party tactics. He demanded sacrifice, but he was unable to say what it was for exactly. An additional 30,000 US soldiers are to march into Afghanistan -- and then they will march right back out again. America is going to war -- and from there it will continue ahead to peace. It was the speech of a Nobel War Prize laureate. For each troop movement, Obama had a number to match. US strength in Afghanistan will be tripled relative to the Bush years, a fact that is sure to impress hawks in America. But just 18 months later, just in time for Obama's re-election campaign, the horror of war is to end and the draw down will begin. The doves of peace will be let free. The speech continued in that vein. It was as though Obama had taken one of his old campaign speeches and merged it with a text from the library of ex-President George W. Bush. Extremists kill in the name of Islam, he said, before adding that it is one of the 'world's great religions.' He promised that responsibility for the country's security would soon be transferred to the government of President Hamid Karzai -- a government which he said was 'corrupt.' The Taliban is dangerous and growing stronger. But 'America will have to show our strength in the way that we end wars,' he added. It was a dizzying combination of surge and withdrawal, of marching to and fro." --Der Spiegel columnist Gabor Steingart
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"Here is a math problem for you: Assume that the legislation establishing government control of medical care is passed and that it 'brings down the cost of medical care.' You pay $500 a year less for your medical care, but the new costs put on employers is passed on to consumers, so that you pay $300 a year more for groceries and $200 a year more for gasoline, while the new mandates put on insurance companies raise your premiums by $300 a year, how much money have you saved?" --economist Thomas Sowell
For the Record
"[T]here is no other rational explanation for Obama's obsession to enact Obamacare than his desire to increase government control over every aspect of our lives. As others have noted, Obama and company have employed multiple gimmicks to conceal and misrepresent the true costs of Obamacare. Like other groups wanting to destroy America from the outside, liberals are patient. By backloading their spending, they hope to deceive Americans into thinking their plan is budget-neutral. Thus, their bills disguise their true net costs by deferring most new spending for five years (while increasing taxes and cutting Medicare almost immediately). This trick is so transparently deceitful that if attempted by a Republican administration, we'd have already heard rumblings for impeachment. Specifically, Democrats have said their proposal would cost $848 billion over 10 years, but the true cost would be some multiple of that. Using Congressional Budget Office figures, Investor's Business Daily reports that only 1 percent of the spending would come in the first four years of the 10 years the Democrats are counting (2010-13). If you begin the 10-year calculation in the year appreciable spending would begin -- 2014 -- the cost would be $1.8 trillion. (Sen. Judd Gregg, it should be noted, estimates the costs for that 10-year period -- 2014-23 -- would be much greater, at $2.5 trillion.) Over the next five years (2024-28), the costs would escalate even faster, totaling $1.7 trillion. In addition, the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon reveals another gimmick Democrats are using to understate the actual costs for the first true 10-year period. Obama, despite his campaign promises to the contrary, would force the voluntarily uninsured to purchase health insurance. Those mandated costs should be counted as a tax just as surely as if they were first paid to the government for distribution to the insurance companies. In fact, the CBO did score similar mandates as taxes under Hillary Clinton's reform plan in the '90s. But by treating these mandated costs as 'off-budget,' Obama hides 60 percent of the bill's total costs, according to Cannon. When all these gimmicks are correctly accounted for, says Cannon, 'the total cost of ObamaCare reaches ... $6.25 trillion.'" --columnist David Limbaugh
Faith & Family
"Michael Oher's story has already received much attention. How a homeless black 15-year-old winds up in a Christian private school and how a white Christian couple adopted him and helped him develop to get the grades to stay in school, become a star athlete, an All-American football player and a multimillion-dollar NFL draft pick. Our wake-up call should be that the factors that saved and transformed Michael Oher's life stand in stark contrast to the government solutions we hear from Washington about dealing with our problems relating to poverty and education. Oher's story is about private individuals, about personal choices and responsibility, and about Christians. ... Michael Oher ... couldn't have done it without a Christian school and his caring Christian adopted parents who loved him and respected his uniqueness. President Barack Obama's $4.5 billion in new education spending will not fix our education crisis. Government and moral relativism never has been the answer and will not be. School choice and traditional values are the answers. It's freedom, not bureaucrats, that produces miracles. Michael Oher may be an exceptional individual, but his story need not be an exceptional story." --columnist Star Parker
Reader Comments
"To use Psalm 109:8 as a prayer is wrong, and beneath the dignity of The Patriot Post. Should we extend that prayer one verse further to 109:9? 'May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.' Please not. His days should be around 1,460 and not one day more. I hope that in 2013 another will take his place! Paul, in Romans, teaches us that those in authority are placed there by God. Praying to our God to remove someone prematurely (wishing for the President's early demise) is wrong." --Don
Editor's Reply: Notably, we stopped with verse 8, though we're certain that David meant every word of the whole Psalm.
"Amen, preach it brother! Would to God the other 33 million Obama voters would wake up in time for the 2010 and 2012 elections. If Obama were familiar with sacred Scripture, he would know that 'The sins of some men are conspicuous, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others appear later.'" (1 Timothy 5:24)." --Roger
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The Last Word
"As we now know (and by 'we' I mean 'everyone with access to the Internet'), the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has just been caught ferociously manipulating the data about the Earth's temperature. Recently leaked e-mails from the 'scientists' at CRU show that, when talking among themselves, they forthrightly admit to using a 'trick' to 'hide the decline' in the Earth's temperature since 1960 -- as one e-mail says. Still another describes their manipulation of the data thus: '[W]e can have a proper result, but only by including a load of garbage!' Am I just crazy from the heat or were they trying to deceive us? Global warming cheerleaders in the media were quick to defend the scandalous e-mails, explaining that, among scientists, the words 'trick,' 'hide the decline' and 'garbage' do not mean 'trick,' 'hide the decline' and 'garbage.' These words actually mean 'onion soup,' 'sexual submissive' and 'Gary, Ind.' (Boy, it must be great to be able to redefine words right in the middle of a debate.) Also, of course, the defenders said that the words needed to be placed 'in context' -- the words' check was in the mail, and they'd like to spend more time with their families. I have placed the words in context and it turns out what they mean is: gigantic academic fraud. ... The way this episode is unfolding, the environmentalists may be forced to drop their phantom threat of global warming and go back to the phantom threat of global cooling." --columnist Ann Coulter
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Glenda
As usual, Ann Coulter is right. God bless her.
Posted December 7, 2009 at 11:47:51 AM
John Banner
Re: Psalm 109:8
"Paul, in Romans, teaches us that those in authority are placed there by God." God has given us free will. We can use it to be Patriots, suicide bombers, or elect negative people into office. The choices and consequences, are ours.
Posted December 7, 2009 at 12:20:14 PM
earl Richard
I would urge you not to confuse patriotism with facts. FDR knew without any question that Japan was going to attack Pearl Harbor. Perhaps you should read Admiral Layton's book, AND I WAS THERE. Admiral Layton was top commander the the Pacific area at the time. Also, Admiral Kimmel, who was accused of dereliction of duty was eventually exonerated by the U.S. Congress. Patroitism does not mean we have to fight a war.
Posted December 7, 2009 at 12:29:46 PM
Paul C. Williams
the Heartland Institute published a report-www.surfacestations.org that inspected 860 0f the 1,221 official National Weather Service Temperature stations.
photographs were also taken of each of the 860 stations.
The results were that 9 of 10 stations did not meet the NWS criteria for their position, namely 30 meters from heat sources such as exhausts from air conditioning, asphalt roads or parking lots, hot roof tops, wastewater treatment plant plants, etc. that increase local temperature.
The official temperature average is obviously higher than the actual temperature. How can we therefore assume that Global Warming is real if the data on which it is based is wrong ?
Posted December 7, 2009 at 12:37:18 PM
Bob Shearer
David Limbaugh wrote: [T]here is no other rational explanation for Obama's obsession to enact Obamacare than his desire to increase government control over every aspect of our lives."
Yes there is. Another rational explanation for his drive for Obamacare and his other policies and decisions is that he intends to damage the United States as much as he can for as long as he can.
This explanation fits the available evidence better than any other. I have heard of no evidence to the contrary.
Posted December 7, 2009 at 1:03:03 PM
Millard
I'm trying to figure out what Earl Richard is talking about. His post has "NOTHING" to do with global warming....unless of course he's making a comparison. I'm not sure what to think only that Al Gore and his cronies are nothing more than frauds.
Posted December 7, 2009 at 1:10:23 PM
John L. Hiltzheimer
I have one question for Al "Climate expert" Gore: "Are you SERIOUS??"
Now that the exposure of Climategate has emerged, Mr. Knowitall, how can you stick with your belief that the world is going to heat up in the millenium, if ever?? I love the complete lack of veracity of the alarmists out there!!
To the editors of this Post: I like the way you all think!! Keep up the good work!!
Posted December 7, 2009 at 1:12:39 PM
Mark D. Houseknecht
Re: Psalm 109:8-9
Imprecatory prayers are found throughout the Holy Bible. They are not out of place at all. To ask God, Who holds the hearts of the leaders in His hands, to move on behalf of God's people isn't out of the ordinary. The Psalmist (David) certainly meant Psalm 109 as such. And this portion of Scriptue is just as much fully-inspired as all other portions of the Bible.
It is not out of sorts to pray for the salvation of, or removal of, evil leaders that have been allowed to rule over God's people.
Folks, don't fall for this "Christian people should be pacifists." Or that 'separation of church and state' means that the Christian can't influence our earthly leaders. Or to turn the other cheek means that we as Christians should be treated like welcome mats to walked over. No sir! True Christians are true patriots who love the the USA with a deep and loyal passion! Semper fidelis!!! Mark H.
Posted December 7, 2009 at 1:42:42 PM
pilgrim 1776
Your article regarding Pearl Harbor and the statement that it will never occur again, or that we will never be asleep again, is another example of misinformation. What about the twin towers, what about oklahoma, what about all of the travesties that have occurred because the masses-r-asses have been so dumbed-down by the government schools and the totally controlled media that they do not have the slightest idea how they are being dominated and destroyed.
Please have your writers wake up and learn the truth that we are totally controlled otherwise I will definitely unsubscribe. I have been diligently studying the past to learn how and why this once great Republic has been destroyed and it is the greed of the money controllers. Jesus through the money-changers out of the temple and that was the indication that THEY are the problem! The book, the Creature From Jekyll Island, clearly exposed who the problem people are but, as in the book, Animal Farm, the sheeep(le) only bleat!
Posted December 7, 2009 at 1:46:37 PM
Jim Greig
The Telegraph UK reports that the delegates to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference have ordered up to 1200 limos, so many so that they need to be driven in from France and Germany. Add to that the 140 extra private jets that are scheduled to land at the local airport for the conference and you could grow another rain forrest with all the extra carbon they are emitting!
Posted December 7, 2009 at 1:50:40 PM
Dan Wallenmeyer
Seniors to the rescue. "In seasonal flu, certain people are at high risk of serious complications. This includes people 65 and older, younger than five, pregnant women and people of any age with certain cronic conditions"
"One thing that apears to be different from seasonal flu is that adults older than 64 years do not yet appear to be at increased risk of 2009 H1N1 related complications thus far. CDC lab studies have shown that no children and very few adults younger than 60 have existing antibody to 2009 H1N1; however, about one third of adults older than 60 may have antibodies against this virus"
This info was from the Hood River Medical Clinic this past summer, and sure enough, those over 65 have been excluded from the H1N1 vacine priority list.
Perhaps our ability to develop antibodies against new diseases is the reasoning behind removing 500 billion from Medicare without lowering our quality of health care
Posted December 7, 2009 at 2:01:14 PM
Paul Edwards
Barack Obama's "new" Afghanistan strategy reminds me of "The Grand Old Duke of York", a little ditty we used to teach Cub Scouts. It goes something like this, accompanied by standing on the word "up" and sitting on the word "down":
The grand old Duke of York,
He had 10,000 men,
He marched them up the hill,
and marched them down again.
When you're up you're up,
and when you're down, you're down,
and when you're only halfway up,
You're neither up nor down.
Substitute the words: "Emperor of the World" and "30,000 men" and you have the Obama Afghanistan strategy.
P.S.: Wasn't Senator Obama one of those who said the "Surge" wouldn't work?
Posted December 7, 2009 at 2:06:57 PM
Ann N Proffitt
Why is there even going to be a meeting on "Global Warming" when there is no such thing. It is a scam and the scan has been outed. Does this Admisnistration really feel the whole of the population of the US are total fools? The only thing the world needs saving from are those in DC.
I am amazed daily at the gall displayed on a daily basis.
Posted December 7, 2009 at 2:12:27 PM
jksisco
Yes, December 7, 1941 is a day that should be remembered for the tragic loss of life, however, FDR, like most Liberals was surrounded by Communists, and there are many who would argue that FDR was aware of the impending Japanese attack, yet, for unknown reasons failed to let his Generals be warned thus providing a more compelling reason to enter WWII, Obama seems to be cut from the same cloth.
Posted December 7, 2009 at 2:35:42 PM
momma*mk
I love The Patriot--I've been reading it since college. One suggestion, if I may: at least with Reagan's quotes, please include the date of the speech (and maybe even the reason for it). Thanks for all you do in our quest to preserve America!
Posted December 7, 2009 at 2:43:05 PM
Keith Crabtree
It's Pearl Harbor Day and the opening of the Global Warming Farce in Copenhagen.
Wonder if the Obamination will use use it as an opportunity to apologize to the Japanese for Pearl Harbor?
Posted December 7, 2009 at 2:43:45 PM
Tony R.
If we had a generation of "Defeatests" in Congress 60 years ago,this world would be a different place.
for I do not understand.but ever since we withdrew the last of our combat troops from the former South Vietnam in 1973,our Federal Government has created the "Cut and Run" principal.
instead of finishing a war,[like W.W.2]we set a time table to withdraw before the job is trough.
so we fight untill the Government says "Ok that's enough, time to come home".
when will we be alowed to use the full military might of our Country?
to finish what we start.
Thank God the late President Franklin Rosevelt did not think like that.
imagine what this world would be like if he did.
Posted December 7, 2009 at 3:27:28 PM
Howard A. Parsons
In response to Don concerning using Psalm 109:8 as a prayer, why is it wrong? You say that Paul, in Romans, teaches us that those in authority are placed there by God. That means that when the Antichrist comes to power he will have been placed there by God. So what does that mean exactly? Was it wrong for our Founding Fathers to rebel against England? You say that praying to God to remove someone prematurely is wrong. If God removes a leader because of such a prayer, I assure you it is neither premature nor wrong. What IS WRONG is for a Christian to knowingly support a politician or political party that advocates the murder of unborn human children.
Posted December 7, 2009 at 3:33:19 PM
******* ***
The Global Warming Gurus (The do not deserve to be called scientists) have shamed the entire scientific community. When the world finds out that they are a bunch of Charlatans who have committed the greatest hoax in history in the name of Science, all scientists will be smeared with the same brush. Since the climate crooks have destroyed their raw data, it is doubtful that anyone will be able to accurately construct a climate history of the last hundred years or perhaps for even a longer period of time.
Even if genuinely reconstructed to the best of their abillity by honest men and women, who will believe them?
There are an enormous number of men of scientific integrity that have signed a petition stating that they do not believe what the Climate Gurus were foisting upon the world. But they have been shamed by the mainstream media and callously termed "Deniers". I would much rather believe the work of Deniers that that of the proven liar Climate Gurus.
All the more shame is that teachers and educators have been pronouncing Climate Warming, or now, Climate Change to our young children. They are claiming that man is destroying the earth as if it were gospel. None of that is really known, except we seem to know for a fact that the earth's climate has always been changing, but are less certain for the reasons.
I am by profession a METROLOGIST. Metrology is the SCIENCE OF MEASUREMENT! Often accused of misspelling, I now thank GOD that we can make a clear distinction between our fellow men of science and the Climate Warming Gurus. I say clear, but it may not be clear to the general public. I have always had a feeling of mistrust of the claims of the Climate Gurus. I could never see how that they were able to make their claims of measurement accuracy to tenths of even hundredths of a degree around the world and over a century. I never saw an ERROR ANALYSIS of any sort from the Climate Warming Gurus. Any sort of valid ERROR ANALYSIS takes into account all known sorts of physical effects that contributes to the final result of the measurement, and evaluates them on a somewhat statistically rigid summation of all errors. That leads to a statement of "UNCERTAINTY" of the measurement with statistical confidence bounds of one, two, or three Sigma. Has any one ever seen that published for meteorological data?
Posted December 7, 2009 at 3:52:47 PM
Rob
I don't understand how anyone can think the govt is doing "good for America". If some guy in a hooded shirt came up to me on the street and pointed a gun at my head and said "pay for my mom to have surgery", isn't that a crime? How can Govt get away with that?
Posted December 7, 2009 at 4:07:19 PM
Freeman Shell
I have been a hawk since I was in Jr High when LBJ became President. (RVN 72-73) but please look at the plans for Afghanistan. We are going to consolidate and save the south while leaving the Northern Provinces to the NVA opps the Taliban. This is what we did after the invasion in South Vietnam in 1972. We made no attempts to have a free South Vietnam. You cannot give away half of the country and expect to win when you have already started the troop withdrawals (opps Vietnam again) now Afghanistan. If we are going to fight adn die , let it be for something, not just paid off warlords. Add a 0 or two 00s to the rewards for the bad guys, it is cheaper.
Posted December 7, 2009 at 5:39:41 PM
Ileana
Surely the poster must have been jesting when he said that the reasoning behind the Medicare cuts is that elderly people develop antibodies against new disease. With all due respect, did you hear this on MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, or NBC?
Posted December 7, 2009 at 5:52:41 PM
Ray W. Johnson
I'm distressed that conservatives still believe that Obamacare will not pass. It will. Also that there will not be environmental legislation because of the email. Enviromental legislation will pass. Also the email only covers man-made global warming, nog global warming in general.
Posted December 7, 2009 at 6:03:28 PM
Ash
Another product of a Marxist President and his goal to "disrupt, dismantle, and destroy" is again evident of another destruction decision by the EPA to regulate CO2 and 5 other dangerous gases. This is not something this dictator even asked Congress to vote on; it was dictator by "nudging" from Cass Sunstein who is another Progressive who seeks Totalitian rule.
We should all call for impeachment or we can continue to watch this Republic be totally dismantled courtesy of Cloward and Pivens and Saul Alinsky; this administration's playbook for leadership.
Posted December 7, 2009 at 6:08:45 PM
mitch
The current so called health care bill has nothing to do with health or care. The current decision for the EPA to now mandate regulation of "dangerous" greenhouse gases has nothing to do with concern for people and the environment. They both are about despotism and we are witnessing it on a daily basis as traditional America becomes dismantled by Obama and his cohorts.
Posted December 7, 2009 at 6:22:37 PM
Ron Peters
So the scientific fraud about global warming has been uncovered, and Al Gore still rides around in his private jet leaving carbon footprints everywhere, and Nancy Pelosi spends more money on flowers each month for her office than many folks do for food. So what?
If conservatives were doing this, there would be a lynch mob forming. However, all the democratic liberals have to do is say "oops" and all is forgiven by the press (if it's even mentioned at all).
AMERICANS WAKE UP! LET'S TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY!
Posted December 7, 2009 at 11:23:27 PM
David taylor
The comment by Don on psalm 109:8 saying paul teaches those in authority are placed by God is not exactly what paul say's. Paul makes it clear saying for rulers are not a terror to good works but to evil. also David in II samuel 23:3 tells us He that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God. Hosea 8:4 God say's They have set up Kings but not by me.
Posted December 8, 2009 at 7:01:43 AM
Jay Raney
What in the world is the fractured scientific community thinking of. Most people have thought this a lie for a long time. Guess what---IT IS A LIE called Global warming. Maybe Ann Coulter is right. now Global Cooling!
Posted December 8, 2009 at 11:31:25 AM
Charles E Pehl
Global Warming will go the way of Acid Rain
and Piltdown Man.
Posted December 8, 2009 at 3:35:19 PM
Constitutional Defender, Rob
It seems that anything and everything possible will be done to compromise on health care legislation to simply pass something.
Ray, I think you are right. Some form of legislation will be railroaded through. No one should give up the fight on defeating this oppression of American liberty.
My question is: who is mounting the judicial challenge on the grounds of Constitutional Authority? Will the Supreme Court listen to THAT? Who is defending the Constitution?
I am 100% in favor of House Resolution 450 and Senate Resolution 1319. But would these resolutions halt the charge on health care and other unconstitutional legislation?
Posted December 9, 2009 at 2:56:05 AM
Jeff J
In the spirit of Obama's Afghanistan speech announcing a buildup followed immediately by a withdrawl, I would like to announce:
Obama is not here today, and always will be.
Posted December 9, 2009 at 3:43:18 AM
Guy L W Hardy
Questions we may ask our liberal friends:
We may indeed, with propriety, be said to have reached almost the last stage of national humiliation. There is scarcely anything that can wound the pride or degrade the character of an independent nation which we do not experience.
Are there engagements to the performance of which we are held by every tie respectable among men?
Do we owe debts to foreigners and to our own citizens contracted in a time of imminent peril for the preservation of our political existence?
Have we valuable territories and important posts in the possession of a foreign power which, by express stipulations, ought long since to have been surrendered?
Are we even in a condition to remonstrate with dignity?
Is public credit an indispensable resource in time of public danger?
Is commerce of importance to national wealth?
Is respectability in the eyes of foreign powers a safeguard against foreign encroachments?
Is a violent and unnatural decrease in the value of land a symptom of national distress?
Is private credit the friend and patron of industry?
To shorten an enumeration of particulars which can afford neither pleasure nor instruction, it may in general be demanded, what indication is there of national disorder, poverty, and insignificance that could befall a community so peculiarly blessed with natural advantages as we are, which does not form a part of the dark catalogue of our public misfortunes?
Excerpts from "Defects in the Articles of Confederation" Alexander Hamilton
Posted December 10, 2009 at 10:57:56 AM
John Ingle
I saw you being chastised about which verses you should or shouldn't use in reference to Mr. Obama. However, while chastising you, the reader refers to those in "authority" as having been placed there by God. That is exactly why our founders did what they did, by making the Constitution the ultimate "authority" instead of men, knowing so well the temptations of men. Now, if we could just get back to using it.
Posted December 12, 2009 at 12:12:58 AM
Dave
Regarding Obama and Scripture, his statement that "we are no longer a Christian nation" and his pillaging of the nation's treasury reminds me of 2 Chronicles chapter 12 about Israel's King Rehoboam who "abandoned the Lord", and allowed Egypt to carry off the nation's treasures. It seems we now have our own King Rehobama!
Posted December 12, 2009 at 1:06:45 PM