A joke Russians used to tell each other:

Stalin brought us to the "Edge of a precipice," and under Stalin we made the "Great leap forward."

Finally a legitimate reason to consider proposed Obamacare. Keith Olbermann emphatically declared on his MSNBC program that he will NOT purchase govt. mandated health insurance. "Fine me if you will, jail me if you must" he blustered. Now the fact of the matter is he wants an even more onerous takeover of our health care system. But his statements certainly gets one contemplating the possibilities...

By what authority does a district judge tell Congress to whom it must give our tax money?

"This Week's 'Alpha Jackass' Award

"A good, solid B-plus." That's the grade Barack... ...Obama hasn't accomplished any of his major policy goals

...If that's B+ material, just imagine what an F looks like."

I think Obama is being more honest here than you give him credit for. You are rating him for what he hasn't done (rescue the economy, etc.)whearas Mr. Obama is rating the accomplishment of his real goals ( the destruction of capitalism, bringing the economy to its knees, government takeover of major industries etc., advancement of Socialism and one world government).

Rated for these things, he is one of the most successful presidents in U.S. history!

Painfully so!

A quibble:

>>Health care "reform" is, after all, his primary domestic policy initiative.

From a different POV:

As a Marxist, destroying our economy is Obama's primary domestic policy initiative. A stink bug by any other name would...

Conveniently, our public education system, which fails our children by not educating them, but propagandizing them while violating their right to freedom of religious expression, and feeding them school lunches that are less healthy than a Big Mac, is broken. (I'd go with the Big Mac, too!)

The next domino falling is college freshmen who can't do 6th grade math and may or may not be literate, but perhaps semi-literate. Just my opinion, but I think a high school graduate should be able to read and understand the Constitution, whether or not they realize the significance of this blueprint for liberty. It's not like it's "Moby Dick" or "War and Peace," both hefty enough to serve as a deadly weapon. Who is John Galt?

If the left can dominate (destroy) education and the economy, one can only wonder what they will do with our military.

I supported my son's decision to join the Army as an honor graduate of high school, serving as a sharpshooter in Iraq as a sergeant with a crew of eight, but am much more concerned now that he is in Afghanistan, knowing that my "little boy" (he's now taller than I and solid as a rock) was put at risk while Obama dithered over sending more troops.

I believe it was 166 troops who died during the dithering, but might be off a bit.

Did history teach our elected officials nothing? Are we to understand that the lessons of the Whiskey Rebellion mean nothing? Should our government pass this healthcare bill now on top of spending billions of our dollars on dictatorial nations' "global warming" hoax the people of this great Nation will surely rise up and take it back.

On missle defense- If Iranians are capable of advanced staging of missles, you can be sure the North Koreans will be soon. No wonder THE ONE rarely visits Seattle.

I can't believe that such things as bribery and cohersion go unpunished in the government. I think I'm safe to say every state in the US has some sort of law against it. Why then can the people in government, the ones we elect, not be held to the law? Pass this bill or shut down Strategic Air Command? How is this helping employment if thousands of jobs are lost?

"our nuclear-capable bomber platforms can also carry conventional munitions" Don't forget most of those aircraft bays were "modified" to fit nuclear arms, either physically upgraded or simply stepped up on a list of approved armaments. Those same craft can be de-listed from the nuclear arsenal, yet they will still be ready when a CIC with his or her head squared away needs to deploy them fitted with the equipment they are still physically capable of carrying.

Question: can you post the truth behind the 46M Americans who have no health insurance? I read an article (I think in the Wall Street Journal) that made up that number. It was excellent and I forwarded to my Patriot friends for them to pass along and dispell the lies being told by the left.

If you can find it and post, I would be most appreciative. (Maybe Karl Rove was the author)

Many thanks and Merry Christmas!!!!!

Isn't it a shame that the only thing our elected officials can think of is what is good for the PARTY and getting me reelected. I do wish that the Congress could forget which side of the isle they sit on and do what is best for country as a whole.

Isn't it interesting that just one Senator can derail the Obamacrats' "big push" to "reform health care"? That tells me that the rest of those Senators are wind socks, dullards, Caspar Milquetoasts, spineless, yellow cowards who haven't the honesty or the courage to obey We, the People's will. In 1933 Germany, such as they scattered roses before das Fuhrer's Mercedes and saluted the savior of that nation. After the crushing of Germany, those same people tried to convince the rest of the world that there was nothing that they could have done. They said that they never suspected that the smell of burning flesh had any real significance. Once the Reichstag was gutted and the books were burned and Kristallnacht had driven the Jews onto east-bound trains, of course there was nothing that could have been done. The symptoms of the cancer infecting the American Body Politic are patently obvious. If We, the People, allow the degeneracy to develop any further, there will be no cleansing the Congress and there'll be no saving this Republic. History's warnings about the decline and fall of the few democracies that have developed are crystal-clear. We, the People, are at the tipping point. It isn't about our grandchildren. It's about us. Today. Now.

Global Warming:

Why not publish a comprehensive dissertation on global warming as to the true facts. Backed up by reliable scientists! Right now, it is a total mess and nothing substantive to form a knowlegable opinion.

Responding to Brenda Goins

Question: can you post the truth behind the 46M Americans who have no health insurance? I read an article (I think in the Wall Street Journal) that made up that number. It was excellent and I forwarded to my Patriot friends for them to pass along and dispell the lies being told by the left. If you can find it and post, I would be most appreciative. (Maybe Karl Rove was the author) Many thanks and Merry Christmas! Posted December 18, 2009 at 1:56:32 PM>>>>>>>Ms. Goins: It isn't about the number of uninsured. It's that the Congress and the president do not have the Constitutional authority to be involved in health care -- or retirement or education or student loans or mortgages or "the environment" or agricultural subsidies or any of the other thousands of their manufactured duties. Article 1, Section 8, of that Founding Document ENUMERATES the DUTIES of the Congress -- and there are only SEVENTEEN. James Madison insisted that those duties be written down so that federal government would forever be LIMITED only to those LIMITED duties -- hence LIMITEED GOVERNMENT. He also insisted that the "general welfare clause" be inserted to allow Congress to spend money ONLY on those seventeen duties. Once they had taken care of their limited responsibilities, Congress would disband, go home and leave The People alone. It was never the Founders' intention that Congress would become permanent employment. It doesn't matter how many Americans are "uninsured." "Figures lie and liars figure." We're seeing what happens when successive presidents and Congresses ignore the Constitution or interpret it to fit their designs. The evolutionary abandoning of that Document began with FDR and his hand-picked Supreme Court and has reached its apogee under Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Durban, Frank, Murtha, Dodd. This Nation is at a tipping point. This day. Now.

Question for Senator Blanche Lincoln: How is "Provide for the general welfare..." in the Constitution come out reading, "Health Care is mandatory; buy it!" Don't these people know how to read? Don't they know what reading comprehension is? Darn it, lady, you can force me to buy brussels sprouts, but you can't force me to eat them!

Considering the apparent bribery, and obvious coersion being resorted to by this administration, and the men/women in Congress willing to allow it, it appears that we have nothing more than criminals from the White House to the halls of Congress.

How come no one is asking, Who put the madmen in control of Iran? Why it was Jimmy Carter when he took out the Shah of Iran. How come the leaders of the God Owful Party are not screaming about it? Could it be because of the New World Order pushed by the Council on Foreign Relations?

And why we are asking questions how come no member of the house of lords asked during Fed Chairman Bernanke's confirmation hearing, Which section of the Constitution authorizes a Federal reserve Board? Also when was article 1, section 8, clause 5 of the Constitution repealed? The only member of Congress who asked these questions in the past was Ron Paul. Could this be one of the reasons the republican leadership (still an oxymoron) wants no part of Ron Paul? I understand Webster now considers Republican Party a Synonym for Whig Party.

To quote your article today: ".... while the balance went toward meeting the growing list of mandatory payments for entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid."

An ENTITLEMENT? We've always PAID premiums for Medicare! An "entitlement" is merely a right, guaranteed by the government. We PAY monthly premiums for Medicare. Likewise, we PAY into social security all our work lives, so the benefits received from Medicare are due to our monthly premium payments; the right to receive Social Security benefits is because those funds have always belonged to us. Below is the meaning of entitlement.

3. the RIGHT to guaranteed benefits under a government program, as Social Security or unemployment compensation.

All too often, the reader/writer believes the word means "something free, provided by the government." The use of the word, "entitlement," is being abused everywhere. Please let your readers know the difference - that to receive these benefits is merely a 'RIGHT,' which does not mean the government gives out benefits without cost to citizens. Citizens do pay - oh, how they've paid. And, the government has dipped into "our" funds again and again to spend as it wishes, then moans because Social Security "is in trouble."

Why do I ask for your clarification? I am a 70 year old reasonably intelligent woman who worked all her life in administrative roles. Yet, I did not know until I began to receive Medicare that there were monthly premiums to be paid! Why? No one had ever mentioned it to me, nor did I have reason to do research on it. So you would be doing your readers a service if you would let them know. Thank you.

In you post today, 12-18,you ask: Where in the Constitution is the authority to mandate that Americans buy health insurance? Good question but tyhe fact is they are already doing just that in the Plan D policies of Medicare.

As a senior over 65 I must by Medicare Part D insurance or be penalized. Please see "late enrollment Penalties" below.

Charles Grimsley, Comanche, TX

2010 Evidence of Coverage

SECTION 10

Section 10.1

Do you have to pay the Part D "late enrollment Penalty"?

What is the Part D "late enrollment penalty"?

You must pay a financial penalty if you did not enroll in a plan offering Medicare Part D drug coverage when you first became eligible for this drug coverage or you experienced a continuous period of 63 days or more when you didn't keep your prescription drug coverage. The amount of the penalty depends on how long you waited before you enrolled in drug coverage after you became eligible or how many months after 63 days you went without drug coverage.

The penalty is added to your monthly premium. (Members who choose to pay their premium every three months will have the penalty added to their three-month premium.) When you first enroll in a Medicare Plan D program they will let you know the amount of the penalty.

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Section 10.2

How much is the Part D late enrollment penalty?

Medicare determines the amount of the penalty. Here is how it works:

· First count the number of full months that you delayed enrolling in a Medicare drug plan, after you were eligible to enroll. Or count the number of full months in which you did not have credible prescription drug coverage, if the break in coverage was 63 days or more. The penalty is 1 % for every month that you didn't have creditable coverage. For our example, let's say it is 14 months without coverage, which will be 14%.

· Then Medicare determines the amount of the average monthly premium for Medicare drug plans in the nation from the previous year. For 2010, this average premium amount is $31.94.

· You multiply together the two numbers to get your monthly penalty and round it to the nearest 10 cents. In the example here it would be 14% times $31.94, which equals $4.47, which rounds to $4.50. This amount would be added to the monthly premium for someone with a late enrollment penalty.

There are three important things to note about this monthly premium penalty:

First, the penalty may change each year, because the average monthly premium can change each year. If the national average premium (as determined by Medicare) increases, your penalty will increase.

Second, you will continue to pay a penalty every month for as long as you are enrolled in a plan that has Medicare Part D drug benefits.

Third, if you are under 65 and currently receiving Medicare benefits, the late enrollment penalty will reset 'when you turn 65. After age 65, your late enrollment penalty will be based only on the months that you don't have coverage after your initial enrollment period for Medicare.

Say, have y'all heard of Lieutenant Colonel Allen West? He's running during the 2010 elections for Florida's 22nd congressional district. I know y'all don't have enough time to write in detail about every conservative candidate, but if y'all looked into what he believes and if it's notable enough on the national level it'd be more than interesting to read what y'all came up with. Thank you, Patriot Post, and keep up the good work as you seek to restore those in power to their constitutional restrains so as to avoid their constant trampling on our God of Abraham-given rights.

Re: the story about the IL prison that was being under-used. Can you folks check to see who paid for the prison to be built. I've got a feeling it might have been an earmark for IL. If so, it was built by Federal funds and we shouldn't have to "buy" it again from the state if IL.

Thanks.

Your confirmation on that "History Channel" garbage-The People Speak!-Whew - or should I say "phew"!!--What a stinking, Communist promotion and a flat-out desecration of our American culture. Unfortunately, as you continually point out, too many people watching these "boob-tube" programs have NO knowledge of our rich history, since they DO NOT TEACH it in our schools. Christian HOME schooling, anyone?! It is the only way to get out of this cesspool.

"Father in heaven, Creator of the Universe, Lord of Creation, thank you for the folks at Patriot Post for their stand for righteousness. May their numbers increae. Amen."

-unemployed truck driver in Oregon

2 questions regarding the new hooded sweatshirt;

1) What is the 50-50 fabric?

2) where is it made?

Great Digest, as usual.

I want to remark on your analysis contained in, Climate Change This Week: Facts Are Stubborn Things.

I read the attached essay from The Middlebury (Vermont) Community Network's, James Paden, entitled, "The Great Global Warming Hoax?" and your readers can be find here: http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html.

What is most remarkable about the essay is its profound adherence to the scientific method and the abandonment of all things (save sarcasm) related to emotionalism. It is not an easy read, and it does take a while to fully comprehend what is being described, but in the end you will be thankful that you read it.

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As in the arena of Chicago politics, wouldn't the actions of Rahm Emanuel, threatening the closure of Offutt AFB to pressure Ben Nelson, be considered extortion? Add this to the payoffs already subsidizing the Senate votes for Obamacare, and you have, clearly, the most transparent and ethical congress and administration ever! YEAH, RIGHT, NANCY!

My sister sent me this:

Amendment 28

Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States .

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When the people fear their government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

--Thomas Jefferson

I believe she is right and we should start getting the 28th Amendment to the Constitution passed. We need to remind our "Public Servants" that they work for us, not the other way around.

A better cartoon depicting the democrat senators would be a bunch of hookers carrying a sack of quarters out Reids office.

If 10% of the females in the US Army are pregnant at any one time, and the new US military policy is a courts martial and prison for males and their pregnant wifes and girlfriends on active duty, where are we going to come up with replacement bodies? Which prisons are going to be large enough, Gitmo? It would be OK for US troops, just too hard for terrorists.

Will 0bamacare pay for the abortions of all pregnant members of the US military, do we just send them to prison?

Health care:

A couple is looking at new home.

The realtor captures their attention to the brand new front windows as a selling point. He does not take time to tell of the broken windows in the back and the increased espense they will endure and does not give the couple enough time to check out their purchase.

HMMM! Sounds like new health care bill.

Hopefully Ben Nelson will use some of his "Obama PayOff" money to buy himself anew "rug" for his head.....the toupe' he has now makes him look more stupid than AlGore...and thats going some!

Maybe I missed a class or two when "Civics" was a required subject.

But, as I remember the people in Congress were elected to carry out the wishes of the people.

Now we have a congress and sentate that is running amok through our earnings and savings.

It is easy for Government to print more money, which means the little I have been able to save and invest over the years is losing real value every day.

Does not any congress man or senator read history?

I know they don't read the constitution, but history has lessons that we can learn from if we only read and think.

The current Administration and their czars including every Democrat in Congress are nothing more then socialist. Each selling their body and soul to maintain their own agenda, pensions, other benefits and control over the people who elected them. Pray Americans for God to give us Patriots courage to take back our country.

I find the lack of constitutional authorization for Health care to be the most revolting part of the mix. I am sure that they (the Democrats) will claim it is justified under "promote the general welfare" directions associated with teh constitution. I do not believe that any claim like that will hold up. "General" in the use above means that it is applicable to a majority of the people affected by it A majority would be 50.1% of the population under that definition. The best numbers that the Democrats have put forth is 33 million people without health care insurance - that is about 11% of the population of this country. A far cry from the "majority" as implied by the use of "general" in promoting the general welfare of teh country.

I also find that our pathway here is very similar to that taken about 75 years ago by the National Democratic Socialist Workers Party in Germany. Their leader spoke well to the people during hard economic times and won concessions for the industires needing financial help by having the public assume the health care for everyone as well as desarm everyone for the "safety" of everyone. One only wonders if this time around the current "leaders" already have a group to send to the gas chambers identified so that when we get down their path that far they will be ready with the denouncements to teh party controlled press.

Ann, you just don't understand. Health insurance is a good thing because it increases the cost of health care at least four fold!! To begin with the insurance companies pay out about 50% of what they take in automatically doubling cost of service immediately. Then by the time their lobiest and rate setters argue over how much should be allowed for each proceedure and the companies adopt inflated cost to forestall litigation and adverse public opinion the cost doubles again. Without this fourfold cost increase for health care our ecconomy would probably completely collapse making us all totally dependant on the government for everything, food, shelter, intertainment, health care, transportation, viagera, etc. etc. Perhaps the government would then permit us to purchase ourselves back from them so that they could fund all this. After that some revolutionary means of financing will have to be found. Any way you look at it new sources of revenue are needed so will therefore have to be developed. Necessity is the mother of invention, you know. There's no way to estimate the amount of revenue that will result from this obvious need!!! No more problems.

Thanks in advance,

John

jde

Isn't bribery an impeachable offense, according to the Constitution? And what of misdemeanors in "high crimes and misdemeanors"? As explained by our Founders, misdemeanors can simply mean unacceptable behavior. We haven't even mentioned treason and felony. Yet.

What if the conservatives in the house and senate would get up and walk-out during the state of the nation address in protest? Joe Wilson could once again shout out; "You Lie", then the protest would begin. What a message that would send to the administration and the taxpayers. Thank you

For many of us, next November cannot get here fast enough! Virtually everyone that is willing to engage in a conversation about the current administration is appalled at how big and intrusive Washington is becoming. Even those who voted for 'him' are having more than 'second thoughts'. Too bad that they did not read the Patriot and pay attention last year!! Patriots, arise and take up the weapon of the ballot box!!!

I found Dennis Prager's piece in the 12/21/09 Patriot Post to be most interesting. Trying to understand how liberals think is as challenging and perplexing as trying to understand the IRS - and just as aggravating. But Dennis thinks he's got a clue and presents it with a religion analogy.

To summarize, he says that Judeo-Christian values blame society's problems on Man's failings, and then strive to improve Man's character as the appropriate solution. By contrast, he infers that liberals blame "evil on forces outside the individual rather than on the individuals who perpetrate evil...". Consequently, liberals then radically change society as a whole and stifle problems via stringent regulation. Consequently, I say, liberty dies.

So Dennis, I guess our choices are: 1) ongoing rehabilitation with age-old Judeo-Christian values as the model, or 2) no rehabilitation but behavior modification via a ball and chain.

Option 1 has served Americans well for 200+ years. Overall, we have prospered as a nation. History shows that other nations have adopted option 2 with terrible results.

So far, everything coming out of the Obama administration and the collusive liberal Democrats in Washington has been stringently regulatory in nature.

Promoting the general welfare should not include legislating laws/programs that the citizens don't want. The dims are trying to fit a camel through the eye of a needle. www.confederatepowflag.com

In reading the article in the Post today about building "better people" it occurs to me that the rest of the world could join Rotary International, a service group of 1.2 million members in 168 countries worldwide in living their lives according to the Rotary 4 Way Test; " Of all the things we think, say or do: 1) Is it the truth? 2) Is it fair to all concerned? 3) Will it build goodwill and better friendships? 4) will it be beneficial to all concerned?" Be nice if our legislators could get a couple of them right, anyway!!

I have been a reader for months. Thank you for being a beacon of freedom. I finally donated to your cause and mailed a check today!

Regarding today's article on Senator Ben Nelson--the lonely 60th vote, it reminded me of the story of the man who asked a woman if she would have intimate relations with him for $1 million. She agreed. Then he asked her if she would do it for $10. She asked him what did she think she was. He responded that what she was had already been determined. Now they were just negotiating a price. It appears our members of Congress are just like the woman in the story. It appears that each and every one regardless of party has a price and can be bought if the price is agreed to.

We need to find a way to stop this rape of our nation by Congressmen who have a price but obviously don't have solid moral principles.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said the compromise does not mean abortion funding is excluded from the measure."If this bill passes, for the first time, federally funded and managed health care plans will cover elective abortions," she said. "Pro-life Americans in Nebraska and other states that choose to 'opt-out' of abortion coverage will still be forced to foot the bill for abortions in California and New York."

Thanks for including the Chuck Norris item. What a pleasure to note that not everyone in the so-called entertainment industry is an idiotic Hollywonk. And what a great, but ominously prophetic line, will Obamacare morph into Herodcare.

Something that skunk in the White House and his henchmen on capital hill need to remember is that I and the other voters will not be skulking around in the dark next election when we remember how much they represented us. As far as I'm concerned we need to throw all the bums out.

As with all government programs, either Democrat or Republican - they are mostly designed to impose on the citizen. Any sweeping legislation involves changes that are directed from the top down. You will do thus - or you will be taxed, fined, imprisoned - or all the above.

Instead of helping those citizens making less than 250,000/year, a reading of the HealthCare bill only reminds me that those who can least afford these changes - the poor and lower middle class - are the ones who will most feel the crunch.

David

Boston

Bribery is illegal and these senators should be charged with it. This government is so corrupt that it isn't even funny.

obama said that this obamacare wouldn't add a dime to the deficit. That's because the tax papers will be soaked.

You can't spend you way out of a recession. They should reduce the taxes. This is a poor time in the middle of a recession to raise taxes--how dumb is that?

Dear Senator Nelson: Please remove the American flag pin from your lapel and replace it with the Hammer and Sickle. I don't know if you're absolutely naive, a whore or just plain stupid but you ought to be recalled by Nebraskans for having ignored and violated your Oath of Office to "protect, preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States of America." Nebraskans ought not to wait eleven months to vote you out because even if you are voted out, you'll carry with you your mandatory retirement "benefit" of $20,000 per month PLUS the Senate's cafeteria health plan (paid for by the same folks who're paying for the bribe you got from Dingy Harry Reid, of course) and coverage for your family. Oh, by the way, that "retirement" plan has built-in, lifetime COLAS. Some reward, eh, Senator? Not bad for a procurer.

Dear Senator Nelson: Please remove the American flag pin from your lapel and replace it with the Hammer and Sickle. I don't know if you're absolutely naive, a whore or just plain stupid but you ought to be recalled by Nebraskans for having ignored and violated your Oath of Office to "protect, preserve and defend the Constitution of the United States of America." Nebraskans ought not to wait eleven months to vote you out because even if you are voted out, you'll carry with you your mandatory retirement "benefit" of $20,000 per month PLUS the Senate's cafeteria health plan (paid for by the same folks who're paying for the bribe you got from Dingy Harry Reid, of course) and coverage for your family. Oh, by the way, that "retirement" plan has built-in, lifetime COLAS. Some reward, eh, Senator? Not bad for a procurer.

Let's not forget Dingy Harry Reid's ultimate goal: To eliminate private insurance companies. Once they're stripped of their miniscule (2%) profits and their CEOs are no longer paid "too much" and their stock holders don't benefit "more than is right and proper" (which Axelrod said out loud yesterday on Stephanopoulos's show), they'll collapse which will REQUIRE that the government take over the entire health care industry. What's happening here, folks, is what happened during the Russian "Revolution." The difference is that we'll go quietly into our slavery.

I'm torn between donating $100.00 to The Patriot or buying another $100.00 worth of ammo. I'm leaning more toward the ammo as each day I believe it will be more useful....

God bless

In the name of Health Care Reform, our once great nation is now on equal par with the socialized countries of the world. What is next on the Obama agenda I ask? They want to confiscate our guns, our right to religion, our right to free speech, our right to bring up our children as we see fit etc. This sounds vaguely like Nazi Germany and the libs have accused we conservatives for years of being Nazis! I pray that for the future of this great and wonderful country called America, the voters wake up and discard these liars, cheats and theives once and for all. Now's the time to pray on bended knee like never before. God Bless and Merry Christmas.

Proponents of government-provided health care often refer to the USA as being the only industrial nation without such health care. I talked to a Chinese lady recently a resident of Hong Kong about their government-provided coverage. She mentioned a relative with breast cancer who will have to wait a year to get an appointment for treatment. Another will have to wait 14 years to get an organ transplant appointment. Sure makes one look forward to a US government-provided plan - not!

have tee shirts made that give the true statement of our country. and don't sugar coat it. i would be your first customer. thanks and con't doing the wonderful work that you all do. just and idea as to how you could get different ideas. have a contest as to what would be printed on shirts or caps. just a thought. people on the steet need to see that all are not in favor of our nobel piece prize winner. what a joke that prize is now! thanks again

Mr. Prager, you are so correct! Ben Nelson (D-NE) you need to be looking for future employment! You, and the rest of the Statist Dems, are about to be out of a job! I guarantee!(hopefully without lifetime benefits). Term Limits!

What I read about whats happing on our country today Scares the hell out of me. I'm 69 and get S.S. and don't ever get a full beifit. Now with not getting a cost of living rais this year I can even pay my copays on doctor bills. So now I can't ever go to a doctor any more. I would realy like to make a donation but as you can see I just don't have it. All I can say is keep up the good work and keep us informed

Thank you

Mike Moore The real one not the fool of the same name

At the risk of sounding alarmist or trite, I fully agree with Terry Reesing's comments. The Nazi phenomenon that overtook Germany was a rapidly sweeping force of control which completely nullified personal liberties. Ever since the election, everything (I mean everything) the Obama administration, together with compliant legislators in Washington, have done, has (or will) institute stringent regulations on the American people. Furthermore, everything they have done will suck large sums of money out of the taxpayers' already-debt-ridden pockets, shifting it over to government dependents, which will effectively reduce our numbers at the voting booths and cripple our ability to fight against this madness. This truly is a conspiracy designed to make kings out of a small minority of our citizens - and we all know who they are. I think the election of 2010 will make or break our country. The numbers are that close.

I woke up at three am this morning from a nightmare. The nightmare was that Harry Reid and the Democrats taxed away all my money and I was left poor and needed a Gov't handout. I was so shaken, I could not go back to sleep. Unfortunately this is a true story, I fear for our country. I am like Michelle Obama only in reverse, I am finally embarrassed to be an American. Europe over taxes their citizens and exerts too much control over their lives; we now have the 60th vote for health care, it was also the 60th vote to become European. God help us because our politicians sold us out.

The Constitution specifically establishes 17 responsibilities that Congress has in article one, section eight. At the same time, it specifies Congress has the authority to look after "the general welfare" of the Nation.

The second statement, regarding the general welfare, is merely giving one of the primary puroses of giving Congress a purse, and a means to fill it. The seventeen specific responsibilities are the spelled out issues over which Congress is responsible for, and are the necessary things it must do to fulfill the "general welfare" requirement.

The Constitution is consistent is establishing general responsibility for each of the branches of government, and then laying out the specific acts each is required to fulfill, in order to properly accomplish its set tasks.

The use of any of the general clauses in the Constitution, regarding any government responsibility, without immediately referring to the specific statements of what those responsibilities consist of, is a deliberate lie, and one put forth for the exact purpose of distorting the Constitution, and laying ground work to claim special dispensation for understanding its exact meaning. Since Noah Webster was one of the members of the Constitutional Convention, we can know exactly what was intended by each word of the Constitution, and every word of explication put out by the founders in all their writings and communications by refering to Webster's Un-Abridged Dictionary. Noah Webster took this task on specifically to enumerate the many differences that had come to be, between "The King's English", and what was uniquely "American English", that there be no dispute over words.

The Constitution was written for you and I, and not for law students, politicians, lawyers, judges, or kings and princes. As such, and as the founders themselves stated, its true and proper meaning is found in the natural meaning of the words used, as they are used in general conversation, and conventional wording of letters, contracts, and other general correspondence. This is the truth of the Constitution in the words of those who wrote it, argued over it, put it before the public as a completed work, and took it around "The Several States", and got it ratified. It belongs to us, and is ours, each of us, personally, and the Government has no authority over it, nor any possession of it. It is a hard and fast document, a contract between The People of The Several States, and is binding on those who are the Subjects of this Contract.

It is not for lawyers to read, except to find their limitations, nor is it for elected officials to "interpret", but only to follow the common meaning they find there. It is our Law over their heads, and we must keep it as our own, and so notify those we elect, because they would choose to assume ownership of it, that they could release themselves from its control, were they to have authority over it.

Since it belongs to "The People of The Several States", the very least a citizen can do is read it, learn it in all its meaning, taking special note of its form and construction, and study every aspect of it, because without doing this, one cannot be an owner of it, because it is a piece of parchment with ink on it, until it is fully comprehended by its owners, and is good for nothing but tinder for a fire, without an understanding of every aspect of it, and every nuance of its meaning and its implications. First, last and always, it never belongs to The Government, none of them, and none of their operatives, it is ours alone, as Sovereign Citizens.

John McClain

GySgt, USMC, ret.

Vanceboro, NC

When a man becomes a man, is when service to others is more important than self interests. When congress becomes a congress, is when service to others is more important than personal deals and personal agendas. Pay to Play seems to have arrived in Washington, D.C. without any embarrassment or concern for the good of the whole!

Misery and suffering are directly proportional to the funds (money) set aside for it's relief! Job creation is the best charity for humankind. Work teaches us patience, tolerance and many other virtues that the idle will never know!

Yes, you can teach a parrot to talk, but you cannot teach a parrot to think!

I am truly worried about the direction of our Country. I hope I can express myself rationally and without any inappropriate words or feelings. My thoughts are meant to cause reflection on the part of anyone reading them.

Change is inevitable, except from a Vending Machine! Todays Government Administration is often like a Vending Machine, what you want will not be what you get! The country's frustration level is steadily rising and it is somewhat like shaking a vending machine, somehow we think, it causes it to work better! The shaking is in progress......

In the spirit of Christmas, Liberal Democrats have given its constituents a magnanimous gift. They operate off the premise that it's the thought that counts.

However, this 'gift' is being subsidized via their constituents' wallets. That is to say, we're paying for this 'gift.' We didn't ask for it. We didn't write it on a list for 'Santa' to see. We didn't want this 'gift.' Still, Liberal Democrats want to 'give it to us.'

It's not a 'gift' that we'll cherish. It's not a 'gift' we'll treasure. It isn't a 'gift' we can return. Once in place, we will, nonetheless, use it...totally against our will.

Much as a child drops hints to his/her parents as Christmas approaches, we sent a unified message to these Liberal 'gift-givers' that we don't want it and there's no need for it as most have a similar 'gift' already. It would be a duplicate and yet replace the one we possess.

In an act reminiscent of one's aunt or grandmother who believes we will just love that hand-knit sweater with the too long sleeves and hallucenogenically-inspired pattern that matches no clothing we now own or would ever buy, Liberals crammed their 'gift' into an undesized box and wrapped it in the gaudiest paper possible - fully expecting our obesience and never-ending gratitude while expressing unabashed surprise that we never wanted it in the first place!

So, as we sit 'round the tree and we all open our 'gift' to find we've each gotten the same thing (except for the givers who have a self-wrapped package they've kept all to themselves - and it's much more beautiful and we're paying for that one, too.). We gape at each other & realize this 'gift' will keep on giving - but not in a good way.

Merry Christmas, Harry!

For the first time since I found The Patriot Post, I am in a position to help. You have my contribution. Keep up the excellent work.

GySgt is right. When did the Constitution become a minor thing to this congress? Members of both parties are fed up with all who sit in both houses. I know my representative and I disagree on everything. I think it is time for a new political party... The Constitution Party, where members swear to uphold and defend the Constitution. To put the Country above self. I know when the members of the house and senate, the president, ect., are sworn, in that is part of the oath of office, but do they really believe in the oath or is it just words. As a former Air Force Officer, I took my Oath seriously. I swore to defend my country, these clowns... you fill in the blanks. I think they swore to defend their seats in the mighty halls of Congress.

This congress and the president are selling us out to the lowest bidder. We need to stop the printing of money, every bill that comes out of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving lessens the value of the money in our wallets. Every new tax makes us poorer and gives more control to the Central Government. Every new unfunded mandate thrown on the states, makes us rely more and more on Washington, not ourselves.

We do not need Chicago Style politics for the entire nation; send it back to where it came. Send the politicians back to Chicago; better yet, send all career politicians back home. Get new people in both houses. New ideas. New hope that we can still save this great nation.

My father always made clear to me that everything has a cost: food, housing, medicine, clothing, luxury. I have tested this theory and found that the only thing that does not come at a cost is God's love; the love of the world still costs.

I am waiting to see how our elected officials have somehow overturned a simple, first-principle law of the Universe by saying that this is not going to add any cost to the deficit. This should be good...

Yes, I think we can all agree with USMC GySgt John McClain's comments. Yet aside from the wording of his flowery prose (it sounds pretty and inspiring), the content is true but limited in scope. Understanding the Constitution is the very least we can do, as he said, but now, today, we're all in a bigger pickle than he has said. And I'm sure he knows it too; he just got carried away.

What's our pickle? To be clear, the degree to which the liberal Democrats have trashed our Constitution is exactly the stuff that revolutions are made of. History shows that we people, who are the sole object of Constitutional protection, don't take kindly to being raped. Our Founders never meant for the government to be a clearing-house for wealth redistribution, whether via welfare, food stamps, entitlement programs, or health care, etc. And these larcenous criminal offenses are what the majority of Democrats have spawned. Our birth-right, as guaranteed by our Constitution, is being stolen as I write this. Our Founders must be rolling in their graves.

Even the best of governments can be corrupted by corrupt people. To preserve our way of life and make our Constitution meaningful again, we must remove the criminal-minded people from government at our very next opportunity. The question is how? Especially when among us, there are people who think like leeches and naturally agree with wealth redistribution. Make no mistake about this. I have witnessed these people in action. They truly think that what is yours is theirs. Standard Democrat policy promotes leech-like behavior and creates more leeches, who vote, unfortunately. So the 2010 elections could be problematic, especially with this bad economy and the liberal Democrats creating entitlement program after entitlement program (and more leeches), but I'm hoping for a sea-change routing of the liberal Democrats.

We might be following the typical course of nations that try to build up the shiftless by robbing from the productive and hence become socialist, and then end up with stagnant economies and equal misery for all (all except for those at the top - that's the dirty little secret). But I believe that America should decide to fight this. Why? Because, considering the fact that a 2/3 majority of Americans reject a health care overhaul and yet congress and the president still push for it, they have very adeptly revealed to us that they will brazenly violate the will of the people to suit their own nefarious agendae. This is a violation of every oath they have sworn to as public servants. This is insubordination at a minimum, perhaps contempt of the Constitution. I'm not sure what to call it but I know it's of a criminal nature. I believe the American people are more than justified in jailing these "public servants".

But if America decides to fight this, then I wonder where USMC GySgt John McClain's military brethren's (of all branches and levels of service) loyalties will be. As they discharge their oath to protect the country, will they protect the will of the people or will they protect the administration and the legislature?

It was very surprising to hear Obama actually come out and say, "We can't treat the taxpayers' money like Monopoly Money"....Gee, when did he come up with that mind-boggeling thought? Every person in the USA has been saying that for the past 11 mos. Now he is "getting it"??? Now he wants people to send him ways to cut expenses? Maybe he should listen to the Republicans in Congress who already know how to cut expenses -- the list is endless -- if only Obama watched CSPAN!!!!

Here's a question I think deserves some attention in the public forum: During this recession, when the unemployment rate in our nation is around 10% with no signs of receding, how many jobs have been lost in the public sector, particularly in Federal Government?

My best to your and all your staff for a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year. Keep the faith and keep up the good work. We're with you!

The old adage, "There's lies, damn lies and then statistics" certainly holds true in regard to the main stream media's reporting of less job losses month-to-month as a positive. If they had an ounce of common sense in their collective brains they could easily understand the simple fact that as you lay off all the people who need to be laid off to match your level of business, there are naturally less people left to lay off. You could start with a workforce of 1,000 employees, lay off 10% per month, and each month less people would lose their jobs; however, this would hardly be a positive event.

To commentor Ben Hulgan I say good points. He is right; no one reports about lost jobs in the public sector. Could it be because losing those jobs is no big problem??? Of course it's a problem to lose private sector jobs because we meet the publics' payroll!!! To supplement Ben's comments, Mark Alexander presented some statistics in his 12/17/09 piece that show that the average federal government worker makes $30875 more that the average private sector worker. I don't know about the rest of you but I find that alarming. This is government elitism. For those of you who missed it, this is what Mark wrote:

"Would it surprise you to know that, while Democrat impositions on lending practices are largely responsible for the fact that millions of Americans are now out of work, the number of government "workers" making over $100,000 per year has increased 30 percent since the beginning of the current recession? There are more than 10,000 bureaucrats earning more than $150,000 annually, and the average federal salary is $71,206, not including generous government benefits, while the average private sector salary is $40,331."

Is there any reason you persist in posting blasphemous comments and links--the latest being one by Mr. Norris(http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34841)?

Our Founding Fathers were Christians, and this country was founded on Christian principals.

I repeatedly see scandalous and blasphemous commentary and/or links that are insulting to God (and now His Mother).

Perhaps in these days, though, that is to be expected--even from a web-site that quotes our country's (Christian) Founders.

To the staff and publishers of The Patriot Post:

May you and your families have a joyous and merry Christmas. And, may God bless you and your endeavors in the following year.

Thank you for sharing your insight and perspective; JMA, Minnesota

Regarding a 28th Amendment proposed by one of your correspondents to make all laws equally applicable to congresscritters. It's found in The Federalist Papers, the Operating Manual for The Constitution. Of course, our representatives and senators accord the Papers the same disdain they do to things like actually reading The Constitution or the bills they enact ad nauseum. Oh, if only Hamilton had not arranged to have Jefferson in Paris during the deliberations. TJ could have kept the Anti-Federalists in the debate and we would have had a much better document.....one with real iron bindings on government.

On a sidebar, regarding a Patriot newsletter that suggested President Obama is in line for a Tiger Woods' moment: Don't get your hopes up, Patriots. Scandals of any sort are used by the libs to issue merit badges to their icons. The more scandals, the more laudatory the acclaim. All of which makes one wonder about Elliot Spitzer, who should have won liberal poster boy applause for his exploits in red light districts. What else was going on behind the cloak the liberals threw over his down fall? It must have been sum'thin else!

I have a question. Is "A People's History of the United States," by Howard Zinn, part of any public schools curriculum ? If so, where and how can this possibly be acknowledged as accredited education and not as indoctrination? Am I showing my ignorance?

I would really appreciate knowing where this is being taught . If it is, this is an outrage.

(Reposted, because it needs to be said again. GH)

Folks, the truth has been written in all but one thing: IT IS NOT OVER. We are not dead yet.

Do not give up. If the future has never looked so bleak before, that means little more than that the victory shall be more glorious than ever.

One thing I know about Americans - it has been made clear decade after decade, century upon century - is that Americans never give up when they know they are right. If they were wrong, they may simply try to drop the issue quietly, but if they are right they press on as stubbornly as a glacier.

DO NOT LOSE HOPE, AMERICA! DO NOT STOP TRYING!! The future is counting on you - you dare not stop trying. If you do, they will be your condemnation for a thousand years. If you do not give up, no matter how hard the struggle, they will sing of you long after you are dead and gone.

@ Miss J., Posted December 23, 2009 at 9:49:33 PM

I do not believe any blasphemy was intended, although I do believe the implication that Mary could have brought herself to make use of such resources could bring offense.

I have found it best, when I find myself offended, to look for other meanings possible in the given text. When I bring the issue to the writer, I question the meaning: if I was wrong in my initial offense, there is no problem; if I was right to be offended, then I proceed accordingly.

Saves trouble.

May Almighty God always find you both worthy and willing.

GH

Welcome to the world, Kellyn Grace! May both God and American find you both worthy and willing!

As we approach the end of another year I am more thankful than ever for your publication. I do not have the words to describe how important it has been to me over the years but even more so during this scary time! Gob Bless you and your staff. I pray that your work will continue for many years to come.