The REAL purpose of the rally was this: AMERICANS NEED TO SERVE THIS NATION WITH HONOR AND WE IN TURN HONOR THOSE WHO DO.

If you're looking for something else - check what remains of your own conscience.

I get so tired hearing the left assert regarding gatherings of Beck's type that there were few blacks in attendance. Really, with the massive crowd of at least half a million, I saw no signs of "No Blacks Allowed," or "White Crackers Only." The only thing keeping them away was their loyalty to democrat causes and perhaps a closed-mind attitude. What they needed was a good community organizer to let them know it was okay to attend. One must ask one's self, "Why did blacks CHOOSE not to be there?" "Why did 98% of blacks vote for Obama when there were white alternatives?" If this post sounds insulting, good! I'm tired of having insults hurled at me for political reasons!

I cannot understand why they want race to be an issue so badly. One would think that if a person wanted equality and to move on from the past, he or she would stop creating imaginary racists and reminding the country about different races and instead would focus on moving forward together as an entire country regardless of race. It's strange that the person who actually is trying to focus on "we're all in this together" is the one being falsely labeled as racist. It's getting very tiring.

To try and separate the Constitution from the spiritual is a fools errand. How many times and ways does it need to be said 'Rights come from God not men". This is the basis of the Constitution that restrains men from trying to become Gods. If this is "worrisome populism" to Jonah I don't get it. Maybe to hang in with other journalists you are compelled to find something to criticize Glenn Beck for. It would be nice if critics of any kind, left or right, could bless us with at least one example of what the hell their talking about!

Unfortunately with many in the "minority" community it's not about equality but priveledge. It's not about equity in oportunity but in outcome. It's the sad testament of victimology. Those who cannot compete on a level playing field will always complain about their betters having an unfair advantage. Sadly for them they cannot see that "advantage" comes from working harder and not making excuses for ones failures. That takes character, something the Al Sharptons of the world will never understand.

I am waiting for Glen or Rush or Sean to stop pussyfooting around the reality that Islam IS extreme. There is no such thing as a Non-extreme Muslim. The women are baby making machines who are populating the west all over the world with little jihadists. The last forty years have brought us overwhelming populations of Muslims who demand Foot-baths at the U.of M. with the disclaimer that this had to be allowed because "they" were using the drinking fountains to bath their feet before their daily prayers. Really!?!?! How about "no"! Local school systems have acquiesced to removing pork from the cafeteria menus to show respect for the Muslim students in predominently non-Muslim schools. Dearborn Michigans Fordson High School is having their football practice at night to allow for Ramadan observance. This is a public high school Christians would never be allowed anything even approximating this. Muslim women have demanded and received special female only time at the U.of M. fitness center. No other religion gets this type (or any other type) of special favour. Every time I see a woman in traditionl head covering, I wonder what the reaction would be if I wore just the hat & face covering of a KKK uniform. Would that insite a riot? I think it would say that I am in agreement with those who wear the entire uniform. So goes it with the head scarf. Even the most minimal covering. I am inflamed every single time I see it. I am reminded that I am an infidel. Islamophobia??? Ya better believe it. It needs to spread like wildfire before it's too late. I may already be too late. They are boiling us like the frog.

In the eyes of liberals, if we are not with them, we are against them and are bigots, religious clinging, and gun owning nut jobs, among other sophisticated names they love to call us.

They either just don't get it, or they get it, and just don't want anyone standing in the way of their Socialist agenda.

I believe it is the latter.

Way to go Glen Beck and all the Patriotic Americans who attended! Let’s carry this enthusiasm into November!

P.S., Way to go tea Partiers and Tea Party favorite Joe Miller! We look forward to many more tea parties, conservative candidates in the future years

The only message Democrats have is ... Nothing. All they can do is attack and slur. The Democrats have been firmly rejected by large majorities on ALL the issues.

Democrats committed political suicide by ramming through their socialist agenda and failing on jobs, jobs, jobs. In November they will be annihilated at the polls, as they deserve.

Conservatives should pledge to greatly reduce the massive size of government - 44% of all GDP spending, plus 15-20% of GDP in regulation costs.

The only reason people are becoming more aware of the Govt. is FOX news. The alpha-bet channels are to far left. If you watch Glenn Beck you will see he shows the wrongs, not for pollitical reason I beleive but because they are happening. You can show people what's going on but they have to look into it, you can only give the information. This whole Presidency is based on hope and change.

The legallity of BO'S office is being challenged, he may be compelled to show his documentation. If that should happen I beleive we will see something like we have never seen before in this country.

This could all start as soon as tomarrow, 9/2/10, in the court martial hearing of LT/Col. Lacken, who is being charged with failure to obey an order, by refusing to go to Afghanistan because he beleives that BO is ineligable to be president. The Court Martial can order discovery of BO'S records in order for Laken to prove his defense, or BO'S autenticity to give such orders. Could be interesting people. Please don't call me a "birther"

I beleive in the truth. If he was elgible, why didn't he show his records, like McCain did? If you listened to him the last few days you would have noticed a lack of authority and confidence in his office. He has reffered to the Birth certificate, and "as long as I'am still in office" which leads me to beleive that things aren't going well on this issue for a guy who has the ability to snow people.

For those who continue to try to make everything racial I would quote that great African-American political philosopher, Marion Berry: "Get over it."

The ONLY reason obama's birth nation has ever been and continues to be an issue is BECAUSE HE DOESN'T HAVE A US birth certificate. Read his lips. Watch his actions. Then JUDGE him accordingly.

Obama birth certificate: Before anyone is elected to a branch of government in the USA, they must show any and all documentation that they have the legal right to be and work in this country. Hell, that is what we have to do, so what makes him so special? The President of the United States is just a position, it is still just a man holding it.

November cannot get here soon enough, I prey America does the rigt thing this time, if not, the war has just begun and we are in deep trouble as a nation and as a people.

And, one more thing, I praise Glenn Beck for having the courage to be the voice for America, God speaks through him and he delivers the messages so clearly and vividly. I have learned so much about our history as a country in the past 2 yrs then I ever did in the 7 yrs I spent in school. God Bless Glenn Beck.....

The Constitution comes from an understanding of God's Law which is "Nature's Law". The founders studied many forms of government and found that this law as natural. It is in tune with nature - the way it was created and meant to be. THIS is how government works naturally. It is unnatural to be perverted into tyranny which is common but unnatural. Tyranny causes destruction and obstruction but Freedom and cooperation causes creation and progress - natural progress.

I for one am exceedingly weary of Conservative pundits pretending to be embarrassed by Glenn Beck and his populist harangues. If Mr. Goldberg would listen a little more carefully, he'd find there aren't so many "flaws and excesses" as the mainstream media has led him to believe.

Perhaps if Mr. Goldberg spent more time with genuine Conservatives and less time with the fops and sycophants of his fellow media types, he would discover no need to apologize for Glenn Beck or feel embarrassed about him.

NYT's Douthat spins a deliberately dishonest tale of Liberal America with his wholly secular nation "where allegiance to the Constitution trumps ethnic differences, language barriers and religious divides. An America where the newest arrival to our shores is no less American than the ever-so-great granddaughter of the Pilgrims."

Sorry, Mr. Douthat, but while Liberals are indeed secular in the approach to governance, their alleged allegiance to the Constitution is lip-service only. Whenever it suits their whims, they abandon the Constitution and deride it as a "living document" that means whatever they need it to mean for convenience's sake. The Constitution comes before ethnic differences? All the Left ever talks about is the phony advantage of "diversity" and how important it is to emphasize our differences. Language barriers? This from the people who trumpeted ebonix as a legitimate language because it would further handicap blacks trying to get ahead in life? That's not overcoming language barriers, that's working to create artificial barriers for the purposes of exploitation. Liberals overcoming religious divides? Absurd. Nobody in America works harder to manufacture religious divides than Liberals, constantly pushing and shoving to force Judeo-Christian religions into the closet while promoting any other religion in the public sphere, from hokey nature religions to murderous Islam. Anything, so long as it's not Jews & Christians. Immigrants are no less American? Only among Conservatives. To Liberals, immigrants are specimens of ethnic diversity that must be preserved and exploited, and if anyone dares assimilate into American culture, there's something wrong with them -- they're called names, ostracized and they're the enemy. Uncle Tom, Oreo, that kind of thing.

Yet here's another Liberal mouthpiece asserting fantasyland "facts" about Liberals so they can once again hijack our values as their own simply because it's convenient. Where the rubber meets the road, however, they not only don't adhere to those values, they actually hold them in contempt. That's the real American divide, as Mr. Goldberg suggests. The real divide is a cultural one. It is one of values and morality. And Americans are increasingly choosing sides, now that they've been reminded so forcefully what the Left really stands for.

I learned a long time ago, that those who are honest in words and actions, but not talking a lot about their personal views will outsmart most con men(not referring to conservatives).

I'm glad to see that the public needs to be reminded about the ways of any political pundits or their followers if they try to do any means as long as it gets the end result that they want.

Beck is honest in his actions and words. What blows every dishonest person is Beck uses an individual's words and actions to show what they stand for.

Glenn Beck's rally was called "Restoring Honor" for a reason; it was fundamentally about honor, and a return to original American principles, not about religion. The problem with relying on your God to help you is that everyone else, including those who want very different goals (for example, Muslim terrorists), are relying on THEIR God for the same kind of help. So who gets the help, and how does God decide? I don't pretend to understand God, but I do understand Honor. I also know, from personal experience, that teaching or learning honor, and behaving honorably, do not require any belief in God, but rather a belief in oneself, and a desire to behave well according to what one believes is right. Honorable behavior and the concept of honor are well known cross-culturally and among many religions, and the principles remain even when specific goals differ. For example, I was raised in a military family, and served in Viet Nam. I recognized honorable behavior among the VC when I encountered it (rarely), even though we had very different goals, and I still did my best to kill those VC, honorable or not. There was no inconsistency in this. I was taught from my earliest days, that Honor (with a capital H and without any religious element) was the basis of character. I was raised believing that it was more important to be an honorable person than a rich or powerful one. I grew up thinking that everyone should be judged by how honorably they behaved (by the "content of their character," as MLK put it). But, as I grew up, I saw the social acceptability (as opposed to the existence) of honorable behavior in our country declining. In college, when I told someone about returning to pay for an ice cream cone I had walked off and forgotten to pay for, I was told I was stupid, because I had "already gotten away with it and they'd never know." In the '80s, when I pointed out, at a cocktail party, that a friend who was describing how he "got away with" not paying all his taxes was being dishonest, I was ostracized and treated like a moron. The root problem it seems to me, is not that most Americans became less honorable (the Tea Party movement and Beck's 8/28 rally put the lie to that), but rather that we started hiding our honorable behavior rather than spotlighting it, because it stopped being "Cool" to be honorable. That's why you generally notice it more in the military today, it's still "Cool" there (we even get it tattooed on our arms: "Duty, Honor, Country"). Outside the military though, we too often hide our honorable behavior so we won't be considered unsophisticated, and consequently, the next generation neither sees it nor hears it espoused, and they end up thinking most Americans believe honor to be a foolish and unsophisticated, or even obsolete, concept. I don't think that's the case at all. To restore Honor, we need to make it "Cool" again. And I think that means we not only have to keep behaving honorably ourselves, but also pointing out honorable behavior when we encounter it in others. Beyond that though, we also have to stand up whenever we encounter DIShonorable behavior being condoned, and make a point of publicly challenging and disdaining it, no matter what others present may think of us for doing so.

"Explicitly and studiously avoided trumpeting a POLITICAL agenda?!?"

Oh, brother!

Reality must have scabs from rolling on the floor laughing at us.

"Political agendas" are not only ubiquitous, they are de rigueur, especially among our ilk, people. Every single soul in the Patriot Post peanut gallery, including yours truly, has one (which he or she is all too happy to spout off about), as does a Beck, Barney, Blitzer, or Biden, as did Adams, Adams, and Adams (John, Samuel, and John Q).

The FIRST thing which Good and reasonable listeners (acquainted at all with human nature) will do upon hearing you deny that you have a political agenda" is penalize you for noxious dishonesty. (The SECOND thing they'll do is quickly piece yours together, or Beck's, from what follows.)

May I encourage all good and reasonable conservatives to cease from such inanity -- from such unfitting, credibility killing, goodness diminishing, pusillanimous prefaces? Rome is already too beset by flames and visigoths to bear more of it.

And the election is just around the corner and we

can vote the varmints out. Or as my dad used to say

"One term for some, two terms for fewer, and for the

rarest, honest person, why they will go home after

two terms like George Washington did." All of the

career politicians from Barbara Boxer to Lindsey

Graham need to be voted out. From John McCain to

John Kerry, the only way to get the manure out of

the barn and remove the smell is to clean the barn! From James Obastrar to the gal who lost in Alaska,

you have to vote out the squatters from each party

who have become career politicians and don't care

about anything other than re-election. VOTE THE BUMS

OUT, BOTH PARTIES. We will survive as a nation.

We won't survive if we don't vote them out!

I'm so behind in my reading. But the fray hasn't changed much since the last time I looked.

I'm pretty sure the most important thing in the United States today is to overturn the imbalance of power in Congress. I'd say "to restore the balance of power in Congress" but being moderate just doesn't get it any more. The truth has been out there for quite some time. People will either pay attention or ignore it.

It might help if people realized that any time there's a conflict, and the parties to the conflict have any other difference at all, and the conflict is not resolved quickly, and it escalates and becomes really nasty, the parties will resort to identifying the conflict in terms of whatever difference there is between themselves and the other party. Therefore everyone is a racist or any other thing you choose to call them, and it's pointless for one racist to call someone else a racist, because everybody's a racist. It's a dumb thing to bring up. You don't get points for pointing out someone else's potential for identifying a difference when you have the same potential that you pointed out by identifying the difference.

Did you get that?