Was passage of Health Care in the Senate a symptom of a larger problem?

While the United States is undoubtedly blessed like no other land has ever been –
She is falling horribly short of her potential and failing to fully exploit the blessings that God has granted, and it’s our fault.

While it’s easy to place the blame for the current state of our country on outrageous spending, excessive taxation, government intrusion, and ill advised social and economic policies –

The fact is the blame falls squarely at the feet of our politicians.
While this may seem obvious – a deeper look reveals a truth many Americans are reluctant to accept; that our elected officials are a reflection of our own commitment to the political process that governs our lives - and in recent years that commitment has waned.

As children we are taught that America is a nation of laws. While true we are also a nation of policies, regulations, instructions, rules, guidelines and accepted practices.

And the majority of these standards of behavior and governance that allow our nation to function without anarchy are created, implemented and managed by politicians that work for us and in theory represent the will of the majority or so it was intended.
Whether at a national, state, or local level our daily activities are managed by laws and policy created by people we elect. The problem however is that very often the people doing the governing are not qualified to do so. And that is our fault.

Over the past few decades American’s have become enamored with the toys and the distractions of success and affluence.

Even the poorest of American families own a car, cell phones, and large television sets behind which they can sit and look out into a world they once participated in.
Through these distractions and illusion of contentment many American’s have lost interest in the process under which we must all live.

The result is we continue to elect politicians not for their knowledge of the issues but rather on the perception they create of how they will govern.
And we do so because unlike generations before us we have become complacent with the political process that is the hallmark of America.

And it was political complacency that preceded the end of other great nations throughout history.

Are States rights making a comeback?

For many decades the sovereignty of the States has eroded away as the federal government encroached further and further on their right to govern themselves.
On issue after issue, from taxation to abortion the federal government has peeled away the rights of states to create their own laws – but now it seems some states are drawing a line in the sand

During his campaign Barack Obama made several references about his desire for changing the laws regarding firearms - limiting gun ownership and usage. One of the few legal rights guaranteed by the US constitution but still administered by the states.

But a nationwide review by The Associated Press uncovered a largely unnoticed trend: In much of the country, it is getting easier to carry guns. Over the last two years, 24 states, mostly in the South and West, have passed 47 new laws loosening gun restrictions.

In Tennessee handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds.

Among other things, legislatures have allowed firearms to be carried in cars, made it illegal to ask job candidates whether they own a gun, and expanded agreements that make permits to carry handguns in one state valid in another.

The trend is attributed in large part to a push by the National Rifle Association. The NRA, which for years has blocked attempts in Washington to tighten firearms laws, has ramped up its efforts at the state level to chip away at gun restrictions.
According to Chris W. Cox, the NRA's chief lobbyist "This is all a coordinated approach to respect that human, God-given right of self defense by law-abiding Americans,"

"We'll rest when all 50 states allow and respect the right of law-abiding people to defend themselves from criminal attack."

Among the recent gun-friendly laws:
— Arizona, Florida, Louisiana and Utah have made it illegal for businesses to bar their employees from storing guns in cars parked on company lots.

— Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina and Virginia have made some or all handgun permit information confidential.

— Montana, Arizona and Kansas have allowed handgun permits to be issued to people who have had their felony convictions expunged or their full civil rights restored.

The state motto of Alabama is “We dare defend our rights”

Sounds like much of the rest of the country does too

A government that controls the press – controls the people

In a recent survey up to 90% of Americans that regularly read the news get at least some of their news online. This trend has been growing and has placed a serious financial burden, and even forced bankruptcy on major US news papers as circulation of print media plummets.

But according to Democrat congressman Henry Waxman of California since the newspaper industry is suffering "market failure" the US government will need to step in to help preserve serious journalism essential to democracy.

In a statement during a meeting on journalism in the Internet age hosted by the Federal Trade Commission, Waxman said "The newspapers my generation has taken for granted are facing a structural threat to the business model that has sustained them".

"The loss of revenue has spurred a vicious cycle with thousands of journalists losing their jobs”.

Waxman, who chairs the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which has jurisdiction over the FTC, went on to say "depression in the media sector is not cyclical, it is structural."

"While this has implications for the media it also has implications for democracy," he added. "A vigorous free press and vigorous democracy have been inextricably linked.

"We cannot risk the loss of an informed public and all that means because of this market failure”.

Waxman noted various possible remedies, including new tax structures for publishers, providing non-profit status, changing anti-trust regulations or eliminating a law that bars owning a newspaper and a television station in the same city.
But "as we look at these various solutions, government is going to have to be involved in one way or the other," he warned.

"Eventually, government is going to have to be responsible to help resolve these issues and our whole society depends very much on reaching some resolution of the problem."

When you consider that the first move of any government that is seeking to restrict the rights of its citizens is to seize control of its media,
the idea that the US government should take any stake, let alone a financial one in the media should not only be a major concern to all American’s but one that should be stopped dead in its tracks, before this insane notion has any chance of being taken seriously.

Two Turtle Doves and budget busting heath care for all

It's simply not true that all American’s are in denial when it comes to funding Barack Obama’s enormous health care initiative.

The day after the Congressional Budget Office gave its blessing to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s version of the health reform bill - a Quinnipiac University poll of a cross section of voters - reported its results.

The poll question read: "President Obama has pledged that health insurance reform will not add to our federal budget deficit over the next decade.

Do you think that President Obama will be able to keep his promise or do you think that any health care plan that Congress passes and President Obama signs will add to the federal budget deficit?"

The answer: Only 19 percent of those polled think he will be able to keep his word.
9 of 10 Republicans and 8 of 10 independents said that whatever passes will add massive debt to the already over burdened deficit. Even Democrats agreed this is likely by a margin of four to three.

That fear contributed directly to the fact that the majority in this poll said they oppose the legislation now moving through Congress by a 16-point margin
The concern over the bill seems to be less about the much publicized fight over the public option or the issue of abortion coverage than it does the plausibility that the plan will be fiscally manageable.

While the Congressional Budget Office said that both the bill that recently passed the house and the Reid bill meet the Presidents goal of being budget-neutral, most experts agree currently, these bills will greatly overload an already overburdened budget.

Budget expert Douglas Holtz-Eakin says that "budget gimmicks" make it appear that Harry Reid's bill would reduce federal deficits by $130 billion by the year 2019.
One of those gimmicks is Reid's decision to postpone the start of subsidies to help the uninsured buy policies from mid-2013 to January 2014

long after taxes and fees levied by the bill would have begun.

So the health care financing games continue - but the challenge remains the same: Either find a way to make the promised savings real, or get back to the drawing board and craft a plan that really works without bleeding the country dry

Palin? Yes, but not now

I like Sarah Palin… A lot.

I do not however like her as President – not now at least

Here’s why

I believe the most pressing issue this country is faced with is not the economy, or health care but rather international terrorism. If we are constantly under the threat of being attacked – possibly by a nuclear armed unstable nation – then all the domestic issues we face are merely a distraction.

I am completely confident the US will be hit again and I firmly believe that attack is right around the corner and quite possibly the threat could endure for years.
On domestic policy I think Sarah Palin is a gem. On issues like immigration, taxes, gun control, healthcare reform, environmental issues she falls right in line with what I believe and know to be true.

On foreign policy issues she’s a novice. And with the unstable nature of our world, the move towards globalization, a one world monetary system, the increasing attempts by many nations to grant more power to the United Nations, tension between Israel and Palestine and a whole host of other foreign policy challenges I do not think Sarah Palin has the experience to govern as the President of the United States – not yet at least.

And with the almost certainty that we will be involved in a war for probably decades to come – a President that has a firm grasp on international affairs is no longer a luxury – it is mandatory – and the Presidency is no place for on the job training – no matter how fast a learner someone is.

Imagine this:
It’s 2:15 am, 85 days into the Palin Presidency and the phone rings. 3 Russian Subs have been spotted by the Coast Guard 8 miles off the coast of Long Island NY. They do not respond to attempts to reach them by radio contact and they’re headed this way.

Or perhaps…A Muslim bomber just detonated a nitrogen and phosphorus based fertilizer bomb hidden in a rental truck. The blast caused a gaping hole and a fire ball that reached a 100 feet into the air. The bomb was set off on the lowest level of a parking deck killing dozens and trapping hundreds of people at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover Alabama (My home town)

Is Sarah Palin really the person you want in charge?

Now?

With this crisis unfolding?

Do her views on death panels, immigration, global warming or cap and trade legislation really matter when and not if - a major international catastrophe hits this country

Sarah Plain has many of the exact same experience flaws many of us on the right said should preclude Barack Obama from being President.

How do we justify this position to our liberal countrymen?
Many Palin supporters have sound much like the giddy Obama supporters we said we’re delusional. She is taking on that same rock star persona we warned people on the left to not become drunk on.

As this point we cannot afford to become enraptured with Sarah Palin – the stakes are just too high.

I like Sarah Palin, a lot. I think she has a long, brilliant and possibly history changing political career ahead of her

We cannot afford to put her in office simply because we like her pluck or because she’s sassy.

Not now. The stakes are just too high

And the Green Hysteria crosses the pond

Under the Climate Change Act, Britain is obliged to cut its emissions by 80 per cent on 1990 levels by 2050.

This means annual CO2 emissions per person will have to fall from about 9 tons to only 2 tons. The hysteria over the as yet unproven problem of green house emissions has reached a fevered pitch prompting the head of the Environment Agency in Great Britain - Lord Smith of Finsbury to advise that everyone in that European country should be assigned an annual carbon ration and be penalized if they use too much fuel.

The plan would involve people being issued a unique number which they would use when purchasing products that contribute to their carbon footprint, such as fuel, airline tickets and electricity.

Smith said that individual carbon allowances will be administered like a bank account. A statement would be sent out each month to help people keep track of how much they are using.

If their "carbon account" hits zero, they would have to pay to get more credits.
Of course this alone raises an issue. If the emissions are bad enough that you have to curtail carbon output – why does it no longer matter as long as we pull out or checkbook?

Those who are frugal with their carbon usage will be able to sell their unused credits and make a profit. This is actually a domesticated version of President Obama’s Cap and Trade policy.

Lord Smith will call for the scheme to be part of a "Green New Deal" to be introduced within the next several years.
An Environment Agency spokesman said only those with "extravagant lifestyles" would be affected by the carbon allowances.

He said: "A lot of people who cycle will get money back. It will probably only be bankers and those with extravagant lifestyles who would lose out."
However, some have criticized the move as "Orwellian" and say it will have a detrimental impact on business.

Ruth Lea, an economist from Arbuthnot Banking Group, told the British Daily Mail:
"This is all about control of the individual and you begin to wonder whether this is what the green agenda has always been about. It's Orwellian."

Yes Ms. Lea this is exactly what the green agenda has always been about

Is the President bailing out on the bailout?

After months of pumping billions of dollars into the US economy in an attempt to stem the tide of recession and massive unemployment – currently hovering around 10% but closer to 20% according to some economists.

The White House released a statement this week that it will now shift its focus to reducing the deficits. What a novel idea!

President Obama will announce early next year that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit in 2010 – and will downplay or eliminate altogether other domestic spending programs that are not directly tied to job creation.

But it was Obama that spent more money on new programs in nine months than Bill Clinton did in eight years, pushing the annual deficit to $1.4 trillion.
This leaves little room for big spending initiatives, and progressive social programs which we’re of course the bulwark of his campaign promises, many of which now seem in jeopardy.

But despite the appearance of a policy shift from debt creation to deficit reduction, often thought to be more the conservative approach to economics - the shift in strategy seems to indicate the President is concerned about the midterm elections and is trying to help moderate Democrats avoid some tough campaigns and, perhaps more importantly, calm the nerves of independent voters who are voicing concerns with the big spending programs.

The big question for Obama – and the country – is whether the sudden concern about deficits will be more rhetoric than reality.

All presidents promise deficit reduction – and almost always fall short. There is good reason to be skeptical of this White House, too, on its commitment.

The Wall Street Journal reported this past Thursday the White House is considering applying some money from the $700 billion financial bailout to deficit reduction, which ironically is partially responsible for creating the deficit in the first place.

But if Obama’s real political goal is to minimize tough elections, gutting domestic spending bills could mean fewer projects lawmakers can brag about back home. And history shows that that’s often an impossible sale on the Hill.

So Obama will likely find himself squeezed between economic and political pressures for much of the year, and while he attempts to strike a fine line between shoring up our economy and salvaging his first term, the rest of the country watches with startled amazement.

Tea Party Express Speech

On November 9th I spoke at the The Tea Party Express rally in Birmingham AL. There were several hundred in attendance.

Here is the transcript of the speech...

DURING THE PAST 10 MONTHS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS ATTEMPTED SOMETHNG NO ADMINISTRATION IN RECENT MEMORY HAS HAD THE GAUL TO TRY – TO FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE THE WAY OUR COUNTRY WAS INTENDED TO FUNCTION, BY CHALLENGING THE LIBERTIES GRANTED TO EACH OF US IN OUR BILL OF RIGHTS.

AND ALTHOUGH THIS ASSAULT FROM THE LEFT SEEMS LIKE A GREAT THREAT TO OUR GOAL OF LIFE, LIBERTY AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS –

THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS IN FACT DONE SOMETHING WONDERFUL - SOMETHING FEW OTHER ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE – EVEN IF IT WAS QUITE UNINTENTIONAL
NOT SINCE THE PROTESTS DURING THE VIETNAM WAR – LONG BEFORE MANY OF YOU WE’RE BORN – HAVE SO MANY PATRIOTIC AMERICAN’S UNITED TO FIGHT AGAINST THE MISDIRECTED POLICIES OF A MISGUIDED GOVERNMENT.


BUT UNLIKE IN YEARS PAST WHERE PEOPLE PROTESTED CERTAIN POLICIES OF THE GOVERNMENT SUCH AS WAR OR TAXATION – TODAY WE UNITE FOR A MUCH BROADER CAUSE…

TO DEFEND THE CORE VALUES WE ALL SHARE AND TO PROTECT THIS COUNTRY AGAINST THE TYRANNICAL POLICIES OF A GOVERNMENT THAT HAS LOST TOUCH WITH ITS FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND IT’S PEOPLE.

BUT DESPITE THE BATTLE THAT LOOMS BEFORE US - I AM MORE EXCITED THEN EVER ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTRY.

AS CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES WE HAVE LONG BEEN FREE TO VOICE OUR OPINIONS - BUT, NOT UNTIL NOW HAVE WE HAD SUCH A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SHAPE OUR FUTURE.
DURING THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS WE HAVE HEARD PEOPLE TALK OF STEALING OUR COUNTRY BACK

BUT THE TALK HAS CHANGED FROM STEALING IT BACK - TO STEERING IT FORWARD – FROM ALTERING THE COURSE, TO CHARTING IT.

AND AS WE WITNESSED FIRST HAND IN VIRGINIA AND NEW JERSEY – WE ARE ON THE RIGHT COURSE, WE ARE CHANGING HEARTS AND MINDS…

WE ARE WINNING!

BUT THIS FIGHT TO RECLAIM OUR NATION HAS JUST BEGUN
AND EVERYDAY THE STAKES GET HIGHER AS THE TACTICS OF THOSE THAT ARE TRYING TO FORCE RADICAL CHANGE UPON US GROW MORE DESPERATE AS WE WITNESSED SATURDAY WHEN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSED NANCY PELOSI’S HEALTH CARE BILL UNDER THE CLOAK OF DARKNESS

AND AS THEIR TACTICS GROW MORE DESPERATE, WE MUST INTENSIFY OUT EFFORTS.
BUT BEFORE WE CAN HOPE TO TAKE BACK CONTROL OF THIS NATION WE MUST BETTER UNDERSTAND THE THREAT TO OUR COUNTRY.

AS GOD FEARING CONSERVATIVES - WE ARE PREDISPOSED TO BELIEVE IN SOMETHING HIGHER THAN THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOVERNMENT. WE LOOK BEYOND GOVERNMENT FOR DIRECTION BECAUSE IN OUR HEARTS WE KNOW THERE IS SOMETHING HIGHER THEN GOVERNMENT THAT BESTOWS OUR RIGHTS UPON US

LIBERALS ON THE OTHER HAND - THROUGH YEARS OF INDOCTRINATION AND THE ADOPTION OF SO MANY DEPENDENCY CREATING SOCIAL POLICIES HAVE BEEN TAUGHT TO BELIEVE THAT GOVERNMENT IS THE GRANTER OF ALL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES.

TO THEM GOVERNMENT IS LORD AND MASTER. THIS IS THE BASIS OF THEIR BELIEF AND VISION FOR A SECULAR AMERICA

THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME THE PARTY OF…

*SOCIALISM AND ENTITLEMENT
*THE DISMANTLING OF BUSINESS
*THE END OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS
*SANCTUARY CITIES THAT PROTECT ILLEGAL ALIENS
*PRO CHOICE
*GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS
*THE REPLACING OF THE FAMILY OF THE CENTRAL INFLUENCE IN THE LIVES OF OUR CHILDREN.

*THEY ARE THE PARTY OF REMOVING PRAYER FROM OUR SCHOOLS AND THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSTITUTION FROM OUR LIVES

BUT THE THREAT TO OUR WAY OF THINKING DID NOT ARISE OVERNIGHT AND IT WILL NOT ABATE OVER NIGHT WE CANNOT HOPE TO WIN THE SOULS AND MINDS OF THOSE WE DISAGREE WITH BY RHETORIC ALONE OR BY HOLDING TOWNHALL MEETINGS OR EVEN RALLY'S ALONE.

WE MUST RESOLVE TO TAKE A GENERATIONAL APPROACH. WE MUST COMMIT TO THE STRUGGLE FOR THE LONG TERM. WE MUST RECRUIT INTO OUR RANKS MORE PEOPLE WHO CHERISH LIBERTY AS MUCH AS WE DO. WE MUST ENCOURAGE OUR FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES TO JOIN MOVEMENTS SUCH AS THIS ONE, TO BE VOCAL, TO FIGHT FOR THE CONSTITUTION THAT HOLDS THE FOUNDING IDEALS OF THIS LAND

SO WE MUST EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN ABOUT THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, THEIR NATIONAL HERITAGE, AND THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO PROTECT AND DEFEND BOTH BEFORE THE LIBERAL POLITICIANS SUCCEED IN INDOCTRINATING THEM.

AS CONSERVATIVES WE CAN NEVER HOPE TO ACHIEVE A LASTING RESULT IN THE PRESERVATION OF OUR COUNTRY IF WE ONLY RESPOND TO THE INTERMITTENT BAD POLICIES OF INTERMITTENT BAD GOVERNMENT.

WE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT FRUSTRATES US THE MOST IS THAT WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY LIBERAL AMERICANS CANNOT SEE WHAT WE FEEL IS SO PAINFULLY OBVIOUS.

THAT THE FAILED POLICIES OF THE PAST ARE NO FOUNDATION UPON WHICH TO BUILD A FUTURE FOR OUR FAMILIES, OUR STATE AND OUR NATION.

UNFORTUNATELY MANY PEOPLE IN THE ENTITLEMENT CLASS HAVE BECOME BLINDED BY THE PROMISE OF UTOPIA.

A PROMISE WHICH HAS BEEN BROKEN TIME AND AGAIN – BUT WHICH THEY STILL CLING TO.
BUT OUR GOAL IS NOT TO PASS JUDGMENT ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL SHORTCOMINGS OF LIBERALS BUT RATHER TO EDUCATE THEM ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF BECOMING DEPENDENT UPON GOVERNMENT FOR THEIR SURVIVAL AND QUALITY OF LIFE.

IN THE WORDS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN…
”THE STRUGGLE OF TODAY IS NOT ALTOGETHER FOR TODAY BUT FOR VAST FUTURE ALSO"

MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY HE BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Goldwaters Wisdom

Barry Goldwater said…

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.

Obama's Vision of America

In 1966 Columbia University professors Richard Cloward and Frances Piven who wrote an article for “The Nation” magazine that laid out what is now known as the ‘Cloward-Piven Strategy’.

The plan calls for the destruction of capitalism in America by swelling the welfare rolls to the point of collapsing our economy and then implementing socialism by nationalizing many private institutions.

They hoped to accomplish this end by educating the poor of their rights to welfare assistance, encouraging them to apply for benefits and, in effect, overloading an already overburdened bureaucracy."

The pair studied Chicago Community Organizer Saul Alinsky who is considered to be the founder of modern community organizing in America.

An article in the New York Times in 1970 investigated the welfare system and discussed the impact of the Cloward-Piven strategy.

Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus, was quoted in 1982 as saying that the strategy could be effective because "Great Society programs 'had created a vast army of full-time liberal activists whose salaries are paid from the taxes of conservative working people.

Additionally "Robert Chandler observed, "The socialist test case for using society's poor and disadvantaged people as sacrificial “shock troops,” in accordance with the Cloward-Piven strategy, was demonstrated in 1975, when new prospective welfare recipients flooded New York City with payment demands, bankrupting the government.
Other components of the plan include:

Flooding government with impossible demands until it slowly cranks to a stop. Overloading electoral systems with successive tidal waves of new voters, many of them questionable – as evidenced by ACORN

Shaking down banks, politicians in Congress, and pressing the Department of Housing and Urban Development for affirmative-action borrowing, Pulling down the national financial system by demanding exotic, subprime mortgages for low-income Americans with little hope of repaying their loans.
Sound familiar?

It’s a mistake to believe the Cloward Piven Strategy is scheme cooked up by academic Marxists of “New Left” bent dedicated to the destruction of capitalism in the name of some sort of vaguely defined humanitarianism.

In fact, “the destruction of capitalism in America by swelling the welfare rolls to the point of collapsing our economy and then implementing socialism by nationalizing many private institutions” is a meticulous plan on the part of the global elite to consolidate power and as can be confirmed by the history books a very real threat to the future of America

Liberals love playing loosey goosey with the facts

Professor Ellen van Wolde, described as "a respected Old Testament scholar and author" by the London Telegraph, claims the first sentence of Genesis – "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" – is not a true translation of Hebrew.

"She claims the writers of the bible never said that God created the world – and in fact the Earth was already there when he created humans and animals,"
How this biblical oversight eluded scholars for the past 3,000 years was not explained.

Van Wolde said she had analyzed the original Hebrew text and placed it in the context of the Bible as a whole, and of other creation stories from ancient Mesopotamia.

She concluded the Hebrew verb "bara," which is used in the first sentence of the book of Genesis, does not mean "to create" but to "spatially separate."
So, therefore, the first sentence of the Book of Genesis should actually read "In the beginning God separated the Heaven and the Earth."

Van Wolde boasts of having once worked with Italian novelist Umberto Eco, best known for his books "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucalt's Pendulum," which has been described as a "thinking person's 'Da Vinci Code.'"

If those aren't qualifications to revise the Bible, I don't know what is.
She admits that technically "bara" does mean "create" but added: "Something was wrong with the verb.

But there is only problem with the study… Van Wolde focuses on the Genesis creation statement but conveniently fails an attempt to discredit the other 15 direct references to Gods hand in the creation of the world, such as…

Genesis 2:4: in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens;
Psalm 89:12: The north and the south thou hast created them.
Isaiah 42:5: Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth,
Isaiah 45:8: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

Or Ephesians 3:9:

Colossians 1:16:

And Revelation, Romans, and First Peter

The biblical references to God’s creation are numerous and proven. But then again liberal academia has never had a problem letting the facts get in the way while seeking to advanced their secular agenda.

Obama - The Rookie President

Recently Thomas Sowell, a brilliant political writer penned the article "A Rookie President". It s a wonderful piece on the price we will pay for Barack Obama's lack of experience. Although the piece was done months ago - in light of the issues with the war in Afghanistan - it deserves a re-read.

Read it here:
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/03/31/a_rookie_president

I hate to say I told you so...

On May 2nd during my program - the Michael Hart Show - which airs Sunday evenings, - Listen online at www.101wyde.com - I discussed a scenario where President Obama, could use a perceived threat to the country to suspend our civil liberties under the Habeas Corpus Law. I took a little heat for the comment as was accused by some as being a conspiracy theorist.

Imagine my surprise when just this week I discovered…

A "pandemic response bill" was recently passed by the Massachusetts Senate and is currently making its way through the states legislature

The bill would allow authorities to forcefully quarantine citizens in the event of a health emergency compel health providers to vaccinate citizens, authorizes forceful entry into private dwellings, destroy citizen’s potentially infected private property and impose fines for noncompliance.

If people refuse to comply with the quarantine orders in the event of a health emergency, they may be imprisoned for up to 30 days and fined $1,000 per day that the violation continues.
The bill states, that if an emergency exists that is considered potentially detrimental to public health, a local public health authority, may:

“Require the owner of premises to permit entry into, and investigation of the premises”
“To close, direct, and compel the evacuation of, or to decontaminate or cause to be decontaminated any building or facility, and to allow the reopening of the building or facility when the danger has ended;
“To decontaminate or to destroy any material”
“To restrict or prohibit assemblages of persons”
“To control the movement of persons and materials to and from any stricken or threatened public area, or within the area”
And these actions are just the first 5 on a list of 15!

And just as troubling - public health officials will be required to keep records of the name and location of people who have been reported, their health condition and the name of the person reporting the case. In addition, citizens may be subject to what is called "involuntary transportation."

And Massachusetts in not alone

According to the Center for Disease Control - Florida- Iowa - North Carolina and Washington State have implemented similar test plans.
And isn’t it ironic that the President is using the Massachusetts health plan as the model for the new US Health policy?

I hate to say I told you so but..

What was Maureen Dowd thinking?

What an amazing few weeks for the Nations news media. Talk about a smorgasbord of subject matter to draw from. But probably the biggest news story next to the Presidents health care initiative was the “You Lie” comment from Congressman Joe Wilson during the Presidents televised Health Care reform speech and the subsequent firestorm.

The issue has ginned comments and commentary from both sides but probably none more incendiary than Maureen Dowd’s musings that what she heard in her head was “You Lie Boy”. Of course the comment is not only ridiculous, but her assessment that she knows what is in Mr. Wilson’s heart and head is purely speculative.

Her attempt at mind reading has confused and confounded both her critics and supporters alike. But if you want to fully understand her position consider this claim, consider this:

Everyone in the media is fighting for attention to be seen and heard these days. The incredible growth in the industry, especially with the addition of the internet pundits, has fostered a climate of shear news noise. It’s painfully easy for the Dowd’s of the world to be drowned out and now many of the mainstream reporters are resorting to the outlandish in an attempt at remaining relevant.

And in the case of Maureen Dowd the strategy is working. Every conservative news outlet on the planet is talking about her and the story. She has not only helped keep the story red hot – she has expanded it.

It does not matter if the allegations against Mr. Wilson are true, and obviously they are absolutely un-provable. What does matter is that Maureen Dowd has done something more and more news pundits are resorting to in an attempt to gain the spotlight – that is no longer reporting the news but rather becoming it.

So it seems that out of desperation an otherwise competent, articulate, intelligent and trusted member of the media has resorted to the same kind of amateurish antics employed by so many fresh off the vine bloggers and tarnished the reputation she has worked so hard to acquire, in a sad attempt to step into whatever piece of the public spotlight she could find. And did so with no regard for journalistic integrity