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Common Core forcing Marxism/Nazism on America’s children… “Common Core is a Nationalized Federal government takeover of our Education system which of course is against the law, as the Federal Government is not allowed to set any educational curriculum standards – a right reserved to the States. Least of all do they have the power to create a one size fits all complete take over of education on all levels. “

May 9, 2013 25 comments

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Sher Zieve is an author and political commentator. Zieve’s op-ed columns are widely carried by multiple internet journals and sites, and she also writes hard news. Her columns have also appeared in The Oregon Herald, Dallas Times, Sacramento Sun, in international news publications, and on multiple university websites. Sher is also a guest on multiple national radio shows

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Recently, I met a remarkable woman who has accomplished an extraordinary work in her mission toward educating the American people of a clear and present danger to their children and the methods by which said danger can be stopped. This lady’s accomplishments speak for themselves.BIO:Christina Michas is the Founder and Leader of the Palm Springs Patriots Coalition and President, Eagle Forum Palm Springs.

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Prior to getting involved in politics and issues facing our nation, Christina was the Owner of a Design and Development Business. Christina felt the calling to stop her business, completely, and get involved in saving her country. This led to her becoming involved in politics and their attendant issues full time. As a result, in February, 2009 she founded the Palm Springs Patriots Coalition. Since then, Christina has been involved in many organizations and events, while continuing to work with her group to educate and activate people in her community. She has worked diligently with her local officials to bring positive changes to local area cities.

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She was the VP of Marketing for Consumers Power Alliance CPA, a coalition of groups dedicated to stopping Smart Meter Installations in California. Through the work of CPA, they won the right for all Californian‘s to opt out of Wireless Smart Meters.Christina is the recipient of the 2010 Salvatori Award from the Heritage Foundation for her instrumental work in the Tea Party Movement. Christina is also a producer for Breaking News Journal.

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Today Christina is the Co-founder of a newly formed Coalition called CURE Citizens United for Responsible Education to join in the fight to stop the Common Core Curriculum Standards of a Government led take over of our education system.

She has been on numerous local and national radio shows in the effort to educate and activate citizens and to encourage all to get involved. As Christina states, ” It is time for all of us to step up and take personal responsibility for what is happening in our nation,” to become our own representatives and to stop looking to Politicians to fix the problems. Christina is a Greek American and is strong believer in the Lord from which she draws her strength.

This enables her to look at current events objectively through the prism of the Bible and end time prophecy.The InterviewSher: Christina, thanks so much for being here with me, today. You are doing an extraordinary job of bringing the truth about what is happening in the government public school system in the USA…and it isn’t pretty. During his brutal reign in Russia, in which he established the Soviet Union or USSR, created the Secret Police, established Siberian prison camps, killed thousands of peasants when they did not work as hard as the ruling………………..

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GyG: What The Folks Out There Are Saying, Reader Responses, Etc… ~ If They Come for Your Guns, Do You Have a Responsibility to Fight?

April 8, 2013 Leave a comment

I feel a tremendous responsibility to write this article though I am a little apprehensive. Thinking about the possibility of rising up against our own government is a frightening thing for many of us. I am not Johnny Rambo and I will be the first to admit that I do not want to die.

 

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Today’s Toons 4/4/13

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Today’s Toons 4/4/13

 

The Right Reasons ^ | 4/4/13 | pookie18

 

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GUNNY G: DEFINING CONSERVATISM… ACCORDING TO: RONALD REAGAN !!!!!

March 25, 2013 Leave a comment

GUNNY G: DEFINING CONSERVATISM…  ACCORDING TO: RONALD REAGAN !!!!!

(“In defining conservatism, Reagan said: “If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.”) ~ Conservatism in the United StatesWikipedia, the free encyclopedia

…..In defining conservatism, Reagan said: “If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals—if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories.

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GUNNY G: WHAT IS A CONSERVATIVE? A REAL AMERICAN, THAT’S WHAT !!!!! (Jeffersonian…)

March 23, 2013 1 comment

GUNNY G: WHAT IS A CONSERVATIVE? A REAL AMERICAN, THAT’S WHAT !!!!!

 

…..In defining conservatism, Reagan said: “If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

 

I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals—if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories.

 

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The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”[153]

 

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Trouble Brewing in GOP… “…the hard truth is that the movement inside the Republican Party to abandon social conservatism is nothing short of a political death wish. Denying it will not alter the reality.”

March 19, 2013 5 comments

Trouble Brewing in GOP

 

Townhall.com ^ | March 19, 2013 | David Limbaugh

 

Posted on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:15:46 AM by Kaslin

 

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For the first time, I am wondering about the long-term viability of the Republican Party. I say this not as an advocate of its demise or restructuring but as an observer of troubling signs.

 

The Republican Party is thought to be the institutional vehicle for the advancement of conservative policies, but for decades, the conservative movement has been frustrated with the party’s deviation from conservative principles — its refusal to live up to its decidedly conservative platform.

 

I believe that the disappointing results for Republicans in the 2006 elections and probably the 2012 elections, as well, were in no small part attributable to frustrated conservatives staying at home.

 

The thinking among many conservatives has been that the party has consistently fallen short by failing to restrain the growth of the ever-expanding federal government and by failing to nominate sufficiently conservative presidential nominees. That is, if we would just nominate and elect Reagan conservatives and govern on Reagan principles, we would recapture majority status in no time.

 

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Libertarians vs Conservatives on Guns by Mark R. Crovelli

March 15, 2013 Leave a comment

Few issues highlight the gaping philosophical divide between libertarians and modern conservatives more starkly than the issue of guns. This might seem counterintuitive, because libertarians and modern conservatives often stand shoulder to shoulder against liberals and progressives to defend individual gun rights. The convenient alliance between modern conservatives and libertarians in the political trenches, however, conceals a fundamental and serious philosophical disagreement.

 

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In order to fully grasp the division between libertarians and modern conservatives on this issue, it is important to understand why libertarians and conservatives think gun rights are so important. At the most general level, both libertarians and modern conservatives agree that all men have a natural right to defend themselves against aggression. More specifically, every man has a natural right to repel with violent force any unjust aggression against his life or his property.

 

 

 

Libertarians and modern conservatives do not defend individual gun rights out of some bizarre and loony obsession with a 200-year-old piece of parchment called “The Constitution.” On the contrary, they hold that the Constitution of the United States merely articulated something about man’s nature that has always been and always will be true.

 

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The logical implication of this, both libertarians and modern conservatives agree, is that individuals have a natural right not just to defend their lives and their property against aggression from individual murderers and thieves, but that they have a natural right to defend themselves from unjust aggression by government. Hollow indeed would be the right to self-defense if it did not include the right to defend oneself against aggression by government – including one’s own government, because governments have killed and robbed exponentially more people than have private criminals.

 

Recognizing this fact, libertarians and modern conservatives agree that the natural right to self-defense must include a right to defend oneself against unjust government aggression, and that doing so usually requires more than simply a stick or a slingshot. A population armed with modern guns is not easily cowed, robbed, or massacred unless governments resort to wildly immoral and indiscriminate tactics or weapons of mass destruction.

 

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ABC’s ‘The View’ Reportedly Firing Show’s Lone Conservative Over ‘Extreme’, ‘Right-Wing’ Views

March 8, 2013 Leave a comment

ABC’sThe View’ Reportedly Firing Show’s Lone Conservative Over ‘Extreme’, ‘Right-Wing’ Views

 

The Blaze ^ | 3/8/13 | Jason Howerton

 

Posted on Friday, March 08, 2013 7:06:32 PM by Nachum

 

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck is being fired from ABC’s “The View” because market researchers found that her conservative views were out of touch with the show’s audience, according to a report in Us Weekly.

 

The magazine, citing unnamed sources, reported Friday that Hasselbeck will be leaving the show along with Joy Behar, an outspoken far-left liberal who quit the show by choice.

 

 

 

“The viewers they polled all said she was too extreme and right-wing,” a show insider whose name was not reported told UsMagazine.com about Hasselbeck Friday. “People did not watch the show because of Elisabeth. So they told her yesterday her contract would not be renewed.”

 

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Liberal Education – Rotten To The Core… “Have you ever stopped to wonder why conservative ideology is having such a hard time gaining traction with our younger generations?”

March 4, 2013 1 comment

Liberal Education – Rotten To The Core

 

Political Realities ^ | 03/04/13 | LD Jackson

 

Posted on Monday, March 04, 2013 7:47:06 AM by LD Jackson

 

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Have you ever stopped to wonder why conservative ideology is having such a hard time gaining traction with our younger generations?

 

Many of you will know where I am headed with this, but I believe it is time we took a long and hard look at the education system in this country. Could it be we have abdicated our rights as parents and leaders of our community to educate our children as we see fit? It may be happening in places where we would least expect it.

 

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PALIN: ‘WE HAVEN’T YET BEGUN TO FIGHT!’—EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

January 26, 2013 Leave a comment

PALIN: ‘WE HAVEN‘T YET BEGUN TO FIGHT!’—EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

 

Brietbart ^ | Saturday January 26, 2012

 

Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2013 5:25:41 PM by Bigtigermike

 

PALIN: ‘WE HAVEN’T YET BEGUN TO FIGHT!’—EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH BREITBART NEWS

 

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What’s Next:

 

Short term: I encourage others to step out in faith, jump out of the comfort zone, and broaden our reach as believers in American exceptionalism. That means broadening our audience. I’m taking my own advice here as I free up opportunities to share more broadly the message of the beauty of freedom and the imperative of defending our republic and restoring this most exceptional nation.

 

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We can’t just preach to the choir; the message of liberty and true hope must be understood by a larger audience.

 

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Reincarnation, God, and Government…

January 24, 2013 2 comments

…..If you disagree with the idea of reincarnation, or a plurality of heavens and hells, or karma being a biblical teaching, or reaching a state of salvation while still on this earthly plane, then by all means disregard such things—whatever floats your boat. I am writing about them because they are concepts that have helped me on my spiritual path, and I share them in case they may be of use to others.

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Whether you pick them up or kick them to the side is all the same to me—they are trifles compared to that which is important.What is important is, as I said earlier, that we share a belief in an afterlife and a system of reward and punishment. The reality of divine reward and punishment used to be commonplace knowledge in this country—not anymore—and we see the results of such atheistic hubris all around us in the breakdown of morality and promulgation of depravity.By this point you may be asking yourself “what in the world is an article like this doing in a venue devoted to conservative politics?”

The answer is that while it is all fine and good to debate the various pros and cons of liberal and conservative ideologies, we are just spinning our wheels unless we address the real issues that lay at the heart of such matters—and it is no hyperbole to say that the fundamental and most important difference between the liberal and conservative viewpoints centers around how they each treat the topic of God and spirituality.If you are under the impression that religion and spirituality play no part in political strategies, let me hasten to point out that there are many atheists and leftist radicals who would strongly disagree with you.

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(Gunny G: Response) ~ Who Are the Best Conservative Columnists?

December 6, 2012 1 comment

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America 2013: Return of the Kinsman Redeemer?… (“The current state of America is startlingly bad and getting much worse, fast.”)

November 26, 2012 Leave a comment
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…..Obama delivered a beatdown in the electoral college, the Republicans are in disarray, and GOP members are beginning to cave on various issues, like taxes. So why are things not really over? Because where there is life, there is hope—or, as the Preacher says—better a live dog than a dead lion.

 

The only deadly outcome from this election is for conservatives to give up our beliefs; or the conviction we can still be influential or even dominant players in the national debate. We must not give into the understandable impulse to surrender. Why? Because we have a responsibility the left cannot fathom:

 

A non-delegable duty to be faithful to this nation in terms of keeping the message, in teaching, praying, etc. In fact, this incontrovertible responsibility is much like the duty of the Kinsman Redeemer, as described in the Book of Ruth, etc.

 

I. America’s Current State

 

America is currently in a state of deep flux, with a battle for hegemony now being waged between the forces of conservatism and progressives. At stake is ultimately who is the dominant society in the world, both in terms of trend setting, political persuasion and also for military influence. While conservatives mourn the reelection of a talentless socialist demagogue, we realize that our problems are much deeper and of our own making. Further, our economic, social, spiritual, foreign policy, and health problems all result from a refusal to accept facts that were once commonly held convictions in the US. In other words, we are suffering from a lack of faith and individual will.

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Jim R. Schwiesow — No Cure for Stupidity… (“ONE HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION IDIOTS”)

November 18, 2012 2 comments

A letter to the editor appeared on November 12, 2012 and it read as follows:

 

“I feel sorry for Jimmy Carter. His first four years as a president were also a complete failure, but he never received a second chance; my how times have changed.”

 

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In regard to this reader’s mini editorial of 11/12 and his lament that Jimmy Carter never received a second chance after his failed presidency. Could it be that in his day he never had the benefit of runaway voter fraud, illegal foreign contributions, or an innate and complete lack of integrity? Times have indeed changed, but the question is whether or not that change is for the better. We already know that the answer to that question, and it is most definitely not!

 

ONE HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION IDIOTS

 

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Ronald Reagan the Libertarian…(Re conservative-libertarian)

November 16, 2012 4 comments
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Here’s a wonderful quote from Reagan in 1975 from Reason magazine. If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is. Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy. I believe there are legitimate government functions.

There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves.

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Prison Planet.com » In His Final Speech Ron Paul Warns Of “Continuous March Toward Fascism”

November 15, 2012 1 comment

EXCERPT!!!!!

 

The congressman said that the solution for combating all these dangers was rejection of government force of rule and “the simple moral premise of rejecting all acts of aggression”.

 

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Paul ended, as ever, with modesty and with a simple, straightforward message:

 

“I have come to one firm conviction after these many years of trying to figure out the plain truth of things. The best chance for achieving peace and prosperity, for the maximum number of people worldwide, is to pursue the cause of liberty. If you find this to be a worthwhile message, spread it throughout the land.”

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Time for Introspection, but Not Surrender…

November 9, 2012 1 comment

Has the nation gone irreversibly blue? Did intraparty disunity sabotage Mitt Romney‘s presidential quest? Or is there some other explanation for the nation’s re-election of a president with the worst record in decades?

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I received an email from a brilliant conservative friend who wonders whether Republicans can ever win another election and thus whether the nation is forever lost. I ran into a college student at church the Sunday before the election, and despite his strong conservatism and high intelligence, he admitted confusion about the candidates’ respective positions after the presidential debates.

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Political Partisan Psychological Disorders | Veterans Today

October 15, 2012 14 comments
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Before one can understand the nature of partisan or party politics, a correct comprehension of The Choice of Ideology is essential.

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Consistent with the historic legacy of the founding of this Nation is a lament that most inhabitants are oblivious to our ingenious heritage and purpose of the American Revolution.

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IS ROMNEY A MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE?

October 6, 2012 1 comment

 

 

 

 

 

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Is Romney a Manchurian Candidate? OUR MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE?Romney was a liberal in Massachusetts, we all know that. Romney wasn’t on board with the Reagan Revolution.

 

 

 

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How Obama Won the Upcoming Debate

October 2, 2012 Leave a comment

 

For seasoned political observers on both sides of the aisle, it is not particularly surprising that the media‘s narrative for Wednesday’s presidential debate has already been written.

 

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(Vanity) I am no longer Just a Conservative(Vanity)

August 8, 2012 1 comment

 

(Vanity) I am no longer Just a Conservative(Vanity)

 

haid ^ | Tuesday, July 10, 2012 | self

 

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Posted on Tuesday, August 07, 2012 11:39:51 PM by Tainan

 

For my entire life I have been a Republican and a Conservative.

 

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Is it too late for a conservative to be nominated? (Just my idea)

July 15, 2012 1 comment

I think it’s worth asking whether it really is too late to put a conservative on the ballot for president. Look, we all KNOW that O-Zero’s attacks on Romney are complete BS. But Romney has shown he isn’t able to stand up to it. He looks weak and defensive. So, maybe this is an opening for us.

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What does a conservative believe?

July 12, 2012 2 comments

What does a conservative believe?

Tenth Amendment Network ^ | 7/12/2012 | Marc Gindin

Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2012 3:56:22 PM by TenthAmendmentNetwork

Let’s lay out the belief system of a conservative, as applied in the 21st century. If you’re a conservative, you believe these things.

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The REALITY Is: Today’s Conservative Optimism is a Delusion! (“As Conservatives and patriotic Americans, we must “face the music” and…”)

July 1, 2012 1 comment

Today’s conservative, optimistic ideal cannot support the excessive weight of the current crises and realities at hand. This fact must be recognized and accepted by the conservative right in this country.

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The current crises are reaching gigantic proportions – both nationally and globally.

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What Happened the Last Time the GOP Asked Him?

June 15, 2012 4 comments
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Before election day in 2008, Ron Paul held a press conference in DC, featuring the third party candidates for president; Ralph Nader Green, Chuck Baldwin Constitution and, in absentia, Bob Barr Libertarian.

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Ron urged his supporters, as well as all who were frustrated and fed-up with the two-party monopoly to vote for anyone of the third party contenders, rather than the lesser of two evils.In this video, he recounts the story of what happened when the McCain campaign called asking for Ron’s endorsement. He said: “Well, I don’t like the idea of getting two or three million people angry at me”. The McCain people countered with the argument that he would do less harm than the others.

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Is Big Brother Watching? | revisedhistory

June 9, 2012 2 comments

by Al Benson Jr.

I’ve noticed for a little over a week now that viewership for the blog spot has seemed to fall off, as has the volume of email I have been getting. People I used to hear from quite often suddenly seem to be silent. No more emails from them. It’s like about 30 of them at once have all decided to go on extended summer vacations without bothering to let me know they would be gone.

People who used to comment on the articles herein have suddenly gone silent and you don’t hear from them anymore. I had thought it was a bit odd, but didn’t think anything more than that about it until this morning when I got an email from a lady who has followed my writing for some time now.. Like me, she has an AOL email address.

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Fiscal Conservatives Have Been Raped By The Republican Party

June 6, 2012 1 comment

What the Republican Party has done to fiscal conservatives over the past year and a half has been a betrayal so vast that it is difficult to find words to describe it. Back in 2010, the Tea Party was riding high and a flood of new Republicans was sent to the U.S. House of Representatives in one of the greatest landslides in U.S. political history. On election night 2010, more House seats changed hands than in another other election since 1948.

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Resistance 44: A Bold New Conservative Initiative

May 30, 2012 Leave a comment

Here are some young conservatives who aren’t, unlike RINOs and other liberals, embarrassed to be identified with the traditional values that made America the greatest nation of all time. They are Resistance 44.

They don’t consider themselves “too sophisticated” to be seen embracing the ideals which separate us from every other nation in the world, or opposing those philosophies which would tear down all that we hold dear…………..

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Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., JD — The Constitution Limits the President Even as “Commander in Chief”

May 28, 2012 1 comment
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Amidst the flood of propaganda these days on behalf of what must be the most breathtaking expansion of Presidential power since Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, especially glaring are the assertions of self-styled “conservative” media personalities that nothing is amiss, because: (i) the President is “Commander in Chief;” (ii) in that capacity he supposedly enjoys “inherent” power to take whatever actions he may deem necessary to protect this country from “terrorism;” (iii) assertion of this Presidential power is especially vital now, with this country engaged in a “war on terror;” and (iv) in any event, Congress has broadly authorized the President to use “force” in “the war on terror.” None of these contentions can withstand even cursory scrutiny.

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1. The Constitution does designate the President as “Commander in Chief.” Article II, Section 2, Clause 1. Not, however, as “Commander in Chief” of the country as a whole, with the plenary powers of some Fuhrer or Duce, but only as “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.” As will be explained below, in this capacity the President exercises, not some limitless “inherent” power, but largely a circumscribed and contingent authority dependent upon mandates from Congress.

2. Merely labeling some situation a “war” cannot call the President’s rightful powers as “Commander in Chief” into operation, let alone boundlessly expand those powers.

The so-called “war on terror” is not the unique example of such martial political hyperbole bombarding this country today. Simultaneously, Americans are exhorted to acquiesce in enlarged governmental powers to fight “the war on crime,” “the war on drugs,” “the war on poverty,” and even “the war on obesity.” Does anyone believe, though, that under color of (say) waging a “war on obesity” the President could declare McDonald’s employees “enemy combatants” and its fatty foods “weapons of mass destruction,” could deploy the Armed Forces to occupy its restaurants, or could even tap its phones without submitting to judicial review?

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(“America has shifted so far to the Left that yesterday’s liberals are today’s conservatives”) Leo Strauss and the Conservatives

May 24, 2012 Leave a comment

The illusion of supposed conservatism, for scholars like Strauss and for politicians like George W. Bush and Mitt Romney, is that the political spectrum in America has shifted so far to the Left that yesterday’s liberals are today’s conservatives says Author and Speaker Jeff Nyquist…

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Honor Bound Not To Vote For Romney…

May 17, 2012 1 comment

 By J.D. Longstreet  Thursday, May 17, 2012

Commentators of all stripes catch heat from their readers frequently.  It goes with the territory. 

Months back I declared that I would not vote for Romney … period.  Apparently, it has been more than a little difficult for some to understand why a conservative, especially a conservative who consistently harps on Obama’s failings and declares that Obama must be voted out of office to save the

country, publicly announces HE will not vote for the conservative candidate most likely to unseat Obama.

 

Ordinarily, I would not bother to respond to the inquiries, but since so many conservatives find my position so puzzling, I have “evolved”, as the President might say, to a point that I have decided maybe I ought to clear the air and explain why I have taken such an immovable, and seemingly contrarian, position.

There’s no secret, no mystery.  I gave my word that I would not vote for Romney, either in the primary or the Presidential election.  That may not mean much anymore, but it means everything to me.  I gave my readers my word and I intend to stand by it.  Why?  Because it is the honorable thing to do.

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Obama Is the Extremist, Not Conservative Talkers

May 15, 2012 2 comments

Some conservatives believe that other conservatives, on talk radio and Fox News Channel, are damaging the cause of conservatism by dishonestly overstating their case against President Obama to increase their ratings and profits.

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What We Are Left With – Is Ron Paul Better or Worse Than Romney?

May 8, 2012 8 comments

Instead of letting the establishment act like everybody is happy with Mitt Romney, how about if everybody in the remaining primaries votes for Ron Paul in protest?

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What is the worst that could happen?

At least Ron Paul is pro-life and wants to get rid of the vile, evil, Marxist income tax.

Mitt Romney is saying a lot of the right things, but talk is cheap for politicians at election time.

It should be ALARMING for conservatives to see how many of Romney’s people have been advising the Obama administration!!

If you look at their history, instead of their promises, is Ron Paul better than Romney?

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Gunny G: GUESS WHO IS PACKING THE SEATS…+ STANDING ROOM ONLY!?

May 6, 2012 5 comments

He has the #1 support from not only the troops who no longer wish to be at war, he also has the support of the youth. The intellectual revolution has begun…

Ron Paul Rallies Feb-Apr 2012:

LINK BELOW !!!!!

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Gunny G: Note: This Article Receiving Unusual Amount Of Hits For Some Reason!

May 6, 2012 Leave a comment

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WAKE UP AMERICA.1984.+ IS HERE!: EDRIVERA.COM (“…just what was meant by “We The People” in the American Constitution preamble”)

April 25, 2012 1 comment

I have recently wondered just what was meant by “We The People” in the American Constitution preamble. Realizing that it was formulated and written by delegates that represented the “upper echelons” of post colonial society.

The cream of the crop that rise to the top.

This curiosity was partly what led me to try and study and better understand “Our Constitution”. Currently using the book entitled “The 5000 Year Leap”…its 28 principles of foundation for the American Constitution. The claim in this book being that the “Founding Fathers” had the 28 Principles Of Good Government in their minds when they did their work.

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Prison Planet.com » Ron Paul Winning: MSM Decides its Safe to Announce Delegate Wins

April 25, 2012 12 comments

Now three people have won Iowa during this primary season. Last night, Ron Paul’s delegate finagling strategy paid off as he guaranteed himself at least half of the delegates in Iowa and Minnesota.

Congressman Ron Paul at an event hosted in his...

Congressman Ron Paul at an event hosted in his honor at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Why Conservatives Have Lost the Political Battle for America’s Soul by Gary North

April 23, 2012 1 comment

This was posted on one of GaryNorth.com forums.

The battle for America’s political soul is always fought on the battlefield of federal politics. That’s why conservatives lose, generation after generation.”

Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dr. North, would you please elaborate on this, why you believe the battle for America’s political soul is fought in Federal politics and why it is that conservatives continue to lose, generation after generation?

From the time of the ratification of the United States Constitution, American politics shifted to the national level. One of the things that I realized late in my career, even though I had been trained as an historian of the colonial period, was this: it is virtually impossible to write a history of the United States after 1788 without dividing it into four-year segments. Presidential election years set the tone for the direction of the country, and this has been true ever since the early 19th century, when the federal government’s share of the economy was minimal. It is not a matter simply of money; it is a matter of political legitimacy. Issues of legitimacy are much more important than issues of taxation. Legitimacy tells what the taxes will be spent on. That is far more important than the amount of taxes collected.

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(“The American people need to let their voices be heard on these issues.”) Prison Planet.com » Why Is It Necessary For The Federal Government To Turn The United States Into A Prison Camp?

April 21, 2012 Leave a comment

And most Americans have no idea how fast the transition to full martial law could potentially be.

Barack Obama recently updated an old executive order that has been around for decades that would enable him to take charge of all food, all energy, all health resources and all transportation resources in the United States with the stroke of a pen. This new update would allow him to do it even in “non-emergency” situations.

The following is what U.S. Representative Kay Granger recently had to say about this executive order….

This means all of our water resources, construction services and materials (steel, concrete, etc.), our civil transportation system, food and health resources, our energy supplies including oil and natural gas – even farm equipment – can be taken over by the President and his cabinet secretaries. The Government can also draft U.S. citizens into the military and force U.S. citizens to fulfill “labor requirements” for the purposes of “national defense.” There is not even any Congressional oversight, only briefings are required.

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(“The MSM is really starting to Pi me off!”) Prison Planet.com » USA Today Website – Politics Page has ALL the Presidential Candidates in the Race…. Except ONE

April 21, 2012 Leave a comment

The MSM is really starting to Pi me off!

SNL this last Saturday April 14th pretended that Ron Paul never existed in the Presidential race in their cold opening.Now, take a look at USA Today’s Political page of Candidates in the Presidential Race, they have them all listed except for one.I know, you will just never guess who that one person is that does not exist it seems.?

Ron Paul

Ron Paul (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore)

?! Do they really think people are going to believe Ron Paul never existed? Do they really think that people are going to just forget about Ron Paul?The biggest problem is… most people read MSM sh and watch their Fake/distraction news, instead of informing themselves with truth on the internet alternative real news sites.But they are getting more and more ridiculous as time goes by. Does it mean they are scared? Does this mean that Ron Paul has made huge inroads into their puppet campaigns and puppet candidates, except for Ron Paul?Are more people actually voting for Ron Paul – but through all the voting fraud they commit they are changing the votes?

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The Sea Change: Obama’s Confirmed Forgeries Are Not going Away

April 19, 2012 Leave a comment

For several years, an Orwellian-type fear of being “marginalized” held reporters and pundits back from questioning Barack Obama’s eligibility to hold the office of the presidency.

Barack Obama delivers a speech at the Universi...

Barack Obama delivers a speech at the University of Southern California (Video of the speech) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

To raise an eyebrow at the bizarre secrecy of Obama was off-limits. To question whether the historic definition of “natural born citizen” applied to Obama was taboo.

The era of fear, however, is happily winding down. It will take some time for this realization to fully take hold. But make no mistake: the tables have turned.

Like it or not, the ground has shifted, and it cannot shift back. The evidence of Obama’s forgeries is not going away.

Up until this point, Mr. Obama controlled everything, including the talking points and burden of proof.

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Liberty is Null and Void…

April 19, 2012 1 comment

By Dr. Robert R. Owens Thursday, April 19, 2012

America was founded as a Federal Republic. This means our nation was designed to have two levels of sovereignty. The States which pre-date the central government and which created the central government is to be one level and the central government they created was to be the second. The separate States first combined to found a central government when they drafted and ratified the Articles of Confederation in 1781. This combination was strengthened and expanded in the writing and ratification of the Constitution in 1789. However, in both of these new beginnings it was always stated and assumed that the States were the building blocks out of which the whole was built.

The Anti-Federalists sought to safe guard the inherent rights of the Sovereign States in the face of a proposed national government which concentrated power and superseded the primacy of the States. The Anti-Federalists are often dismissed by those of succeeding generations who have been educated by the victorious philosophical descendants of the Federalists, as mere obstructionists and people of no-account. However, their ranks were filled by some of the greatest names of the Revolutionary times such as Samuel Adams, George Mason, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson.

Another well-known leader of the Antifederalists, Patrick Henry, questioned the very legitimacy of what are possibly the most famous words in the document: “We the People” when he said, “I have the highest veneration for those gentlemen; but, sir, give me leave to demand, What right had they to say, We, the people? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the people, instead of, We, the states? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great, consolidated, national government, of the people of all the states.”

Once the Constitution was maneuvered through the ratification process most of the Anti-Federalists faded into the background. Forgotten were their war time services and forgotten were their warnings that a central government once established would inevitably grow in power to eclipse the States.

In the early days of the Republic the former Anti-Federalists attempted to keep alive the idea that it was the States which had created the central government and that the States therefore had the authority to determine if the central government had overstepped the authority which had been delegated to them by the States. They proposed to do this through a process known as Nullification.

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Prison Planet.com » Rand Paul Leaves Door Open For VP Slot

April 19, 2012 1 comment

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…..“You see much more diverse crowds at the Ron Paul rallies, and particularly the youth, than you see at any Republican function…

Official portrait of United States Senator (R-KY).

Official portrait of United States Senator (R-KY). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

…the Republicans if they had half a clue would realize nationally that Ron Paul is a phenomenon getting five to ten thousand people at speeches, more than any other candidate, and they need to realize that they need that momentum and they need that to win in the fall, and I’m just hoping they will do some outreach to him to try to get him to participate in their convention” said Paul.

What do you think? Would Rand Paul running as Romney’s VP represent an opportunity to inject real constitutional ideas into the body politic – affording Rand a national platform in the VP debate to spread the message of liberty –

Ron Paul, member of the United States House of...

Ron Paul, member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

or would it signify an attempt by the establishment to co-opt and dilute the entire Ron Paul Revolution of which Rand has become a leading light?…..

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The Cultural Conservatives

April 17, 2012 6 comments

In practical politics, what we call the conservative movement in America is a coalition of several interests and bodies of opinion. In popular journalism, the word “conservative” has come to imply virtually any person who resists the great grim tendency tow a rd a totalist state; or perhaps anybody who sets his face against Communism.

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So we ought not to be surprised that within this camp called conservative there flourish factions and deep differences of opinion. It is only in their opposition to Leviathan tha t the several factions join forces.

I have been asked to offer you four lectures on the varieties of the conservative impulse, my general title playing on William James’s book 77ie Varieties ofRefigious Experience. So I mean to take up, during this year, f o ur aspects of this subject: the ideas and approaches of the cultural conservatives, the libertarians, the neo-conservatives, and, in another lecture of the series, the popular conservatism of the American people.

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Gunny G: Hey GyG Readers! Having trouble posting here with “Like” or “Comment”? Here’s Why!

March 24, 2012 Leave a comment
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WordPress (Photo credit: Adriano Gasparri)

I’ve noticed the comments dropped waaaay off last few days!

Turns out, it’s likely related to a new WP requirement.

Click Link below…

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Why Is There No Conservative News Network?

March 17, 2012 1 comment

Why Is There No Conservative News Network?

Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2012 4:42:22 PM by Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri

Why isn’t there a dedicated conservative news network on television that covers stories the liberal media won’t cover? There’s definitely a market for it, in my opinion and who cares if the progressive imams start calling for jihad.

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Sibelius Spills the Beans (Liberals have to constantly hide what they believe to get votes)

March 6, 2012 Leave a comment

Liberals accuse conservatives of using secret signals that only conservatives can hear — dog whistles — to send racist messages. These accusations are in reality a reflection of what liberals think rather than accurate assessments of what conservatives are saying, like the pimpled teen who thinks that nearly everything is a dirty joke.

Liberals, on the other hand, constantly have to hide what they believe in order to get votes — getting rid of blacks by making abortion easily available in minority neighborhoods and advocating socialism are not winning campaign positions these days. That’s why almost every liberal runs for re-election as a conservative.

Fortunately, liberals are sufficiently un-self-aware as to let their true beliefs show through their verbiage on occasion — an unconscious dog whistle, if you will.

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GUNNY G: TO BE PERFECTLY BLUNT…

February 14, 2012 1 comment

GUNNY G: TO BE PERFECTLY BLUNT ABOUT IT…

Again and again you hear it, in words of less, who will save us, where are the leaders, when will a messiah come, etc, etc.

The fact is the leaders are all over the place, but they’re speaking the truth and not what people want to hear. “The folks,” as 0′pinhead refers to us,  just don’t get it!

The oft referred to “Sleeping Giant” is in reality, for the most part, a groggy, drunken stumblebum, steeped in public education (indoctrination) and other forms of social marxism–call it what you will–and waiting for his free lunch, while he stews in his own juice and spouts off his own footbal mentality beliefs to all who will listen; he probably calls himself a Conservative but is not.

And he wouldn’t recognize a messiah and/or leader unless it was spoon fed to him by the same old false party line and media.

Listen to the true patriots and conservatives out there. The cavalry ain’t coming, dummy. Wise Up! (again, as the 0′pinhead is fond of saying).

Yeah, a little blunt for most.

Ya can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig!

HINT:

Colonel Sellin Speaks…..

Click Link below…

http://www.thepostemail.com/2012/02/07/political-establishments-and-the-culture-of-dependency/

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Are Libertarians Part of the Conservative Movement? – Politics and Public Opinion – AEI

February 10, 2012 1 comment

Are Libertarians Part of the Conservative Movement?

VIDEO

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CAN SOMEONE FIND PLZ ANN COULTER’S RANT ON BILL O’REILLY MONDAY NIGHT, IT IS A CLASSIC

January 25, 2012 Leave a comment

CAN SOMEONE FIND PLZ ANN COULTER‘S RANT ON BILL O’REILLY MONDAY NIGHT, IT IS A CLASSIC

Bill O'Reilly - Caricature

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Bill O’Reilly show – no link to her rants ^ | 1/023/2012 | STOCKPIRATE VANITY HELP

Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:26:57 AM by stockpirate

THERE’S A THREAD I POSTED HERE ON THE RANT BUT WE STILL NEED TO HAVE EVERYONE SEE HER COME UNHINGED

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