Among the legacies of Richard M. Nixon, famed for the Watergate scandal that forced his resignation, it should be noted that he created the Environmental Protection Agency. There was no vote in Congress. He did it with an executive order. Today the EPA has an annual budget of $9 billion and some 18,000 employees.

Not satisfied with the authorized powers given it to ensure clean air and water, the EPA has never ceased to seek expanded powers, culminating soon with a battle over whether it can regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) as a “pollutant.”

“Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.” – Henry Ford

Henry Ford was the embodiment of the American free spirit. Fortunately, he materialized on the American scene before America became the country of “I can’t” or, “you’d better not”. Many like Ford have gone before him and many more will foloow him, because that bright star that is America, is a breeding ground for new bright stars, almost every day.

A star is born in our infinite universe as the result of two opposing forces, gravity and nuclear energy. A whirling ball of hydrogen gas starts to condense, as gravity forces the hydrogen atoms ever closer together.

Financial scandals are not new. Schemes to leverage risk and cheat the public are mainstays of the mad “Cap and Trade” stratagem, in the ongoing war, against genuine free enterprise. The latest ploy is the industrial wind swindle.

In the essay, Wall Street Reaps Big Bucks from the Wind, the strategy to defraud the public is explored. “The latest rage out of the boiler room sharks that hawk new equity issues touts alternative energy. The hype that is coming out of Wall Street resembles the internet band wagon before the bust . . . Goldman Sachs rushes to finance the offers with their expertise – using other peoples’ money . . . Understand from the outset, that producing useful energy is not the prime objective of wind projects.”

Seventeen years ago, on April 19, 1993, the FBI finished off its siege of the Branch Davidians’ home just outside Waco, Texas, by pumping poisonous and flammable CS gas into a room filled with women and children, driving a tank through the wall, throwing incendiary devices at the survivors and, most likely, spraying them with machinegun fire. The conflagration that engulfed the lives of seventy-six people of diverse international and ethnic backgrounds and of all ages, who had been brought together under the fringe but peaceful religious separatism of David Koresh, came at the end of a 51-day standoff that began when the ATF bungled a public-relations stunt in the form of an aggressive raid of the Davidian home, which had been practiced on life-size model buildings and whose planning began in the lame-duck years of the first Bush administration.

“In war, there is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change.  It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy, in the minimum amount of time.“ – General George Patton Jr.

On the continent of Europe and throughout the Western Pacific, hundreds of thousands of brave Americans lay buried on foreign shores who gave their lives in the defense of American freedom and sovereignty, in World Wars I and II.  Tens of thousands more lay forever interred in cemeteries throughout America, as a collective symbol of their sacrifice for each of us.

The Federal Communications Commission does not have the legal authority to slap Net neutrality regulations on Internet providers, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

A three-judge panel in Washington, D.C. unanimously tossed out the FCC’s August 2008 cease and desist order against Comcast, which had taken measures to slow BitTorrent transfers before voluntarily ending them earlier that year.

Because the FCC “has failed to tie its assertion” of regulatory authority to an actual law enacted by Congress, the agency does not have the power to regulate an Internet provider’s network management practices, wrote Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

In War – in battlefield combat, one of the most important strategies, especially if the enemy has superior numbers, is “divide and conquer”.  Very briefly, it can be explained that if you have a force of 3,000 and the enemy has a force of 4,000, you will probably be defeated in combat.  However, if you can cause him to divide his forces into 2 groups, each having about 2,000 men, is beneficial.

You have gone from 25% less men, against his entire force, to a 50% advantage over one of the split units.  Once the first unit is defeated, the second unit can be attacked, with much better odds than if an attack was made on the entire force, at the onset.

The same is true of the psychological warfare America is embroiled in, today, and the political warfare that has begun to divide the country.

When leftist politicians are in trouble, politically, there is one thing you can count on:  they will do anything to divert attention away from themselves.

The hugely unpopular health-care vote is a case in point.

On the particular day of the vote, black Congressmen made a point of walking through “kill the bill” protestors on their way to chambers.  They could have used the tunnel to arrive at their destination but they didn’t.  Not that walking through the protestors wasn’t their right, they had every right, but their doing so makes their reasons for doing so suspect.

I know that there are some who read my columns who understand why I go to such great lengths when discussing the importance of our rights. However, there are times when I wonder if others understand how crucial these rights are if people wish to remain free.

On July 6, 1775 the Continental Congress issued a document entitled the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms. It two primary authors were Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson.

Just two days prior, the colonies had adopted the Declaration of Independence, which stated,