Ewart: You Want Smaller Government? Cut Off Their Money!
“The trouble with socialism is, that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” Prime Minister – Margaret Thatcher
Almost every state in the Union is a microcosm of the Federal Government. The states learned well and had an excellent teacher and role model in Washington DC. Their class room text is entitled: “How to spend more money than you take in ….. For Dummies.” (and “Dummies” is a kind word for these folks)
Most states are in the red, many are bankrupt and Washington State is no exception. It has to trim close to $4 Billion out of the state budget because those lousy, un-educated voters gutted the state’s pie-in-the-sky revenue stream in the last election. Good for them!
Not long ago I saw a television documentary on the rise of the Third Reich in Germany. I have, in addition, read any number of books on the period of the 1920s and 30s. The lesson it teaches is that the Nazis did not suddenly arise, take control, and impose a totalitarian government on Germans. It was a matter of slow progress until October 29, 1929 when the U.S. stock market crashed. 
Hot off the grill – it’s the endangered spotted Owl! Come one, come all to the great smorgasbord of dainty delights. Come and munch and watch the Communitarians scream with horror as we shatter the bones and chew the delicious morsels of meat that this endangered Owl has to offer.
When a copy of William A. Cook’s latest book, The Plight of the Palestinians arrived in my mailbox, I initially felt a little worried. The volume, featuring the work of over 30 accomplished writers, is the most articulate treatise on the collective victimization of Palestinians to date. From Cook’s own introduction, ‘The Untold Story of the Zionist Intent to Turn Palestine into a Jewish State’ to Francis Boyle’s summation of ‘Israel’s Crimes against the Palestinians’, it takes the reader through an exhaustive journey, charting the course of Palestinian history prior to and since al-Nakba, the Catastrophe of 1947-48. 
The fanatical hard Left – those communists, socialists, and radicals currently in power?view anything that is bad for our country – massive ve Intelligence leaks, disastrous oil spills, escalating unemployment, chaos on our borders, military setbacks, et al?as a thundering success. To them, anything that undermines the United States brings them closer to their Grand Plan of toppling Big Bad America and transforming it into the kind of totalitarian Banana Republic they never tire of glamorizing. 
Secession is making a comeback. Tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of South Carolina’s secession from the Union, a political act that set in motion the events that led to the Civil War, but one needn’t look very far into the past to hear the rumblings of disunion and the rhetoric of states’ rights. In April 2009, Rick Perry, the Republican governor of Texas, suggested that his state might ponder secession if “Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people.” In response, the audience began to chant, “Secede, secede,” hoping, one assumes, that everyone there would soon begin to party like it was 1860. The Texas House of Representatives quickly passed a resolution that seemed to threaten secession, and Gov. Perry just as quickly endorsed the resolution. 
