Republican. — The people themselves. The sacred trust can be no where so safe as in the hands most interested in preserving it.

Anti-republican. — The people are stupid, suspicious, licentious. They cannot safely trust themselves. When they have established government they should think of nothing but obedience, leaving the care of their liberties to their wiser rulers.

“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.

After beating the crap out of it with our Baseball bats, we’ll stuff it into a bun – after awl, it tastes jests lahks Chicken!

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.

In all things, there exists a ‘point of balance’; a line that, if crossed, results in the sudden and expedient loss of our self-determinism and makes us subservient to the fickle whims of social, political, and physical gravity. We are “thrown” into the air, as it were, and the landing is rarely ever pleasant. The U.S. Constitution and the civil liberties it outlines is itself one of these historic points of balance. Its original purpose was to temper the most epic of grappling matches ever ignited; between the relentless constructs of government, and the individual freedoms of the common man. The ultimate problem inherent in this struggle is one of consistency, vigilance, and labor…

A Statement of New Independence

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for, We The People of these United States of America, to dissolve the political bands which have subjected, and continue to subject us to treasonous activities committed by the government, and to obtain once again the protections and respect entitled us as citizens, we must declare the causes which impel us to this separation.

…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.