America was founded on certain principles: those of individual liberty and responsibility, a small federal government, and sovereign states that would protect their citizens’ unalienable rights. Over time many Americans got so involved in living their seemingly free lives they neglected oversight of what was happening to their country. Those who loved American ideals lived them and those who did not were busy working both from within and without the government to eradicate these principles from the American consciousness.

“Those that make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.“

President John F. Kennedy is remembered for this statement. Americans are finding force and fraud in every venue stifling free debate, free speech, all practices of truth, justice, and liberty. We do not seek trouble. But trouble insists on looking for us. We do abhor violence, yet violence is set upon us in many ways in a Marxist Cultural Revolution confusing, degrading, and intolerantly destroying us with diversity.

~ Foreword ~
Many of our readers know, that I spent 21 months “in-country” in the late 1960′s. I have no use for John or Jane to this day. As it is in the world of emails, the following was sent to the Federal Observer some days ago. I suspect that this story has been making the proverbial rounds for some time – but nonetheless, it’s message is one, which needs to be read by every American, who gives  a damn. (Ed.)

The “Liberal” media once again showed their true colors, and these are not the American colors despite the fact that many of them are waving red, blue, and white in a wake of the losses the “Liberals” incurred in the 2010 mid-term elections.

Take, for instance, Tucson, Ariz., shooting that left a U.S. congresswoman critically wounded, and 19 others injured or dead earlier this month.

Each week, this author and a close friend have lunch together and discuss the issues and events of the day, political and otherwise. These are constructive discussions, as it allow us to expand our perspective on those issues. Over the last several years we have covered lots of ground and when we think we have come up with a solution to one or more of America’s problems, we are brought up short on how to implement them. Identifying the problems is not all that difficult. Coming up with a politically palatable solution is outright problematical.

On the heels of the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat Representative from Arizona, the left has moved quickly to point the finger of blame at anyone who opposes their agenda.

Fox News is to blame – they’ve spoken against leftist policies; they’ve incited people to action.

Sarah Palin is to blame – she painted crosshairs on the Giffords’ campaign in Arizona.

Jesse Kelly, Giffords’ opponent in the last election, is to blame – he shot off an M16 in protest of her policies.

Negotiate? Cooperate? Capitulate?

Are you kidding? For God’s sake my fellow Americans, that’s how we got here. Don’t you get it? Sure! While we negotiated, they regulated! While we cooperated, they indoctrinated! While we capitulated, they propagated.

When they were in power, which has been for way too long, they did whatever they pleased, in disdain of the constitutional limits placed upon them. When we were in power they cried for bi-partisanship. If we took actions to save the country from bankruptcy, they called us baby killers, child “starvers” and abject racists. If we said some of our institutions and un-funded liabilities would send us headlong into bankruptcy, they said we were crazy. If we challenged their policies, they called us un-educated, irrational and radical.

One hundred and fifty years after the Civil War began, we’re still fighting it — or at least fighting over its history. I’ve polled thousands of high school history teachers and spoken about the war to audiences across the country, and there is little agreement even on why the South seceded. Was it over slavery? States’ rights? Tariffs and taxes?

As the nation begins to commemorate the anniversaries of the war’s various battles — from Fort Sumter to Appomattox — let’s first dispense with some of the more prevalent myths about why it all began.

When late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat read the Declaration of the Palestinian Independence just over 22 years ago, Palestinians everywhere were enthralled. They held onto his every word during the Palestinian National Council (PNC) session in Algeria on November 15, 1988. The council members incessantly applauded and chanted in the name of Palestine, freedom, the people and much more.