As we look back on the horrors of the dictatorships and autocracies of the past, one particular question consistently arises; how was it possible for the common men of these eras to NOT notice what was happening around them? How could they have stood as statues unaware or uncaring as their cultures were overrun by fascism, communism, collectivism, and elitism? Of course, we have the advantage of hindsight, and are able to research and examine the misdeeds of the past at our leisure. Unfortunately, such hindsight does not necessarily shield us from the long cast shadow of tyranny in our own day. For that, the increasingly uncommon gift of foresight is required…

Here’s what I wrote to a dear friend, when she asked where the Tea Party stood in regards to Cap and Trade. Well, I tried to cover it all, and let the views of the Tea Party on all issues, be known. The news media certainly isn’t. They are taking pot shots at a group of people who only bring the voice of the people to be heard by their politicians, (and visa versa) so that they know that the people won’t continue to be overlooked by the “good old boy club” that takes their money, and waste it on pet projects that don’t improve our nation or our people, while demanding that we pay endlessly through the nose.

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” – Thomas Jefferson

My father was a certified public accountant, as is my older brother. I not only lacked any arithmetical skills, I spent much of my early years ignoring the ups and downs of the economy, thinking that these matters were beyond my comprehension. What I failed to understand was that the economy was as much a creature of meddling politicians as economic theories.

I was born in the midst of the Great Depression and have now lived long enough to be caught in a new one.

SC’s Gov. Haley Won’t Fall For It.

Wrong Crusade. Wrong flag. Wrong state. That about sums up the NAACP’s perennial crusade to have the Confederate Battle Flag removed from the Confederate Memorial on the state capitol grounds in Columbia, South Carolina. That battle has been fought – and the NAACP lost. They will lose again.

The world’s farm pesticide death toll has been cut radically with biotech seeds that carry their own internal pesticide. A new study in India has found that biotech cotton has reduced pesticide spraying by 50 percent, and spraying of the most toxic poisons by 70 percent. The reduced spraying is helping avoid “several million cases of pesticide poisoning in India every year.”

This is important progress—which should be enough by itself to embarrass Greenpeace and the other anti-technology groups opposing biotech. But the big news

A few days ago, I wrote a column concerning the Justice Department and the ACLU both bringing suits against state generated immigration laws, and now lo and behold the Justice Department is at it again in Alabama.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — The U.S. Justice Department today filed a lawsuit challenging Alabama’s new immigration law, which is slated to go into effect next month.

In its lawsuit, the Justice Department says Alabama’s law unconstitutionally interferes with the federal government’s authority over immigration.

The lines become blurred and thus poverty becomes income inequality, making progressives scream that we must bring about social justice

Liberal social critic Michael Harrington published in 1962 a book entitled, “The Other America,” describing those who were ill clothed and fed in the land of plenty, in a nation where obesity was a problem. Harrington proclaimed that there was a “cycle of poverty” that could be broken only by government action. His book profoundly influenced Lyndon Johnson who declared “War on Poverty” in 1964. Forty-seven years later, after we have spent billions of dollars on the poor, so-called downtrodden Americans, we have lost this war on poverty.

Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 16, that the American people are “the natural guardians of the Constitution” and should take whatever action is necessary when their representatives in the federal government concur with the usurpations of another Branch – and thereby violate their oaths to defend the Constitution. (Link)

In Federalist No. 33, Hamilton says:

“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed [the Constitution], and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.”