Pass It Right Away

President Obama's brain trust must have put those words through a test, because if he said them once he said the one hundred times during his campaign speech before Congress. You think he would get tired of saying them, but he has continued to say these words at every stump speech he has given since then. I am surprised he did not manage to get them into his 9/11 address. The thing I was wondering is what is the hurry?

Paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson who said that a if you pass legislation to fast that only the people are hurt, because the proper discussion has not taken place and it should take up to a year for this process to work itself out. Yet President Obama, as well as most other politicians want to pass these things right away. They don't want the bills to get out before hand. As Nancy Pelosi said, "you have to pass the bill to find out what is in the bill."

Another thing is that President Obama is all hammers to hell now, but first he had to go on vacation. Don't you also think that if he had that "laser focus" that he claimed for the first two years of his Administration, that he would have done something, back when his party had control of both chambers of congress(before late Jan. this year). It should have been a breeze to pass then, and this problem was around at that time, but he chose not to. Why? Because it didn't play well then for his reelection, but it sure does now!

Enforce Our Laws

"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the revolution, never violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never tolerate their violation by others."
                                                                                                                          Abraham Lincoln

Our country is facing an epidemic of crime. Jim Nelson Black said, "crime, abuse, and racial violence are exploding, and the law seems powerless to stop the siege of vandalism destroying our cities. Science, education, and law once heralded as pillars of the earthly kingdom has not saved us. Instead they have brought even gloomier vistas of apocalypse."

Making more and more laws are not the answer. They are truly very few new crimes, their are only variations of the same crime. What we need is fewer more easily understood laws, one's which there is no doubt about. One's that give enough punishment, no matter your social class, to deter the person from ever committing it or any crime again.

Ever wonder why there was far less crime in the 1800's(per capita), even in the wild west. It can't be all attributed to the people being more moral and upstanding. There are two other factors which played a key role. The first being that people were armed, you never knew who carried a colt, so you thought twice about robbing them. The second is that the enforced the few laws they had and the were enforced quickly and harshly. This made a cattle rustler think twice if he knew he could be swinging from a tree. Both of these helped to keep crime low.

We should do the same today. If that means racial profiling, so be it. Liberals may harp about it, but just like torture, it works. Tell me where else would an Islamic terrorist hide? I can tell you it won't be at the local Baptist Church. These along with the deterrents spoken of above should do the trick. Between morality, the Colt, strict enforcement, and a whatever it takes attitude and our epidemic just may get cured.

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial

I am sick of hearing about how our founders and their predecessors were nothing but a bunch of old racist white men and how Martin Luther King Jr. was such a great man. They are right on the latter, MLK Jr was a great man, but this great man could have done nothing without the work of the founders. He truly only continued the work of those great men. So it is fitting that his memorial sits on the National Mall with those men.

If he was to see the continuance of his struggle today, he would wonder why. He never asked, nor did he want special privilege, he wanted equal. He would look around today at those sitting around complaining and tell them to get off their behinds and work for what you want. He would scold those race baiters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, not to mention those like Minister Louie Farrakhan who didn't like MLK Jr. when he was alive. MLK did not want a separate America. Yet today we have TV programs about black America, we have BET, and we have a congressional black caucus. These are the very things he fought against, but today they are separating from others, not being separated. MLK wanted one America for all people, and so do I and most everyone I know.

I believe there may be some areas that could use some work, but if MLK was alive I believe he would say that we have made it to that mountain top. That there is the equality and racial justice that he fought and died for. What other nation in the world could a minority rise to the highest office in the land.

Propaganda Machine

CNN and the rest of the news programs have become nothing but a propaganda machine for the rebels, just like the NATO planes are nothing but the rebels air force. It really sickens me to hear them report whatever the rebels tell them as fact, without so much as a cursory fact check(they do the same over here with events) then they try to push it off that this is what they were told. Please you are suppose to be reporters, do some reporting. You have let them mislead you on the capture of Gadhaffi's sons, with the cornering of Gadhaffi, the killing of his son, and so much more. You have invested yourself in this so much, that you won't even report on the reported atrocities of the rebels, but you sure will report on the alleged burning of a nanny. It's any wonder that anyone believes you guys at all. YOU ARE ALL HACKS!!!!!

Shining City On The Hill

Ronald Reagan was right America is that shining city on the hill for those people around the world seeking freedom and liberty, and "if we lose freedom here there is no place left to go." Our founders made our nation to be that beacon of hope for the world. They then passed on that heavy burden and sacred honor to all Americans through time, but somewhere along the way we have failed to tend to that flame of freedom. That duty has been ignored and forgotten by most, who have let that once bright flame turn into a ember about to flicker out.

Alexis de Tocqueville said, "because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die. If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord.... We therefore should not console ourselves by thinking the barbarians are still a long way off. Some peoples may let the torch be snatched from their hands, but others will stamp it out themselves." That is exactly what we have been doing over the past 100 years, slowly and steadily stamping out those lingering embers.

This has laid an even heavier burden and sacred honor at the feet of this generation. We must rekindle and reignite that flame of freedom our founders willed us. If we do not we will never again be that haven for liberty for the world. Reagan said, "we cannot meet our world responsibilities without a strong economic policy which is effective at home and in the world marketplace.... We must put our economic house in order so that we can once again show the world by example that ours is the best system for all who want security and freedom." If we are ever to again become that shining city on the hill, we must stop stomping out that torch which was passed on to us. We don't want to be that keeper of the flame that let it go out from our complacency and greed. We want to be the ones that made it stronger, by our commitment and honor.

We must get our spending and debt in order, as well as retarding the growth of government who is daily encroaching upon our liberties. If we don't, this "last best hope" of the world will be no more and there will truly be "no place left to go."