Posted by on Saturday, August 29, 2009,
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Tea Party
Throughout history governments have ignored the rights of citizens and instead have maximized their own power. Those in public office have used it for their own personal gain, or to take wealth from some and give to others in order to maintain their own power. It is a classic model that hasn’t changed much in thousands of years.
The modern iteration of this is a leviathan federal government run by a political party based precisely on such principles. The bread and circuses of Roman times hav... Continue reading ...
Posted by on Friday, August 28, 2009,
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Columns
"These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph." Thomas Paine, The Crisis, December 1776
An echo from two-hundred thirty-three years in the past resonates today in the hearts of ... Continue reading ...
I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was not going to be silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it. I was one questioner out of 38, that was called at random from an audience that started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not expecting to be called on, I quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper and with a pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke. So much for the planned talk... Continue reading ...
Not to go all communist on everyone, but this debate on health care
"reform" has really got me fuming over the so-called private sector of the U.S. managed-care system. While combating Obamacare,
it has come to my attention that more and more proponents of the bill
are labeling us as agents of the established health insurance
industry. Supporters of government expansion come to this silly
conclusion because we are opposing the "public option" for insuran...
Posted by on Thursday, August 20, 2009,
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Columns
Since the bailouts last fall, lawmakers have been behaving as quasi-owners of the bailed-out banks and businesses, leading to calls for increased regulation of executive compensation and other wasteful expenditures. We have heard much about bonuses and executive pay packages that sound more like lottery winnings than an honest salary.
Many lawmakers voted in favor of these unconstitutional bailouts, believing that these corporations were too big to fail, and allowing them to go under would ... Continue reading ...
The attempted grab for control of our health care system has not been hindered by a lack of trash information. People are catching on to this and shooting holes through the case for social health care left and right. If we are to cut down social health care for good it is necessary to diffuse the propaganda that is being floated in... Continue reading ...
Every year, the Americans for Tax Reform Foundation and the Center for Fiscal Accountability calculate Cost of Government Day. This is the day on which the average American has earned enough gross income to pay off his or her share of the spending and regulatory burdens imposed by government at the federal, state, and local levels.
In 2009, Cost of Government Day falls on August 12. Working people must toil 224 days out of the year just to meet all costs imposed by government - a full 26 days... Continue reading ...
Those who lived behind the “Iron Curtain,” or even in Nazi Germany, were fearful of expressing their true opinions about their government’s policies. Such reticence was necessary for they lived in fear that something they said might be reported to the authorities, leading to them being whisked away to the Gulag or the concentration camps.
Could such a thing happen in America? While I would certainly hope that it cou... Continue reading ...
SAN FRANCISCO – The Pacific Research Institute has just released The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide. This is the latest book from health care scholar, and PRI President and CEO Sally C. Pipes.
The book's foreword is by Steve Forbes: “For anyone interested in getting to the core of America's health care troubles, this is the perfect book,” he writes. “And for health care policy makers, it should be required reading.”
Over the August recess, Congressmen will be holding townhalls on healthcare.
There's likely to be a lot of spin and doubletalk. If you're going to one, you should bring a copy of this handy
translation guide (PDF version).
The guts of it is pasted below:
Spin
Translation
No discrimination for pre-existing
conditions
One can wait until one gets sick to sign up for coverage, and thereby game
the system, costing the rest o...
Another example of a hostile crowd at a town hall meeting regarding health care "reform" occurred in Green Bay. After 300 people fille... Continue reading ...
Whether it is a “house,” “nation,” or any specific group, if that entity is “divided against itself” it cannot stand. A specific example of such division would be when I was in High School and two friends would run against each other for either Royalty or political office. Their friends’ votes would be divided and an actually weaker individual would claim the majority of votes. Pride goeth before the fall.
I received in my mail an invitation to a political fundrai... Continue reading ...
Few Americans today know the real story of how America was made. The struggle of the Founders to discover the ideas of freedom will give you a deep appreciation of these people. As each American today experiences this amazing story, he will surely become an advocate and a teacher of America 's formula for freedom.
Join our FREE Webinar Seminars beginning the first Tuesday
of August. We will
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