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About Our Content:The Constitutionalist Today provides a voice for freedom-loving Ameri-cans who share many common values, yet have differing opinions on certain subjects. This paper’s staff and writers possess worldviews rang-ing from Biblical to secular, conser-vative to libertarian, and everything in-between.

Our Founding Fathers were a di-verse group. Some, such as John Ad-ams and Patrick Henry, were devout Christians. Others, like Thomas Jef-ferson and Benjamin Franklin, were more secular even as they acknowl-edged that our rights are given by our Creator. While they had their differences, all those who established the greatest free nation on earth were united in their love of liberty and re-sistance to tyranny.

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From the EditorsWilliam T. Gillin, Editor-in-Chief“I don’t care about poli-tics!” “It’s just people yelling at each other!” “I’m too busy!” These are typical comments I hear

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The fact is, even if you don’t care about government, the government cares about you! We recently saw how the elites in Washington D.C. rammed through a mas-sive healthcare bill that is a federal take-over of one-sixth of the economy. We are still learning about the loss of freedom we

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Am I the only one who is fed up with the obsession of political correctness? The final straw for me was a few days ago when a local talk

radio show host wondered if a comment he had just made was politically correct. If a talk radio show host can’t even speak his mind without worrying about being monitored for political correctness, it’s gone too far!

Why have we fallen prey to this ridiculous idea that we should analyze every word be-fore we speak to ensure it won’t offend some-one? How long will we continue to be stifled by this absurdity? What do we have to fear? Reprimand? Oh, no! Can you imagine how our Founding Fathers would have reacted to this PC obsession? I doubt they would have looked favorably on them—hence the First Amendment.

I was curious when and why certain parts of our society became infatuated with PC so I did some research. I didn’t find the answer to my question but I did find this interest-ing tidbit alongside the definition of PC in Wikipedia: “…the term [PC] is primarily pejorative while the term politically incor-rect has been used by some as an implicitly positive self-description. Examples of the latter include the conservative or libertar-ian ‘Politically Incorrect Guides’ published by Regnery editorial house and the TV talk show Politically Incorrect (host, Bill Maher, 1993-2002). In these cases, ‘politically incor-

If you’re not liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. If you’re not conserva-tive when you’re older, you have no brain.

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I trudged through my twenties in famil-iar fashion, grappling with academics and work, pop culture and girls (and not neces-sarily in that order). All twenty-somethings of the last few decades have been exposed to a barrage of liberal thought—by profes-sors and print, by music and movies—and my generation was no exception. However, the advent of the internet ensured that my generation was exceptional in at least one respect: its inability to unplug from this barrage. Ever on the cusp of technology, liberal thought was fed to us as effortlessly as a stream of consciousness, culminating in the presidential election of 2008.

While my beliefs and values led me to seek out the conservative currents in the deluge of infotainment, my conservative upbringing was tested daily, bombarded on all sides, as it was, by larger liberal forces. If gut instinct was my strength and open-mindedness my weakness, then ignorance was my Trojan horse. Recognizing my in-ability to intellectually defend my positions, I began to arm myself with knowledge: I watched talking heads instead of sitcoms and read political theory instead of science

will suffer, the massive tax hikes and the medical costs that will affect us all. When your insurance premiums double, you no longer have a choice in doctors, and you endure long waiting periods or rationing, will you care about who is running the country then?

On the state level, if it costs you twice what it did last year to get your car tags, thank the rulers at the capitol in Den-ver. They also passed a series of taxes on businesses. When you see prices go up to cover the taxes, will you complain? When your favorite business can’t afford any more taxes and regulation and they close their doors, will you be upset?

In Colorado Springs, are you tired of your car slamming through scores of pot holes on our streets? Do you wish that

rect’ connotes language, ideas and behavior unconstrained by a perceived orthodoxy and concerns about giving offense to or expressing bias regarding various groups of people.”

(Note the part in bold.) Translation: peo-ple who are considered politically incorrect are demonstrating their First Amendment rights without being restricted by a perceived idea of what may or may not be offensive to someone. I’m sure that by this definition the Founders would wholeheartedly approve of politically incorrectness.

It wouldn’t surprise me if one day in the not-so-distant future, certain words and phrases will be outlawed. My question is, who decides what is and isn’t PC? What gives them the authority to control our speech? They only have authority if we empower them by complying with their politically correct standards. This is still, for the most part, a free country. Speaking your mind is legal. We can choose to be stifled or choose to voice our opinions, our ideas, our opin-ions, our voice. It’s our choice. It’s our consti-tutional right.

fiction. (Thankfully, the two converged in Heinlein!) At first contrary to my desires, these choices of media became second na-ture when I realized that knowledge wasn’t just preparing me to defend my positions but to understand why I held them in the first place! I quickly came to recognize the urgency of America’s predicament and be-gan to actively pursue the solution, which, a few years down the road, has led me to The Constitutionalist Today.

My parents weren’t overtly political when I was a child, but they were keen to instruct my sister and me in the values that would one day blossom into our conser-vative philosophies. Your vote may count and your voice may matter, but your single most impactful civic responsibility is your influence on your children! They will be blown and battered by the opposition upon leaving home, but their belief system, in-stilled by you during the critical years of their youth, will help them weather the storm. Teenagers and twenty-somethings may already be adrift in the maelstrom, but they are not beyond reach; in fact, they are desperate for guidance (if notorious for suggesting otherwise). The current admin-istration has made it easier than ever to start a political discussion with your kids, and The Constitutionalist Today makes it easier than ever to ground that discussion in American principles.

the street lights were turned on at night? Maybe politics and government do affect all of us at every level!

We all need to become better informed. It is a process, and we don’t need to be po-litical junkies to understand important is-sues. That is why we urge people to learn our Constitution and the proper role of government. Know what the candidates for office stand for and whether they will respect the Constitution and the vision of our Founding Fathers.

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Corrections & ClarificationsMay issue, page 16, “Kitchen Table Politics” “Such was the wreck of the Hesperus In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this On the reef of Norman’s [Socialist’s] Woe!” -“The Wreck of the Hesperus”, Henry W. Longfellow

Veterans as Elected Officials I think that our next elected officials should all be veterans from the enlisted ranks of our military. These folks do all the hard work. They have to think on their feet, they know the consequences of bad decisions and poor planning by someone else at the top. They are not afraid to roll up their sleeves and jump in to get the job done. They have leadership skills and know the enemy well. They are willing to sacrifice it all if required. So the next time we have a national or local election let’s put our favorite enlisted military veteran into office. Remember it is the enlisted members of our military that do all the dirty work, not those sitting behind a desk making poor decisions for others to carry out. Wouldn’t you follow someone who is willing to be in the front lines and not sit it out in the back row?

If we the people start taking back the U.S. state by state, when this mission is accomplished we could send all the politi-cians to China and Mexico. We could have less than 1% unemployment, be driving well-built U.S. made cars, and using U.S. made electronics. We could get our edu-cation back on track. We could give the hardened criminals in our prisons the choice of military service, being shipped off with the politicians, or doing time in a prison in Alaska.

-Jim Gosse, Colorado Springs

Thank You ArizonaSince the federal government has no de-sire to close the floodgates at the borders and continues to allow people who do not go through the proper channels to enter the U.S., one state had to do something. I am hoping that more states will follow suit and do what the federal government is not doing: protecting the citizens of our country.

The 50% of legal citizens who are pay-ing taxes cannot afford to pay for any more illegal immigrants who are coming to this country and receiving free medical care, free education, subsidized housing, food stamps, etc.

As for the accusations of “racial profil-ing,” fear not. Unless someone is caught committing a crime of any sort, I don’t think there will be any asking for papers. This is the scare tactic, fear mongering if you will, used by the press, the ACLU (who would be there in a heartbeat claim-ing this) or any other pro-illegal group.

No, I am not anti-immigration, as I am a first generation American myself. My German father came to the States via steerage class on a ship. He went through Ellis Island and had a sponsor in Minne-sota. Oh, yes, dear readers, at one time, a legal immigrant had to have $25.00 on his person, and a sponsor to take care of him so that he would not be a drain on soci-ety, nor a ward of the state. He got a job, learned English, and five years later be-came a U.S. citizen. He wrote that was the proudest day of his life. Arizona is fight-ing for the safety of its citizens. Hopefully, other states will fight for the safety of its citizenry, as well.

-Erna A. Haring, Colorado Springs

Strong President, Weak MilitaryCourage with audacity is a leadership quality that could backfire, or lay the foundation for centuries to follow. Presi-dent James Monroe was a leader who gambled on his belief that the sorthern and southern continents in our hemi-sphere were not to be “easy pickings” by any nation in Europe.

Monroe was president from 1817 to 1825. He had a broad and deep back-ground in state, national and internation-al political doings. He was, by experience,

well developed to be our national leader. During the period of his presidency our nation was growing. The Louisiana Pur-chase in 1803 almost completed our geo-graphical boundaries. We had boundary disagreements with Great Britain between our nation and Canada. Russia had de-signs on what is Oregon and California today. Most importantly to Monroe, the Latin American nations were struggling to be free from Spain. European countries realized the wealth to control should they govern or much to lose if the nations of the region became free. Control then as it has always been reduces to military measures. Monroe was aware of this and acted. We know his statement today as the Monroe Doctrine; no congressional ratification—just one man with power and a history of a nation behind him. On December 2, 1823 he sent a message to Congress knowing that the U. S. military was not powerful. He wrote, in part: “We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations exist-ing between the United States and those posers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.” In neighborhood language, “Good fences make good neighbors.”

-Ted Bell

Republicans Need Tea PartiesYour paper is marvelous and a great gift to our city. Thank you for it. One article caught my attention and I strongly dis-agree with it. The article is “The End of the Tea Party” by Eli Bremer [April, p29]. Mr. Bremer seems to think all our problems will end if we can elect enough Republi-can senators and representatives in No-vember to slow down the liberal agenda. He is so wrong. That will be only the first step. We must remember that President Obama and his massive socialist cabinet and advisors will still be in Washington bent on bringing down our wonderful country. While we will (hopefully) not be bashing the Congress, we still must be on the alert for what this president can do and the Tea Parties are a wonderful tool. No, we must not see their end. So please recognize that this last year has just been a wonderful beginning and we must con-tinue the fight. The Tea Parties help us to stay organized and galvanized to fight cor-ruption in our government. God bless the Tea Parties and all who are involved!

-Lloyd Wasserott (Mrs. Bud)

A Proud History of ServiceAll the men in my husband’s and my family served in uniform of our beloved country, dating back to the beginning. My husband’s family has a long, rich history in the United States. His 7x great grand-father was a Puritan who came from England to Massachusetts in the 1630s. Each generation after has fought for this country; commanding the Massachusetts militia at the Battle of Bunker Hill to an-swering Paul Revere’s alarm of April 19, 1775; enlisting in the Continental Army at age14 and serving at Valley Forge; and being present when British General John Burgoyne surrendered to American Gen-eral Philip Schuyler. My late husband, Da-vid, was a U.S. Army office staff member for General George C. Marshall in the 1940s when he was in China on a special mission to work with Generalissimo Chi-ang Kai-shek regarding the Communists. He worked in the Pentagon for various general officers including retired Gen-eral Dwight D. Eisenhower. My husband’s brother served in the U.S. Navy aboard the Black Hawk which was bombed in Pearl Harbor but was able to get to safety for repairs. One of my brothers was a pi-lot and served 29 ½ years in the U.S. Air

Force. He served in Vietnam and the Bay of Pigs. My other brother served in Korea. Those who established our country, and especially those who fought to preserve it, can never be thanked enough by those who are enjoying its present-day bless-ings. I appreciate the fine work of every-one on the staff of this fine newspaper. I know that theirs is a labor of love for our country and our people.

–Anna Palko Dow, Colorado Springs

Republicans Need to UnifyHaving just read the article “Republican Voters Needed,” [May] I have to agree with the overall point, but how [the writ-er] made it is proving the very problem he is talking about. Blaming the Democrats for the problems in our country, while fun and true, is not going to win elections. We need voters. But we also need a uni-fied Republican party. The debate that he points out between the conservative val-ues and the moderates of the party is why we are losing elections. As has been stated numerous times, we are a Right leaning nation. When Republicans lose elections in America, it is because we did it to our-selves. Democrats generally lose elections in this country by default. So-called con-servative values voters who boycotted the last presidential election rather than vot-ing for a Republican they only partially agreed with got a socialist elected. So, we need to fix our own house and stop blaming Democrats if we really want to get back to winning national—and Colo-rado—elections. Keep up the good work. I especially like the Memorial Day theme of this month’s paper!

-Brian Soule

The Life and Times of Tea BagsConsidering that the current Antichrist (Obama) has accomplished what the for-mer one, FDR, didn’t, it’d appear that the members of the discombobulated GOOP (Grumpy Ornery Old Party), the Teabag-gers and conservatives in general are wandering in the wilderness without a Moses to lead them, and possibly will for the next forty years. You see, the likes of Limbaugh, Palin, Beck, McCain, Boehner and Bunning ain’t no Moses and couldn’t fill the sandals once worn by the real one even if they managed to benefit from the Egyptian plagues of obstructionism, rac-ism, partisanship, stubbornness, hypoc-risy, greed and rumors of death panels. Still, the wilderness is paradoxically kind to them as a place where they’re tortured by the truth and find more than plenty of liquid to water board the rest of us with lies, but not enough to flood-out their weapons of mass deception. Compassion-ately, though, the wilderness also provides them with Katrina-sized bags of hot air, while due to a lack of lakes, they might want to lick their wounds—then go jump in a teabag.

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The Constitution Made EasySeven Deadly Myths, #4 of 7

It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!

Patrick Henry

The fourth deadly myth, taught as fact in State schools, recited as a mantra by main-stream media, and parroted by the current President is that we are not a Christian na-tion. When progressives make this claim, they are not telling the truth about his-tory; but rather stating one of their ob-jectives for the future: a godless, Marxist America. For their dreams to be realized, God must be replaced by the State. In the words of the high priest himself, “My ob-ject in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism,” Karl Marx.

While it is correct to say that no religion in America may be coerced, and that not all Americans are now or ever were Chris-tian; it is equally true that our union, and every state in it, was founded by mostly Christian men and entirely upon Chris-tian principles.

The people of the North American union and of its constituent states were associ-ated bodies of civilized men and Chris-tians…They were bound by the laws of God (which they all) and by the laws of the Gospel (which they nearly all) ac-knowledged as the rules of their conduct.

John Quincy Adams

Since then, nearly every president, as well as many Congresses and courts (cur-rent officials excepted) have affirmed that we are a Christian nation. This column is too short to cite even a decent sampling,

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but the inquiring mind can find hundreds of examples online. (I refer the reader to www.wallbuilders.com.) Here are some samples:

Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly in-adequate to the government of any other.” And, “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.

John Adams

American life is builded, and can alone survive, upon . . . the fundamental philos-ophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago.

Herbert Hoover

This is a Christian Nation.Harry Truman

The great vital and conservative element in our system is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and divine truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Sincerely believing that no people, how-ever great in numbers and resources or however strong in the justice of their cause, can prosper without His favor… yet encouraged in this day of trouble by the assurances of His word to seek Him… through Jesus Christ…

United States Senate

The legislature…may, and ought to counte-nance, aid and protect religious institutions.

Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth

Indeed, the right of a society or govern-ment to [participate] in matters of reli-gion will hardly be contested by any per-sons who believe that piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of the state and indispens-able to the administrations of civil justice.

Justice Joseph Story

It is because of the Christian faith which believes in honesty, hard work and free enterprise that America has become the most prosperous nation in the history of the world, has been (until lately) the freest nation in history, and has been a haven for people of other religions and no religion. Only a palpable ignorance of our history, or a deliberate revision of it, could mask these truths.

So on to the deliberate revision. Presi-dent Obama has declared to the world that in the land settled by the Pilgrims, we “do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.” (Wikipedia says that 76% of Americans con-sider themselves Chris-tian). At about the same time, he said that the home of the Puritans and the Great Awakening was “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” (Wikipedia says that 0.6% of Americans consider themselves Muslim).

Most media outlets repeat the presi-dent’s words without analysis or rebut-tal. “A lie told often enough becomes the truth,” Vladimir Lenin. State schools teach the same lie, sometimes by simply not teaching the truth. Just ask yourself when was the last time your child came home from any public school or university talk-ing about the faith of our Founders? How often instead have we heard them say that our Founders were Deists and Universal-ists and atheists? “Our program necessar-ily includes the propaganda of atheism,” Lenin. “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future,” Adolf Hitler. “God bless

the America we are trying to create,” Hillary Clinton.

So what difference does it make if we are a Christian nation or not? George Washington offered this concern: “Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of reli-gious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?”

Several modern American Jews have weighed in on the ramifications of Amer-

ica losing its Christian character. Dennis Prag-er believes, “too many Americans do not ap-preciate the connection between American greatness and Ameri-can Christianity.” Don

Feder adds that, “Jews are safer in a Chris-tian America than in a secular America.”

Burt Prelutsky: “I say it behooves those of us who don’t accept Jesus Christ as our savior to show some gratitude to those who do, and to start respecting the val-ues and traditions of the overwhelming majority of our fellow citizens.” Ortho-dox Rabbi Daniel Lapin sums it up thusly, “Without a vibrant and vital Christianity, America is doomed, and without Ameri-ca, the west is doomed.”

Mike Holler writes and speaks about free-dom and the United States Constitution, is a frequent guest on talk radio, and travels with the Tea Party Express. Next month he will continue this series, “Seven Deadly Myths.” Contact Mike or view his recent book at: TheConstitutionMadeEasy.com.

“Without a vibrant and vital Christianity, America is doomed.”

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Sometimes it is difficult to see through the fog of war. When you are on the battlefield, you focus on the next objective and you

look tactically at how to get from point A to point B but you rarely lift your head out of the smoke and confusion to see if you are winning the war. During the last 16 months the battle has been so fierce that we have not taken note of the victories which show the inevitability of the tri-umph of freedom in our current struggle.

Think back just 16 months ago to January 20, 2009. It was the day that Barack Obama was sworn in as Presi-dent of the United States. Obama had a 65 percent ap-proval rating in a Rasmussen poll and his top three legis-lative agenda items were health care re-form, cap and trade and the union pow-er-grab known as card check. Aside from his approval rating, the president had a filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Sen-ate and a commanding majority in the House. In short, the president could, by the numbers, have his way with us.

After a bitter, almost Orwellian struggle between a president’s socialist view of America and a stubborn citizenry bent on maintaining the American way of life, where do we stand? After a year of a Pres-ident and his rubber-stamp Congress not just ignoring but ridi-culing the American people, how far off is victory?

Recall the words of Mahatma Gandhi as he was fighting British colonialism. He said, “first they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Let’s take health care reform. It was a bitter defeat and one that will change the nature of American life. But this presi-dent—this self-anointed king—was un-able to force his version of healthcare reform with a public option down the throat of his subjects. The damage this bill does is enormous and while his maj-esty may have gotten his bill passed, at what cost? Today the President’s popu-larity stands at 46 percent with only 29 percent strongly approving of his job performance. The imperial Congress stands with an approval rating of 11 per-cent. Ted Kennedy’s seat was taken by a historic Republican victory. Harry Reid stands very near the unemployment line and the utopian dream of the central planners in Washington is on the verge of ruin.

The president’s cap and trade scheme can’t find the votes to get out of the U.S. Senate and the forced-unioniza-tion dream of labor unions, card check,

Jeff Crank, Featured Writer

Freedom’s VictoryHard-Fought Wins Show Triumph on Horizon

doesn’t stand a chance of getting through the House or Senate.

This president has been so stymied by his puppets in Congress that the puppet master has resorted to using federal agen-cies to do the ugly work that elected rep-resentatives refuse. Whether it is the FCC regulating the internet, the recess appoint-ment of Craig Becker to the National La-bor Relations Board or the EPA regulation of CO2 as a greenhouse gas, the Obama Administration has chosen to trample on the Constitutional powers granted to

Congress in Article I in order to pass his radical agenda while bypassing an unwilling Congress.

In many ways, the America that Barack Obama knew on January 20, 2009 is gone. Recent

Rasmussen polling shows just 30 percent of Americans believe we are heading in the right direction; far more believe pri-vate volunteer organization and not gov-ernment programs will bring about the change needed in America. Americans are overwhelmingly worried about the massive federal debt, and similar polling shows 71 percent of Massachusetts resi-dents believe in cutting all public benefits to illegal immigrants.

This is not a portrait of Barack Obama’s America. A president can govern, but not for very long, from the far left when the mood of the country is where it is, undeni-ably, today. Obama has moved America, but he has moved them decidedly away from him and his leftist, blame-Amer-ica-first, big govern-ment philosophy.

America today stands at the precipice of something great. Once again her greatest asset—her freedom-loving citizens—stand ready to throw the shackles of an oppressive, over-reaching government from their ankles. His majesty’s tea has been hoisted up and is ready for the heave into the harbor.

Samuel Adams, while rallying his coun-trymen to fight their British oppressors said, “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the ani-mated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”

Because of the sacrifice of men like Samuel Adams our fight is one, not of bloodshed, but of ballots. Our battle is to walk precincts, make phone calls, orga-nize and vote. Our message is clear: No-vember is coming and victory is near.

Jeff Crank is state director for the Colorado chapter of Americans for Prosperity and a talk show host on KVOR AM 740.

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will, be recalled.

—George Washington, 1787

Obama has moved America but he has moved them decidedly away from him and his leftist, blame-America-first, big government philosophy.

America today stands at the precipice of something great. Once again her greatest asset — her freedom-loving citizens — stand ready to throw the shackles of an oppressive, over-reaching government from their ankles.

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These are the questions we hear most often from our readers, so we want to make sure it’s clearly answered online and in every issue. What follows is a partial list of liberty-lov-ing groups and organizations in our area; a complete list is available at our website, and wwwlibertyevents.org offers a calendar of upcoming events. Sign up, step up, speak up!

Americans for Prosperity, Colorado Chapterwww.americansforprosperity.org • [email protected] • 719-494-0797An organization of grassroots leaders committed to educating, engaging and mobilizing citi-zens in the name of limited government and free markets on the local state and federal levels.Clear the Bench Coloradowww.clearthebenchcolorado.org • [email protected] grassroots movement to hold Colorado’s Supreme Court justices accountable to the Colorado Constitution and to the people of Colorado.Coalition for a Conservative Majoritywww.ccm-cos.com • [email protected] • 719-351-6075We unapologetically espouse the nation-shaping values embodied in the Constitution and detailed by the philosophies of our Founding Fathers.9-12 Pikes Peak Patriotswww.freeandunited.com • [email protected] • [email protected] organization for like-minded Americans who believe in 9 principles and 12 values as they apply to our government and in our own lives. We provide members with the plat-form and resources to pursue any project or cause of their choosing: from education and discussion to community activities or action.Pikes Peak Firearms Coalitionwww.ppfc.org • [email protected] • 719-596-3921A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. —Amendment II, U.S. ConstitutionLiberty on the Rocks, Colorado Springs Chapterwww.libertyontherocks.org • [email protected] • 719-237-4598A grass-roots organization whose goal is to provide a social environment to unite liberty-minded individuals not only with one another, but also with the freedom-based organi-zations in their local communities. Tavern-style politics in the tradition of our Founding Fathers!El Paso Republican Headquarterswww.gopelpaso.com • [email protected] • 719-578-0022The party of the open door; the party of liberty; the party of equality of opportunity for all and favoritism for none; the more socially conservative and economically libertarian of the two major parties, generally supporting lower taxes, limited government and more economic freedom.Pikes Peak Young Professional [email protected] • 719-213-3428Network with other young professionals, ages 20-40, who share the same goals and aspi-rations. Please come and join us!Sunrise Republican Womenwww.coloradosrw.com • [email protected] • 719-598-1305We promote an informed public through political education and activity, and increase the effectiveness of women for the causes of good government. All ages are welcome!Colorado Springs Republican [email protected] • 719-260-0283This group wants to educate and inform all Americans about the principles and values which make the Republican Party what it is.UCCS College Republicans • 719-251-7765El Paso County Tea Partywww.epcTeaParty.com • [email protected] local movement of American Patriots from all walks of life dedicated to uphold and de-fend the United States and Colorado Constitutions. Our goal is to give voice to the people and hold government officials accountable for their oaths to uphold those constitutions.Teller Tea Partywww.tellerteaparty.com • [email protected] local movement of non-partisan American patriots who uphold and defend the Con-stitution of the United States of America. We are dedicated to protecting freedom for all, promoting truth, limiting taxes and government, and preserving our inalienable rights

Southern Colorado Tea Partywww.socoteaparty.comCommitted to restoring our state and our federal Constitutions to our Founders’ original intent. Diligent in our restoration and preservation of freedom. We hold our elected of-ficials accountable to their oath of office.Pikes Peak Economics Clubwww.pikespeakeconomicsclub.comWe promote economic and civic literacy. It is our contention that you cannot have a con-trolled economy and maintain a free society.Limited Government Forumwww.limitedgovforum.org • [email protected] • 719-576-9055Works closely with UCCS Center for the Study of Government and the Individual and Cheyenne Mountain Civic Solutions to promote the ideas of individual responsibility and freedom.Local Liberty Onlinewww.locallibertyonline.org • [email protected] • 719-576-9055An online community that focuses on local issues to expand freedom, opportunity and prosperity close to home. Our goal is to educate rather than indoctrinate, while conduct-ing ourselves in the spirit of civility and good humor.Green Dragon Tavernhttp://RonPaul.meetup.com/310 • [email protected] • 719-330-1358Our Founding Fathers met at the Green Dragon Tavern in Boston, MA to plan the Boston Tea Party. We work to re-establish the Founders’ vision of political and economic princi-ples inherent in nature’s right by fostering understanding and respect for the Declaration of Independence and state and Federal Constitutions.

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Politics on the Rockswww.politicsontherocks.com • [email protected] • 719-533-0571We link like-minded professionals together in a monthly power networking mixer where they can network, socialize and hear directly from prominent politicians and successful business leaders on matters of social, economic and public importance.We Are Change Colorado Springswearechangecoloradosprings.org • [email protected] • 719-209-3118A grassroots organization, neither left or right, dedicated to informing the public on mat-ters of government corruption, malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance.The American Cafétheamericancafe.blogspot.com • [email protected] • 719-573-2193This group gathers each week for Constitutional studies, political action and prayer. Please contact us for information on how to get involved.Get Out Of Our House (GOOOH)www.goooh.com • [email protected] • 719-321-5123A bottom-up organization without a platform; NOT a political party. A system allowing you and your neighbors to choose a true citizen representative, an independent candidate to represent their district.For What Is Rightwww.forwhatisright.org • [email protected] • [email protected] online community whose purpose is to educate the American citizen in matters of civic and political knowledge. Our intention is to have a well informed electorate who will keep and preserve the rights guaranteed us by the U.S. Constitution and by our Creator.

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Eli Bremer, Contributing Writer

Tea Party, Militia ConnectionIn my last article (April, p29), I wrote about the end (or potential fulfill-ment) of the Tea Party movement being the up-

coming November elections. This was not meant to belittle the Tea Party, but rather to set up this article as a follow-on discus-sion of the impact of the Tea Party.

In a recent conversation, a friend of mine drew a connection between the Tea Party and a militia. The more I thought about it, the more I saw the truth in his statement. Historical-ly, militias are grass-roots organizations formed to stand up for their communi-ties. They are the fi-nal defense against an invading force who seeks to impose their will on another entity. That’s what the Tea Party is doing, stand-ing up against encroaching socialism in America. The problem is that historically militias don’t win. In fact, militias have a long history of getting demolished by the invading armies.

Let’s look at our own history of militias. In the war for independence, we started with a militia. These highly motivated and well-intended farmers were willing to die for their homeland. And many of them did just that. The romantic side of all of us wishes that the Americans won fight-ing for their homeland, for freedom, and for liberty over the European mercenaries; but the truth is that having the moral high ground never stopped a bullet. As the win-ter of 1777 set in, the Americans had many deaths and precious few military victories to claim. The trained and equipped Brit-ish and mercenary soldiers had nearly free reign over the American “forces.” It was at this time that George Washington made a decision that would change the course of history. He took his militia-style army to Valley Forge for training.

Over the next number of months, Washington, with the expert help of Baron Friedrich von Steuben, converted the militia into a trained and, relatively speaking, well equipped army. The farm-ers who entered Valley Forge came out as soldiers. They knew drill, discipline, and war tactics. They were organized and

led by trained officers. They had training manuals with the most up-to-date mili-tary training from Europe. It was these soldiers who formed an army that would eventually break the will and the might of the strongest army on the planet.

Does this mean that the Tea Party is a waste of time or resources? Quite the opposite! This “militia” is the starting point for building an army. But it will not happen by accident. People who have been energized by the Tea Party and are standing up to the well-trained and well-

funded army of the left, need to take the next step. Rallies and blogging serve their purpose to motivate people to action, but campaigns are won by trained and fund-ed armies. So what does this mean for the average Tea Party activist? It’s a rallying

call to move from militia to army, to get involved and get engaged with a more for-mal effort.

Fortunately, there are already conserva-tives who are running armies and fighting this war. The army does not need to be created, it needs to be joined. New activ-ists can work with the Republican Party to learn election mechanics, go to campaign schools, conduct fundraising, recruit and train good candidates, and work with po-litical allies to elect the best conservative leaders around. Engaging with instead of fighting against the Republican Party also gives activists a seat at the table to force Republicans to start acting like conserva-tives again. While the Republican Party is far from perfect, it is our only hope of de-feating the radical left agenda.

The Tea Party is at a crossroads that will determine its legacy in history. It may be the militia with the moral high ground that is defeated by the superior army of the left. Or it may “go to Valley Forge,” join forces with the Republicans, and defeat the most powerful political army ever cre-ated in America. If you are the Tea Party, the choice is yours…what legacy do you want to leave?

Eli Bremer was a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic modern pentathlon team and is Chair of the Pikes Peak Young Professional Republicans.

Engaging with instead of fighting against the Republican Party also gives activists a seat at the table to force Republicans to start acting like conservatives again.

I have a message, a message from the Tea Party. A message that is loud and clear and does not mince words: “We’ve come to take our government back!”

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Revolutionary Flags, Past and PresentAlfred C. Maurer, Featured Writer

Right after 9/11 Ameri-cans went out and plas-tered their vehicles with American flags. Where

are they now? Mine’s still there along with the words “United We Stand.” I see few others. Perhaps people have bought new vehicles; I haven’t. My Cherokee has more miles on it than Scott Brown’s truck.

We are in the midst of a revolution, whether it is obvious to us or not. It is not a revolution of guns but of ideas. Every revolution needs symbols. The symbol of the left and their effort to fundamentally transform America is this:

Notice that baby blue has replaced the

dark blue of the flag. This new color makes a frequent appearance in the posters and signs of the left; the president himself of-ten wears a pale blue tie.

On the other hand, 21st century patriots have appropriated the flags, banners, and mottos of the original patriots. The yellow

of the Gadsden Flag is the color that stands out most in photos from rallies:

There are many more appropriate flags that could be used. The Pine Tree flag is one:

This was flown in several variants, often with the motto “An Appeal to Heaven.”

The Betsy Ross flag is the familiar one with thirteen stars arranged in a circle and thirteen stripes. As the number of states grew, so did the number of stars.

Today there is another new flag. It is called the Flag of the Second Revolution.

It features the original thirteen stars and the Roman numeral “II” in the middle. The “II” stands for the Second Revolution as well as the Second Amendment. De-signed by Jeff McQueen in 2009�, the flag is now seen at rallies across the country. It is pictured below at the 9-12 March on Washington D.C. in 2009:

The Revolution of 1776 was a conserva-tive revolution against an out of control parliament; the revolution of today is a conservative revolution against an out of control Congress. May the revolutionary spirit never leave the American people!

Teller Tea Parties Same Destination, Different Paths

Leah Hotchkiss, Senior Staff Writer

As the Tea Party move-ment gains more and more momentum across the country, local par-tiers are deciding the

course they will take in order to achieve the movement’s broader goals. Teller Tea Party (TTP) recently had a group split from the larger movement. This new group is called the Teller County Tea Party (TCTP). They formed their own Tea Party in February due to a difference of opinion about endorsing candidates.

The TTP had assigned a group from among its volunteer supporters to in-terview candidates and to compile their findings. Dave Doll, of Woodland Park, led this effort and feels the months of me-ticulous work have been well worth it. The lengthy results were posted online, at a site unaffiliated with the TTP name. Af-ter about a week, the TTP began receiv-ing email complaints about the endorse-ment of one particular local Teller County

candidate. The TTP then requested all of the endorsement information be removed from the group’s page. Strongly disagree-ing about the endorsement of candidates, the two groups have parted ways.

The Teller Tea Party will still be grow-ing their grassroots movement with ral-lies, event organizing, and will not en-dorse candidates. Their events, bylaws, verbal membership agreement, and contact information can be found at: www.tellerteaparty.com.

The Teller County Tea Party will not be planning rallies or events. Instead, they will continue to concentrate on their thorough question and answer interviews. Their interview process, answers, and reasons for endorsement will continue to be posted. The group hopes to expand their communication-focused website to a newsletter, and to form a volunteer hub for Colorado candidates. They can be found at: www.candidatereports.com.

Politics on the Rocks Launches in Colorado SpringsThe Colorado Chapter of Politics on the Rocks officially launched April 22, 2010 with a showing that ‘wowed’ those in at-tendance at downtown Colorado Spring’s Fratelli Ristorante Italiano. The festive at-mosphere and positive energy was palpa-ble as guests mingled and connected with like-minded leaders from throughout Colorado. Keynote speakers were Sena-tor Josh Penry and radio personality Ross Kaminsky from Backbone Radio. The 50 or so guests came from as far away as Boulder, Crested Butte, La Junta and sur-rounding Colorado Springs areas.

Nina Rodriguez, chapter president for Colorado, plans to expand to Denver later this year. For now, local members are enjoy-ing a “different” type of grassroots group.

The next event is scheduled for Thurs-day, May 27, 5:30-7:30pm at The Deco Lounge in the Fine Arts Center, 30 West Dale Street. The format is a monthly power networking happy hour for conservative business and community leaders. Cover charge, cash bar and tapas will be provid-ed by Garden of the Gods Gourmet. Key-note speakers for the May event are State Rep Kent Lambert and Jeff Crank, KVOR Radio & Director of the Colorado Chap-ter of Americans for Prosperity. For more info, please call 719-533-0571. Join us!

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Callie Baker, Colorado Springs: For more than 200 years our American flag has stood for our liberties, our nation’s strength and unity, and it has been an icon of pride. It has hung on baseball jerseys, in the front of the class rooms, in our church-es, in the windows of our homes and over the coffins of our deceased service mem-bers. To have someone trample and burn the icon of our country is mocking our freedoms, our power and those service members who protect us. It is unconstitu-tional to pass a law that makes it illegal to desecrate our flag. People say that it would obstruct our freedom of speech, which is ironic because it represents our freedom. I believe that it [desecration] should be outlawed; it is a disgrace to this country. I wish there was a way to strip citizenship from an offender in the United States. The people that are burning the very symbol of the freedoms that they are abusing should at least get a fine. There are men and wom-en fighting for our freedom, and someone is ignorant enough to burn the icon of our country because they are angry about some politician’s decision in Washington? Unbelievable.

Michelle Hastings, Colorado Springs: Our flag is a beacon of hope. It has been that through every war. When I see some-one burning the flag or disrespecting it, my blood boils. It represents the very free-doms we all enjoy and take for granted. I’m sure some people would say, “But, it’s our 1st Amendment right!”Yes, it is, but ‘respect’ is another word. I’d like to see those who burn our flag go to another country and try doing that to their flag!

Kathy Schlegel, Parker: The American flag is the symbol of the greatest nation on Earth - one that offers liberty and justice for all who pledge their allegiance to it. It rep-resents the country that offers “The Amer-ican Dream” to anyone willing to sacrifice and work for their version of that dream. To desecrate the American flag is to pro-foundly disrespect the rights we are en-dowed with. In my opinion, it has nothing to do with ‘free speech’. It’s a violent act that destroys property, and that’s a crime in America.

Natasha Laster, Colorado Springs: If someone burned and trampled the flag I think that should be treason. They should have the minimum sentence in jail and a heavy fine. If they did more than that they should have a life sentence in jail and/or the death penalty. I don’t believe in the death penalty but you have to follow the laws of the land.

Joe Walker, Colorado Springs: I think it is appalling when an American burns our

Compiled by Kayla Kirkland, Contributing WriterCitizen on the Street

How do you feel about people who desecrate and dishonor the American flag? What do you think their punishment, if any, should be?

beautiful American Flag! I’m almost 50 years old. I grew up pledging allegiance to the American flag in school. I not only saluted our flag for over 20 years in our great military, but also sadly saw it draped over the coffins of my brothers who died in combat protecting this nation and all it represents. I’ve held my hand over my heart at many ball games when the flag was presented. I love that flag and all it stands for. I still get goose bumps when our great flag is presented or raised at events. I think it should be against the law to desecrate our flag and there should be a penalty for those who do it. If you really hate this country and all we stand for so much that you feel you need to desecrate the flag, there are planes leaving for the Middle East and numerous other places around the globe every day, so LEAVE!

James Marshall Sinclair, Colorado Springs: The American flag represents how our country was founded. It is a symbol of pride, honor, and dedica-tion. The Founding Fathers of our coun-try had a vision of freedom and rights granted to the citizens. The Constitu-tion [guarantees] freedom of speech, the right to assemble, freedom of the press, and the right to bear arms. The colonists went to war for these freedoms. Many people lost their lives for their be-liefs and the desire to have this freedom. This freedom applies to every person who chooses to live in the United States. I think any person has the right to burn the flag and not suffer any conse-quences. I didn’t say I agree with that person’s decision. I think burning the flag is wrong. There isn’t a reason good enough for me to warrant our flag be-ing burned. Instead of wasting energy on burning the flag, a person can invest that energy in moving to another country. I’m sure whoever chose to take that option would move back to the United States whenever the opportunity presented itself. America is not perfect, nor are the peo-ple who live here, but I am very thankful for the freedom we enjoy. If this country takes away our freedom and our civil rights, then we aren’t any better than oth-er countries that don’t share our views of the Constitution. Without our freedom, America loses the identity our found-ers fought so hard for. So the next time a flag is burning, don’t get angry or upset. Be sad for the person who truly doesn’t understand the gift America has provided to them.

The Constitutionalist Today honors Flag Day, June 14. To all those who have fought for and defended the Stars and Stripes, you have our most profound appreciation and respect. They can destroy our flag, but they can’t destroy our patriotism!

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

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TCT: As you know Father’s Day is June 20. In remembrance of that day, can you tell us who your favorite Founding Father is and why?

Richard: Thomas Jefferson, because he had vision and was able to create a docu-ment that 200 years later formalized how government and how humans should be. Jefferson said that God gave us a brain and a heart and he wrote that our emotions and our intellect are a part of the same equation. But then there’s George Wash-ington in whom you have a magnificent leader able to rally troops under the most difficult of circumstances and humble enough to understand that it wasn’t about him. We have had so many presidents, in-cluding the present one whom if they had taken some of this man’s lessons regard-ing humility, service to country and doing the right thing…we all would have been much better served.

Jarred: George Washington because he’s the original; the innovator of our form of

government. During his time you had ei-ther monarchs or no form of government. He was offered the opportunity to be king. How many of us if given the opportunity to be king, would have walked way? Wash-ington had the fore-sight to have fought a war with a king and instead of becoming a king he decided to be a president, keeping it limited at an eight year term. The fact that he had the wisdom to have limited his own power is very important.

Richard: Jefferson was the ultimate Re-naissance man. He knew a lot about a lot of things. A person could walk into his room and ask him to invent something and he would be able to do it.

TCT: How do you think they would react to what is happening in our government today?

Richard: They would be profoundly dis-appointed and angered at what is happen-ing in our government. They would never have envisioned that government would have grown to the size it is and be as in-trusive as it now is. If they had witnessed the last year and a half, I think that their hearts would be breaking. They would not have liked that we have not been good stewards with the nation they gave us.

Jarred: They would be offended that peo-ple have made politics a career and that Senators are now directly elected. They had envisioned the Senate as a place to reflect upon legislation. They would have

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wanted a farmer to go to Congress to give his perspective and then go back to farm-ing. They thought that if we had people

run every two years that there would be enough successful challengers to in-cumbents to bring in new faces. Due to

the fact that money is now so much apart of the mix, regular people are prevented from running. Now you need to be a mil-lionaire to run in most cases.

Richard: The amount of money needed to run now would stun them. This is the reason that there is this gulf between the average person and the people they elect to represent them. I think that if they could see the amount of taxes/fees that people now pay they would roll over in their graves.

TCT: What would they do about immigra-tion and health care issues?

Jarred: None of their writings indicate the formation of a ‘nanny state’ government. With immigration there would be lively discussion about adhering to the rule of law with some flexibility. But with the health care issue they would have given an absolute no to this massive type of entitle-

ment. They would’ve ended up support-ing Arizona and have people adhere to the ‘rule of law’ that exists on the books.

Richard: Just as Tea Party groups vary so did the Founding Fathers. Both also have united on the bigger fundamental issues. They would be shocked to see federal laws that have not been enforced for decades with over 11 million people here illegally. They would see this as anarchy. The race card is played by this administration all the time. We had a caller once who said, “If America is this bigoted and hateful country that some would have you believe because we would want to enforce laws on illegal immigration…then why is it that all these people want to come here?”

Jarred: That caller also said, “When there truly was apartheid in South Africa, did you see blacks from other countries lin-ing up to move into South Africa? No, you didn’t.”

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City Hall’s Moral CollapseJust when you thought the mess at city hall could not get worse, four new ex-amples of municipal mis-management emerged.

Each represents not only fiscal finagling, but moral myopia and the absence of ac-countability.

SCAM #1Penny Graft, our former city manager, greatly overpaid at $210,000 per year plus perks, quit effective April 16. Her replace-ment was sworn in on April 13 for service starting April 16 at 5 p.m. Penny Graft decided her name, however apt, did not match her ambition, and went for one last big heist. She said she had been fired because the ritual predated the actual succession. Her demand? A mere $105,000, though she had only three days left at work.

Like many governments, the city plays the golden parachute incentive game. Sly bureaucrats often demand contract claus-es promising they will get paid for noth-ing. Sometimes they work, but they want payment in either case, so she sought a $35,000 per day bonus. The council had rated her highly the week before she sub-mitted her resignation. What does this event say about the mental stability and judgment of those involved?

SCAM #2Memorial Hospital has a citizens’ com-mission of council-picked stooges con-sidering its possible sale. Memorial gave them $92,000 for public relations and expenses. Why does such a group need public relations experts? Now the rogue reviewers are interviewing two consul-tants to advise them on what advice they should give the city! So much for citizen input. That shake down is estimated at over $10,000 per month for eight months!

Apologists for municipal socialism tried to justify this absurdity by saying no taxes were involved, just “hospital mon-ey.” We own the hospital. Has everyone at the city gone nuts?

SCAM #3The El Pomar Foundation gave $100,000 to rent motel rooms for the transients, drifters, tramps, bums, hobos, vagrants, beggars, and other losers the politically correct now call “the homeless.” Bob Holmes, “homeless advocate,” then asked the council to give $50,000 to continue free rent for freeloaders. Our gullible councilors took the bait to prove they were “compassionate conserva-tives.” A solid definition of a “liberal” is someone who is generous spending other people’s money. That makes our nine ninnies “liberal conservatives.” No wonder they are confused.

Actually, only six voted for the hand-out. Three others said it was a low budget priority. None insisted it is not govern-ment’s job to subsidize sloth and reward runaways from responsibility. Heaven forbid anyone in public office should ever draw a bright line against spending public funds on private problems. Conventional political philosophy is that government should do everything for everybody, if only stingy taxpayers would give the city “enough” money to redistribute.

SCAM #4Despite passage of Issue 300 last fall, our infamous Storm Water Enterprise

never dissolved. It now practices outright extortion on prop-erty owners, sending threats to those (like me) who have refused to pay those illegal fees (taxes). The city acts like gangsters in protection rackets.

Cowering citizens pay money to avoid harm that thugs will otherwise wreak on private property. It is “insurance” against vandalism caused by the “insurance com-pany.”

Issue 300 ended the shakedown for fees on November 16, 2009, but the enterprise demands money through December 31. It makes gifts to fix city-owned property. It spends its $13 million in excess collec-tions since 2005. It continues to bleed en-terprises for about $10 million yearly in city-mandated services it forces on them. All these acts violate voter-approved Is-sue 300.

The city has now hired a collection agency to try to squeeze property owners for $2 million in unpaid fees. It threatens to damage the credit of those 11,500 ac-count holders who refuse to knuckle under. The storm water ordinance said fees were not property charges. Thus, they can’t be legally recorded as property liens or be paid in real estate loan or sale closings.

Damaging someone’s credit by report-ing he hasn’t paid an (unlawful) claim is grounds for a lawsuit. Both the collection agency and city would be liable. Citizens can see how to defend themselves at City-Reforms.com. The agency was offered 30% of what it collects, but most accounts are under $200. It won’t sue in small claims, advancing up to $100 in filing fees and service of process costs, when their maximum net gain is $60. Our national image would be decimated if the city were to sue thousands of its citizens after passage of Issue 300. Remember, Ameri-ca was founded in a tax revolt. This time, instead of throwing tea into the harbor, we are throwing taxes down the drain. An ambitious lawyer should file a class action against our municipal mafia.

Douglas Bruce is a former county com-missioner, state legislator, and the author of The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR). Contact him at [email protected].

Remember, America was founded in a tax revolt. This time, instead of throwing tea into the harbor, we are throwing taxes down the drain.

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PERA Aces: Gambling with Retirement

Senate Bill 10-001 is an attempt to fix Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) by gambling, Vegas-style.

A class action lawsuit has been filed. Both Republicans and Democrats are being targeted for blame. Lawmakers say PERA will fall farther into an un-funded abyss if we don’t act now. Supporters and public employees are screaming that it breaks the Colora-do Constitution! Every-body is upset over this bipartisan Senate bill. After reading about 500 pages figuring out this mess, it has become ob-vious to me that it is too complex to explain fully, so we’ll sum up:

PERA is Colorado’s version of Social Security for state employees. In 1999 and 2000, the 73-year-old PERA attained ful-ly-funded status. Lawmakers decided to reduce contributions and add benefits, making it no longer fully-funded, forget-ting that fully-funded is a good thing. Between 2007 and 2008, PERA lost 25% of its net assets available for benefits. It currently takes in $1.7 billion in contri-butions, pays out $3.1 billion in benefits, and is 70% funded. The new changes might bring PERA within the reach of being fully funded, in 30 years…maybe. Changes, history, development pro-

cess, and explanations, can be found at: www.copera.org.

The class action lawsuit was filed on be-half of some PERA retirees. The group’s website, www.saveperacola.com, lists the cost of living (COLA) reduction as reason for the suit. The bill reduces COLA from 3.5% to 2%. The group argues that their contract has been broken by this reduc-tion and therefore breaks both the United

States and the Colorado Constitutions. Colorado courts have upheld this argumentation in the past. In 2004, a formal opinion by Attorney General Ken Salazar said that the “member’s [sic] pension program be-comes a vested contrac-tual obligation that is not

subject to unilateral change of any type by the general assembly.”

This is becoming an all night Vegas-style poker game, complete with lots of off-the-bottom dealing, big names, and big loss-es. On one side of the table, some of the 190,684 strong PERA members (118,547 of which are in the schools division), and on the other, the PERA board, legislature, and governor. It would be fun to watch if we could forget that both sides are playing with credit extended by the taxpayer. No matter which side pulls the most aces and wins, the Colorado taxpayer will cover all markers and all the juice.

No matter which side pulls the most aces and wins, the Colorado tax payer will cover all markers and all the juice.



Bob Adelmann, Featured Writer

Norton Not Fiscal ConservativeIn March, when Jane Nor-ton’s Republican primary campaign spent $18,000 to run 28 commercials on 9NEWS, the station also

ran a “Truth Test” on the statements made in those ads. With every voter’s BF (ba-loney fudge) meter set on “high,” the re-sults of that test were revealing. The most damaging to Norton’s campaign was this one: “In Colorado, she cut government spending.” When put to the Truth Test this quote turned out to be false.

9NEWS pointed out that the budget of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment consisted of

three separate pools of money: the Gener-al Fund, Cash Funds, and Federal Funds. During her administration, revenues into the General Fund fell by almost 50 per-cent, but revenues into the Cash Funds and Federal Funds accounts rose. Adding the three together showed that revenues actually increased during her command, from $226.8 million in FY 1999-2000 to over $258 million in FY 2003-04.

But revenues were outside of her con-trol. As Bobby Clark, Executive Direc-tor of ProgressNowColorado.com, put it, “Norton’s budget at the Department of Health actually grew while she was the director. Her General Fund money may

have gone down…but that was only a small part of her budget. And, in any case, her “spending” did not go down [empha-sis added] even if some of her funding did. She’s being disingenuous at the least…”

One issue that Norton is studiously avoiding is her support for Referendum C in November, 2005. According to the Cato Institute in its Briefing Papers, “Dispelling the Myths—The Truth about TABOR and Referendum C,” passage of Referendum C allows Colorado “to spend the tax rev-enue that is collected over and above the TABOR cap rather than rebate it [to the taxpayers]…it gives the state government the power to spend all the revenue that

comes into the state, without regard to the TABOR limit.” In other words, “the state legislature can spend all of that money without asking further permission from voters. It’s the equivalent of giving a blank check to the legislature…”

Norton supported Referendum C. Nothing was said about that in her ads on 9NEWS.

Bob Adelmann writes for The New Ameri-can magazine on economics, history and politics, and speaks to groups interested in these topics. His email address is: [email protected]

Lynda Jones, Senior Staff Writer

Strong Mayor DebateCity Council Grapples with Mayoral Issue

Citizens for Accountable Leadership wants vot-ers to change Colorado Springs from a city coun-cil-city manager form

of government to a mayor-city council (strong mayor) form of government.

The group presented its proposal for changes to the Colorado Springs City Charter at a town meeting April 27, and filed it with the city on May 11. The issue is expected to be on the November ballot.

Proponents of the change said Colo-rado Springs should follow the trend of other U.S. cities by eliminating the city manager’s position and putting the mayor in charge of running the city.

Former state Senator Andy McElhany noted that some mayors, such as New York City’s, do not accept salaries. He said the proposal calls for the mayor to be paid a salary that is 110 percent of a county commissioner’s salary. Using that formu-la, the mayor would earn approximately $96,000 per year, plus benefits. The mayor could not be employed elsewhere during his term.

One goal of Citizens for Accountable Leadership is to structure the city follow-ing the U.S. Constitution by having an elected executive and legislative branch with proper checks and balances. The proposed charter changes gives the may-or executive and administrative powers granted to the city by Article XX of the Colorado State Constitution and defined in the city charter.

Council Member Scott Hente said he is “a huge supporter” of the mayor-council form of government because it makes the person who runs the city directly account-able to the voters.

“There are times the mayor needs to be the mayor,” Hente said. He cited the ex-ample in 2007-08 when the mayor did not have the authority to ask for declaration of an emergency snow storm when the city was shut down due to large amounts of snowfall. “We need a strong decisive leadership position,” Hente said. “When you’re in the middle of the battlefield, you don’t want to stop and convene a commit-tee to make a decision.”

With the proposed charter changes, the mayor will have the ability to act in an emergency situation. The proposal reads, “The mayor may take command of the po-lice and govern the city by proclamation in times of public danger or emergency.”

Hente described the change as a good way to have checks and balances in the city government. The average citizen thinks the mayor runs the city, he said. Hente wants to codify that.

The mayor currently has no veto au-thority over council. If voters approve the change, the mayor will have veto power over city council decisions. The city coun-cil will be able to override a veto with a two-thirds vote.

Mayor Lionel Rivera attended the town hall meeting and said he is an advocate of the strong mayor form of government. Ri-vera said he would have liked more time

during his term of office to be out recruit-ing new businesses to move to Colorado Springs and more time to be in Washing-ton, D.C., working to get more resources for the city. Under the proposal, the mayor will not be required to attend city coun-cil meetings, which will be chaired by a president of city council who is selected by council members.

Rivera said city council salaries should be addressed also. He recommended paying council members minimum wage for 40 hours per week. McElhany said the city council salary is not addressed by the proposed charter changes because of the need to stay in a single subject area on the ballot.

Council Member Darryl Glenn, who is running for county commissioner, told a group of supporters he is concerned about the expense of the measure being on the November ballot. The city council elimi-nated election costs when it finalized the 2010 budget.

Referencing the city’s budget woes, town hall panelist Chuck Murphy said, “We’re suffering from a terminal disease. It’s called double TABOR.”

McElhany disagreed that TABOR is the problem. Charles Guy, a town hall attend-ee, said the problem is the financial eco-nomic condition. “You don’t change the government, you cut services,” Guy said.

Representatives of Citizens for Ac-countable Leadership anticipate a lengthy discussion and debate be-tween now and November. The pro-posed charter changes are posted at www.springsaccountabilitynow.org. Pub-lic comments can be posted on that site. Current comments express concern that the mayor will choose his family and friends for jobs and have too much power. One person posted this comment, “There is a big difference between the job skills of a good politician and a great manager and it is not often that the same person has both.”

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Kitchen Table Politics Is it over yet?

The 2010 Colorado Leg-islative session has come to a close. Resolutions with broad implications, that in previous years

would have seen intense debate, were pushed through the last days of ses-sion as Democrats seek to fortify their agenda and position their ground troops for the November elections. One can view these as strategic policies for a party that is uncertain of its future control of Colorado politics.

To their credit, most Republicans stayed on the alert, put a few very bad bills and resolu-tions to their timely deaths, and offered a few of their own. Several of these political moves have far reaching consequences, and when viewed together, show us a plan to enable voter fraud, spend copi-ous amounts of our money, and give us an overall look at increased government hubris. Here they are in no particular order:

First up, the gerrymandering bill HB10-1408 “repeals statutory direction to courts to use criteria in determin-ing the lawfulness of and in adopting changes to con-gressional dis-tricts.” Sounds pretty tame, until you realize every single rule has been repealed. The court is no longer prohibited from using political party registration and election perfor-mance when determining districts. They do not have to utilize a good faith effort to mathematically calculate population equality between districts. Each district no longer has to consist of contigu-ous whole general election precincts, and districts can overlap. The court no longer has to comply with the “Voting Rights Act of 1965,” and preserve previ-ous district lines to minimize disruption. The legislature just handed the courts a free pass to do with our voting districts as they please, without restrictions. Can we say legalized election tampering?

The legislature also saw fit to give gov-ernment another easy way to propose direct changes to the state Constitu-tion. SCR10-001, with voter approval, will create a Fiscal Policy Constitutional Commission. Made up of 19 people ap-pointed by various state officials, the commission would review fiscal policy of the Colorado Constitution, make recommended amendments, and have those amendments presented directly to the voters in 2012. Under the cur-rent rules, a constitutional amendment is proposed by the General Assembly, a Constitutional Convention, or through the initiative process. With this added commission, government can directly target the state’s constitutional fiscal policy without having the legislative muscle or the citizens’ support to initi-ate amendments.

Citizens did retain some semblance of power with the postponement of SCR10-003. This defeated resolution would have made it nearly impossible for citizens to petition their government. Sponsored by Tapia (D), White (R),

Heath (D), Penry (R), Boyd (D), Hodge (D), Keller (D), Kester (R), Romer (D), Shaffer, B. (D), this bill had bi-partisan support. It would have added to Section 1 Article V of the Constitution the re-quirement that petitions have signatures from each and every district equal to 5% of the total required. It stipulated at least

60% voter approval to be-come part of the Consti-tution. This would have allowed a single district to disqualify an entire constitutional amend-ment petition.

Two tax resolutions were passed and both will be put before the vot-ers. The first resolution, sponsored by Democrats, would add rules to Sec-tion 3 (1) (b) of Article

X (Uniform Taxation Exemption), al-lowing adjustments (without voter ap-proval) to taxation rates for possessory interests in real property with specified actual values. The second was sponsored by Republicans and would be a change to Section 20 of Article X (The Taxpay-ers Bill of Rights). This one requires any changes in the tax policy causing a net tax revenue gain to any district to be voted on by the electorate. Another tax disappointment was the passage of

SB10-190, which repeals the prop-erty tax credit for qualifying se-niors.

HB10-191 was passed…surpris-ingly. This bill

requires performance evaluations for teachers, which passed with a 35 “yes” and 0 “no” votes. Passing along side this education bill, Resolution SJR10-047 resolved that lawmakers push for more publicly funded early child care and pre-school programs, promote the success of Governor Ritter’s socialist P-20 system, and ensure that we receive more federal grant money to attain these goals.

Also for the kiddies, a newly cre-ated grant program, HB10-1131, doles out cash to groups who provide urban youth with fieldtrips, and HB10-1147 requires children under 18 to wear hel-mets. When riding any non-motorized vehicle, an un-protected child can be stopped and given a card preaching the dangers of not having a federally com-pliant helmet, unless it goes against your religion…then you’re exempt. No fines yet, but you can bet they will be added shortly.

Finally, Resolution HJR10-1028 which voices Colorado’s undying support of all the green legislation Washington could ever wish to enact. With President Obama’s job approval in the toilet, I am sure he could use this kind of political hug-and-kiss from our legislature.

Thankfully, this session has come to an end and we can start concentrating on elections. With rule changes, resolutions, and over-spending, the battle lines have been drawn. Election season is shaping up to be another heated salvo in the on-going war against a growing nanny state government. Now is the time to read the bills, resolutions, and voting records (www.leg.state.co.us) before the first wave of attack-ads starts to spin political intentions and voting records.

The legislature just handed the courts a free pass to do with our voting districts as they please, without restrictions. Can we say legalized election tampering?

Another tax disappointment was the passage of SB10-190, which repeals the property tax credit for qualifying seniors.

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The State Assembly in Loveland May 23 was an exciting event, especially for the many delegates there for the first time. A

hand count in the 5th Congressional Dis-trict Assembly on Friday, May 22 showed at least two-thirds were new to the pro-cess.

The results were a trifecta for these newly-minted activists. The results of the three contested races were:

US SenateKen Buck 77% Cleve Tidwell 15% Robert Greenbeck 2% Steve Barton 1%

Treasurer JJ Amendt 79% Ali Hasan 20%

GovernorDan Maes 49% Scott McInnis 48%

The senate race was somewhat crowded even though Jane Norton and Tom Wiens are petitioning on to the ballot, thus they were not present. Nevertheless, Josh Penry and a number of Norton supporters were waving signs in the morning outside the event center grounds as people arrived. Inside the event center, Ken Buck sup-porters were in the majority.

The nominations began with Rob-ert Greenbeck reading an uninspired speech. Given the fact that I’d never heard his name before and his poor showing overall, I have to wonder why he showed up. Steve Barton didn’t do much better.

Alfred C. Maurer, Featured Writer

Grassroots Trifecta at GOP State AssemblyEach candidate was given 12 minutes

for combined nomination and accep-tance speeches; Barton’s time seemed to go beyond the limit. Maybe it just seemed that way to me. The response from Cleve Tidwell’s supporters was fair-ly enthusiastic.

Dick Wadhams kept track of the al-lotted time and promptly turned off the sound system at 12 minutes, cutting off three candidates.

Ken Buck took it up several notches. He began with a short video featuring interviews of his family and a nomina-tion from his wife, Perry. A number of tea party and 9-12 leaders followed Perry and seconded her nomination. That’s one dif-ference I noticed at the county and state assemblies: establishment politicians have other establishment politicians nominate them. Grassroots and new candidates have family members and grassroots lead-ers nominate them. I like that. Buck had a rousing speech. He got a particularly large round of applause when he said, “If a for-eign leader came to the White House and insulted our country or even a state in his presence, he’d get up and walk out.”

Part of the game, I learned, is passing out campaign signs to wave in applause. The Weld County section of the arena was wildly in support of Ken but there was strong support from all the counties. The vote showed that support: the Buck cam-paign was looking for at least 71%; they exceeded that with 77%.

Dan Maes was the first gubernatorial candidate to speak. He was nominated by State Senator Kevin Lundberg from Lar-imer County. The nomination was sec-

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Yes, the hour was early; yes, the sun was already steaming up the air; yes, the air conditioning was already leaving some-

thing to be desired—the situation made worse by the 2,000 people assembled at the Budweiser Event Center in Love-land, Colorado.

Yet, most there seemed not to mind. Spirits were high, and the anticipation was tangible. Republicans were gathered together to manifest their own destiny and to make their voices heard. I didn’t detect the bitterness or anger that the me-dia seems to think defines the conserva-tive movement. I didn’t see the “hate” that the media seems to think motivates us in our common pursuits. What I did see was people who love their country and were unified in purpose while occasionally dis-agreeing on candidates.

Ryan Parsell, Contributing Writer

Democracy in Action

ASSEMBLY continued from page 16onded by Lana Fore-Warkocz, a member of the El Paso County Tea Party and Silve-rio “Silver” Salazar from Pueblo, cousin of Ken and John Salazar and a former Hill-ary Clinton backer. Dan’s mother gave an emotional speech on behalf of her son.

McInnis, like Buck and Maes, also did the video thing. The theme of McInnis’ video was that “help is on the way.” It was mostly black and white and featured an in-terview of him against a dark background. It struck me as odd be-cause he was right there to speak: why the in-terview in the video? A few people I talked to were turned off by the 9/11 help theme which came across as “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Really? Isn’t too much government what we’ve been protesting for the past year?

Maes’ upset of McInnis was stunning! The McInnis campaign has often boasted about the money in their coffers and his green color was everywhere. Maes, how-ever, was clearly the people’s choice. The margin of victory was slim - 1741 votes to 1725 - but it was a David versus Goliath contest and David won.

The third contested race was, to me, an-other surprise in the large margin of victo-ry. Like the McInnis campaign, the Hasan camp has poured money into his race for ads, signs and t-shirts. They even provided golf carts for delegates to go between the hotel and the event center. In the end, the money didn’t matter. Ament ran away with 79% of the vote. My perception is that ev-eryone—liberty activists as well as party regulars—liked and supported Ament. Hasan’s attack ads in the previous week

turned a lot of people off. A third candi-date, Walker Stapleton, is petitioning onto the primary ballot.

The voting closed at 1p.m. and we had to wait almost two hours for the results. In the meantime we heard speeches by can-didates for the state legislature and from issue organizations.

Many, perhaps most, of the delegates left before the results were announced as did many candidates. Ken Buck was first

onstage after the results and showed his sense of humor by remark-ing that he was going to finish the speech that had been cut off earlier.

Dan Maes pointed out that the tea party activists are a force to be reckoned with. Hasan and Ament spoke as well. All three winners were loudly cheered and ap-plauded by those who had waited for the results.

Maes is certainly right: grassroots-sup-ported candidates made a tremendous showing on Saturday while McInnis and Hasan found out that it takes more than money to win this time around. Other candidates, such as Jane Norton and Tom Wiens, seem to have seen the handwriting on the wall and chose to petition on to the primary ballot instead of going through the assembly process.

In the often-ignored race for state trea-surer JJ Ament showed that it’s going to take the support of everyone, old and new, to win in November. That means healing the divisions between campaigns to unite for the good of the state of Colorado. Judging by the cooperation I saw between campaigns while stuffing the delegate bags on Friday, that shouldn’t be too difficult.

Certainly, there were some surprises. Maes narrowly edged McInnis, while the Ament and Hasan race wasn’t as close as many expected.

As expected, Buck easily won a spot on the ballot, breezing past Tidwell, Barton, and Greenbeck. Candidates Norton and Wiens are petitioning onto the primary election ballot.

This, my fellow conservatives, was de-mocracy in action. People were given the equality of opportunity to make their voices heard through the Republican State Assembly, and the process worked with-out a flaw.

Ryan Parsell is the acting Chair of the El Paso County Republican Party, and was the head of the 497 member El Paso Del-egation to the Republican State Assembly.

The results were a trifecta for these newly-minted activists.

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On May 11, despite strenuous objec-tions of Council Member Tom Galla-gher, the Colorado Springs City Council voted 8-1 in favor of increasing water rates to launch the Southern Delivery System. The pipeline is expected to pro-vide water to Colorado Springs for the next 50 years.

Council Member Bernie Herpin de-scribed the vote to raise water rates as “historic.” Since Colo-rado Springs does not have its own water source, city founders purchased water rights on properties in rural areas. Herpin applaud-ed the foresight of those who made that decision. He moved for approval of the increase in water rates out of consider-ation for generations to come.

At the April 27 and May 11 meetings, Council Member Tom Gallagher said the public has inadequate information about the project. He requested infor-mation about phase two of the project arguing that a commitment to phase one is a commitment to phase two. On May 11, Gallagher came armed with his own research and said there is an abun-dance of contradictory information that has not been provided to the public. He questioned the feasibility of the pro-posed pipeline’s location. Gallagher also questioned what the total construction and operational costs of the pipeline will be. “Decisions based on bad information result in bad decisions,” Gallagher said.

Colorado Springs Utilities CEO Jerry Forte echoed Herpin’s description of the vote as “historic.” The rate increase, 11 percent in 2011 and another 11 percent in 2012, are critical to construction of the Southern Delivery System between the Pueblo Reservoir and Colorado Springs. In his defense of the proposed rate increase and feasibility of the SDS project, Forte argued that years of stud-ies involving thousands of pages of doc-uments led to this point of the Southern Delivery System’s development.

Bill Cherrier, chief financial officer for Colorado Springs Utilities, said it is im-portant to vote now. The plan will go to bond rating agencies this summer. The rate increase needs to be in place to show them how CSU will repay the bonds for the SDS project, he said.

At the April 27 meeting, a parade of the city’s partners in the SDS project pleaded with Colorado Springs to join with the others so construction can be-gin. Those partners include the towns of Security and Fountain. Representa-tives of the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce and the Council of Neigh-bors and Organizations (CONO) also endorsed the SDS project and the associ-ated water rate increase to fund it.

A local car wash owner argued against the rate increase, cit-ing poor economic conditions that al-ready hurt his busi-ness. He said the last

rate increase cost his business more than $10,000 forcing him to lay off an employee.

When he spoke at the April 27 meet-ing, Colorado Springs resident Walter Lawson asked for more information to be made public. He concurred with Gal-lagher, “[Colorado Springs] Utilities has never stated the true cost of this proj-ect.” Lawson argued the cost of financ-ing and the hidden costs in phase two are unknown.

Forte said the SDS is “necessary for our community’s future.” He projected that 380 to 700 jobs will be created dur-ing the six years of construction. He pre-dicted local businesses, such as restau-rants and hotels, will be impacted by the construction project.

Local economist Thomas A. Arnold contended the rate increase will re-duce the purchasing power of Colorado Springs citizens, adding more stress to an already stressed economic environ-ment. He advised council members on May 11 to find out what the people want, and to get away from the “father knows best” mentality. He urged them to con-sider the unintended consequences of the water rate increase.

Council Member Darryl Glenn said, “When you sit here, you have to be a leader. When you look at the implica-tions for the regional community…I’ll be supporting this historic vote.”

Council Member Bernie Herpin described the vote to raise water rates as “historic.”

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Electoral SuicideLegislating Ourselves to Death

We are committing governmental suicide. Every two and four years since we found-ed this great nation and began adding states (funding growth), we have elected what we commonly call lawmakers as our Representatives. Thus, we began the pro-cess of fueling our own demise. What a conundrum for a lawmaker: Once elected, you either screw up a well-conceptualized government by doing nothing at all, or you live up to your title of lawmaker and, through legislation and regulation, totally debase and demean the best governmen-tal doctrine and system ever devised.

Our Founding Fathers warned us that government was a necessary evil, not to be trusted, not our friend and certainly not the answer to our problems or prayers. They cau-tioned us to be ever vigilant to limit government growth. There is the constant incentive to overreach and intrude in the name of the greater good, for the better-ment of the human race, to save the planet and in the name of social justice, but not equal justice.

Had we followed the lead of George Washington who imposed his own term limits, we too would have required Con-gressional term limits. We would have eliminated career politicians and their temptation to believe that they transcend the office they hold and can ignore the will of the electorate. By allowing multi-term elected officials we have elevated the person above the platform. The platform, the core values, principles, goals and ob-jectives have been wrongfully relegated secondary status to the officeholder. The platform, not the person, ought to be the enduring asset, the standard to be realized and prolonged.

We just couldn’t leave well enough alone! While most people who believe in their Creator accept religious teachings on face value, we just can’t seem to quit trying to fix our Constitution, the closest thing to perfection most of us will ever experience. It never needed fixing, just better understanding, application and in-terpretation for modern times; certainly not subordination to case law from over-reaching lawyers with social and political agendas. It never needed fixing, just more ardent supporters and protectors. It need-ed and needs an informed electorate to come to its rescue. It needs US!

How do we cut the size of government and runaway government spending? Easy, let’s turn our elected representatives into part-time employees, either figuratively or literally. Let’s make them caretakers

and guardians, convening only periodi-cally for housekeeping issues, for matters of national security, or at the behest of the states and an informed electorate. Radi-cal, yes, but we could achieve the same effect by making it more difficult for our lawmakers to initiate and pass legislation. Once lawmakers, permanent employees all, take office, they feel compelled to start legislating to earn their keep and justify their existence.

It seems nearly every piece of legislation has one enumerated or intended conse-quence and exponentially more unintend-ed consequences via unforeseen and un-informed interactions with existing laws,

rules and regula-tions. Hundreds of thousands of pages of legalese and the maze of combina-tions and permuta-tions of potential

interactions are too complicated for even supercomputers to understand, analyze and navigate, let alone mere elected repre-sentatives.

Our classroom model for traditional education has not changed for centuries, but we continue to add exponential layers of complexity to the problems of our gov-ernance. Wanting to live up to their name, and, as Obama said, do something rather than nothing, lawmakers add to our prob-lems daily in their attempt to solve them with more legislation. Simplification, not exacerbation is the answer. Our represen-tatives are simply incapable of knowing, understanding or predicting the conse-quences and implications of their actions.

We must stop trying to legislate away human shortcomings and inevitabilities or unforeseen occurrences, while instead legislating ourselves to death. We do not need more regulation of Wall Street. Wall Street’s greed, avarice and wanton risk-taking was 100% regulated and super-vised by the SEC, the Fed, the treasury secretary and treasury staff, internal and external auditors, ratings agencies, House and Senate committees and the list goes on, including Fannie and Freddie. More regulators and regulations would not, I re-peat, would not have altered the outcome, only added more cost and complexity to the already mushrooming bureaucracy trying incompetently, inefficiently and in-comprehensibly to do their jobs. But, they will try to do it anyway because they think it is their job!

Chuck Graybill is owner of Maggie Mae’s Restaurant, former financial executive with BP and author of Cannibals of Capitalism.

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The illegal alien invasion of America is a serious and hot topic of discussion. The media is not providing enough details to make credible judgments. We must think in terms of the best interests of America. The outcome will drastically affect our country, our way of life, and our economy. It will alter our national demo-graphics and our children’s future.

“The US G ove r n me nt report, Immi-gration Policy in the United States reflects multiple goals. First, it serves to reunite families of legal immigrants by admit-ting those who already have family mem-bers living in the United States. Second, it seeks to admit workers with specific skills and to fill positions in occupations deemed to be experiencing labor short-ages. Third, it attempts to provide a refuge for people who face the risk of political, racial, or religious persecution in their country of origin. Finally, it seeks to en-sure diversity by providing admission to people from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States.” The US policy is to maintain a bal-ance of immigrants to maintain our Na-tional Demographics and import people “to fill positions in occupations deemed to be “experiencing labor shortages.” The (mostly Hispanic) illegal aliens do not meet any of these goals.

This alien invasion is costing us loss of jobs, transfer of financial resources, increased debt, and eventual financial disaster. It affects and strains our educa-

tion, health and support services, legalizes criminal activities, penalizes potential legal immigrants, weakens our security, changes our society and divides us as a nation.

I keep hearing that these illegal aliens are filling jobs that Americans do not

want. That may have been true a few years ago, but right now I know many Americans will take any job they can find. We have 30 million Americans without jobs. Illegal aliens send $17 billion annually to Mexico. If those jobs were held by Americans, all the money earned

would be spent here, creating more jobs for Americans.

The most important aspect of illegal immigra-tion is seldom discussed. I call it the illegal multi-plier effect. Once issued a green card, that person can bring in parents and siblings. These 9-12 mil-lion illegals can now become 40+ million; more to house, feed, educate and support. We have an obligation to those who have applied to legally immigrate and have been waiting for years.

We believe our society is the best in the world. It is user friendly to any religion and any ethnic culture. This has worked well for all legal immigrants and cultures that have been assimilated into our com-munities, maintaining the American way of life. We have created a balanced mix of peoples, providing encouragement to succeed, produce and assimilate. Foreign cultures have actually enhanced our lives

Roy Thompson, Guest Writer

Alien Invasion The Consequences and Costs to America, Its Culture and Society


in many ways. I love participating in the Greek festival in October, the Hispanic festival in May. All have taught me about other cultures and how to enjoy the fes-tivities. The next day it’s back to the good old American way of life.

Many illegals seem to want to maintain their way of life as well as imposing it on all of us. Some march openly flying the Mexican flag and want California to be part of Mexico. That is not assimilation.

Some try to compare our immigrant forefa-thers of the late 1800s through 1950s with these illegal aliens. What an insult to our fore-fathers who came here legally, with a strong de-sire to assimilate into the new world. They created, with much hard work, the America we all enjoy.

It’s amaz-ing how many people in our

country do not have a work-ing knowledge of English. You cannot get a green card with-out passing the English test. I daily meet many that do not speak English and need a translator to converse. One state even provides driv-ers license tests in 15 languages.

Our federal government has not closed the border, which encourages illegals to enter America. This has weakened our national security, and I am certain that terrorists are infiltrating. Border patrol agents have found Korans in the desert areas. Illegals from Egypt, Afghanistan,

Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, and many other countries have been detained for il-legal entry.

I do not understand the rationale of denying the authorities the ability to question criminals including some who have entered the country illegally. There are 9-12 million illegal Hispanic aliens in America. So it seems natural to seek Hispanics who could be criminals. I am an olive colored person and could be challenged to prove my US legal status. I have no problem with that and will gladly show appropriate ID. The law is very specific. If you are a legal Green Card holder, you are required to carry this Green Card at all times and willingly present it when challenged.

Is it not amazing how the President of Mexico complained about the Arizona law and is calling it racial discrimination

against Hispan-ics? Mexico’s im-migration law calls for all levels of police to ask for immigra-tion papers at any time and any violation means a fine and pos-sible jail time. Yet Senor Calderon

criticizes Arizona with the blessing of our President and Congress.

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Roy Thompson retired from the Canadian Air Force and is now an American citizen.

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How Our PresidentBecame a Pirate

Just out on the silver screen is a new Robin Hood movie. We all know that Robin Hood had a passion to redistribute

wealth. Robin believed it was his calling and felt completely justified robbing from the rich to give the booty to the poor.

I don’t believe our President is a Robin Hood type, even though his encounter with Joe the Plumber during the past presi-dential campaign made it clear that he likes to see the wealth spread around.

Pirates have captured my imagination, they are everywhere, and this way of living is as popular today as when Cap’n Henry Morgan was terrorizing the Caribbean. Often we see pirates romanticized in the movies, but we fail to see what a cruel life they really lived, and rarely do we examine the twists they put themselves through to take on the identity of a pirate. Think of it, a pirate is a thief who can disregard laws and do whatever he or she wants to do. In real life they are takers only and serve no man. Oh, back in the day they tried to be regarded as a “privateer” by securing Letters of Marque from a legitimate government and would then serve kings and countries. They liked having these official papers but for the most part they were just a license to do what they darn well pleased, and went on behaving as pirates with papers.

I have been thinking, how did Barack Obama become a pirate? I do not mean any disrespect of his office or toward him, but you can tell a tree by the fruit it produces. As far as I can tell it looks like we have a pirate at the helm of Pennsylvania Ave. In his first year in office he has looted the au-tomobile industry, the banking industry and now he is taking over the insurance and medical industries with his health care bill. He is even using the oil spill in the Gulf to renounce and forbid off shore drilling. A pirate will never let a tragedy go to waste.

I have no doubt about his desires for education, military, housing and even en-tertainment. With the recent Arizona de-cision to enforce the laws and secure their exposed border we see how he would like to usurp states rights. In his first year he has filled his treasure chest with a tremendous amount of loot, and he seems to love the power of it all. But what motivated him to become a pirate and sail this way?

It has become clear to me that people choose the pirate way in response to a pain-ful rejection, an injustice, and an offense or just by being slighted. Card sharks look for “tells” and in his campaign Barack tipped his “tell” with a 30 second spot called “Mother.”

In this ad we see a snapshot of his mother Stanley Ann Dunham who died of ovarian cancer in 1995. The candidate then emotes: “I remember my mother. She was 53 years old when she died of ovarian cancer and you know what she was think-ing about in the last months of her life? She wasn’t thinking about getting well. She wasn’t coming to terms with her own mortality. She had been diagnosed just as she was between jobs. And she wasn’t sure whether insurance was going to cover the medical expenses because they might con-sider a preexisting condition. I remember being heart broken, seeing her struggle

through paperwork and the medical bills and the insurance forms. So, I have seen what it is like when somebody you love is suffering because of a broken health care system. And it’s wrong. It’s not who we are as a people…”

Many conservatives blame his liberal education at Occidental College, Colum-bia University, Harvard and the time he spent at the University of Chicago for his leftward leanings. And we can not dismiss his radical associations he developed while in Chicago; we all know that bad company corrupts good morals.

But, it just might be the real pain, the pain he felt his mother go through that prompted him to become a pirate. Think about it, seeing her filled with cancer, and yet forced to take on the seemingly uncar-ing and impersonal insurance giants. We all know how they are so quick to snap up our premiums most of us have them on the auto-suck plan with our banks, but when

it is time to receive pay-ment as a result of our injuries we have to claw our way through levels of corporate beaucracy. This is a form of rejec-tion and disrespect that can anger mere mortals. Unless a person is abso-lutely confident about their identity and feels secure in their advo-cates one can see why

people go the pirate way.I have come to believe that behavior, atti-

tude and passion flow naturally out of one’s sense of identity. I think our president felt such anger at this crisis time it marked him and shaped his future, a future of piracy. I have written about the results of rejection and have discovered that for most our first recourse is to get revenge and/or be filled with resentment. You will see that our president has been driven by these negative emotions into public service.

One of the main attractions toward the pirate life is the sense of identity. Our president discovered that his new-found pirate identity gave him such pleasure he parlayed it into becoming a community or-ganizer. With this position he was fulfilled and validated and in a position to do what pirates love the best—pay backs! In this role he experienced much pleasure taking on the corporations, and he reveled in their pain and loved to see them give up the loot.

Pirates meet their own needs in their own way. Instead of hacking and slashing his way with a boucan knife, Barack mas-tered the use of public speaking and play-ing the media. His use of persuasion and the teleprompter enables him to get what he wants. We have all seen how it works for him, and how people roll over for him. Pirates love independence, power, prestige and popularity. Now that Pirate Barack has it all I think we will see more conservatives and corporations become his shark bait.

So what are we to learn from this pirate story? First of all when you pick a leader look at their identity, try to understand how they think about themselves. Secondly, be wise and realize that behavior, attitude and passion will naturally flow out of their sense of identity. We also must take a good look in the mirror and see the error of our way, and face up to the possibility that our business practices, or the practices of some of America’s corporations, make people feel like victims and this painful rejection prompts a pirate-like response.

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Why was Madison convinced in 1787 that a new Constitution including a stronger central government was neces-sary? His observations lead him to con-clude that the continued discordant strife among the former colonies under the Ar-ticles of Confederation would result in the eventual collapse of the union.

In the months before the constitutional convention Madison prepared by review-ing, mostly in the original languages, the history of the many past confederacies. These included the confederacies of an-cient Greece along with the Holy Roman Empire, the Swiss Confederation, and the United Provinces of the Netherlands. He concluded that weak unions were doomed to fail.

Madison was not the only American leader who saw the need for a new consti-tutional convention. He was joined by Al-exander Hamilton, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, George Mason, and many other colonial leaders of the day. During the spring and summer of 1787, Madison was the un-flagging catalyst and facilitator toward its contentious comple-tion. The results were accepted by most of the assemblage. There were however, many holdouts. The addi-tion of the Bill of Rights to the completed Constitution and the writing of The Feder-alist Papers were designed to bring these holdouts into the fold. Eventually the new Constitution was ratified by all the states.

To many contemporary Americans Mr. Madison’s Constitution of limited gov-ernment is under assault by our coun-try’s leaders. The ancient Greeks used the term “hubris” to describe man’s defiance of the Greek Gods. This was the most egregious sin a person could commit in that culture. Hubris would certainly de-scribe our Federal Government’s contin-ued defiance of Constitutional limits and the American people.

In the Constitution, congressional pow-ers are delineated in Article I, Section 8. The erosion of the power limits spelled out in the Section has been due to rein-terpretations of its clauses here and else-where in the Constitution.

1. The Supremacy Clause appearing in the second paragraph of Article VI: This Constitution, and all the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made,

or which shall be made, under the Au-thority of the United States, shall be the “Supreme Law of the Land.”

Starting with Marbury v. Madison (1803), the Supreme Court insisted that not only the Constitution but the Court’s rulings were the “Supreme Law of the Land.”

2. The General Welfare Clause as it is con-tained in Article I, Section 8, states: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes… to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare (as opposed to special interests).

In Heverling v. Davis (1937), the Su-preme Court used the Clause to declare the Social Security Act constitutional.

3. The Interstate Commerce Clause is also contained in Article I, Section 8: [Con-gress has the power] to regulate Com-merce with foreign Nations, and among the several States.

The gross expansion of the intent of the Commerce Clause by Congress turned the original concept of making commerce between the states “regular”, into control of virtually all intra- and interstate com-merce. The Supreme Court in Wickard v. Filburn (1942) sanctioned this power grab. In its decision the Court ruled that a farmer growing wheat on his own land for his family’s use” exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce.”

4. The Necessary and Proper Clause, the last of Article I, Section 8, reads: [Congress has the power] to make all Laws necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the forgoing Powers…

This is perceived by Congress to-day as an enabling

Clause allowing for any mischievous leg-islation it may desire well beyond any one facilitating the “execution” of the limited 17 legislative powers in this Constitution-al Article.

The special privileges and benefits Congress has continually voted for itself are light years beyond any that Madison could have even imagined. His warning words speak across the centuries: “The house of representatives…can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves, their friends, as well as the great mass of society.”

We now know that the recently passed healthcare reform bill will, with a small fix, exempts Congress, their families, and staffers from its many evils. One congress-man recently was heard to say, “Rules? We make them up as we go along.”

Richard Eleuterio’s parents were Portu-guese immigrants with limited formal edu-cation and means but Richard perceived in them a strong work ethic plus a deep and abiding love of this country and its incom-parable opportunities. He has been intense-ly interested in politics and economics for many years, finding the current state of af-fairs cause for concern.

The gross expansion of the intent of the Commerce Clause by Congress turned the original concept of making commerce between the states “regular”, into control of virtually all intra- and interstate commerce.

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The Big Government Road Show

Are new laws and regulations drafted and the villain convicted and sentenced be-fore the cause of the oil spill is known? Does wanting to enforce a law in Arizona cause more outrage than breaking that law, resulting in our president assuming Arizona law en-forcement officers are racists incapable of plying their trade without prejudice and in accordance with all other laws? Does Wall Street’s big dog get hauled be-fore Congress as justification for more insidious regulations and de facto nation-alization of America’s showpiece financial markets?

It was as if Obama and his bobble head “yea-sayers” in Congress hired screen-writers to script, then execute their latest “big government gets bigger” road show.

Road Show, Part 1The oil gush in the Gulf of Mexico

made Christmas come early for anti-drilling, progressive and green activists across our planet. Oil drilling in general, and offshore drilling in par-ticular, will be demon-ized. BP, my former—and at times ethically challenged—employer will be labeled the devil incarnate. The unfor-tunate confluence of events, whatever the ex-perts determine caused the explosion, rig col-lapse, failed blowout preventer and subse-quent leaks will heretofore be known as the BP Oil Spill.

Tea Parties will be omitted from his-tory books and future classroom discus-sions but the BP Oil Spill will live in in-famy. BP may have been lax and penny wise and pound fool-ish. Or they may have been the unfortunate recipient of bad luck of Mother Nature, equipment failure or human error. But in every case it’s respon-sible for an out-of-control gusher at the bottom of the Gulf. For a little perspec-tive, the spill is nowhere near the size of the ecotastrophe in Kuwait following the Iraqi invasion, then retreat, in 1991 with 876+ mmbbls (million barrels) spilled, or as yet, the size of the 1979 Mexican rig blowout in the Western Gulf (3+ mmb-bls).

What do BP and Goldman Sachs have in common? Were both huge contributors to Obama’s presidential campaign? Did the Department of the Interior issue permits for and inspect BP’s rig? Did any govern-ment agency have permission to execute oil spill burning but fail to have contain-ment booms to enable the burn, and even fail to admit the existence of a spill for days? Was our government as complicit as BP or its partners or contractors?

Will this enable green opportunists to successfully lobby the end of offshore drilling or severely diminish its economic

viability in their quest to legislate 100% certainty and ironclad guarantees that no mishap, man-made or natural, will ever again occur?

Or will this spill, its media- and admin-istration-induced mass hysteria en-able bigger govern-ment, more pass-through punitive damages and taxes on the oil industry and exorbitantly costly regulatory

fixes? These will never prevent equip-ment failure, even of remote shutoffs or blowout preventers, or human errors or acts of God.

We need offshore drilling as part of a comprehensive energy policy, but do not need $5 per gallon gasoline by summer’s end from regulatory fixes that won’t fix anything except progressives’ consciences and Al Gore’s wallet. Let’s instead ask all the right questions from industry “ex-perts,” not vindictive political opportun-ists, and avoid a rush to judgment.

Road Show, Part 2Arizona just passed a

law, essentially a reprint of federal law, so that statewide law officers can enforce immigration law that hasn’t been enforced at the national level for decades, putting our na-tional security at risk. It is an affront and an un-conscionable insult to all law enforcement officers for their president and his supporters to believe law officers will not legally

enforce immigration law, but will embark on a racist-motivated, ethnic purge.

I challenge all American citizens who choose to ignore the illegal portion of il-legal immigration (not the movement of

undocumented work-ers, an illegitimate euphemism and se-mantic nonsense), to go live a season on the front-lines of our porous Mexican bor-der. Experience the thrill of daily invasion of your property by trespassers and drug traffickers. Open your possessions to con-fiscation by those less

fortunate than you, migrants only looking to better themselves at your expense. Wel-come our nation’s illegal newcomers with open arms while they threaten your safety and security.

Walk a mile in border states residents’ shoes before you pass judgment on their tactics and solutions from your safe and secure ivory towers. As an aside, the rest of us legal American citizens want to know when we will be issued our get-out-of-jail free cards, since we must be entitled to federal authorities looking the other way while we too break the law in the name of social justice. Me? I’m headed to Fort Knox because it has more gold than I do and I should be entitled to my share.

Chuck Graybill is owner of Maggie Mae’s, former financial executive with BP and au-thor of Cannibals of Capitalism.

It is an affront and an unconscionable insult to all law enforcement officers for their president and his supporters to believe law officers…will embark on a racist-motivated, ethnic purge.

The oil gush in the Gulf of Mexico made Christmas come early for anti-drilling, progressive and green activists across our planet.

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The Republic as it StandsRule of Law, Rule Without Restraint, or What Makes a Good Judge?

Matt Arnold, Featured Writer

The announced retire-ment of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and last year’s re-tirement of Justice David

Souter, has focused attention on the de-sired characteristics and qualifications of a Supreme Court justice, given the enor-mous influence of Su-preme Court rulings on many aspects of our lives.

A number of de-cisions and actions by our own Colo-rado State Supreme Court—and the po-tential for “retiring” four of the current Colorado Supreme Court justices in judi-cial retention elections this November—raise similar questions about the desired characteristics and qualifications of the occupants of Colorado’s highest court.

What makes a good judge?The American Bar Association (ABA)—

an organization that may be politically suspect, but can at least be presumed to know something about judges and le-gal standards—has developed a Model Code of Judicial Conduct as a standard for “judging the judges.”

From the preamble: “An independent, fair and impartial judiciary is indispens-able to our system of justice…the judi-

ciary plays a central role in preserving the principles of justice and the rule of law.”

Rule of Law vs. Preferred Out-come (Judicial Activism)

In our system of justice, judges are like referees at a sporting event: at least, that’s

the view of the “Rule of Law” school of jurisprudence. Like referees, judges are supposed to be im-partial: taking no sides, applying the rules equally to both teams and all players. Judges must not play favorites, let alone be players themselves.

An alternative view holds that judges should not hold themselves above or outside the debate, but instead should be part of the process, influencing the results to reach a desired outcome. This view is not necessarily re-stricted to a particular political party or ideology; there are both conservative and progressive judges who rule based on what they personally feel to be “right” or “fair,” rather than the stated intent and let-ter of the law.

In any event, a judge’s personal prefer-ences or prejudices are not a reliable basis for a legal system. Imagine playing a sport in which the rules are constantly changing during the game, at the whim of the refer-ee. Even worse, the referee is friends with

some of the players on the other team. Sound like fun? Not so much.

Now imagine that you’re forced to play that sport and your earnings, your prop-erty, your freedom, even your life, might depend on the outcome. Welcome to the world of “Rule without Restraint,” or what is known as judicial activism, as defined by the Conservapedia website:

…when judges substitute their own po-litical opinions for the applicable law, or when judges act like a legislature (legis-lating from the bench) rather than like a traditional court. In so doing, the court takes for itself the powers of the legisla-tive branch, rather than limiting itself to the powers traditionally given to the ju-diciary.

Sound familiar? American citizens are entitled to fair

and even-handed treatment from their courts. All are entitled to assurance that the law means what it says, so that they can make personal or business decisions on a reasonable, predictable, and firm foundation.

So What Is The Standard? How Do We “Judge The Judges?”

Among the key “rules” from the ABA’s Model Code of Judicial Conduct:

RULE 1.1 Compliance with the Law—A judge shall comply with the law, includ-ing the Code of Judicial Conduct.

RULE 2.2 Impartiality and Fairness—A judge shall uphold and apply the law, and shall perform all duties of judicial office fairly and impartially.

COMMENT: [1] To ensure impartiality and fairness to all parties, a judge must

be objective and open-minded. [2] Al-though each judge comes to the bench with a unique background and personal philosophy, a judge must interpret and ap-ply the law without regard to whether the judge approves or disapproves of the law in question. [Emphasis added]

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS (Rule 4.1): [1] Even when subject to public elec-tion, a judge plays a role different from that of a legislator or executive branch of-ficial. Rather than making decisions based upon the expressed views or preferences of the electorate, a judge makes decisions based upon the law and the facts of every case. [Emphasis added]

It is clear that the four justices who are up for retention on the Colorado Supreme Court fall short of meeting these impor-tant standards. This November, render your verdict: hold these unjust justices ac-countable for their judicial activism and their lack of judicial restraint. Vote “NO” – do not retain Justices Michael Bender, Alex Martinez, Nancy Rice, and Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey on the Colorado Supreme Court.

Matt Arnold is the executive director and primary spokesman for the grassroots effort to restore accountability to Colorado’s ju-diciary, Clear The Bench Colorado. Matt launched the effort following the Colorado Supreme Court’s violations of the Colorado Constitution, citizens’ rights under TA-BOR, and their duty to uphold the rule of law in the infamous “Mill Levy Tax Freeze” case. Since April 2009, Matt has sought to educate Colorado voters of their right to demand accountability of Supreme Court justices in the upcoming November 2010 retention elections.

Republican candidate for U. S. Senate, Jane Norton, has garnered the endorse-ment of The Susan B. An-thony Fund, an organiza-

tion whose mission is to “Advance pro-life women in the political process.”

Norton’s leading Republican opponent, Ken Buck, has received the endorsement of Eagle Forum, a leading pro-family or-ganization which, in contrast to Susan B. Anthony, strongly opposes feminism in their mission statement. “To be endorsed by Susan B Anthony you need to be a pro-life woman, or a pro-life man running against a pro-choice woman,” said Mal-lory Quigley, press secretary for the An-thony Fund.

Phyllis Schlafly, president and founder of Eagle Forum, said any candidate en-dorsed by Eagle Forum needs to be 100% pro-life.

Norton’s pro-life statement on her web-site states, “I am pro-life and believe abor-tion should be outlawed except in cases of rape, incest, or the life of the mother. I opposed all federal funding of abortion.”

Buck’s view on the issue, as stated on his website, takes a firm conservative stand,

Erika Chaves, Guest Writer

Feminism vs. ConservatismPro-Life Endorsements

“I believe life begins at conception. I op-pose abortion except to protect the life of the mother. Congress should not support federal funding of abortion or embryonic stem cell research or organizations that promote either.”

When asked how candidates with simi-lar pro-life views are chosen for endorse-ment by SBA, Quigley said, a pro-life woman would be chosen for the purpose of the political advancement of women over a pro-life man.

The Eagle Forum, which selects candi-dates to be endorsed based on questions ranging from life and government spend-ing, to healthcare and the Constitution, has chosen Ken Buck because of his strong conservative principles and his 100% pro-life stance.

The question facing Colorado voters is whether qualification for office should be based on gender, or if voters should set gender aside and look in depth at a candi-date’s beliefs and principles on the issues.

Erika Chaves is a Colorado native and a young conservative with a passion for truth and a commitment to defend it in the public arena.

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Everyone who cares about America is aware what we face as a nation. The majority in Congress has consistently attacked

our pocketbooks, healthcare, military, families, Constitution, and faith. I do not believe they have left a single stone of conservative principles and values unturned. And yet there is an even greater threat lurking on the horizon. It has been there for some time. The threat of its advancement is stronger than ever before due to the current president and the majority in Congress. I am referring to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

If the CRC is ever rati-fied, America as we now know it will no longer exist. Under the Consti-tution, treaties are part of the “supreme law of the land” overriding ev-erything but the express language of the U.S. Con-stitution and its amend-ments. A treaty cannot override a con-stitutional right as long as that right is explicitly protected in the Constitution. The key words are “explicitly protected.” You may be surprised to find out what is not explicitly protected.

In the Supreme Court decision of “Troxel v. Granville” (2000) only four of the nine Supreme Court justices expressly agreed that the Constitution “protects the fundamental right of parents to make de-cisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children.” Two of the six justices who voted in favor of the family in this case left us with an uncertain founda-tion. Neither justice recognized parental rights as a fundamental right. In order for the Supreme Court’s decision in a case to govern other courts, a majority of judges must agree on the same opinion. Only four out of nine judges on the court voted for the same opinion. Many lower courts have used “Troxel” to undermine paren-tal rights, claiming that since the Supreme Court cannot agree, the lower courts are free to decide a case however they wish.

I am convinced that the vast majority of Americans believe that their right to determine the care, custody, and control of their children is a fundamental right. Since this fundamental right is not ex-plicitly protected in the Constitution, i.e. Bill of Rights – it would not be a protected right if the CRC were ever ratified.

How devastating would it be? Remem-ber that if the fundamental right is not ex-pressly protected in the U.S. Constitution, it would be governed by the CRC. Even state

constitutions would fall prey to the CRC. Parents would lose the ability to make deci-sions for their children. At the very best, the government will have constant grounds to challenge everyday decisions parents make even in the privacy of their own homes. At the worst, the state will have the power to override the decisions of parents. Many courts are already ruling on Customary In-ternational Law (CIL). This is imposing the CRC upon us even though it is not ratified.

Some ramifications of the CRC include prohibition of corporal punishment, ex-pansive government oversight of home schooling, exhaustive collection of private information, a child’s right to make auton-omous decisions as in choosing their own

school, church, family rules, etc, and removal of children from the home.

There is an effort un-derway to prevent this usurpation of parental rights. Since fundamen-tal parental rights are not explicitly protected in the U.S. Constitution,

we need to make them so. Only a consti-tutional amendment can ensure that pa-rental rights will be honored in the United States, and protect these rights from the threat of international law. ParentalRights.org was formed for this very purpose. Legislation has been introduced in both Houses of Congress. HJR 42 sponsored by Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) and SJR 16 sponsored by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) constitute our proposed Parental Rights Amendment (PRA). There are currently 136 cosponsors in the House and 7 in the Senate. Passing an amendment takes sup-porters at every level of government – in Congress, in committees, and in the states. Every American can make a difference by becoming involved.

Go to www.ParentalRights.org and read the proposed amendment. Sign the peti-tion which will inform your Congressman of the large number of citizen cosponsors in their districts and in the nation at large. There are many links to pertinent infor-mation including the entire text of the CRC. Sign up for email updates to keep you informed on this vital issue. Parental-Rights.org needs members.

As Uncle Sam would say, “We need YOU!” Help us help you by informing as many people as you can about the CRC and ParentalRights.org. This is the fight of our lifetime and failure is simply not an option.

Treon Goossen is a Home Education Leg-islative Analyst/Liaison. She is actively in-volved in fighting the United Nation CRC.

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Senate Financial ReformA Bad Idea Made Worse

Ryan Witt of the Politi-cal Buzz Examiner notes that the 1,400-page Senate financial reform bill is “a mixed bag of compromis-

es.” “Liberals” want lots more government intervention in the economy while “con-servatives” would rather have not quite so much. The idea of gutting existing institu-tions like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Reserve System wasn’t even on the table for discussion.

Most careful examiners of the causes of the current great recession (Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, Tom Woods, and others) conclude that it took a combination of political pres-sure, tight relationships between big banks and the US Treasury, and low interest rates provided by the Fed to set up the real estate bubble that burst in September of 2008.

To save American citizens from future bubbles, just what hath the Senate wrought?

The federal gov-ernment can “break down large corpora-tions that get into trouble,” as Witt nicely summarizes it. Exactly what “break down” means is something called “orderly liquidation.” With this extra-legal power, the government can determine just how large is too large, can define what kind of “trouble” deserves its intervention, install new management (government bureau-crats who no doubt know better how to run things), and then liquidate the company.

The Department of the Treasury, of course, would be “authorized to loan mon-ey in order to accomplish this.” But this is not a bailout. Politifact claims that such loans would be different from a bailout in that “the funds could only be used to dis-solve the corporation, not to keep it alive indefinitely.” Of course, those taxpayer dol-lars, not called bailouts, would be used to pay off the parties to the crime during liqui-dation. This neatly circumvents a bankrupt-cy court from getting involved and blowing the whistle on such payoffs.

Another consumer protection agency is created on the federal level because, accord-ing to Witt, “most consumer protections are on the state level,” and the Senate wouldn’t want the states getting involved in some-thing as serious as bad judgment by a big bank with close ties to the US government. This agency “would be set up to prevent fraud and deceptive trade practice by mort-gage brokers (remember them?) and credit card companies. At issue in the Senate is just how much (not whether) power should be given to this agency. Democrats, accord-ing to Witt, “want to have broad powers

and be separate from (that nasty) Federal Reserve [while] Republicans prefer a more limited agency that is under the [control of the friendly] Federal Reserve.”

A Financial Oversight Council would be set up “to oversee large financial institu-tions.” It’s not clear how large is too large, but once that wire has been tripped, this agency could force companies to “maintain a certain amount of capital in order to bal-ance out risks [that] they are taking in other places.” In addition, the board could force a company “to sell off some of its more risky holdings.” In other words, the board would have the power to “time the market” and oversee and if necessary overrule the deci-sions the real managers of the company are making.

Derivatives are those nasty unintelligible, highly-sophisticated investment packages that were OK to sell until they went bad. Witt notes that the reform bill would not

outlaw derivatives, “but instead attempt to regulate them.” By creating an “open market” for trading, such regulators would be able to see, if not

understand, what’s going on in plenty of time to intervene and prevent the next cri-sis from developing. Nothing is said in the bill about the rating agencies who led inves-tors down the AAA-rated garden path, but these new rules will supposedly allow them to “monitor the risks financial institutions are taking on…” Witt concludes that “the basic idea is to increase transparency which will hopefully [emphasis added] keep the firms from taking on too much risk.”

Audit the Fed? In a hat-tip, wink and a nod to Rep. Ron Paul’s House bill, support-ed by 320 members, to audit the Fed, Rep. Bernie Sanders, the self-described “demo-cratic socialist” from Vermont, crafted a compromise that eviscerated the House bill, and put in place instead a “onetime re-lease of data on [what the Fed did] during the crisis.” This is being called a “disclosure” rather than an audit. In a recent video, Paul said, “I had expected Bernie Sanders to of-fer…the Audit the Fed bill…[but] at the last minute he switched it and watered it down.”

So much for efforts of the government to solve the problems the government created. The Senate Financial Reform bill is one more unconstitutional example of a bad idea made worse.

Bob Adelmann writes for The New Ameri-can magazine on economics, history and politics, and speaks to groups inter-ested in these topics. His email address is: [email protected].

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Free Markets: Eye on EntitlementsBattle Against Obamacare Mirrors Ancient History

JM Peterson, Contributing WriterIt was a time of fear. Free-dom was threatened by a tyrant on a rampage, who would stop at nothing to rule the known world.

Those who had been fighting amongst themselves realized a threat to their liberty. They sought out those they hated the most, hardened men who would take a stand and stop at nothing to secure their own liberty, and everyone else’s as well. Many of their neighbors allowed the tyrant to take their property and liberty. The soldiers, however, refused all bribery and sent a stern message to the tyrant that such trickery would not be tolerated. These soldiers readied themselves for the coming battle.

As intelligence came in they were told of how large the tyrant’s armies were. How the enemy army consumed everyone and every-thing in its path, torch-ing villages and enslav-ing innocent people who wanted nothing more than to be left alone. The invading army was huge, but its size belied a fatal weakness. Most of the enemy soldiers had been bought and were fight-ing only as long as their money was guaranteed. Those who had not been bought were little more than slaves that were forced to fight.

Due to societal traditions, the defensive army could not meet the enemy in full force because those in charge wished for the gods’ approval. The soldiers realized that the en-emy would not wait, and were forced to fight. A small force banded together with their allies willing to march in this suicide mission. They soberly chose to meet their enemy head-on, in an effort to delay the inevitable. They realized they were greatly outnumbered, but if they could slow the ty-rant’s advance long enough, they might be able to rally their troops left at home.

This choice meant every soldier was killed after three days of incomprehensibly vis-cous fighting. The soldiers lost, but inflicted enough damage upon the enemy that it was weakened. A year later, the contemporaries of those courageous soldiers met the enemy once more, and this time with a much larger army. They repelled the tyrant from their homeland, and eventually rebuilt their towns and regained their liberty. However, they had to remain eternally vigilant for future inva-sions, and brave soldiers had to constantly be available in order to deter those who would try to wrest liberty from their land.

This is a true story, accounts of which can be found in history books. However, before

I reveal the names, consider the following. Obamacare is a dire threat to our current liberties. It was created by corrupt leaders who used bribery and mysterious back-room deals to acquire the votes they needed to pass the bill. We are still uncovering what this bill entails.

Though the bill passed, we must con-gratulate ourselves. First, in a rare show of true solidarity, not one Republican voted for this version of the bill. They stood to-gether for their beliefs, despite the bicker-ing over more trivial issues. Second, some Democrats chose to stand for liberty over oppression and joined the Republicans. These heroes realized that they would not likely win in the face of overwhelming—albeit, purchased—congressional support for the bill. However, they realized that the majority of Americans had made their dis-

approval known. This show of solidarity and the millions of voices that spoke out against the bill could not stop the political machine. However, it was delayed. This is a crucial piece of information that must not be overlooked. If the bill had passed last August, more damage

would have occurred. It is even possible that people may have grown accustomed to it. However, by delaying the bill this long, we are now well into a crucial midterm election year. We who were involved have given our-selves the time to rally our supporters and to prepare ourselves for these elections.

The battles mentioned earlier were the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C. and the Battle of Plataea, 479 B.C., both part of the Greco-Persian Wars of the 5th century B.C. The Persian Empire, headed by Xerxes, had chosen to invade Greece. The 300 Spartans, some of the most well-trained, effective, and feared warriors of all time, engaged in an inspirational last stand to buy time for the Greeks to prepare themselves. This led to the Battle of Plataea, which drove the Per-sians permanently out of Greece.

For a day, all of our elected Republicans and some Democrats became Spartans, fighting for those of us who could not be there. Let us hope they remain as willing to stand for us and as deserving of such a title in these times when we need them the most.

JM Peterson is currently studying psychol-ogy and military history in college and hopes one day to become a clinical psychologist specializing in working with veterans and their families.

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Free Markets: Eye on EntitlementsObamaCare’s Patient Dumping SchemeHelen Sabin, Contributing WriterSeniors who depend on Medicare for their health care needs are in for a rude awaken-ing. With ObamaCare stealing its funding from Medicare to pay for the millions of new patients coming on board for medi-cal care, there simply isn’t enough money to provide quality coverage for everyone. Seniors, often considered expendable in the health care world, are at risk of being dumped.

Lies about health care abound in the Obama household. One huge lie, called ObamaCare, is based on the Urban Health Initiative, 2007 program by the University of Chicago Medical Center. The initiative was devised by Da-vid Axelrod, President Obama’s current senior advisor, and First Lady Michelle Obama, who at the time was vice president for the Uni-versity of Chicago Medical Center. It has, as its core, a patient dumping scheme.

The Chicago project was a plan to drive away indigent and uninsured patients from the hospital so it wouldn’t suffer a loss of profitability treating them. ObamaCare is set up the same way. Seniors, low income persons and the poor will be “dumped” into clinics or medical facilities equivalent to the Urban Health Initiative centers, de-scribed by the doctors working at them as something out of a Third World country.

There simply will not be money for quality healthcare for seniors and others, as Congress has already siphoned off $500 billion to pay for ObamaCare, and will

continue to divert money to pay for other programs they want to get passed before the November 2010 elections.

Quality health care in the United States, according to Washington Post op-ed writ-er Charles Krauthammer, is fictional for these fragile income groups. “The nation is now $8 trillion in debt. The Congres-sional Budget Office projects that another $12 trillion will be added over the next decade. Obamacare, when stripped of its budgetary gimmicks -- the unfunded $200 billion-plus doctor fix, the double counting of Medicare cuts, the 10-6 sleight of hand which counts 10 years of revenue

and only six years of outflows -- is at mini-mum a $2 trillion new entitlement,” Kraut-hammer states. The question is, who pays for the entitlements?

The answer is Medicare funds and new taxes. ObamaCare was built on a house of cards funding structure that is poised to implode. Too many are dependent on the government while not enough taxes are coming in to balance the ratio.

Hidden behind the false façade of Obam-aCare as presented by the President and Congress are the same side effects suffered by the Urban Health Initiative: high costs, debt, poor health care, long lines, rationing and unequal access to medical personnel.

Bruce Schobel, a health care expert and president-elect of the American Acad-emy of Actuaries, states, “It’s no stretch to imagine sick seniors being turned away at

the doctor’s door in the future. No cash, no service. Be sick somewhere else!” Scho-bel adds, “Rather than strip billions from Medicare, if the Obama administration and Congress doesn’t fix it immediately, the retirees by the millions coming up starting this year will have to buy their own private health coverage or promise to pay their doctors themselves.” Those who can’t pay outside what Medicare might cover will be sent elsewhere, but at this point no one knows where. Many doctors are closing their practices or are not taking Medicare patients. This includes the Mayo Clinic’s Outreach Clinic.

The enticing myth of quality health care for all is just that - a myth. So is the claim made by the President proclaiming that ObamaCare is a “victory for common sense.” The “common sense” part of his statement is easy to figure out. Dump se-niors and the poor to protect the bottom line. Save the money for those who are productive (pay taxes). The “victory” is for

Congress who desires, as Vice President Joe Biden explains, to “spread the wealth around.” His statement is echoed by other top ranking Democrats. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, head of the Senate Health Committee, has said, “Health reform is ‘an income shift. It is a shift, a leveling, to help lower income, middle income Americans.” Howard Dean, former governor of Ver-mont and DNC chairman, declared “The question is, in a democracy, what is the right balance between those at the top…and those at the bottom? This [health care bill] is a form of redistribution.”

For President Obama and his compli-ant Congress who will control the purse strings, the juicy funds just sitting in the Medicare pot are as much of a tempta-tion to use to control Americans and their health care as the money from insurance companies was an incentive for Michelle to dump patients. Mischief is alive and well in the Obama household, and so are the lies.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

—Winston Churchill

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Surely by now, everyone has heard of global warm-ing, environmentalism, carbon and life-saving hybrids. What might not

be common knowledge however, are the accompanying taxes, unchecked govern-ment power and manipulation of the capitalist system. Open up wide because with Cap and Trade, you’re about to get a forced dose of being green.

What do we know about past climate change? We do know that it has been both much warmer and much colder in the past than it is now. At one time a good portion of the earth was covered in ice. Where did it go? The ice ages required a lot of heat to make the massive glaciers disappear. We do know that prior to the last ice age (referred to as the ‘mini ice age’) Green-land, now a frozen wasteland, supported a flourishing population of Vikings. The

Brian Beck, Contributing Writer

Green Paradise or Green Hell?English had a wine industry that was so successful that the French banned impor-tation of English wine. This came to an abrupt end almost 800 years ago. We can clear-ly see that climate does change with or without human involvement.

Where the religion of environmentalism came from can be debated, but what it did create was a fertile ground for failed communists and progressives to seize an opportunity to under-mine the capitalist sys-tem and exert their power and control. Who is against having a clean earth and a blissful climate? The ignorant and fact-resisting ideologues are giving power to those tyrants with their faith in a well-

Cap and Trade: The Death Knell of FreedomChuck Graybill, Contributing Writer

We must inundate Washington Sena-tors and stop Cap and Trade or Climate Change legislation before it becomes the death knell of freedom in America. First the banks, then insurance and car com-panies, then Obamacare and proposed heightened regulation of Wall Street are meant to facilitate global takeover and control of all financial markets. All done for the good of America. Obama lied and freedom died!

Now, Obama faithful, shadow Czars and confidants are working feverishly to quash free speech on the Internet; to con-vince us to put our IRA and 401K savings into government hands by purchasing bonds and government securities, enabling public control of our private funds; and to gain total and complete control of en-ergy exploration, pro-duction and refinement for consumption.

In my recently pub-lished book Cannibals of Capitalism, De-vouring Our Rights, Futures and Freedoms (see review, page XX), I try to convince all of you in much greater detail to put down your video games, your fantasy league sports games and all other means of rec-reation that we have been convinced as a society are critical to our very existence. Instead, pick up the Constitution, the Fed-eralist Papers and any other documents from our Founding Fathers and compare their vision for this country versus that of Obama, union leaders and the majority in Congress.

This administration has a propaganda machine unparalleled in American his-tory. It is trying to stifle and control free speech. It is trying to cripple the TEA (Tyranny Ends, America) Party move-

ment by seizing control of the messages and content of the internet, the lifeblood of this amazingly powerful and success-ful populist uprising. The administration and its extremely progressive financiers are trying to collapse our economy, with climate control or energy legislation that is not only unnecessary but economically unsustainable in that it will not only bank-rupt families, but our government as well.

It is no longer a secret but SHHH, I will whisper it anyway, THE WORLD IS OUT

OF MONEY. ALL MAJOR GOVERN-MENTS ARE RUN-NING ON CREDIT BECAUSE ALL HAVE MADE PROMISES TO CITIZENS THAT THEY CANNOT DELIVER. Greece, Italy, Spain, England, Iceland, Ireland, Por-tugal and Europe’s bank, Germany, are all teetering on that infamous brink from which Obama con-stantly claims to have

saved us. And, we in the USA are right there beside them.

Our government lies to us every time it issues jobs data, economic indicators and overly optimistic sales data rhetoric. How can they expect us to believe that consum-er spending is up when they tell us that income levels are down and so is credit card debt, hm? We are making less and using our credit cards less but are spend-ing more? That must mean we are dipping heavily into our savings and that is not a good thing if it is true.

Based on the methods used to calculate economic and jobs data before they be-came totally politicized and largely worth-less guesses, inflation has been averaging about 10% for the last several years. We are still in a recession heading toward a worse

intentioned movement that has morphed into a political crime.

We have been led to believe since the early 1970s that the earth is falling apart and that it is man’s fault. Decades of news, movies, and left-wing activism has produced a brain-washed culture which believes that control over the earth rests solely with the power of man. Recently exposed corruption in the politically-minded scientists cast dark

shadows on the credibility of their work. Thirty years ago, we were facing an ice age and now all of a sudden the earth has been warming over the last 15 years. Now, yet again, it is cooling. We really need them

to pick a climate change story and stick with it.

Enter Cap and Trade, the bill currently in Congress. It is sure to get your atten-tion if the health care debacle didn’t wake you up. Soon, if it is not stopped, you will be taxed on everything from BBQ grill emissions and refuse, to air condition-ing and cattle “emissions.” Say goodbye to the American standard of living, because soon it will be taxed in the name of bad science for the sake of a massive political power play.

Change is indeed coming, but there might be more political change than cli-mate change unless the American public doesn’t wake up quickly. Contact your Representatives and urge them to aban-don this crime that is about to be perpe-trated upon the American people.

Brian Beck is a local small businessman and Air Force veteran concerned with in-trusive government.

downturn (i.e., GDP is not growing) and unemployment is really about 22%. Can you buy the same groceries today for $100 that you could four years ago?

Another myth dispelled—the govern-ment cannot create jobs. So, quit asking it to and worse, expecting it to do anything except go deeper into debt. Every dollar given to any level of government in the form of taxes, fees, tariffs, duties or any other form of government extortion, is a dollar stolen from the private sector and stepping stone to another job lost. Every one of those stolen dollars leaves the pro-ductive private sector and enters the to-tally unproductive public sector.

We must put government at all levels on an immediate diet and de-fund them to shrink them back to their originally designed size and function. Our Found-ing Fathers warned us as best they could and gave us the tools to control our own destinies. Please do not let their efforts be wasted. All of us must quit recreating our rights, futures and freedoms down the drains of America and get involved to stop their tyranny immediately! It will take all of us to stop these cannibals of capitalism!

Chuck Graybill is owner of Maggie Mae’s restaurant, former financial executive with BP and author of Cannibals of Capitalism.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

—Samuel Adams, 1776

Decades of news, movies, and left-wing activism has produced a brain-washed culture which believes that control over the earth rests solely with the power of man.

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If You Can’t Be Good, Be LuckyA Strategy That Can Only Protect America for So Long!

Think about the politi-cal spectacle in the first few hours after the failed Times Square bombing. The mindless spin left me

tempted to dust off my April article (p31) on the incompetence of this administra-tion’s terrorism policy. With minor updat-ing, I could slap on a June date and submit it. Thankfully, I don’t need to update the body count of innocent Americans killed here since April.

I admire the dedi-cation of the many working-level investiga-tors, law enforcement officers, etcetera, who reacted professionally and kept a potential mass murderer from escaping. If only our key national leaders had such dedication to keeping us safe from terrorists who work daily toward a goal of killing as many Americans as possible.

Beginning on “Day 1” this administration and its apologists reacted politically to the threat of death and destruction on our soil. Focused more on limiting damage to the president’s reputation due to his irrespon-sible policy on terrorism, they struggled desperately to accuse villains among the president’s political enemies.

Who made the most foolish comments? New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg excelled among some stiff competition. In his list of the liberals’ usual suspects, he mused about a lone wolf being “homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something.” Somehow the mayor of Target Number One couldn’t pic-ture a radical Islamic terrorist with funding from overseas terrorist organizations being a significant suspect. Citizens of New York City need better leadership.

Contessa Brewer of MSNBC earned a close second. She bemoaned how truth once again dashed liberal hopes of pinning the attempted bombing on an enemy of the Obama administration instead of on an en-emy of America. “There was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be any-body with ties to any kind of Islamic coun-try.” With anti-American talent like her on MSNBC, it’s no wonder that network isn’t in the same league with FOX.

Lack of originality left Secretary Na-politano among the also-rans. Her initial suspicions that the perpetrator was acting alone was her standard response. Think Fort Hood and the Christmas Day Bomber. America needs a more competent Secretary of Homeland Defense.

Senator Schumer (D-NY) was his pre-dictable self, rushing before CNN cameras

in Times Square the following day. He con-cluded that the “Odds are quite high that this is a lone wolf,” and also that the bomber was not connected to a terrorist organization. That conclusion on Day 1 wasn’t unreason-able since he based it on the fact that our intelligence services hadn’t picked up chat-ter about such an attack coming. My main question for Schumer is whether or not he now accepts that people he represents can be murdered by a representative of Islamic terrorist organizations without us picking

up communications di-recting such attacks.

Speaker Pelosi did join in a few days later after the liberals were obvi-ously stung by accusa-

tions that the Obama anti-terrorism poli-cies are overly dependent on being lucky. Her insightful contribution to this discus-sion of the real dangers facing America? “The harder we work, the luckier we get.” I wonder if when luck finally runs out for 300 Americans on an airliner, or a few hundred Americans on the streets of New York City, or tens of thousands of American victims of an Islamic terrorist weapon of mass destruc-tion, will Speaker Pelosi have the wisdom or the honesty to admit that this adminis-tration didn’t work hard enough to protect us? More predictably, she will conclude the deaths were Bush’s fault.

Such insights by our liberal leaders would make the writers for Saturday Night Live en-vious—if they weren’t liberals, too. All that’s missing is Claude Raines’s Captain Renault character from the movie, Casablanca, de-claring, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that radical Islamic terrorism is going on here in New York City.”

We’re witnessing a deadly competition between incompetents. On one side are low-level militants who can’t quite seem to get it right over these last few months. Against them are incompetents at the highest level of our current government who obviously have risen beyond their level of incompe-tence when it comes to keeping America safe from terrorism.

So far, this administration seems to be benefiting from the old adage, “If you can’t be good, be lucky.” Unfortunately, luck didn’t save our men and women murdered at Fort Hood by an Islamic radical who ben-efited from the unjustified protection of Po-litical Correctness supported by American radicals.

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Julie AyersManaging EditorMax Borysko became a hero at a young age by helping his family sur-vive in post-war Germany

and continued his heroism years later as a company commander in Vietnam. After World War II, the Reichs Mark was ren-dered worthless, so many Germans were forced to barter coffee, cigarettes and sil-ver coins for food and necessities. When he was just seven years old Borysko and his sister “found” a carton of cigarettes in the British sector of north Germany. “Our family lived on those cigarettes for a year. It’s important to have materials on hand that you can trade during tough times,” Borysko advised. “If our economy col-lapses money will be worthless, people will need things to barter.”

After years of struggling to survive the post war era, Max’s family immigrated to the U.S. in 1956. One year later the 18-year-old Borysko joined the U.S. Army. “I was proud to be accepted and wanted to contribute and serve my new country. I was proud to be a soldier.”

In 1970, Borysko was given command of B Company, 1/61, a mechanized in-fantry unit in Vietnam, then a second unit later. In 1971 he became the CO of B Troop, 1/1 Cavalry, taking parting in the biggest battle since the Tet Offensive—Lamsan 719. “I was honored to be given the responsibility to command hundreds of soldiers and selected to command unit after unit successfully,” he said. “For me, Vietnam was the height of my military

career, to apply my training and what I’d learned to defend the U.S. and its prin-ciples.”

Borysko was a successful commander because of his heroic acts. He earned the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Silver Star—the equivalent of our Silver Star—when he led his company against an over-whelming North Vietnamese infantry unit, killing hundreds of enemy troops with no loss to his own.

He also received the Bronze Star for Valor for putting a group of enemy sol-diers down in hand to hand combat, and defending wounded U.S. soldiers of an-other company from the enemy in a major battle. Later, Borysko received two more Bronze Stars as oak leaf clusters.

The third award he earned was the Army Commendation Medal. “All the of-ficers of that unit were relieved because they had lost 48 soldiers and the rest of the unit refused to take orders,” he explained. “I took command and turned it around. Then they accepted orders and fought like we expect American soldiers to fight. I commanded that unit for three months.”

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Bruce Nozolino, Contributing Writer

Conservative Hopes to Change Perception of Haiti

Firearms Fact Card

Haiti, January 12, 2010 4:53 p.m.: an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude hit 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince leaving roughly three mil-

lion Haitians homeless and in need of medi-cal attention.

Within 48 hours of the disaster, a search and rescue team from an organization based in Florida arrived in Haiti with Eric Miller, R.N. and Ginger Vaughn, M.D. in tow. Mill-er, an officer in the Colorado Air National Guard and a critical care nurse, had visited the nation periodically since 2007 as a mem-ber of several medical teams.

After returning stateside from the rescue mission, Miller and Vaughn felt they could do more to help the recovery efforts in Haiti. Miller wanted to raise money to help provide the medical attention and relief that Haitians desperately need. The pair decided to co-author a book, Hope in Despair, which was released in April. “I am always looking for creative ways to fund a project,” Miller said.

The proceeds from Hope in Despair go to non-profits that work primarily in Haiti, but Miller said, they might find organizations in other parts of the world to help in the future. “None of the money goes into our pockets,” he said.

Haiti is a country that has been wracked by hardships such as political violence, hur-ricanes and the recent earthquake. Many people view the nation as dangerous, but Miller and Vaughn have a different view af-ter giving medical aid to the country for the last few years.

Hope in Despair is a collection of poetry and photographs from the medical trips Vaughn and Miller have made to Haiti

You just never know when you might need a pocket-sized version of the U.S. Constitution. I keep mine in the shirt or jacket

pocket closest to my heart. I also augment my pocket Constitution on a yearly basis with another handy wallet card called the “NRA-ILA Firearms Fact Card.” I upgrad-ed to the 2010 version in the last month.

The “Firearms Fact Card” is printed on heavyweight paper and folds up to about the size of a credit card so that you can tuck it into your wallet (or pocket Con-stitution). While I’ve been able to recite the Second Amendment from memory for more than 20 years, I often find myself re-ferring to this card for almost all other fire-arms facts. I regularly encounter folks who want to cite outdated (or just plain wrong) information concern-ing the Second Amendment. When I try to correct them, they usually insist that I provide my sources. That’s when I reach into my pocket for the card.

Need a good Second Amendment quote? Just refer to your card, which lists Patrick Henry’s observation that, “The great object is that every man be armed.” Or, there’s this from Thomas Paine: “[A]rms…discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe.”

If someone suggests to you that the number of firearms in the United States is declining, awe them with these statistics from your 2010 “Firearms Fact Card”:

• The percentage of American households that have guns is between 40% and 45%.

• The number of gun owners in the United States is between 70 to 80 million; 40 to 45 million own handguns.

• The number of privately owned firearms in the U.S. is almost 300 million, includ-ing nearly 100 million handguns. This number grows by 4 million annually.

Wondering when else you might be in need of a “Firearms Fact Card?” Well, let’s say you are at a Tea Party and a heckler shouts that we need more gun control. Whip out your card and throw this fact their way: “Studies by or for Congress, the Department of Justice, the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention have found no evidence that ‘gun control’ reduces crime, suicides or acci-dents in the U.S. or abroad.”

through the years. Their goal is to change the negative perceptions many people hold about the country. “We want to educate peo-ple about pre-earthquake Haiti,” Miller said.

Miller, a strong conservative, sees the book as an entrepreneur’s solution to hu-manitarian aid. He said there is a perception that many conservatives only care about their hard-earned money and are callous to-ward humanitarian issues. Conservatives do not want government to provide the aid, but sometimes they do not offer alternative solu-tions. “As conservatives we have to start put-ting together solutions from a private sector standpoint,” Miller said.

Miller would like to see a concerted effort in this area, not only to stem the perception, but to help good causes as well. “I think we have an obligation to humanity, as people, to help each other,” Miller said. “We are our brother’s keeper.”

The funds from the books sales are chan-neled through Miller’s own organization, The Rush Miller Foundation. Ninety percent of the funds go to various organizations work-ing in Haiti, with 10 percent staying with RMF to help fund their own aid projects.

Miller established the Rush Miller founda-tion in 2001 after a malignant brain tumor left his son Garrett visually impaired at five years old. Today, the foundation focuses on gifting tandem bicycles to families with blind children. It has an aggressive plan to pur-chase two tandems for every school for the blind in the country. The cost of the program will be roughly $100,000, Miller said.

To learn more about the book visit www.HopeInDespair.com. To find out more about the Rush Miller Foundation visit www.RushMillerFoundation.org.

Or, what about the person who states that the NRA only cares about member-ship and not gun safety. Refer to your card and tell them that the “NRA’s 63,000 Cer-tified Instructors and 11,000 Law Enforce-ment Firearms Instructors reach over 800,000 people annually. NRA’s Eddie Eagle GunSafe® Program has been used by more than 26,000 schools, law enforce-ment agencies, and civic groups to reach more than 23 million children since 1988. The accidental gun death rate has declined 94% since 1904.”

There is a lot more information packed into this handy card. To get a copy in the easy-to-fold-up format, show up at the next monthly Pikes Peak Firearms

Coalition meeting, where they will be dis-tributed free of charge. The meeting details are at ppfc.org. Alterna-tively, go to the NRA-ILA’s factsheet page at www.nraila.org/issues/

FactSheets. There you will find the 2010 “Firearms Fact Card” as well as many other fact sheets that address issues such as the right to carry, firearms in nation-al parks, gun show regulations, etc. Be warned that these sheets print onto 8.5 x 11 inch paper.

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Socialism succeeded, for a time, in the Soviet Union. It was spread after World War II by the Red Army as they advanced across

Eastern Europe. The people under its domination persevered by understand-ing the system and adapting in ingenious ways. God forbid we should actually need them in the USA, but if we do, here are some interesting terms from that period. They were common knowledge at one time.

Agitprop: a blend of Russian “agitation” and “propaganda,” originated in the 1930s from a shortened form of the Department for Agitation and Propaganda, which was part of the central and regional com-mittees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The department was later renamed Ideological Department Politi-cal (originally communist) propaganda, especially in art and literature.

The Soviets believed that art and literature should serve the state, much like National En-dowment for the Arts leader Yosi Sergant and White House Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Buffy Wicks attempted to do late last summer. Since then, we’ve seen the entire admin-istration organizing for healthcare and Hollywood is encouraged to weave health care themes into their regular TV series. Remember the CSI NY episode where a cancer patient was denied treatment and he went on a killing spree?

Apparatchik: name given the Commu-nist Party machine in the former Soviet Union; an apparatchiki was a member of that party.

Members of Organizing for Obama, Moveon.org, and the DNC could be re-ferred to as apparatchiki.

Nomenklatura: from the Latin nomen-clatura meaning a list of names. In the former Soviet Union, a list of influential posts in government and industry that were filled by Communist Party appoin-tees; collectively the holders of these posts were the Soviet élite.

Nominally the party was separate from the state, as it has been in the USA. In fact, the party controlled all the important

Alfred C. Maurer, Featured Writer

Soviet Terms May Prove Useful Today

posts, as the Democratic Party is doing today. Where these positions are part of the civil service, “czars” are being appoint-ed in the White House to set policy and thereby direction. In industry, the CEO of Government (General) Motors has been appointed by the White House.

Samizdat: short for “publishing house,” hence “self published.” In the former So-viet Union, the system by which govern-ment-suppressed literature was clandes-tinely written, printed and distributed; the term also is applied to the literature itself.

If one can imagine, works such as Alex-ander Solzhenitsyn’s The First Circle were copied by typewriter and passed around. Eventually some of these works made their way to the West and were published. Works so published were known as tamiz-dat. The internet today makes it pretty much unnecessary to smuggle opposition

materials in this way. Or does it?Useful Idiots: used to describe Soviet sym-pathizers in Western countries and the at-titude of the Soviet government towards them. The implication

was that though the person in question naïvely thought themselves an ally of the Soviets or other Communists, they were actually held in contempt by them, and were being cynically used. The term is of-ten attributed to Lenin but has not been proven to originate with him.

Today the term might accurately be ap-plied to Keith Olbermann and the anchors at MSNBC who, although uniformly white, decry the Tea Party movement as too Caucasian.

The list goes on but these are represen-tative examples. Interestingly, some of these words have come into English usage: samizdat, for example, was in my spell-checking dictionary. I was taught some of these terms in the fifth grade but today, only twenty years after the fall of the Sovi-et Union, they are all but forgotten. Those who forget history may be condemned to repeat it.

Credit goes to Wikipedia for the Russian ety-mology of these words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_ Russian_origin

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Eternal VigilancePolitics and IdeologyWhy America Had No Guillotine

Jacek Popiel, Contributing Writer

The American and French revolutions oc-curred within 14 years of each other. They were driven by similar motives

and had, at least at the beginning, very similar goals. Both were initiated against the rule of an absolutist monarch who claimed a divine right to reign.

Yet they had very different outcomes. The Americans and Brit-ish fought long and hard, but they basically ob-served the rules of war at the time. The civil-ian population suffered relatively little from either adversary. Once the wars were over, there was little serious retri-bution against the loyal-ists who had fought for Britain. Many voluntarily left for Canada while the remainder rallied behind the new government.

By contrast, the French upheaval took on many aspects of a civil war, with re-publican forces carrying out bloody re-prisals and mass executions of civilians. The new government evolved into a police state (the “Terror”) which arrested, tried and executed thousands of innocent citi-zens on the flimsiest (if any) grounds. The administration was centralized, religious institutions outlawed and destroyed, and massive armies were sent against domes-tic and foreign opponents. The revolution eventually morphed into the dictatorship

of Napoleon Bonaparte, which kept Eu-rope at war for the best of two decades.

Once circumstances and national char-acteristics are set aside, one major reason for the difference in outcomes stands out: American revolutionaries were pragmat-ic, the French ruled by ideology.

American Colonial society, even where it was well established, still kept much of its pioneer character. In such circum-

stances, reality and facts constantly intrude, forc-ing reasonable, feasible arrangements and attain-able goals. The Found-ing Fathers knew the difference between the ideal and the possible, and were willing to settle for what they knew they could achieve.

The French revolu-tionary core, by contrast, was primar-ily made up of intellectuals and philos-ophers, seeking to lift society to a new level of harmony and perfection. Living in the midst of a rich, powerful and long established state, they had little notion of what such an effort required and of the human reality involved. The beauty of their design blinded them to the difficul-ty of achieving it. It was practical politics in the United States versus ideology in Europe.

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IDEOLOGY continued from page 36uncertainty or doubt, nor is the frailty of human nature taken into account. To an ideologue, the superiority of his cause is the ultimate justification: he must succeed because he is right. Failure is never attrib-uted to the ideology itself, but to those who refuse to believe. In other words, ideology always needs an enemy, for only malicious disbelief and opposition can explain the lack of suc-cess of an otherwise perfect goal.

The leaders of the American Revolution did not seek a perfect state, but the freedom to live under institu-tions that maximized human potential and restrained human proclivity to evil. This goal was broad and realistic enough to unite them despite their differences. Disputes were expected, and so was their resolution by negotiation and compromise.

What is the lesson of this for us today? To a considerable extent our situation is similar to that of the leaders of the 18th century upheavals. Our government has, in the eyes of many, become corrupt. It has arrogated to itself excessive and, some will say, abusive powers so as to pursue goals for which it was never designed. It is cumbersome, immensely expensive, and largely ineffective. Taxation is heavy, lib-erties are curtailed, and nationally divisive policies are being advocated.

We hear echoes of the Intolerable Acts, or of the oppressive decrees and scandal-ous dissipation of the French monarchy at the end of the 18th century. At the same time our politics have become envenomed by aggressive criticism and personal at-tacks. Accusations fly, motives are vilified,

and “the other side” is painted as the en-emy of the people. The political scene is presented as split between the Right and Left, each personifying evil or good de-pending on the side one is on. In the mid-dle a vast growing mass of citizens wonder what is going on.

This signals that, if unchecked, ideology could triumph over pragmatism, the op-posite of what happened in Revolutionary

times. The Founding Fathers did not deal in absolutes. They sought a reasonable and de-served dose of liberty, but were, at least ini-tially, willing to re-main under the crown provided this request

was granted. Rather than splitting into pro-monarchy and pro-republic factions, they sought to override differences for the sake of what was to become America.

We must take our example from them, and seek broadly acceptable common solutions rather than excoriating the en-emies of the cause. Our Constitution was not designed to exclude, but to unify. It is in that spirit that we must resolve the cur-rent crisis.

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IntroductionTo get some sense of the motivation be-hind the present destruction, i.e., the fun-damental transformation of America cur-rently being carried on by the liberal left leadership in the White House and Con-gress, it is necessary to take a look at the “Cloward-Piven strategy.”

It was conceived by Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven while both were with Columbia University School of So-cial Work. Their work was published in the May 2, 1966 edition of the far-left magazine The Nation, in an article entitled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty.”

The strategy, simply stated, was to over-load the welfare system at the local and state levels, bringing about a crisis that would force federal legislation to end pov-erty nationally. In fact, the authors’ ulti-mate goal was a guaranteed income.

Others have described this as “the strat-egy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis.” By crisis, the authors meant “a publicly vis-ible disruption in some institutional sphere. Crisis can occur spon-taneously (e.g., riots) or as the intended result of tactics of demonstra-tion…”

At the time of the article the Civil Rights Movement was ongoing and many of President Johnson’s Great Society programs had been implemented. Among them was the Community Action Pro-gram (CAP) that supported community-based, anti-poverty programs to help the poor through education and community development. This meant that under the ostensible banner of CAP, there were many full-time community activists fund-ed by government and ready to be orga-nized to implement this strategy.

Indeed, the strategy called for the for-mation of “the basis for a convergence of civil rights organizations, militant anti-poverty groups and the poor” in order to bring about a crisis that “could lead to leg-islation for a guaranteed income and thus the end of poverty.”

Implementation and EffectivenessCloward and Piven determined that there was a vast discrepancy between the num-bers of people already on welfare and those eligible for it. This provided the im-petus for putting their strategy to work to recruit new welfare recipients and thereby overload the welfare system.

Of course, legitimacy for this crisis or-chestration is gained under the cover of a campaign intended to “inform people of their legal rights under a government pro-gram.” But the authors’ real goal was the destruction of capitalism.

They knew they would need an army of community organizers. They wrote that they needed “cadres of organizers … from the civil rights movement and the church-es, from militant low-income organiza-tions like those formed by the Industrial Areas Foundation (that is, by Saul Alin-sky), and from other groups on the Left.”

They enlisted black activist George Wiley to implement their plan nation-ally. Wiley founded the National Welfare Rights Organization, which turned out to be quite effective in growing the welfare rolls across the country.

New York City provides a look at the strategy’s effectiveness. In 1966 there were approximately 600,000 persons on welfare with a budget of about $653.8 million. In April of 1975 there were over 1 million persons on welfare with a budget of over $2.828 billion. By October the city was lit-erally on the brink of bankruptcy.

ConnectionsA few connections among some of those involved in employing this strategy are worthy of mention.

Cloward and Piven found encourage-ment in Saul Alinsky’s methods of com-munity organizing. Alinsky, of course, is the father of community organizing.

The strategy has been employed beyond the welfare system. It has been used by ACORN (Association of Com-munity Organizations for Reform Now) in voter registration drives and more recently in bringing about the mortgage crisis.

ACORN was started by Wade Rathke in Ar-kansas in 1970. Wade

Rathke was mentored by George Wiley. And that gets right back to the Cloward-Piven strategy.

ConclusionThe real goal of those using the Cloward-Piven strategy is to destroy the traditional fabric of the United States of America and its social, financial, and political institu-tions. They want America’s institutions to fail so they can replace them with their own brand of Statism, a system of progres-sive-corporate elitism. They truly believe that a ruling elite can better run the lives of individuals than individuals themselves.

Never before have they been in a better position to do so than they are today. Just consider some of President Obama’s ap-pointments and his many radical-Left as-sociations. Among them are socialists and even self-proclaimed communists. They walk the halls of the government in posi-tions of great influence and power.

They are the enemies of this country’s founding principles. They constitute an enemy within, an enemy so well placed that America is funding its own destruc-tion.

An excellent source for connecting more dots can be found at www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html.

Pat Francomano is a freelance writer liv-ing in Colorado Springs, CO. He is a retired software engineer and holds a masters de-gree in mathematics. He is a CTM Toast-master and focuses on social and political matters as they relate to individual liberty.

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The real goal of those using the Cloward-Piven strategy is to destroy the traditional fabric of the United States of America and its social, financial, and political institutions.

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Demons, Demons Everywhere—Thank You, Rule 13 The fourth in a series on Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

Remember when life in America was sim-pler? Electing a president whose basic training was in “challenging, insulting, agitating, discrediting” changed our way of life and not for the better. To achieve his goal of fundamentally changing America, he starts each new phase of his continu-ing campaign by demonizing his latest opposition. His list includes returning war veterans, patriotic Americans who at-tend Tea Parties, health care professionals, insurance companies, Wall Street, anyone who doesn’t believe in the man-made global warming hoax, talk radio hosts, Repub-lican opposition, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, police officers, various foods, technology, Israel, automobiles, 70% of Ari-zonans who want border security, etc. In the president’s zeal to identify demons, he overlooks radical Islamic terrorists, public sector unions whose greed is bankrupting states, and Alinsky-ite legislators such as Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd, whose banking/housing schemes pro-duced the mortgage meltdown that trig-gered America’s economic collapse.

Such demagoguery is a staple of the Alinsky model.

Rules for Radicals includes a couple of lists. Chapter two, Of Means and Ends, offers 11 rules of the ethics of means and ends. He declares as insignificant the ba-sic question: Does the end justify the means? To Alinsky, the important ques-

tion was: Does this particular end justify this particular means? His rules are high sounding and written as if in a thoughtful discussion. The pre-ordained conclusion, however, is that for Alinsky-ites, their end always justifies the means. Conversely, they’ll never let their opposition make the same argument.

The more revealing set of rules for radi-cals comes in Tactics, the seventh chapter. Alinsky lists 13 rules of Power Tactics. Here we see the battle plan that has un-dercut America and America’s values for

half a century. He focuses on how the “Have-Nots” can take power from the “Haves.” The result is an expanding tyranny of the minority. Once Alinsky took his labor-organiz-

ing tactics nationally from the slums of Chicago, he called for a confederation of many minority special interest groups that radicalized the traditional Democrat party. Thus, minority views on such things as border security, gay rights, separation of church and state, abortion, welfare giveaways, etc., are continually forced on the majority of Americans.

Almost daily, some new outrage links back to these rules. This administration, other hardcore Alinsky-ites, and their enablers keep the consequences of Rule 13 continually in the headlines. Therein lays the key to recognizing why America is overrun with demons—or so we are

told. “The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

Alinsky-ites are vicious and have got-ten away with their shameless tactics for far too long. In their quest for absolute power, they gang up and try to destroy their political opposition. Think about good, honest, Constitution-loving judges who have been targeted by Alinsky-ites in confirmation hearings. In 1987 Senator Edward Kennedy ushered in such uncon-scionable tactics with his opening salvo against Judge Robert Bork.

“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segre-gated lunch coun-ters, rogue police could break down citi-zens’ doors in midnight raids, children could not be taught about evolution.”

Notice the polarization and attempt to isolate an honorable judge from any sup-port of freedom-loving Americans? That Kennedy’s personal attack was untrue mattered not to him, to other Alinsky-ites on the committee, or to their enablers in the media. The end of keeping Bork off the Supreme Court justified the means. The battle for control of our courts is criti-cal for Alinsky-ites who want to change

America through unconstitutional poli-cies and unconstitutional laws.

Remember the polarizing Alinsky-ite tactics used by anti-war protestors in the 1960s? “LBJ, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?” Although President Johnson was a member of the not-yet-radicalized Democrat Party, he was a Texan and not part of the northeastern elite. Alinsky-ites also targeted returning veterans, personal-ized attacks on them as baby killers, and

worked to polar-ize America against those who had given much to support and defend this nation.

We all carry some of the shame and responsibility for allowing Alinsky-ites to demonize so many good, pa-triotic men and

women because their main “sin” was standing up for traditional American val-ues. Understanding Rule 13 reveals why President Bush was attacked day after day, year after year, and still blamed by a fail-ing President. Had we known then what we know now, we should have stood to-gether against the Alinsky-ites and said, “We will not allow your lies to isolate our president.” From today forward, we need to stand together against each new attack that demonizes people who are far less greedy and corrupt than their attackers.

The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

Saul Alinsky

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Honoring Our FathersMost of us have heard and know the names and sto-ries associated with our Founding Fathers: George Washington, Patrick Hen-

ry, Ben Franklin, Samuel Adams, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and John Ad-ams to name a few. All of these men risked their lives and fortunes to birth a nation and help secure the freedom and liberty that we enjoy today.

Recent events driven by a government bent on rewriting history have caused a renewed interest in our Founding Fathers and their impact on our nation and its history. We know their stories quite well, but our founders were not alone in their efforts. There were thousands of patriots who weaved themselves into various facets of the American Revolution. Many fought in battles such as Bunker Hill, Brandy-wine, Camden and Yorktown, spilling their blood and giving their all. They kept trade open with fellow patriots, supplying Washington’s Army; they manned the riv-er ferries; they donated their food supplies and livestock; they risked their lives and their family’s safety in order to gain their freedom from King George’s England and the right to self-government.

In honor of Father’s Day, I’d like to share with you the story of a few patriots who participated in our nation’s founding, but whose contributions never made top bill-ing in our history books. They are the an-cestral fathers of thousands of Americans living today.

Eleazer Callender of Fredericksburg, Virginia, was a merchant and captain of merchant vessels. He was the grandson of Ellis Callender, founder of Boston’s first Baptist church and a native of Bos-ton. He left home and took to the sea to make his own way in life. He eventually settled in Virginia and established a prof-itable coastal trade and mercantile busi-ness. Shortly after the Revolutionary War began, Eleazer was commissioned into the Virginia State Navy. He captained the Defiance and supervised the building of the Dragon. Callender was the captain of both ships at various times during the war. He and his crew plied the waters of the Chesapeake and Virginian coast to fend off British Privateers, protecting trade in the tidewater region of Virginia. After the war he partnered with the clerk of his ship and future son-in-law, David Henderson, building a prosperous busi-ness in Fredericksburg.

George Johnson ran away from home and enlisted in the Revolutionary Army

at Shepherdstown, Virginia at the age of 15, on April 7, 1777. He served as a fifer for three years in the 8th and 11th Vir-ginia Continental Line. Johnson spent his first winter at Valley Forge with Gen. George Washington’s troops. His tunes surely helped lift the troops’ spirits and keep their minds off the harsh conditions they suffered. After his service to our new country, George Johnson settled in Berlin, Pennsylvania in 1782 and started the Ber-lin Fife and Drum Corps. This group, con-sisting of military veteran musicians and local recruits, is still active today and is the oldest such organization in America.

Isham Burks of Wilkes County, Geor-gia, volunteered in 1778 to help protect the frontier settlers from Cherokee and Creek Indian attacks and to fight the British. He moved up the ranks quickly to a unit of mounted Georgia Volunteers. Burks participated in the Battle of Ket-tle Creek on February 14, 1779, which was one of the most important battles of the Revolutionary War in Georgia. The outnumbered Patriots attacked and routed a loyalist camp after three hours of desperate fighting. It was said after the battle that it was the severest check and chastisement the Tories ever received in South Carolina or Georgia. After the war, Isham fathered over a dozen children. His life’s journey ended in McNairy, Ten-nessee.

By sharing these brief glimpses of the history of common everyday patriots, it is my intention to allow the reader to honor and respect their ancestral fathers’ love and commitment to their family and country. Some have made their marks that will live forever in history, and others live only in the minds and hearts of those who knew them. But they all have made an im-pact on our world in one way or another, so that is why we honor them.

This month, as we celebrate Father’s Day, I ask you to not only honor your own father, but to also honor this na-tion’s Founding Fathers and your ances-tral fathers.

David L. Kelly advocates for Liberty, Free-dom, Limited Government and Free Mar-kets. He leads the Liberty on the Rocks, Col-orado Springs Chapter, delivering “Tavern Style Politics in the Tradition of our Found-ing Fathers.” (www.libertyontherocks.org) David is also the co-founder of For What is Right (www.forwhatisright.org) which will be bringing constitutional education oppor-tunities to all in the near future.

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Formula for Freedom= Vision x Virtue x Victory

I hear this question a lot: “How can freedom pos-sibly prevail when the or-ganized and well-funded left is in power?” My an-

swer: The same way it did during our na-tion’s founding. In any circumstance, we can learn best from those who have gone before us. After all, the colonists were up against the strongest, most organized, and best funded army of their time. George Washington led them to freedom using a for-mula with 3 simple el-ements: vision, virtue, and victory.

VISIONWashington had a vision for freedom that was bigger than himself. His long-term and unwavering vision inspired hope, and his followers caught it. Consider this or-der he issued on July 2, 1776:

“The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Ameri-cans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretch-edness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the cour-age of this army.”*

We are those “unborn millions.” Al-though he would never know us, Wash-ington knew we would be heirs to his sac-rifice and effort, whatever the outcome. Today, the vision for freedom must like-

wise be bigger than ourselves. Freedom won’t stand on a single issue or candi-date. Freedom’s supporting principles are a fabric comprised of many interwoven threads, including social, fiscal, and secu-rity issues, to name only a few.

We must catch the whole vision and keep all the threads of freedom’s fabric in-tact. Consistent single issue or candidate focus will eventually unravel the fabric into singular threads, separate and useless

by themselves. Once unraveled, the fabric of freedom exists no more. Washington’s long-term and broader vision held the fabric of freedom intact, as it must for us today.

VIRTUEDoubtless, Washington was a man of vir-tue. Without it, neither his vision nor vic-tory was attainable. His virtue was rooted in the then commonly held presupposi-tion of a Judeo-Christian worldview, and of this Washington was unashamed. His words consistently reflected his virtue in his speech, writings, and prayers. He veri-fiably knew that without God, the nation he envisioned would never be born or sus-tained. On March 11, 1792, he wrote this to John Armstrong:

“I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested

during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.”*

Washington’s private prayer on the Hudson River, from June 1779, reads:

“And now, Almighty Father, if it is Thy holy will that we shall obtain a place and name among the nations of the earth, grant that we may be enabled to show our gratitude for Thy goodness by our endeavors to fear and obey Thee. Bless us with Thy wisdom in our counsels, success in battle, and let all our victories be tem-pered with humanity. Endow, also, our enemies with enlightened minds, that they become sensible of their injustice, and willing to restore our liberty and peace. Grant the petition of Thy servant, for the sake of Him whom Thou has called Thy be-loved Son.”*

As Washington did, how many of us can honestly say we pray for both success and for our enemies’ convictions and sensibili-ties? Are we relying on the futility of our own strength, or are we honestly seeking Divine interposition? As freedom lov-ing Americans determined to restore our founding principles, we would do well to follow Washington’s virtuous example and seek to mimic his humble heart.

VICTORYFailure was not an option for Washington. More from his July 2, 1776 order:

“Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resis-

tance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore to resolve to conquer or die.”*

We are again at a juncture in history which will determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves. The unrelent-ing, creeping enemies of freedom leave us the same choices Washington faced: ei-ther brave resistance, or submission to the state. As did Washington, we must resolve victory to preserve freedom or her demise is imminent.

Although it’s being put to the test while the ideological enemy has been incre-

mentally delegitimizing it for years, we still have the Constitution, an advan-tage our predecessors did not. Because of this, we can bring freedom back to her rightful place with Constitutionally estab-lished and peaceful means.

As was true in Washington’s life, so it can be in our own. Freedom was the vi-sion, virtue was the foundation, and vic-tory was the only option.

Catch the vision. Hold the virtue. Re-solve victory.

*Quotes from America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations by William J. Federer

Michelle Morin, aka Mom4Freedom, is External Communications Chair for Coalition for a Conservative Major-ity. See her blog and sign up for alerts at www.Mom4Freedom.com.

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John Birch, American Missionary and MartyrIt was the soft south-ern accent that gave him away. “Anyone in there?” he asked. Lt. Col. James Doolittle and his crew,

hiding under the boat’s cover, breathed a sigh of relief. An American! Here on the southern coast of China, just when things were looking very bleak indeed.

Doolittle’s Tokyo bombing raid in April of 1942 did little actual damage, but buoyed the spirits of Americans still reel-ing from Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor just four months earlier. The six-teen B-25s involved in the raid ran out of fuel after the raid and most of them crash-landed in Japanese occupied territory in-

side China. Doolittle said later that he was afraid of being court-martialed because he had lost all of the planes. At the mo-ment, however, he was more afraid that he and his crews were going to be captured by the Japanese, tortured, and shot.

The southern accent belonged to an American missionary from Georgia, John Birch, who had learned the language and the customs and earned the trust of the local Chinese while evangelizing them for Christ. Because of his wide network of friends in the area, Birch was able to lead Doolittle and his crew (and nearly all of the other crews) to safety.

Birch was born in China in 1918 to missionary parents and raised in Georgia

where he acquired his accent. He attended high school and college, graduating with honors. He knew it was God’s will for him to return to China as a missionary, despite the risks. He knew about the dan-gers facing an American there, but said, “I know the big enemy is communism, but the Lord has called me. My life is in His hands, and I am not turning back.”

After helping res-cue Doolittle and his crews, Birch was in-ducted as a second lieutenant into the China Air Task Force which later became the 14th Air Force. He was the integral part of the information network providing vi-tal information about Japanese troop movement to General Claire Chennault’s 14th Air Force, “the Flying Tigers.” Chen-nault wrote “Birch was the pioneer in our field-intelligence net…for three years he worked steadily in the field with only brief respites for medical treatment. He refused all leave or temporary duty in the U.S. with the comment ‘I’ll leave China [only] when the last Jap is gone.’” Near the end of the war, he was promoted to captain.

For his efforts, Birch received the Legion of Merit and, posthumous-ly, the Oak Leaf Cluster for “exceptionally meri-torious service.”

Ten days after the end of the war, Birch was on an official military mission to Suchow and was captured by Chinese Communists and, with his hands tied behind him, was executed with a single round to the back of his head.

When his parents received word of his death, the initial reports indicated that he had been killed by a stray bullet. However, his mother Ethel discovered, quite by ac-cident, that his murder had been covered up so that friendly relations between the United States and the communist Mao Tse Tung wouldn’t be thwarted by potential public outrage over Birch’s murder.

It was California Senator William Knowland who blew the whistle on the cover up in a speech on the Senate floor in 1950. That speech led, through a remark-able chain of events, to the investigation of Birch by an unknown candy manufac-turer from Belmont, Massachusetts.

What Robert Welch discovered in his investigation was the story of a hum-ble, patriotic, Chris-tian man who ex-emplified in his life the principles of the Founders in build-

ing the American republic. When Welch started an anti-communist organization in 1958, he named it for John Birch. At that founding, Welch wrote “If we redis-cover some of our sounder spiritual values in the example of his life…and learn es-sential truths about our enemy from the lesson of his murder, then his death at twenty-six ceases to be a tragedy.”

Four months before his death, Birch wrote “The War Weary Farmer” which in-cluded these lines: “I should like to find the existence of what my father called “Plain living and high thinking…I want

to live slowly, to relax with my family before a glowing fireplace, to welcome the visits of my neighbors, to worship God, to en-joy a book, to lie on a shaded grassy bank and watch the clouds sail across the blue…

I want of government only protection against the violence and injustices of evil or selfish men…I want to reach the sunset of life sound in body and mind, flanked by strong sons and grandsons, enjoying the friendship and respect of neighbors, sur-rounded by fertile fields and sleek cattle, and retaining my boyhood faith in Him Who promised a life to come.”

Bob Adelmann writes for The New Ameri-can magazine on economics, history and politics, and speaks to groups interested in these topics. His email address is: [email protected]

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

—Samuel Adams

Four months before his death, Birch wrote: “I want of government only protection against the violence and injustices of evil or selfish men…”

[Birch said], “I know the big enemy is communism, but the Lord has called me. My life is in His hands, and I am not turning back.”

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Responsible Fatherhood Critical to American WayDave Skiver, Contributing Writer

To learn the secret of America’s amazing success, French magistrate and political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville embarked on a discovery trip across the Atlantic in 1831. Four years later, he published his timeless classic Democracy in America, praising the stability of the American family and its positive impact on society. Tocqueville observed that there “is cer-tainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is more respected than in America, or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated.”

Tocqueville contrasted American mar-riages with those of Europe: “In Europe, almost all the disturbances of society arise from the irregularities of domestic life.” The European’s disdain for “the natural bonds and legitimate pleasure of the home,” along with his widespread “taste for excesses, a restlessness of heart, and the evil of fluctuating desires,” reg-ularly overflow into pub-lic and social life. The European’s “tumultuous passions” often translate into contempt for soci-etal order and authority.

On the other hand, Tocqueville ob-served that “when the American retires from the turmoil of public life to the bo-som of his family, he finds it the image of order and of peace. There his pleasures are simple and natural, his joys innocent

and calm.” Whereas, the European seeks to escape his family problems “by agitat-ing society, the American derives from his home that love of order which he after-wards carries with him into public affairs.” (This may well explain why Europe gave birth to such fine children as fascism and communism.)

Sadly, Tocqueville’s assessment of 19th century Europe all too accurately de-scribes America today. We are plagued with epidemic levels of infidelity, broken homes, out-of-wedlock births, pressure to legitimize unnatural passions, and even outright disdain for traditional marriage (one man, one woman for life). Such “ir-regularities of domestic life” threaten to

destroy not only Ameri-can families, but also the very fabric of our society.

According to a 2009 Heritage Foundation re-port on family and mar-riage, children who are raised in single-parent homes “are more likely to fail in school, abuse drugs or alcohol, com-mit crimes, become

pregnant as teens, and suffer from emo-tional and behavioral problems” than children raised by “two married biologi-cal parents.” Children from single-parent homes “are also more likely to end up on welfare or in jails when they become adults.” This same report also noted that

if poor women with children out-of-wed-lock were married to the fathers of their children, “nearly two-thirds would be lift-ed out of poverty immediately.”

Liberals and progressives like to blame poverty and the rest of society’s woes on America’s economic policy, specifically capi-talism. Yet they malign the very institution that is the foremost van-guard for good social order, harmony, and prosperity—traditional marriage. One of their most devastating assaults on marriage and the family has been the welfare state. When the politics of good intentions and wishful thinking meet reality, the consequences are usually disastrous.

Anyone with a lick of common sense knows that relieving people of respon-sibility for their actions only breeds ir-responsibility. That’s exactly what the welfare state has done. Instead of holding fathers accountable for rearing and sup-porting their children, the welfare state steps in and takes over that support. Lib-erals beat the drum that we must do it for the children, while these very children re-main trapped in misery at the hands of the state. Uncle Sam is a terrible father.

Even if children from poor, broken homes don’t drop out of school, fry their brains on drugs, die violently, or go to prison, their worldview can still become

quite perverted. Predators of all kinds—from drug dealers and gang bangers, to community agitators and communist radicals—prey upon children. Thanks to their devastating home conditions,

these young, impres-sionable minds are quite vulnerable to all manner of insidious indoctrination.

As bad as crime, drugs, teen pregnan-cy are, there may be something far more dangerous to our way

of life. These young, poisoned minds may grow up to gain great power. Like gaso-line and fire, a tortured worldview and the political power to force it on others are a dangerous combination. What if, instead of community agitators, radicals, and communists, Barack Obama’s greatest influence from birth through early adult-hood had been a loving, responsible father who was faithfully married to his mother? How different things might be today.

If America wants to restore social order and harmony, if we ever hope to return to our traditional, constitutional roots, we must emphasize and actively promote the role of responsible, faithful husbands and fathers in the home.

Dave Skiver, a retired AF officer, is now a pastor, adjunct university professor, and freelance writer/editor.

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Randy Wilson, Guest Writer

Restoration by RepentanceIt was not that long ago on a beautiful clear blue sky morning that a great tragedy was brought upon our great country. We were attacked by the enemy on our shores and the Twin Towers fell.

What was our immediate response? We turned to our foundations. We looked back to where we came from. We remembered the words of Patrick Hen-ry who said, “The great pillars of all government and of social life are vir-tue, morality, and reli-gion. This is the armor…and this alone, that ren-ders us invincible.”

History tells of our Founding Fathers who understood it was Provi-dence, God’s Almighty hand that protected, brought unity and gave counsel as Amer-ica laid down the foundations of who we would be as a nation. We looked to God for answers, which is where we need to look first as we face the daunting chal-lenges today.

The Ten Commandments hang in our court houses and are written into many of our state mottos. As the nations come and visit this great land, they witness and are impacted by what we believe as a people and define how we would act as a people.

In the book of First Samuel God says, “Those who honor Me, I will honor.” And God has been faithful to His word. Amer-ica has become the most prosperous na-tion in the history of man. We have been blessed with inventions in all categories

of life and living. Our medical achieve-ments are unprecedented. And the world has looked to the USA as the beacon of hope for their liberty and freedom from their oppressors.

We honored God by starting our meet-ings and gatherings with an invocation

and closing in a benedic-tion. We swear an oath, “so help me God.” Next time you are in our na-tion’s capitol look around at the buildings, monu-ments and inside the gov-ernmental chambers; you will see the Word of God etched in stone.

Speaking of prayer, let’s go back for a moment, because if we are to take back what an enemy has stolen from us, it will be

because God has heard our prayer as we humble ourselves and cry out to Him once again for help.

Remember the day when the lead-ers of the Republic gathered to write out the Constitution and there was no agreement, no unity among these good men; not until Benjamin Franklin rose up to appeal for a time of prayer, which turned into hours of prayer. These men cried out to God for His wisdom and help to forge the great experiment that would bless the world and be the libera-tors again and again from tyranny. God answered their prayer.

Look back to a time towards the end of George Washington’s second term as pres-

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REPENTANCE continued from page 44ident. It was said that the churches seemed unable to do anything about the moral de-cay among the people in these early days of America. All denominations were los-ing members, colleges were caught up in humanism, church membership was on the decline and there was a prevalent feel-ing of doom.

John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Su-preme Court, said, “It seemed as if Chris-tianity were about to be ushered out of the affairs of men and the churches wiped out. Infidelity was making alarming progress in society, ungodliness prevailed, fam-ily prayer and all the duties of the Gospel were less regarded.” A poll was taken at Harvard in the early 1790s which found not one Christian in the whole student body. At Princeton, a poll found only two students who were Christians. Dartmouth College performed anti-Christian plays. The Nassau Hall at Princeton was burned down. A Bible was taken out of one Pres-byterian Church and burned in a bonfire at the town square. This could be a story from our local paper today.

At that same time a move of prayer be-gan by a small group of pastors. They be-gan to gather regularly to pray and fast for their country. It had been the pastors to whom George Washington, John Adams

and the other Founding Fathers pointed as the most influential individuals of the day. Once again the pastors began to take their place as the spiritual leaders and get on their knees, humble themselves and call upon the Creator God for His help in those desperate days. This was the very beginning of the 2nd Great Awakening that brought order to the chaos in the land.

If we are to see any restoration come to this most blessed nation on earth it will be when the pastors across the country turn to God once again, lead their congrega-tions in prayer and repentance. We as a people must begin to turn from our self-seeking lives that ignore and dishonor the God of our great country. Only then will we see order re-established in our nation. I pray America will not have to face an-other catastrophe as we did on 9/11 for us to finally turn.

I, like you, want to see America as beautiful once again. I believe God will be faithful to His word as we seek His providential guidance through prayer as a people and a nation.

Randy Wilson is National Director of Watchmen on the Wall Initiative and the Founder of Generations of Light and The Father Daughter Purity Ball. See www.generationsofflight.com and www.call2fall.com.

Pursuit of Happiness

Jay Cadillac, Contributing Writer

Children Under 30 Should Not Be Allowed to VoteIt’s probably an apocryphal slander, the old joke, in the heyday of drive-in movie theaters, that every January police in any American city would find scores of teen-agers frozen to death in their parked cars after they had crashed the theater gate to watch the movie “Closed for the Winter.”

It most likely was only dozens, not scores.

Parents since Adam and Eve have watched with amazement as their post-pubescent children, seemingly operating with only partial brain capacity, managed to survive the trials of adolescence and young adulthood. Only until relatively recently did medical science understand that it’s not really the fault of teenagers they’re so, uh, so “chal-lenged,” shall we say? (I include here those in their twen-teens). The frontal lobes in their brains simply do not completely ma-ture, for most of them, until mid to late 20s, which explains not only why their auto accident rate is by far the highest of any age group, but also why so many of them voted for Barack Obama for president.

Undeveloped lobes, according to the Internet’s democratic “encyclopedia,” Wikipedia, impair a person’s “ability to recognize future consequences and reality from current actions.” Thus, 66 percent of voters under 30 voted for Obama in 2008. Their young brains really gave their young fingers no choice, telling them they must mark an X on the election ballot next to Obama’s name.

After all, the young’uns had been con-ditioned by years of Politically Correct indoctrination in the public schools and in a youth culture in which 99% instantly recognize the name Brad Pitt, but almost nobody has any idea who Winston Churchill was. Thus their easily confused brains tell them the most important qualifications for the presi-dent’s job are “hip and cool.”

A recent survey confirms the appalling lack of discern-ment, judgment, and wisdom among “America’s Future.” Whereas 63% of Americans aged 50-64 hold a negative view of the term “socialism,” only 49% of the 18-29 age bracket do. A depressing 45% of the young view socialism posi-tively. This contrasts dramatically with the “Greatest Generation” (age 65-plus), in which only 14% see socialism as a good thing.

And it’s not only the frontal-lobe-im-paired youth, but also a sizable proportion of Democrats of all ages (44%) who, de-pressingly, think socialism is a good thing.

How can so many citizens, who are en-joying the liberties and prosperity made possible only by a free-market economy in the most exceptional republic ever de-vised in the history of mankind, be so ig-norant about what socialism really is?

Here’s a primer on socialism and free-market capitalism for all you non-home-schooled Americans. Socialism says the government—that collection made up of too many unaccountable and unelected bureaucrats and assorted elites—knows best how to run things. It teaches that a large central government of planners and regulators can most efficiently manage the

means of production in a society and, in-deed, should own just about everything.

In capitalism, on the other hand, “an invisible hand” sweeps through a free market, lifting up everyone as it enriches specific individuals. Eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith observed that we can expect a fat, healthy dinner not be-cause the butcher and the baker like us, but because it is in their self-interest to provide us with one. They prosper because others value their service or product.

In a socialist economy, however, the guys in charge couldn’t care less if you, the consumer, are happy. Where there’s little or no competition, there’s little incen-tive to treat people better. Think of most

government agen-cies, for example the Department of Mo-tor Vehicles, where clerks snarl at you for bothering them. They know you can’t take your business else-where.

In a (relatively) free-market country work-

ers produce a Toyota, a Ford, a Chevy, a Dodge, a Honda—all in a dizzying array of models. In a socialist country they pro-duce a Yugo.

Never in the history of the planet has a socialist country truly prospered. Cuba? No. Venezuela? Nope. The Scandinavian countries? You’ve got to be kidding. The main reason a relatively socialist Western Europe has managed to hang on as long as it has is because it didn’t have to foot the bill, during the long Cold War, of keeping the Evil Empire at bay. Uncle Sam’s rich capitalist economy held a very expensive defense umbrella over Europe until the socialism-on-steroids Soviet Union finally collapsed due mainly to the fact commu-nism and socialism simply do not work.

Today we are witnessing Europe implode as it figures out a socialist welfare state is not sustainable. Greeks, told they might have to take a cut in their pensions and per-haps privatize their public health-care system, riot in the streets. But still the U.S.

president continues to march us down the path to socialism. Still, we see two-thirds of American youth telling a pollster they think, y’know, Obama’s doing great and nearly half of them view socialism fondly.

Anyone for a constitutional amend-ment raising the voting age to 30? We geezers (anyone over 30, we were told by the baby boomers when they were swim-ming in the Fountain of Youth, is a geezer) outnumber the lobe-deprived youngsters (aged 18 to 30) by more than 4-to-1.

I won’t go so far as Mark Twain, who supposedly said that children between 12 and 20 should be buried (today he would most certainly raise to 30 the age the youngsters can be dug up). But most surely we, as the leader of the Free World, cannot long survive if we continue to al-low to vote citizens with only partly devel-oped frontal lobes.

And in some future year perhaps we can address that other big societal scandal, young motorists. Why on earth do we let anyone under 30 drive a car?

Jay Cadillac is a former newspaperman and currently a freelance writer and columnist.

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…Then It Hit Me!The Robbing of My Hood

The name “Robin Hood” conjures up countless images of the legendary do-gooder. To those of us who came of age in the

80s, he was first an animated fox who ran through the forest with a jolly, if obese, animated bear. Later, he was an unkempt Kevin Costner in an epic action movie that we enjoyed at the time and wonder why it is now mocked incessant-ly. Finally, Robin Hood was the comedic lead in a movie of men in tights, this time able to, unlike Costner, speak with an English accent. In May 2010, Robin took on a new image: that of macho, mum-bling, not-so-merry man Russell Crowe, who, for the record, wouldn’t be caught dead in tights.

No matter the actor, however, every schoolchild knows that Robin Hood is legendary because he “robbed from the rich and gave to the poor.” While King Richard the Lionheart was away fighting the Third Crusade, so the story goes, his corrupt brother Prince John usurped the throne and ruled as a tyrant, levying un-reasonable taxes upon the peasants. Robin Hood, along with Little John, Friar Tuck, and the rest of his Merry Men, resorted to thieving from the wealthy and giving their

spoils to the poor. Toss in the fetching Maid Marion, the mysterious Sherwood Forest and the sinister Sheriff of Notting-ham and you have the perfect concoction for an undying myth. Robin Hood, risking life and limb for the downtrodden, was branded a criminal and lived as an outlaw; plain and simple, he was a hero.

I enjoyed the movies, Costner’s in particu-lar, but I never thought critically about Robin Hood’s situation; I cer-tainly never juxtaposed it with modern poli-tics. This all changed one evening a few years ago when, while play-ing some sort of board game, a liberal friend of mine asserted that if she could be one hero from legend, she would be Robin Hood. The poli-tics behind her choice were transparent, and from that point on, I

began to notice that liberal thinkers often associated themselves with the heroism of Robin Hood.

At first, I oversimplified the trend and took smug pleasure that liberals were equating themselves with a criminal. After all, as Ayn Rand asserted in Atlas Shrugged, Robin Hood “practiced charity with wealth which he did not own,” mak-ing him immoral and contemptible.

MY HOOD on page 47


Pursuit of HappinessEllis in WonderlandA Rose by Any Other Name Could Be a Right Wing Nut

Ellis Posey, Featured Writer

Okay, I might as well just come right out and admit it. I’m completely out of the closet now. I gladly

announce publicly that I am a Right Wing Nut. Since I’ve been called a Cyborg (and worse) already, what’ve I got to lose? If you suspect you may be a Right Wing Nut, it‘s time to take the plunge. So we’ll borrow a comic device from humorist Jeff Foxwor-thy to help you decide.

• Here’s an example: If you think you know more about what’s good for you than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Ma-jority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama combined, you are un-doubtedly a Right Wing Nut.

• If you believe the right to “the Pursuit of Happiness” does not include a right to “Catching Happiness,” you may be a Right Wing Nut.

• If you have ever even smiled while watching TV coverage of a crowd of 10,000 Tea Party attendees on televi-sion, you may be a Right Wing Nut.

• If you wear an American flag pin on the lapel of your pajamas, you may be a Right Wing Nut.

• If you believe any public official who swears to uphold and defend the U. S. Constitution should know what’s in the Constitution, you may be a Right Wing Nut.

• If you hold the opinion that if it acts like a socialist and it talks like a socialist, it sure as heck ain’t a duck, you quite likely are a Right Wing Nut.

• If you like the green of capitalist money more than you like the green of alterna-tive energy rhetoric, you are probably a Right Wing Nut.

• If you don’t own a gun, but don’t mind if your neighbor does, you may be a Right Wing Nut.

• If you own a gun, and you wonder why your neighbor doesn’t, you’re definitely a Right Wing Nut.

• If you are aware that the words “sepa-ration of church and state” do not ap-pear anywhere in the U. S. Constitution, you’re probably a Right Wing Nut.

• If you believe that all elected officials should have their salary reduced if they vote on legislation that costs taxpayers money, you may be a Right Wing Nut.

• On the other hand, if you believe that all elected officials might deserve a raise if they vote on legislation that saves tax-payers money, you may be a Right Wing Nut.

• While watching a TV news broadcast, you talk back, holler or scream at the TV more than ten times in an hour, you definitely are a Right Wing Nut.

• If a liberal friend accuses you of being a Right Wing Nut, and you say “Thanks” instead of denying it, you are without a doubt a Right Wing Nut.

• If you read all the above and find your-self thinking how we conservatives are the ones who have the most fun, and wishing you were not a liberal, you need to seriously consider becoming a Right Wing Nut.

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Humorist Ellis Posey is a columnist, author and retired speaker. Contact: [email protected].

MY HOOD continued from page 46Despite this dose of solace, I continued

to ponder how liberals had come to be the self-declared heirs to Robin Hood’s hero-ism. If “robbing from the rich and giv-ing to the poor” is socialism on a small scale, then it’s obvious that Robin Hood was their hero for “spreading the wealth around.” After all, liberals believe that the rich do little more than extort their wealth from the poor through exploitation, and Rob-in Hood was merely restoring the social justice of his time. I’m not a collectivist who believes that the wealthy are evil, so I concluded that, crimi-nal or not, Robin Hood was not my hero after all; the left could have him.

Then it hit me! As so often happened during my twenties, a little critical think-ing and a dose of reality shattered the con-ventional wisdom that I had been fed by society in my youth. The “rich” referred to by the legend were royalty and barons—the government, in other words—who grew fat on these ill-gotten gains. Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham repre-sented an unjust government that had ex-ceeded its mandate and was overtaxing its citizens. Rather than redistributing wealth in the socialist sense, Robin Hood was at-tempting to neutralize the economic tyr-anny of big government. Robin Hood was a conservative! Prince John was a liberal!

After my epiphany, the parallels be-tween the legend of Robin Hood and our national state of affairs drew themselves: Our federal government bears a strik-ing resemblance to Prince John, having usurped the legitimate government of King Richard or the Constitutional Re-public bequeathed us by the founders. The Sheriff of Nottingham’s ruthlessness being

legendary, I’m sure he would find gainful employment as our Secretary of the Trea-sury. Of course, who are Robin Hood and his Merry Men if not the Tea Party and oth-er liberty groups that

are fighting, albeit within the law, against tyranny? (Glenn Beck is our Friar Tuck, no doubt, but I’ll not go into detail.)

I look forward to seeing the new movie, particularly in light of its cool twist: ap-parently it deals peripherally with the Magna Carta, the “great-granddaddy” of our Constitution. Until then, however, I will continue to lament the widespread misconception that the left owns the her-oism of legendary Robin Hood, a small government conservative if ever there was one, and an activist at that!

Teddy Otero is Creative Director and Internet Manager of The Constitutionalist Today. You can catch up with him online at www.teddyotero.com.

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Pursuit of Happiness: Book Reviews

Are you bewildered by what is going on in Washington? Do you wonder why you’re angry or upset all the time? Perhaps, like Rip Van Winkle, you’ve been asleep for the past two years or have been working in the remote jungles of Central America. Maybe you’re just not a “political person” and don’t know what all the fuss is about. If any of this describes you, then you need to read Cannibals of Capitalism.

Chuck Graybill covers a lot of ground in this 400-page book but it is not quite as daunting as you might think: the Declaration of Inde-pendence, the Con-stitution and all the Amendments are included in an ap-pendix, leaving about 320 pages of text.

The publisher’s de-scription notes that “Graybill presents a critical view of poli-tics, economics, and citizen apathy in an attempt to explain how this once-great nation lost its way.” In 10 chapters, he re-views developments with a broad brush that encompasses all the issues of our day, great and small. It is a lot to consider and the direction he’s going isn’t always clear.

Currently a small-business owner, Graybill is at his best when recounting his personal experiences from his child-hood or as a financial analyst in the oil and gas industry.

My favorite chapter, “Our Culture Problem,” recounts his experience in changing schools from Ohio to Alabama in the 1960s. His “Yes” instead of “Yes, ma’am” landed him in hot water and un-derscores the subject of the chapter per-fectly. It is also a pivotal chapter where he

Whatever Happened to Penny Candy, one of the books in the ten part series, is well-known to homeschoolers across the country. These books tackle the complicated subject of economics from a Libertarian per-spective that he calls “Juris Naturalist.” May-bury begins the books by explaining his points of view and beliefs in natural law and faith in the Founding Fathers. His books are riddled with quotes from the Founders and vignettes explaining economic principles that are lost on most non-econo-mists. The fact that pol-itics and economics are interwoven in a society is the basis of his principles. He explains several key con-cepts such as natural law vs. Roman law,

begins to tell us what we most probably don’t really want to hear. In the words of the immortal Pogo, “We have met the en-emy and he is us.”

He asks the question, “What’s the rush?” in the next chapter. “Why so much change, so fast?” It’s an interesting ques-tion especially, as he says toward the end, because socialism has no timetable. Gray-bill says we founded this country in lib-erty but the history of the last century has been the sometimes slow, sometimes fast

journey into a social-ist state. Perhaps the socialists believe we have reached the tip-ping point; that now is the time to go the rest of the way.

The next chapter tells us what everyone should know by now: we are at war. “We are at war with the majority of our own elected representa-tives in Congress and the White House.”

Graybill tells us that we should, “…shun any label and look for the people—the individual candidates

willing to do the job as intended by our Founders.”

This is a great call to action. In the rest of the chapter he tells us exactly what we are at war against. It is perhaps his best chapter. Had I been his editor, I would have urged him to lead with it.

The book ends with a chapter about what we were and what we are. He clos-es with another call to action, “We are America, let’s take it back and make it work for us!”

If you read this book and are not in-spired to get up off your couch and take action, you’re in the wrong country.

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