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Written by Kenneth McClenton
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Thursday, 08 December 2011 00:00 |
..."the Cowards are Here, the Cowards are Here!" From the Desk of the Exceptional Conservative This is not the usual writing of a poetic sophist heaving grandeur political concepts upon the audience of Urban listeners and readers. I will not begin with niceties and sincere appeals. CONSERVATIVES, we are at full fledged war with attacks from within and without. You may appreciate the daily punitive assaults upon our principles and our people by the Media and the Left (Democrats, Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, Marxists, Occupiers, etc.). If for the first time in the history of this Great Nation that our Credit Rating was downgraded then, it is the Tea Party’s and Conservatives’ fault. If you can not pass a budget in nearly 1,000 days, even when you had a Democrat House and a Democrat Senate, then, it’s the Tea Party’s fault. If the plumbing goes bad in your house, Blame Bush or the Tea Party Conservatives. Screw Transparency! You don’t need a mercury-filled light bulb from General Electric China to know that the enemy of your enemy is still your enemy in the Democrat Coalition. Whether it’s the die-hard Klansman or the caring La Raza patron who believes that additional government funding is needed to support black fathers because they do not have the moral fiber to stay home with their children, you expect slights and intelligentsia breaches moment by moment. You know that when you attend a conservative event in Washington that Occupiers will push old people down stairsonto the Urban pavement or will build tenement shelter without permit on federal lands. WE expect this and we get it! We fight back. We unify and we employ the Constitution to defeat our enemies. November 2010 is an example of the magnificent powers of Tea Party Conservatives to repel the enemy! |
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Written by The ACP
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Thursday, 24 November 2011 00:00 |
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If you take the time to Google "Real Story of Thanksgiving" it's amazing the variety of things that come up: From the "Pilgrims were bloodthirsty murderers": http://www.manataka.org/page269.html http://www.danielnpaul.com/TheR...sgiving.html To the "Pilgrims were not capable of tying their own shoes and the Indians had to save them" (which contrary to the article's assertions...is EXACTLY what we learn in school now): http://www.columbiatribune.com/...iving-myths/ To the "Pilgrims found out that Socialism didn't work”: How Private Property Saved the Pilgrims The Great Thanksgiving Hoax The Pilgrims’ Real Thanksgiving Lesson How Capitalism Saved America The REAL Thanksgiving Story Giving Thanks for Lessons Learned The Plymouth Experiment Obviously, one can guess which ones we are the most familiar with. The truth is, we’ve known for 400 years that charity and sharing can only be achieved through voluntary, subjective human action, not by Government fiat. If Governor Bradford found that out...why are our leaders trying it over and over again, centuries later? THANKSGIVING - Plymouth Rock's Story Did you know that the first [Plymouth Colony Pilgrim's] Thanksgiving was a celebration of the triumph of private property and individual initiative? William Bradford was the governor of the original Pilgrim colony, founded at Plymouth in 1621. The colony was first organized on a communal basis, as their financiers required. Land was owned in common. The Pilgrims farmed communally, too, following the "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" precept. The results were disastrous. Communism didn't work any better 400 years ago than it does today. By 1623, the colony had suffered serious losses. Starvation was imminent. Bradford realized that the communal system encouraged and rewarded waste and laziness and inefficiency, and destroyed individual initiative. Desperate, he abolished it. He distributed private plots of land among the surviving Pilgrims, encouraging them to plant early and farm as individuals, not collectively. The results: a bountiful early harvest that saved the colonies. After the harvest, the Pilgrims celebrated with a day of Thanksgiving -- on August 9th. Unfortunately, William Bradford's diaries -- in which he recorded the failure of the collectivist system and the triumph of private enterprise -- were lost for many years. When Thanksgiving was later made a national holiday, the present November date was chosen. And the lesson the Pilgrims so painfully learned was, alas, not made a part of the holiday. Happily, Bradford's diaries were later rediscovered. They're available today in paperback. They tell the real story of Thanksgiving -- how private property and individual initiative saved the Pilgrims. This Thanksgiving season, one of the many things I'm thankful for is our free market system (imperfectly realized as it is). And I'm also grateful that there are increasing numbers of Americans who are learning the importance of free markets, and who are working to replace government coercion with marketplace cooperation here in America and around the world. Paul Schmidt PS: A special thanks to long-time Advocate volunteer Cris Everett, who told us about this neglected bit of history several years ago, and who celebrates Thanksgiving on -- you guessed it -- August 9th. -- copied from http://FreedomKeys.com/thanksgiving.htm which was copied from the Nov. 20, 1997 issue of THE LIBERATOR ONLINE at http://www.theadvocates.org/liberator/vol-02-num-21.htm May you and yours have a safe, blessed, and happy Thanksgiving.
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Written by The ACP
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Friday, 11 November 2011 15:34 |
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Written by Lee
Anderson
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011 20:24 |
Mitt Romney has taken a lot of heat over his "Romney Care" effort to insure all citizens while he was governor of Massachusetts. And for good reasons. The Massachusetts plan was supposed to accomplish two things; achieve universal health insurance coverage and controlling costs.
An Op Ed piece written by Romney for the Wall Street Journal said, "Every uninsured citizen in Massachusetts will soon have affordable health insurance and the costs of health care will be reduced." Sounds good - but results were the opposite.
Let's address cost control first.When implemented, the last day Massachusetts citizens had to sign up for insurance in compliance with the Romney mandate was November 15, 2008. Those failing to show proof of insurance prior to January 1, 2009 would lose their personal exemption for the 2008 state income tax when they filed. In 2009, the penalty increased to 50 percent of the cost of a standard insurance policy.In 2009, the Cato institute estimated that 400,000 Massachusetts residents had failed to buy the required insurance, resulting in significant penalties for persons failing to by insurance mandated by Governor Romney and the state of Massachusetts. Additionally the program greatly over estimated savings, resulting in a $2 billion dollar projected shortfall through 2019. Meanwhile, businesses in Massachusetts with fewer than 50 employees saw their health insurance premiums grow by 14.7 percent between 2006 and 2008, and increase every year since Romney Care was passed. In an attempt to finally try to contain costs, Massachusetts has begun to consider price controls. Which brings me to the subject of this article - that Romney has more in common with President Obama than you know.
Back in 2005, then Governor Romney imposed CO2 emission caps on the six largest and oldest power plants in the state. His administration's press release said (and I quote):
Governor Mitt Romney today announced that Massachusetts will take another major step in meeting its commitment to protecting air quality when strict state limitations on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants take effect on January 1, 2006.
Massachusetts is the first and only state to set CO2 emissions limits on power plants. The limits, which target the six largest and oldest power plants in the state, are the toughest in the nation.
In addition to reaffirming existing stringent CO2 limits, the draft regulations announced today, which will be filed next week, contain protections against excessive price increases for businesses and consumers. They allow power generation companies to implement CO2 reductions at their own facilities or fund other reduction projects off-site through a greenhouse gas offset and credits program.
In other words, the Romney administration in 2005 essentially did what Barack Obama’s EPA wants to do now. He imposed CO2 emission caps — the “toughest in the nation” — in an effort to curtail traditional energy production. Not only did Romney impose these costly new regulations, he then imposed price caps to keep power companies from passing the cost along to the consumer. The outcome of the cap was Massachusetts’ electrical production it dropped 18% in four years, from over 46 billion megawatt hours to 38 billion. International imports, however, went from 697 million megawatt hours in 2006 to 4.177 billion megawatt hours two years later, and to almost 5 billion megawatt hours in 2009, more than twice the amount imported in any of the previous twenty years. As we have seen in Romney Care, regulation and price controls eventually drive businesses into bankruptcy or relocation to escape increasing costs destroying profitability, while passing increasing costs to consumers.
And if that wasn't enough, Obama’s Science Czar, John Holdren, helped architect the Romney CO2 emission caps. Again, I'll let the Romney Administration press release do the talking:
In the development of greenhouse gas policy, Romney Administration officials have elicited input from environmental and economic policy experts. These include John Holden [sic], professor of environmental policy at Harvard University and chair of the National Commission on Energy Policy and Billy Pizer, and economist at Resources for the Future, an environmental policy think-tank based in Washington DC.
This is the same John Holdren who serves as Obama Science Czar and wrote in favor of coercive government population-control policies in the 1970s, and who in 2009, suggested government-imposed redistribution as a cure for "American exceptionalism".
As for Mr. William A. (Billy) Pizer, well, that's even more interesting. It seems he is (or was) head of the Department of Treasury’s Office of Environment and Energy whose mandate it is to "... develop, coordinate, and execute the Treasury Department's role in the domestic and international environment and energy agenda of the United States... as well as contribute to the development of domestic and international policy options to address climate change."
I don't think it is unfair to characterize Governor Romney as having more in common with President Obama and the Democratic Party than conservative ideals. Too often I have read on to many blogs or found myself in to many conversations being implored not to 'waste my vote' and make sure I vote to nominate a conservative GOP candidate who can win. The refrain I often hear is "anyone but Obama." Anyone? Really?
Beware of those who are conservatives in name only. We have one shot at this in 2012. We can't afford "anyone." |
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Written by Butch
Porter
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011 13:41 |
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Bill Whittle on PJTV has an excellent explanation (and a possible solution) for the Occupy Wall Street crowd. |
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