Welcome to Hotel Blue State

Welcome to Hotel Blue State: You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave. That pretty much sums up the mentality of liberals no matter where you live. These people are a bunch of busybodies who aren’t content unless they’re forcing their values onto everybody else. And if you believe you can escape their self-righteous dictates, you’ve got another think coming.


For instance, Illinois is developing a scheme to destroy the value of their citizens property by raising taxes so high, they can’t afford to leave. Rush Limbaugh summed it up best:


Furthermore, you would not be able to escape this by selling your house and leaving. You know why? You’re not gonna be able to sell your house. Nobody’s gonna buy your house in Chicago with this kind of taxation on it.


And the people that come up with these rules — this is the reasoning from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. “New taxes wouldn’t affect people thinking of moving to Illinois. While they would have to pay higher property taxes, that would be offset by not having to pay as much for their new homes. In addition, current homeowners would not be able to avoid the new tax by selling their homes and moving because home prices should reflect the new tax burden quickly.”


In other words, they fully expect the value of you in Chicago and Illinois who own your homes, the value of those homes to plummet with the application of these new property taxes. So people arriving in the state are gonna be able to afford your house because you’re gonna have to practically give it away, which means you’re gonna lose every bit of equity and wealth you have in your house if you try to sell it and leave.


And if you are able to escape a blue state hellhole, Progressives will use the courts to force their values onto the rest of the country. Illegal immigration, auto emissions, obamacare, environmental standards, it doesn’t matter, they’re going to make damn sure no one escapes their utopian worldview. The Washington Examiner published an article that outlined California’s nefarious schemes. Here is an excerpt:


Federalism has traditionally been a shield, protecting states from an overreaching federal government. But California’s blue-state bully federalism is more like a sword, trying to prod others into following its world view. States are required to give “full faith and credit” to the public acts, records, and court declarations of other states, according to Article IV of the Constitution. If not violating the letter of that law, California certainly disrespects and dishonors its spirit.



People will argue the auto emissions controversy both ways, but the larger story deserves attention as well. When a state sues the federal government 39 times in 19 months, something bigger is going on. In this case, California is trying to impose its own blue-state policies on immigration, civil rights, environmental standards, healthcare and more on the rest of the country wherever it can. That effort should be seen for what it is— a blue-state political power play, not a high-minded defense of federalism and states’ rights.



Progressives respect nothing if it doesn’t advance their agenda. Unfortunately, these totalitarians have fellow travelers in the judiciary who’ll do their bidding.


Source:

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/05/14/illinois-liberals-destroy-home-values-fund-union-pensions/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/california-is-using-lawsuits-to-impose-blue-state-values-on-the-rest-of-the-country

Progressives Nudge Americans into Totalitarian Dystopia

Progressives have been on a mission to run our lives for well over a hundred years.  Their governing philosophy started out as centralized, blunt and forceful.  Now, it’s centralized and paternalistic: Big Daddy government will take away our rights and privileges if we don’t do what they say.

Gone are the days of prohibition and Eugenics.  Our wannabe masters learned that overt power is distasteful to the masses.  No, they’ve learned how to be discreet by using taxpayer dollars to fund organizations like Planned Parenthood and various government bureaucracies that can “nudge” the populace into thinking and acting as they want us to.

Men like Cass Sunstein and Michael Bloomberg love using regulations to coerce and moderate behavior.  They see themselves as our betters; an elite class sitting on Mt. Government monitoring our lives as though they’re Grecian demigods intervening on behalf of mankind.  If only we would give them offerings to appease their wrath.

Progressives are not content with nudging us into behavior modification, they want us to think and act like they do.  I don’t know how many times I’ve read editorials and op-eds in my local paper on how republicans should become more like Democrats.  Libtards like Thomas Friedman ink out column after column on what’s wrong with the GOP and how we should become more acceptable to enlightened people such as Thomas Friedman:

But it does matter. I know so many thoughtful conservatives who know it matters. One of them has got to start the N.R.P. — New Republican Party — a center-right party liberated from all the Trump birthers, the Sarah Palins, the Grover Norquists, the Sean Hannitys, the Rush Limbaughs, the gun lobby, the oil lobby and every other narrow-interest group, a party that redefines a principled conservatism. Raise your money for it on the internet. If Bernie Sanders can, you can.

This is such a pivotal moment; the world we shaped after W.W. II is going wobbly. This is a time for America to be at its best, defending its best values, which are now under assault in so many places — pluralism, immigration, democracy, trade, the rule of law and the virtue of open societies. Trump will never be a credible messenger, or a messenger at all, for those values. A New Republican Party can be.

If you build it, they will come

Geez, we could say the same thing about the Democratic Party, but we don’t tell them how to think or act.  I’ve yet to read one column on how the Democratic Party should become more like conservatives.  It just doesn’t happen.

Hell, these people aren’t content on dictating policies or how big our sodas should be, they want republicans to abandon their presidential nominee.  Barack Hussein Obama, just the other day, declared the Republican Party should dump Trump.

OBAMA: I think the Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. I said so last week. He keeps on proving it. The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family, that [General] Hayden -- had made such extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of our country, the fact that he does not appear to have basic knowledge around critical issues in Europe, the Middle East, in Asia. 

It means that he is woefully unprepared. This is not just my opinion. What have been interesting have been the repeated denunciations of his statements by leading Republicans. Including the Speaker of the House, the Senate Majority Leader, prominent Republicans like John McCain. 

The question they have to ask themselves is if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him? What does this say about your party, that this is your standard bearer?

Conservatives declared Obama was unfit and unqualified to serve as president, and have been proven right. But did we intimate democrats should dump their nominee?  The answer is no.

Hillary Clinton is a perfect example of an unfit person who shouldn't hold the office of president of the United States.  She has flagrantly flouted the law and repeatedly lied to the American people.  Her transgressions include violating the Espionage Act and circumventing FOIA by using a personal server to conduct State business.  I’ve yet to hear or read an op-ed by any republican demanding democrats dump their nominee.

 Americans had better wake up to the fact that progressives are totalitarian in mind and body.  Eventually they’ll do more than just nudge us into their dystopia.

Source:

 http://harvardpublichealthreview.org/was-mayor-bloomberg-a-nanny/

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/opinion/dump-the-gop-for-a-grand-new-party.html?_r=1

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/08/02/obama_trump_unfit_woefully_unprepared_for_presidency_has_to_be_a_point_where_you_say_enough.html

Islam is a Political Ideology in the Guise of a Religion

I remember back in the day when I used to believe Islam was just another religion like Christianity. That, of course, was before 9/11.  I used to believe that all people yearned to be free and desired self-government, and the only circumstance holding these poor unfortunates back were dictators who exploited them. 

Basically, I believed in the Bush Doctrine that if people were freed from oppressive regimes, they would embrace peace, democracy and capitalism.  Events have shown we couldn’t have been more wrong.

People are beginning to realize that Islam is not compatible with Western values; it is a political ideology in the guise of a religion.  For the West to survive, we as a people, have to come to this basic understanding.

Andrew McCarthy, a contributor to National Review and former prosecutor, expressed those same views on the Blaze:

The difference is, Soviet ideology never traveled under the banner of religious liberty, and there was never the kind of squeamishness about examining it that we have now. And … the best way to combat it is to get over that squeamishness.

What we have to understand is that there is a difference between what we ought to regard as Islam the religion … which is something that is adhered to by, you know, many many many patriotic American Muslims, who have no desire whatsoever to have a United States that’s structured like the totalitarian societies that a lot of them either left or reject for their own reasons.

So we have to distinguish that from this political Islamist ideology that is rooted in Islamic doctrine, and a very literal interpretation of it, and that rejects a division between church and state, or between mosque and state.

That ideology is — it has a religious component — but it’s a political ideology overwhelmingly. And it ought to be dealt with as one. And we should stop — you know our public officials should stop trying to label it as something it isn’t. It’s a political, totalitarian conquest ideology that has certain religious elements to it.

We have to start being honest with ourselves.

Source:

http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/05/29/audio-how-does-a-free-society-that-values-religious-liberty-handle-islamic-supremacism-that-seeks-to-destroy-it-a-former-fed-prosecutor-responds/

http://www.crf-usa.org/war-in-iraq/bush-doctrine.html

Our Shared American Values?

Whenever a democrat lectures an American on our “shared values,” I get a little nervous.  Is that a pejorative to them?  Are they mocking us?  Or, are they trying to mask their true intention, which ends in loss of liberty and property.  Usually, it’s the latter.

The Democratic Party’s ideology is contrary to the America ideal. They constantly scheme to undermine self-determination and limited government, and they do it under the guise of “shared values,” usually couched in a way to engender a common goal that justifies ends to a nebulous means.  Here is a perfect example of high rhetoric employed by progressives:

So what is our "shared values"?

Could it be family?

 

Well, Democrats seem to believe the ideal family unit is a single mother.  They praise, pander and indeed subsidize generations of them.  The centerpiece of Obama’s reelection campaign was the supposed “republican war on women.”  I contend the real war on women is conducted by Democrats who want to make them dependent.  Nothing says daddy like a federal government bureaucrat.

How about life?

 

Surely, everyone values the sanctity of life?  Not so much.  Democrats don’t see a viable fetus as a member of society that needs to be nurtured and protected.  No.  A fetus is a womb occupier; a mass of tissue much like a cancerous lesion, or a parasite sucking the life force out of its host.  And they demand Americans pay for abortion mills like Planned Parenthood by confiscating our hard earned money.  However, cop killers on death row are victims of society.  These innocents are misunderstood and entitled to our sympathy.

Surely, Democrats value hard work and entrepreneurship?

Again, you would be wrong.  Obama’s Department of Labor banned kids from working on farms.  Many of us learned the value of a dollar and a good work ethic at a young age by working on farms.  This administration is methodically cultivating a generation of indolence and entitlement.  Over 46 million Americans are on food stamps.  Work is not a priority in the Age of Obama.

  

Oh, and you didn’t build that!  That small business of yours couldn’t have happened if it weren’t for a federal bureaucrat holding your hand.  That is the Democratic meme.  What is really happening is the death spiral of small businesses under the Obama regime.  More businesses are closing than starting up.  The last time this happened was 35 years ago.  The real meme should be:  you didn’t destroy your business, it couldn’t have happened without the Democratic Party.

National security and the value of citizenship is an uncompromised value?

The Obama administration allowed millions of third-worlders to invade our country.  Evidence demonstrates his administration instigated this mass of humanity from Central America.  Now they, and their fellow colonizers who preceded them, have been granted temporary amnesty and are entitled to most benefits and privileges due a citizen.  Is devaluation of citizenship a “shared value”?  I hope not.

As far as national security, James Woods summed it up in a tweet:

Shared values my ass.                

Source:  http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-death-of-the-american-dream-in-22-numbers

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/14/economic-death-spiral-more-american-businesses-dying-than-starting/

Should Red States Form a NATO-esque Alliance?

A government of the people, by the people and for the people.  That is a lofty sentiment.  Abraham Lincoln was a rhetorical genius.  He wrote of a higher ideal of government, while at the same time, invading his neighbors, shutting down newspapers, jailing and exiling dissenters, not to mention engaging in crony capitalism.  The Great Emancipator indeed.

The War of Northern Aggression was the beginning of the end of federalism.  Before this calamity, states were considered ones country.  Politicians before that era would resign from their D.C. elected office to become senators and representatives in their state’s legislature.  Now, it’s the other way around.  Washington D.C. has become the epicenter of American life.  No one can escape that cesspools legion of laws, rules, regulations, onerous taxes and penalties.

The Anti-Federalists were prophetic.  They warned us that this central government with its three branches would conspire to consolidate power at the expense of states and the liberty of its citizens.  They could not have been more right.  These founding fathers tried to protect us by demanding a Bill of Rights.  Those rights were designed as a firewall.  But, like everything else, the totalitarians have bastardized it.

These masters of American citizens depend upon our faith and fidelity to their laws, rules, regulations, onerous taxes and penalties.  Without our compliance they are nothing, hence, the diminishment of self-government and determination.

 

How can we fight back?  We could call for an Article V constitutional convention specifically designed to enforce our founding principles.  That means abolishing the 1946 Administrative Procedures Act, 17^th Amendment, 16^th Amendment, and more importantly the cudgel of activist federal judges: the 14^th Amendment.

Another way to fight back is to call for a NATO-esque alliance between red states.  An attack on one is attack on all.  States’ must reject their vassalage mentality.  It was the states that created this federal government, not the other way around.  This is the United States of America, not the Federal Government of America.

Sooner or later, something has to be done.  A house divided against itself cannot stand.  Either we are free, or totalitarian.  It will become all one thing, or all the other.

Totalitarianism is Here! Get Over It!

Let’s stop the pretense.  The U.S. Constitution has been scrapped.  It’s time to recognize the tenets and principles that protected citizens and states from an abusive central government has been undermined and replaced.  We no longer have the right of self-governance.  Progressive judges, bureaucrats and politicians have seen to that. 

The latest domino to fall is States’ constitutions that forbade gay marriage.  The Supreme Court basically acquiesced to rogue rulings by inferior courts by not hearing their cases.  So now we have a country divided; those who are free and others enslaved by federal tyranny.  And the cudgel these judges use is the bastardized 14^th Amendment.  You don't need an army when you have the courts.

 

Americans are at a crossroads.  The character and institutions that have made this country great are under assault.   Christian principles and modesty have been discarded by liberals who believe morality is subjective.  Everyone has a right to be a deviant.  There should be no limitations on depravity.  After all, who are you to judge me?  That is their mantra.  And if you don’t like it, well that’s tough.  Get over it!

In the meantime, Christians who practice their faith in their professions and businesses are sued.  They are told if you want to own a business, you need to leave your Christianity at the pneumatic doors, or else.

 

Progressives believe they have won a great victory.  And they have.  They’ve demolished the bastion of federalism, States’ rights and self-determination, by using the courts and the 14^th Amendment to advance their cause of homogenized thought and forced conformity.

I do hope these liberals video their victory mantra for their grandchildren and great grandchildren.  I’m sure it will comfort them, as they live under a totalitarian state.  They can watch grandpa and grandma tell them over and over again: That’s Tough!  Get Over It! 

Source:  http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/06/politics/scotus-same-sex-marriage/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Democrats Scheme to Silence Political Opponents

How petty and corrupt are Democrats?  If they don’t like what you have to say, they’ll use the full force of the federal government to shut you up.  They’ve already used the IRS on the Tea Party; however, they need something a little more powerful to take on established organization and people who have resources to defend themselves.  Democrats need to change the First Amendment.  The Daily Caller reported the following:

The proposed amendment, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Tom Udall, would give Congress broad power to shape campaign finance laws. It would effectively overturn the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC and 2014 ruling in McCutcheon v. FEC, which struck down laws restricting when corporations and unions can spend money on elections, and how much individuals can donate to candidates in a two-year period.

This is “the most important issue to Americans in years,” added Sen. Bernie Sanders. “If people think this is some kind of esoteric issue, not related to jobs, the economy, and wages, and women’s rights, and income and wealth inequality, and healthcare and global warming, you are deadly wrong.”

“Why do people like the Koch brother’s spend hundreds of millions of dollars?” he continued. “If you understand what they stand for, and that is to end, do away with social security, do away with medicare, do away with medicaid do away with the concept of the minimum wage, do away with the environmental protection agency — that is the struggle. They have an agenda.”

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse also pointed to the Koch Brothers as a reason for amending the Constitution, and accused them of coercing Republicans into giving up on climate change legislation. Before Citizens United, the Republicans had a candidate for president willing to have a climate change plan, he said, and brought a carbon regulations bill to the Senate floor. But now “the Koch brothers, the biggest polluters in this country have gotten together, and they’ve silenced them.”

Silenced them?  More like exposed them.  I’ve got a solution if people really want to get money out of politics and especially out of Washington D.C.  We should repeal the 17^th Amendment and let States’ legislators decide who represents their interest, as was intended by our founding fathers.  The progressive experiment has proven to be a failure; it’s time to right this ship before Democrats turn this country into a totalitarian hell hole.  

Source: http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/08/shut-up-already-senate-dems-want-to-amend-the-constitution-to-stop-koch-brothers-ads/#ixzz3CpTGT1tU

Bill Clinton Hijacks Ukrainian Cause

I’m convinced politicians are sociopaths, especially democrats.  Bill Clinton is a perfect example.  This man harps on the Ukrainian president for privatizing his office, when he did the same thing in the White House.  Does anyone remember the Chinese tea parties?  Charlie Tree anyone?  Oh yeah, he sold missile technology to the Chicoms in lieu of campaign donations.  Let’s not forget how he turned the Lincoln bedroom into a Motel 6? Anyone remember that?  And the list goes on and on.

Bill Clinton proclaims that democrats should take back this country.  Take it back from whom, the millions of illegal aliens the Democratic Party caters too?  We all know citizenship means nothing to these people.  And that applies to both illegal aliens and the democrats.

Hell, I wouldn’t doubt Bubba secretly admires King Obama for flouting our laws.  The bureaucratic state unloads thousands of rules and regulations without the consent of our elected representatives.  The federal courts run roughshod over states and Congress in their quest to advance the liberal agenda.  And Christian principles are shamed and cloistered.

The Ukrainian peoples’ distress is the same as America’s Tea Party.  It is laughable for statist like Bill Clinton to hijack their cause as a vehicle to advance the Democratic Party’s totalitarian agenda.

Rush 2112: The Priest of the Federal Bureaucracy

It’s hard to believe that Rush 2112 album will be 40 in the year 2016.  I’ll never forget the first time I heard it.  I was a kid listening to an 8 track tape through headphones.  It was mind blowing.

Reflecting upon the songs and our current political situation, one can see the parallels between the Priest of the Temple of Syrinx and their dystopian totalitarianism and our current federal government.  Liberals have adopted the federal bureaucracy as their God. The bureaucrat as their priest. And Washington D.C. is their temple.   And the rest of us, well, we’ll just be taken care of:

We've taken care of everything 
The words you hear, the songs you sing 
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes 
It's one for all and all for one 
We work together, common sons 
Never need to wonder how or why 

We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx 
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls 
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx 
All the gifts of life are held within these walls 

Look around at this world we've made 
Equality our stock in trade 
Come and join the Brotherhood of Man 
Oh, what a nice, contented world 
Let the banners be unfurled 
Hold the Red Star proudly high in hand 

We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx 
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls 
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx 
All the gifts of life are held within these walls  



  

Obamacare Chaffs American Citizens

Today is the official day of the Obamacare fiasco.  Once again we are to live through the consequences of good intentions that most certainly will go bad.  Any time a government entity tries to implement price controls instead of allowing the free market to work, eventually leads to higher prices and shortages.

Democrats keep harping that Republicans are denying people access to affordable health care, when in fact it is their policies that are the real culprit.  The Cato Institute published a report in 2004 on the cost of health care regulations.  Here is an excerpt: 

"Based on consensus estimates about the impact of higher prices on how many would likely drop health insurance, this increased cost implies a 3.8 percent reduction in the demand for coverage. This translates into 6.8 million uninsured whose plight arguably might be attributed to excess regulatory costs, or roughly one in six of the average daily uninsured."

And as for fraud and abuse:

"Even though the government collects $2.1 billion in enforcement penalties (treated here as a transfer), the gross cost of health care fraud and abuse regulation is estimated to be $3.2 billion, inclusive of government regulatory costs, industry compliance costs, and efficiency losses from tax collection and regulatory costs. All industry compliance costs (including enforcement penalties) are treated as roughly equivalent to an excise tax."

Progressives love centralized authority.  Recently, Venezuela took over a toilet paper factory because of shortages; shortages which the Venezuelan government caused through price controls.  Now their citizens are walking around with chaffed asses.  Soon the American people will be chaffed too. 

Source:  http://ca.news.yahoo.com/venezuela-orders-temporary-takeover-toilet-paper-factory-002437055.html

http://mises.org/econsense/ch34.asp

http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa527.pdf

War Drums

Rafael Cruz at Free the People

This man knows about totalitarian government from first hand experience.  We can see where his son, Senator Ted Cruz, gets his passion. 

H/T:  Weasel Zippers 

Celebrating Diversity Through Homogenization

Ask a liberal what makes this country great, and they will tell you diversity is what makes this country great.  Our constitution and federalist principles don’t even register with these people.  Liberals are so accepting of diversity that they will use the federal bureaucracy to target tea partiers and constitutionalist.  If they don’t put you in your place by an unelected bureaucrat, the Supreme Court will step in and strike down laws passed by our elected representatives, and lecture us on how awful of a people we are.  Liberals celebrate diversity all right.  They celebrate diversity through homogenization.

The Supreme Court’s ruling striking down section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is another example of a judicial smack down.   Our elected representatives passed a law stating that the federal government only recognized a marriage between one woman and one man.  Well, no longer.  Here is an excerpt from American Progress:

Section 3 of DOMA—a federal law passed in 1996 that defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman for the purpose of federal administrative policies—denied LGBT couples access to more than 1,000 federal programs and benefits available to opposite-sex married couples. And because the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, incorporated Section 3’s definition of marriage in immigration law and policies, one of the benefits denied to approximately 24,700 LGBT couples was the ability to sponsor a foreign-born spouse for family-based immigration. As a result, either some LGBT spouses of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents were deported or LGBT Americans were forced to choose between the people they love and the country they love. This practice violated a basic principle of American immigration policy: family reunification. Since the Obama administration is on record favoring same-sex marriage, USCIS should immediately begin processing LGBT spousal immigrant-visa applications the same way it processes applications for opposite-sex couples.

So now we have a bastardization of a federal law that recognizes same-sex marriage in only the states that allow this abomination.  You can damn well bet this is just the beginning.  Those who value traditional marriage will be harassed.  Religious organizations will be sued for not sanctifying gay unions.  Anyone who speaks out against the LGBT community will lose their jobs or their businesses.  Doubt me?  It’s already happening.

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a suit against a florist who refused to serve as the flower supplier for a same-sex wedding.

Gay marriage was legalized and went into effect in 2012, and hundreds of gay couples have filed for marriage licenses. The law is now being tested in a case that pits the state against Arlene’s Flowers and Gifts owner Barronelle Stutzman of Richland, Wash.

Ms. Stutzman said in a March interview with KEPR that she turned down a customer’s request to supply his same-sex wedding ceremony with flowers because of religious reasons. The man, Robert Ingersoll, was a 10-year customer of the shop, she told KEPR.

“[Mr. Ingersoll] said he decided to get married and before he got through, I grabbed his hand and said, ‘I am sorry. I can’t do your wedding because of my relationship with Jesus Christ.’ We hugged each other and he left, and I assumed it was the end of the story,” she said to KEPR.

But it wasn’t. Mr. Ingersoll and partner Curt Reed took to the online community to tell their flower-shop refusal — and that’s when the attorney general’s office got involved, Raw Story reported.

 

Let’s celebrate more of that diversity.

Source:   http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/11/wash-state-attorney-general-sues-florist-refusing-/#ixzz2XNFtsl00

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2013/06/26/68033/what-the-doma-decision-means-for-lgbt-binational-couples/

Look Away, Red State Land

It looks like the Divided States of America is having another great awakening.  Liberty loving citizens have signed petitions to secede from the union, as a form of protest, over an ever grasping federal government.  Red states are taking a stand against the totalitarians that infest Washington D. C.  Recently, Kansas passed a law protecting its citizens from federal gun-grabbing laws.  South Carolina’s state House passed a bill that would prohibit anyone from enforcing Obamacare on individuals and businesses.  And the whole country knows about Texas.

 

This is just the opening salvos of what is to be a long and contentious war of attrition.  Either we can accept the Democratic Party’s notion of America by disabusing ourselves of federalism and a constitution; or, we as a people can renounce the progressive movement by repealing the 14^th, 16^th, and 17^th amendments, and restore limited government and the genius of our founding.

Even libtards are coming to the realization that this country cannot stand; either we are free, or totalitarian.  Lee Siegel of the Daily Beast wrote an article about our nation's conundrum.  Of course, he characterized Southerners as a bunch of illiterate hayseeds completely devoid of common sense, education and culture. 

We hillbillies have come to expect that kind of condescending attitude from elitist snobs from New York City.  Their sense of superiority is something to behold, even as their citizens flee their collective utopia.  United Van Lines submits an annual report.  I don’t see anyone migrating to blue states.  I beg you Mr. Siegel, please put up a Berlin-style wall to keep your teat squawking carpetbaggers from invading the South.  We already have a problem with illegal aliens; we don’t need your ilk down here.

What Mr. Siegel fails to understand is this isn’t a repeat of the War of Northern Aggression.  What we have is a rural vs. urban conflict.  The last general election is indicative of what truly divides America.  Take a look at the county by county map.  That says it all.

 

 If we are able to repeal the aforementioned amendments, and if States can implement a proportional Electoral College system, we can marginalize the paternalistic tyranny of libtards like Lee Siegel.  I don’t mind the ranting and ravings of an elitist snob, just as long as they stay out of my life.

Source:  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/30/memo-to-the-south-go-ahead-secede-already.html

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/2/attorney-general-eric-holder-kansas-gov-sam-brownb/#ixzz2S9yQjV55

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/2/south-carolina-house-passes-bill-making-obamacare-/

Evolution from Federalism to Totalitarianism

The past couple of weeks have been interesting.  The steady, unrelenting assault on citizenship and personal liberty is something to behold.  Here in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, the media – both newspaper and liberal talk radio, have renounced the principles of our Constitution.  Actually, I don’t believe the “broadcast specialist” at WBT 1110 AM understand the concept of federalism.

 

 

 

Recently, both the morning and afternoon local “talent” criticized two North Carolina republicans for trying to protect our local governments from the abuses of the ACLU and the federal government by introducing a bill that reemphasized our Founders’ intent on the First Amendment.  Somehow, the progressives have equated prayer at county commissioner meetings as establishing a religion.  This conclusion is historically inaccurate.

The establishment of a religion, as our founders meant, is the federal government imposing a tax on the several states to support a state sanctioned “religion.”  A religion being Anglican, Congregationalist, Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, etc…etc…  A religion was not considered Hinduism, Islamic, Buddhism, Judaism or Christianity. 
    
Look, the majority of us are victims of a public education, and to a greater extent the indoctrination of our universities.  But when we reach adulthood, you’d think a little intellectual curiosity would carry the day, especially those who pontificate on the great issues of our time.  I ask where did we go wrong.

 It all started back in 1857, when political science was introduced at Columbia and John Hopkins.  Francis Lieber was a German immigrant deeply influenced by Hegel.   Progressives such as Woodrow Wilson embraced this foreign philosophy.  Here is an excerpt from Bradley C. S.  Watson’s Living Constitution, Dying Faith:

 

The birth of American political science created a bastion within the academy for the view that perpetual societal improvement is possible and inevitable, partly because of evolutionary unfolding, but partly with aid of the right kind of superintendence.  The institutional and theoretical departures implied by this view would have made the new political science unrecognizable to the American Founders, whose “new science” in its dismissive contempt for traditional political philosophy, unchanging principles of political right, and ideas and institutions from prior centuries, turned its back on the Founders.  For the most part, it still does.  American political science therefore remains almost genetically incapable of understanding the Constitution of the fathers.
 

Now, we have people like this guy teaching college kids.
 

 

 Evolution at its finest.   

Source:  http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4702 

Suzanna Hupp's Pro Second Amendment Testimony

I remember when this happened.  What we are witnessing is the same thing over and over again.  These kind of killers are cowards.  Every time one of these sick bastards are confronted, they retreat and put a bullet in their head.  Had they not been confronted they would've kept on killing.

This is the kind of testimony Progressives don't want the American people to see.  Self-empowerment is a threat to their totalitarian designs.

H/T:  I Own the World 

 

Progressives Bemoan Their Own Constitution

Last month a law professor from Georgetown University stated the cause of our nation’s woes can be traced to our Constitution.  He believes it is an archaic, idiosyncratic, and evil document.  This professor of 40 years bemoans our dysfunctional system.

Here is an excerpt from his New York Times op-ed:

Our obsession with the Constitution has saddled us with a dysfunctional political system, kept us from debating the merits of divisive issues and inflamed our public discourse. Instead of arguing about what is to be done, we argue about what James Madison might have wanted done 225 years ago.

As someone who has taught constitutional law for almost 40 years, I am ashamed it took me so long to see how bizarre all this is. Imagine that after careful study a government official — say, the president or one of the party leaders in Congress — reaches a considered judgment that a particular course of action is best for the country. Suddenly, someone bursts into the room with new information: a group of white propertied men who have been dead for two centuries, knew nothing of our present situation, acted illegally under existing law and thought it was fine to own slaves might have disagreed with this course of action. Is it even remotely rational that the official should change his or her mind because of this divination?

It never fails.  A liberal always has to denigrate our founding.  Yes, these were men of property.  And yes, they were white and some did own slaves, but not all of them.  Many were against the institution of slavery and did their best to stop it.  But that somehow gets lost in the ranting of the lunatic left.  And as far as making changes to that stagnant, archaic document, the Constitution has been amended 26 times, including the 13^th which prohibits slavery.  But what difference does that make?  That fact doesn’t fit the narrative of the tenured, Ivory Towered academic who wants a streamlined utopia.  Change must come here and now.  He wants a tyranny of the majority.  But he doesn’t see it that way.    

IN the face of this long history of disobedience, it is hard to take seriously the claim by the Constitution’s defenders that we would be reduced to a Hobbesian state of nature if we asserted our freedom from this ancient text. Our sometimes flagrant disregard of the Constitution has not produced chaos or totalitarianism; on the contrary, it has helped us to grow and prosper.

This is not to say that we should disobey all constitutional commands. Freedom of speech and religion, equal protection of the laws and protections against governmental deprivation of life, liberty or property are important, whether or not they are in the Constitution. We should continue to follow those requirements out of respect, not obligation.

Are we getting that respect today?  I would say we’re not.  The federal government has trampled all over our property rights; freedom of speech, association and religion; and as for life, well Planned Parenthood is a sanctioned government entity.  So, I would agree with the professor that our founder’s principles have been ignored.   I will go even further and state that today’s Constitution no way resembles that of our founding.  This is the Progressives’ Constitution and not the one our founders established.

The professor stated that ignoring our Constitution has allowed us to grow and prosper.  Yeah, we’ve prospered to the tune of $17 trillion in debt.  Of course, he, like so many of his ilk doesn’t see a problem with that.  And this “prosperity” wasn’t due to ignoring the Constitution.  No, this wouldn’t have been possible without the 16^th and the 17^th Amendments.  We can thank the Progressives for that.  Most notably, the two presidents Mr. Seidman acclaimed in his article.  With the dissolution of States representation in the Senate and a limitless credit line, the utopians have destroyed our founder’s federalist system.  Constitutional commands are damned.  These rascals have destroyed us from within.  And the brilliant Professor Louis Seidman isn’t able to see it.  Too bad that Ivory Tower doesn’t have windows.

Source:  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/opinion/lets-give-up-on-the-constitution.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57566014/professor-take-our-country-back-from-the-constitution/