Americans, Act Worthy of Yourselves

4th of July? What's that about?

The Progressive education system at its finest.

Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration

Ben Franklin on the lead guitar.  Now that's something you don't see everyday.

Our Amnesty Mess

Bill Whittle nails it straight on.  Mexico – and Latin American in general – are dysfunctional.  They have been ever since the beginning of the Western Hemisphere.  We can expect to have immigration problems with our southern neighbors until we ourselves become as dysfunctional as they.  And considering the mass invasion from the Third-World, it could possibly happen within my lifetime.

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about Mexico when he toured the United States in the 1800’s.  His observations are as true today as they were in the 19^th century.

The Constitution of the United States is akin to those fine creations of human endeavor which crown their inventors with renown and wealth but remain sterile in others hands.

Contemporary Mexico has illustrated this very thing.

The Mexicans, aiming for a federal system, took the federal constitution of their neighbors, the Anglo-Americans, as their model and copied it almost exactly. But although they transported the letter of the law, they failed to transfer at the same time the spirit which gave it life. As a result, they became tangled endlessly in the machinery of the double system of government. The sovereignty of the states and Union entered into a collision course as they exceeded the sphere of influence assigned to them by the constitution. Even today Mexico veers constantly from anarchy to military despotism and back again.

We are on the same collision course.  Most Americans cannot distinguish our double system of government.  Our federalist system is lost upon them.  It took many years for the Progressives to destroy our heritage.  We now have congressmen who state they aren’t constitutional scholars when confronted about their acts.  And these people are supposed to the best and brightest amongst us.

Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at how well the common man understood our dual system.  And they weren't constitutional scholars.

Once the general theory is well understood, the difficulties of applying it remain; these are countless because the sovereignty of the Union is so entwined in that of the states that it is impossible at first glance to see its limits. Everything in such a government is arbitrary and contrived and it can only suit a nation long accustomed to self-government and where political science reaches right down to the lowest rungs of society. Nothing has made me admire the good sense and practical intelligence of the Americans more than the way they evade the countless difficulties which derive from their federal constitution. I have scarcely ever encountered a single man of the common people in America who did not perceive with surprising ease the obligations entailed in the laws of Congress and those which owe their beginnings to the laws of his own state, nor who could not separate the matters belonging to the general prerogatives of the Union from those regulated by his local legislature and who could not point to where the competence of the federal courts begins and the limitation of the state tribunals ends.

 Mexico here we come!

H/T:  NC Renegade

Black Women Can't Possibly Be Racist

A dialogue of sorts on race relations is permeating through our national discourse.  It seems that black women have a license to discriminate against white men and call us all sorts of racist names, because according to them their not racist. 

A Mecklenburg County commissioner is under fire for making statements with racial overtones that have some people calling for removal – or at least a reprimand.

This time, it’s not Bill James, the longtime Republican commissioner who’s been known to utter divisive remarks.

It’s Kim Ratliff, the board’s Democratic vice chairwoman, who told WBTV that she’d prefer commissioners not choose a “white male” to be the next county manager.

In the first story, aired Friday, Ratliff, who is black, said the county needs a manager who is “a nonwhite male who can have good working relations with all people.”

A second story, aired Monday, had Ratliff standing by her statement, though she said she may not have used the right choice of words.

On Wednesday, Ratliff told the Observer that her remarks were “taken out of context” and that her intentions weren’t to cut white men out of the application process.

“I was saying I want all types of people to apply, not just white men. And black men,” she said. “We know they are going to apply. I want women to take a shot at it. We have a lot of women in leadership roles across the country. But a lot of times when positions come open, women are apprehensive about stepping up.

It looks like the best applicant for a job at Mecklenburg County is anyone but a white male.  And to emphasize this double standard is the circus, also known as the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin trial.

 

 

Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/06/26/4130686/mecklenburg-county-commissioner.html#storylink=cpy

The Republican Establishment is "The Jerk"

I swear, the Republican establishment reminds me of Steve Martin in the movie, “The Jerk.”  All we need is to pass immigration reform, and that’s all we need.  And, we need to let the “Bush tax cuts” expire and that’s all we need.  Or, we need to get past gay marriage, and that’s all we need.  Or, pander to this or that group and that’s all we need.

The Republican establishment has no core principles.  They are just as pathetic as Navin R. Johnson as he waddles down the sidewalk with his pants around his ankles holding the few possessions he claims is all he needs.  If they keep betraying their base they’ll find themselves homeless without a party.  But I’m sure their liberal buddies are all they need.

Here are the names of the republican senators who betrayed their constituents by passing this poor excuse of an immigration bill:

Republican Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Jeff Flake (Ariz.) — the four GOP authors of the legislation — and Sens. Bob Corker (Tenn.), Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Jeffery Chiesa (N.J.), Susan Collins (Maine), Orrin Hatch (Utah), Dean Heller (Nev.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), John Hoeven (N.D.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) voted for the 1,200-page bill.

 

Source: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/308307-senate-approves-immigration-bill-in-68-32-vote#ixzz2XSxbNCmr

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/06/vote-is-on-in-us-senate-on-landmark-amnesty-bill/

IRS Official Refuses to Admit Targeting Conservatives is Wrong