From HaltTheAssault.com we find a union member’s response to the union bailouts.
Government
National Healthcare Saves $$ By Letting Some Patients Suffer
-By Warner Todd Huston
Governor Sarah Palin once complained of those “death panels” in the President’s healthcare policy, a scoff that infuriated Obamacare’s supporters. But the fact is, by its very nature a nationalized healthcare system like the one that Obama wants acts as a “death panel” by denying care to save money. We don’t have to guess at this eventuality, either. We have but to look to England’s health services and we’ll see the exact situation that Palin warned about.
A recent piece published in the Daily Mail reports that the British National Health Service is going to deny services to millions of Britain’s citizens in order to save twenty billion pounds of the NHS budget. “Millions of patients face losing NHS care as bosses prepare to axe treatments to make £20billion of savings by 2014, a top doctor has warned,” the paper warns.
British medical services will likely soon deny hernia treatments, joint replacement for overweight patients, ear procedures (even for children), nose and eye operations, varicose vein procedures, gallbladder and also carpal tunnel procedures. And this isn’t something new. The Brits already deny all sorts of modern medicines because they feel the costs are too high.
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National Healthcare Saves $$ By Letting Some Patients Suffer”
Gov. Christie Knows Teachers Unions are the Schoolyard Bullies
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has decided that to protect our children’s futures beating the schoolyard bully is the way to go. But who is the bully? Is it the sign carrying, whiney teachers? No, it’s their powermongering, kid unfriendly unions pushing teachers to act like bullies.
The unions are the bullies and THAT is who Christie is staring down!
So far THIS governor is the real deal.
Obama’s House of Cards
-By Alan Caruba
Ever since polls have been taken there have been presidents who encountered disapproval during their terms in office. Usually history exonerates them to some degree. This is not likely to happen with Barack Obama.
As this is written, a Politico.com polls puts Obama’s job disapproval rating at 46.4% and Congress has a disapproval rate of 72%, a figure matched by Rasmussen Reports. Obama’s disapproval rate according to Rasmussen was 44%.
Polls, we are always told, are “snapshots” of public opinion at a given time, but the polls consistently tell us that the vast majority of Americans disapprove of the President and Congress, and believe the nation is headed in the wrong direction.
In a recent Wall Street Journal column, Peggy Noonan, wrote “I don’t see how the president’s position and popularity can survive the oil spill. This is his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all, as they say, unforced errors, meaning they were shaped by the president’s judgment and instincts.”
Suffice it to say that, if elections were being held next Tuesday, voters would replace most of those in Congress and, if Obama’s ratings continue to fall—-and I think they will—-there would be an angry mob surrounding the White House carrying torches and pitchforks demanding his resignation.
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Obama’s House of Cards”
Check out TheBlagoFiles.com
From the Illinois GOP…
The Illinois Republican Party has launched a comprehensive web site to follow the trial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. “The Blago Files” will be updated regularly with summaries of the court proceedings and links to the vast news coverage expected over the next several weeks.
We are looking forward to helping Illinois voters keep up with all of the testimony. The trial will put the spotlight right where it belongs: on the corruption that’s been allowed to fester far too long under Democratic Party control in Illinois.
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Check out TheBlagoFiles.com”
Bill Brady for Illinois: With Quinn at Helm 218,000 Illinois Jobs Lost
From Brady for Illinois Governor…
As usual, Governor Pat Quinn is attempting to distract from the real issues and his failure to lead. This time, he has help from the Democrat Governor’s Association.
On Friday, Governor Quinn was criticized for taking $75,000 in campaign contributions from the Teamsters – just before using his power to change McCormick Place reforms in order to specifically benefit the union. If not overruled by the General Assembly, Governor Quinn’s actions could have cost Chicago 66,000 jobs in the convention and tourism industry.
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Bill Brady for Illinois: With Quinn at Helm 218,000 Illinois Jobs Lost”
Thanks for Not Reading the Bill Bean
From the Palatine Tea Party…
(Palatine, Illinois) – The Democrats were in such a rush to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) before they wrote it, they did not notice it was missing the ‘severability’ clause. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it best, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
Investopedia defines a ‘severability’ clause as, “a contract with a severability clause is essentially one contract divided into many different parts: default on one component of the contract does not prevent the rest of the contract from being fulfilled. If a sentence, clause or term in a contract is deemed invalid by a court, then this problem area of the contract will most often be rewritten to fit both the contract’s original intent and the requirements of the court”.
If a court rules any part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional it will likely mean the entire law will be thrown out.
If Melissa Bean read the 2,400 page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act then why did a 3 term congresswoman not notice the missing ‘severability’ clause?
Government Unions vs Taxpayers
On average, Federal workers are making twice as much in yearly salary plus benefits as taxpayers do.
Don’t Hurt the Loser’s Feelings: Kids Told Not to Win Games By Too Much
-By Warner Todd Huston
A kiddie soccer league in Ottawa is oh, so concerned about the feelings of its little players. These poor kiddies will just wilt and turn to mush if they lose by too much according to league officials. So, in order to protect the delicate feelings of Canada’s youngsters, league officials have implemented a rule that forces an automatic loss for any team beating another team by more than 5 goals.
Yes, you heard me right. A winning team will automatically lose if they are winning by more than 5 goals.
Now, I’d like to puff my chest and laugh at this Cannuckle-headed foolishness. I’d love to point up to the Great White North and scoff at their lack of manliness, their limp-wristed PCisms, their mindbendingly idiotic paean to “feeealwings.” Yes, I’d love to say that no American would ever stoop to such milquetoastiness. Unfortunately, Politically Correct halfwits infect both sides of the border, up there and down here alike, and we in the States have just as many numb-chucks as the Cannucks have Cannuckle-heads.
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Don’t Hurt the Loser’s Feelings: Kids Told Not to Win Games By Too Much”
All White Swim Meet Celebrates 8 Years of Excellence
-By Warner Todd Huston
It’s smiles all around for the National White Heritage Swim Meet held since 2003 near Raleigh, Durham North Carolina. This year nearly 750 swimmers have come from as far away as Florida and Illinois to compete.
“Look at all the people,” said Kenny Cross of Raleigh. “This is where champions are born.”
The all white swim teams were created in an effort to raise interest in swimming in white people. Of course, everyone is welcome….
Wait. Does this make you uncomfortable? Does an all white swim meet make you uneasy and raise the specter of racism? Is it wrong to have an all white swim meet?
Only they aren’t… all white, I mean. They are instead all black.
Still feel the same way?
If not, why?
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All White Swim Meet Celebrates 8 Years of Excellence”
When I was a child, I Thought Like the Obama Administration
Paul A. Ibbetson
Remember when you were in grade school, or dare I say high school, and you found yourself in a humiliating situation after having failed to read the day’s assignment and being called to expound upon your of knowledge in front of the class? If this happened to you then you don’t need me to frame how things transpired, since for most, this was a situation of distress, confusion, sadness, and shame. The memory of facing the class and trying to repel each of the teacher’s questions like incoming missiles can create a sheen of perspiration on the brow even today.
Some people find they relive these situations in their dreams from time to time when the sandman decides to deal them a dirty hand at bedtime. For most, the saving grace that allows us to break free from such situations is that we grew up and took on the responsibility to prepare for the tasks that we face today. This truth is eloquently stated in the Bible in Corinthians, “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.” How the Obama administration could gain from following these wise words!
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When I was a child, I Thought Like the Obama Administration”
AFP, Illinois: How Did We Get In This Mess?
From Americans for Prosperity, Illinois…
How Did We Get In This Mess?
The State’s fiscal problems didn’t occur overnight! Click here to view a snapshot of how we got into this mess!
“November is Coming” and not a minute too soon…
At the start of this year’s legislative session Governor Quinn and the General Assembly were looking down the barrel of a political shotgun. Illinois was facing record debt; record backlog of unpaid bills; record unemployment rates; record deficits and the taxpayers were demanding ACTION. Click here to find out what we got.
AFP-IL Launches Springfield Chapter
AFP-IL is excited to announce that the founder of the Illinois Policy Institute, Greg Blankenship, has joined Americans for Prosperity and will be building an AFP chapter in Springfield. Greg has already partnered with local activist and is leading an effort to hold the Springfield Park District accountable for how they spend taxpayer dollars.
Articles of Interests
A Small Step Toward Fiscal Reform
Time to Fight Back Against the EPA’s Power Grab
Cap-and-trade magic show
Crippled By The Unions
Obama Chief of Staff Emanuel Subpoenaed For Blago Trial
-By Warner Todd Huston
It has been confirmed that Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief of staff, has been subpoenaed by Rod Blagojevich’s defense team in his upcoming trial the Sun-Times is reporting.
Blago defense team Shelly Sorosky told the Times, “Yes, he’s been subpoenaed by the defense,” and went on to call Emanuel a “critical witness.”
Sorosky said there are two areas of interest involving Emanuel: the alleged attempted extortion of Emanuel by then-Gov. Blagojevich and the U.S. senate seat selection concerning now-White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.
According to Sorosky, the blago team has subpoenaed a whole retinue of Washington types for just-in-case needs. Already they’ve subpoenaed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
Former Governor Blagojevich is under indictment for attempting to sell Barack Obama’s vacated illinois Senate seat.
The trial is now empanelling the jurors and the trial will soon be under way.
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Obama Chief of Staff Emanuel Subpoenaed For Blago Trial”
Harry Reid’s Push To Nationalize ALL Cop/Firemen Unions
-By Warner Todd Huston
Senate Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid is quietly trying to nationalize rules governing every police, fire and first responder union in the nation. Through the benignly named Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act (H.R.413) Reid wants all first responders represented by collective bargaining rules emanating from Washington D.C. Naturally he thinks that it is necessary as a matter of national security.
Reid is pushing this monstrosity as a major sop to his union supporters who will greatly benefit from nationalized rules for police and fire unions. This plan would replace with federal rules all state laws on collective bargaining between state and local governments and their first responder unions and would greatly empower unions to dictate pay scales and benefits on a national level.
Imagine the loss of control that local governments will face when first responder unions no longer have to deal with local rules and laws but can force a federal one-size-fits-all style rule on all local governments. Local governments will no longer be able to determine pay scales and benefits and will lose control of their own ability to budget. Reid’s plan will also completely remove the ability of voters to have any say in local matters as a top down control from Washington will rule the day where it concerns local police, fire and other first responders.
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Harry Reid’s Push To Nationalize ALL Cop/Firemen Unions”
Hispanic Pandering Cook County Commish Attacks Commish Peraica, Son of Immigrants
-By Warner Todd Huston
This is how hatemongers like Cook County Eddie Reyes play their little games, isn’t it? In Tuesday’s Cook County Board meeting a resolution to boycott Arizona-based companies to exclude them from being patronized by Cook County government was discussed and the pandering Reyes as much as called Commissioner Tony Peraica, himself a son of immigrants, a racist because he voted against the boycott of Arizona companies.
During the debate, Reyes told Peraica, “and Tony, honestly, you should be ashamed of yourself for being a son of immigrants and going thru the process and not having the heart to support this issue.”
Like many of his pandering ilk, Reyes imagines that the Arizona law is merely some race card issue he can throw out. Peraica did not take kindly to being called a racist, however.
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Hispanic Pandering Cook County Commish Attacks Commish Peraica, Son of Immigrants”
New NC Union-Based Political Party Fails to Get Enough Petition Signatures
-By Warner Todd Huston
Back in April we reported that unions in North Carolina banded together to try and start their own political party (as if the Democrats weren’t in thrall to them anyway). Well we are happy to report that the new North Carolina Families First Party failed to get the required number of petition signatures to authorize the effort.
This is not stopping the SEIU-based group from trying to punish North Carolina Democrats that aren’t sufficiently left-wing enough to suit them, however.
The Washington Post is reporting that the Service Employees International Union has recruited a candidate to run against first term Democrat Rep. Larry Kissell. Kissell was a “no” vote on Obamacare earlier this year.
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New NC Union-Based Political Party Fails to Get Enough Petition Signatures”
When I Was a Child….
-By John Armor
Here are recent events concerning the new Arizona law on illegal immigrants in that state. First, the state passes a law which exactly tracks federal law on who is, or is not, an illegal immigrant. Then, President Obama and several other officials of the federal government condemn the law without bothering to read it.
The most common claim against the law is that it authorizes any law enforcement personnel to go up to any person anywhere in Arizona and “demand their papers.” Anyone who bothers to read the law knows this statement is a lie. In an interesting development, it turns out that California law has the same provision that Arizona has just established – once any policemen has made a legitimate stop for any reason, questions can be asked about citizenship.
There are apparently only two major differences between Arizona and California. California has no intention of enforcing its own laws. And, California politicians have a much higher tolerance for hypocrisy and dishonesty than those in Arizona.
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When I Was a Child….”
Gay Blogger Claims Mark Kirk (R, IL) Told Him He’s Gay
-By Warner Todd Huston
Michael Rogers has made an unsavory name for himself “outing” gay politicians. Today he has targeted for his next “outing” operation GOP Illinois Senate candidate Congressman Mark Kirk. It’s something Rogers says he’s known since 2004.
Why has Rogers waited some six years to “out” Kirk? Because, Rogers says, Kirk recently announced his support for the Pentagon’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy that keeps gay members of the military serving under a cloud of silence about their sexual preferences. Kirk has said that he does not want DADT repealed and Rogers thinks that is an affront to Kirk’s supposed gay compatriots.
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Gay Blogger Claims Mark Kirk (R, IL) Told Him He’s Gay”
GOP Governor candidate to speak to Schaumburg Twp. GOP
Sate Sen. Bill Brady, the Republican candidate for governor, is scheduled to speak Wednesday night, June 2, to the Schaumburg Township Republican Organization. The candidate and issues forum will convene with a social hour 6-7 p.m., followed by the meeting at Pop’s Pizza, 817 East Nerge Road, Roselle.
‘Never Again’: Obama and the BP Oil Spill
Courtesy of the National Republican Senatorial committee…
Hultgren for Congress: 3 Upcoming Parades, 2 Ways to Help and 1 BIG Endorsement!
From the Hultgren for Congress campaign (14th District)…
My strong record of fighting for job creation and economic growth, while reducing the tax burden for individuals and businesses, has earned our campaign for Congress the endorsement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce!
But, the most important endorsement I can receive is yours, which is why I need you to come out and show your support THIS WEEKEND in 3 upcoming parades!
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Hultgren for Congress: 3 Upcoming Parades, 2 Ways to Help and 1 BIG Endorsement!”
Melissa Bean’s – “The Hill” Ratings
From the Palatine Tea Party…
(Palatine, Illinois) – For the last 5+ years Rep. Melissa Bean has touted government accountability, fiscal responsibility and tax relief. But does her record live up to her rhetoric? What has Rep. Bean been doing on our behalf? For starters, ignoring and avoiding her more conservative constituents. So much for accountability. She also voted for all major deficit laden, big government legislation such as bailouts, stimulus and health care. So much for fiscal responsibility. And has anyone noticed any tax relief in the last 5 years?
So what else should we know about Rep. Bean before the November election? If she’s reelected will her conduct and votes reflect our principles and values? TheHill.com has a section entitled “Lawmaker Ratings” which shows how advocacy groups score politicians on issues. The ranges are 0-100 or A-F. Here are Rep. Bean’s scores.
- Gunowners of America (Pro Second Amendment Lobby) – F*
- National Right to Life Center (Anti Abortion) – 0*
- Family Research Council (Judeo-Christian values) – 5*
- American Conservative Union (Conservative Ideals) – 16*
- National Taxpayers Union (Tax Reform/Small Gov) – 17*
- Club for Growth (Limited Gov/Pro Free Market) – 22*
- Americans for Tax Reform (Small Gov/Flat Tax) – 25*
- Citizens Against Government Waste (Gov Waste Watchdog) – 30*
- Peace Action (Anti War Lobby) – 31*
- Council for a Livable World (Anti WMD Lobby) – 37*
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (Anti War Lobby) – 50*
- Center for Security Policy (Peace through Strength) – 50*
- BIPAC (Business PAC) – 50*
- Numbers USA (Anti Illegal Immigration) – C+*
- National Federation of Independent Business (Small Business Lobby) – 64*
- Americans for Democratic Action (Progressive Ideals) – 65*
- Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (Anti Gun Lobby) – 66*
- Children’s Defense Fund (Social Justice for Children) – 70*
- AFSCME (Government Employees Union) – 71*
- Drum Major Institute (Progressive Ideals) – B*
- Human Rights Campaign (Gay Rights) – 80*
- AFL-CIO (Labor Union) – 82*
- Chamber of Commerce (2008) – 83*
- ACLU (Progressive Causes/Civil Rights) – 83*
- Alliance for Retired Americans (Pro Medicare/Social Security) – 90*
- American Public Health Association (Pro Socialized Medicine) – 100*
- League of Conservation Voters (Environmental Causes) – 100*
- NARAL Pro-Choice America (Pro Abortion) – 100*
- National Education Association (Education Union) – A*
*Datasource provided by The Hill
New Website: Mr. President, Stop Playing Golf
An amusing new site has debuted that asks the president to please, Mr. President, stop playing golf and be a leader!
Catch this “partial list” of the things Obama missed as he wandered the golf course.
- As oil spill spreads and approaches Louisiana coast, President plays golf (5/22/2010)
- Skips visit to Polish Embassy in memory of Polish president; “Fore!” (4/18/2010)
- Plays golf instead of dealing with attempted Christmas Day bombing (12/25/2009)
- Delays decision on Afghanistan troop surge as casualties rise; plays golf (10/25/2009)
- Skips bipartisan negotiations over health care reform to play golf (9/1/2009)
- Plays golf in Massachusetts, fails to visit dying Sen. Ted Kennedy (8/23/2009)
- Misses Israeli Prime Minister’s historic speech offering a two-state solution (6/14/2009)
- Fails to stand up for Iranian democracy demonstrators, plays golf instead (6/14/2009)
- Plays golf as swine flu spreads; no CDC head or Surgeon-General yet (4/26/2009)
- President-elect Obama plays golf during Gaza War, refuses to comment (12/30/2008)
Interesting stuff, though I have one question: do we REALLY want this socialist paying more attention to government? So far the things he has done have been detrimental to the nation! Still, this little site is a way to rib the golfer in Chief, a man that has golfed more than any president ever has while in office.
Publius Podcast: Michigan to License Journalists?
A fool of a Michigan State Senator has proposed a license for journalists. What could go wrong?
President Obama Finally Found His Deportee: A Palestinian Convert to Christianity
-By Warner Todd Huston
After a desperate search of the country, President Barack Hussein Obama is ready to deport someone at long last. And that deportee is a dangerous, horrible man, indeed. His name is Mosab Hassan Yousef and he is a convert from Islam to Christianity who hails from Palestine. To show how dangerous he is, he has written a subversive new book named “Son of Hamas,” a book that denounces Islamic terror and violence and warns Americans of dangers posed them. One other thing is interesting about this man. He is the son of the founder of the Palestinian-based terrorist group Hamas and has turned against those terrorists, his former comrades, and family members.
Yeah. A terrible man, indeed.
Yet, here we have President Barack Hussein Obama’s administration looking to deport this man who stands against Islamic terror, this man that wants an end to radicalized Islam, this man that has converted to the very religion that the bulk of American’s observe.
Yes, that wheezing sound you hear is 20 million illegal Mexican immigrants breathing a sigh of relief. Hussein has found his deportee and they are of the hook.
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President Obama Finally Found His Deportee: A Palestinian Convert to Christianity”
Ill. Gov. Who Says ‘I Always do the Right Thing,’ Said the Same thing About Blago
-By Warner Todd Huston
Sometimes words come back to haunt you, ya know? Ask Illinois Governor Pat Quinn who has just said something that is as bad as when a husband tells his wife she really does look fat in that dress. It’s something that just can’t be forgotten.
Last week Governor Pat “I’m For the Little Guy” Quinn took some guff for his pay-to-play union payoff when he signed an amendatory veto that benefited the Teamsters Union. As soon as Quinn issued the veto that would help the Teamsters his opponents highlighted the fact that Gov. Quinn only last month received $750,000 in political contributions from the union.
Quinn scoffed at the idea that he was handing his union pals a big payoff.
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Ill. Gov. Who Says ‘I Always do the Right Thing,’ Said the Same thing About Blago”
Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way
-By Dan Scott
President Obama during his news conference took great pains to impress upon the public and notably the MSM that he was in charge and was so since day one. He proclaimed on the very first day he had put together a special situational awareness group just to track the progress of the oil spill. So let’s take President Obama at his word that he was in charge since day one and that the buck stopped with him. Let’s look at three of his decisions since the major oil leak turned into an ecological catastrophe of historic proportions.
The government for some years now had worked out a contingency plan for just such an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The well-researched protocol called for a burn off of the fresh crude oil reaching the water’s surface to prevent it from dispersing and drifting to the Gulf Coast. In the event of a massive spill there were only two alternatives, burn it off OR disperse it. The problem with dispersants and why ships in port normally ban its use is it contaminates the water column making it potentially poisonous to all marine life. This is on top of the potential poisonous nature of the dispersant itself. Once the magnitude of the spill became clear, only a few days were available to burn off the crude before it dispersed too widely for an effective burn off. President Obama, the man who claims to be in charge in essence made the fateful decision to disregard the oil spill protocol and dither thus forcing the use of dispersant to mitigate the damage to the estuaries. You may want to defend him to say, people in the various agencies made these decisions such as the EPA, NOAA, USCG, Army Corps of Engineers and MMS. However, as the man in charge, the buck stops with him and as such not only is he responsible for their actions because he hand picked most of the department heads, he was fully apprised every step of the way. The insight here is President Obama’s management style of decision by committee, where he, the President gets the credit for all the correct decisions and anytime a wrong decision is made someone gets thrown under the bus. Hence Elizabeth Birnbaum (hand picked by Obama) of MMS falls on her sword, resigning because she was responsible for the lack of monthly inspections of the oilrig that never took place while Obama was in office. Yes apparently inspections didn’t occur under George W Bush’s watch either, however, missing 15 months worth is still way too many to claim Bush did it when Obama’s hand picked leader was running the show.
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Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way”
Happy Memorial Day, 2010: Remembering HOW They Serve
-By Warner Todd Huston
It is very, very easy to forget that the members of our American military even exist. Unlike other peoples we don’t live in a nation where the members of our military are skulking around our streets, automatic weapons in hand, glaring menacingly at each citizen and they pass by during their daily activities. We don’t have soldiers extorting travelers, forcing themselves on politicians, or threatening autonomous action at home. We are lucky like that.
So, since they aren’t always under foot and as highly visible to the average citizen as the military of other nations, it is easy to forget the U.S. military is out there fighting hard for our safety. But that is how our founders meant it to be. You see, unlike other nations whose military is part of the ruling class, whose soldiers are the cynical arm of tinpot dictators, our soldiers serve us… it’s not the ‘tother way ’round.
That’s right, the soldiers that make up America’s armed forces really are serving their country, not being served by her. And that little-remembered aspect of our military’s everyday charge is something we really need to celebrate even as it is something we often over look.
Certainly it is good and right to honor those troops that have given their last full measure fighting for our safety and liberties. It is also right that we honor those that are serving or have served. But let’s honor them not just for their service but also for their forbearance from becoming the same sort of menacing, dangerous, oppressive force that the military in other countries so often are.
Let us thank each member of our armed forces for keeping the charge that our founders entrusted to them, a charge that makes our military the scourge of evil in the world but lambs at home. They face the bullets and bombs of our enemies on foreign soil but at home they help us through disasters and make us feel safer. This is a civilized state of affairs that doesn’t exist in most other nations and our soldiers were some of the first in man’s history to ever serve their fellows in such an honorable way.
As we thank our solders for their service, let’s remember that as some of the most heavily armed soldiers in the world, they are still honorable enough to really serve us instead of attempting to rule us as so many other nation’s soldiers do.
This truly selfless service makes of our soldiers citizens that are a step above those armed oppressors of other nations and it is just one more aspect of their service to we the people that we must never forget.
Happy Memorial Day 2010
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Happy Memorial Day, 2010: Remembering HOW They Serve”
Bubba Playing the Anti-Union Card?
-By Warner Todd Huston
Could it be? Could Bill Clinton be supporting a candidate because that candidate is not the union choice? Well, apparently Hell hath frozen over because your favorite lip-biting president and mine… OK, not our favorite, but you know… appeared at a fund raising event for Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln and said he supports her because she isn’t the chosen candidate of those nasty “outside” unions — as in Big Labor that comes from outside Arkansas.
Arkansas is not very union friendly, it should be remembered. After all it is a right to work state and one of the main reasons the unions are mad at Lincoln is that she was one of the few Democrats that have been soft on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). This is why Big Labor has been supporting her opponent, Lt. Gov. Bill Halter.
Democrats think that Lincoln has a much better chance against what ever Republican that might face her than Halter does because he is the Big Labor candidate. Plus she is an incumbent and the party machinery is built to push her candidacy.
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Bubba Playing the Anti-Union Card?”
Rand Paul’s Inadvertent Warning to Tea Partiers and Conservatives
-By James Simpson
Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media and America’s Survival has a post at News With Views about Rand Paul’s now infamous gaffes on the Rachel Maddow Show. In it he warns that some of Rand’s libertarian views could put him at odds with conservatives on a variety of issues and open him to criticism from all sides.
According to Kincaid, “The libertarian movement was the product of seminars held by the far-left Institute for Policy Studies back in the 1960s and 70s.” And while libertarians are good on fiscal matters, because they believe in limited government, their isolationist positions on national defense, if adopted, would provide opportunities for our enemies to flourish and grow in the vacuum created by our absence.
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Rand Paul’s Inadvertent Warning to Tea Partiers and Conservatives”