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GOP Governors Want Special Prosecutor In IRS Case

May 14, 2013 by 3 Comments

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WASHINGTON — Two Republican governors are urging President Barack Obama to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Internal Revenue Service’s admission that it targeted conservative political groups.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker call the allegations “Big Brother come to life.”

They want a special prosecutor to find out if any laws were broken and say Obama should fire any IRS employees responsible for the situation.

Read More at OfficialWire . By Ken Thomas.

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Unions Dying In Wisconsin!

April 12, 2013 by 13 Comments

Scott Walker Unions Dying In Wisconsin!

There is some very good news from Wisconsin. Republican Governor Scott Walker is winning his war with the state’s public employee unions.

When Walker stepped into the political ring to battle his state’s powerful government workers’ unions, no one gave him much chance of surviving, let alone winning.  Walker’s efforts have been startling. He has succeeded beyond what anyone could have foreseen.

Wisconsin’s American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Council 40, has seen its members steadily jump over its plantation walls since Walker, backed by a thin but courageous Republican majority in the state’s legislature, voted to give workers the right to opt out of union membership.

When the law took effect, 31,730 union members were imprisoned in AFSCME’s clutches. They were being extorted for dues, which kept union thugs in a comfortable life style. At first, the newly freed slaves were a bit hesitant to run away even with the gates wide open; so only about 2,000 opted out.

Those was the “good old days” for the union because at the end of last year, its rolls had fallen to just 20,488. Since the first day of Walker’s law, 11,242 union victims have chosen to stop paying their extortionists.

Happily, this is nowhere near the best news from Wisconsin. A Wall Street Journal study confirmed that AFSCME’s  statewide Badger State membership has fallen by an eye popping 34,073  in just two years. More than 46 % of AFSCME’s slaves have run off, taking their union dues with them!

Not surprisingly, Council 40’s expenditures have not been posted since February 2011 when it lost its fight with Walker and its members were freed of their chains. In true Marxist style, Council 40 has not bothered to update its official membership count either and still lists the same 29,777 members it had at the end of 2011.

What else can we expect? With rare exception, unions are run by either the Mafia or devout Marxists. Both lie and hide their true intentions. This union is no different except that it is melting away.  They can lie and deny, but they can’t change the truth.

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Is The Democrat Tower Of Babble Crumbling In California?

March 14, 2013 by 10 Comments

California Is the Democrat tower of Babble crumbling in California?

How was it possible that Scott Walker was able to beat back so many challenges and build his reputation as a “union killer” in a state like Wisconsin, yet Mitt Romney still lost there, even with a popular Paul Ryan as his running mate?   It happened because while the Democrats in Wisconsin and other states are turning on each other, they will stop fighting long enough to re-elect Democrat Barack Obama. This political reality has developed because the rank and file Democrats, who are being forced to work harder to fund the pensions of their “union brothers and sisters” have said “Enough!” They don’t care about Democrat union members now that THEY have learned THEY are funding the pay and benefits packages they THOUGHT were paid for with money picked off a tree (some Democrats are THAT dumb).

This phenomenon is now taking shape in California. The current epicenter of the showdown between the makers and the takers is in San Diego, where voters last year supported reforms (read: reductions) of civil servants’ pension benefits. This, of course, has angered union members.

The cost of paying for the cushy retirements of these people has quintupled over the last dozen years; and at long last, the suckers don’t want to fund them anymore.

Naturally, the unions are fighting back. They’re claiming a lack of “go faith” on the part of the suckers in San Diego.  The union thugs actually believe THEY have the power of “yes or no” in this matter. Why shouldn’t they feel this way? After all, the unions own California, and the suckers work FOR them.

The San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, who can count voters, has come out fighting on this issue saying “We’re not gonna back down one iota, I can tell you that; Because the people do have a right under direct democracy to bypass the city council, to bypass the state legislature, to bypass the labor unions, and to bypass PERB. This is a constitutional right, no different than the first amendment.”

Based on what has happened around the state when other suckers have revolted, Goldsmith looks to be on the winning side. Other local governments are fighting their unions and winning. Surprisingly, even Governor Jerry Brown has joined the fight against the unions in spite of his having been a prime mover in creating this pension mess when he was governor the first time between 1975 and 1983.

What will come of this? Who knows? But any trouble in our enemy’s tent is a good thing.

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President Rand Paul?

March 13, 2013 by 5 Comments

Rand Paul 4 SC President Rand Paul?

If Rand Paul goes on to become President of these United States one day, we will look back on the events of March 6th, 2013 as the catalyst for making that happen. And because of those events, Rand Paul now has more political capital to spend than any elected Republican in the country.

Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster on the Senate floor over the issue of whether or not a White House can unilaterally determine to kill Americans using drone strikes, with no regard whatsoever for the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, did something on a national policy level that hasn’t happened much in recent years—it united the right-of-center coalition in America around principled leadership.

The only other two recent examples of this I can think of were what Scott Walker did to the unionistas in Wisconsin and what Mike Huckabee did for Chick-fil-a. But those events, important as they were, didn’t accomplish what Rand Paul did last week. What we saw was one man’s crusade – if for only one night – bringing the ruling class to its knees. We saw Rand Paul bend Washington, D.C. to his will. We saw him grab them by the throat and force them – milquetoast RINO Mitch McConnell and liberal statist Dick Durbin alike – to respond to him.

When was the last time a Republican in the nation’s capitol did that on a matter of public policy? Has McConnell, the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, ever done that? What about Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner? We already know the answer. The last time a Republican in the beltway moved heaven and earth on a matter of public policy was when George W. Bush wanted to invade Iraq.

Let’s hope this turns out better than that.

You may wish Rand Paul had done this on an issue you care more about than this one, and you may doubt his sincerity (when isn’t it a good time to doubt a politician’s sincerity?), but you also can’t deny the potential political power of this moment. There were the GOP’s other bright shining and emerging stars, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, side-saddling up next to Rand. There was John Thune, who looks like Tarzan but plays like Jane when it comes to politics, hopping on the bandwagon to do something that looked hard for once. Then the next morning, there were the hackneyed symbols of RINO face palms, John “little ball of hate” McCain and Lindsey Graham, predictably lining up to condemn Rand—which only adds to his conservative street cred.

Do you know why what Rand did was so powerful? First, because we are starved for anything that resembles leadership, and leadership is what Rand was showing. We are like parched throats in a desert desperately seeking anything that resembles a drop of water. So many of you have called or emailed me the last few years wondering when someone will stand up and fling the monkey poop right back into the face of a corrupt ruling class. Rand has now done that; and secondly, he did it professionally with no gimmicks and no anger. Rand and his cohorts gave us a clinic in Americanism that would’ve made the Founding Fathers proud. It was a 13-hour lecture on the U.S. Constitution, most of which many Americans had probably never heard before. Rand didn’t need to be cool or chic; Rand just needed to be real. It turns out substance still wins. Who knew?

If you were constructing the perfect storm scenario for Rand Paul to catapult himself to POTUS, you couldn’t have drawn up a kickoff any better than this.

The sequence of events also drew the attention of Bryan Fischer at the American Family Association, which is probably the largest pro-family group in the country in terms of political activism. Fischer tweeted: “Rand filibuster his first campaign speech for 2016. Was a winner on all counts. He’s now the leader of the pack.” That’s significant because Fischer is a prominent voice within a large faction of the conservative grassroots Rand is working hard to forge a coalition with.

There’s no question Rand is now in position to shatter a glass ceiling his father was unable to penetrate despite being a U.S. Congressman for decades. It’s what he does next that will determine whether he closes the sale.

See, Rand Paul has now raised a standard he must meet on a consistent basis. Notice I didn’t say he has to be perfect because nobody is, but he has to be consistent. That doesn’t mean he has to filibuster the U.S. Senate for 13 hours every time they trash the Constitution because you can’t walk through the same river twice anyway. That would just come across as grandstanding.

But what it does mean is that when issues arise that clearly violate the scheme of the Constitution, Rand Paul has set an expectation that he will be among the first to charge the hill in some way, shape, or form. If he doesn’t, he’ll look like a one-trick pony; and a cynical conservative base tired of being taken advantage of will lose interest.

Rand has also raised a standard for his likely 2016 campaign rivals to meet as well. Traditional GOP campaign clichés no longer suffice. We want action. We want somebody to stand up and show they’re as concerned about losing this constitutional republic as we are. For 13 hours last week, Rand Paul did that. Let’s see if he and others can continue to do so.

 

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Kansas To End Its Income Tax

January 30, 2013 by 6 Comments

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In 2004, liberal writer and native Kansan Thomas Frank published “What’s the matter with Kansas?”, his smugly title indictment of the intelligence of Kansans because the state had become such a reliable conservative Republican state. Yes, Kansas has inflicted the phony Kathleen Sebelius; and that is no minor infraction. But generally, Kansas has refused to bow at the altar of liberalism; and that has driven defectively wired liberals like Frank up the wall.

Now Kansas has another nasty surprise for liberals. The Sun Flower State’s Republican governor, Sam Brownback, and its legislatures (which are both lopsidedly controlled by Republicans) want to do away with the state’s income tax.  The Republicans in Kansas weren’t intimidated by Barack Obama’s victory last November. They held the reins of power and fully intend to drive the state in a manner they hope will make it a model for other states to follow.

The changes in how Kansas will be governed have already started. The Republicans provided the largest tax cut in the state’s history and handed off most of its Medicaid system to private insurers.

Brownback has cut welfare rolls, pared down the state’s own workforce, and reorganized government agencies to streamline them for maximum efficiency.  Next up is the ubiquitous pension reform that is the centerpiece of Republican-controlled state reorganization. Just for good measure, he wants to change the process of picking judges and financing state education goals.

Of course, the numbingly predictable whining from Democrats has already begun. They are crying that, “It [tax cuts] kind of eliminates a large group of Kansans out of that pursuit of happiness.”

In response, Brownback says, “I think the unique thing is that we’re applying the principles on how you get your cost down and still provide a high-quality product. That’s been in the private sector, but it hasn’t been in the public sector for 50 years.”

Brownback’s struggle for control of state spending looks a lot like Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker’s struggle to change his state’s government. And the chances are we will hear the same tired liberal complaints.

Given the extent to which conservatives control the state, the question would be “What’s the matter with Kansas?” if Brownback didn’t make these changes.    

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Rallying The Right

January 17, 2013 by 4 Comments

Pat Toomey Rallying the Right

Following the defeat of 2012, it seems as if everyone – yours truly included – has an opinion about where the conservative movement goes from here. But right now presents an excellent opportunity to rally the Right again.

Following the fiscal cliff fiasco, the next big battle inside the beltway will be the debt ceiling in March. Some Republicans who caved on the fiscal cliff are already talking tough. Take Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey, for example. After voting for the largest tax increase in 20 years, Toomey is one of several Republicans now saying that the debt ceiling showdown may require a government shutdown if Democrats insist on more tax increases.

So with some key Republicans already throwing down the gauntlet, now is the time for the conservative movement to re-assert itself. The time for the licking of wounds has past. The time for leadership has arrived. We’re at our best when we let our principles lead the way. The two times I can remember the right-of-center coalition of evangelicals, conservative Catholics, libertarians, and the pro-growth/limited taxation crowd being truly unified since the 2004 election were the 2010 midterm elections and Scott Walker’s recall in Wisconsin last year.

Why?

Because those elections were clearly about principles, and principles unite us. Unlike Democrats who join that party out of identity politics, we become Republicans because of principles like the ones found in the party platform.

And the Republican Party platform is clear about two things: the rule of law has the obligation to protect the God-given right to life, and the government big enough to give you everything you need is large enough to take away everything you have. We have been struggling for a message that puts both of these principles into practice simultaneously. One that bypasses the in-fighting plaguing our movement for years now and mobilizes and energizes our grassroots to go on offense. The debt ceiling showdown provides us that opportunity.

Planned Parenthood received more than $542 million from the government last year, which means that an astounding 45% of its revenue came from the American taxpayer. Every one of us would agree that is simply inexcusable. Some of us may believe that based simply on the sanctity of life, given that Planned Parenthood is one of the leading child killers in America. Some of us may believe that’s simply a terrible waste of the people’s money at a time we’re flat broke and a symbol of our misplaced priorities. Both of us recognize that Planned Parenthood is one of the Left’s major political fundraisers. Regardless of the premise, we all come to the same conclusion.

Thus, now is the time for all of us to use this issue as a catalyst that unifies our various factions behind a shared principle—absolutely no increase in the debt ceiling should even be considered until all money for the child-killing industry is removed from the budget.

If we’re going to consider these things “private moral matters” then it is intolerable to ask the taxpayer to subsidize it, especially at a time when we’re flat broke and taxes are going up on everybody. If we wouldn’t ask the taxpayers to buy your next shot of tequila, jolt of trans-fats, or drag from a cigarette, then we shouldn’t ask them to buy your next condom or abortion. If someone wants to get their freak on, they can buy their own birth control pills or dental dams.

This week on my radio show, Dr. Thomas Woods, one of the most respected libertarian thinkers in the country, agreed with me. “Even if you’re a pro-abortion libertarian you don’t believe the taxpayer should be funding it,” Woods said.

If we cannot get Republicans to hold the line on this at this crucial time in our history, then there really is no point to having a Republican Party (or at the very least to having these Republicans). If the conservative movement isn’t willing to take the lead in forcing their hand, then there really is no point to our movement other than selling books and syndicating radio shows like my own. This is an easy first step to re-unify for the much bigger and longer battles that await us to return to constitutional government.

Concern over the growth of government and the resulting loss of personal freedom is what gave birth to the modern conservative movement. Concern about the sanctity of life is what swelled the ranks of the movement with Catholics who were once predominantly Democrats and evangelicals who previously didn’t even vote en masse. Regardless of which of those issues most trips your trigger, we cannot take back control of the Republican Party without each of them working in concert. And the Republican Party is worthless if we don’t wrestle away control from the cynical, feckless, and ineffective party establishment.

But we need a message to unify and mobilize us that is based on shared principles. This message does that. It allows us to walk and chew gum at the same time. Instead of both sides fighting each other for control of the movement, we unite a movement around a shared principle to fight the real enemies to liberty and morality. We are better together. We cannot win if we’re not united. But calls for unity for unity’s sake fall on deaf ears. We must lead on genuine principle to create genuine unity.

We must rally the right for such a time as this, and this is the simple yet principled message to do it. Either we hang together, or we will all hang alone. If we can’t hang together on this one, then I’m not sure where we can.

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Why ObamaCare Could Be Finished!

December 5, 2012 by 16 Comments

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In an effort to intimidate states (that is, Republican governors) into setting up state-run ObamaCare exchanges, the leftist authors of the Affordable Care Act have opened the door to lawsuits that could prevent the federal government from selling health plans at affordable rates.

A centerpiece of the ACA involves the offering of federal subsidies “…designed to help low and middle-income individuals purchase health insurance.” However, as the Act clearly states, “…subsidies may only be applied to insurance exchanges set up by individual states, not exchanges implemented by the federal government.” Congress also denied federal exchanges the authority to provide tax credits to employers who offer federally approved insurance plans to their employees.

ObamaCare revolves around the state-financed implementation of exchanges which the law claims will be one-stop shopping centers for healthcare plans approved by the Department of Health and Human Services. However, as of November 28th, 17 states have responded to an HHS-imposed deadline by refusing to set up a state run exchange, leaving it entirely to the federal government to do so.

As a result, exchanges that the federal government will be forced to build in these states may NOT, according to the Act, provide the subsidies and tax credits necessary to make the purchase of ObamaCare plans affordable. And the remaining 10 states have yet to decide whether to build a state exchange or, like the 17 preceding them, leave it to the federal government as well! Half the states in the nation could therefore be forced to “offer” unaffordable healthcare plans. Quite an embarrassing proposition for a president who had claimed his namesake plan would reduce insurance premiums by $2,300 per year for the average family!

Why would ObamaCare authors provide such a glaring loophole in the law, one that says without possibility of contradiction that only state-run exchanges may offer the subsidies and tax credits so vital to participation in the Act? A number of legal scholars “…claim the legislative history shows that the drafters wanted to give states strong incentives to create their own exchanges, and expected them to do so.” What this really means is that the authors were trying to INTIMIDATE and FORCE states into creating exchanges. Otherwise, the left could claim that the Republican governors of those states who did not do so were COSTING their constituents money (subsidies) and denying them affordable insurance coverage, thanks to their refusal to build an exchange. A typical leftist scam and thuggish “boot on the throat!”

However, over half the population remains opposed to the ObamaCare takeover of healthcare. Moreover, in refusing to build a state-run exchange, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker informed HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that “…Wisconsin is already able to provide healthcare to 90% of its citizens without an exchange and the new system would not improve coverage for state citizens.” (4)

And in addition to the fact that the vast majority of Americans are very satisfied with their current healthcare plans, ObamaCare exchanges would cost states up to $100 million per year. States would have NO control over which insurance plans may be offered or how they would be rated, how individuals or employers would be charged, or indeed how much the HHS would force the state itself to pay on a yearly basis in the future. The federal government makes all of the rules, and the state gets to pay the tab.

Only the left could be shocked and offended that states haven’t jumped at the chance to sign up!

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Will We Ever See Another Conservative President?

November 29, 2012 by 11 Comments

Ronald Reagan Will We Ever See Another Conservative President?

 After the shellacking taken in this year’s presidential election, will we ever see another conservative president? In the past, I have opined with great optimism in this space about the strength of the “farm team” of courageous conservative leaders — men like Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, Paul Ryan, John Kasich, Rand Paul, Bob McDonnell, Scott Walker and Ted Cruz; and women like Nikki Haley, Susanna Martinez, Sarah Palin, and Deb Fischer — whose ascendency gives dispirited conservatives hope for the salvation of the Republic in the years to come.

After this year’s election, I no longer believe that even the bold leadership of these officials and former officials will be enough. If America is to continue as we have known it, some fundamental steps must be taken to reclaim the nation that once was a shining city on a hill.

Step 1: The borders. Republicans should stop pretending they have any chance of out-pandering Democrats on the issue of immigration. No further talks should be undertaken with liberals about “comprehensive immigration reform” until there is an enforceable system of border control between Mexico and the United States. Call me racist all you want, but every American with anything functioning in his or her cranial cavity knows that our southern border is an open invitation to criminal elements ranging from violent drug dealers to international terrorists.

Step 2: Education. Abraham Lincoln famously said that the philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. The generation that just re-elected the most radical president in the history of the country has proven that adage to be true. The time has come for conservatives to step up and run for state and local school boards, as well as university regent boards. Conservative patriots with the financial means to do so must begin to fund scholarships to educate the next generation of journalists, college professors, lawyers, judges, and other public officials. The only way we will bring social and fiscal sanity back to America is to counteract lies with truth.

Step 3: The news media. The rise of talk radio and the Fox News Channel has shown that Americans are hungry for voices other than the standard “progressive” claptrap that has emanated from the ivory towers of Manhattan and Washington, D.C., at least since Watergate. The next time a major news media entity goes up for sale, billionaire conservatives should step forward and buy it — and then start reporting the truth.

Step 4: The culture. Over the years, we have seen some relief from the sewage that regularly flows out of our entertainment industry. Despite Mel Gibson’s tragic personal meltdown later on, his “Passion of the Christ” was one of the biggest hits to come out of Hollywood in decades. CBS’s “Blue Bloods” is a Friday night TV hit enjoyed by millions of tradition-minded Americans who like a little action along with a depiction of some solid family values. The show depicts a family of cops who love each other, their wives, and their community (and who actually say grace over their Sunday dinner. Imagine that!) We need more “Blue Bloods” and less “Two and a half Men,” but we will never get there without more bold traditional conservatives with clout in Hollywood.

Step 5: Last, but far from least, America needs spiritual revival. For the last one hundred years — beginning with Woodrow Wilson, continuing on steroids with FDR, and culminating with the election and re-election of Barack Obama — government has been our god. Stating the antidote as plainly as possible, God must once again become our god. Does that mean that God wants a Republican president? No, but I think He would be pleased with a humble leader who believes in liberty and who acknowledges that God, not government, is the answer to our problems.

Disaster surely awaits us if we continue in the direction we are now headed, and change will not happen next year or in the next election cycle. What is as certain as tomorrow’s sunrise is that we will not see it happen at all if we do not take the first steps down a different path than the one we now tread.

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The States Fight In The Last Ditch Against Obamacare

November 19, 2012 by 7 Comments

Barack Obama between flags SC The States Fight In the Last Ditch Against Obamacare

Last July, I wrote that the states still had the power to kill Obamacare, despite the Supreme Court’s gross dereliction of duty in Florida v. HHS. My point was that the insurance exchanges required by PPACA are the key to its success or failure, and that the law grants the states enormous power in the way they are set up. The ostensible purpose of these exchanges is to provide “marketplaces” where people without health insurance can acquire subsidized coverage. Ironically, the law doesn’t actually require states to set up these bureaucracies. Yet, as Sally Pipes and Hal Scherz note, “only state-based exchanges … may distribute credits and subsidies.”

In other words, if the states refuse to set up exchanges, they cut off the subsidies and tax credits that are the lifeblood of Obamacare. Moreover, states that decline to set up these enabling bureaucracies will also be protecting their business communities from job-killing federal penalties — even if the federal government comes in and sets up its own exchanges in those states. The Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon explains, “defaulting to a federal exchange exempts a state’s employers from the employer mandate — a tax of $2,000 per worker per year.” This is why more than half of the 50 have opted not to set up state-run exchanges.

Last Friday, three more governors officially announced their refusal to set up state-run Obamacare exchanges. Ohio’s John Kasich, Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, and Maine’s Paul LePage all released statements indicating that they would not assist the Obama administration in its effort to socialize health care in their states. All three governors made their decisions based on the knowledge that, even if they cooperate on the exchanges, they would have little control over how the exchanges are operated. As Cato’s Cannon puts it, “[A] state-created exchange is not a state-controlled exchange. All exchanges will be controlled by Washington.”

In fact, the grim reality is that Washington won’t be content to merely control the exchanges. Federal bureaucrats have already begun rewriting the law when the provisions of the actual statute prove inconvenient. When it became obvious that many states would refuse to create exchanges, the Obama administration decided to funnel tax credits and subsidies through federally-created exchanges, ignoring clear language in the law indicating that such premium-assistance was restricted to state-run exchanges. The IRS recently finalized a regulation signaling its intention to illegally provide premium assistance through federal exchanges.

This outrage prompted the state of Oklahoma to file an amended complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. The state points out that “The State of Oklahoma has exercised its right not to establish an Exchange” and that the provisions of ObamaCare “not only permit the State of Oklahoma to make this policy choice, but also created a mechanism … by which the State of Oklahoma can put its decision into effect.” It goes on to show that “The [IRS] Final Rule renders the mechanism inoperative.” In other words, Oklahoma complied with the provisions of the law and now the IRS has illegally ignored those provisions.

Read More at spectator.org . By David Catron.

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The Battle For Our Republic!

October 20, 2012 by 15 Comments

US Flag 3 SC The Battle for our Republic!

Many of those who enjoy reading my articles have asked why I haven’t been writing lately. The answer is quite simple. After a year and half on the road defending Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker and our Republic under God, I ran out of income to sustain my travels, thus my full-time work at a local Academy and part-time work at a local College.

BUT, I have not given up the Battle to stop Obama and his radical progressive, socialist, and Marxist followers from destroying our great Republic! Throughout the week and on weekends, I have been speaking across Wisconsin and the Mid-West proclaiming Liberty to anyone who will listen and take action. While Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have re-energized the Republican base and attracted many conservatives and independents, we must taken nothing for granted all the way up to November 6th!

And even if we win, we must continue to educate, promulgate, and disseminate the limited government, conservative, Christian, free enterprise, and limited government values and ideas that are the lifeblood of what makes our Nation the greatest form of government the world has ever seen.

God forbid, but if Obama wins, he will accelerate America’s socialistic slouching to Gomorrah. A Romney-Ryan victory does not mean that the “Cultural and Political War” to destroy our Republic under God is over. Far from it!

Secular-socialistic-progressive Left Wing Statism has so permeated our society that it will be a perpetual battle to stop their pernicious controlling ways from destroying the Liberties we cherish so much.

After traveling Wisconsin defending our Great Governor from the Union Re-Call Mobocrats, anarchists, socialists, spoiled teachers, and other radicals, I have spent my time traveling Wisconsin and the Mid-West with WI Senator Ron Johnson, ex-WI Governor Tommy Thompson and a myriad of other conservative candidates. I have been to Tea Party Rallies too numerous to mention and organizations like Wisconsin Family Council, Americans for Prosperity, the Heritage Foundation, CPAC, Family Research Council, Stand Up for Religious Freedom etc. etc. etc…..

I am tired, very tired.

BUT, like Senator Ron Johnson told the audience at CPAC-Chicago in June and to me last week at our Thunder In the Valley Rally in Oshkosh, Wisconsin: “TOUGH!” He’s right. Tough. We are in WAR!

About the time I think I cannot drive another mile, speak another word, or knock on another door, I see the bloody feet and bodies of our brave soldiers at Valley Forge, the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, etc. I remember the sacrifice made by many Patriots of their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor; and I quietly get back in my car and then stand up to the podium encouraging more Patriots to join me in knocking on more doors and speaking to more neighbors “proclaiming Liberty throughout the land and unto the inhabitants thereof!”

Take nothing for granted, stay the course, continue to work hard, and do whatever you can to help save our Nation. Hopefully we can all celebrate on the eve of November 6th and get up the next day still trusting in God to help us restore our Shining Republic upon a Hill. Godspeed to you all!

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