Category Archives: U.S. Constitution

Sometimes, Conservative Nostalgia is Progressivism

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Right down to the de-industrializing impulse that winds up massacring intellectuals and reducing millions to the enslaved subsistence farmers, too busy starving to fight back.  A friend of mine, who is a good guy and a committed social and fiscal conservative, posted the following, for which I took him to task.  I do not doubt his commitment or his intents, but he is whistling past the grave here, revealing a potentially “fatal” logic bomb.  I have replicated the whole thing below.

My conservative friend:

Thought for the day: Two hundred years ago, an American spent most of his day WORKING to hunt, farm and anything else that provided the basics of food, shelter and clothing to survive. They were, of necessity, self-reliant and independent so it’s no wonder … Continue reading →

Liberate Wall Street

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Another #Occupy useful idiot was killed today in Oakland, fighting over a bag of weed. Video at Breitbart’s Big Government.

Good!

Did you think anything else was going to happen? When cowardly public officials fail to condemn and counteract lawlessness, the result is more lawlessness.
In this country now we punish success and virtue and we reward failure and vice.  That odd feeling in your gut is the life-expectancy of the Republic contracting abruptly, and we all know it in our bones.  This is the way things end.

They are shooting each other as the weed runs out.  Could anything be more pathetic?  If you don’t want your head cracked, then do not attempt to take by force what is not yours, whether it’s dope or … Continue reading →

Decimate the Federal Workforce!

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The Federal government’s role is not to provide jobs, but to perform only those duties enumerated in the Constitution.  It is obscene for a organization with an IRS, a bevy of regulatory powers, and a military, to put itself in competition with the private sector which it is supposed to protect.

Thought experiment:  If every ten civilian Federal workers were required to vote one of their number off the gravy train and divide his former duties among the remaining nine, wouldn’t they select the most useless?

The word “decimate” means literally to kill every tenth member of your organization.  Well, all we’re talking about here is jobs, but the selection method for a decimation is just as valid now as it was back when the Romans did it.

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The End of the Republic

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First they came for Reagan’s Legacy,
and I didn’t speak out because that’s in the past.
Then they came for Sarah Palin,
and I didn’t speak out because she wasn’t running anyway.
Then they came for Herman Cain,
and I didn’t speak out because he was not perfect.
Then they came for the RINO who wound up as the nominee,
And he went down in flames along with the House majority.
The End.

Draft: Against All Enemies: Ethical Resistance

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[This is still a bit rough. The beatings will continue.]

Ethical Resistance in a Constitutional Republic

Are we in the grip of domestic enemies of the Constitution? I believe so.  Because I believe so, I have a duty to consider action to defend the Constitution.  Much hinges upon two questions:

  • Am I correct?  and if so,
  • What action is appropriate?

I will attempt to answer both of these in a train of thought I call Ethical Resistance.  More pointedly, I will try to set up a framework for answering these questions rather than answer them specifically, and hope thereby to teach a man to fish, rather than provide fishsticks.

Duty

Employees of the United States Government including all members of Congress are required to take the … Continue reading →

Marxism Colonizing Pentagon

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This is bad.

POLICY BOARD SHIFT

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta this week moved to replace key members of the Defense Policy Board, the advisory group of former officials that serves as a brain trust.

“He made it more ‘Democratic,’” one board member quipped about the changes.

Liberals added to the board include former Clinton administration Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, retired Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright and Jane Harman, a former Democratic congresswoman from California. Also added: former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead.

Most notable among the new members is Ms. Gorelick, who was notorious for erecting the so-called bureaucratic “wall” blocking law enforcement and intelligence agencies from cooperating closely before the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The … Continue reading →

The Ides of September

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The President has been speaking for about five minutes.  It’s way too early for the “early returns” on his speech, but I have a prediction: I think that his high-handed yet empty rhetoric about what he will and will not tolerate or allow, and all the rest of his claptrap is going to bang hollow in a silent room.

I do believe that I am not alone in being spectacularly unimpressed with this moron upon the occasion of this part-campaign, part-lecture.  Now I have never been for the man, but tonight marks a special moment.  I have never heard him more urgently condescending, as if he must somehow pound his elementary knowledge into the heads of a bunch of retards (that would be us) before heading out for … Continue reading →

Why We Hate The SuperCommittee

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The SuperCommittee is such an awful punt that it should infuriate not only the Tea Party, but independents and democrats as well. Anybody but the permanent Washington DC bloodsucking class. It is a model of bureaucratic ass-covering and foot-dragging, and it replaces the voters with the President as their most effective driver.

[pullquote]this backscratching society which will operate in secret[/pullquote]We charged into the House, and promptly squandered a huge head of steam with shenanigans over the Continuing Resolutions. Not to worry, we were told, the debt limit fight is where we will really get them! Then we gave up the debt limit fight, and in the process threw away our numerical advantage in the House. All we have left to show for it is this backscratching society which … Continue reading →

Amy vs TSA

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Amy Alkon is taking on the TSA.  After her unreasonable search (or sexual assault) at the hands of the TSA and the TSA agent’s subsequent attempt to shake a cool half-million dollars out of Alkon, she’s is lawyering up.  Except that the lawyers refuse payment, and have leapt at the opportunity to do this stuff pro bono.

I have written that we should abolish the DHS, releasing its constituent agencies back into the wild, and amputating many duties from the TSA.  Amy’s experience  is not only a prime example of why: it is a valuable lesson in how:

TSA Searches: “Obedience Training For The American Public”

That’s how Zahir Ebrahim, of Project Humanbeingsfirst.com, rightly termed the TSA searches — in … Continue reading →

Supercommittee and Jobs Act: Twins

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[Events are overtaking this post faster than I can edit!  So it’s a bit of a jumble.]

President Obama’s “American Jobs Act of 2011”  is such a steaming pile of FAIL that it is hard to know where to begin.

Last week the two co-chairs said that many future panel meetings will be closed to the public, though, press and public interest groups have called for transparency and disclosure of every meeting.

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If the joint committee or Congress fail to act by December 23, the bill calls for automatic across-the-board cuts, split 50-50 between defense and non-defense spending, including Medicare.  Social Security and Medicaid would be excluded from the automatic cuts.

The plan also calls for a Congressional vote on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution by the end … Continue reading →