*WARNING-TRUTH AHEAD*

If you have a weak stomach for the truth then you might just want to skip this post.
If you proceed you have been warned.
We are told repeatedly by the lame stream media that Barack Obama is certainly the smartest President in the history of our republic.  We are told that he is the most ardent communicator ever. 
Well, I think I smell a rat.
If this imposter is so smart why has he not permitted his undoubtedly stellar school transcripts to be released?  Modesty?   Please!  If this guy's grades were really all that outstanding they would have run off several million copies and would be throwing them out of airplanes by now. 
First black president of the Harvard Law Review.  How convenient. 
Great orator?  Without his precious teleprompter he can't string together a simple grammatically correct English sentence.  That monotone sing-song delivery puts me to sleep within two minutes.  And who told him that your inflection is supposed to go up at the end of every sentence?  Good grief!  Ronald Reagan has nothing to fear.
Genius?  Just listen to him answer off-prompter questions which were not submitted for review in advance.  Pathetic.  He becomes totally incoherent.
I get the sense that he really has no interest in actually governing.  He has no knowledge or interest in foreign policy or affairs. 
Now the tough part. 
I firmly believe that he is our first affirmative action President.  Someone who was intentionally slid through the system with less than mediocre credentials just for this moment in time.  No wonder the liberals and progressives are cheering him.  This is what they have pushing on us for the last 50 years.  Finally success!  Affirmative action taken to the pentultimate culmination! 
And for what purpose?
Now it gets really dicey here.
I think that Obama was put (yes, put) into the Presidency under these circumstances to coerce, and perhaps shame the country into agreeing to de facto reparations for slavery by a variety of income redistribution schemes including the tax code, various entitlement programs, ridiculous stimulus spending, health care reform and cap and trade, to name a few.  And that's it.  He really has no other purpose and has no other interests.  If it takes one term, fine.  It might take two.  He really has no say it and frankly couldn't care less.  He and Michelle are just along for the ride and the bennies.  What a scam!
Well, the country is waking up to this farce of an administration and are about to pull the rug out!  The jig is up!
Mr. Obama, what does your teleprompter have to say about that?

Sunset on Sunstein

So Mr. Cass Sunstein (an Obama advisor) thinks that the Constitution was written with disappearing ink, today nothing more than a blank canvas on which he and his cronies can paint a new American landscape. Not a document of absolutes, not even a document of suggestions; but rather a document of outdated platitudes written in a language that no one understands or speaks any more. Thus his posse must come along and essentially rewrite and redefine what America is and is to be. But why his posse and not mine? If the document is meaningless and must be reconstituted then who is to say who gets to do the job? Why does Sunstein have the final say about who has the final say?  Doesn't sound like he's being very, um, democratic.
I for one would vote to keep what we have and just simply return to following exactly what it says. If it does need to be updated (and it has been 28 times so far) the drafters clearly spelled out that process. It's called amending. Not letting five people in black robes change it and not letting the President or Congress change it. The people and the states must play a pivotal role. As it should be. The bottom line is that Sunstein thinks that you and I are too stupid to either understand the current constitution or write a new one. In reality what he's really all about is radically transforming America into something it was never meant to be. He wants to establish a socialist state where he and his ilk can control everything and take everything from anyone producing anything and give it to his lazy, non-productive followers. We've seen this movie before and it doesn't end well for anyone. The only problem is the current constitution stands in the way of this megalomaniacal scheme and the legislative process is too slow and uncertain, the legal process is too slow and uncertain and the amendment process is too slow and uncertain for he and his lackeys. They want radical change and they want it now! Just dump the whole document now and impose their one-sided tyranny upon the unwashed masses. Well I sense that a lot of the masses, maybe even a sizable majority want no part of this heinous plot. The election of socialist/progressive Barack Obama and the introduction of crackpots like Sunstein onto the national scene is the lowest point our republic has reached since the Civil War.
The great silent majority is rising up and will be heard this November and in 2012.
It's time for the Tea Party to party like it's 1999!

Freak Show

How did it come to pass that those of us who understand and respect our national history and founding, who respect the rule of law, who respect and obey the Constitution and who believe in personal freedom and liberty have come to be vilified in the mainstream media and political establishment as wacko, radical, extreme, fringe kooks and nuts? All the while those who reject our history, flaunt the rule of law, ignore the Constitution and would restrict personal freedom and liberty are heralded as the true American patriots and the only rational thinkers and rulers in our society. The world is turned upside down. Right is now wrong, good is now bad and up is now down. What is the allure of such bastardized thinking?
I believe that it derives from the natural human tendency to envy those who have more or better than you and a desire for them to improve their lot at your expense without going through the traditional and time-consuming route of education and long, hard work. Our education establishment in cahoots with the media and political establishments have conditioned people to assume victim status if they don't have enough stuff. They have taught people to demand entitlements which are nowhere guaranteed in the Constitution. This gnawing class envy mentality is dragging down our whole society and economy. Political opportunists gladly seize on this tension to empower themselves by promising free largess to millions of disgruntled citizens; buying their votes with hand-outs. William F. Buckley, Jr. once remarked that when the middle class discovers that they can vote themselves goodies from the public treasury the republic is doomed. How close are we to that prophecy?
The Constitution was written to try to protect these eventualities from coming to pass. Unfortunately, when those in power gleefully ignore the dictates of the this, the Supreme Law of the Land and We the People seem to have no recourse to force their compliance (two hundred years of elections and the problem is only growing worse); what are we to do to save the republic? We don't seem to be keeping it very well Mr. Franklin. Do we really want to become one of those creaky, rusty insolvent European socialist countries? Just look around, they don't work!
The people, the states and state governments must reassert their rightful authority over the federal monster and reinstate the Constitution! Now!

A Tale For Two Cities

It has become quite clear to me that the people of this nation are dividing into two distinct camps. One group wants the federal government to control and regulate everything; wages, salaries and profits while providing everything from health care to food to housing to transportation to education and beyond. The other camp wants exactly the opposite. "Don't tread on me!" They want the federal government to do no more than is expressly authorized in the Constitution. Period. The first group doesn't even know what the Constitution is, have never read it, couldn't find a copy if their life depended on it. And they don't give a rip. To them the nation is the federal government and the federal government is the nation. Some dusty old scrap of paper written by racist, slave-owning rich white men over two hundred years ago has no relevance for their lives. Constraints upon the power and size of the federal government seem strange and ridiculous to them. They don't understand all of the fuss about "States' Rights" and can't quite grasp why some states allow things and others don't. To them this whole business of dividing the country up into different states with different rules and laws makes no sense; it confuses them. I believe that many of them really believe that the states are merely administrative subdivisions of the federal government, that they in essence work for the federal government much like counties are subdivisions of state governments. This first group doesn't understand why anyone would want to limit the scope and power of the federal government. Why, isn't that just limiting what it can give you and do for you? This is what decades of pathetic (intentional or unintentional?) education of our children in the areas of American history, heritage, economics and government has led us. Sadly, far too many people have no idea how or why this nation came to be. They have no concept of what is required for successful self-government. They do not understand how wealth is created or exactly what money is and where it comes from. The relationship between business and labor and capital completely eludes them. This first camp is the 'entitlement at any cost' camp. They willingly surrender all of their freedom, liberty and wealth to the federal government in exchange for a guarantee (now that's rich) of security and provision (however meager) for their entire lives. They wind up with no control or responsibility for what happens to them. Like lemmings over the cliff. As the old saw says, the man who surrenders freedom in exchange for security will have neither. The federal leviathan will never look after their personal best interests as well as they would. They become assimilated into a huge amorphous mass of people, leading dull and boring lives simply serving the beast. That may be existence but it is not living.
Some in the press say that we are more divided now that during our Civil War time. While I don't foresee another civil war, I do believe that we as a nation must decide if we intend to remain the constitutional republic we were founded to be and commit to following the Constitution. Or do we make a deliberate decision to jettison our constitutional moorings and launch out into the darkness with no map or compass, destined to become like the failed socialist societies of Europe? I certainly hope not. It does seem to me that time is short and we freedom-loving remnants have a very tight window in which to reclaim our national freedom and liberty and greatness or risk irretrievably losing them forever. It is time for bold action!

Two Roads Diverged...

Several weeks ago Walter Williams remarked while guest-hosting Rush’s show that perhaps it is time to admit that this nation will no longer continue the charade of abiding by the Constitution and simply proclaim that it is null and void. After all, the federal government by its very actions declares that fact every day. Williams pointed out that much, if not most of what the federal government does and spends has no legal basis in any clause of the Constitution. And while the Supreme Court has given the feds the appearance of legal cover on many occasions, no action of the Court has the authority to amend the original text. In short, many of the Courts rulings are simply wrong, either by intention or accident. After all, members of the court are just people, subject to the same personal and political vagaries as the most partisan politician.

What is the Constitution after all? Well, only the document written by the founding states which created the federal government to serve their few collective needs and defined the powers and limits within which it must operate. The states ceded power and authority in those few areas, but retained the final oversight, which is amendment. Power flows from the states to the feds on the states’ terms, not vice versa. That which the states give the states can take back. The drafters never imagined that the federal government would dictate terms to the states and to the people. But just in case they included the 10th Amendment. You know, the one the feds pretend does not exist while it actually does, all the while finding new rights and powers which don’t actually exist but the feds pretend they do via the ‘doctrine’ of penumbras and emanations. A living, evolving document if you will. Poppycock!

Federal officers and officials and judges love to cherry pick the Constitution, abiding by those parts that they like (such as extracting taxes and spending money), while conveniently ignoring the more troublesome parts, like the whole religious freedom thing or the part about the people bearing arms. The trouble with this approach is that the Constitution is like pregnancy. Well, not exactly like it but in one important aspect it is, i.e. a woman can’t be a little bit pregnant. Either she is or she isn’t. Similarly (stay with me), the Constitution is an all or none proposition. It must either be accepted and followed in toto or not at all. To accept anything less is lawlessness which leads to anarchy. In another way it is like the relationship between the Holy Bible, Christianity and Christians. The Bible is God’s written covenant between Himself and His people. For a Christian to ignore or disobey some parts while accepting and following others begs the question of whether that individual is truly a Christian. Can you truly be a Christian if you reject part of God’s Word? Likewise, can this nation truly call itself a lawful constitutional republic if it rejects parts of its foundational law? ‘No’ anyone?
If the nation collectively disagrees with a portion of the Constitution or if times have changed to the point of requiring modification, that is available through amendment. But only through amendment. Unilateral decisions by presidents or Congresses or Supreme Courts cannot and must not be permitted to change the fabric of the document. That is nothing more than rule by fiat, by decree, by the whims of men. And that is disaster. The beauty of our Constitution is its protection of the rights of the minority from the whims of the majority. The ruling majority cannot simply ride roughshod over the lives of those not in power. They cannot trample the God-given birthright of those they disagree with. But, if they are permitted to freely trample the Constitution at will then there is no hedge of protection otherwise available to those standing in their path of destruction. At that point we cease being the United States of (or in, as they used to say) America and have become a Unified State of America, where all power is vested in one federal government which alone dictates the scope of its power and authority. The rights of the citizens are not recognized as deriving from their God, but rather from their government. And what the government gives it can take back. The states have no power, if they even exist in more than name only. The people have no recourse, no ability to petition the government with their grievances for a just redress. Eventually anarchy and tyranny will rule the day. We will have sunk to the basest expression of human depravity. Perhaps, just maybe the drafters knew this about human nature and set about to write a document which took that into account. The document works as long as we all agree to abide by the complete, unaltered manuscript. We must also understand and teach our children that what the Constitution provides for is not pure, unfettered democracy which sounds good to the untrained ear but always leads to tyranny of the majority over the minority; but rather a republic, with democratically elected representatives, and with a Supreme Law that protects the God-given rights of the smallest minority among us. We must elect and appoint and hire people to all levels of government that have a strong sense of morality and ethics and the rule of law, who will respect every dotted-i and crossed-t of the Constitution if there is any hope for the survival of our republic. George Washington understood this when he said that “Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.”

So how about it, is it time to throw in the towel and relegate the Constitution to a resting place in the National Archives? Is it too late to be saved? Can we find enough like-minded people to pool our resources and martial our strengths for one last great hurrah?! Time will tell, in very short order.

How about it Mr. Franklin, have we kept the Republic you gave us? Furthermore, can we keep it?

I pray to God that we can and will.