- The vital importance of truth-telling to the Republican base, as evidenced by Donald Trump's meteoric rise in the polls since his campaign announcement.
- President Obama's latest proclamation of global warming/climate change as the greatest danger facing the planet.
- Linking this with his blueprints for the destruction of the coal industry as he outlined them for the enraptured editorial board of a left-leaning publication during his 2008 run for the White House.
- Hillary Clinton's seeming decline in inevitability as the next President. (Remember 2008? It was supposed to be hers for the taking...)
- The first Republican debate coming up this Thursday evening.
- The pros and cons of convening an Article V Convention of the states to address congressional term limits, balancing the budget, limiting Presidential power in re executive orders and the like (in essence, reclaiming our freedoms).
- The recent judgement in New York against toy manufacturers concerning production of play guns that closely mimic the real McCoy.
- As always, the real issue of securing our southern border and dealing realistically with illegal immigrants. (By the way, has anyone from the Federal Executive or Judicial branch of government called Kate Steinle's parents yet? Just curious...)
I guess I'll focus a little bit on Hillary's latest spate of troubles with the revelations about her private email server (which, incidentally, we KNOW was hacked by individuals in at least one Eastern European country). We also know that she lied about never having used this server for transmission of classified materials. Come to think of it, if she never used the State Department's email system (as required by law [but that's another conversation]), then how on earth could she NOT have included classified information in her email correspondence?
Her argument flies in the face of logic but, then again, logic is closely allied with objective truth, which, of course, has no place in liberal conversation, thought or agendas. It's all about feelings with those folks; as long as they say they do what they do because they CARE about the poor and the middle class, that makes everything okay, even though what they do more often than not damages the very groups they say they care the most about. 'Tis a puzzlement...
This brings me to my biggest gripe with the Democrat party: They believe that the American people should, and will, take everything they say as gospel (Oops! Did I just invoke a Deity?), even when, as Ted Cruz put it at the Koch brothers' Republican gathering this past weekend, "facts and data" don't support their pronouncements in any way, shape or form. This is completely insulting as well as idiotic, and we can't continue to let it work as if has in the past two Presidential elections. (This approach seems to have failed the libs in the past two mid-term elections; I suppose the low-information voters don't think voting for mere legislators is worth their time or effort, especially when the nation is saddled with a President who has "a phone and a pen" along with the arrogance to assume that it is his right to run rough-shod over OUR rights and flout the Constitution.)
So I suppose I have come full circle to the newly-rediscovered Republican love of truth-telling candidates. More and more of us on the ground are realizing that being P.C. is just one more way for the minority left to strip us of our Constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech. Oh, they support free speech all right, as long as it is speech supporting THEIR point of view. Folks, it is time to return to calling a spade a spade until we step on one in the dark; even then, it's still a spade, albeit one with a lot of colorful adjectives attached to it...
Bottom line: Truth is NOT hate speech, even though it may contradict your view of the world. Hate speech contradicts your God-given right to "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
More tomorrow...
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