Where to Pick Up?

Thanks for your patience while waiting for me to get my schedule and my act together.  It's been an interesting sabbatical, watching the news unfold but not being in a position to really formulate cogent thoughts about its many aspects.

The biggest rant on my current list is still Ronald Reagan's Eleventh Commandment: With so much fodder in the current Administration and its offshoots (i.e., Hillary and the rest of the Democrat party), why on earth do Republicans feel they have to bash each other in order to distinguish themselves from the field?!?!?!  This is so utterly foolish as to make me wonder if anyone really has the common sense (!) to realize how desperately we need to turn this country around, and how their sniping at each other does nothing to advance the narrative that we need to put out there. We have the talent and the understanding of what the vast majority of the American people want us to accomplish, so why not simply have each candidate lay out his/her plans and dreams and let the electorate do its job?

Mr. Trump, you are as guilty of this as anyone else in the current race who has taken a potshot at another contender.  And don't give me this "They attacked me first" malarkey.  All of you out there; If you want to be my President, then make changes and compromises to BE presidential.  I am not saying that you have to compromise your message and vision; far from it.  I want to be able to focus on exactly these things without all the static of name-calling and back-biting interfering with the meat of what you have to say to me.

Now, the rest of you who have been guilty of these violations of the Eleventh Commandment, I am not singling out Mr. Trump.  You know if this admonition applies to you, and you know what works the best for you to come back from the dark side of politics as usual and rise above the fray that the Democrat party loves to see us engage in.  If you really want to be part of the restoration of the nation that we all love, then don't play into the other side's hands.  Isn't it enough that their strongest candidate is virtually self-destructing on a day-by-day basis?  Hillary, Obama and the rest of their liberal-socialist ilk are our natural targets.  When we continually concentrate on telling the truth to the American population, even the mainstream media may be forced to report some of it as their darlings manifest their true colors.

Enough of the polite, "politic" ways of dealing with our true opponents.  The Democrats are attempting to transform this magnificent nation into just another third-world hell-hole (thank you, Anne Coulter!), and we MUST NOT LET THEM SUCCEED!  We must call them out for the self-seeking, cowardly and yes, evil people that they are, and we cannot stop doing this until we have convinced enough Americans to turn them out of office.  This is not flinging vitriol; this is truth-telling of the highest order, the kind that will make our Founders proud of us again.  We cannot be deterred by labels of racism, sexism, or any other kind of ism that is patently not true.  We must counter every such diatribe with facts, facts and more facts, until we beat the baiters back.

This will be a long, tough fight.  But when I look at the depth of the field of candidates we currently have, I know that we have the right stuff to take this fight to those who would destroy this country, and to win it in the name of the exceptional men and women who comprise our population.  Let us pray that the leaders of of our new revolution have the stamina that such a struggle will demand,

More soon (hopefully tomorrow)...

A Thousand Apologies!

I know I said I would have a post this past Friday, but instead of writing I spent the better part of the day working for my day job and/or reviewing videos of the two debates and making notes for future posts.

This week brings some scheduling changes (and consequently, challenges), so I will be re-evaluating the days when it will be easiest for me to post with intelligence.  Lord knows, we get enough of the non-intelligent output from the mainstream media that I don't want there to be any confusion between them and us!

Please bear with me this week while things settle into the new normal, and I promise to be back on track by Monday, August 17.  That's not to say I may not write this week, but posts will most likely be scattered...

Thank you very much, and have a terrific week!

Huntington Park, Californi

All you have to do is Google the name of this California municipality to learn what has thrust it into the American spotlight and the center of the debate about illegal aliens.  For some reason known only to God and the City Council of this town, two commissioners who were reportedly doing great work for the community were summarily dismissed and replaced by - wait for it - two illegal aliens. Granted, these are individuals who were brought to this country as children, but would it be too much to ask that they complete the process and become law-abiding, tax-paying citizens?

This is yet another slap in the face to all who have grown up here or have gone through the education and registration route to becoming naturalized citizens.  And when denizens of Huntington Park showed up to exercise their federal right to speak out against this rampant, in-your-face illegality, they were ignored or told they were "out of order."  What's "Out of Order" is the brain of an elected official who thinks he can trample on any duly enacted law that he doesn't support, and that he can do so with impunity and without incurring justified push-back from those he was elected to represent.

Were I a citizen of Huntington Park, I would immediately begin proceedings to recall the Mayor, the Councilman who made the appointments, and any other city official who aided and abetted him in his lawlessness.  I would also start badgering the U.S. Attorney who oversees my part of the country to bring criminal actions against these same mis-representatives.  And, just for icing on the cake, I would find a way to insinuate this story into the current Republican Presidential race, to see what type of negative publicity about this sleazy, un-American activity could be generated from candidates who are not afraid to call out these miscreants for the criminals THEY are.

It's good to see that The Blaze is already running with this story in depth, while liberal blogs are commending the city's appointments as "wisely taking volunteer labor and efforts from folks willing to give."  If they're so willing to give, why don't they take steps to honor the citizenship laws of the country that, albeit unwittingly, has given them the opportunity to live a better life than they would have had not their parents brought them here illegally?  And why is it racist to ask this question?

Unfortunately, this is a is a California city we are talking about.  However, I will not paint all of its inhabitants with the same brush of brainless liberalism.  The outcry that was heard at the Monday evening Council meeting is proof enough that there are true American patriots who live in Huntington Park, and who have been disenfranchised by this capricious flouting of the law.

Shame on Councilman Jhonny Pineda, Mayor Karina Macias and the City Attorney who gave approval for the appointments (an attorney?  Really?).  It is of absolutely no consequence to me that the two illegals involved in this travesty have admirable histories of volunteer public service or that they won't be in positions to actively affect City policy (we'll see about this latter contention).  The fact they have been elevated to even advisory positions over true citizens of Huntington Park is a crime, literally and figuratively, against the town's citizenry and against the lawful American way of life.

For goodness' sake, Julian Zatarain and Franciso Medina  - bite the bullet and become legal American citizens.  Stop throwing your seeming contempt for this country's laws in the face of those you are now, rightly or wrongly, charged with representing - ALL the people of Huntington Park.

More on Friday...

It's Time to Stand Up

There have been quite a few topics percolating in my brain since yesterday, but I am forced to return to the Topic-in-Chief, who continues to demonstrate his evil intent toward this nation.  

While it would be easy to forget about the pending nuclear deal with Iran during the Congressional break, those of us who inhabit districts represented by Democrats need to be unrelenting and fearless in our lobbying of their Capitol Hill offices against this diabolical deal with those who continue to chant "Death to America!  Death to Israel!"  This regime that has so relentlessly foisted misinformation about its objectives upon the American people obviously believes that our enemies in Iran are just as disingenuous as it is, and so doesn't place credence in the hate speech of the Ayatollahs and political leaders of the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism.  (I know this appellation sounds like a cliché, but I'm calling this particular spade a spade.)

Israel and our Arab allies in the Middle East, as well as our own military leadership, have pointed out time and again the deadly flaws that were deliberately negotiated into this grotesque agreement. Some pundits have attributed this to naiveté on the part of the Obama Administration, but it is difficult for me to accept this when it plays so nicely into the narrative that has been building in my thoughts ever since our President went on his apology tour following his first inauguration.  I am convinced by his determination to impose his will on the country, in this and so many other situations, that his ultimate nefarious purpose is to destroy the fabric of this good, though flawed, nation.

How about another example: Most of you are probably aware of the President's recently restated goal of total annihilation of the American coal and oil industries in the name of "global warming."  This is one of the biggest lies of the current Administration, and of the left in general. Sadly, in spite of overwhelming scientific data (objective truth) to the contrary and the fact that the U.S. is responsible for only about 5% of the so-called "greenhouse emissions" that are produced on the planet, the green minority cannot be swayed to abandon its ridiculous stance.

Where are those who would stand up for the truth and beat down the malevolent actions that the President and his cronies have subjected this nation to since their ascent to power?  It infuriates me to hear reports of Democrats in Congress who are happy to voice their disapproval of the Iran debacle in closed caucus meetings, and then turn around and play the lick-spittles to Obama, Valerie Jarrett and their sickening ilk.  Where are their consciences?  Where are their spines?  Why aren't they afraid of the consequences of refusing to represent us, who are in the majority in this country?  I'll be perfectly frank: I'm afraid...

At the risk of sounding too partisan in this early stage of the Presidential nominating process, I think it is time for all of us who care down to our core about the future of this amazing democratic experiment called the United States to start taking pages from the playbooks of Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz.  Their intrepid approach to the nefarious goings-on in the Washington establishment is the only one that provides any hope of triumph over the forces of evil that have been let loose among us.  It's time to stop the games invented and perpetuated by the career politicians in favor of the freedoms that we are on the verge of losing to the wickedness of those currently in power.

If you think and believe as I do and know other like-minded patriots, please tell them about this blog and any other that calls for truth in government.  And please, give me and my readers your comments about themes that either do or don't appear here.  There are times when it is extremely challenging to zero in on one subject that resonates with the majority, so I am willing to be directed by your requests and concerns.  It's time to channel our numbers on the right course for us all, and transform fear into feats of valor; to quote Abraham Lincoln, "We must dis-enthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."

There is a terrific book called "The Patriot's History Reader," containing what the compilers deem essential documents for everyday Americans.  The ISBN number is 978-7-59523-078-2 and, at $17.90, it is a reasonably-priced investment in understanding just how lawlessly our current Commander-in-Chief has behaved (and he shows no sign of stopping).  Its seven sections contain inspiration as well as warning signals from prior to the nation's founding through 2009.  It never hurts for us to be able to quote chapter and verse from the Founders' writings and from our national treasures such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and to clearly understand what the true foundation of the nation rests on.

More tomorrow...

Monday, Monday...

I have to admit that it is often hard to zero in on a topic for Monday's post because I generally operate without input from the news media over the weekend; it's just the way it works out with my schedule. As a result, I don't have the opportunity to work up a lather about anything in particular, but instead tend to jump in ADHD fashion from one irritant to another (Oh, look - an uninformed liberal voter!). Here are just a few of the things that are already on my radar for this week's commentaries:

• 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...

ALL Lives Matter!

Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley had a unique opportunity to differentiate himself from the rest of his party when he was heckled by members of the Black Lives Matter movement in Phoenix a couple of weeks back.  But then he caved and apologized - Seriously?  This is political correctness on steroids and out of all bounds of the Common Sense that this blog espouses.

When did our society make the leap that having white skin is somehow a crime against the rest of the races in our country?  This is possibly the most asinine and un-democratic nonsense that I have ever heard, especially when coupled with the insulting absurdity of the myth of "White Privilege."  In light of the 5+ decades of Affirmative Action that have worked toward the disenfranchisement of white Americans*, there is no way a rational person who accepts objective truth as the basis for logical conclusions can buy into this insanity and negate his own self-worth.  

This sort of approach is racist in the extreme, and attempts to take the current generations of white U.S. citizens to task for what was done during the enslavement of the original black people kidnapped from their homes and lives in Africa.  Well, I and my family and every white person living in this country DIDN'T commit those offenses, and NO living black citizen of this nation was victimized by them.  So why is it so au courant for liberals to write insipid articles lamenting their having been born Caucasian or to allow the race-baiting Sharptons of the world to cow them into rushes to judgement of law enforcement before even establishing that a true legal infraction has taken place?  

Either all lives matter or, as seems to be the case in places like Chicago and Detroit, no lives matter.  No one should be allowed to pick and choose which race is more important; to do so is to compel society to teeter on the brink of genocide.  We are better than this, and so we must not apologize for speaking truth, whether it be to power or to the mob.  When we do take the higher road of truth-telling, we must be prepared to deal with the consequences that will be rained upon us by the haters, the ignorant and those who would destroy this nation.  We must be prepared to stand together as the majority that we ARE, which believes wholeheartedly in the goodness and exceptionalism that our beloved country has exhibited for over two hundred years.  We must thicken our skins as we would have the P.C. crowd thicken theirs, to demonstrate to them that actions, not words, have the real power to define who each of us is.  "Ye shall know them by their fruits."

* I use this terminology to fly in the face of the ridiculous usage handbook from that University in New England that declared it "offensive" to self-identify as "American" rather than "North American."  As if to do this is to really marginalize citizens of Central or South American.  Do we really think that a native of Brazil wants to call himself a South American?  No, he tells you proudly that he is a Brazilian.  So I will continue to refer to U.S. citizens, especially myself, as an American.  No hyphens need apply...

More on Monday; have a great weekend!

A Government in Denial

Hard as it may be to believe, we are again hearing that those four Marines and one sailor who were gunned down while doing their duty might be denied the Purple Heart and its attendant benefits.  Has the government, more specifically this Administration, learned nothing from the tragic lesson of Fort Hood?

While the FBI is saying very little about the data it has been able to gather concerning Muhammad Abdulazeez's seeming self-radicalization, its own director has lamented the difficulties facing the agency in tracking and preemptively dealing with such "lone wolves" during testimony before a Congressional Committee.   The official description of the shooter being issued for the past week is that of a "homegrown violent extremist."  Notice the missing word?  Once more we have to deal with our government's refusal to look evil in the face and call it what it truly is.  I suppose they are more concerned about hurting the feelings of Muslims than they are about stepping up to the plate for our servicemen and women and their families.

Political correctness is about as incorrect as anything could possibly be, if it allows for the ignoring of common sense and decency in favor of placating a religion that should be taking at least some responsibility for policing and monitoring its own young.  This is especially true when we have a psychological situation like the one involving Muhammad Abdulazeez and in light of the disastrous trend toward Islamic extremism being exhibited by disaffected young Muslim men who live in the West.  When I hear Michael Savage talk about Donald Trump's candidacy in one of his radio ads, and looking forward to "bombing ISIS back into the Stone Age," I want to shout at him that this is exactly where most of the radicalized Islamists are in their minds and actions.  If this weren't the case we wouldn't be dealing with the unrelenting terrorism that began on September 11, 2001.  There has been no evolution of thought in the fundamentalist Islamic population since the original Muhammad was on earth, except to pervert the Prophet's core message into one solely of hate and subjugation.

I'm not ashamed to admit that, in light of government prevarication about Islamic extremism, the IRS targeting of conservative groups, Benghazi, the Iran nuclear deal and any number of other lies they have foisted onto the American people, I am becoming incredibly afraid of what the reminder of this President's tenure will bring with it.  However, in the midst of this angst is the righteous anger that his brazen maltreatment of our armed forces has generated, and this is something I will embrace and run with.

We have the opportunity to flood the email inboxes and Twitter accounts of our elected officials with expressions of our complete and utter dissatisfaction concerning the way the Administration has chosen to dishonor those who gave their all for us, and to disenfranchise their surviving families.  I hope that you and your friends will use whatever media you have at your disposal to voice your disapproval, and do it often.  This type of government malfeasance shows no sign of dissipating, and should help attract truth-loving Americans to the standard of conservatism.  But we can't wait for them to catch up; we have to begin the truth-telling now...

More on Friday...