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Tom; I think Mark Steyn put it extremely well in ...

2010-03-06T16:40:21.492-07:00

Tom;

I think Mark Steyn put it extremely well in an article posted today in The National Review.
http://article.nationalreview.com/427119/its-about-government-not-health-care/mark-steyn

His topic was "health" "care" "reform," but I think the reason why is the same.

"the governmentalization of health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in fundamental ways that make limited government all but impossible. In most of the rest of the Western world, there are still nominally “conservative” parties, and they even win elections occasionally, but not to any great effect (let’s not forget that Jacques Chirac was, in French terms, a “conservative”). The result is a kind of two-party one-party state: Right-of-center parties will once in a while be in office, but never in power, merely presiding over vast left-wing bureaucracies that cruise on regardless."

Great essay! I think that global warming is dying...

2010-03-06T10:00:33.605-07:00

Great essay! I think that global warming is dying and this could put a huge dent in the entire progressive movement. Average Americans are starting to doubt. Once they conclude that it was all a hoax, they will eventually (this may take longer than we would like, but...) start asking, "If it was all a hoax, why was it perpetrated?" Of course, the answer is that those pushing this nonsense did it for the same reasons they have pushed all of their other nonsense: their abhorrence of private property and free enterprise. This was one more attempt to get people to deny these natural rights and it failed - as all wars against nature fail. Yes, environmentalism is UNnatural!

Pease! Don't call me a conservative. The lib...

2010-03-06T09:51:45.180-07:00

Pease! Don't call me a conservative.

The liberals and the progressives want to use a yardstick, simular to the one I use, to measure where we should be when it comes to the populace of these great United States. As an example let's put the liberals on the one inch end and the conservatives on the 36 inch side. The liberals say we should "meet in the middle!"
The problem is this. They, and wishy-washy republicans, have allowed "the middle" to slip somewhere down about the 11 inch mark.

I am not a conservative. Conservatives are not implanted in concrete. They are too apt to be allowed to be swayed or influenced. I am a Constitutionalist. One that believes the country is, or ought to be, solidly on the 36 inch mark, adhering to the Constitution, no wavering.
Is there a place for compromise when it comes to my way of thinking? Of course there is. That is what the 1st Amendment is for and what it gives us. A place to be charitable. A place for helping our fellow citizen. A place to compromise. However, when it comes to the 'rules of the road', there is nothing that beats the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence for this great country, or any country that wishes to adopt just the same.

God bless These United States.