"Educated Blacks and the Black Community - by Michelle Obama


Could we ask this question? What in the world does this woman think she is doing?

It the same question we have been asking of Joe Biden. What the heck is that boob doing? Seriously.

Understand that this woman is nearing 50 years of age and she hasn't a clue when it comes to acting like one of the most influential people on earth.

She wrote a paper, back in her young Princeton days (1985), that sought to measure black benevolence in black communities before, during and after attending Princeton. Want to know what the Obama's are all about with regard to participation of the black community? Read this paper:

It is produced on PDF at these four links: The title of the thesis is Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community and can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

Remember that Obama has said that Michelle is his primary mentor. What she thinks is what he thinks. Thus, the import of this paper.

Finally, someone hits the nail on the head. Boehner says,"The system itself favors spending and needs to be reformed." No one else is saying this.

Boehner: House rules make spending too easy, cuts difficultHouse Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) will say House budget rules should be reformed to curb federal spending in an address at a conservative think-tank Friday. — The top-ranking House Republican will outline …

Editor's notes: can anyone think of anything that could be more critical to the concerns of the vast majority of Americans than this. It comes as a surprise to this editor, and what a pleasant surprise. Over the past 21 months, many of us have become students of the political process, for the first time. One thing most of us would agree to is this notion: the more we know , the more we realize that we don't know.

With the words of Boehner, above, it suddenly hits us between the eyes : the very structure of the congressional process favors continuing spending. This editor is no more a Republican than he is a Democrat. I watch with a certain concerned detachment. Because of the Boehner's (pronounced "Bay-ner) comment, I must say this:

I would vote Republican in the coming campaign because of the news embedded in the above headlined story, if for no other reason. If he is not serious, he is gone in two years, but, to my knowledge, Boehner is the first and only Congressional figure in either party making such a statement.

Good for him. Hope he is serious. Boehner will have more to say on this later today. Look for our update.

Brown versus Whitman in California - Could THIS happen ??

If you have been following California gubernatorial politics, you know that the ancient Jerry Brown is running against eBay giant, Meg Whitman. She is now under fire for employing an illegal. None of it appears to be true, but this is where we are , in California politics.

Jerry Brown is currently our state's Attorney General.

What if he found Whitman in violation of some sort of employment law and had her arrested before the election?

I know this will not happen, but it could and wouldn't THAT be a hoot !!!

J Smithson
Editor

Forget the Dems - It is Obama serving as a Party of One.

Here is a quote of Obama Czar, John Holdren, a redistributionist Marxist from the 1970's. The passage quoted is about a man (Holdren) who lived and wrote 30 years ago.

“Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being,” Holdren wrote along with Paul and Anne Ehrlich in the final chapter of Human Ecology, a book the three co-authored in 1973. Paul Ehrlich is also author of the famous 1968 bestseller, The Population Bomb.

Why is this dated information important enough to post in today's Midknight Review?

Holdren is Obama’s top science adviser. He advises the administration on issues that include health care and climate change. Thirty some odd years after the fact, this clown shows up in Obama's Administration. What is overlooked in this is the fact that he serves Obama, not the people. Understand that this is not just a biased comment. It is true. Proof? Well, he is an Obama "czar" which means that he serves in one of the most important positions in government WITHOUT HAVING BEEN VETTED AND APPROVED BY THE CONGRESS. No one in government can call this clown into the halls of congress and ask him anything. He serves as "presidential staff." He benefits from 'executive privilege.' He cannot be subpoenaed for anything relating to governmental issues. He answers directly and only to Barack Obama. He serves Obama, not the people of the United States of America.

The question, then, is this: are Holdren's views of 30 years ago an important part of who he is, today? This video helps to answer that question.




Source for much of what is written above: CNS News.

Left town with things undone - we have a list of 12 ussues left without solution.

1. Budget - the 111th Congress has never had an official budget - first time in history.
2. No prosecutions for Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangel in spite of their indictments.
3. No trial for the master mind of 9/11, a fellow we know as KSM - its been 5 or 6 years.
4. No trial for the Fort Hood Muslim murderer. This Muslim massacre took place late last year.
5. High Valued Interrogation Units were never put in place. Obama took down the CIA interrogation teams
. . . . . . in the spring of 2009 with the promise of these new FBI HVI units.
6. No immigration bill of any kind in spite of an Obama promise to pass comprehensive immigration by the . . . . . . . . end .of 2009.
7. Set idly by as Iran became a nuclear power.
8. Set idly by as Venezuela accepted 5billion dollars worth of military aid from Russia.
9. Approved of DOJ policy to not prosecute voter complaints filed by white folk.
10. No effective jobs legislation.
11. Vacated Bushes missile defense treaties with no substitutes put in place.
12. Finally, the Dems have left town without voting on extending Bush's tax cuts -- after having two years to . . . . . . . .solve this problem.

The Lame Duck Session and the evil plans of the Dictatorial Class. Are there no conservative types left in the Democrat Party? Is so, DO SOMETHING.

Here is a headline we cannot celebrate: Dems shelve 'net neutrality' proposal...

Don't mistake our opening comment. It is a good thing that this Marxist idea was defeated. BUT that is the point - it wasn't defeated. We think we speak for millions when we complain about the opposition and their legislative agenda . . . . . . "defeat" is never final; it only represents a [very] temporary "postponement." In the case of 'net neutrality,' [our headline above] Henry Waxman [he is named in the story] fully intends to make an effort to cram this down our throats during the Lame Duck session of Congress, beginning somewhere around November 15.

His Marxist lead Party may have experienced the worst midterm defeat in history before then. That will make little difference to this piece of work [Waxman] and his comrades. He and his buds have worked against the documented will of the people for nearly two years. Their power will be gone. The election, if it goes as some suggest, will have been a protest against the kind of governance the Dems have exercised over the course of the past 21 months and, still, they intend to end their term with one final "we don't give a damn about the people." The Dems have a list of some 20 legislative items they intend to cram through Congress while they still have the [lame duck] majorities needed to govern as if they were the dictator class.


They will attempt to pass a Marxist version of immigration reform (the Dream Act), cap and trade environmental reform, a bill that takes away the secret ballot in union elections, net neutrality (the first step in curtailing conservative talk on the airwaves), bailouts for certain newspapers, warrantless internet surveillance, more bailouts for the various unions and their legacy programs, some sort of legislation extending parts of the Bush tax cuts but only to the socalled 'middle class', continued misuse of the TARP fund, more money shoved down the mortgage 'rescue' hole, the "Disclose Act" dealing with campaign finance revisions (benefiting Obama in 2012), the allocation of more funding for Muslim organizations such as Hamas (we have already given them 1.3 billion dollars) and much, much more. All of this in just four or five weeks between the midterms and the swearing in of the 112th Congress.

These people have proven themselves to be enemies of the State, pure and simple. Their actions are criminal in scope and tyrannical in nature. The people of the United States should never forget the past two years. The abuse of power is monumental. The heart of this Democrat party is evil to the core. Their use of bribes, closed doors and private negotiations, and promised of advancement in exchange for legislative agreement are all proof of what we say. The disregard for American traditions and Constitutional law is the very stuff third world dictatorships such as Castro and Hugo Chavez are made of.

We have never been this far into a particular presidency without knowing where we are going as a nation. With Obama, after 21 months, we can see what has happened andwhat has been attempted but failed. We can see that. But none of this gives us a line on what is coming down the pike expect for the seeming promise of continued radical reforms.

70% of the American people are vocally done with this kind of tyanny. In a poll released by FoxNews, today, we find that 89% of the American people are exactly where they were two years ago or worse off. In other words, when asked the question, "Are you better off today than two years ago," the Answer is a resounding "NO !!"


None of this bodes will for Obama.

CNN trying to pull a fast one with their polling ?? We think so.

(CNN) - The wild three-way Senate race in Alaska now appears to be a two-person fight for the top spot, according to a new poll.

A CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday indicates that 38 percent of likely voters in the state support GOP nominee Joe Miller, with 36 percent saying they back Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who was narrowly defeated by Miller in last month's GOP primary.


Editor's notes: we have made this point before. In the late stages of an election cycle, the most untrustworthy polls known to mankind are the ones with CNN, MSNBC, TIME, LA TIMES, US Today, listed as partners in the poll. Here is a perfect case in point. Understand that Libs believe in the doctrine of "means and ends." Republicans do not. CNN and Time want Murkowski to win in this election. She is a write-in candidate from the GOP Establishment.

While the CNN poll has her tied with Joe Miller, Rasmussen has Miller up by 11. Go figure . . . . . . . . . again..

Palin and a close friend are being stalked. Is this the fault of liberal hate speech or something less sinister? We have the answer.

From the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman

By Heather A. Resz
Published on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:25 PM AKDT

Sarah Palin obtained a protective order Monday against an 18-year-old Pennsylvania man who sent her receipts from a gun purchase, along with a letter saying “he tried to follow the Bible but had evil and wickedness in him.”

Palin, 46, filed the request in Anchorage District Court against Shawn R. Christy, a man she says began stalking her by e-mail and phone since the summer of 2009. Palin’s friend, Kristan Cole, 48, filed for and received a similar protective order against Christy.

“When someone sends you proof that they’ve purchased weapons. Proof that they know where you live. And said that they are looking into purchasing a one-way plane ticket to Alaska and then calls from a cell phone with a 907 number, it’s over the line and we need protecting.”

Cole said the Wasilla Police called him back at that phone number and spoke to him.

Reached at home in Pennsylvania, Christy's father, Craig, said his son is at home with him and has has never been to Alaska. He's promised the Frontiersman an interview Thursday telling their family's side of the story.

Cole testified that Christy sent a letter in August 2010 saying that “he tried to follow the bible but had evil and wickedness in him.” She said Christy told her that he is convinced she is evil and must be punished >>>>

Editor's notes: if we were liberals, we would use this story as a segue into a condemnation of liberal hate rhetoric. We would indict their talk shows, the hate speech on MSNBC and so forth.

The reality is quite different. The man involved appears to nothing more than a nut-case. We only hope and pray that the man's father is true to his appraisal, that he can keep him "in-tow" and under close supervision.

Understand that all public figures have to deal with the threat of death. What many folks do not know is that George Bush was the most threatened President in modern times. Now, that is a "rumor" but based on fairly sound testimony. Look, no one will ever discuss the actual reality. Such discussions spawn more assassination threats and increase the level of danger for all concerned. Still, Bush was much hated -- much more so than Obama or Bill Clinton.

Before making fun of O'Donnell or Palin, read this comment from Patty Murray - Democrat Senator in Washington State

Patty Murray on the Left (and we do mean Left) and Elena
Kagan, the only Supreme Court justice who does not know what "unalienable rights" are.


Here is our Murray quote of the day:

"He's been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. He's made their lives better."

Sounds alright, doesn't it ?

Until you realize that she is talking about OSAMA BIN LADEN !!!

Obama caught making up stuff about the uber rich.

President Barack Obama has declared that extending the Bush tax cuts for all taxpayers would mean giving tax cuts “to people who are making a million dollars up to more than a billion dollars.”

The problem with this statement is this: the IRS does not release any information of any type - budget reviews, financial summary statements, statistical summaries, etc., -- for wage earners making more than 10 million dollars a year. In other words, no one making a 100 million or 800 million or a billion or more dollars has ever been verified by the IRS. “We wouldn’t produce that,” IRS Spokesman Anthony Burke told CNSNews.com. “That would not be something we would [n]ever release. We would not do that.” Anything you hear or read otherwise, comes from sources not attached to the IRS.

Afternoon update: Obama continues to talk about the cost of a tax cut for the "rich." Two things are wrong with what he says. For starters, lumping those who make [gross income] $200,000 into the same category as those who make $500 million is beyond ludicrous. Those who make $200,000 "take home" no more than $100,000 after taxes paid to the State and the Feds. After taxes for the second category mentioned, the taxpayer still has more than $200 million. Think about that for a moment: $200 million versus $100, 000.

Secondly, the multi-millionaire presented above probably is a corporate businessman. His working capital is part of the corporation's set-asides. The $200,000 wage earner may be a small business owner who reports his income on his personal income tax forms - 40% of folks in this wage category are small business owners. If a small business owner, understand that a significant percentage of that "$200,000 " is in the form of investment/working capital for the coming tax year. Under Obama, this investment/working capital is taxed as income and the effect on future hires, increased inventories, and an expanding private sector business community is obvious.

We have passed the time in which we can blame the economy or Bush for the continuing failure in job creation. The blame is now on the shoulders of Barack Obama. It is his repressive, redistributive policies that are now putting pressure on the private sector.

Book Review of "the Roots of Obama's Rage." What if Obama believes in African Socialism ?

From this editor: did you know that within 3 weeks of taking office, Mr. Obama sent a bronze bust of Winston Churchill back to England in a shocking display of discourteous political behavior. No one knows why . . . . . . . . . . until now, that is. >>>>>

Editorial Reviews (Amazon)

Product Description

The Roots of Obama’s Rage reveals Obama for who he really is: a man driven by the anti-colonial ideology of his father and the first American president to actually seek to reduce America's strength, influence, and standard of living. Controversial and compelling, The Roots of Obama’s Rage is poised to be the one book that truly defines Obama and his presidency.

From the Inside Flap


YOU WILL NEVER SEE OBAMA THE SAME WAY AGAIN

He’s been called many things: a socialist, a radical fellow traveler, a Chicago machine politician, a prince of the civil rights movement, a virtual second coming of Christ, or even a covert Muslim.

But as New York Times bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza points out in this shockingly revealing book, these labels merely slap our own preconceived notions on Barack Obama.

The real Obama is a man shaped by experiences far different from those of most Americans; he is a much stranger, more determined, and exponentially more dangerous man than you’d ever imagined. He is not motivated by the civil rights struggles of African Americans in the 1960s—those battles leave him wholly untouched. He is not motivated by the socialist or Marxist propaganda that hypnotized a whole generation of wooly–minded academics and condescending liberals—those concepts also leave him cold.

What really motivates Barack Obama is an inherited rage—an often masked, but profound rage that comes from his African father; an anticolonialist rage against Western dominance, and most especially against the wealth and power of the very nation Barack Obama now leads. It is this rage that explains the previously inexplicable, and that gives us a startling look at what might lie ahead.

In The Roots of Obama’s Rage you’ll learn: Why Obama’s economic policies are actually designed to make America poorer compared to the rest of the world Why Obama will welcome a nuclear Iran Why Obama sees America as a rogue nation—worse than North Korea The real reason Obama banished a bust of Winston Churchill from the White House and ordered NASA to praise the scientific contributions of Muslims Why Obama would like to make America’s superpower status a thing of the past

Stunning, provocative, original, and telling—no one has better diagnosed who Obama is, what he intends to do, and why he poses an existential threat to America than Dinesh D’Souza in The Roots of Obama’s Rage.

From the Back Cover


From THE ROOTS OF OBAMA’S RAGE

We are today living out the script for America and the world that was dreamt up not by Obama but by Obama’s father. How do I know this? Because Obama says so himself. Reflect for a moment on the title of his book: it’s not Dreams of My Father but rather Dreams from My Father. In other words, Obama is not writing a book about his father’s dreams; he is writing a book about the dreams that he got from his father.

Think about what this means. The most powerful country in the world is being governed according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s—a polygamist who abandoned his wives, drank himself into stupors, and bounced around on two iron legs (after his real legs had to be amputated because of a car crash caused by his drunk driving). This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anti-colonial ambitions, is now setting the nation’s agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son. The son is the one who is making it happen, but the son is, as he candidly admits, only living out his father’s dream. The invisible father provides the inspiration, and the son dutifully gets the job done. America today is being governed by a ghost.

About the Author

Dinesh D’Souza is the president of the King’s College in New York City. He is a former White House domestic policy analyst and research scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His best-selling books include Illiberal Education, The End of Racism, and What’s So Great About America. Websites: dineshdsouza.com, tkc.edu.

Seriously, say what you will but you can't have it both ways.

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Days Of Malaise, Full Of Contempt

09/28/2010 07:00 PM ET - Elits: As Democrats hurtle toward an electoral nightmare in November, the best explanation they can offer for popular discontent is to call voters ignorant. Call it Carteresque cluelessness. In the summer of 1979, President Jimmy Carter gave the most incompetent address in the history of ... More »

Editor's notes: pardon the high tone but . . . . . . . talk about your basic dialectic with no synthesis in sight !!

How does Newt compare to Palin, Romney and others ??

Which Republican candidate is most likely to "get out the vote."

Newt Gingrich
5%
Mike Huckabee
11%
Sarah Palin
35%
Ron Paul
33%
Mike Pence
4%
Mitt Romney
12%

Obama confuses event attendance on a college campus with election cycle excitement.

The headline reads - Obama Mass - he's at it again !!

Nothing in any of the morning news about the failed fundraiser in LA, three weeks ago - a fundraiser whose host, Barbara Streisand, decided to absent herself.

Nothing about the fundraiser in New York, last week in which Obama could not fill a 650 seat auditorium, even at 50 bucks a seat. The event fell 200 short in terms of "seats filled."

No mention of the polling fact that 40% of Obama youth voters have no plans to turn out during this midterm.

No mention that after Jan 20, all of this fanfare comes to a screeching halt.

Democrat Alan Grayson caught in another lie. Will the Dems stand by their man ?? Republicans would not if tables were reversed.

It was all over cable, yesterday. The very deceptive Alan Grayson slices and dices a Daniel Webster speech in a campaign video. After being exposed - ala the following video - Grayson said that he stands by his video production. Democrats, have you no shame? Listen to this video. This is the worst of campaign tripe and Grayson, of course, is the man to illustrate our point.

Biden addresses Summer of Recovery audience.

Fortunately, the grim weather didn’t put a damper on our conversation. After some brief opening remarks by the Vice President, we launched right into a great discussion, with the audience asking about the steps we’re taking to create jobs and get our economy moving again. The Vice President took the opportunity to discuss our agenda for creating jobs, including more tax cuts for small businesses that want to expand and hire, infrastructure investment to build on the momentum of the Recovery Act, preserving tax cuts for the middle class, making college more affordable, and reducing health care costs while protecting health care consumers.

As you’d expect in a political season in a highly politically engaged state, other questioners asked about the upcoming midterm elections. And on that subject, Vice President Biden stressed the stark choice voters will face on November 2: will we continue moving forward, building on our economic progress, making sure that insurance companies and banks are playing by the new rules of the road, and pursuing a policy agenda focused on the prosperity of the middle class? Or will we hit reverse and go back to the failed, discredited economic policies set that got us into this mess? Will we rescind and repeal the progress we’ve made to end abuses by insurance companies and big banks, stop rebuilding America’s vital infrastructure, and go back to slashing taxes for millionaires and billionaires with no regard for the fiscal consequences?

From where we stand, the choice is clear. Vice President Biden ended the conversation by stressing just how high the stakes are, and how important it is that every American citizen stays engaged in this debate in the weeks ahead. From what I could tell as I looked on from the kitchen, no one disagreed. (text and picture from WhiteHouse.gov)

Editor's notes: we hasten to add that 8 people were in attendance.

Here are the opening words of the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

We remind you that the last Obama Supreme Court justice does not know what "unalienable rights" are nor does she intend to admit to them in your service as High Court justice.

In the following, Obama speaks of being "endowed with certain unalienable Rights .. ", leaving out the minor phrase, endowed "by their Creator." He is a believer and I am Jack Dempsey. Here is Obama in his own words . . . . . . or should we say "in his own lack of words" :



He has left off those very important words more than once.

There is a "huge" gathering of Progressive/Marxist/Socialists gathering in DC, this weekend. Here is one of the organizations making the trip.

Get on the bus:
One Nation Working Together
Saturday, October 2nd
Washington D.C.

We still have a FEW tickets left. $10 round trip from Union Square. Email us for more info: info@yayanetwork.org

The Tea Party and other right-wing, racist groups have been holding marches, turning out voters and intimidating politicians. We need to show the country and elected officials that they do not represent this country. We do!

Who we are:

The Ya-Ya Network is a non-profit youth led social justice organization focusing primarily on Counter-Military Recruitment. We participate in various campaigns, mobilizations and coalitions across the city, state and nation. We also educate, outreach and provide resources on many different issues impacting both youth and adults. We are committed to challenging the issues that impact young people. As leaders, the youth of the Ya-Ya Network are committed to building the next generation of activists in the movement for social, economic and racial justice. We are actively anti-racist, anti-sexist and allies to the L.G.B.T community and anyone who is for the power of the people.

What we do:

We are currently one of the few groups made up primarily of youth of color who are active in the counter-military recruitment movement. . . . ya ya youth activists

Editor's notes: in this post, we have documentation of a Marxist lead group of black young people influenced by those willing to use them to accomplish what these young people do not understand. These are part of the gathering in Washington DC, this coming Saturday, to counter the 800,000 gathered at the 8/28 event. Check out the site.

Adult stem cells can be converted to embryonic stem cells. Everyone knows this except the Obama and the intellectural Left. Why?

Washington (AP) - An appeals court ruled Tuesday that government funding of embryonic stem cell research can continue for now. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington granted the Obama administration's request to allow the funding from the National Institutes of Health while it appeals a judge's order blocking the research. . .

Editor's notes: so goes the opening lines of a story found in CNS News. What this blog does not understand is why "embryonic stem cell research." Understand the moral objections to such research; combine that understanding with the fact that adult stems can be converted to embryonic stem cells and maybe you can figure out where we are going before we write the next few sentences.

Maybe not.

What most of the Right and Independents in this country do not understand is this: the Left has as a central strategy a rule against any compromise that is final in and of itself. They - the Left - do not allow for this level of compromise.

Take the issue of "embryonic stem cell search." It has been common knowledge for several years that adult stem cells can be converted to embryonic cells. Understand that the collection of actual embryonic stems cells demands the destruction (read: death) of the embryo. In view of the fact that the destruction of the embryo is no longer necessary, why on earth does the Left and their supporting media continue to present their arguments for stem cell research as if they did not know that embryonic destruction is simply unnecessary? Because, in their own convoluted way, they see this as a compromise that might lead to the complete over-throw of Row vs Wade. It either that or they are just plain mean or . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . their ability to comprehend is not as high as conservatives. Take your pick.

Sources for adult to embryonic cell conversions:
http://www.nccbuscc.org/prolife/issues/bioethic/fact401.htm
and
http://www.stemcellresearch.org/

Obama, Rolling Stoned and a $250 Obama tax cut that cost me 130 bucks.

A couple of months ago, Rolling Stoned, did a hit piece on Obama's main man, General Stanley McChrystal, in an effort to undermine the war in Afghanistan - Obama's war in Afghanistan.

And what does Obama do? Why, he seeks out the magazine that should be regarded as his "enemy" and uses its audience to advance his partisan agenda.

Besides the words of the interview, themselves, the fact of the "interview" is a clear statement from Obama to his military leadership -- "I don't care about your opinions, your strategies, your rebellion. I am in charge and you are not."

A true Commander and Chief would do little more than cross the street to spit on the steps of this magazine's offices, BUT !! , of course, he is no "Commander and Chief." He is a man who won an election that delegates the command of the most effective military in human history to the winner. He is anti-military but not a pacifist. He is a renaissance man, one who is stuck in the fantasies of the Enlightenment. He believes in the ultimate goodness of mankind - or, at least he did on January 20, 2009.

It is clear that he no longer believes such things. In this Rolling Stoned article, he goes after FoxNews, the TEA Party and half the American population supporting conservative/traditional values. He is determined to win the war against these forces and he treats these philosophical opponents as if they were dangerous to the goals of his regime.

During the interview, he made this statement, speaking of FoxNews, " . . . . . It's (FoxNews) a point of view that I think is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country that has a vibrant middle class and is competitive in the world."

While he gives credit to the notion of a free press, his words are exposed as untruths in that he supports "card check" and the "fairness doctrine." Understand that "card check" is the unionization of a company or shop without allowing for a secret ballot. Understand that the "fairness doctrine" is a rather involved strategy designed to limit conservative talk radio.

In the article, Obama begins with an untruth. In the following words, he pretends to be a believer in bi-partisan cooperation, when , in fact his version of "bi-partisan" is the agreement of the opposition to the wishes of the majority,

He makes this statement with regard to the stimulus bill: "The recovery package we shaped was put together on the theory that we shouldn't exclude any ideas on the basis of ideological predispositions, and so a third of the Recovery Act were tax cuts." The implication is that the GOP pushes for "tax cuts" and "we" accommodated that thinking in the stimulus bill (aka "the recovery act"). The fact of the matter is something very different. He fails to mention that he met with the GOP caucus only three times throughout his first year in office and one of those meetings was the televised joint discussion he conducted with the GOP regarding the healthcare bill, a meeting he described as "productive," but made absolutely no follow-up effort.

As regards his claim of "tax cuts" - understand that not a single penny of tax cuts can be found in the stimulus, not if one uses the accepted definition of "tax cuts" to mean a reduction in an individual's tax rate. What Obama did in the stimulus was to give rebates to various segments of the population. Our family received $250 dollars. We had to claim that "tax cut" as income on our 2009 tax report, costing us approximately $130 in federal and state taxes. Soooooooo, was it a tax cut or income ?

At any rate, the interview is what it is. Obama is no good when talking off "the top of pointie head" and, as a consequence, makes a number of serious gaffes during the interview. In short order, this interview will become fodder for the coming election . . . . . . . . . . . . . not to mention 2012.

You can read the full interview at this Rolling Stoned link.

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Don't think some on the Left are our enemy? Maybe you should read this .

Know who this donut eater is? AFL/CIO President, Richard Trumpka. Why is it important to know who he is? Because of such statements at this:

We need to fundamentally restructure our economy and re-establish popular control over the private corporations which have distorted our economy and hijacked our government. That’s a long-term job, but one we should start now.
Source: AFL-CIO Now Blog

Two questions: exactly when was "popular control" ever held over private corporations, in this country? One cannot re-establish anything unless, of course, it was first "established." And secondly, what in the world is "popular control" in a statement that argues against private industry.

One final updated note: Trumka was elected president of his union in September, 2009. In the period of time since then, he has had scheduled meetings with Obama more than 30 separate times. Only Andy Sterns, past president of the SEIU has seen Obama more. Outside of his immediate staff, no two individuals have seen Obama more often.

Conclusion: Obama is clearly the biggest Union Man in the history of the presidency. When Obama is talking about "private sector jobs," we are thinking that he is talking about union jobs.

'Nough said.

"Sustainable green jobs" -- sounds good except when it is used to defend pro-marijuana legislation.


You will have to take our word for this news tip, but the woman pictured in this post is a babe named Daly Sky Jones (aka Daly Claire,PhD). She was on Fox News last week, arguing for the California ballot initiative, "Prop #19," the legalization of marijuana.

Her primary argument was this: "The passage of this proposition will add thousands of sustainable green jobs " to the California economy !! Understand that this is a statement made by a PhD and college Chancellor. Support legalizing mar-a-juana because it will provide us with "sustainable green jobs" ?? !!

Get this in your heads -- California is a fish-bowl view of the intelligence of the Liberal Left. It makes no difference to the Libs that Federal Law prohibits this law. Those who are working for its approval know that we have a White House committed to the SELECTIVE enforcement of Federal law. It makes no difference to these hyppified neurotics that legal marijuana farms already exist in the state (this editor is a born and raised Californian), that everywhere they exist, crimes of neighborhood theft have increased and gun fights are frequently reported. We have had several here in Fresno, California.

California's business repressive environment is running people with money out of the state. 3,500 families making $70,000 or more are making their exodus each week. Now, we are about to turn this state into the official collective pusher for America's drug infested constituency. How many will leave because of this circumstance?

My doctor son lives in this state. He recently purchased a home that has -- as it turns out - three legal pot farms BORDERING his property. There has already been one brief gun fight between gangbangers and the legal owners of these pot farms. Obviously, the existence of pot farms in the neighborhood of existing properties needs to be disclosed as a part of the sales process. My son would have never made his purchase if he had known of this circumstance. We are wondering as to the ultimate impact on property values in the face of the possible passage of Prop 19 ?

In the end, there really is no better argument against legalization of drugs than this one word -- MEXICO.

While the nation loses 194 billion dollars filling out taxes, the Feds propose a plan to save 10 million dollars.

It is being announced on the morning news that the IRS will no longer mail out tax forms. You will get your tax forms on line, from the IRS site, at your local library, or from books that come out during tax season, complete with instructions. These books generally cost $20. We think they are well worth the expense.

We hope for a time when none of this is necessary. The tax system as we know it has gotten out of hand. Currently 17,000 pages are dedicated to the Federal tax code and the intended use of its 700 plus forms. The IRS, itself, estimates that $194 billion is lost as we sit on our collective flabby butts, filling out the required forms -- incredibly more than 5 billion (yes, with a "b") hours are spent in the business of "doing" federal taxes.

Salon, Obama, Bush and our right to privacy.

Here is something we at Midknight Review never do -- recommend an article out of a liberal publication. Today, Salon, published a very important article on the continuing invasion of privacy going on in our country at the hands of our government, since - and in part, because of - 9/11.

Salon begins by pointing to the fact that in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, as of August of this year, a ban exists on the use of Blackberries because those governments do not have the technologies needed to effectively monitor Blackberry communications. Research in Motion is the Canadian based company that operates Blackberry and it refuses to make its communication data available to the outside world. The issues surrounding Blackberry includes voice-over communications on the internet such as Skype, as well.

Like Saudi Arabia and United Arabs Emirates, the Obama Administration intends to increase its ability to monitor our every communication. You will want to read the Salon article here. Again, Salon is a liberal publication or so we say. Just what kind of "liberal," we really do not know. We intend to give this last question some attention in the very near future - in the meantime, read the article.

As you read, you will note the embedded angst against the Bush Administration. This blogger is a "friend" of GW but very disappointed with [especially] his big government spending policies. Unlike Glenn Beck, we do not see GW Bush as a Progressive. But he practiced some of the same spending policies as do Progressives. At any rate, the problem of privacy became an issue under the Bush Administration, but for good reason -- to protect the American people.

We believe that the Obama people have very different reasons for doing much of what they do. While Bush "invaded our privacy," Obama is in the midst of a mounting assault on our personal freedoms, especially as relates to free political speech. And therein is the difference between the two. Salon will disagree.

President Bush would never have come up with anything similar to the "fairness doctrine" or "net neutrality." He would not have collected information for the purpose of evaluating for the "truthfulness" of commentary. Bush never complained about free political speech, describing it as a pressure on a free society nor would he have pointed the finger at the Supreme Court over their free speech decision in Citizen United.

As you read the Salon article, understand that the call to protect our country from attack is not the primary motivation for the Marxist/Socialists in our midst. Understand that Obama and his many friends, hate the realization that his opposition is as effective as it is. He attributes the "opposition's" rhetorical successes to lies and half truths, and wants to limit such speech. Obama believes that we should not have the right to offer up speech that - in his opinion - is misleading and "untrue." We have documented all this several times in the past.

Before "we" begin an assault on personal privacy, we suggest that the powers that be begin by affirming our CONSTITUTIONAL right to privacy. Following that little exercise, we should, then, develop strategies that do not offend Constitutional principles. There are rules that cannot and must not be ignored. If the Constitution must be suspended for our protection, the enemy has won.

Understand that no people have ever been injured by a caring and benevolent dictator. But, the rules that allow a benevolent dictator to assume power, allow for a despot to do the same. Our individual freedoms must not be sacrificed in the name of national security. Sorry.

Our suggestion to the Feds? Find a different way. Develop new technologies. Slow down the development of these technologies or encourage communication inventors to help solve the problems they have created. But do not use the occasion to take away our freedoms.

Henry Waxman makes another move against free political speech. Its what his boss wants.

Eliza Krigman / Tech Daily Dose:
Net Neutrality Bill Gives FCC No New Rulemaking Power

Editor's notes: "new neutrality" is the "fairness doctrine." These are names given to a doctrine designed to ultimately defrock conservative talk radio. Henry Waxman, a representative from the Southland of California, a man who has never spent a single day working in the private sector, is hell bent on minimizing the effects of conservative talk. He cannot get a bill through Congress that will actually do what he wants done, so, he has come up with this lame bill - a first step to the destruction of free conservative talk.

Understand that anything designed to regulate political speech and sponsored by Henry Waxman should be rejected out of hand. He is a nuisance to the health of this country and an enemy of all that we, as a free people, believe. If this bill is passed in any form, it needs to be promptly rejected by the incoming GOP.

The bottom has fallen out of the Obama silent coup.

In a recent Battleground Poll out of George Washington University, Obama scored behind the Republicans on two very important issues: the economy and creating jobs. On the former the percentages were 49% to 41% favoring the GOP; regarding the latter, we have 51% to 40 , again, favoring the GOP. Perhaps the most startling of all the findings was the polling fact that 80% said they received their news from cable sources with FoxNews being more popular than CNN, MSNBC AND HLN combined.

In the same poll, we have only 38% believing Obama deserves reelection, 44% would definitely vote to replace him and another 13% are seriously consideration his replacement.

The poll is a disaster for the Obama organization. On Wednesday, he is planning the largest political gathering since the campaign of 2008.

Small time Midknight Review, that would be this blog, believes that as things stand today, if the presidential election were held this weekend, Obama would see 75 to 79 million votes against him. Let's not forget that he spent a record $770 million dollars to win an election by 7% or by a total of 69.6 million votes.

If "they" can track us, "we" can counter their devices.

The Obama government can now bug your car, your email and your cellphones all without a warrant. Next time I hear a lib talk down the Patriot Act, I am seriously thinking of hitting him. This goes beyond hypocrisy. These are acts of sedition, pure and simple.

Understand this, if they have a right to put a tracer on my car, I have a right to search it out and get rid of it. If they have a right to track my comings and goings, I have a right to figure out how to avoid the Feds intrusion into my life.

Point of post: get smart, not mean. Put the Dems back into their little box and move on.

"The GOP will go after Obama's birth certificate - if the are elected !!! " Did we miss something? This should take 10 minutes to deal with, right ?

Dem Whip: GOP majority will issue birther subpoenas against Obama — House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) warned Republicans will investigate President Obama's birthplace if they take over Congress. — Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, said Republicans will grind. . . . .

Editor's notes: what is Clyburn afraid of ?? The birth certificate issue has already been put to bed. Obama laughs at the ridiculous nature of the question. So, if the GOP should make an issue out of this, it will be promptly dealt with - an embarrassment for the GOP, right ?

What should not be lost to the attending audience is this: Arizona has past a campaign law requiring the presentation of a birth certificate for all seeking office who must be natural born citizens. Obama and others, will not be allowed to be on the Arizona ballot unless and until they actually produce a birth certificate. Oh, it is all building to a rather curious end, isn't it.

Note: before you start making fun of "birthers," do not forget that 35% of Democrats agree with the Iranian midget president when he charges 9/11 of being an "inside job."

Politico, the Left leaning internet giant, pretends to be dealing with an election cycle problem for Fox News. Silly.


Politico sees an evolving problem for Fox News, what do with the several paid advisors thinking about running for president in 2012. You will recognize the three, but not Rick Santorum in the lower right - and we do mean Right.

The "thinkers" at Politico apparently think that any or all of these folks will continue to draw pay from Fox while expecting Fox to cover their campaigns.

Apparently, Politico does not know there are laws that prevent this from happening. More than this, not one of those pictured would ask Fox to continue their "for pay" association. Huckabee is the most involved of the four and, for that reason, he may be the least likely to run. We shall see.

For for certain, Politico has dreamed up a problem that does not exist.

No more filibuster ?? Bring it on ! A 51 vote majority vote will make it easier to repeal ObamaCare. Another great Democrat idea. Geeeeeech.

Senate Democrats not backing down on filibuster reform despite expected losses — Despite expected losses this fall, Senate Democrats are not backing down on their commitment to filibuster reform. — In the wake of two failed procedural votes last week, some Democrats in the upper chamber say reform is necessary. . . . . .

Editor's notes: this is fine with us. What the Marxist libs are trying to do is this: expecting major defeats in a number of Senatorial races this midterm election, the Dems want the deciding vote to be reduced from 60 to 51, giving them legislative control of the Senate -- that is the Democrat strategy in changing the 110 year old filibuster rule. The reality of the change is much more involved than the Dems suppose, however.

What they do not understand is this: if the country is in the midst of a conservative swing back to reality AND the conservative movement continues to make gains in the Senate in this and the next election, the 51 vote Senate rule would benefit the conservative agenda for "repeal and replace," especially if Obama is defeated in 2012. Understand that the House is dead when it comes to socialist/Marxist majority rule. No matter which party owns the House after the November elections, the conservatives will have enough seats to stop the insane move to the Left and force bipartisan cooperation if anything is to get done. Midknight Review does not care if "grid lock" is the rule of the day. That is preferable to a socialist/Marxist takeover of this nation.

Watch the whiners on the Left change the filibuster rule and then, two or three years from now, find that the rule change is being used to take down the legislative gains of 2009/2010 -- watch them whine about fairness and the evils of one party rule - like they did under the first years of Bush. Anyone remember those alligator tears ?

The TEA Party Movement has to stay strong and increasing for the next several years.

Inflation and the signing of an Obama spending bill.

Today, Mr. Obama will sign into law a $42b state aid bill that, three days ago, was $30b. What happened? What most of America does not realize is the fact that after a bill has been approved by one of the houses of Congress, it can be changed almost at will in the "other" house. In this case, after fighting the battle in the House, the Senate took that bill and quitely added 12 billion dollars. Understand that NO MORE THAN TWO THIRDS of any bill's dollar amount ever gets to its designed assignment. How is that? It has to do with waste, fraud, outright theft, and administrative costs. We - Midknight Review - actually believe the total percentage of income loss, per bill, is much closer to 50% NOT INCLUDING INTEREST PAID ON MONIES BORROWED to fund a particular bill.

Point of post: the single strongest argument against spending and spending and spending is the waste, fraud, theft and so-called "administrative" costs that are a part any expense bill. Let's not forget the unmentioned add-on of interest paid for the monies borrowed to fund a particular bill. Of any bill, this country borrows approximately half of the funds for the bill from foreign sources or from itself.

Reform should begin with the collective of waste,fraud, theft, administrative costs and interest pay-outs. Literally, billions and billions could be saved if we began with this reform consideration.

With regard to the 42b dollar bill being signed into law, today -- less than 25B dollars will get to any particular agency needing the money. And the claim that this bill will supply half a million new jobs will never be revisited, tested or confirmed. It is just rhetoric and NOTHING more.

Poll after poll but the difference in the election has little to do with the polls.

RealClearPolitics runs an average of all the major polling firms with regard to Obama. Gallup, Rasmussen, Marist, PPP are a few of the polls effecting the RCP Averages. In this past week, this RCP Average hit a new and record low for the Novice in our White House. Understand that "averages" can be very deceiving and, often, do not give us a view of reality, for that reason.

Here is a an example. Take six regions in our country, each with a temperature averaging a very normal 75 degrees. If we ran an average combining the six regions, "75" would be the prevailing number, of course. If we were to add a seventh district with an average of 82 degrees and rolled that into the number for the remaining 6 regions, we would have an increased average of 76 degrees. We might, then, conclude that global warming is occurring when, in fact, only one region out of seven is experiencing an "over heated" atmosphere. We can do the same sort of thing with political averages.

On a different level, "averages" can be inappropriate as a predictive device. Take the Angle/Reid race in Nevada. The two contestants have been in a virtual polling tie for nearly two months. No one is trying to figure out how many of each party will actually vote, however. This midterm will be decided by turnout, not on the basis of ideological bias. In that reality, there is room for any particular election day conclusion. It is because of this consideration that we argue against the "appropriateness" of polling as THE predictor of election politics.

A third consideration, when it comes to polling, is the irresistible fact that polls are often used (read: misused) by a particular entity. Anytime we (Midknight Review) sees a poll with a major media attachment, we disregard the poll, altogether. Examples of this would be "CNN/Gallup" or "Marist/NBC" or "PPP/NY TY Times".

We should NEVER forget the recent "Journalolist" scandal that exposed the collusion of more than 400 journalist and academics in an email conspiracy to influence the '08 election with propaganda, made-up or otherwise. We reported on this last August 13 here. Understand that the Journalolist Conspiracy DID NOT disappear. It is as strong a collusionary influence as ever. During the remaining 38 days until the election, we expect to see the Times, evening network news, and the far Left blogosphere using "polling" information to influence the midterms. This is the reason why liberal media themes appear every 7 to 14 days. One week, every liberal outlet is talking about O'Donnell's witchcraft and the following week, they are talking about her tax problems. Conversely, one week, no one is talking about Coon's Marxist ties and the next week, no one is talking his alliance with those who would benefit from "cap and trade" legislation" -- each example being a demonstration of liberal media collusion, as well, a collusion of silence.

Point of post: to review the negatives of depending on polling results. In the end, we must stand on our principles and campaign as if the people we serve agree with our opinion. In the end, they will make their wishes known via the only poll that really matters - the "next election."

September 20 saw our first book burning by an US President.

'Operation Dark Heart' describes Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer's time in Afghanistan leading a black-ops team.
'Operation Dark Heart' describes Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer's time in Afghanistan leading a black-ops team.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • The Department of Defense says the memoir contained state secrets
  • The book's author calls the destruction "ludicrous"
  • A second printing of the book incorporates redactions requested by the Pentagon

Washington (CNN)By Chris Lawrence and Padma Rama -- The Department of Defense recently purchased and destroyed thousands of copies of an Army Reserve officer's memoir in an effort to safeguard state secrets, a spokeswoman said Saturday.

"DoD decided to purchase copies of the first printing because they contained information which could cause damage to national security," Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. April Cunningham said.

In a statement to CNN, Cunningham said defense officials observed the September 20 destruction of about 9,500 copies of Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer's new memoir "Operation Dark Heart."

Shaffer says he was notified Friday about the Pentagon . READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>>>>

Editor's notes: Midknight Review was among the first blogs on the internet to report this blatant assault on free speech nearly two weeks ago. We saw Col Shaffer appearance on FoxNews, happy to discuss his book, Operation Dark Heart. In that same afternoon, after the initial announcement that there would be a book burning of Operation Dark Heart by order of the Administration, Col Shaffer made an appearance on Fox but refused to discuss the book, saying only that he was still a member of the US military.

In the morning interview, Col. Shaffer told the listening audience that the book had been fully vetted for top secret information. Of course it was. We all know that without anyone making a statement to that fact. Nothing is written by an active member of the US military without clearance.

But the Obama spinmeisters had not cleared the book for embarrassing information and Shaffer is speaking out. In the CNN article, we have this statement from Col. Shaffer: "The whole premise smacks of retaliation. Someone buying 10,000 books to suppress a story in this digital age is ludicrous."

Point of post: we - Midknight Review - tried to tell you that this stranger in our White House does not believe in free speech.

See our Sept. 10 news breaking story: Midknight Review: Obama's first book confiscation: Operation Dark ...

Banks prepare to refuse the $30B funding program and here is why . . . . .

Small biz, banks may spurn Obama's $30B program...

Editor's notes:
the bill has worked its way through both houses of Congress and was co-sponsored by a RINO out of Florida. It awaits Obama's signature. But, even before it becomes a law, small banks are prepared to refuse the money. They see no need for the increased funding and, more importantly, they do not want the added governmental restrictions that accompany ALL federal funding for whatever reason.

Understand that in recent surveys, 91% of their credit needs have already been met according to
National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).

In a recent public statement from William Chase, CEO of Tirumph Bank in Memphis, we have this comment: "We have taken a strategic decision not to have our primary regulator, the government, also be a partner in our bank . . . . Our business customers are mired in uncertainty and are reluctant to invest in their businesses." We wonder when the folks in Washington will begin to listen to those who create jobs instead of vilifying them.


The Czechs play a role of leadership that Obama should have managed.

Czech president tells UN to stay out of economics; Opposes calls for increased 'global governance'...

Editor's notes:
The Czechs want the UN to butt out of the world economics scene. We agree. So do most Americans. Our Question is this and it is the point of the post: where is Mr. Obama on this issue?

What is amazing to this editor is the fact that Obama continues to govern as if he is a president with increasing powers. 38 days from now, whether the GOP takes back either of the two houses in Congress, all this "one world, to hell with the real middle class (the part that works for a living) , presidential tyranny" will come to a screeching halt.


After November, look for three things to happen.

1. The Dems will try to use the Lame Duck session to pass card check, a variation of cap and trade, the so-called Dream Act (an immigration amnesty bill), Bush tax cuts, reform on the issue of gays in the military, and more bailouts for their union supporters.

2. Obama will begin a disappointing and tiresome attack on his GOP counterparts -- two years of strategic and negative rhetoric in an effort to save his "presidency" and return the Dems to power.

3. If the House goes back to the GOP, expect to see investigations of a number of Obama secretive financial dealings. Midknight Review has documented a number (3 or 4) actions Obama has taken that appear to be criminal, i,e,, funding of ACORN (yes, ACORN is still with us but under a number of different names), the funding of GM's first quarter "debt pay-back," and the use of presidency power to influence elections. We have predicted that if these investigations uncover serious and criminal behavior, Obama will quite office before the end of his first term, ending the possibility of criminal prosecution.


Obama seeks the power to kill without legal review. He wants to hide behind "state secrets." See what his friends have to say. It ain't nice.

From Salon, 9/25/10: At this point, I didn't believe it was possible, but the Obama administration has just reached an all-new low in its abysmal civil liberties record. In response to the lawsuit filed by Anwar Awlaki's father asking a court to enjoin the President from assassinating his son, a U.S. citizen, without any due process, the administration last late night, according to The Washington Post, filed a brief asking the court to dismiss the lawsuit without hearing the merits of the claims. That's not surprising: both the Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly insisted that their secret conduct is legal but nonetheless urge courts not to even rule on its legality. But what's most notable here is that one of the arguments the Obama DOJ raises to demand dismissal of this lawsuit is "state secrets": in other words, not only does the President have the right to sentence Americans to death with no due process or charges of any kind, but his decisions as to who will be killed and why he wants them dead are "state secrets," and thus no court may adjudicate its legality. . . . . READ MORE >>>

Editor's notes: understand that Anwar Awlaki is both an American citizen and a terrorist. Rather than work for his arrest, Obama has decided to make a public declaration that he, Obama, wants Awlake dead. Obama didn' t have to tell anyone in the public arena. Bush did mush the same thing with enemies of the state, but he didn't announce his plans to the world. Obama, on the other hand, has gone one up on Bush, ahhhhh, make that "two up." First, he invited the world's approval in making his announcement and, secondly, he invoked "state secrets" in making his decision. If upheld by a court of law, this would give Obama absolute secrecy in deciding who lives and dies, and why.

Question: what is worse than being dumb and stupid? Answer: Being dumb, stupid and dangerous.

Look, do we allow our police officers to make back room decisions on who lives and who dies? For any reason? Even if the suspect is a mass murderer? This is exactly what Obama has done and even worse, he has asked that his decisions remain without review.

Finally, note that the above editorial comes from Salon. This blog is run by the hard Left. The article is not a news clip but an opinion piece by Obama's friends on the far Left. Even they see this as the danger it is.

The enemies of the Constitution are coming out of the woodwork. Here, we review an anti-Constitution essay.

The Perils of Constitution Worship - one of the guiding principles of the tea-party movement is based on a myth

WOULDN’T it be splendid if the solutions to America’s problems could be written down in a slim book no bigger than a passport that you could slip into your breast pocket? That, more or less, is the big idea of the tea-party movement, the grassroots mutiny against big government that has mounted an internal takeover of the Republican Party and changed the face of American politics. Listen to Michele Bachmann, a congresswoman from Minnesota and tea-party heroine, as she addressed the conservative Value Voters’ Summit in Washington, DC, last week:

To those who would spread lies, and to those who would spread falsehoods and rumours about the tea-party movement, let me be very clear to them. If you are scared of the tea-party movement, you are afraid of Thomas Jefferson who penned our mission statement, and, by the way, you may have heard of it, it’s called the Declaration of Independence. [Cheers, applause.] So what are these revolutionary ideas that make up and undergird the tea-party movement? Well, it’s this: All men and all women are created equal. We are endowed by our creator—that’s God, not government [applause]—with certain inalienable rights…

The Declaration of Independence and the constitution have been venerated for two centuries. But thanks to the tea-party movement they are enjoying a dramatic revival. . . . . When history is turned into scripture and men into deities, truth is the victim. The framers were giants, visionaries and polymaths. But they were also aristocrats, creatures of their time fearful of what they considered the excessive democracy taking hold in the states in the 1780s. They did not believe that poor men, or any women, let alone slaves, should have the vote. Many of their decisions, such as giving every state two senators regardless of population, were the product not of Olympian sagacity but of grubby power-struggles and compromises—exactly the sort of backroom dealmaking, in fact, in which today’s Congress excels and which is now so much out of favour with the tea-partiers. . . . . But this is a case that needs to be made and from first principles in every political generation . . . . . Jefferson [did not] write a mission statement for the tea- partiers. They are going to have to write one for themselves. . . . . . . . . READ THE FULL RIDICULOUS ARTICLE >>>>

Editor's notes: what we have in the above is the writings of a man who who has rejected the past and replaced it with the past. Someone once said, "There is nothing new under the sun." That is not more true than in this rhetorical circumstance. The author of the article above chose to remain anonymous, no doubt an effort to insure the viability of his business endeavors. He puts forth the notion, after it is all said and done, that "constitutional solutions" are not wrong so much as they are worthless, considering the needs and problems of modern times. Implicit in the article is the myth that the Constitution is of no consequence in today's political economy. And what does the unknown author suggest as a replacement? Where is that in the article? Where is a HINT of an answer to that question in the article ?

We know the answer . . . . . . . . . some form of tyranny/Marxism/oneworldism. His solution is to replace the past with . . . . . . . . . the past. How do we know? Because there are no other alternatives. It is either a governance of the people, by the people and for the people or it is a governance of some form of top-down dictatorial control. "Either or" is the only choice because "either or" is the only reality. Notice that we did not say "the only two realities." Federalism/socialism is a dialectic that pits one against the other in a single reality. The history of our nation is one that expresses this continuing controversy. From the very beginning, the Founders were divided on the matter. The Constitution was, in part, written as a solution to this controversy. Our history reflects this very controversy.

The opinion of the writer, above, ignores the continuing controversy and pretends that the Constitution is a political reality, in and of itself, that the poor, the slave, the unnamed working class is a part of another reality, one not considered by the Founders.

The truth of the matter is this: within the Constitution, we have small government expressed in the 10th Amendment set in working contrast to "big government." BOTH are part of the Constitutional equation.

Mr. "economist" never gets to the solution. He is only concerned with his view of the "myth" and in that fact, he is more than wrong, he is dishonest with regard to his ultimate intentions for this country and YOUR personal freedoms. Throw out the Constitution and replace it with what?

We maintain that the American past works as a political/economic reality, that tyranny in whatever form, does not work..

Take it to the bank and join the new American revolution.