What kind of “Conservative” are you?

There is a tendency among Americans to think of the nation’s Founders as a group of wealthy white men who owned property, didn’t like British rule, and all thought pretty much alike. But it’s certainly not the case that they all thought alike. Two of the most famous among them, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, held to profoundly different visions of the path the nation should take.

Health Care and the Constitution

We’ve had some excellent articles and videos submitted by our readers recently.  We’ll be posting them under the appropriate categories.   Have you read a good one lately?  Send it on it.    Here is an article from one of our readers about Mr. Connelly’s take on the Health Care Bill as it relates to our Constitution.   A 13 year [...]

State Sovereignty. Our legacy. Our Hope.

“On the heels of the Adams administration, the people of the States United spoke clearly and loudly through their election of Presidents Thomas Jefferson in 1801 through James Buchanan in 1857. All of these Presidents (through either political expediency or conviction) rejected the centralists’ philosophy and confirmed the fundamental political ideology that the Constitution of the United States of America was a compact assented to by the individual States of America, and that the Federal government’s authority only extended to the specific and enumerated grants acceded to it by the sovereign people of each State. It was not until 1861 that this understanding of Constitutional government and State Sovereignty was seriously challenged.”

Who has relevance in Washington?

Ron Paul’s “rEVOLution” (revolution with “love” spelled backwards) has been the sole bright light among GOP organizing efforts since Obama’s election. In a party marred by the awkward resignation of Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin from the Alaska governorship and a variety of sexual scandals (David Vitter, John Ensign, Mark Sanford, etc), Ron Paul alone has unified the GOP around an overwhelmingly popular proposal: Auditing the Federal Reserve. His bill (H.R. 1207) has every Republican House member, a score of senators and – according to a July Rasmussen poll – three quarters of the American people backing it. He even has significant bipartisan support: More than a third of the Democrats in the House also cosponsor the bill, which is the reason why two-thirds of the entire Democrat-dominated House is currently cosponsoring the legislation.

On the health care debate, Rep. Paul seems the perfect candidate to give the GOP an authoritative spokesman to oppose Obama’s expensive health care agenda. Dr. Paul is a medical doctor, an obstetrician who has delivered more than 4,000 babies.

Meanwhile, the Ron Paul revolution appears to be flowering politically.

MEETING Friday August 7th!

Dear Friends, Members, Precinct Chairs, and Executive Committee:  Fire is burning in the hearts and minds of true conservatives in our County.   There is a very active group of sage conservatives who are ready to put the petal to the metal and get the ball rolling.  We’re going to meet this Friday, August 7th at [...]

Mover and Shaker

Here’s a local group worth keeping up with! Maralyn writes: “Let me tell you about the local meetup that started up last night. We have three main directives whose goal is to Take Our Country Back: Education (we will continue to read, read, read as well as attend local meetings to educate ourselves on the [...]

Go PETER!! We need guys like this in the Senate!

Fellow Conservatives,  I have just returned from the World Economic Summit/FreedomFest event in Las Vegas. The best news I heard was Peter Schiff’s announcement that he is considering a Republican run for Senate. You may know Peter as the founder and president of Euro Pacific Capitol, Inc. (www.europac.net) or from the many videos of Peter [...]

REAL PATRIOTS

Bill Clinton once felt moved to scold the people who took offense at some of the government’s especially monstrous recent crimes by saying, “You can’t love your country and hate your government.” Au contraire, Slick Willy. I am living proof that you can indeed. I do so in every waking minute of every day, and sometimes in my sleep, too. To be perfectly frank, I have trouble in understanding how any decent, halfway honest person who loves America cannot hate its governments, inasmuch as by their laws, their judicial decisions, their regulations, and their daily conduct they prove themselves a standing reproach to every ideal embraced by the men who shed their blood to establish this country’s independence from the British Empire.

A MUST READ

Either we get off our duffs and fight, or we’re toast.  It’s that simple.   Why is it that we were taught that to speak politics in mixed company is impolite.   In fact, it is our civic duty to know and care enough about what is going on that we discuss the political landscape regularly.   This was [...]

Free Markets are NOT to blame

“The drones who exist to repeat clichés about market failure need a robust and energetic reply from people who know what they’re talking about.”