Today's Politicos vs The Words and Deeds of The Founders

I hesitated to write this article for a long time for fear of sounding extreme or intemperate. However, the time has come to speak out. There is no doubt that the scenario I am about describe is the game plan envisioned be those who seek absolute control.

“Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.” So said Barack Obama two days after London’s the Guardian news outlet broke the story that the government has required cellular provider Verizon to turn over its daily customer call information to the …

Forget the tin foil hats – Friday’s headlines leave no doubt that this administration’s abuse of power is real.

Much head scratching occurred when the Nobel committee awarded Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, just months after becoming president. Many (me included) believed that he had not accomplished anything yet as president and certainly nothing that warranted …

Do we really think that private companies are permitted to launch communications satellites into space, without government control mechanisms? Is it really that far fetched that the US government might want a backdoor, or access in the event of national emergency? What if the government has been siphoning off conversations for processing for quite some time – directly from the source?

If you haven’t seen this, you owe it to yourself to watch it.

Dr. Benjamin Carson is the director of the pediatric neurosurgery division at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. He is the son of an illiterate, single black woman and is now a highly esteemed doctor. While not intending to offend anyone, notice that Mr. Obama doesn’t applaud his words.

Who would have ever thought Justices Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor would share an opinion on the court. Yet this group formed the dissenting opinion in the controversial DNA testing case recently ruled on by the Supreme Court. But, then again, whoever thought that WWTFT would sing the praises of an articlewritten in the New Republic .. strange times indeed.

Ideas Have Consequences is such dense book, that it would be impossible to review it in the normal mode. Indeed even treating each chapter as an entity unto itself may not be sufficient. And so, consider this a multi-part review.

President Obama was right. He promised the most transparent administration ever and he kept his word. It is the most transparently political, transparently corrupt and transparently inept of any administration in recent American history, maybe in all American history.

Logan Beirne, who’s new book we recently reviewed here at WWTFT, has an excellent piece in the Washington Times. In this piece, as in his book, Beirne explains the relevance of founding principles and the precedents set by George Washington.