Category — For The Record

Will there be anyone in America not dependent on the government? Not if President Obama has his way. He’s going all out to buy the 2012 election. (Deficit? What deficit?) Want a free college education? Not a problem. Bail out underwater homeowners? Marvelous idea. Federal jobs for veterans? Terrific.. Expand the food stamp program? The more the merrier. Free Internet and cell phones? Done. He no longer says Americans have “grown a little soft” or denigrates citizens for “clinging to their guns and bibles.” Now our president’s devotion knows no bounds.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an early adherent of Rahm Emanuel’s philosophy regarding crisis and opportunity. With unemployment at almost 20%, Roosevelt used fear and economic uncertainty to breach the Constitution with an alphabet soup of overlapping interventions in the economy.*

FDR Goes to War is a surprisingly short, but detailed account of a president, whose failed policies are still echoing through the present day.

Obama’s persistent efforts to breach Constitutional limits on government awakened a populist movement to protect the Constitution and shrink government. Obama Care, an enormous breach of the Constitution and a huge expansion of government all by itself, is only the tip of the iceberg, in terms of the breadth and scope of the president’s attack on the Constitution.

Friday’s Wall Street Journal contained an article aptly entitled Contempt For The Constitution, in which they point out the inconsistent, if convenient, (to them) interpretations given to the nation’s founding document by the Obama administration’s Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel on Thursday.

Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America, tries to position himself as the guy with the answers, frequently irritating those on the right and the left. However, his arguments are flawed and inconsistent.

The National Review is covering a story we covered here, some time ago.  We’re just glad someone is paying attention to the travesty being visited upon one of the best presidents of the 20th century.

Gehry’s Ghastly Eisenhower Memorial …

According to Reuters and other news sources, the Obama administration has been involved in secret talks with the Taliban for months. Apparently, when Vice President Biden denied that the Taliban were our enemies, it wasn’t just old Joe popping off again, but the beginning of a campaign to rehabilitate the fundamentalist terror organization even as it is killing U.S., NATO and Afghan soldiers on the battlefield.

President Obama is fighting for respect from not just his opponents but also from his constituents. The left is quick to point out the “disrespect” they see inherent in criticism directed at the President, but they rarely investigate why this lack of respect is so pervasive.

Their premise is wrong. Every president has been subject to criticism (think of what Lincoln endured) cartoons, Saturday-night-live lampoons, and political humor come with the job. This one apparently thinks he should be immune. He is not king and we are not his subjects. We do not genuflect.

As we observe this holiday season, it is appropriate to take a moment and consider what we have to celebrate. If we could turn to Washington he would likely recommend that we learn from experience, understand what is at stake, and never give up.

The war considered by its supporters, as the nation’s second war of independence, stirred patriotic fever among those of all ages. This article from the Niles Register was published to illustrate patriotic fervor.