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

Even after a century, Arizona retains its maverick image, much to the dismay of the media. Happy Birthday Arizona!

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The "food stamp" president isn't much on individual liberty. When his policies end in disaster, he always blames someone else. Lately, he's adopted Truman's strategy of blaming that darned Congress. He seems to have forgotten that until a few months ago, it was a Democrat controlled Congress.

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In the Niles Weekly Register of 1812, there were two mentions of a most interesting invention - a perpetual motion machine. Apparently a "great number of gentleman" examined the apparatus and were "satisfied that it is what what the inventor declared it to be."

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The Tehran Initiative is Christian fiction just shy of the mode in the popular (but terribly written) Left Behind series. Rosenberg makes no apologies for his religious perspective, but largely avoids hitting his reader over the head with it. Nonetheless, some readers will no doubt be turned off by the religious implications and views espoused in the book. For all that, it is incredibly timely, and really does seem to have been ripped directly from today's headlines.

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A few days ago, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg talked on Egyptian television about the United States Constitution. Constitutional conservatives were taken aback by her advice.

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Next to the teleprompter, Obama relies most heavily on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s playbook. There is little Obama has said or done – from his relentless conduct of class warfare to favoring political cronies with federal cash – that FDR didn’t do, or attempt to do. The parallels are striking.

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President Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack thinks 46 million Americans on food stamps is not nearly enough. And so, the Department of Agriculture is offering non-profit groups the chance to receive $75,000 grants for projects designed to boost food stamp participation among those who are eligible but have yet to sign up.

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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.

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In an interesting twist in history, Isaac Hull, captain of the USS Constitution captured HMS Guerriere in a decisive single ship action -- three days after his uncle, Revolutionary War Hero William Hull, surrendered Detroit -- almost without a fight.

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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.

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