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7/30/2010 by John Eidson (via email/PART 2) - Enlighten the uninformed - A recent national survey showed that twice as many Americans identify themselves as conservative as do those who consider themselves liberal. If there are more of us than there are of them --- and there are -- then how did Democrats win such a resounding victory in the last election? The answer is because millions of apathetic voters still habitually get what little news they expose themselves to from the heavily-biased mainstream media. Many otherwise conservtive people rarely watch Fox News, listen to talk radio or read conservative books, magazines or blogs. Most of these political couch potatoes have no idea how radically the country they love is being changed. Make it your job to help enlighten them.

A CONSERVATIVE VOTE IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE
If you have frinds or family members who are clueless about what's happening to America, try your best to get them to watch Fox News (particularly The Glenn Beck Program) and listen to conservative talk radio. Urge them to sign up for free daily emails from The Heritage Foundation and DickMorris.com, check out the Drudge Report, read the online opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Examiner, and frequent blogs such as Powerline, Michelle Malkin and American Thinker. And, make sure that all conservative-minded people you know are registered to vote.

John asks... When is the last time you added new names to your political email group? If you're sending emails to the same people all the time, you're not doing as much as you could to spread the conservative message. Adding new people to your e-group isn't hard to do -- all you have to do is ask. Expanding your list by just one name each week will make a big difference in alerting more people to what's happening to their country. Read More......

Herman Cain Mulling Presidential Run

7/30/2010 by John Eidson (via email/PART 1) - WorldNetDaily reports that tea party activist Herman Cain is considering a campaign to become America's second black president by ousting its first in the election two years from now. (Actually, Cain would be the country's first 100% black president.) ∴ Although unable to match then-Sen. Barack Obama's impressive presidential qualifications -- 20 years as a community organizer -- Cain has a few of his own: former president and CEO of Godfather's Pizza, former president and CEO of the National Restaurant Association,and chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City. He's also been vice president of Burger King, vice president of Pillsbury Company, a mathematician for the U.S. Department of the Navy and a business analyst for Coca Cola. ∴ His formal education includes a bachelors degree in mathematics from Morehouse College and a master's degree in computer science from Purdue University.

A man in love with his country...
The indignities of growing up in a segregated society gave Herman Cain every reason to be filled with hate and bitterness. But much to his credit, he never allowed himself to be influenced by people who see America as a fundamentally unjust and incurable racist place, people like William Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Recognizing that no nation has ever done more to make good on wrongs committed against it own citizens, Herman Cain forged his share of the American dream by seeing his country for what it is -- a land of unlimited opportunity that never stops trying to improve. To judge him for yourself, click here to see him discuss the hardships his parents endured, and his full-throated endorsement of Ronald Reagan's belief that America is the last best hope of mankind.

Is the tea party movement racist?
If anyone should know, that person is Herman Cain -- he is one of the tea party's most prominent members. Read what he has to say here. Read More......

Britain Plans to Decentralize National Health Care

"The aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level." Read more at the New York Times... Read More......

Youths Turn On Obama

Young voters who had been enthralled by Obama's "Yes, we can" message are now saying "Maybe not" -- and are backing away from the president in a worrisome new poll for the White House. Read more at NY Post... Read More......

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls

RASMUSSEN REPORTS, 7/24/2010 - One of the key issues in the political debate now roiling the country is how big a part government should play in our lives. ∴ And on this topic there is a huge gap between the Political Class and the rest of the nation. ∴ Seventy-five percent (75%) of voters prefer free markets over a government-managed economy. But a plurality of the Political Class takes the opposite view. Read more at Rasmussen's... Read More......

TWS: Bright Lights, Bad Schoolhouses

THE WEEKLY STANDARD, July 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 42, by Sonny Bunch - Teachers’ unions as big-screen villains. ∴ Facing thousands of worried members at the annual convention of the National Education Association on July 3, the head of the nation’s largest teachers’ union sounded a little whiny. ∴ “Today, our members face the most anti-educator, anti-union, anti-student environment that I have ever experienced,” said Dennis Van Roekel, the NEA’s president. Leaving aside the bizarre suggestion that there is burgeoning anti-student sentiment in America, Roekel’s concerns are well-founded: For the first time in living memory, poor-performing teachers and the unions that protect them are under real scrutiny. So much so that even documentarians—the most liberal enclave of the most liberal institution (the entertainment-industrial complex) in American society—are now taking aim at union excesses. ∴ Theaters across the country have seen an explosion of films that cast a critical eye on public schools and the reasons for their failures. Read more at the Weekly Standard...

Three of the films are: The Cartel, The Lottery, and Waiting for “Superman” Read More......

VDH: The New Racial Mess

PATRIOT POST, 7/22/2010 by Victor Davis Hanson - Weren't we supposed to enter a new age of tolerance with the election of President Barack Obama? ∴ His half-black, half-white ancestry and broad support across racial lines suggested that at last Americans judged each other on the content of our characters -- not the color of our skin or our tribal affiliations. ∴ Instead, in just 18 months of the Obama administration, racial discord is growing and relations seem to have been set back a generation. Read more at the Patriot Post... Read More......

WSJ: Friendly Fire on Capitol Hill

WALL STREET JOURNAL, 7/22/2010 by Karl Rove - Describing the White House last week, Congressional Democrats used words like "ineptness," "neglected" and "disconcerting," and phrases like "isn't aggressive enough." President Barack Obama has only himself to blame for these protests. Read more at Wall Street Journal... Read More......

American Thinker: A War amongst Ourselves

AMERICAN THINKER, 7/19/2010 by Pamela Geller (of Atlas Shrugs) - It is becoming increasingly clear to anyone paying attention that the seeds of division are being sown with increased vigor by Obama's shadowy machine. ∴ America, in her naïveté and eternal hopefulness, thought that electing Barack Hussein Obama would be the final chapter on race in America and would hammer the last nail into a well-deserved coffin for the divisive racial narratives that demagogues and provocateurs have used for so long to tear down this country. Little did America know that Barack Obama was the candidate of exactly those demagogues and provocateurs. ∴ In a stunning reversal of decades of progress and harmony, during which spokesmen from the hate fringe like Louis Farrakhan were cast outside the realm of decent society, Obama's presidency has ushered in the era of the hater. In the new doublespeak, hate is good. ∴ And every single good, decent American who is standing up for individual freedoms, small government, and self-reliance is now evil. Read more at American Thinker... Read More......

American Spectator: America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution

Important Article!
SPECTATOR.ORG, 7/16/2010 (July-August 2010 Issue of The American Spectator) by Angelo M. Codevilla (Hat tip: Gayna Flake) - As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors' "toxic assets" was the only alternative to the U.S. economy's "systemic collapse." In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets' nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America. The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one. Read more at American Spectator...

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Angelo M. Codevilla, a professor of international relations at Boston University, a fellow of the Claremont Institute, and a senior editor of The American Spectator, was a Foreign Service officer and served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee between 1977 and 1985. He was the principal author of the 1980 presidential transition report on intelligence. He is the author of The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility.

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Sowell: Race Card Fraud

TOWNHALL.COM/Archives by Thomas Sowell - This is not the first time that an organization with an honorable and historic mission has eventually degenerated into a tawdry racket. But that an organization like the NAACP, after years of fighting against genuine racism, should now be playing the game of race card fraud is especially painful to see. Read more at Townhall...

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of The Housing Boom and Bust. Read More......

Calvin Coolidge Speech, 1926

In 1926, President Calvin Coolidge gave a speech of ‘unsurpassed clarity’ on the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence when the ‘progressive attack on America’s principles’ was still in its initial phase. Excerpt:

About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can NOT lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

Reference to speech: We Still Hold These Truths by Matthew Spalding, pg. 120.
Read the full speech at TeachingAmeicanHistory.org. Read More......

Krista Branch: "I Am America"

"I Am America" was written by Mike Branch, a children's pastor , and sung by his wife, Krista Branch. Krista was interviewed by Lars Larson on July 14, 2010 and has appeared on Fox News. The song and video is going viral on YouTube and as an iTunes singles release. The Huffington Post asks if I Am America should become the Tea Party anthem. Lyrics:

Lyrics: I Am America

Pay no attention to the people in the street,
Crying out for accountability.
Make a joke of what we believe;
Say we don’t matter ‘cuz you disagree.
Pretend you’re kings, sit on your throne;
Look down your nose at the peasants below.

I’ve got some news: We’re taking names –
We’re waiting now for the judgment day.

I am America:
One voice, United we stand.
I am America:
One hope to heal our land;
There is still work that must be done.
I will not rest until we’ve won.
I am America.

You preach your tolerance but lecture me.
Is there no_ end to your own hypocrisy?
Your god is power; you have no shame;
Your only interest is political gain.

You hide your eyes and refuse to listen;
You play your games and abuse the system.
You stuff your pockets while Rome is burning –
I’ve got a feeling that the tide is turning.

I am America:
One voice, United we stand.
I am America:
One hope to heal our land.
I will not give up on this fight.
I will not fade into the night.
I am America.

You stuff your pockets while Rome is burning –
I’ve got a feeling that the tide is turning.

I am America:
One voice, United we stand.
I am America:
One hope to heal our land.

I am America:
One voice, United we stand.
I am America:
One hope to heal our land.
I will not give up on this fight.
I will not fade into the night.
I am America.

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2 Chronicles 7:14 (King James Version)

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Read More......

WSJ: The Uncertainty Principle—II

WALL STREET JOURNAL, 7/16/2010 - The Uncertainty Principle—II, Only 30 times more complicated than Sarbanes-Oxley. The Dodd-Frank financial reform bill passed by the Senate yesterday promises to generate historic levels of red tape. But apparently the 2,300 pages are so complicated that a debate has broken out over precisely how many new regulatory rule-makings it will require. Read more at WSJ...

It's unbelievable that Dodd & Frank aren't serving time in a federal prison. --bc Read More......

Republicans Offered Better Solution to Hold Wall Street Accountable

PRESS RELEASE - Washington (Jul 15) House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement after the Senate passed the Democrats’ job-killing Wall Street bailout bill: “The American people want reform, not more bailouts from Washington Democrats for their Wall Street allies. The Democrats’ bill makes bailouts permanent, enshrines ‘too big to fail’ into law, and fails to reform the government mortgage companies that sparked the meltdown by giving high-risk loans to people who couldn’t afford it, and it needs to be fixed. House Republicans offered a better solution to stop the Democrats’ permanent bailouts, reform Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, and protect taxpayers and help small businesses create jobs. Our plan holds Wall Street accountable; the Democrats’ plan lets them off the hook. It’s time to start listening to the American people and work together on common-sense solutions to end the bailouts, reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and make Wall Street responsible for its actions.”

NOTE: Republicans offered comprehensive financial regulatory reform legislation – the Consumer Protection and Regulatory Enhancement Act (H.R. 3310) – designed to (1) stop the Democrats’ permanent bailouts for their Wall Street allies; (2) protect taxpayers and create jobs; (3) address Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac reform, the root causes of the housing meltdown & financial crisis; and (4) rein in the out of control Federal Reserve & end “too big to fail.”

HR3310 was introduced in the House on 7/23/2009. --bc Read More......

What is John Kitzhaber’s Legacy for Oregon’s Economy

Take this Oregon Republican Party poll: What is John Kitzhaber’s Legacy for Oregon’s Economy after two terms as Governor (1995+to+2003)? Read More......

A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give

TOWNHALL, Archives, by Dennis Prager - If every school principal gave this speech at the beginning of the next school year, America would be a better place.

To the students and faculty of our high school:
I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people. ∴ I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers and against our country. ∴ First, this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships. ∴ The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity -- your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American. This is an American public school, and American public schools were created to make better Americans. Read more at Townhall... Read More......

Stossel: Attack on Freedom

TOWNHALL by John Stossel - Something's happened to America, and it isn't good. It's become easier to get into trouble. We've become a nation of a million rules. Not the kind of bottom-up rules that people generate through voluntary associations. Those are fine. I mean imposed, top-down rules formed in the brains of meddling bureaucrats who think they know better than we how to manage our lives. ∴ Cross them, and we are in trouble. Read more at Townhall... Read More......

Williams: A Failed Obama Hero

TOWNHALL, Op-ed by Walter Williams - Let's think about President Obama's failed economic stimulus program. Before getting to the nitty-gritty of why stimulus packages fail, let's look at the failed stimulus program of Obama's hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR's Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, wrote in his diary: "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. ... We have never made good on our promises. ... I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... and an enormous debt to boot!" Read more at Townhall... Read More......

White House Claims Millions of Jobs ‘Saved or Created’ by Stimulus Bill

Washington (AP) - A new White House report says last year's $862 billion stimulus law has now "saved or created" between 2.5 million and 3.6 million jobs. Read more at CNS News... Read More......

WSJ: Court Tosses Out FCC Rules to Curb Indecent Speech

A federal appeals court threw out the FCC's rules on indecent speech Tuesday, in a big win for broadcasters that could lead to a new Supreme Court test of the government's power to control what is said on television and radio. Read more at Wall Street Journal... Read More......

Navy Flight Team Brings Hope To Oil-fouled Beach

WKRG.com, 7/8/2010 - Pensacola Beach, Florida (AP): Six U.S. Navy Blue Angels aviators hope to cheer up Panhandle residents dealing with the massive BP oil spill. ∴ The Blue Angels annual Pensacola Beach Air Show starts Friday with formal practice. The main event is Saturday. The team held an informal practice Thursday. ∴ The men who fly he six F/A-18 Super Hornets said they understand how concerned area residents area about the oil and tar that has reached the area's once pristine white beaches because they also live in the community. ∴ The pilots said they hope he show will raise spirits and provide a much-needed boost to beach businesses.

Gotta love those Naval aviators! :-) --bc Read More......

“A Republic—If You Can Keep It”

PERSONAL LIBERTY DIGEST, 6/18/2010 by Chip Wood (Hat tip: Stella Guenther) - At first I couldn’t believe my eyes. ∴ In fact, I had to look away and blink a couple of times before reading the email again. But it still said the same thing: “Benjamin Franklin said, ‘We have given you a democratic-republic… if you can keep it.” ∴ No, he didn’t! ∴ I had to face the fact: A Straight Talk reader had fallen victim to 100 years of liberal brainwashing. What he said was such a gross perversion of the truth—and the difference is so incredibly important to preserving what liberties we have left—I hope you’ll indulge me in a brief history lesson this week. Read more at www.personalliberty.com...

Good examples as to why the Founders rejected democracy. --bc Read More......

Huh?

(FOX News/hat tip: Fullmer's) NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World Read More......

Will you risk it all?

GLENN BECK (via email/hat tip: Carolyn Webb), 7/5/2010 - [...] Most of us think of the 4th of July as the day when we declared our independence from England and began building the greatest nation the world has ever known. And while it’s true, that notion feels very much like the end of something… British rule, oppression, being subjects to a king instead of to one another. But when you stop and think about it, the 4th of July wasn’t an ending at all—it was just the beginning.

While we declared our Independence on July 4th, 1776, we had to keep fighting to defend that declaration until 1783, over seven years of bloody struggle and ultimate sacrifice. And while those who fought in the Revolutionary War knew what they were dying to protect, “we the people” didn’t adopt our Constitution until 1787, more than 11 years after those 56 men gathered in a room and signed their name to a piece of parchment that said there’s a better way for men and women to live:

In freedom.

The second sentence of the Declaration of Independence reads:
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.
The fight to live up to those 36 words continues to this day, as an ever expanding government is threatening to suppress the very freedoms our founders fought for. And while July 4th, 1776 was a major victory, let the date serve not merely as a day to remember how it all started - but also that freedom is fragile and vigilance is needed to preserve and protect it. Each and every one of us is responsible to make sure that freedom doesn't vanish on our watch. This 4th of July, think about what the founders risked to make sure they and future generations lived free - their lives, the fortunes, and their sacred honor. And ask yourself, are you willing to do the same?

God bless you, your family, and the United States of America

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David Barton's 4th of July History Lesson: Is America a Christian Nation?

In this In Touch July 4th, 2009 message titled "Is America A Christian Nation?", Dr. Stanley's guest, Historian, David Barton, shares the historical facts about how America was founded on Biblical principles. A wonderful history lesson here. Watch the 5-part series...

Is America A Christian Nation? (1/5)

Watch the rest of the series below the fold:

Is America A Christian Nation? (2/5)


Is America A Christian Nation? (3/5)


Is America A Christian Nation? (4/5)


Is America A Christian Nation? (5/5)


WALLBUILDERS, Issues and Articles - Is President Obama Correct: Is America No Longer a Christian Nation? An article examining quotes, statistics, court cases, etc about America being a Christian nation. Read article at Wallbuilders... Read More......

House approves funding for war in Afghanistan

News from The Hill, 7/1/2010 - The House late Thursday approved additional funding for the war in Afghanistan, beating back a series of Democratic amendments aimed at forcing the Obama administration to withdraw troops. Read more at The Hill... Read More......