Scott Brown Wins !! The American Dream has Hope !!

In an incredible upset in the Massachusetts Special Election Senate election, underdog Scott Brown will fill the seat once held by Ted Kennedy.

A Republican win will throw a wrench in the Obama plan to socialize America because Democratic Party will no longer have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.

It will be very interesting to see the Democratic response to this very unexpected win for the Republican party.  Will the Democrats get the message sent by Massachusetts and recognize their potential fate come November if they do not change their ways??

This election has renewed my faith that America really does not want a “nanny state” where the government controls every aspect of our life.  Even in the ultra-liberal northeast.

Great Day For Liberty…..   Scott Brown 2012???  

Ronald Reagan Speaks From the Grave on Socialized Medicine

…."behind it will come other government programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day as Norman Thomas said we will wake to find that we have socialism." Under this scenario, Reagan says, "We are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, what it once was like in America when men were free."

Why Democrats Don’t Care That America Don’t Want ObamaCare

I have been a little bewildered why Pelosi and Reid have not backed off on ramming through the unwanted healthcare reforms with the plummeting poll numbers and public outrage.  So, it got me a wondering.  Why would they do this?  Why are they not worried?  It will be political suicide.   They can’t be that masochistic.  There must be some ulterior motive.  What do they know that we don’t?  Well, I think I may have found it.

A stealth bill is coming that would take over from the states the criteria used to register voters.  In January, Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank will propose universal voter registration.  Why is this big deal?  Well, basically it means all state laws on elections will be overridden by a federal mandate. The Wall Street Journal's John Fund describes it this way:

The feds will tell the states: 'take everyone on every list of welfare that you have, take everyone on every list of unemployed you have, take everyone on every list of property owners, take everyone on every list of driver's license holders and register them to vote regardless of whether they want to be ..

Fund anticipates that this legislation will be rammed through just like health care, and when it is, say good by to our representative republic. The left has already started their attack against Fund. Just Google for “Fund Universal Voter Registration” and check out the smear campaign.

The issues that arise with such legislation are numerous. Many of the state’s voter lists are fraught with duplicate entries, illegal aliens, and very little cross checking. Not to mention that the Democrats also want to extend voting rights to convicted felons.

Obama, Pelosi and Reid are not concerned that the American people don’t want their destructive health care because they are going to have an ACORN like national Democratic voter registration machine fuel by our tax dollars.

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Scott Brown Takes the Lead in Massachusetts

Massachusetts Republican Senate challenger Scott Brown has just pulled ahead of the Democratic incumbent Martha Coakley 48-47.  Brown is poised to upset the Democratic 60 vote lead in the Senate, so his election could put a crimp in the liberal left’s power grab plans.

The Brown Brigade is in high gear to be in the forefront the Conservative Republican take-back of America.  There is a strong grassroots movement working hard to win this special election for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat on January 19th. The movement has has surprised many and has sent a political shock-wave across the country.

A win for Brown on January 19th, will deliver a devastating blow to the out-of-control spending bureaucrats and those who want a Government Run take-over of our health care.  As you can imagine, the Left is frothing at the idea of losing their 60 vote lead.   I am sure MoveOn is working overtime in Massachusetts.

Visit my friend a Disgruntled Republican to see how you can help support.

Go Republicans!

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Progressive Wars – Let the Battle for Capitalism Begin

As I reflect on the past year I cannot help but see that there is a war a brewing.  What war you ask?  Well… a war against progressivism.  The next three years are going to be a war of ideals as we combat the threats of the progressive movement against our personal liberties and freedoms.  I believe that we have only see the beginning of these battles with the tea parties and town hall protests.

So as Americans who love our freedom, what will be our battle plan?  Well, if we intent to continue to govern ourselves, we must go back to our founding principals.  We need to continue remind people why our great experiment was formed the way it was.  Why our  Founders worked so hard to protect us from a government out of control.  It’s obvious that our educational system will not do it.  The alternative is un-American, the alternative is that someone is going to govern us.

So where are we at as a nation?  Well, we have a massive government.  We have a Congress that delegates much of its authority to unelected bureaucrats. We have an executive that can’t quite control everything going on in his administration.  We have judges that tell us more an more what to do about the most intimate and private questions of our lives. In short, exactly where progressives have wanted to take us for the past 100 years.  Down the road to a failed state, as those that exist in Europe.  Centralized, bureaucratic and weak.

This is not progress, this is decline.  This is not where Americans want to go.  America does not want to turn away from the principals that made us great.

So where do we begin?  What should be the first front line??  I believe that the initial battle that must be waged is the assault against capitalism and the free-market system.  Clearly this is the biggest threat to our liberties.  This is not just about our economy.  It is a battle to save the framework of our Constitution.  The US Constitution creates this wonderful free society.  A society in which we can pursue our happiness and enjoy the fruits of our labors.  A centralized bureaucratic government is a grave threat to our ability to obtain that happiness and enjoy that fruit.

In 1843, 91-year-old Capt. Levi Preston was questioned by a young historian why he had fought in the American Revolution.  “Was it the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, perhaps the treatises of John Locke?” the historian asked.  “No, sirree,” the captain countered.  He had not seen any stamps, sipped any tea, or read anything other than the Bible, the catechism, and Watts’s Psalms.  “What we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: we always had been free, and we meant to be always free. They didn’t mean we should.”

That idea in itself is the nutshell.  We have always been about self government.  We have always governed ourselves and we always mean to govern ourselves.



Let the battle to save capitalisim begin.

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What is Liberty? Why We Should to Protect Her?

I have often wondered why the concept of liberty is associated with a feminine persona.  Being married for 18 years, I have a pretty good idea why this might be the case.  Just like my wife, Liberty is a complicated concept.  A concept that is not easily understood.  Just like women she comes in many forms and many temperaments.  She is tough and stands strong in her beliefs, never letting go when she know she is right.  She is special.  So special that millions have laid down their lives defending her, just as I would for my wife.

In his book, Two Concepts of Liberty, Isaiah Berlin introduced the idea that there were two distinct concepts that encompass the idea of liberty: positive liberty and negative liberty.  The latter concept denotes a negative condition in which an individual is protected from tyranny and the arbitrary exercise of authority, while the former refers to having the means or opportunity, rather than the lack of restraint, to do things.

Having the power and resources available fulfill one's potential is essential for a free society to thrive and grow.  Inherent to the concept of positive liberty is the idea that liberty is the ability of citizens to participate in their government.  Their participation is a pro-active control of their own destiny and thus ensuring they will have the opportunity to achieve what they desire for their lives.  When elected representatives hinder or take away individuals power to reach their potential, then liberty is diminished.  When those officials act against the will of the majority of people who elected them, there is tyranny.

Berlin believed that positive liberty alone nearly always gave rise to the abuse of power.  He proposed that the concept of positive liberty has often been used to cover up abuse, leading to the curtailment of people's negative liberties "for their own good".  For when a political leadership believes that they hold the philosophical key to a better future, this sublime end can easily be used to justify drastic means.

The positive notion of liberty is the central idea of social liberalism. Social liberalism holds that the function of the liberal state is to supply individuals with the opportunity to provide for themselves by useful work. The right to work and the right to a living wage are considered as real as the right to person and property, while unemployment and low wages are considered to be a reproach to the justice of society.  It conceives the rights of the individual as harmonious with those of the community, and defines the first in terms of a common good and the second in terms of the well-being of individuals.

The negative notion of liberty refers to freedom from interference by other people and by reference, the government.  In Berlin's words,

"Liberty in the negative sense involves an answer to the question 'What is the area within which the subject -- a person or group of persons -- is or should be left to do or be what he is able to do or be, without interference by other persons."

Many philosophers have disagreed as to the extent of this realm and at the same time accepting the main point that liberty defines that realm in which one may act unobstructed by others.  Restrictions placed on the freedom to act are implicit in negative liberty when imposed by a person or persons and not due to causes such as nature, lack, or incapacity.

In a civilized society, a line must be drawn and a space sharply delineated where each individual can act unhindered according to their tastes, desires, and inclinations. This area defines the sacred space of personal liberty.  No society is possible without some authority, where the intended purpose of authority is to prevent collisions among the different ends and, thereby, to demarcate the boundaries where each person's zone of liberty begins and ends.

The modern conceptions of democracy, whether representative democracies or other types of democracies, are all found on the idea of popular sovereignty.  Our Founding Fathers understood the concept of positive liberty’s risk of abuse of power.  To ensure we could be sovereign and not fall prey to the evils of tyranny, they designed our ruling structure such that there was a balance of power.  They also understood that some liberties must be relinquished in the name of sovereignty and as such they defined the space of personal liberty by defining the rights, privileges and immunities in the US Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights. 

Our government was formed by men precisely to secure and protect individual rights.  The conception of "human rights" as defined by our founders,  refers to the individual rights of distinct human beings.  Not the "collective" man as many of the enlighten today believe. There are only separate individuals who think, value, hope, dream ,and have goals and purposes that guide their lives.

I personally see liberty as a way of organizing every aspect of human life such that it recognizes the human potential and holds dear a respect for human dignity.  It is not, as the moral relativism crowd would have you believe, a license to do whatever one pleases.  It is a group of ideas regarding the rights of individuals (freedom to life, individual liberty, and property) as natural rights, granted by God, and the kind of government that is needed to protect those rights.  The liberties afforded us by our the Constitution and Bill of Rights are clearly defined.  Our government has repeatedly step outside the bounds of its authority stealing more and more of our liberties.

 

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. 

                                                                    -Thomas Jefferson

Now I don’t believe our country is to the point of another revolution with arms, but it is time for us warn our rulers that we preserve the spirit of resistance.  The tree of liberty must be refreshed.