Mark Steyn’s National Review Online piece today, entitled “Swingin’ Kennedy,” discussed unwritten or “implied” rights and freedoms:
Steyn shares from George Jonas (referencing what happened in Canada in 1982: “Charter of Rights and Freedoms”)
…“If you write down your rights and freedoms, you lose them.” Steyn states, “That was generally the view of the Britannic part of the English-speaking world until the late 20th century: What’s unwritten is as important as, if not more so than, what is. The Constitution of Australia, for example, makes no mention of the office of prime minister. The job exists only through custom and convention understood from the United Kingdom, where likewise it existed only through custom and convention: “statutory recognition” in London didn’t come till 1937 — or over two centuries after dozens of blokes had been doing the job.

Obamacare has almost 3,000 pages of what is and is not allowed in terms of our rights and liberties effectively wiping out much of what we take for granted today. I got to wondering what is it exactly that we have become accustomed to in our rights and liberties and what is it that has eroded over the last hundred years or so and what, with Obama’s signature legislation do we have to look forward to losing in our future?

What are the implied rights and liberties as originally outlined by the Founders? In the beginning and based on what new Americans were attempting to escape in their motherland…“..individuals were deemed to have reserved certain rights spoken of as “natural” rights. These rights could neither be taken away nor be limited without the consent of the individual affected.” This is considered a social contract theory. In a word, man is regarded now throughout Europe, contrary to the view expressed by Rousseau, as primarily a member of society and secondarily as an individual. The rights which he possesses are, it is believed, conferred upon him, not by his Creator, but rather by the society to which he belongs. What they are is to be determined by the legislative authority in view of the needs of that society. Social expediency, rather than natural right, is thus to determine the sphere of individual freedom of action.

In the first place, the rights of men, of which their liberty consisted, were, as natural rights, regarded in a measure—and in no small measure—as independent of the law. This means the Constitution is superior to mere laws that might be passed. In fact, the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution reads, “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” The Constitution and Bill of Rights represent a more thorough, but (according to the Ninth Amendment) not an exhaustive exploration of the unalienable rights that belong to all people.
For example, the Constitution does not enumerate the right to eat one’s food, but the Constitution does not grant to the government the power to deny people that right. The Ninth Amendment recognizes that such natural rights are retained by the people and cannot be abridged by the government.

As James Madison explained in the Federalist Papers: “In the first place it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects.” The Federalist No. 14, at 65 (James Madison) (Carey & McClellan eds., 1990). (From Law.com)

From Heritage: The Constitution’s Framers placed their faith not in specific guarantees of rights—those came later—but in an elegant system of checks on government. Foremost is the separation of power between the three branches of the federal government, as well as between the federal government and the states. These arrangements provide the flexibility necessary to ensure security and the restraint essential to safeguard liberties.

The Tenth Amendment is central to maintaining our rights: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Because the Constitution created a government of limited and enumerated powers, the Framers initially believed that a bill of rights was not only unnecessary, but also potentially dangerous. State constitutions recognized a general legislative power in the state governments; hence, limits in the form of state bills of rights were necessary to guard individual rights against the excess of governmental power. ….The Federalists relented and passed the Bill of Rights in the First Congress only after making certain that no such implication could arise from the prohibitions of the Bill of Rights. Hence, the Tenth Amendment—a rule of construction that warns against interpreting the other amendments in the Bill of Rights to imply powers in the national government that were not granted by the original document. (The Constitution in One Sentence: Understanding the 10th Amendment.)

Implied rights, though not specifically stated in the original Constitution, are extensions of what is in the Constitution (i.e. Bill of Rights) or are made more explicit via the Supreme Court. Some of these are as follows (from: US Constitution Online):

“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”

This phrase is commonly attributed to the Constitution, but it comes from the Declaration of Independence. The Fifth Amendment does offer protections to our “life, liberty, or property,” noting we cannot be deprived of any of them without due process of law.

The Right To Privacy

The Constitution does not specifically mention a right to privacy. However, Supreme Court decisions over the years have established that the right to privacy is a basic human right, and as such is protected by virtue of the 9th Amendment. The right to privacy has come to the public’s attention via several controversial Supreme Court rulings, including several dealing with contraception (the Griswold and Eisenstadt cases), interracial marriage (the Loving case), and abortion (the well-known Roe v Wade case). In addition, it is said that a right to privacy is inherent in many of the amendments in the Bill of Rights, such as the 3rd, the 4th’s search and seizure limits, and the 5th’s self-incrimination limit.

Other rights were found in a book, Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, Volume 1 By Paul Finkelman:

{Among others}: The right to believe must be cognate to the rights to free exercise of religion and freedom of speech. The right to marry and have children, the right to association, the right to study a foreign language, the right to educate one’s children, the right to be protected from unreasonable searches and seizures and against self-incrimination {as part of right to privacy}, etc.

We’ve watched over the decades and even more so in this administration, our rights being slowly eroded. Like frogs in a boiling kettle, many Americans have sat idly by as evidence of our own demise mounts. The rights of smokers and now what restaurants can serve are curtailed. In a previous blog, I lamented the elimination of plastic bags in an entire state. We’ve watched the power of the Environmental Protection Agency grow into a gargantuan monster now controlling access to oil in our own country. We protect a Gobi fish over the life of an unborn child. Any reader can easily cite their own example not listed here. And the water boils hotter and hotter as we await the decision of what could come down to one Supreme Court Justice’s vote in just a few months.

So let’s look at Obamacare:

The first most obvious violation stems from the infamous Commerce Clause: whether Congress has the authority to create commerce and then regulate it. This questioning follows the arguments presented by AFLC’s (American Freedom Law Center) Co-Founders and Senior Counsel Robert Muise and David Yerushalmi in their lawsuit against Obamacare and in their “friend-of-the-court” brief filed in this case in the Supreme Court: does Congress have the authority to regulate inactivity?

Under Obamacare, the federal government can force people under penalty of federal law to engage in economic activity; and once they are engaged in this activity, Congress then seeks to regulate them under the Commerce Clause. Once this right of whether or not to purchase something is taken away,the federal government has no limits.

In another lawsuit against Obamacare, AFLC () has continued its fight against Obama’s unprecedented attacks on our Constitution by challenging his controversial “contraception” mandate with a lawsuit filed in a New York federal court on behalf of Priests for Life, a Catholic pro-life organization. This latest Obamacare mandate is a direct attack on religious freedom and the First Amendment.

But it is my premise also that Obamacare attacks many of our “implied rights” such as the right to privacy. If Obamacare passes, my right to privacy in my medical records being between me and my doctor and my right to make decisions in my own medical care evaporates into the control of someone in the federal government who does not know or care about me. I’m 58. By the time this law comes down the pass, I’m too old for a pacemaker or certain surgeries. I’m a conservative and I did not nor will vote for Obama or any other liberal attempting election. Who is to say I will receive any care at all? Someone else is deciding that and they aren’t looking out for my best interests but rather their own and their political party’s best interest. I harken back to the closing of “certain republican owned” car dealerships as an example.

Will I feel safe to express my opinions? Will it be safe to assemble? We already have the Whitehouse Watchdog site encouraging citizens to report other citizens on a taxpayer paid web link.

Would I lose my right to vote for whomever I choose? What would be the consequence to voting against the left? How will children get healthcare from their government? Will it happen in school? Will home school still be allowed? Our tax dollars already pay for a state-controlled education system. What is in our future after Obamacare?

It is my belief that we are on the road to having all of our rights taken away when liberals and the federal government control one sixth of our economy and all of our life, liberty and eventual pursuit of happiness. If they can control what we can or cannot buy and from whom and how we stay alive, they can control everything.

Will it matter who wins the GOP Primary? Will it matter that the late great Andrew Breitbart’s Obama vetting videos get out to the public? Obama has his automatic voters–most Blacks still blindly support him because of his race. Many of the over 40% of the entitled non-taxpaying citizens will support him for what he delivers via our hard-earned dollars. All of his followers entrenched in the Democrat party will vote for him because they can’t imagine doing otherwise or are just ignorant and don’t pay attention. Those who do pay attention and are conservative do not worry about these voters–we know and have always known they are are a part of the scenery in the developed election process we now have. We even know and reluctantly acknowledge that Obama has a complicit media and celebrity elites who have become a propaganda arm of the liberal left omitting, twisting, paraphrasing and sometimes out and out lying to support their leader who in turn provides for them in their continual quest for elitist status.

What we DO worry about is the systemic fraud that has been set up and is even now active in several far reaching areas to give Obama another 4 years and our country a permanent socialist status. The Chicago Machine has gone viral. Sharon Meroni and her colleagues from DefendtheVote.com have unearthed many illegal or unsanctioned actions throughout Chicagoland making many precincts ripe for fraud. We have Democrats fighting everywhere against voter ID.

And voter fraud, by design, is and has been a huge factor in elections across our country. It WILL play a large factor in an Obama win. Project Veritas, a group headed by James O’Keefe (of Breitbart/ACORN fame), states:

A new study conducted by the Pew Center on the States shows that almost TWO MILLION dead Americans are on active voter rolls, and almost THREE MILLION people have active registrations in more than one state. In all, the study said, approximately one out of every eight voter registrations in the United States are either invalid or have “significant inaccuracies.”

Each state must make its own fight against voter fraud which is sure to be an uphill battle especially in this upcoming election. Ms. Meroni and her team have found help through the GOP in Illinois which is very encouraging. They have had very recent victories:
A Brief Overview: Chicago changed their security procedures on Election Day equipment. New Seal procedures have been added providing greater security. They added a Democrat and a Republican election judge to every early voting site in Chicago. They added the requirement early voting sites will be administered only by US Citizens. They agreed to work with security experts on safe-guarding the electronic vote. They changed their Human Resource procedures. Chicago is very active in purging their voter registration rolls. They purged late in 2011. Chicago takes particular pride in how they administer the military vote and provided details of their active role in promoting and securing the military vote.

There is more: The meeting was truly an open forum. The Commissioners answered every question the public had. They were open, approachable and responsive! What a difference compared to last Wednesday’s Illinois State Board of Elections meeting (listen to the audio of this meeting HERE)! You can contribute through DefendTheVote.Com or volunteer to help in Illinois by becoming a Vote Auditor. For other states, contact your local GOP, the Save America Foundation, your local precinct committeeman/woman and/or join Project Veritas.

The following is an interactive map of the Voter ID requirements in the United States:

And who will be voting besides dead people and double voters? Concerns abound about illegals and felons voting. I had asked Ms. Meroni about the Illinois felon vote that took place in our recent governor race. She said the numbers were not high enough to make a big effect here. I’m not so sure about our state times 50. Obama is working hard to get the illegal alien vote and through “last minute legitimacy” or fraud or a stronger Latino vote, this would surely affect his numbers. Recent 2010 reports show that presently 11,200,000 illegal aliens live in the US. I’m assuming since that report is 2 years old our numbers are even higher. If Obama is successful in his backdoor amnesty efforts, this many more votes are added to his coffers.

As Rush Limbaugh had stated–our hope of winning in 2012 is through a landslide–it is very hard to achieve your win via fraud in a landslide. May it be so.

Tonight I joined our local 9/12 Project meeting in Aurora, IL and heard spokesperson for Defend the Vote Sharon Merconi speak. Ms. Merconi is a woman dynamo fighting voter fraud in our state. We can learn a lot from her. What I heard tonight was both depressing and inspiring. Growing up in Chicago, we always knew there was voter fraud. In fact the voter fraud in our state of Illinois is widely known. We remain a laughing stock in this area and we also remain a blue state. It is my premise that the last election for governor was rigged. The Chicago Machine was involved and my guess is that Brady, though winning every county except Cook (and one small other county), threw in the towel rather than fight the crime moguls who run Chicago and the rest of the state. But many of us knew the DFF (Democrat Fraud Factor) was in full swing for this important election to replace Rod Blogojevich.

During the election cycle leading up to the 2010 General elections, Sharon Meroni, Executive Director of Defend the Vote (DTV), began researching how Illinois screens for the citizenship of candidates running for office. What she learned is that while both the US and Illinois Constitutions require candidates for office to be US Citizens, Illinois does not enforce the Constitutional mandates in their election laws.

From the Defend the Vote website:

What she and her colleagues has found will astound you. Some highlights:
–Presently, in Illinois, we do not challenge anyone’s eligibility who runs for office.
–Illinois (and many other states) does not and has never audited early voting–the fraud in this area is unbridled.
–Illinois has never reconciled the printed voting records with the reported voting records.
–We have never audited our software systems (Quinn just passed a law–in part based on Merconi’s recent investigation–requiring a 5% equipment test for Early Voting–which is 18% in IL) (this is a shameful amount to audit as we consider the rampant fraud in this area) and there still remains no required auditing of the actual vote.
–The 2010 Census demonstrated that IL has 14 counties with more adults registered to vote than are eligible to vote. DTV will be working with the election Law Center and the US Justice Foundation to compel Illinois to clean up its voter registration rolls.
–DTV conducted a surprise audit of security procedures at Chicago polling places. It was shown that 239 precincts were scored for compliance with mandated ballot security protocols. A full 90% of the polls failed in 1 or more of 11 key security procedures. Some 59% of the ballot boxes were not even sealed!
–Whereas many of our suburbs use election judges to run the early voting, Chicago uses employees. This is a huge difference as these employees have supervisors who are in charge of them and decide whether or not they keep their jobs and their $6K a year for running this part of all elections. On the documentation that is needed for approval to hold one of these positions, DTV found that 25% of those people did not identify their “right to work” status yet subsequently had their applications approved by Board Electors . Research showed that only 25% (100/400) of these employees were “legal.” One example given was of an application that showed a VISA that had expired in 2006.
–There is evidence to show that the software code for recording votes electronically can be easily tampered with:
Proprietary Software Code: You would think that the political parties would employ someone to check the software code that’s programmed to go into the electronic ballot machines; you know the ones that are never audited for accuracy counting… Surely political parties have exercised their rights to assure the code is accurate by having it reviewed…They must have…{but there was no} evidence of any political party or independent group checking the software code….This means that not only is Illinois not reconciling to make sure what they record as the vote is the same as what was cast on the paper copy, but there is no independent review process to make sure that software that’s recording and counting that vote—is accurate.

As with everything in this arena, no one has been minding the store for a very long time.

New for 2012, the VAP (Voter Audit Pollwatching Program) is being established to create a citizen-driven security assessment of ballot security. Results from these assessments will be used to score each election jurisdiction and Illinois as a whole to bring greater security to elections in Illinois. These results will be published statewide to give a snapshot of the ballot security procedures in Illinois. This is a first and a step in the right direction. Opportunities to be VAPers or Citizen Voter Auditors are on the DTV website.

If we do not secure the vote nationwide, we may as well hand it over to the left who has been on a decades long fraud mission to secure power and control of America. Taking back this power must happen locally. There is no systemic way to stop voter fraud. Defend the Vote works locally and is requesting local volunteers. 100% of the time, the ballot procedures were inadequate in Chicago. This organization is doing something about it! Volunteer! Donate!

Martin Luther King must have been spinning in his grave when Mr. Obama tried to use the Washington DC dedication for MLK’s memorial as a campaign feather. Again, our disingenuous leader spewed out another speech to further an agenda he has never acted upon.

From American Thinker:
When Barack Obama was elected as the president of the United States, black liberals dreamily believed that the numerous maladies in the black community would cease to exist…..{yet}Obama has failed to enact the economic policies that would provide the necessary environment for blacks to fend for themselves independent of government — despite the fact that he presented himself during his campaign as someone who was inimitably skilled and uniquely well-positioned to do so.

What the left has as a carefully hidden secret is that they’ve systematically kept their big fat political thumb pushing down on the black population in this country. They’ve done it to increase their power by keeping the downtrodden-downtrodden and keeping the votes rolling in. Democrats NEED poor Blacks and Latinos–not the other way around. As Tito “The Builder” Munoz states: “I was born in Colombia, but I was made in the USA.”

Every Democrat loving American, should watch this video and realize who is taking advantage of them and who is not and wake up to the reality that the road to conservatism is the only way to save this country from the radical left and their destructive policies.

Frances Rice, Chairman of the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) wrote a fascinating piece entitled: The Democratic Party Owes Blacks An Apology. She states:
As author Michael Scheuer stated, the Democratic Party is the party of the four S’s: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism. Clearly, then, it is the Democratic Party that owes black Americans an apology – not the Republican Party, nor the United States of America.

The time is long overdue for the Democratic Party to apologize for that party’s 150-year history of racism and cease hiding behind the curtain of Congress, issuing unwarranted apologies on behalf of America, while simultaneously using racial politics for partisan political gain. Only then can we finally end the racial divisiveness that has torn our nation asunder.

Dr. Alveda C. King, niece of Dr. King, states in an NBRA newsletter:

Slavery – Democrats fought to expand it, Republicans fought to ban it

Democrats formed the Confederacy, seceded from the Union and fought a Civil War (1861 to 1865) – a war where over 600,000 citizens were killed, including many thousands of blacks – in order to keep blacks in slavery because the Democrats had built their economic base on the backs of black slaves…..The anti-Civil War chant of the Democrats, as reported by one Pennsylvania newspaper, was: “Willing to fight for Uncle Sam” but not “for Uncle Sambo.” These anti-Civil War Democrats verbally attacked Republican President Abraham Lincoln because he fought to free blacks from slavery and make his Emancipation Proclamation a reality – a Proclamation that became the source of the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today.

Reconstruction – Democrats fought to end Reconstruction started by Republicans

Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan in 1866 to lynch and terrorize Republicans -black and white and drive Republicans out of the South.

Segregation – Democrats enacted the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws

Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every piece of civil rights legislation from the 1860’s to the 1960′s. Democrats wanted to keep blacks in virtual slavery and deny blacks the promised “40 acres and a mule.”

Democrat Senator Robert Byrd was a former “Exalted Cyclops” and “Keagle” (Recruiter) in the Ku Klux Klan. Byrd remained a Democrat until he died in 2010. He was a prominent leader in the Democrat-controlled Congress where he was honored by his fellow Democrats as the “conscience of the Senate.” The relentless disparagement of Dr. King by Democrats led to his being physically assaulted and ultimately to his tragic death.

Little known by many today is the fact that it was Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, who pushed through the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In fact, Dirksen was instrumental to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964, 1965 and 1968. Dirksen wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.

There is so much more to learn in this newsletter written by Dr. Alveda King. The Democrat left and its media stenographers have worked a good part of the last century to keep this information from our fellow Black Americans who voted enforce to elect a man directly opposed to the Dream Dr. King stood for. The time has come to enlighten all those who would continue the lie that is Barack Obama and his party. Dr. Martin Luther King was a deeply religious Christian man with deeply held conservative principles.He did not embrace socialism or the secular tenets of the Democrat party. Dr. King would be a Conservative Republican today and he would oppose everything Obama stands for.

…To many top Democrats the OWS {Occupy Wall Street} crew looks like a winning candidate as the answer to the Tea Party. Except that it isn’t. The Tea Party is comprised of working Americans who want the government to get out of their faces. They are advocates for smaller governments with less spending and more mindful of the Constitution.

OWS, on the other hand, is largely comprised of neutered, over-educated and useless losers, many of whom don’t even know why they’re demonstrating, except that it might wind up somehow providing them with free stuff. Those few “intellectuals” in the OWS crowd who have bothered to articulate some end results can generously be deemed an embarrassment, because their ideas consist largely of warmed over Marxist pap that’s gone out of vogue around the globe, except in places like Venezuela and North Korea…And the White House. (From Canada Free Press)

From interviews, however vapid, we learn that the young fleas would like no more than continuance of the same Obama handouts…and an Obama lifestyle free from responsibility or accountability.

It is true the Occupy Wall Street crowd has the media on their side as do all leftist agenda types.

Contemplate this: The Occupy Wall Street folks drew more broadcast network stories in the first nine days of coverage (with 24 stories) than the Tea Party drew in the first nine months(with 19 stories). The protests were like a stumbling little fawn trying to find its legs. They’d been in existence for about two weeks, and NBC was already suggesting the “potential” for what the Tea Party achieved in 2010 — a massive Democratic wave election in 2012. Journalists are either easily impressed or very energetic practitioners of wishful thinking. (From Townhall.com)

Reminds me of a song…”Wishin’ and hopin’ and plannin’ and dreamin’” but for Obama and the Democrat party, it is not to be. The Flea Party veneer is starting to crack. First of all, they are in the wrong place. It’s Washington DC that owns this debacle of a problem.

An Atlantic.com article shares 5 reasons why the OWS crowd will not work:
1.) Its goals are unclear: At this time, all the protest really appears to stand for is a general dislike of Wall Street. But what does that mean?
2.) Wallstreet doesn’t care: These protesters are not Wall Street’s customers. In many cases they aren’t even their customers’ customers.
3.) Protesters can’t sway Congress: The message of Occupy Wall Street isn’t likely to catch on and affect any change in more center-right regions like the Tea Party did.
4.) Their timing is off: There are times when Washington just needs to be practical. When unemployment is stuck above 9% is such a time.
5.) Banking is vitally needed by the US: Congress knows better than to risk the U.S. losing its competitive edge in such an important sector.

And recently, unions have gotten involved, hoping desperately that this movement will turn into a Liberal version of the Tea Party, so desperate are they for something, anything grassroots.

So media, unions, Hollywood, Democrats and old hippies all supporting the Humpty Dumpty of the Flea Party movement won’t save it from eventual self-destruction far in advance of the 2012 elections. Even Bloomberg has recently trounced on their plans to occupy until “change” (whatever that is) happens.
“The last three weeks have created unsanitary conditions and considerable wear and tear on the park,” a statement from Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said. “The situation is not in the best interests of the protesters, residents or the city.”
Protestors issued a statement Thursday stating plans to lock arms in defiance of the police and in defense of First Amendment rights. The demonstrators plan to resist and encourage protestors to join the coalition at 6 a.m. Friday morning.

According to Ayatollah Khamenei, OWS will topple the American capitalist system. Ah, but this seems to be yet more wishful thinking…with unclear goals and lack of realistic or substantive actions it would appear the Flea Party may exterminate itself.

We need to take note of Herman Cain–could it be the liberal radicals are getting a little nervous about him? Yes they’re just a little nervous–but it is noteworthy–MSNBC–whom Rush Limbaugh likes to call “PMS-NBC”–posted an article called, “Why Herman Cain is Angry” highlighting how upset he is in his “lack of support.” Another liberal Hollywood celebrity, Morgan Freeman, has come out in a story posted on several liberal news programs with the ragged and worn liberal byline of “Tea Party folks are racist” in spite of the fact that Cain–a consistent Tea Party candidate–is more black than Obama could ever be.

Now that can mean one of only two things–either the liberal media think he can’t win so they are promoting him hoping to split the vote or they think he CAN win and they are getting a wee bit scared he may grow more popular so they need to promote something with a negative ring to it. The RINO John Huntsman was a liberal favorite a few months ago and any self-respecting conservative understands Romney and Perry–the current frontrunners–as both being RINO candidates supporting either Romneycare or lack of crackdown on illegal immigrants. Any of these candidates may appear to be riding a moderate horse to pull in those desired but often phantom independents or special interest groups, but as far as a GOP candidate being a true conservative, Herman Cain is the poster child.

Cain is leaping forward and conservatives are taking note:

Jim Broussard, a Pennsylvania tea party leader, says: “He has charisma, charm, and can project a message to people that: ‘Hey, I worked my way up just like your average guy out there.’”

But his style also has won him plaudits from media heavy hitters. After Cain performed well in the first GOP presidential debate, conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh opined that “Herman Cain made me think I was listening to me in every answer.”

Indeed, Cain credits that first debate with launching his rise in the polls. “Until then, a national audience had never heard me. Now they are starting to hear me, and I don’t think they’ll forget.”

What Cain seems to lack is experience in foreign policy. This is something which definitely needs remedy, no doubt. Obama also lacks foreign policy expertise–did and still does. In fact, we can point to every flaw in every current GOP candidate and Obama has them all–Obamacare, border control and backdoor amnesty, foreign policy, the economy…the list goes on. Something he DOES have, however, that no one else running has, is consistent media coverup.

But on another note, Dick Morris ran an interview with Cain. In it, Cain showed that he understands far more about foreign affairs than his detractors give him credit for. That’s because Cain understands what his detractors do not: namely how foreign, energy, and domestic policies depend on—or sometimes interfere with—one another. (Mentioned in a Conservative News and Views article.)

In fact, Herman Cain has as much or more experience than most candidates running for office–most certainly the kind of experience the last several years have shown us America desperately needs:

Herman Cain (from Wikipedia)
• Former chairman and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza. Within 14 months, Cain had taken Godfather’s Pizza from 911 stores down to 420 stores and reduced costs significantly. As a result of his efforts Godfather’s Pizza finally became profitable.
• Cain became a member of the board of directors to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 1992 and served as its chairman from January 1995 to August 1996, when he resigned to become active in national politics.
• Before his business career he worked as a mathematician in ballistics as a civilian employee of the United States Navy.
• He serves as a minister at Antioch Baptist Church North.
• Cain worked for The Coca-Cola Company as a business analyst.
• In 1977, he joined Pillsbury where he rose to the position of Vice President by the early 1980s.
• He left his executive post to work for Burger King – a Pillsbury subsidiary at the time – managing 400 stores in the Philadelphia area. Under Cain’s leadership, his region went from the least profitable for Burger King to the most profitable in three years.
• Later Cain became CEO of the National Restaurant Association – a trade group and lobby organization for the restaurant industry – where he had previously been chairman concurrently with his role at Godfather’s.
• Cain was on the board of directors of Aquila, Inc. from 1992 to 2008, and also served as a board member for Nabisco, Whirlpool, Reader’s Digest, and AGCO, Inc.

Today’s news gives us Herman Cain as the leading straw poll winner in Florida winning far ahead of the other candidates with 37 percent of the vote and a third place win in the Michigan straw poll. From Conservative News and Views:
The previous three winners {of this same poll} have all won the Republican nomination for President. They were Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush (“the Elder”), and Bob Dole. Florida’s Republicans have not run a straw poll since….To win 37 percent of the vote against seven competitors is amazing in itself. It is doubly amazing because his two closest competitors had been the acknowledged front-runners. Cain might possibly have done better than this, by winning with fifty percent of the vote. Still, he outclassed the two strongest candidates {Romney and Perry} by a margin of better than two-and-a-half to one.

Cain’s 9-9-9 plan is unabashedly simple.

He also supports the Fairtax concept.

His positions are consistently conservative.

From DickMorris.com:

Now, as Perry fades and Romney rises, Herman Cain is on the cusp of front tier status in the Republican nominating contest. Cain has a grip on the Tea Party grassroots. No matter how diligently the establishment tries to ignore him, he keeps popping up, impelled by his charisma, oratory, issue positions, and broad based appeal.

Herman Cain is the one to watch in the GOP political race to the White House.

We were complacent: Happy in an America that provided us with more than any other country in the world. As children, when we said our prayers, we thanked God we were born in this country. We grew up with parents telling us, “Eat your supper, the children in Europe are starving!” As we grew up, we became accustomed to owning two or more cars, several TV’s, a cell phone, a nice home, etc. Our kids were involved in two sports; we went on vacations at least once a year. Like heart disease, liberalism is a slow and silent killer. Like a termite, it has slowly eaten through the fabric and foundation of our values, our liberty, and our country. To those of us who have awakened, we know that the far left liberal Barack Hussein Obama was a gift–an alarm clock that hasn’t stopped ringing since he was nominated over 4 years ago. And by many accounts, he was elected by fraudulent means, has ruled by fraudulent events and has many fraudulent plans to further change this country into a shadow of what it once was.

Henry Wallace, Roosevelt’s VP from 1941 to 1945, wrote that he had observed the beginning of a slide into Despotism and Socialism within the attitudes of Washington’s elite. According to Wallace, well-intended leaders with personal agendas would precipitate the loss of individual freedoms:

“So enlisted, men may rightfully feel they are serving a function as high as that of any minister of the Gospel. They will not be Socialists, Communists, or Fascists, but plain men trying to gain by democratic methods the professed objectives of the Communists, Socialists, and Fascists…”

Likewise, in 1944 Norman Mattoon Thomas espoused Wallace’s theory with his prophesy of the fall of American democracy—and the mechanism that would be used:

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. I need no longer run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.” (From The Corson Archives)

Many great civilizations have not made it much longer than about 200 years. These events have been predicted by history. From a piece by Loren Collins:
In a quotation attributed to the French author, Alexis de Tocqueville, the dangers of loose fiscal policy were stated as follows:

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.

If this is true, and former civilizations seem to bear this out, then we are overdue for the same fate.

Back to Liberalism: From an article by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn published in the First Principles Journal:

American liberalism is not a closed ideol­ogy like Marxism-Leninism or National Socialism, but a very mixed bag with a number of internal contradictions. It is like a compendium of nearly every nonsense that we in the West have produced since the Enlightenment and the French Revolution…American liberalism exalts the pro­verbial three men sitting on cracker barrels in the general store talking politics, but at the same time hides the arrogant contempt the half educated have for the common sense of simple people…And to many, the approach of Ameri­can liberalism is agreeable: it is optimistic and carries many promises. Yet unlike a clever pagan existentialism, such as that of Sartre, who told us that life is absurd and that the history of every person is a history of failure, contemporary liberalism is sim­ply ignorant. It ignores the Biblical mes­sage that “the mind of every human being from childhood onward is directed towards evil” (Genesis, 8:21). And just like an ignorant person, this liberalism is stubborn and does not learn from past mistakes or from history. In spite of its relativism, it is highly aggressive and, in defiance of pleas for tolerance, it is itself extremely intolerant, alternating savage attacks with silent disregard.

Some simple facts (paraphrased from Heritage.org):

Progressives reject the Founders’ notion that “all men are created equal and have certain inalienable rights.” In their view, humans are not born free…the Progressives held that nature gives man little or nothing and that everything of value to human life is made by man, they concluded that there are no permanent standards of right.
The Founders believed that man’s capacity for reason and moral law is far more important than anything government can give him and that freedom is a gift of God and nature. Government’s function, then, is to secure that freedom.

For the Progressives, freedom is redefined as the fulfillment of human capacities, which becomes the primary task of the state. “Creating individuals” versus “protecting individuals”: this sums up the difference between the Founders’ and the Progressives’ conception of what government is for.

FDR’s New Deal in the 1930′s destroyed jobs, prolonged unemployment, cut back farm production, devastated black tenant farmers, gave unions monopoly bargaining power securing them above-market wages which triggered layoffs and helped usher in the depression of 1938. The New Deal also channeled money away from the South and put it into the higher incomes of the West and East. FDR had good intentions but ended up harming millions of poor people through policies and acts that forced consumers to pay above-market prices for goods and services. And, as FDR intended, Social Security endures because it draws as much on self-interested individualism as on self-forgetting community-mindedness.

From an article, “The Great Society, A Libertarian Critique” by Murray M. Rothbard in LewRockwell.com:

LBJ’s {Lyndon B. Johnson)} Great Society {the welfare state} is the lineal descendant and the intensification of those other pretentiously named polities of twentieth-century America: the Square Deal, the New Freedom, the New Era, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and the New Frontier. All of these assorted Deals constituted a basic and fundamental shift in American life – a shift from a relatively laissez-faire economy and minimal state to a society in which the state is unquestionably king. 1 In the previous century, the government could safely have been ignored by almost everyone; now we have become a country in which the government is the great and unending source of power and privilege.
The cruelest myth fostered by the liberals is that the Great Society functions as a great boon and benefit to the poor; in reality, when we cut through the frothy appearances to the cold reality underneath, the poor are the major victims of the welfare state.

To the Black family, who was just beginning to assimilate, despite its grievances, into American society, The Great Society was a death knell. We are experiencing now the end result of that tremendous folly.

Liberalism IS the source of everything wrong in this country. From the hoax that is global warming, to mercury laden light bulbs, to the debt ceiling, to the moratorium on drilling, to the over $14 trillion in debt, to the dying economy, to abortion, to the Democrat Fraud Factor, to the debacle of Obamacare, to the extinction of the education system… liberals have never stopped destroying the country–or the world. As a civilization, we are on the brink of a cataclysm. While other countries have recognized the foolishness of liberalism, with this administration, we are heading full face into it–obliterating everything we hold dear.

This is why we can NEVER–EVER–allow an Obama to happen again. Liberalism has got to be suppressed–permanently. What does this convey? We all have to do more than vote. If you don’t know what that means by now, go find out. In addition, we must educate our kids–like the Jews have educated us about the Holocaust so that IT never happens again, we have to educate everyone who will listen–educate them now and until we die–about liberalism. Liberalism will be totally eradicated, fellow Americans, and like Satan–until Armageddon–it will rear its demon head and try to re-emerge. We patriots must make sure it NEVER does and teach both our children and grandchildren to do the same. Like survivors of Eastern Germany and Cuba and many other dictator-run countries have done once escaping–we can never again rest–we can never again be complacent.

We must from this moment forward be guardians of our heritage as Americans.

It is one thing to not know your country is falling apart so you do nothing but a lot of us actually KNOW America is on the brink of disaster and we do have to do more than vote. With the evil we face in Obama, "just voting" is no longer enough. With only 80 days before the mid-term elections, doing nothing is a peril we can't afford to take.

"...we have come now to a crossroads--a very dangerous crossroads--where Individualism is at a precipice of extinction and Collectivism is about to become the law of the land--moving us in the direction of European socialism all against the will of the electorate....via the lame-duck congress session in November"

As I've grown older, I learned many lessons from other people's lies. I learned that lies kill relationships, end jobs, destroy families and careers. But on the way to those things, deception can buy a lot. I've been fooled in relationships and I've worked next to liars who smiled while they back-stabbed and sabotaged yet climbed right past me stepping on their falsehoods like rungs on a ladder. And that is how we got our president.

In Obama's America, it is not surprising to read about the Helena Montana Public School Board considering a graphic sexual curriculum for preschool and primary students. The proposal will be voted on by the board next month. The Montana Family Foundation is fighting the proposal which includes in part, the promotion of homosexuality and the various ways people can have intercourse.

The importance of getting authentic conservatives into Congress cannot be overstated. November 2010 truly is our last opportunity to save America. There will not be another one. Like the Jews who became complacent with all God had done for them and ended up wandering the desert for 40 years, so we will be consigned to a different way of life for us and for our descendants for generations to come.

Understand this as you consider the implications for Tea Party movements, people looking to become Precinct Committeemen, or work directly FOR a campaign; don’t bother (according to the Democrat intentions here) because your voice won’t count, your money’s not welcome, and your opinion is no longer suitable for public purview…it has been outlawed.

Apostle Claver tells the world how the real party of racism is the Democrats.

Black Americans should vote for Republicans not because of what Republicans will do for black Americans but because we stand for all Americans. We don’t differentiate between races or religions. We don’t believe in group or identity politics. To the Republican party, it’s about protecting the liberties of all Americans equally. The Republican position closely mirrors blacks on principle (and self-preservation grounds), but after decades of {the Democrats} using race to slander them for political gain, it’s going to be very hard to now have to side with them. They will need to.

Is there a place where we can all join hands, forces for the conservative battle ahead of us? Even a website where all are listed and common themes are reported would be beneficial? How can this be done? My fear is that if it is not, we will scatter like the mustard seeds in the parable and only a small amount land on fertile soil.

The political agitprop that feeds the populous in America, for decades has been biased and leftist leaning. Deceit is rampant--most of what comes out of our media (acquiescing with the administration) are lies, untruths, paraphrasing or twisted facts. It's been called "politics as usual" but what has happened to our government system from whence it started--as Founders with fervent desires to distance us from tyranny--and what has transpired to form us into what we are today? More important, how have we allowed it to happen and now awakened, how can we ensure it never again occurs?

We all have become too comfortable in our American existence. Many of us spend more time planning our next vacation than on how we will secure the sovereignty of our nation. How bad will it have to be for us to wake up?

Some in Washington are proposing to wipe out 401(k)s entirely, replacing them with government-run accounts that put bureaucrats – instead of families – in charge of Americans’ savings. House Republicans are committed to preserving 401(k)s – and just as importantly, preserving workers’ ability to make their own decisions about their retirement savings. The Savings Recovery Act reflects this important principle.

From card check to the auto industry decline to the elimination of voucher schools and beyond, unions have become the beast they once opposed.