progressives - ACTION - Command Center2024-03-29T09:21:40Zhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/progressivesProgressive/Socialist Failures in Americahttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/progressive-socialist-failures-in-america2017-01-19T02:57:21.000Z2017-01-19T02:57:21.000ZJohn Velisek USN (Ret.0https://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/JohnVelisekUSNRet0<div><p> </p><p>Donald Trump has not even been sworn in yet as the next President and yet the media, academia, celebrities, and anarchists have been yapping and nipping at his heels like jackals over a dead wildebeest. Even the politicians on the progressive/socialist side have taken to turning their backs on the appearance of collegiality. Set against the backdrop of this administration declaring that it is “scandal-free” that is also being placed as a clarion call through the media has still not convinced the American people that it is true. The Russians did not steal the election, there still is no proof but being taken as gospel because that is what our “intelligence agencies” have declared. This are the same intelligence agencies that said they would never think about spying on the American people. We know how that turned out.</p><p>The groups that met just after midnight on Election day were angry. Socialist labor unions were there, environmental groups, immigration groups, gay rights groups and civil rights organizations were all a part of a meeting in which Jim Messina, who was in charge of Obamas re-election campaign telling them that there should not be any attempts to compromise or work with the new Trump administration. I have no doubt that Obama knew of this meeting and yet still tries to push the lie that he wants a smooth transition. The Democracy Alliance, funded by Nazi collaborator George Soros, also has held meetings demanding resistance against Trump.</p><p>Academia, long a progressive/ socialist stronghold has gotten into the action as well. Georgetown University held an event called “Resisting, Organizing and Building in the Age of Trump”, ostensibly because they are so concerned with the freedom and dignity of individuals during the Trump Presidency. What it really is, was a meeting of activists/organizers/academics and anarchists to discuss the racism, bigotry, and oppression of the Trump Presidency. Once again, the old haggard tripe about “white privilege” was brought up, and that whites need to understand that they have white privilege so they know when to shut up. Like Multiculturalism, “white privilege” is a made up Marxist paradigm that is being used to try and keep those that disagree with the Marxist agenda quiet that is not working anymore.</p><p>Hollywood liberals are now bullying those who disagree. All must be made to agree with the liberal/progressive agenda. Threats and bullying have been the rallying cry of those who aren’t the tolerant, loving family that they want people to believe. Stuck in the little bubble they have made for themselves, and speaking as if from on high to us poor peasants that they feel so superior to. Even so little as saying that we need to give President Trump a chance will get you vilified, working once again as “political correctness” to be a message to others not to speak out. The “political correctness’ and “white privilege” talking points are used to intimidate conservatives and relious entities to be silent. The moral and religious opinions that have done this country well have been shouted down by being threatened with loss of jobs, reputation and status.</p><p>The “Black Bloc”, a group of anarchists all dressed in black, with their faces covered, and looking for virtual anonymity as they commit the crimes they have planned are basically cowards, and while the progressive/socialists continue to tolerate these animals, the American people will not. While they cover their faces, and scream that Trump is a fascist, it is they who have the fascistic tendencies. They whimper about oppression as if the claim of being oppressed give no limit to the abuses they can confer on others. The American people do not believe that people are oppressed and are victims of the bad white people when all you do is go out and smash windows, burn businesses, and attack those who disagree.</p><p> These anarchists are nothing more than parasites and with the assistance of the fake news media has attempted to show that they are a major force in the politics of the world. The truth is, they are not. They are self centered narcissistic losers who need the attention to make their miserable lives seem worth living. Even the professional anarchists who will be in charge this Inauguration day and in the future have no future after they throw their temper tantrum. They have already threatened local officials in Washington D.C. , saying they will hunt them down will burn their houses, they will go to war, and you (the everyday people” will lose.</p><p>What if this energy was turned toward solutions for our inner cities, for the assistance that so many of those in our failing schools need? This energy could be used to rebuild the black middle class family. It will never happen because groups such as Black Lives Matter, M.E.CH.A. , LA Raza, and others are more concerned with the destruction of capitalism and the American way of life than they are in working together to make things better. I live in California, I know socialism when I see it. Our socialist governor and people like Xavier Becera, just named to be Californias attorney general and a member of M.E.CH.A., a group that claims California as a part of a mythical land of Aztlan. Becera has also pushed for the voting right of illegal aliens, claiming if they work, (some do) and pay taxes (most don’t), they should be able to vote.</p><p> Sorry, this white, and millions of others won’t shut up, as a matter of fact we have just found our voices against the Marxist ideas of multiculturalism and political correctness. And that voice is growing, and will continue to grow. We do not need to prove ourselves to you, we do not need to explain ourselves, nor do we need to apologize for anything. I am a white male, stigmatized in many places because of my moral beliefs, my religion and my patriotism. I don’t care if you do not like me, I don’t care that you don not agree with my beliefs. I have always been one to give anyone a chance, and to help my fellow man. You can go forth and preach your moral superiority, but it is a collapsing house. Those of you following the progressives/socialist agenda do not understand those who you malign so easily. You are so steeped in your bigotry that you can see the kindness of the everyday people in this country. It may surprise you that there are hardworking, educated people in the heartland that are as good if not better than you. They are the people that have made this country what it is. They are the people who don’t mind getting their hnds dirty to move themselves, others and the country forward. Your self-righteousness and sense of all encompassing power will come to naught, the American people have spoken, and made their coice. SO burn what you must, scream all you want, but understand that if it comes to attacking those that disagree with you, the American people will fight back.</p></div>You Can't Legislate Away Moronshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/you-can-t-legislate-away-morons2015-07-08T10:39:40.000Z2015-07-08T10:39:40.000ZCraig Andresenhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/CraigAndresen<div><p><strong>By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on <a href="http://cprworldwidemedia.net/" target="_blank">cprworldwidemedia.net</a></strong></p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/stap-1.jpg"><img class="align-left" src="http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/stap-1.jpg?width=152" width="152" alt="stap-1.jpg?width=152" /></a>It was the 4th of July and after drinking,, 22 year old Devon Staples of Calais Maine thought it would be…funny…if he placed a fireworks “mortar” tube on top of his head…dropped a round into it and lit the fuse.</p><p>According to his older brother, Cody, who said that friends apparently tried to dissuade him…<strong><em>“Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid. He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh.”</em></strong></p><p>It was the last thing Devon Staples ever did.</p><p>When the round ignited…it killed him instantly. Again, according to Cody Staples, who was just a few feet away…<strong><em>“There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there.”</em></strong></p><p>We are not talking about some kid here. This was not some adolescent playing with fireworks sans adult supervision. This was a full grown idiot who should have known better but let’s get back to his brother, Cody, for a moment.</p><p>Cody Staples, 25 years old, is on record describing the event this way…</p><p><strong><em><a href="http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/2015/07/08/you-cant-legislate-away-morons/" target="_blank">READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!</a></em></strong></p></div>At the TSA...Your Safety is Job NONE!!https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/at-the-tsa-your-safety-is-job-none2015-06-13T09:00:00.000Z2015-06-13T09:00:00.000ZCraig Andresenhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/CraigAndresen<div><p><strong>By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on <a href="http://cprworldwidemedia.net/" target="_blank">cprworldwidemedia.net</a></strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/tsa-1.jpg"><img class="align-left" src="http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/tsa-1.jpg?width=267" width="267" alt="tsa-1.jpg?width=267" /></a>Well now…don’t we all just feel REAL safe when we go to the airport and board a flight to somewhere?</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Over the past few days, we have learned that the TSA…the Transportation Safety Administration for technical identification purposes…Touchin’ Feelin’ and Squeezin’ for reality’s sake…has FAILED on 95% of airport security tests conducted by its parent bacterial infestation…the DHS…a governmental agency that has spent tens of BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to accomplish what, exactly?</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Oh, that’s right…according to the official congressional report…absolutely nothing.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">And we should be surprised by the TSA’s failure in this regard?</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Try sneaking too much shampoo onto your flight or get caught with something as dangerous as a nail clippers in your carry-on bag and YOU just might find yourself on the NO FLY list but…smuggle fake explosives, guns, ammo and other contraband past airport screeners…</p><p style="text-align:justify;">Excuse me sir…</p><p><strong><em><a href="http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/2015/06/13/at-the-tsa-your-safety-is-job-none/" target="_blank">READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!</a></em></strong></p></div>Rule of GOP progressives challengedhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rule-of-gop-progressives-challenged2014-05-18T20:30:29.000Z2014-05-18T20:30:29.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img src="http://images.sodahead.com/polls/003166333/5241935939_rinos20not20extinct20yet_xlarge.jpeg" class="align-center" alt="5241935939_rinos20not20extinct20yet_xlarge.jpeg" /></p>
<p>The most important battle in politics today is the one within the Republican Party, and the tea party movement didn’t start it. The GOP’s civil war began in 1912 when Teddy Roosevelt made progressivism the governing philosophy of the Republican establishment.</p>
<p>For the 102 years since, the conflict has been between limited-government constitutional conservatives and the proponents of big government — and the big spending that goes with it.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>POLL: <a href="http://teapartyinfo.org/polling/10091_Should_Barack_Obama_resign_the_Presidency_.php?promocode=tp-11210" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Should Barack Obama resign the Presidency?</span></a></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">It has been waged with conservative Republicans, such as Sens. Robert A. Taft, Barry Goldwater and Jesse Helms, on one side, and big-government Republicans, such as Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, on the other.</p>
<p>Many thought, wrongly, that the conservatives won with the election of Ronald Reagan and his coalition of economic, national defense and social conservatives. But today’s Republican establishment frequently invokes President Reagan while also pursuing a progressive agenda at odds with his principles. Big-government Republicans today include Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus.</p>
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<p>read more:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2014/may/18/richard-a-viguerie-the-establishment-gop-is-not/">http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2014/may/18/richard-a-viguerie-the-establishment-gop-is-not/</a></p></div>Drawing A Linehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/drawing-a-line2014-05-18T12:59:51.000Z2014-05-18T12:59:51.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img src="http://godfreydaily.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/6a010536ecf29a970b017c3560ec8f970b-500wi.jpg?w=500&h=337" class="align-center" alt="6a010536ecf29a970b017c3560ec8f970b-500wi.jpg?w=500&h=337" /></p>
<p>Conservatives have long sat by as radical progressive liberals curb-stomp anyone who disagrees with their ideology. On principle, we refuse to boycott anything. That’s a tactic of the left, and the right likes to stick to the high ground, even though it means losing ground every day to the forces of tyranny.</p>
<p>Well, enough is enough.</p>
<p>Scientists who practice actual science and demand something crazy like proof before advocating for government regulations and taxes on what you exhale are harassed out of their fields. Science has devolved from posing a theory and setting about proving or disproving it to a vote by people dependent upon government grants seeking to please their master in the hope of keeping the funding spigot open.</p>
<p>But you can’t boycott government, you can only hope to change it.</p>
<p>The Senate Majority Leader is using taxpayer dollars to attack private citizens for opposing the progressive agenda and donating to causes in which they believe, while using his position to advance the self-enriching agenda of a progressive billionaire dangling $100 million in campaign funds in front of his nose.</p>
<p>But you can’t boycott Harry Reid, you can only hope to remove his majority.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>POLL : <a href="http://teapartyinfo.org/polling/10096_Should_Voter_ID_be_required_in_every_state_.php?promocode=tp-11215" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Should Voter ID be required in every state?</span></a></strong></span></p>
<p>The <i>New York Times</i> can champion “equal pay for women” in 90 different pieces as they pay their first female executive editor <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-nyt-did-pay-jill-abramson-lower-salary-than-male-editors">significantly less</a> than the man she replaced, and the men with whom she’d worked previously. They serve as town crier for victimhood as they perpetrate the victimization they decry.</p>
<p>But boycotting the <i>New York Times</i> is like protesting to the Captain about the bumpy landing of the Hindenburg – it’s going down on its own.</p>
<p>The IRS has been weaponized against American citizens who seek only to have their voices heard by a government that wants nothing more than to shut them up, in direct violation of the document that created that government.</p>
<p>But you can’t boycott the IRS because, well, you know why.</p>
<p>more:</p>
<p><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2014/05/18/drawing-a-line-n1839620">http://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2014/05/18/drawing-a-line-n1839620</a></p></div>Liberal Blogger: If Ben Carson Runs for President, He'll Play the Role of 'Black Avenger for White Self-Pity'https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/liberal-blogger-if-ben-carson-runs-for-president-he-ll-play-the-r2014-05-18T12:39:16.000Z2014-05-18T12:39:16.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-alL_9qfbatk/Tazlf1OZlXI/AAAAAAAAFdc/Tf2HdG9BFro/s1600/Looney%2BLeft.png" class="align-center" alt="Looney%2BLeft.png" /></p>
<p>In a textbook case of damning with faint praise, the Washington Monthly's <a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_05/the_cain_train_of_16050362.php">Ed Kilgore </a>asserted on Thursday that of all the "dramatically underqualified people" who may run for president in 2016, Ben Carson is the frontrunner. </p>
<p>Kilgore opines that since Carson is black, his popularity with white conservatives "absolve[s] them of any racist motives when they complain about <em>those people</em> on welfare, and indeed accuse white liberals of being the real bigots." (Italics in original.) He adds that should Carson run, "it seems likely he [would] be even more overtly than [Herman] Cain a pure instrument for conservative resentment and—if you will forgive the unavoidable term—whitewashing."</p>
<p>From Kilgore's post, with no memory of Al Sharpton for President 2004 (emphasis added):</p>
<p class="rteindent1">The bar for a “viable” presidential candidate was most dramatically lowered in 2012, when pizza entrepreneur and radio gabber Herman Cain briefly led the polls for the Republican nomination to become Leader of the Free World...</p>
<p class="rteindent1" style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ff0000;" class="font-size-3">POLL: <a href="http://teapartyinfo.org/polling/10095_Where_do_you_get_your_news_.php?promocode=tp-11214" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Where do you get your news?</span></a></span></p>
<p class="rteindent1" style="text-align:left;"><br /><strong>There’s no telling how many dramatically underqualified people will run for president in 2016 and ascend from the anonymous ranks of cranks and perennial candidates whose campaigns toil in perpetual obscurity. Some, like former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, may even have minimal on-paper credentials and thereby muscle his way onto debate platforms. But the candidate of that nature most likely to make a splash is Dr. Ben Carson</strong>, a distinguished neurosurgeon and philanthropist (and also a conservative Christian motivational speaker and writer) who’s become the Latest Big Thing on the conservative defying-the-left circuit...<br /><br />Now that reliable expositor of the conservative CW, the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes, <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/ben-carson-moves-toward-presidential-run_792757.html?nopager=1">reports</a> that Carson is getting serious about a presidential run, which he describes more or less as a trip down the road to Golgotha:</p>
<p class="rteindent1 rteindent2">“It’s a daunting thing,” he told me. “I know how vehemently the left will come after you, try to destroy you, try to destroy your family. But at the same time I recognize that people like Nathan Hale - he said, ‘My only regret is I have but one life to give to my country’ … And if everybody runs for the hills because they’re afraid that somebody is going to attack them or their family, then [the left] will have won.”</p>
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<p><span><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-johnson/2014/05/18/washington-monthly-blogger-if-ben-carson-runs-potus-hell-play-role-blac#ixzz324PeU07X">http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-johnson/2014/05/18/washington-monthly-blogger-if-ben-carson-runs-potus-hell-play-role-blac#ixzz324PeU07X</a></span></p></div>Is America becoming a Russian-style oligarchy?https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/is-america-becoming-a-russian-style-oligarchy2014-05-15T22:28:02.000Z2014-05-15T22:28:02.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/field/image/oligarchy-thinking.jpg?itok=1Edfv9Zu" class="align-center" alt="oligarchy-thinking.jpg?itok=1Edfv9Zu" /></p>
<p>Economic inequality has emerged as the central political challenge of the 21<span>st</span> Century. Left wing academics and politicians are quick with quack remedies—higher taxes on the wealthy that will only send more investment abroad and smother growth.</p>
<p>For most Americans, good-paying jobs are scarce, and many feel powerless to improve their lot. Yet, for those at the very top of business and in a few charmed professions things have never been better.</p>
<p>Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) recently asked Federal Reserve Chair Yellen “are we still a capitalist democracy or have we gone over into an oligarchic form of society in which incredible economic and political power now rests with the billionaire class.”</p>
<p>Yellen deflected, saying she preferred not to assign labels, but Sanders struck a nerve.</p>
<p>Russia’s oligarchy has two salient characteristics. The government uses its power to regulate markets to concentrate wealth in the hands of an influential few, while most of its citizens stay poor by western standards.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><a href="http://teapartyinfo.org/polling/10101_Is_Common_Core_indoctrination_or_education_.php?promocode=tp-11220" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ff0000;">POLL: Is Common Core indoctrination or education?</span></a></strong></span></p>
<p>In recent decades<span style="font-size:13px;">, the U.S. government has enabled monopolization in many industries—for example, in cable TV and high speed internet, banking and health care—by failing to use its antitrust and regulatory powers to curb abusive practices.</span></p>
<p>Comcast enjoys monopoly access to most homes it services. Each year, it raises rates for cable TV bundled with high-speed internet faster than the rate of inflation, because federal policies prohibit local governments from regulating cable prices as those do for electric and water utilities.</p>
<p>Its fee structure discourages subscribers from purchasing only high-speed internet and independently obtaining entertainment content over the net. Now Comcast proposes to acquire TimeWarner Cable and establish a virtual national monopoly, giving it huge bargaining leverage with content providers, such as Fox and Turner, even though it already owns NBC.</p>
<p>Comcast is transforming a public utility into an international media giant on the backs of overtaxed subscribers. Yet federal regulators will likely approve its acquisition of TimeWarner, because it has “close ties” with the Obama White House.</p>
<p>Similarly, Dodd-Frank financial reforms impose regulatory costs so onerous that small banks are selling out to bigger ones. In the bargain, small business loans and mortgages are tougher to obtain, and grandma can’t get a decent rate on CDs. Bank executives pull down huge bonuses but also make generous contributions to political candidates.</p>
<p>ObamaCare has effectively monopolized many local markets for health insurance and hospital care, and reinforces pharmaceutical companies’ ability to charge higher drug prices than prevail in other wealthy countries like German and Holland.</p>
<p>To salve the masses, Washington politicians exempt nearly 50 percent of voters from income taxes, and offer subsidized health care, food stamps and the earned income tax credit for lower income Americans.</p>
<p><span><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/205915-is-america-becoming-a-russian-style-oligarchy#ixzz31pGAj0Fe">http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/205915-is-america-becoming-a-russian-style-oligarchy#ixzz31pGAj0Fe</a> <br /><br /></span></p></div>Global Warming Is Increasing Biodiversity Around The Worldhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/global-warming-is-increasing-biodiversity-around-the-world2014-05-15T20:00:00.000Z2014-05-15T20:00:00.000ZLinda Hahnhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LindaHahn<div><p><img src="http://i558.photobucket.com/albums/ss24/Peter_Baumhoff/GfOE/Entwuerfe/Biodiversity-Hare-Color.jpg" class="align-center" alt="Biodiversity-Hare-Color.jpg" /></p><p>A <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6181/296.abstract">new study</a> published in the journal Science has astounded biologists: global warming is not harming biodiversity, but instead is increasing the range and diversity of species in various ecosystems.</p><p>Environmentalists have long warned that global warming could lead to mass extinctions as fragile ecosystems around the world are made unlivable as temperatures increase. But a team of biologists from the United States, United Kingdom and Japan found that global warming has not led to a decrease in biodiversity. Instead, biodiversity has increased in many areas on land and in the ocean.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><a href="http://teapartyinfo.org/polling/10101_Is_Common_Core_indoctrination_or_education_.php?promocode=tp-11220" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ff0000;">POLL: Is Common Core indoctrination or education?</span></a></strong></span></p><p>“Although the rate of species extinction has increased markedly as a result of human activity across the biosphere, conservation has focused on endangered species rather than on shifts in assemblages,” reads the editor’s abstract of the report.</p><p>The study says “species turnover” was “above expected but do not find evidence of systematic biodiversity loss.” The editor’s abstract adds that the result “could be caused by homogenization of species assemblages by invasive species, shifting distributions induced by climate change, and asynchronous change across the planet.”</p><p>Researchers reviewed 100 long-term species monitoring studies from around the world and found increasing biodiversity in 59 out of 100 studies and decreasing biodiversity in 41 studies. The rate of change in biodiversity was modest in all of the studies, biologists said.</p><p></p><p><br /> <span>Read more at <a href="http://barbwire.com/2014/05/15/global-warming-is-increasing-biodiversity-around-the-world/#UZmRmudy1yhgTzcl.99">http://barbwire.com/2014/05/15/global-warming-is-increasing-biodiversity-around-the-world/#UZmRmudy1yhgTzcl.99</a></span></p><p><br /> <span><br /></span></p></div>Kirsten Powers: Liberals' Dark Ageshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/kirsten-powers-liberals-dark-ages2014-05-15T18:30:00.000Z2014-05-15T18:30:00.000ZLinda Hahnhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/LindaHahn<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063893466,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063893466,original{{/staticFileLink}}" title="Man Up!" class="align-center" width="392" height="512" alt="4063893466?profile=original" /></a></p><p>Welcome to the Dark Ages, Part II. We have slipped into an age of un-enlightenment where you fall in line behind the mob or face the consequences.</p><p>How ironic that the persecutors this time around are the so-called intellectuals. They claim to be liberal while behaving as anything but. The touchstone of liberalism is tolerance of differing ideas. Yet this mob exists to enforce conformity of thought and to delegitimize any dissent from its sanctioned worldview. Intolerance is its calling card.</p><p>Each week seems to bring another incident. Last week it was <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2014/05/07/hgtv-nixes-benham-brothers-series-anti-gay-extremist-abortion/8810393/" target="_blank">David and Jason Benham</a>, whose pending HGTV show was canceled after the mob unearthed old remarks the brothers made about their Christian beliefs on homosexuality. People can't have a house-flipping show unless they believe and say the "right" things in their life off the set? In this world, the <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/tom_selleck.html" target="_blank">conservative Tom Selleck</a> never would have been <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080240/" target="_blank">Magnum, P.I</a>.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><a href="http://teapartyinfo.org/polling/10101_Is_Common_Core_indoctrination_or_education_.php?promocode=tp-11220" target="_blank"><span style="color:#ff0000;">POLL: Is Common Core indoctrination or education?</span></a></strong></span></p><p>This week, a trail-blazing woman was felled in the new tradition of commencement shaming. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/12/imf-lagarde-smith-commencement/9000527/" target="_blank">withdrew from delivering the commencement speech</a> at Smith College following protests from students and faculty who hate the IMF. According to the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303851804579558390035335958?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303851804579558390035335958.html" target="_blank">Foundation for Individual Rights in Education</a>, this trend is growing. In the 21 years leading up to 2009, there were 21 incidents of an invited guest not speaking because of protests. Yet, in the past five-and-a-half years, there have been 39 cancellations.</p><p>Don't bother trying to make sense of what beliefs are permitted and which ones will get you strung up in the town square. Our ideological overlords have created a minefield of inconsistency. While criticizing Islam is intolerant, insulting Christianity is sport. <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/04/16/liberals-islam-misogyny-hirsi-ali-war-women-column/7782657/" target="_blank">Ayaan Hirsi Ali</a> is persona non grata at Brandeis University for attacking the prophet Mohammed. But Richard Dawkins <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/23651-the-god-of-the-old-testament-is-arguably-the-most" target="_blank">describes</a> the Old Testament God as "a misogynistic … sadomasochistic … malevolent bully" and the mob yawns. Bill Maher calls the same God a "<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/15/bill-maher-god-psychotic-mass-murderer-who-drowns-/" target="_blank">psychotic mass murderer</a>" and there are no boycott demands of the high-profile liberals who traffic his HBO show.</p><p>The self-serving capriciousness is crazy. In March, University of California-Santa Barbara women's studies professor Mireille Miller-Young attacked a 16-year-old holding an anti-abortion sign in the campus' "<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2014/mar/26/news/la-ol-ucsb-professor-pro-life-demonstrator-trauma-trigger-censorship-20140325" target="_blank">free speech zone</a>" (formerly known as America). Though she was charged with theft, battery and vandalism, Miller-Young remains unrepentant and <a href="http://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/academic/mireille-miller-young" target="_blank">still has her job</a>. But <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/04/mozilla-ceo-resignation-free-speech/7328759/" target="_blank">Mozilla's Brendan Eich</a> gave a private donation to an anti-gay marriage initiative six years ago and was ordered to recant his beliefs. When he wouldn't, he was forced to resign from the company he helped found.</p><p>Got that? A college educator with the right opinions can attack a high school student and keep her job. A corporate executive with the wrong opinions loses his for making a campaign donation. Something is very wrong here.</p><p>As the mob gleefully destroys people's lives, its members haven't stopped to ask themselves a basic question: What happens when they come for me? If history is any guide, that's how these things usually end.</p><p><span class="font-size-3"><strong>Read more at: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/05/14/liberal-thought-police-lagarde-hgtv-benham-free-speech-column/9098133/" target="_blank">USA Today Website</a>!!</strong></span><u><br /></u></p><p></p></div>Let's Name the Republican Progressives in Congress.https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/let-s-name-the-republican-progressives-in-congress2013-11-06T07:26:01.000Z2013-11-06T07:26:01.000ZRick A. Geislerhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/RickAGeisler<div><p>Greetings,</p><p>I know that I am jumping out on a limb here. Yet, we as true followers of the republic must bring attention to those among us that don't represent us or the republic in which it was founded. We must expose these frauds or RINOS and replace them at the ballot box. If there is a duplicate blog I apologize.</p><p>John McCain and Lindsey Graham would be an obvious start. These two guys don't have a soul. They go as the political wind blows and their ass is up to the highest bidder wherever the money comes from. Vote for anyone more conservative that runs against them. They just need to be gone. Next. </p></div>I am making it easy for you to begin the impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama!https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/i-am-making-it-easy-for-you-to-begin-the-impeachment-of-barack2013-10-12T15:46:25.000Z2013-10-12T15:46:25.000ZJames Michael Walkerhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/JamesMichaelWalker<div><p> </p><p><b><i><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063753382,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063753382,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="633" class="align-full" alt="4063753382?profile=original" /></a></i></b></p><p><b><i>In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.</i></b></p><p><b><i>The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America. </i></b></p><p><b><i>When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the <u>Laws of Nature</u> and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.</i></b></p><p>In my opinion, it is time for loyal and <u>THE</u> dedicated to freedom Americans, to re-date and update this proclamation with 50 states included. It is time to stand up to our 535 elected representative in Congress, who do not in fact represent us at all, and demand action now to rid our country of the traitor to the Constitution of the Republic of the United States that now resides in the White House. The People's White House - a fact he has not recognized to date. </p><p>I have personally sent the following resolution to the Congressional Delegations in Montana and Florida. I strongly suggest that you do the same sending the resolution to your representatives. It is "all in" and prepared by a constitutional lawyer, a real one, not the likes of Barack Hussein Obama, who is <u>NOT</u> even a lawyer.</p><p>The Resolution:</p><p>Resolution Impeaching Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.</p><p>Resolved, That Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:</p><p>Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, against Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.</p><p>Article I</p><p>In his conduct while President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has willfully corrupted and manipulated the executive branch to increase its power and destroy the balance of powers between the three branches of government that is established by the Constitution of the United States.</p><p>The means used to implement this course of conduct or scheme included one or more of the following acts:</p><p><strong>(1) </strong> Shortly after being sworn in for his first term as President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama began creating new departments and appointing Czars to oversee these departments. These Czars were never submitted to the United States Senate for approval as required by Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution. In addition, these Czars and the Departments have budgets that are not subject to being controlled by Congress as provided for by Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. He also made recess appointments when the Senate was not in recess.</p><p><strong>(2) </strong>Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution mandates that the President of the United States “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed…” Barack Hussein Obama, in violation of his oath of office has repeatedly ignored this Constitutional mandate by refusing to enforce laws against illegal immigration, defend in court the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and refusing to enforce Federal voting laws.</p><p><strong>(3) </strong>Article 1 of the Constitution establishes the legislative branch of the U.S. government and sets forth the powers of the Senate and House of Representatives to make laws. These powers are exclusive and the Constitution does not grant the President the power to either make laws or amend them on his own. Barack Hussein Obama has ignored these provisions and made or changed laws by either issuing unconstitutional executive orders or instructing governmental departments to take illegal and unconstitutional actions. Specific actions include, but are not necessarily limited to:</p><p><strong>A. </strong>Ordering the Environmental Protection Agency to implement portions of the Cap & Trade bill that failed to pass in the U.S. Senate.</p><p><strong>B. </strong>Ordering implementation of portions of the “Dream Act” that failed to pass in Congress.</p><p><strong>C. </strong>Orchestrating a government takeover of a major part of the automobile industry in 2009.</p><p><strong>D. </strong>Ordering a moratorium on new offshore oil and gas exploration and production without approval of Congress.</p><p><strong>E. </strong>Signing an Executive Order on March 16, 2012 giving himself and the Executive branch extraordinary powers to control and allocate resources such as food, water, energy and health care resources etc. in the interest of vaguely defined national defense issues. It would amount to a complete government takeover of the U.S. economy.</p><p><strong>F. </strong>Signing an Executive Order on July 6, 2012 giving himself and the Executive branch the power to control all methods of communications in the United States based on a Presidential declaration of a national emergency.</p><p><strong>G. </strong>Signing an Executive Order on January 6, 2013 that contained 23 actions designed to limit the individual right to keep and bear arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution.</p><p><strong>H. </strong>Amending portions of the Affordable Healthcare Act and other laws passed by Congress without Congressional approval as required by Article 1 of the Constitution.</p><p>Article II</p><p><strong>(1) </strong>Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution mandates that from time to time the President “shall give to Congress information on the State of the Union….” Implicit in this is an obligation for the President to be truthful with the Congress and the American people. Barack Hussein Obama has repeatedly violated his oath of office and the requirements of the Constitution by willfully withholding information on important issues or actively taken part in misleading the Congress and the American people. Specific actions include, but are not necessarily limited to:</p><p><strong>A. </strong>Using Executive privilege to block Congress from getting documents relating to the DOJ’s Operation Fast and Furious and the death of U.S. Border Patrol Brian Terry.</p><p><strong>B. </strong>Had members of his administration provide false information about the act of terrorism committed in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012 and refusing to allow the State Department and other federal agencies to cooperate in the Congressional investigation.</p><p><strong>C. </strong>Falsely labeled the mass murder of American soldiers at Ft. Hood, Texas as “workplace violence” instead of the act of Islamic terrorism it was.</p><p><strong>D. </strong>Falsely labeling the IRS targeting of conservative and Christian groups as a “phony” scandal and refusing to order an active pursuit of the investigation into who was ultimately responsible.</p><p><strong>E. </strong>Refusing to order an independent investigation of the actions of Eric Holder and the DOJ in targeting the phone records of members of the news media.</p><p><strong>F. </strong>Telling the American people on a television show that the NSA was not prying into the emails and phone calls of Americans when the facts prove otherwise</p><p><strong>(2) </strong>The oath of office of the President of the United States requires him to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. This obviously includes what may be the most important part of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. Barack Hussein Obama has repeatedly violated his oath of office by seeking to limit both the individual rights and the rights of the States guaranteed in the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Specific actions include, but are not necessarily limited to:</p><p><strong>A. </strong> Having the Department of Health and Human Services order religious institutions and businesses owned by religious families to provide their employees free contraception and other services that are contrary to their religious beliefs. This is being done under the auspices of the Affordable Health Care Act and violates the religious freedom clauses of the First Amendment. <strong> </strong></p><p><strong>B. </strong>Having the military place restrictions on the religious freedom of Chaplains and other members of the military in order to favor gay rights advocates and atheists in violation of the First Amendment.</p><p><strong>C. </strong> Having the military place restrictions on the freedom of speech of members of the military and the civilian employees of the DOD in violation of their rights under the First Amendment.</p><p><strong>D. </strong> Using Executive orders and government agency actions to limit Second Amendment rights. This includes actions by the Veterans Administration to disarm American veterans without due process as required by the Fifth Amendment.</p><p><strong>E. </strong>Having the National Security Agency intercept and monitor the private communications of millions of Americans without a court order and in violation of the Fourth Amendment.</p><p><strong>F. </strong> Joining with foreign governments in lawsuits against sovereign U.S. states to prohibit them from enforcing immigration laws. This is in violation of the Tenth Amendment.</p><p><strong>G. </strong> Filing suits under the Voting Rights Act against sovereign U.S. states to prevent them from enforcing Voter ID laws despite rulings by the Supreme Court upholding these laws. This is another violation of the Tenth Amendment and the balance of powers.</p><p><strong>(3) </strong>Under Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution the President of the United States is the Commander in Chief of the United States military and as such is responsible for using them in a manner that best serves the national security of the United States and protects our soldiers from unnecessary risks and harm. Barack Hussein Obama has violated his oath of office in this regard. Specific actions include, but are not necessarily limited to:</p><p><strong>A. </strong>In the name of “political correctness,” he imposed unnecessary and dangerous rules of engagement on our troops in combat causing them to lose offensive and defensive capabilities and putting them in danger. Many American service personnel have been killed or wounded as a result of this policy.</p><p><strong>B. </strong>Releasing the identity of American military personnel and units engaged in dangerous and secret operations such as the killing of Osama bin Laden by Navy Seal team 6.</p><p><strong>C. </strong>Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the exclusive power to declare war. Yet, without consulting Congress President Obama ordered the American military into action in Libya.</p><p>In all of this, Barack Hussein Obama has undermined the integrity of his office, has brought disrepute on the Presidency, has betrayed his trust as President and has acted in a manner subversive of the rule of law and justice, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.</p><p>Wherefore, Barack Hussein Obama, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.</p><div align="center"><hr size="0" width="100%" noshade="noshade" align="center" /></div><p>This resolution was prepared by Michael Connelly, Constitutional Attorney, a U.S. Army veteran, Executive Director of the United States Justice Foundation, and a published author, freelance writer, and teacher. </p><p>IT IS SELF-EVIDENT THAT THE 535 INCOMPETENT SLUDGE IN CONGRESS WILL NOT DO WHAT'S RIGHT AND IMPEACH BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IF WE THE PEOPLE DO NO STEP UP AND DEMAND THAT THEY DO UNDER THE PENALTY OF REMOVAL OF EACH OF THEM SUMMARILY!</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063753452,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063753452,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="4063753452?profile=original" /></a></p><p><a>JimWalkerWhitefishMontana@gmail.com</a></p><p><a>PonteVedraMan@yahoo.com</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/PonteVedraMan">https://twitter.com/PonteVedraMan</a></p><p><a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/contributor/pages/82/063/bio.html">http://beforeitsnews.com/contributor/pages/82/063/bio.html</a></p><p><a href="http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/556425/jim-walker">http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/556425/jim-walker</a></p><p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/JimMWalker">http://www.facebook.com/JimMWalker</a></p></div>Marriage is a Covenant for Three. Who is the Third Party?[1]https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/marriage-is-a-covenant-for-three-who-is-the-third-party-12013-06-29T16:01:49.000Z2013-06-29T16:01:49.000ZGerald V. Toddhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/GeraldVTodd<div><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The married man and woman, committed in covenant to one another, is the basis of society. All other relationships are dependent on the solidity of the marriages society is composed of.</p><p class="MsoNormal">In the marriage relationship, the man tends to be the reasoning, logical and physically strong protector. The woman tends to be spiritual, intuitive, pictorial and nurturing. These are the complementary traits of each. Both can and do exercise the full range of traits. In creating us male and female in His image and likeness, He allowed for a means to be individually fulfilled through the exercise of their diverse gifts and talents (See Proverbs 31:10-31 for a surprising depiction of the ideal marriage).</p><p class="MsoNormal">Love requires an object. The object is the beloved and the beloved's love for her lover. When we marvel at being made in God's image and likeness, it is most profound in the best understanding we have of his Triune Nature. So, too, is the relationship between husband and wife, and how we were made as male and female. The third element is the power of the love between husband and wife. It is awesome as the power of the Holy Spirit. Both create, nurture and guide the fruits of their love for the greater glory of God and the wholeness of the human family. From that basis, all other relationships and adventures have their justification, or their condemnation.</p><p class="MsoNormal">A covenant man will love his wife as Scripture commands. A covenant woman will honor her husband as Scripture commands. With the power of love, they are the full and childlike image and likeness of the Triune God, worthy of honor and praise from those they serve and the children they nurture. (Childlikeness = Key to the Kingdom of Heaven) Many marriages fail today, because one or both partners no longer "feel” anything. A covenant is a lifelong commitment to perform as promised. Love has nothing to do with feeling.</p><p class="MsoNormal">In a non-contraceptive union, the couple share enzymes in the fluids involved in coitus that create a bond of responsibility (covenant) so necessary for the proper raising of children (Perhaps a touch of natural law?). Could the blocking of this “mixing” by contraception reduce this natural bonding be a big reason for divorce and single mothers today? The world always creates a problem – the devil may care contraceptive and abortion society - and then blames the victims while covering society’s sins with blood money.</p><p class="MsoNormal">With so many abandoned children, it is a noble act for people to adopt or foster a child or a house full. Sadly, government interference and the militancy of the so-called “gay” movement has made it difficult for co-habiting folks to take in a child without making demands that destroy the entire child adoption and care structure. <span> </span>A gay or unmarried pair has a greater responsibility to recognize their role in parenting is to lead a child back to the way he was created for the glory of God – male and female and their covenant with God. They may also learn how to adjust their own obsessions.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The image of God is perfect. The Word is perfect, there is nothing held back. So, the Father, begetter has an unconditional self-donation. The Word therefore receives everything from the Father and is one with the Father, as we would hear Jesus later teaching us, "<b><i>The Father and I are one."</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">This is an eternal embrace, an eternal kiss, and an eternal union from which proceed the Lord and giver of life forever. God's <b>unconditional love</b> has, on one side, <b><i>"eternal transmission of life."</i></b> God's <b>eternal life</b> has, on the flip side, <b><i>"unconditional love"</i>.</b> Love and Life, the two are totally inseparable.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The only way you can give yourself in this total, radical sense, in this image of God, is to that which is able to actually reproduce yourself. That involves the wonderful mystery of the fountain of life. The mutual reproductive gift of a man to a woman and a woman to a man is the fountain of life, the self-ability to reproduce.</p><p class="MsoNormal">To give self, therefore, means that in unconditional self-donation of the husband and wife in that which is called conjugal relations, means that these powers of self-donation will always be present, even if the couple proves to be barren.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The extension of this divine image of God in marriage; the interrelationship of a man and a woman in marriage has to be unitive and therefore pro-creative. "Unconditional love" translates into unitive and "Lord and giver of life" translates into pro-creative. The two qualities of conjugal relationship therefore are meant to be based on the beginning of God's eternal being.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Marriage is a way to learn how to live in God in such a way that when we end this life, we will be ready to enter into God's eternal love and eternal life, because that which we lived on earth, we are ready now to do forever where “eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man the things our Heavenly Father has prepared for those who love him.”</p><p class="MsoNormal">We also must face the reality of Satan, who spoils the genetic code. He wants to change the words unconditional love into mutual exploitation, into conditional love. That changes love into increasing degrees of hatred or hostility. He wants to change the word life into contraception. He wants to halt the transmission of life into the blocking of the transmission of life. He doesn’t tell you overpopulation is the result of fear, stress for survival because of despotic government, not love or even lust. Despots and "progressives" then cover their sins with (borrowed) blood money.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>God only intended to make the relationship between man and woman to be the way to heaven. We also have the opportunity to make it a path to hell. Such is the way of our free will and the presence of evil to overcome. May we again get back to the beginning as we were made in the image and likeness of God, for his eternal life and eternal love?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:left;" align="left"><i><span>Gerald V. Todd is married to the former Joanne Dean since January 30, 1960. They have three adopted children born in 1963, 65 and 69, with 8 grandchildren.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span><span style="text-decoration:none;"> </span></span></u></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in;"><a href="#_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a> Based largely on a talk by Fr. Philip Pavich, then Associate Pastor of St. James Church, Medugorje, Bosnia – August 1990 This chapter from my MSS “The Reign of Innocence” contains over 5,300 words.. 1,000 words is enough for anybody!</p></div></div></div>Marriage is a Covenant for Three. Who is the Third Party?[1]https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/marriage-is-a-covenant-for-three-who-is-the-third-party-1-12013-06-29T16:01:49.000Z2013-06-29T16:01:49.000ZGerald V. Toddhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/GeraldVTodd<div><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The married man and woman, committed in covenant to one another, is the basis of society. All other relationships are dependent on the solidity of the marriages society is composed of.</p><p class="MsoNormal">In the marriage relationship, the man tends to be the reasoning, logical and physically strong protector. The woman tends to be spiritual, intuitive, pictorial and nurturing. These are the complementary traits of each. Both can and do exercise the full range of traits. In creating us male and female in His image and likeness, He allowed for a means to be individually fulfilled through the exercise of their diverse gifts and talents (See Proverbs 31:10-31 for a surprising depiction of the ideal marriage).</p><p class="MsoNormal">Love requires an object. The object is the beloved and the beloved's love for her lover. When we marvel at being made in God's image and likeness, it is most profound in the best understanding we have of his Triune Nature. So, too, is the relationship between husband and wife, and how we were made as male and female. The third element is the power of the love between husband and wife. It is awesome as the power of the Holy Spirit. Both create, nurture and guide the fruits of their love for the greater glory of God and the wholeness of the human family. From that basis, all other relationships and adventures have their justification, or their condemnation.</p><p class="MsoNormal">A covenant man will love his wife as Scripture commands. A covenant woman will honor her husband as Scripture commands. With the power of love, they are the full and childlike image and likeness of the Triune God, worthy of honor and praise from those they serve and the children they nurture. (Childlikeness = Key to the Kingdom of Heaven) Many marriages fail today, because one or both partners no longer "feel” anything. A covenant is a lifelong commitment to perform as promised. Love has nothing to do with feeling.</p><p class="MsoNormal">In a non-contraceptive union, the couple share enzymes in the fluids involved in coitus that create a bond of responsibility (covenant) so necessary for the proper raising of children (Perhaps a touch of natural law?). Could the blocking of this “mixing” by contraception reduce this natural bonding be a big reason for divorce and single mothers today? The world always creates a problem – the devil may care contraceptive and abortion society - and then blames the victims while covering society’s sins with blood money.</p><p class="MsoNormal">With so many abandoned children, it is a noble act for people to adopt or foster a child or a house full. Sadly, government interference and the militancy of the so-called “gay” movement has made it difficult for co-habiting folks to take in a child without making demands that destroy the entire child adoption and care structure. <span> </span>A gay or unmarried pair has a greater responsibility to recognize their role in parenting is to lead a child back to the way he was created for the glory of God – male and female and their covenant with God. They may also learn how to adjust their own obsessions.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The image of God is perfect. The Word is perfect, there is nothing held back. So, the Father, begetter has an unconditional self-donation. The Word therefore receives everything from the Father and is one with the Father, as we would hear Jesus later teaching us, "<b><i>The Father and I are one."</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">This is an eternal embrace, an eternal kiss, and an eternal union from which proceed the Lord and giver of life forever. God's <b>unconditional love</b> has, on one side, <b><i>"eternal transmission of life."</i></b> God's <b>eternal life</b> has, on the flip side, <b><i>"unconditional love"</i>.</b> Love and Life, the two are totally inseparable.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The only way you can give yourself in this total, radical sense, in this image of God, is to that which is able to actually reproduce yourself. That involves the wonderful mystery of the fountain of life. The mutual reproductive gift of a man to a woman and a woman to a man is the fountain of life, the self-ability to reproduce.</p><p class="MsoNormal">To give self, therefore, means that in unconditional self-donation of the husband and wife in that which is called conjugal relations, means that these powers of self-donation will always be present, even if the couple proves to be barren.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The extension of this divine image of God in marriage; the interrelationship of a man and a woman in marriage has to be unitive and therefore pro-creative. "Unconditional love" translates into unitive and "Lord and giver of life" translates into pro-creative. The two qualities of conjugal relationship therefore are meant to be based on the beginning of God's eternal being.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Marriage is a way to learn how to live in God in such a way that when we end this life, we will be ready to enter into God's eternal love and eternal life, because that which we lived on earth, we are ready now to do forever where “eye has not seen, ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man the things our Heavenly Father has prepared for those who love him.”</p><p class="MsoNormal">We also must face the reality of Satan, who spoils the genetic code. He wants to change the words unconditional love into mutual exploitation, into conditional love. That changes love into increasing degrees of hatred or hostility. He wants to change the word life into contraception. He wants to halt the transmission of life into the blocking of the transmission of life. He doesn’t tell you overpopulation is the result of fear, stress for survival because of despotic government, not love or even lust. Despots and "progressives" then cover their sins with (borrowed) blood money.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>God only intended to make the relationship between man and woman to be the way to heaven. We also have the opportunity to make it a path to hell. Such is the way of our free will and the presence of evil to overcome. May we again get back to the beginning as we were made in the image and likeness of God, for his eternal life and eternal love?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:left;" align="left"><i><span>Gerald V. Todd is married to the former Joanne Dean since January 30, 1960. They have three adopted children born in 1963, 65 and 69, with 8 grandchildren.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span><span style="text-decoration:none;"> </span></span></u></p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div id="ftn1"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:0in;"><a href="#_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a> Based largely on a talk by Fr. Philip Pavich, then Associate Pastor of St. James Church, Medugorje, Bosnia – August 1990 This chapter from my MSS “The Reign of Innocence” contains over 5,300 words.. 1,000 words is enough for anybody!</p></div></div></div>"progressives" in American Politicshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/progressives-in-american-politics2013-05-08T16:36:42.000Z2013-05-08T16:36:42.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693645,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="150" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693645,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063693645?profile=original" /></a>While “progressives” have existed in both major American political Parties for over a century, in recent years "progressives" have consumed the Democratic Party’s structural hierarchy while simultaneously increasingly insinuating themselves into the ranks of Republican Party leadership. This has led to a blurring in the minds of the American voter of the distinction between the two. Combine that blurred distinction with the growing reality that members of both Parties are increasingly interested in keeping their own powerful positions, replete with benefits comparable to royalty, and it becomes dangerously less possible to distinguish between them.</p><p>When Republicans sound and act like Democrat-light and Democrats hijack the rhetoric of and abduct issues from the Republican Party, how can the voter reasonably expect to decipher the difference?</p><p>The American political system has been corrupted by self-interested career politicians far more interested in their own political survival and the accompanying feeding from the public trough than they are in looking out for the interests of the American voter.</p><p>Americans need to realize that the Republican versus Democrat political paradigm, if not dead, is on failing life support.</p><p>Being a Republican no longer consistently means standing for constitutionally limited affordable <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693762,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="150" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693762,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063693762?profile=original" /></a>government, lower taxes and a free market <a href="http://mjfellright.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/the_unified_democrat_republican_platform-460x307.png"></a>capitalist economic system. Today’s Democratic Party is definitely not the Party of John F. Kennedy. The Party of “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” has become the Party of steal from the productive and control the redistribution of that wealth to a government dependent class which cries out “give us more free stuff.” In the interest of getting themselves re-elected, members of both political Parties have moved in the direction of giving away “free stuff,” be it in the form of Welfare and Food Stamps to the inner city poor or in the form of subsidies and tax breaks for special interest groups eager to be on the receiving end of crony capitalism.</p><p>In the twenty first century, the contemporary political paradigm in America is no longer Republican versus Democrat. It is Americans versus "progressives."</p><p>If you are a "progressive" you are not an American, and if you're an American you will never be a "progressive."</p><p>Upon what foundation can such an assertion be made?</p><p>Today, the political philosophical divide in the United States lies between the intent of America’s Founding Fathers and the intent of “progressives”, who favor the Marxist view. The Marxist view is directly, fundamentally and diametrically opposed to the uniquely American view.</p><p>America is the birthplace of freedoms that allows everyone the right to own private property.</p><p>How would Americans react if, after years of struggle to make their mortgage payments, they finally owned their own home, then, what they thought was an American government “informed” them that their home did not belong to them after all, it belonged to “all of the people” and Americans had to follow government mandates to allow strangers to live on their property and in the home they had long labored to purchase…whether they liked it or not?</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/declaration-of-independence.jpg"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693675,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="150" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693675,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063693675?profile=original" /></a>The American idea, the shot heard round the world, is that the people can govern themselves. By the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God Americans are entitled, by virtue of their humanity, to the maximum amount of Individual Liberties consistent with law and order, and to the Right of private ownership, not the least of which is the Right to own and decide for themselves. Where to live, what to do for a living, what to eat, where their children will go to school, what motor vehicle they will drive, what healthcare plan and which doctors work best for them. These Liberties and Rights are to be equally protected by a constitutionally limited, representative government that derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.</p><p>America’s Founding Fathers declared that all men are created equal; that in effect, all men are kings, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They believed that a self-governing people could thrive without the “benefit” of having an oligarchy ruling over them.</p><p>A system which allowed “common people” to own property without first obtaining permission from a <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693724,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="150" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693724,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063693724?profile=original" /></a>“divinely ordained” ruler - the American <a href="http://mjfellright.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/us-constitution.jpg"></a>system - was a radical departure from centuries old norms. As originally designed by its Founding Fathers, America was a place where anyone could come, work hard, earn money, save those earnings, purchase property and elevate themselves and their posterity to a level that had hitherto been unattainable where individuals remained shackled by the constraints of older political systems. America was the place where undue government interference did not prevent individual achievement.</p><p>The “progressive” idea is that an all-powerful centrally planned government, with extreme hostility towards private ownership, forces redistribution of wealth in the name of social or economic “justice”. In order to ensure “fairness”, an oligarchy of self-imagined, self-appointed “intellectual elites” will control businesses, industries and people who are incapable of governing themselves.</p><p>These “progressive” ideas are European in origin, not American.</p><p>By fleeing Europe, America’s settlers rejected Europe’s failed ideas in pursuit of a better future. A future where their dreams and ambitions were no longer restricted by the outmoded constraints imposed upon them by the European socio-economic class structure.</p><p>For over two centuries America has been an unprecedented success where a five thousand year leap was possible. Since its birth America has been a beacon to freedom seeking people because the American idea is the better idea.</p><p>Among Americans there is no debate that the United States of America is by far the most inventive, productive, prosperous and charitable nation in the history of the planet. Among “progressives,” America is populated by backwards thinking, greedy, evil bigots who need to be “enlightened” and shown the error of their ways by their “progressive” superiors.</p><p>There has yet to be put forth one rational, logical argument to support abandoning the highly successful American idea in favor of European ideas that are currently failing in Europe itself.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/progressives-in-american-politics/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/progressives-in-american-politics/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=110_1_1_12" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" border="0" alt="Love. Early American Style." src="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/banners/love.jpg" width="412" height="113" /></a></p></div>"progressives" in The Mediahttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/progressives-in-the-media2013-05-06T21:30:00.000Z2013-05-06T21:30:00.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693180,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693180,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063693180?profile=original" /></a>The <a href="http://mjfellright.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/edward-r-murrow.jpg"></a>American mainstream media has long been sympathetic to the “progressive” cause. For decades they have made subliminal editorial decisions regarding their reportage in favor of “progressive” concepts and candidates. They, along with teachers, professors, Hollywood producers, screenplay writers and actors have slowly, carefully but consistently nudged American thought farther to the left.</p><p>Case in point: Edward R. Murrow, who was a member of the John F. Kennedy <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693097,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693097,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063693097?profile=original" /></a>administration and later awarded the Medal of Freedom by Lyndon B. Johnson. Murrow is best remembered for TV news reports that led to the censure of a pro-America Senator Joseph McCarthy. The memory of Murrow is championed by “progressive” outlets such as <a href="http://mjfellright.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/brian-williams.jpg"></a>Newsweek Magazine and NPR. The “progressive" former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann considers Murrow his idol. Members of today’s “progressive” media and “progressive” academia view Murrow's name as synonymous with journalistic excellence.</p><p>By the year 2008, once the nomination of Barack Hussein Obama as the "progressive" Democratic Party’s candidate for president was secured, the "progressive" Party Pravda, also known as the American mainstream media, moved beyond the subliminal (and sometimes not so subliminal) bias they had manifested for decades and entered the realm of advocacy.</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693193,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693193,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="125" alt="4063693193?profile=original" /></a>Make that "progressive" advocacy.</p><p>Media bias against Conservatives and in favor of “progressive” concepts and candidates is nothing new. Look at what they did to Joseph Mc<a href="http://mjfellright.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/chris_matthews.jpg"></a>Carthy, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Dan Quayle and Andrew Breitbart.</p><p>However, in today’s world their tactics have exceeded bias and grotesquely mutated into deifying "progressivism" while vilifying Conservatism. Look at what they have done for Barack Hussein Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Chuck Schumer, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. Look at what they have done and are doing to Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Allen West, Mia Love, Tim Scott, Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz and Benjamin Carson.</p><p>At each and every available opportunity, the “progressive” Party Pravda has eagerly jumped to wrongly <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693215,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693215,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063693215?profile=original" /></a>suggest that every violent public occurrence was likely committed by a potentially dangerous, Conservative right wing Tea Party extremist type. For example, take the cold-blooded Gabby Giffords shooting, the tragic Newtown Connecticut murders and the Boston Marathon Islamo-fascist terrorist bombing.<a href="http://mjfellright.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/george-stephanopoulos.jpg"></a></p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693255,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693255,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063693255?profile=original" /></a>Meanwhile, what did the “progressive” Party Pravda do to truthfully report what happened in Benghazi, Libya on 9/11/2012, when four Americans were left to die? Did they level with America and disclose that the Obama administration was involved in a massive presidential election year cover-up or did they knowingly and willfully repeat White House talking points in order to aid and abet Obama’s re-election? How about the Department of Justice’s ill-advised, ill-fated Fast and Furious gun running operation which intentionally put semi-automatic weapons into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, where those weapons were involved in the slaughter of hundreds of Mexican civilians and a U.S. Border Agent? Do Americans know the real une<a href="http://mjfellright.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/katie-couric.jpg"></a>mployment numbers and why the reported numbers are artificially low? How many Americans know that the U.S. Senate, under the so-called leadership of “progressive” Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) consciously neglected to pass a budget in four years? Do they know about the gruesomely bloody late term abortion/murder trial in Pennsylvania of Kermit Gosnell? What do they know about the death toll in Syria’s ongoing civil war?</p><p>The "progressive" Party Pravda is government controlled media telling the American public what <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693278,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063693278,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063693278?profile=original" /></a>"progressive" politicians want them to think, want them to focus on and where their attention should be directed.</p><p>Trusting information disseminated by the “progressive” Party Pravda is a fool’s errand. They are not to be trusted. They are hiding the truth about America’s political system, the federal government’s centrally planned “progressive” controlled academic agenda, the <a href="http://mjfellright.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/wolf-blitzer.jpg"></a>degenerative nature of American popular culture, and intentionally misleading the public about events, facts, figures and the importance of adhering to and restoring America’s exceptional values and historic traditions.</p><p>Thanks largely to the “progressive” Party Pravda’s reinforcing wrong headed ideas being infused into the minds of the voting public by academia and pop culture, Americans are seemingly unaware of the shift in America’s political dynamics. They are oblivious to the swing away from the now obsolete century plus old Republican versus Democrat political paradigm.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/progressives-in-the-media/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/progressives-in-the-media/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=110_1_1_6" target="_blank"><img style="width:207px;height:160px;" class="aligncenter" border="0" alt="Watch Episode 1 for free" src="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/banners/free_episode3.gif" width="300" height="228" /></a></p></div>"progressive" Originshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/progressive-origins2013-05-05T03:11:42.000Z2013-05-05T03:11:42.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p><a href="http://mjfellright.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/teddy-roosevelt-laugh-350x233.jpg"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063691391,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063691391,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063691391?profile=original" /></a>The "progressive" movement in America first appeared during the late 19th century in response to so called “robber barons" such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan. The “progressives” saw what to them was unbridled capitalism being practiced by these men and deemed it to be injurious to the well-being of the masses. Early "progressives" included Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.</p><p>Teddy Roosevelt and Howard Taft were Republicans. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt were Democrats.<a href="http://mjfellright.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/taft.jpg"></a></p><p>The American "progressive" movement leaned heavily upon and was greatly influenced by the Fabian <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063691447,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063691447,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063691447?profile=original" /></a>Socialist Society in England. The Fabian Socialists contribution to the "progressive" movement was the idea that their goals could be achieved most successfully if their society worked to re-mold the world nearer to their heart’s desire gradually, using tactics of harassment and attrition, and striking full force only when their moment was at hand. This strategy was employed by their namesake, the Roman general Fabius Maximus, who used it in combat against the superior military forces of Hannibal and the Carthaginians.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/woodrowwilson.jpg"></a>This strategy, also known as gradual inevitability, has been one of the cornerstones of the “progressive” movement in America. Instead of attempting to over-reach for their long term goal to subjugate the American public in one fell swoop, thereby ensuring that the electorate of a country founded upon the pillars of freedom and liberty would roundly and soundly reject their ideas, they decided to take on a seemingly insurmountable task in small steps that were both more easily hidden and more easily digested by the Republic.</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063691513,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063691513,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063691513?profile=original" /></a>The federal income tax began in 1913, courtesy of “progressives” William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson. Thanks to the unyielding activism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who browbeat the United States Supreme Court into accepting his legislation against their better judgment, Social Security was launched in 1935. Medicare and Medicaid came into being in the year 1965 courtesy of Lyndon Baines Johnson and his Great Society agenda. Thanks to the concerted efforts of numerous “progressives” in both houses of Congress, who reached secretive backroom deal in the dead of night, twisted arms and employed the parliamentary procedure known as reconciliation in the Senate, they, along with the Barack Hussein Obama White House were able to pass "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," commonly known as Obamacare, which was signed into law in 2010.</p><p>This is an accurate description of a gradual “progression” toward the inevitable goal of an expanded government taking increasing control over the lives of individuals.</p><p>The next powerful influence on the “progressive” movement in America was the Frankfurt School.<a href="http://mjfellright.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/franklin-delano-roosevelt.jpg"></a></p><p>The Frankfurt School was an openly Communist group formed in 1923 during the pre-Nazi Germany <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063691471,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063691471,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063691471?profile=original" /></a>Weimar Republic. After Adolph Hitler came to power in 1933 the Frankfurt School knew that if they stayed in Germany Hitler would kill them for being Communists. They then fled Germany to escape that fate and were welcomed into the United States by "progressive" President Franklin D. Roosevelt.</p><p>From the Frankfurt school, "progressives" in America assimilated the concepts of cultural Marxism, critical theory and political correctness. Cultural Marxism, critical theory and political correctness were the driving force behind the 1960s cultural-revolution in the United States.</p><p>Cultural Marxism is an offshoot of Marxism that maintains that human behavior results from culture, instead of heredity or race. Cultural Marxists promoted the idea of racially organizing non-whites in concert while asserting that for white people, race does not exist. Cultural Marxists promoted the impairment of white people, race-based affirmative action, globalization, coded speech, censorship, diversity, anti-Western education, dysfunctional sexual norms, the mass immigration of Third World populations into Western countries, multiculturalism over a nation rooted in common ancestry, and elevating non-Western religions above Western religions. Cultural Marxism advocates the idea that whites, instead of giving birth to white babies, should marry interracially or adopt non-white children.</p><p>Critical Theory is destructive criticism of the main elements of Western culture: Christianity, morality, capitalism, conservatism, authority, family, patriarchy, hierarchy, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism and convention.</p><p>Political correctness was and remains another key element. The basis of political correctness is: when addressing the general public, present your beliefs attractively. It’s a matter of being “sensitive” to other people. Use words such as “tolerance” and “diversity,” asking: “Why can’t we all just get along?”</p><p>Political correctness in the USA was championed by Herbert Marcuse. Marcuse became one of the main gurus of the 1960s adolescent sexual revolution. He was the one who coined the expression “make love, not war.”</p><p>By using the Fabian Socialist strategy of gradual inevitability in combination with the tactics of cultural Marxism, critical theory and political correctness, “progressives” in America discovered a prescription with which to lethally poison America’s political system, academic atmosphere, mass media information delivery infra-structure and popular culture while attacking America’s exceptional values and long standing traditions.</p><p><a href="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=110_3_1_16" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" border="0" alt="Revolution is coming." src="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/banners/revolution_is_coming.jpg" width="341" height="155" /></a></p></div>The "progressive"https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/the-progressive2013-05-03T23:14:58.000Z2013-05-03T23:14:58.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p>The “progressive” does not care about Americans.<a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063691302,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="250" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063691302,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063691302?profile=original" /></a><a href="http://mjfellright.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/we-the-progressives.jpg"></a></p><p>They do not care about the dim bulb, buck toothed flyover American’s life. They do not care about the Liberties of slope headed inferiors who bitterly cling to their Bibles and guns. Nor are “progressives” concerned with how Neanderthal hayseeds define the pursuit of happiness.</p><p>What “progressives” care about is ruling over the people who populate a country called the United States of America.</p><p>Note: ruling over, not governing.</p><p>The underlying, unflinching, insistent “progressive” belief is that Americans unknowingly adhere to a fatally flawed, unjust, reprehensible system of government that must be replaced by one envisioned by the superior intellect embodied within the “progressive” mind.</p><p>To their bone marrow the “progressive” believes that the American free market capitalist system is patently unfair to the masses. Most do not enjoy the privileges of those who rise to the top. The disparity of income distribution is “unfair” and must be rectified through “progressive” economic reform. In the mind’s eye of a “progressive, the key to a more equitable system lies in “progressive” taxation upon those who succeed, and a redistribution of their wealth to those who have been “less fortunate.”</p><p>The success of such a scheme depends upon the existence of a government big enough and strong enough to take what it wants from the successful and give it to “the needy.” The flaw in the system that “progressives” never explain to “the needy” is that a government big enough to give them everything they need is also big enough to take it away from them…especially if that government is big enough and powerful enough to force the successful, who achieved their status through hard work, discipline, intelligence, resourcefulness and adaptability to surrender their wealth to the collective.</p><p>To the “progressive” mind, the United States Constitution is an outdated document written by selfish, rich, white slave holders that has long since outlived its usefulness. It is beyond repair. The only solution to such a predicament is to “progress” beyond the Constitution.</p><p>Of course, it matters not to “progressives” that the U.S. Constitution, as written by America’s founders, is completely capable of revisiting issues that remained unresolved at the time of its ratification by the original thirteen states. Any child enrolled in a halfway decent political science class knows that the Constitution has been amended twenty seven times.</p><p>The “progressive” political modus operandi is: The ends justify the means.</p><p>There is nothing Liberal about “progressives.” Were the great William F. Buckley Jr. alive today, it is not hard to imagine that his famous quote: “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views” might well have been assigned to those who now label themselves as “progressives.”</p><p>This is the danger America is facing in the twenty first century. To say it is an existential threat is neither hyperbole nor fabrication.</p><p>Those who once described themselves as Liberals, have deliberately chosen to openly pattern their political ambitions and behaviors after the political ambitions and behaviors practiced by early twentieth century “progressives.”</p><p><a href="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=110_3_1_18" target="_blank"><img style="width:244px;height:150px;" border="0" alt="Join the Revolution" src="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/banners/join_watch.jpg" width="311" height="189" /></a></p></div>Illogical Extremism of the lefthttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/illogical-extremism-of-the-left2013-01-19T02:12:06.000Z2013-01-19T02:12:06.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p>Recent events prove beyond reasonable doubt that members of the institutionalized "progressive" left are more than enthusiastic about attacking guns and gun owners. True to their Alinsky roots, they are ready, willing and eager to demonize gun owners and Second Amendment proponents by disparagingly using the <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063653262,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="250" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063653262,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063653262?profile=original" /></a>term "gun lobby" to describe them. It is no secret that they are openly hostile to the Constitutionally protected Right of Americans to keep and bear arms.</p><p>They are also primed and ready when it comes to attacking Capitalism. "progressives" persistently promote the notions that guns kill people and that Capitalism is inherently greedy and corrupt.</p><p>By applying this illogic to other situations, it would be required to conclude that computers keyboards are responsible for misspelled words and silverware causes obesity in America.</p><p>It would be quite entertaining to hear a "progressive" attempt to relay, in minute detail, the sequence of events on that monumental day when an unattended gun jumped up all by itself and shot an innocent child.</p><p>It would be equally fascinating to hear a "progressive" convey exactly how an economic system, without the benefit of human involvement, engaged in illicit price gouging, ponzi schemes or criminal quid quo pro transactions.</p><p>The fact of the matter is, the way a gun shoots anything is by a human being picking it up, aiming it and pulling the trigger. The problem is not the gun, it is with the killer behind the gun.</p><p>In similar fashion, the only way any economic delivery system leads to unlawful behavior is through the involvement of the criminal mind.</p><p>The answers are not found in gun control or ending Capitalism. The answer is to catch the perpetrators of the crimes and lock them away from society.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/illogical-extremism-of-the-left/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/illogical-extremism-of-the-left/</a> </p><p><a href="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=110_4_1_17" target="_blank"><img style="width:237px;height:148px;" border="0" alt="Give the Gift of Courage" src="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/banners/gift_set.jpg" width="256" height="161" /></a></p></div>“progressive” Gun Controlhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/progressive-gun-control2013-01-16T22:53:19.000Z2013-01-16T22:53:19.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p>The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is about the Right of the American people to prevent the <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063652269,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="250" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063652269,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063652269?profile=original" /></a>likes of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Diane Feinstein, Andrew Cuomo et al from obtaining unrestrained power.</p><p>It is about the power of the people to prevent their being rounded up and put in gulags and/or concentration camps.</p><p>The American people are not demanding gun control. NRA membership has increased by a quarter of a million in the past month.</p><p>The American people are demanding that the tyrannical government of Barack Hussein Obama and his “progressive” co-conspirators back away from their ongoing assault on the God given Rights protected by the United States Constitution.</p><p>A “progressive” government tyrannical enough to empower the Attorney General of the United States of America to put automatic weapons in the hands of Mexican drug cartels so discovering those guns at the scene of Mexican crimes would justify gun control in the United States is fully capable of the most egregious actions imaginable. There is a high probability that the recent outbreak of mass shootings have been tactically planned and carried out as part of the long term “progressive” strategy to disarm Americans. </p><p>Gun control advocates repeatedly ask questions like: “Why should ordinary people be allowed to own semi-automatic weapons?” “Ordinary people” are the people referred to in the preamble of the U.S. Constitution as We the People. We the People are not “allowed” to own semi-automatic weapons. It is the Right of the people to keep and bear arms; a Right that “shall not be infringed.”</p><p>For a tyrannical “progressive” government, which possesses the most deadly weapons in the history of human civilization to dictate that We the People cannot own the weapons necessary to prevent that very same tyrannical “progressive” government from imposing the will of an oligarchy of self-imagined, self-appointed intellectual elites upon an opposing population is as much proof of out of control un-restrained government power any Patriotic American needs to say NO.</p><p>Not one step further.</p><p>Not the passage of one more unread bill. Not one more day without a budget. Not one more borrowed dollar spent on “progressive” big government socialist programs.</p><p>Stop it. Stop it now.</p><p>You have been warned.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/progressive-gun-control/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/progressive-gun-control/</a></p><p> <a href="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=110_3_1_16" target="_blank"><img style="width:262px;height:119px;" border="0" alt="Revolution is coming." src="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/banners/revolution_is_coming.jpg" width="438" height="201" /></a></p></div>Tea Party-Unitehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/tea-party-unite2012-12-06T01:25:38.000Z2012-12-06T01:25:38.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063617606,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="250" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063617606,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063617606?profile=original" /></a>With the re-election of Barack Obama and the continuation of Harry Reid's reign of terror in the U.S. Senate, these are dark times for America.</p><p>For America to survive, Americans must save it. Expressions to the contrary notwithstanding, Americans reside within the Tea Party.</p><p>Members of the Tea Party must stop their infighting turf wars if they ever hope to successfully combat those in the GOP currently working to marginalize the Tea Party. For so long as Tea Party members struggle to peacefully co-exist, they will experience difficulty replacing "progressives" within the Republican Party.</p><p>The Tea Party must removes "progressives" from the GOP before going against the combined forces of the institutionalized "progressive" left.</p><p>The institutionalized “progressive” left is relentless, determined, well-funded, organized and extremely aggressive. Their views of America are not fondly nostalgic. Some may have even cheered the final flight of the Enterprise with the same glee that 9/11 was celebrated by Islamo-fascists in the Middle East…and for reasons that are not dissimilar. Some may have toasted the final flight of the Enterprise as an enduring, meaningful symbol of the decline of American civilization. Their goal is to bring about, by whatever means necessary, an end to what President Abraham Lincoln called “the last best hope for man on earth”.</p><p>Tea Party principles are based on the belief in the U.S. Constitution. Across America, a huge natural <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063554401,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="250" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063554401,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063554401?profile=original" /></a>constituency exists for the bread-and-butter American issues of lower taxes, reduced government, a strong national defense, secure borders and a return to the traditional American values of: E Pluribus Unum, Liberty and in God we trust.</p><p>E Pluribus Unum means from many, one. It does not mean unquestioning acquiescence to multiculturalism and diversity. Liberty means opportunity for all, not equality of results. In God we trust means reliance upon the Creator of all things. It does not mean passive acceptance of secularism, atheism or submissive surrender to “progressive” statist mandates.</p><p>The Tea Party movement began as a peaceful protest against big government, reckless government spending, high taxes and oppressive regulations. The Tea Party’s Contract from America expressed principles held by its members. The most basic being that: “Our moral, political, and economic liberties are inherent, not granted by our government.”</p><p>The principles of the Tea Party were clearly expressed in the Contract: Protect the Constitution, reject Cap & Trade, demand a balanced budget, enact fundamental tax reform, restore fiscal responsibility and Constitutionally limited government in Washington DC, end runaway government spending, defund, repeal and replace government-run health care, pass an ‘all-of-the-above’ energy policy, stop the pork, and stop the tax hikes.</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063624558,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="250" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063624558,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063624558?profile=original" /></a>The American idea, the shot heard round the world, is that We The People can govern ourselves. By the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God we are entitled, by virtue of our humanity, to the maximum amount of Individual Liberties consistent with law and order, and to the Right of private ownership, not the least of which is the Right to own and decide for ourselves. These Liberties and Rights are to be equally protected by a constitutionally limited, representative government that derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. This is a distinctly exceptional American idea.</p><p>The “progressive” idea is that an all-powerful centrally planned government, with extreme hostility towards private ownership, forces redistribution of wealth through “progressive” policies in the name of social or economic “justice”. In order to ensure “fairness”, an oligarchy of self-imagined, self-appointed “intellectual elite” must be responsible for controlling businesses, industries and “the masses”, who are incapable of governing themselves. This idea came to America from Britain’s Fabian Socialists and Germany’s Frankfurt School. This is a European idea, not an American one.</p><p>Before the country can be united, the GOP must be united behind the American message. Before the GOP can be united, the Tea Party must be united.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/tea-party-unite/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/tea-party-unite/</a></p></div>Rage Against the Mediahttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rage-against-the-media2012-10-20T03:39:55.000Z2012-10-20T03:39:55.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063605814,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="300" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063605814,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063605814?profile=original" /></a></p><p>Pelosi, Reid, Obama and other “progressives” called the Tea Party “teabaggers”, “racists”, “astroturf”, “Nazis” ” and “extremists”. The Department of Homeland Security described the Tea Party as “right-wing extremists” and ”insurgents”, saying “Right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize veterans in order to boost their violent capacities.”</p><p>How long before members of Tea Parties are called “killers”?</p><p>Hasn’t that already happened? It was more than heavily inferred by the “progressive” Party Pravda after a nut job working solo shot “Gabby” Giffords.</p><p>How long before expressing dissent leads directly to arrest and torture?</p><p>Bill Ayers’ Weather Underground Central Committee meant to cause the collapse of the United States government. Ayers and his group would deal with resistant Americans by “establishing re-education centers in the south-west”. Those who refused to convert to Communism would be “eliminated”. As in: concentration camps would be used to kill 25 million Americans.</p><p>Consider this from Yahoo News, USA Today and ABC News:</p><p>“Congress could be least productive since 1947”</p><p>The story attacks the Republican House for a lack of legislative success. This is typical of “progressives” who never miss an opportunity to parrot messages dictated by the George Soros funded Media Matters via Valerie Jarrett and the White House.</p><p>It might be statistically true that “Congress is on pace to make history with the least productive legislative year in the post-World War II era,” but to insinuate this is the fault of the House Republican majority is fiction.</p><p>The U.S. Senate, under the failed “leadership” of “progressive” Harry Reid, has refused to allow a majority of House passed bills to even come to a vote in the U.S. Senate.</p><p>The reason so many believe the House is to blame for this are the lies spread by “progressive” shills like Yahoo News, USA Today, ABC News and their ilk.</p><p>Should the 112th Congress come to be “defined by partisan divisions and legislative failures”, the blame will rest squarely on Reid and his “progressive” co-conspirator in the Oval Office. The “progressive” Senate majority has not even passed a budget in over three years. They even voted down the one from the White House 97-0. This is a clear dereliction of duty.</p><p>Thanks to the utter failure of their “progressive” policies, the only card left for them to play is vintage Saul Alinsky, blaming the right for problems caused by the left. This has been the M O of “progressives” since they seized control of the Democratic Party.</p><p>The most egregious of lies propagated by the institutionalized “progressive” left is the one spoken by Nancy Pelosi during the TARP debate. On September 28, 2008 Pelosi laid the blame for the economic collapse entirely on George W. Bush and failed Republican policies. Sound familiar? Obama’s using it against Romney daily.</p><p>The 2008 financial collapse was a direct result of failed “progressive” social engineering in the U.S. housing market. For decades the U.S. has had nothing remotely resembling a free market in residential real estate. Instead, “progressive” big government created monstrosities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac controlled over half of all U.S. mortgages. For twenty years, Conservatives warned about the systemic risk Fannie and Freddie posed to the financial system but they were constantly thwarted by the left. To this very day, the institutionalized “progressive” left denies the essential part Fannie and Freddie played in creating the housing bubble and causing the financial crisis.</p><p>Whether in the area of journalism or politics, once the facts are in members of the institutionalized “progressive” left prove themselves to be nothing more than bold faced, willfully deceitful psychopaths unfit to serve the public.</p><p>Be it Fast and Furious, the Benghazi terrorists, fudging the poll numbers or lying about the rate of inflation and unemployment, the so-called mainstream media is lying through its teeth to protect Obama and help his re-election. Enough! It is time to rage against the media!</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/rage-against-the-media/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/rage-against-the-media/</a></p></div>“progressives”: No Puzzlehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/progressives-no-puzzle2012-10-18T15:45:02.000Z2012-10-18T15:45:02.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063603021,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="150" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063603021,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063603021?profile=original" /></a>A teenager in Pakistan gets shot in the head by the Taliban. She is flown to Britain for emergency medical attention and so she can be protected from the threatened follow up attacks.</p><p>All 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai wants is for girls in Pakistan to be able to attend school.</p><p>The Taliban has issued threats that state Malala will be a target in the future if she continues to promote what they describe as “Western thinking”.</p><p><a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_PAKISTAN?SITE=VANOV&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-10-15-16-17-56">http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_PAKISTAN?SITE=VANOV&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-10-15-16-17-56</a></p><p>Meanwhile, “progressives” in America continue to cling to the “Islam is a religion of peace” fallacy their tenured, grey pony-tailed “progressive” college professors brainwashed them into believing.</p><p>So much so that the Obama White House is conducting a foreign policy based on the unfounded fairy tale <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063603034,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="150" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063603034,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063603034?profile=original" /></a>that if westerners are just nice enough to people who will kill young girls for wanting to go to school, then Islamofascists will like and forgive the west for not being Islamists and not attack the west.</p><p>These “progressives” are the same group who believe the vaporous illusion that Islamofascists as reasonable people with whom it is possible to negotiate peace.</p><p>They are also the same crowd that insists on fomenting the lie that Conservatives are waging a war on women because Conservatives believe a thirty year old Georgetown University law school graduate should buy her own contraceptives.</p><p>Naturally, “progressives” remain steadfastly incapable of understanding why Conservatives find them a bit lacking in the perception, common sense and moral center departments.</p><p>You cannot fix stupid, but you can vote it out of office.</p><p>Be sure to vote it out of every single office at every level of government on November 6, 2012.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/progressives-no-puzzle/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/progressives-no-puzzle/</a></p></div>Why The Tea Party Mattershttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/why-the-tea-party-matters2012-10-02T01:48:43.000Z2012-10-02T01:48:43.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p>Tea Party principles are based on a belief in the U.S. Constitution. Across America, a huge natural constituency exists for the bread-and-butter American issues of lower taxes, reduced government, a strong national defense, secure borders and a return to the traditional American values of: E Pluribus Unum, Liberty and in God we trust.</p><p>E Pluribus Unum means from many, one. It does not mean unquestioning acquiescence to multiculturalism <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063588497,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063588497,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063588497?profile=original" /></a>and diversity. Liberty means opportunity for all, not equality of results. In God we trust means reliance upon the Creator of all things. It does not mean passive acceptance of secularism, atheism or submissive surrender to “progressive” statist mandates.</p><p>The Tea Party movement began as a peaceful protest against big government, reckless government spending, high taxes and oppressive regulations. The Tea Party’s Contract From America expressed principles held by its members. The most basic being that “Our moral, political, and economic liberties are inherent, not granted by our government.”</p><p>The principles of the Tea Party were clearly expressed in the Contract: Protect the Constitution, reject Cap & Trade, demand a balanced budget, enact fundamental tax reform, restore fiscal responsibility and Constitutionally limited government in Washington DC, end runaway government spending, defund, repeal and replace government-run health care, pass an ‘all-of-the-above’ energy policy, stop the pork, and stop the tax hikes.</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063588576,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063588576,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063588576?profile=original" /></a>The American idea, the shot heard round the world, is that We The People can govern ourselves. By the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God we are entitled, by virtue of our humanity, to the maximum amount of Individual Liberties consistent with law and order, and to the Right of private ownership, not the least of which is the Right to own and decide for ourselves. These Liberties and Rights are to be equally protected by a Constitutionally limited, representative government that derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. This is a distinctly exceptional American idea.</p><p>These are the Tea Party's principles, which today are largely viewed as being Conservative or "right wing". Adherence to these principles are shared by members of many political Parties, but rejected wholesale by the institutionalized "progressive" left movement, which has co-opted today's Democratic Party.</p><p>If you are in the Tea Party, you believe in America.</p><p>If you believe in America, you belong in the Tea Party.</p><p>In an election where a decision will made between the American way of life and a nanny state "entitlement" society based on a European idea, the Tea Party Matters.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/why-the-tea-party-matters/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/why-the-tea-party-matters/</a></p></div>Another Day Another Disasterhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/another-day-another-disaster2012-09-19T20:54:41.000Z2012-09-19T20:54:41.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063581391,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063581391,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063581391?profile=original" /></a>Barack Obama’s foreign policy approval numbers plunged in a recent poll. This is no surprise at a time when NATO is pulling back in Afghanistan, a move that is heightening doubts about the future of that country. NATO’s decision, which leaves Obama’s exit strategy in doubt, makes his claims of “progress” in that arena suspect at best.</p><p>While the Islamist world raged in the first week of a stark, full blown display of vehement, bloody hatred towards the United States, Barack Obama was jet setting to a party with Jay-Z and Beyonce, where he enjoyed the sight of a lavish 18-foot tall tower of gold French champagne bottles. That was, until he was obligated to move the party to the CBS Late Show with David Letterman for a conversation that was so important that Obama simply could not find the time to meet with that pesky Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.</p><p>Oh yes, without a glimpses of a hint of a shadow of a doubt, Obama is the one and only candidate in this presidential race who is grounded, looks out for and cares for the little guy.<a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063581454,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063581454,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063581454?profile=original" /></a></p><p>If you believe that, there is an exclusive ocean front property sale happening in Bolivia that is definitely not to be missed.</p><p>For the White House and the Obama re-election campaign, another day means another disaster.</p><p>Especially when additional evidence of his long term devotion to wealth redistribution surfaces:</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge3aGJfDSg4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge3aGJfDSg4</a></p><p>GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney rejected Obama’s views and policies by stating 'We believe in free people and free enterprise, not redistribution'. That statement exemplifies how Romney is escalated his attacks on Obama's economic vision. A vision that has led to two credit downgrades for the United States, long term unemployment for millions of Americans, reductions in wealth and earning power at a time of higher prices at the grocery story and escalating costs for energy.</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063581471,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063581471,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063581471?profile=original" /></a>Thanks to an embarrassingly unprofessional and utterly irresponsible news media, most Americans are oblivious to the fact that the number of able-bodied adults who are dependent on food stamps has doubled since Obama’s illegal Executive Order suspended the work requirement for welfare recipients.</p><p>What is the “mainstream media” focused on?</p><p>For ABC News, the headline is: Romney Tapes Give Way To The Not-So-Calm After The Storm</p><p>Of special note for MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter) are:</p><p>•ROMNEY TAPES GET THE SUPER PAC TREATMENT: That didn’t take long. The pro-Obama super PAC, Priorities USA Action, is quick out of the starting gate this morning with a new television ad featuring footage of Mitt Romney’s candid comments from a private fundraiser that has rocked the political world this week. The script of the ad, titled “Doors,” speaks for itself. A narrator says, “Behind these doors Mitt Romney calls half the American people….” And then the hidden-camera video of Romney finishes the sentence: ”Dependent upon government, who believe they are victims.” The narrator returns: “Victims? Behind these doors middle-class families struggle. And Romney will make things even tougher. Raising taxes by up to $2,000 to give multi-millionaires a $250,000 tax break.” And Romney again: “I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility…” The group says the ad is part of their $30 million effort to underscore the effects of Romney’s economic proposals, which is underway on television and online in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. WATCH: <a href="http://youtu.be/uaKIeR4Sn3k">http://youtu.be/uaKIeR4Sn3k</a></p><p> •THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN RESPONDS WITH TWO LUMPS OF COAL: Today the Romney campaign released two new television ads focusing on what Team Romney is calling “President Obama’s war on coal.” According to a release from the campaign: The first ad titled “Way of Life.” In the ad a man says, “My family’s worked in the coal industry for over sixty years. This is the way of life we know. Policies that the current administration’s got is attacking my livelihood. Obama said he was going to bankrupt any new power plants that opened up that’s coal-fired and he’s keeping his promise. I got two young grandsons. I’m scared for their future, let alone mine. I support Mitt Romney.” WATCH: <a href="http://mi.tt/S34HBp">http://mi.tt/S34HBp</a> In the second ad, “War on Coal,” the Republican nominee touts his support for the coal industry: “We have 250 years of coal,” Romney says in the spot. “Why wouldn’t we use it?” WATCH: <a href="http://mi.tt/RoxS7W">http://mi.tt/RoxS7W</a></p><p> •REDISTRIBUTION POLITICS: The Romney and Obama campaigns are sparring today over “redistribution” — specifically an audio clip of President Obama from 1998 on the subject. WATCH: <a href="http://bit.ly/V99buI">http://bit.ly/V99buI</a> Republican National Committee spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski sums up the argument the GOP is seeking to make today — and likely for some time to come: “While Governor Romney talks about promoting personal responsibility and hard work, promising to deliver recovery, President Obama believes in redistribution and government dependency.” The Romney campaign has already been pushing hard on this line of attack and there’s more to come today, campaign aides tell The Note. Yesterday Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt weighed in: “The Romney campaign is so desperate to change the subject that they’ve gone back to the failed playbook co-authored by Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber. Fourteen years ago, then-Senator Obama was making an argument for a more efficient, more effective government — specifically citing city government agencies that he didn’t think were working effectively.”</p><p>The world is burning, Obama is fiddling, and the “mainstream media”, more appropriately described as the “progressive” Party Pravda, is focused on attacking and smearing the GOP candidate on behalf of the “progressive” in the White House.</p><p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/romney-tapes-give-way-to-the-not-so-calm-after-the-storm-the-note/">http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/romney-tapes-give-way-to-the-not-so-calm-after-the-storm-the-note/</a></p><p>Is this what America wants?</p><p>On November 6, 2012, Americans decide.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/another-day-another-disaster/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/another-day-another-disaster/</a></p></div>White House, Press Corps Use Mid-East Crisis to Distract From Failing Economyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/white-house-press-corps-use-mid-east-crisis-to-distract-from2012-09-13T21:22:39.000Z2012-09-13T21:22:39.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p>Barrack Obama and members of the institutionalized “progressive” left smear machine, otherwise known as <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063578726,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063578726,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063578726?profile=original" /></a>the mainstream media, launched a series of seemingly coordinated attacks on GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The White House and the press uncannily echoed each other while criticizing Romney for speaking in opposition to the Cairo Embassy’s apology to Islamists for “efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims” on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States.</p><p>Obama attacked Romney for having "a tendency to shoot first and aim later". After firing that salvo, Obama was off to yet another fund raising event in Las Vegas, where he furthered the assault by saying "It appears that Gov. Romney didn't have his facts right". Meanwhile, Obama’s campaign assailed Romney for using the “tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in Libya” to “launch a political attack”.</p><p>It seems that for mysterious, unexplained reasons it has somehow slipped the minds of Obama and the Obama campaign that he politicized foreign policy back in 2008 by attacking George W. Bush and then GOP presidential candidate John McCain for troop deaths in Iraq and their support of the Iraq War.</p><p>Not only have the media and the White House been singing from the same sheet music, a discussion caught on an open microphone and recorded immediately before Romney’s Wednesday morning press conference clearly revealed the press corps coordinating hostile questioning aimed at discrediting Romney and knocking him off stride.</p><p>While the White House and the “progressive” Party Pravda were busy diverting the public’s attention towards Mitt Romney and away from the sagging economy, new claims for jobless benefits rose again, while a spike in wholesale gasoline costs drove consumer prices higher.</p><p>Economists had predicted claims for unemployment benefits would rise to 370,000. However according to the Labor Department, initial claims rose to a seasonally adjusted 382,000. That is the highest in two months. Consistent with a pattern seen since Obama took office, figures from the prior week were again revised upwards, showing 2,000 more applications than originally reported.</p><p>For the first time since the Great Depression, the officially reported unemployment rate has been stuck above 8 percent for over three years.<a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063578700,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063578700,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063578700?profile=original" /></a></p><p>The producer price index, as measured by the Labor Department, jumped 1.7 percent in August. That increase was the biggest gain in three years. Gas prices soared by 13.6 percent. Steep increases in eggs and dairy costs drove food prices up 0.9 percent.</p><p>The median income of American households continues to decline on Barack Obama’s watch, dropping to its lowest level since 1995. According to Census Bureau data, 2011 median income fell to $50,054. That is 1.5 per cent below the 2010 level and 4.1 per cent below what the median income level was when Obama took office.</p><p>This highlights the extent of the damage inflicted upon America’s middle class by Obama’s failed economic policies.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/white-house-press-corps-use-mid-east-crisis-to-distract-from-failing-economy/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/white-house-press-corps-use-mid-east-crisis-to-distract-from-failing-economy/</a></p></div>Democrats=Progressives=Controlhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/democrats-progressives-control2012-09-11T14:13:55.000Z2012-09-11T14:13:55.000ZBenson William Gates IIIhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BensonWilliamGatesIII<div><div>I'd like to share several good articles from the "Clash Daily" at: <a href="http://clashdaily.com/">http://clashdaily.com/</a>. <a href="http://clashdaily.com/2012/09/dems-dont-like-your-guns-their-adopted-platform-says-so/">http://clashdaily.com/2012/09/dems-dont-like-your-guns-their-adopted-platform-says-so/</a></div><div> </div><div>The issues on the Democratic Party's Platform are very important. Important, not because the platform actually binds a president to do those things, but because the president, as the leader of his/her party and, as such, supports the majority of his/her party's issues. Remember the old adage: <em>"Birds of a feather flock together".</em></div><div> </div><div>Secularism, moral relativism, and a large federal government with centralized control, are all basic tenets of the progressive movement. Knowing their ideals were too radical for most Americans of the early 20th century, they began making in roads in education and politics. The progressives took many years to educate generations of voters and insidiously take over the Democratic party giving them a national stage to promote their ideas and elect their candidates. Like boiling a frog, they didn't throw him into the hot water all at once; they put him in cool water and gradually raised the heat. Traditional Democrats were gradually overcome by those new progressives that were educated in their ideas of liberalism, big centralized government, and moral relativism. It's a "feel good" party. </div><div> </div><div>Many folks, myself, my friends and family included, had historically been "traditional Democrats". (I left when Reagan came along and confirmed what I had already realized: "I didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me"). Unfortunately, the "Progressives" have gradually chipped away all of the traditional Democratic party values and now have replaced them with their "feel good", "reasonable", emotion driven rhetoric which they only intend to use to manipulate their party loyalists into supporting a very radical hidden agenda. Many "traditional Democrats" find it difficult to break with their tradition of supporting Democratic candidates; their "feel good receivers" have been tuned to that frequency for so long they can't switch channels.</div><div> </div><div>God gave us all free will. We have a right, and a responsibility, to evaluate our positions based on the knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. There may be some gray areas in life, but most of us know that the really important things in life can only be equated to either right or wrong. </div><div>--We know that killing an unborn baby because it is inconvenient is WRONG; God would NEVER support that position. </div><div>--We know that a person "freely" giving to charity is righteous, but being forced to contribute their earnings so someone else can decide where their gifts will go is wrong.</div><div>--We know that we have no right to enjoy the fruits of another's labor. We must earn our own.</div><div>--We know that the whole idea of lying to achieve power over others is a corruption of morality.</div><div> </div><div>I hope, and pray, for our country's sake, that people will start to recognize "progressivism" for what it really is: dictatorial, centralized power in the hands of an aloof, elite political class with no moral compass to guide them by a higher authority.</div><div> </div><div>The message we have to get across to our friends who are still locked into that emotionalism of relativism, is that it's O.K. to reevaluate your position. You don't have to lock step support any political party just because your grandfather, father, or you have always done it that way. Billy Graham once said: "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything". To stand for something, you have to consciously <strong><em>think</em></strong> about your position, understand it, and understand why you feel that way. The progressives don't want you to use your brains; they want to attack you with emotional appeals, ambiguities, and muddied waters. They are all about rationalization of behavior and values.</div><div> </div><div>America has been the only place on earth that was established on the principles that the people own the government; not the government owns the people. As such, for over 200 years, we've wrestled with many of the tough issues of the time. Being a government "of the people", and people having human flaws, we've naturally had, and still have, flaws that had to be overcome. The most often referenced is equality of all citizens. This has been, and continues to be, a long fought struggle. Abolishing slavery, ensuring equal treatment of all regardless of race, creed, sex, color, national origin, or physical disability have been issues that have been fought for throughout our history. But, even with all of our imperfections, we've still been the shining light among nations for individual liberty, freedom of religion, of speech, the right to dissent with the government without fear of being killed. We are the "go to" nation for all of those oppressed throughout the world who seek a better life for themselves and families.</div><div> </div><div>We have a great nation. We should all be PROUD to be AMERICANS! We don't have to apologize to anyone for our country being exceptional. We can only remain an exceptional nation if the citizens respect one another and respect the laws and morality behind those laws which ensure all of us have equal protection. A tyrant, whether it's a single person or a huge government machine, has no incentive to do anything other than what they want to do. We don't have an individual tyrant, but our HUGE Federal bureaucracy has become tyrannical and must be controlled. this coming election can be the beginning to taking control back and limiting government in our lives.</div><div> </div><div><span style="color:#0000ff;" class="font-size-5"><strong>God Bless You All! God Bless America! </strong></span></div><div> </div><div><div><font size="4" face="Arial"><b><i>There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.<br />- F.A. Hayek</i></b></font><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Arial"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Arial"><br /></font></font><div> </div><div><font color="#FF0000" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><i><strong><font size="4">When</font></strong></i></font><strong><font size="4"><font color="#FF0000" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"> </font><font color="#FF0000" face="Lucida Sans Unicode">injustice becomes law, then Rebellion becomes duty!</font></font></strong><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><br /></font><font color="#000080" size="5" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><font color="#000080" size="5" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><strong><font size="4">~~~Thomas Jefferson</font></strong></font></font><div> </div><div><div><span class="font-size-5"> </span></div><div><span class="font-size-5"><font face="Arial"><strong><em>He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it.<br />--Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.</em></strong></font><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><br /></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Gallows of Effigyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/gallows-of-effigy2012-09-11T01:25:36.000Z2012-09-11T01:25:36.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063577008,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="150" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063577008,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063577008?profile=original" /></a></p><p>Mr. Phipps Explains Himself, and the Gallows of Effigy</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvfU3pAjkSk&list=UU6Gp2cjYMmyt8jegOCII6rA&index=1&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvfU3pAjkSk&list=UU6Gp2cjYMmyt8jegOCII6rA&index=1&feature=plcp</a></p><p>This has nothing to do with racism and nothing to do with the Republican Party. This was done by one man to bring attention to his personal vendetta.</p><p>Naturally enough, as was the case with the Gabby Gifford and the Black Knight shootings, “non-racist” “post-racial” “progressive” Democrats are the first to jump on the “This is exactly what comes to my mind when Republicans talk about "reclaiming our country", "taking our country back", or the good old days” bandwagon.</p><p>Expose the lies of the “progressive” left!</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/gallows-of-effigy/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/gallows-of-effigy/</a></p></div>“progressive” Parasiteshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/progressive-parasites2012-09-10T22:27:39.000Z2012-09-10T22:27:39.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063576767,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="130" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063576767,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063576767?profile=original" /></a>Members of the self-imagined, self-appointed institutionalized “progressive” “intellectual elite” have no desire to discuss the reality of what was the most embarrassing DNC since Chicago 1968…can’t blame them. If they were remotely interested in the truth, they would have already seen the sound wave analysis of the “put God back in the platform” voice vote and know that approving that vote was completely illegitimate. Saying otherwise is pure, unadulterated propaganda, not the truth.</p><p>But, what else is to be expected from “progressives”?</p><p>They were booing the reinstatement of God and Jerusalem into the Party platform like good little “progressives”. They were happy that bho decided against also reinstating the other deleted portions. The two regarding right of return and Hamas. Or did their “straight shooting” news sources never even mention those?</p><p>That is what is best described as typical “progressive” behavior. Especially from bho…”LOOK AT THIS HAND”…meanwhile, while everyone is looking at the one hand, he is picking pockets with the other.</p><p>While everyone was busy talking about the voice count debacle, most people never even noticed that the exhalted “progressive” “leader” managed to throw Israel under the bus while convincing low information voters that he had come to Israel’s rescue.</p><p>The only way bho wins in 2012 is with massive “progressive” voter fraud. Voter fraud happens to be the one and only reason Al Franken won in MN in 2008 to become the 60th “progressive” Senator. Without cheating “progressives” stealing that election, America would not now be saddled with the biggest tax hike in <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063576683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="130" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063576683,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063576683?profile=original" /></a>American history: obama”care”TAX.</p><p>The “progressives” do not want to debate the obama"care"TAX either. After all, it is so much easier to live in denial. They are going to be truly shocked and extremely dismayed to discover the taxes they will be forced to pay. Yes, “progressives” will have to pay. (And to think they are still insulted by being called useful idiots.) Taxes that the "most transparent" administration in history" and its "honesty in government" legislative co-horts hid from them and their fellow "progressive" lemmings. As pelosi said: "we have to pass the bill to see what's in it". If "progressives" successfully steals the 2012 election and the country is stuck with obama"care"TAX, all Conservatives will be able to say to “progressives” is: SUCKERS!!! Don't say you were not warned.</p><p>If “progressives” describe Conservatives not wanting government to hand out taxpayer funded contraceptives to women, especially those who can afford to go to Georgetown Law School, or not wanting government to use taxpayer money to pay for the wholesale slaughter of unborn children…if “progressives describe that as being involved in reproductive issues, then they are finally right about something.</p><p>Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then.</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063576790,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="130" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063576790,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063576790?profile=original" /></a>Only "progressives" believe that keeping convicted murderers alive while killing innocent, defenseless unborn babies somehow elevates them to the "moral high ground".</p><p>They will claim that owners of media outlets tend to be Conservative...and that balances out media bias. They are obviously deaf and blind or so completely indoctrinated that they believe the Current TV program portraying Rupert Murdock's creation of FOX News as an attack on journalism was unbiased.</p><p>It's only natural that 100% biased "progressives" believe, as does their so-called "president", that America only became great AFTER "progressives" saddled the country and ensuing generations with hundreds of trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities. The $16 trillion national debt is only what has been borrowed. Take a look at the bottom of the national debt clock chart and see how much is currently owed in unfunded liabilities like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and obama"care"TAX.</p><p><a href="http://www.usdebtclock.org/">http://www.usdebtclock.org/</a></p><p>Only a "progressive" who "feels" it is "good" to run up that kind of debt would overlook the harsh reality that that is completely unsustainable. If they are so eager to live in Greece, let then move there and stay there. Losing the likes of “progressives” to Europe would be America's gain.</p><p>Sure, they may have been born in this country; they may even have a birth certificate to prove that they are legally citizens. But the "progressive" idea of centrally planned big government, where rights are determined by the government, where an oligarchy dictates to businesses, industries and the masses, deemed incapable of governing themselves, is NOT an American idea. It is a European idea brought to America by the Fabian Socialists from England and the Frankfurt School from Germany. It's as progressive <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063576697,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="130" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063576697,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063576697?profile=original" /></a>as returning America to the rule of King George.</p><p>The American idea, that men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that to secure these Rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, where the Freedoms and Liberties of each and every individual are a birthright, originated in the 13 colonies. It is found in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and is explained in the Federalist Papers. All were written in America by Americans.</p><p>Someone either believe in the American idea, an idea that made America the greatest nation in the history of the planet, or they believe in the "progressive" idea, which over the past 100 years has been slowly eroding the foundation principles and economic security of the world’s one exceptional nation. The only nation ever founded upon an idea.</p><p>If you are a "progressive" you are not an American. If you are an American, you are not a "progressive."</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063576740,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="130" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063576740,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063576740?profile=original" /></a>Since “progressives” are demonstrably incapable of perceiving what is subtly conveyed, it should be put in terms even a "progressive" can understand: "progressives" are parasites. Their host will return to health and thrive only after the “progressive” parasites are removed and are no longer draining the host's life blood.</p><p>May bho and every other “progressive” politician infesting America lose every election, may every biased member of the institutionalized “progressive” left news media lose every job, may every grey-haired, pony-tailed Marxist lose every position they hold in academia, and may every Hollywood Marxist leave America and remain outside America….in perpetuity.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/progressive-parasites/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/progressive-parasites/</a></p></div>America Needs the Tea Party More Than America Needs the GOPhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/america-needs-the-tea-party-more-than-america-needs-the-gop2012-08-27T20:58:51.000Z2012-08-27T20:58:51.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p>Explaining his endorsement of the current White House occupant on the administration’s infrastructure spending, healthcare reform, and position on abortion, Florida’s former Republican Governor Charlie Crist <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063568979,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063568979,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063568979?profile=original" /></a>endorsed him on the eve of the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa.</p><p>Crist has betrayed American taxpayers before. He supported the $787 billion “stimulus” boondoggle, which did little to fund shovel ready infrastructure projects but went a long way towards rewarding big “progressive” 2008 presidential campaign bundlers who “just happened” to run “green energy” companies with lucrative loan guarantees and grants. It also bailed out state and local governments guilty of practicing irresponsible fiscal policies for decades, especially where spending on government sector union contracts was concerned. It was no accident that the lion’s share of “stimulus” spending “just happened” to have gone to “blue states”. Crist’s decision to support the highly partisan, pork stuffed “stimulus” bill helped get the monstrous waste of money through Congress.</p><p> “Moderate Republican” go-along to get-along me-first career politicians who, like Crist are so willing to compromise with the institutionalized “progressive” left cannot be trusted.</p><p>Tea Party principles are America’s principles. To an intolerable degree, “Moderate Republicans” do not believe in or follow Tea Party principles. Quite often they appear to be completely devoid of principles. They game the political system to gain power and prestige for themselves and themselves alone. They will turn on Americans faster than you can say Specter.</p><p>Conservative Tea Party Americans like Allen West, Marco Rubio, Jim DeMint, Pat Toomy, Rand Paul, Ron Johnson Michele Bachmann, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee have the guts to stand against the institutionalized “progressive” left. They have the willingness, backbone and fortitude to preserve individual liberties, restore the U.S. Constitution, and a return to constitutionally limited government, a balanced budget, equal opportunity and equal protection under the law for all Americans.</p><p>Today’s Democratic Party is not your father's Democratic Party. They keep insisting that Tea Party Republicans and their affiliates are "extreme". Since when are protecting individual liberties, following the<a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063569006,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063569006,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063569006?profile=original" /></a> U.S. Constitution, having constitutionally limited government and a balanced budget extreme?</p><p>The Tea Party’s positions are extreme only when seen as standing in the way of establishing an all-powerful, centrally planned big government controlled by a self-appointed oligarchy of self-imagined “intellectual elites” i.e. a Communist state.</p><p>The institutionalized "progressive" left in 2012 America is acting exactly like every other Communist power grab in history. They lie, cheat and steal to win elections. Then they will lie, cheat, steal and kill to consolidate and strengthen their grip on unrestrained power.</p><p>The institutionalized "progressive" left complains about how "extreme" Tea Party Republicans refuse to compromise. The Tea Party knows that Communists have no interest in compromising with anyone. The institutionalized "progressive" left's negotiating position has been, is, and will continue to be: What's Yours is Negotiable, What's Mine is Not. Those who hold this negotiating position, when they do finally obtain an iron grip on unrestrained power, do not compromise with their political opposition. They eliminate them…permanently.</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063568997,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="125" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063568997,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063568997?profile=original" /></a>America is at an historic crossroads. The 2012 election will determine what life in America will be like for the next and following generations.</p><p>In the words of Ronald W. Reagan, 40th President of the United States of America:</p><p>“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/america-needs-the-tea-party-more-than-america-needs-the-gop/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/america-needs-the-tea-party-more-than-america-needs-the-gop/</a></p></div>Government Unions-A ‘progressive” Failure Foisted Upon Americahttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/government-unions-a-progressive-failure-foisted-upon-america2012-08-21T22:21:42.000Z2012-08-21T22:21:42.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p>Merriam-Webster’s definition of EXTORTION</p><p>1: the act or practice of extorting especially money or other property; especially: the offense committed by <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063561321,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="110" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063561321,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063561321?profile=original" /></a>an official engaging in such practice</p><p>2: something extorted; especially: a gross overcharge</p><p><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extortion">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extortion</a></p><p>From Chicago to Madison to Sacramento to Washington DC and points in between:</p><p> » Do as we say and nobody gets hurt. Get the picture sweetheart?</p><p>Those self-imagined, self-appointed “intellectual elites” within the ”progressive” Democratic Party and their tarnished Oval Office idol insist the 2012 election is a fight for the middle class.</p><p> » Union members make up only 12.9% of the middle class. If a smart politician wanted to fight for the remaining 87.1%, they would be against forcing those voters to pay more taxes so government sector <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063561351,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="110" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063561351,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063561351?profile=original" /></a>unions can enjoy a job where dismissal for incompetence is virtually impossible, Cadillac benefits (with smaller payroll deductions than the private sector) are the norm, and exorbitant salaries and bloated retirement pensions are business as usual.</p><p>Government sector unions offer nothing of value to America. The prevention of workplace violations have long been secured by workplace rights legislation. The only value government sector unions have to offer to anyone is to crooked politicians who promise them cushy, taxpayer funded benefits in exchange for campaign funding and guaranteed election turnout.</p><p>Can you say criminal quid pro quo?</p><p> » You politicians better give us what we want or you will get no union support. Get the picture chum?</p><p>For those who propagate the misrepresentation that union’s “fighting for what they believe in” shows character:</p><p> » How can anyone truly believe that threatening small business owners with boycotts shows character? <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063561456,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="110" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063561456,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063561456?profile=original" /></a>Small business owners are people who are hard-working individuals, who have invested overtime hours without pay for weeks, months and years on end in hopes they will achieve the American dream of success, who simply wish to remain neutral in the government sector union’s battle. Bullying and intimidating these people displays character?</p><p>To paraphrase former U.S. President Bill Clinton: It depends on what your definition of character is.</p><p> » Support us whether you want to or not and nobody’s business gets hurt. Defy us and we’ll do everything in our power to make sure your business fails. Get the picture pal o’ mine?</p><p>On the other hand, when Conservatives peaceably assemble to petition their Government for a redress of grievances, they are rabid, violent, hateful extremists…</p><p>…and of course, RACIST!!</p><p> » What is extreme is acting like $16 trillion in national debt should be of no concern.</p><p><a href="http://www.usdebtclock.org/">http://www.usdebtclock.org/</a></p><p> » What is extreme is painting Conservative budget plans to cut a $3.7 trillion federal budget by $61 billion (less than 1%) as extreme.</p><p> » What is extreme is describing plans to freezes an already enacted 25% increase in federal government spending as a serious attempt to cut spending.</p><p> » What is extreme is classifying brave, self-sacrificing veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq as potential domestic terrorists.</p><p> » What is extreme is saying that average, everyday Americans who simply want their government to follow the U.S. Constitution should be considered threats to national security.</p><p> » What is extreme is demanding an increase in the U.S. debt limit without restraint ad infinitum.</p><p> » What is extreme is a Department of Justice that picks and chooses which laws to enforce based on the White House’s “progressive” political agenda.</p><p> » What is extreme is a radical fringe leftist “progressive” Oval Office occupier who truly believes that being anti-Constitutional, anti-free speech, anti-free market, anti-business, anti-traditional energy, anti-religious freedom, anti-gun, pro-illegal immigration, pro-UN treaty restrictions on individual U.S. liberties is somehow in any way shape or form in America’s best interests.</p><p> » What is extreme is the empty class warfare rhetoric that “the rich”, those top 5 percent who still pay more than the bottom 95 percent, “don’t pay their fair share” of support to a slothful, bloated, deficit spending, ever expanding, spiraling completely out of control federal bureaucratic nightmare.</p><p> » What is extreme is the conscious choice made by big government collectivists to ignore economic realities and force every individual to purchase a commodity that imposes collectivist goals on everyone else.</p><p>» What is extreme is the conscious decision made by big government collectivists that the bottom 47 percent who do not pay any income taxes somehow magically qualify to receive an income tax refund.</p><p>The United States does not have a revenue problem. The United States has a spending problem. A major <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063561478,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="110" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063561478,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063561478?profile=original" /></a>spending problem… Recklessly continuing America’s massive deficit spending in the name of “social justice” or “economic justice” is suicidal.</p><p>The re-election of one current White House occupant ensures that America will be destroyed via the institutionalized “progressive” left’s Cloward-Piven strategy. By foisting the government sector union failure upon America, what the institutionalized “progressive” left is doing is nothing short of criminal. It is, by definition, extortion.</p><p>Instead of being elected to office, they should be imprisoned.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/government-unions-a-progressive-failure-foisted-upon-america/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/government-unions-a-progressive-failure-foisted-upon-america/</a></p></div>