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I’ve had what I think is an epiphany, of sorts.
Conservatives and more so, libertarians, have a serious problem.
They view liberty and limited government as a kind of machine that has a couple of the gears stripped, maybe an armature frozen, a tensioner pulley a little loose. I do it too. For example, I see 1913 as a disastrous year and it was. Lots of gears, stripped, pulleys bent, etc. that year.
The idea is if we could just poke a little here and prod a little there, replace a gear, balance a flywheel, replace a shifter, undo 1913, etc. then everything would be back to normal and we would be good for a hundred years or more.
It is not true.
When the US [...]
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Whereas there has been some confusion regarding the precise role and powers envisioned for the federal government;
And
Whereas this confusion has resulted in unfortunate mis-understandings between the federal government and the states and the citizens of the various states;
Be it resolved that We the People, represented by the lowest common denominator, with or without our consent, do hereby offer
The Final Amendment to the United States Constitution
ARTICLE THE LAST
SECTION 1. Congress hereby reserves to itself the right to spend whatever monies, derived from whatever source on any project of its choosing.
SECTION 2. In the event congress is unable to find sources of revenue, it shall have the power to print money directly [...]
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and with financial reform, and health care, and Social Security, and MediCare/caid, and terrorism is this;
We have a government that thrives by driving us with fear. If they can scare us, they get more power. It is like a Pavlovian parlor trick.
Create FEAR = get POWER.
Create FEAR = get POWER.
etc, etc, ad nauseum.
It is not that these problems (the supposed underlying problem) don’t all have some risks associated with them. Poverty, injury, death. But the government has a vested interested in overblowing the danger in order to get us to release power to them. In fact, all too often, we DEMAND they take the power and do something.
We will never be free as long as [...]
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They could have just reprinted the US Constitution and said, “There, we promise that.”
Guess that wouldn’t be sexy like Twenty-One pages of wonkish gibberish.
It also shows a complete lack of understanding concerning what did work about the original Contract. Its brevity. Hence its marketability.
Think Google. Who clicks past page one? If you are going to send a message the gist of it had better be on page one.
The average person likely won’t get past the second paragraph of this document. And like the major flaw in the original Contract there is very little in this doc that is permanent.
Even if fully enacted we are just an election away from the next Obamanation.
The [...]
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Do we have a party of principle? What are the principles?
Do we even have men of principle? What are those principles?
Are you a Big Tent Republican? Does big tent preclude principle? Reagan’s big tent philosophy is often cited as reason to avoid getting bogged down in policy debates. Or for failing to excommunicate RINO’s. Did Reagan have no principles?
I have asked here before if there is even one principle to which conservatives can agree one must be bound to be accepted into the fold. I have not yet heard the response that was more than [...]
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Just a short flight from Becker’s anti-Ron Rant.
Hamilton proposed and oversaw the creation of the First Bank of the US.
Generally central banks in the US have been favored by proponents of a strong national government. Hamilton was also a borderline monarchist. He wanted a King-like President and he wanted the senate to be a British style House of Lords with lifetime tenure. Chuckie Schumer for life.
Though he wrote of balance of power in the Federalist Papers he consistently landed on the side of federal power once the document was ratified. Combine his opposition to the Bill of Rights with his love of federal power and he is what?
He argued against the Bill of Rights because it would contradict the notion that [...]
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“with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor”
There were some poor, many “middle” class and a few that were filthy rich. John Hancock was likely the richest man in America at the start of the revolution. Samuel Adams was generally broke. Everyone risked all.
Total War is not only defined by what you are willing to destroy in your quest for victory but what you are willing to lose.
“The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without [...]
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