Patriotism. Love of country. In God We Trust. Traditional values. Our American heritage. September 11, 2001. Are they all forgotten?
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J.C's Corner
May 15, 2012
The Elite Media’s 19th Nervous Breakdown
As the presidential election begins to shift into a higher gear, it’s obvious that the Elite Traitor Media, a.k.a., the Establishment Media, is moving into a full-blown panic over Barack Obama’s re-election prospects.
The Washington Post hit piece on Mitt Romney’s alleged high school bullying represents a new low in yellow journalism and partisan pimping. It turns out to be a big fat lie denied by the family of the alleged victim, who said it never happened.
But, that has not stopped the Post from pushing bogus stories. I hate to be the one to break the news, but new information is coming to light that will prove the whole Watergate fiasco to be a complete hoax perpetrated by the traitors at the Post and designed by the CIA to carry out a coup against Richard Nixon, who was overwhelmingly re-elected by the American people in 1972.
I have the goods and hope to live long enough to reveal them, including the hoax about Mark Felt being Deep Throat.
Meanwhile, we are treated to the former newsweeklies Time and Newsweek engaging in shock cover treatments in order to boost plummeting circulation. Anyone who subscribes to these rags thinking they are going to get a news summary for the week probably believes in the Great Pumpkin.
The Time cover of the nursing mother was a classic example of child abuse. The narcissist mom, a fashion model trying to further her career, used her three-year old as a prop to promote some nutty theory of childrearing. The poor kid had no say in the matter, was subjected to a photo session with strangers and forced to engage in what ordinarily should be a private moment between mother and child.
I say it’s time to call Child Services and remove the boy from the custody of his demented mother. Not to mention the total irresponsibility Time showed in participating and promoting such child abuse.
But leave it to Tina Brown and Newsweek to up the ante and produce a cover of Barack Obama as “The First Gay President.” Does that mean we are finally getting the lowdown on our down-low President? Or is it just cheap pandering to a fractional American minority?
The economy is totally in the crapper, we are headed to a total abyss and meltdown on January 1, 2013, and Barack Obama has decided the burning issue is to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act signed into law by President William Jefferson Clinton.
Good Lord, I can just imagine what Bill Clinton has to say about that, and it’s not suitable for publication.
So pity the poor elite media. They have thrown their lot in with a total fraud and become his court stenographers. They see how the polls are trending, and they have to be sick. Hence, the smear stories on high school bullying and the campaign ad lies about companies affected long after Mitt Romney left Bain Capital.
The Obama campaign is building a façade built on a pyramid of lies. It basically mirrors the following:
“All this was inspired by the principle -- which is quite true within itself -- that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility, because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others would have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.”
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, because we have the opportunity to support a great patriot, Mitt Romney.
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May 8, 2012
America’s Disgrace Regarding Alzheimer’s Research
Over the past few decades, America has spent tens of billions of dollars seeking a cure for AIDS. Contrast that with the literal pittance that the U.S. government has devoted to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.
The truth of the matter is that most Americans, if they maintain a reasonable lifestyle, needn’t worry about ever contracting AIDS. However, all of us are susceptible to falling victim to Alzheimer’s disease.
Our family recently has had to deal with this issue with a beloved member. The ongoing degeneration is heartbreaking, but what is truly disgraceful and maddening is how little the Federal government has done to address this issue.
It is estimated that 4.5 million Americans currently are suffering with Alzheimer’s disease, compared to an estimated 400,000 AIDS patients.
Now, we all should have great compassion for those stricken with AIDS. But the hard truth of the matter is that you and I have virtually no chance of contracting AIDS if we don’t engage in promiscuous sex or use intravenous drugs.
But science has not solved the issue of what causes Alzheimer’s, which means each of us is a potential victim.
Where is the urgency and sense of duty to protect the American public from this scourge?
We need a new Jonas Salk, a brilliant scientific savior who will devote his or her life to finding the cause of Alzheimer’s and developing a cure or preventive vaccine.
I can write this today because Dr. Salk developed the polio vaccine to save tens of millions of children from a crippling illness. I take great pride in being on of the few children that served as his test patients for the vaccine that revolutionized public health and saved hundreds of millions of children from death and disability.
I can remember getting the shots from Dr. Salk. His incredible kindness and compassion will stay with me forever. He was one of history’s true giants. So where is today’s Jonas Salk who can save aging Americans from the living hell of Alzheimer’s?
And when will the Federal government quit pandering to powerful interest groups when it comes to funding public health measures?
The gross imbalance between AIDS and Alzheimer’s research funding is a national disgrace that casts total shame on the crass politicians in Washington who frankly don’t give a damn about everyday Americans.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! Let’s all pray for a day when Alzheimer’s research tops the priority list in Washington.
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May 6, 2012
Obama’s Great Leap “Vorwarts!”
The thug geniuses behind the Obama re-election campaign have come up with the campaign slogan, “Forward!”
I guess it would be too much to expect them to be literate. Anyone with a rudimentary education would be reminded of Red Chinese dictator Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” or Adolf Hitler’s slogan for the Hitler Youth, “Vorwarts,” which means “forward.”
The Mao experiment in “Cultural Revolution” resulted in the slaughter of at least 30 million Chinese. I guess that’s why former Obama communications director Anita Dunn was so captivated and enthused.
Anyone who views the current regime in Red China can see that the rulers are simply Maoists dressed up in three-piece suits driving Mercedes while much of the population works in slave labor factories.
We all know what avenue in Hell the Hitler Youth experiment led the world to.
To cut some slack to the Obamabots drinking the socialist Kool-Aid, given the black-sliding we’ve seen in the American economy and the degradation in our culture, “forward’ seems like an appropriate direction. But, under the current regime it is wholly impossible.
The President traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to officially launch his re-election campaign before a half-empty arena. Naturally the Elite Traitor Media, being the court stenographers they are, showed footage of the event that featured tight crowd shots that made the crowd seem overwhelming.
As a man who used to shoot television commercials for a Major League baseball team, we would get 25 people sitting closely in a virtually empty stadium, and with a very tight shot, make it look like a sellout.
Anyone who relies on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC for news coverage will remain totally ignorant as to what is transpiring. The established media are so far in the tank for Obama that it underscores the sad truth of our times: journalism as we once knew is totally dead, except for the few brave souls on the Internet who will speak the truth.
The Obama “Vorwarts” campaign mantra is one of the most egregious political blunders of all time. It is condescending and shows the total contempt the Lyin’ King and his minions have for the American public.
Thanks for reading! Remember, it’s a great day to be an American! We just have to realize that we rapidly need to change our direction. “Vorwarts” is not the answer. It’s mere cosmetic steer manure.
April 30, 2012
Obama, the Un-President
It’s painfully clear as we end the month of April, that we have never had a President as un-presidential as Barack Hussein Obama.
The man is an utter disgrace, a divisive partisan with no comprehension as to his duties and responsibilities. He has no interest in being President of all the people or even working. All he does is give speeches and play golf.
In the past week, he has comported himself without one shred of dignity, becoming the incarnation of the Unknown Comic from The Gong Show. The only difference? At times, the Unknown Comic was funny.
His appearance on The Jimmy Fallon Show and at the White House Correspondents Dinner reveal Mr. Obama as a pretender, pretending to be presidential when in fact he is the world’s oldest Frat Boy.
President John F. Kennedy would sum it up this way, as he did regarding Richard Nixon: “No class.”
Barack Obama is so devoid of class that he should put a red ball on his nose and join the circus.
To make matters worse, he has taken to politicizing the alleged death of Osama Bin Laden and insinuated that Mitt Romney would not have ordered such a raid in Pakistan.
I say alleged death of Bin Laden because we have not seen one shred of evidence that he is dead. We have to take Mr. Obama at his word and believe in the supposed burial at sea. But given the Lyin’ King’s ever-expanding legacy of untruths, why would any thinking person believe the multitude of contradictory stories that have come out of the Obama administration regarding the alleged demise of Bin Laden?
First we were told Bin Laden put up a fight, then he cowered behind his wife, there was a firefight with Bin Laden supporters and on and on. Sorry folks, my steer manure detector is off the charts.
Amazingly, no-one in the alleged free press has challenged the story. That’s because the Elite Traitor Media are no better than court stenographers and lap dogs for the President. Journalism as we once knew it is officially dead. Don’t they know the President has been known to eat a dog or two?
The President’s appearance at the White House Correspondents Dinner was beyond despicable as he mocked his critics and kept up his divisive, condescending rhetoric.
Let’s face the fact: the man is a Chicago thug, wholly unfit to occupy the White House. Consider the absolute damage he can inflict on American society through executive orders and appointments if he is re-elected. There will be no reining in the Mussolini inside Obama.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American if we can put a real American back in the White House.
April 27, 2012
The Great Bin Laden Hoax
The Obama Administration is trying to take another victory lap over the purported killing of Osama Bin Laden a year ago. Even worse, it is running campaign ads implying Mitt Romney would not have made the same decision to implement the raid in Pakistan. These ads are outright lies and shameful.
The only problem is one glaring fact: we have absolutely no official physical or photographic evidence that Osama Bin Laden actually died in the raid. There have been alleged photos on the Internet that have been debunked as phony. At least no real credible evidence has been shared with the American public and the world.
All we have are conflicting narratives from the White House, CIA and Defense Department about the raid that make it perfectly unclear as to the timing and actual circumstances in which Osama Bin Laden allegedly died.
For President Barack Hussein Obama to tout the death of Bin Laden as a tremendous foreign policy accomplishment is the height of hypocrisy and dishonesty, given the astonishing lack of factual and tangible physical evidence.
There have been reports in the media, from credible FBi sources, that the G-men could not confirm a fingerprint match with the alleged Bin Laden corpse.
What we do have are lame videos that try to portray Bin Laden as a porn freak and narcissist. He may well have been both, but those characterizations are extraneous to the fact of the matter of his death.
The Judicial Watch organization filed suit in Federal court to get copies of the alleged photographs of the Bin Laden corpse, but were rebuffed by the judge who thought the release would inflame Islamists and present a danger to American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
As if the murder of Bin Laden wouldn’t inflame them enough? I’ve heard of specious reasoning and convoluted logic, but this judge has simply gone off the charts with his insanity.
We live in an era, the Age of Obama, were the piles of steer manure are growing to epic heights and the stench is getting overpowering.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! We need a President who will be honest with the American public and not treat us as dimwits.
April 19, 2012
The World is Blinded by Amnesia
Today is a very special day in world history: it is Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Keystone of Holocaust Remembrance Week.
Now is the time to reflect on how the Nazis exterminated six million European Jews. We live in a world where Muslim extremists, like Ahmadinejad in Iran, deny the Holocaust ever happened and talk about repeating it again.
As a student at Princeton in the late 1960’s, I viewed films taken by the Nazis of their perverted murders at Jewish death camps. It was beyond appalling, and left me with a lifelong commitment that this should never happen again.
Now we know that the Muslim Brotherhood, the fount of evil in Egypt, conspired with the Nazis to carry out the Holocaust.
So today, when I see the President of the United States trying to bargain with people committed to a Second Holocaust, I am filled with shame that our country could sink so low.
That is why I recognize, and revere, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the true leader of the Free World. Only he has the moral standing and commitment to ensure a Second Holocaust never happens again.
The world has never seriously confronted the absolute horror that the Holocaust represents. There are simply too many anti-Semites scattered throughout the Western World and the United States government, including the highest levels such as the President and the Secretary of State.
Iran is on the brink of obtaining nuclear weapons that it will use against Israel, our most fervent ally and the only democracy in the Middle East. For Barack Obama to equivocate on his support for Israel is a moral outrage and total proof that he is unfit to be President of the United States.
I pray that Mitt Romney will have the courage and the commitment to confront Barack Obama on this issue and assure our Israeli brethren that we will back them to the hilt in any attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The ultimate fate of Western civilization hangs in the balance.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it is a great day to be an American as long as we stand steadfastly with our Israeli brothers and sisters!
Ronald Reagan Quote of the Day: No people have fought longer, struggled harder, or sacrificed more than yours in order to survive, to grow and live in freedom.”
April 18, 2012
JFK’s Vision & Patriotism Betrayed
Watching the Space Shuttle Discovery’s flyover Washington D.C. on its way to Dulles Airport was heartbreaking in a number of ways.
It marked the end of an era and the capitulation of President Barack Obama to Russian space dominance.
John F. Kennedy is rolling over in his grave.
JFK was a man of vision and courage, who loved America with a burning patriotism lacking in the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
As a young boy, I was thrilled by JFK’s pledge to put a man on the moon within a decade. It spoke to American exceptionalism in a way that we may never see again, since Ronald Reagan’s vision has been abandoned by the GOP.
NASA’s space program was a source of national pride and scientific experimentation that produced a host of benefits for our nation. For Barack Obama to turn his back on it and gut a program that produced manifold benefits is a damn disgrace.
Mr. Obama would justify his absurd position in the name of managing scarce resources while he pisses away billions on false energy scams. He is a fraud whose very presence in the White House is a source of national shame when compared to his predecessors, especially John F. Kennedy.
Since his brutal murder, President Kennedy has been the target of further character assassination by Prog-Lib-Commies who could not stomach a patriotic Democrat who also knew the value capitalism produced for our nation. Scum like Seymour Hersh and others toe the party line as fellow travelers.
The truth of his murder will ultimately come out. I am doing my part to flesh out the awful details that will shake America to its core and reveal the traitors in our midsts.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
April 12, 2012
The Dems’ War on Stay-At-Home Moms & American Values
We already knew that the 2012 presidential election would be the dirtiest in American history, but Democrat strategist Hilary Rosen’s repulsive attack on Ann Romney shows the Democrats as totally un-American.
Ms. Rosen, a militant lesbian totally out of touch with The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA and Mainstream America, had the unmitigated gall to say about Mitt Romney’s wife, “Guess what, his wife has actually never worked a day in her life.”
Let’s consider the current First Lady, Michelle Obama, who since her teens has lived a life of utter privilege, attending the finest Ivy League schools and earning high six-figure salaries as a lawyer and hospital executive before becoming the First Lady.
What in the world does she have in common with the single mother struggling to make ends meet? Not one damn thing. She is too busy jetting off to fabulous vacations around the world on our dime.
So Ms. Rosen, who has given her children a broken home, can chide Ann Romney for her choices but ignore similar choices made by Michelle Obama.
As if raising five children is not work. I thank God for people like Ann Romney who devote their lives to raising children who are contributing members of society, not the leeches and moochers that the Democrats would prefer being bred out of the entitlement society.
One aspect of the story totally overlooked by the Elite Traitor Media is that Ms. Rosen unleashed an attack on a courageous woman who is dealing with a potentially fatal disease -- multiple sclerosis.
If there is a more heinous and disgusting person in American politics than Hilary Rosen, then we haven’t seen her or him yet, although David Axelrod is probably a strong contender, not to mention the most divisive and dangerous President in American history, the Kenyan, Barack Hussein Obama.
The man who pledged to bring Blue America and Red America together has failed miserably, doing everything in his power to divide Americans by class, race and ideology. Face it, Mr. Obama makes Richard Nixon look like George Washington.
The hateful comments by Ms. Rosen reveal an underlying contempt that Democrats have for traditional American values related to marriage, raising children and our children’s future.
How can we even consider the comments offered by people who denigrate stay-at-home mothers, families with larger numbers of children and support for pro-life policies.
The Prog-Lib-Commies who control the Democrat party have swallowed the bogus overpopulation theories that have been proven false for more than a century and put them on a course to carry out the greatest atrocity in American history -- the black genocide more commonly known as abortion.
Ms. Rosen has offered an insincere and weak apology to Ann Romney that no thinking individual could remotely accept.
We can see where this Democrat campaign is headed: Mitt Romney and his family are going to be viciously attacked for his business success, their traditional American values and their Mormon faith.
In doing so, the Democrats show they do not believe in the American dream -- their vision is a Soviet-style, big government that plans and controls all aspects of our lives. The world is littered with billions of people who have suffered under such regimes and still suffer today in such evil outposts as Red China, North Korea and Cuba.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as we embrace our traditional values and honor our stay-at-home moms. Apologies for the lag in posts. Trying to earn a living in this miserable economy takes more time than I would like.
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April 3, 2012
Obama: Intellectually Mediocre & Arrogant
Barack Obama, the self-promoted Constitutional scholar and alleged President of the United States, has revealed himself as a man of mediocre intellect at best and amazingly arrogant.
As the United States Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the singular legislative accomplishment of the Obama presidency, His Excellency, Emperor Obama Disgustus, has weighed in chiding the Court to not overstep its authority and render the legislative abomination worthless.
By publicly taking on the Court and calling into question its legitimacy to consider constitutional issues, Mr. Obama has revealed himself as an ignorant elitist who has no concept about his role as President vis-à-vis a co-equal branch of government.
In his eyes, no entity, be it the Congress or Supreme Court, can challenge his dictates. The man is not merely delusional, he is dangerous.
The Lyin’ King, or TAWPE, The Absolute Worst President Ever, has the unmitigated gall and audacity to call the Supreme Court “unelected” and thus, unable to overrule a law passed by Congress.
Apparently, when he attended Harvard Law School he slept through the class that examined the 1803 ruling in Marbury v. Madison that established the precedent for the Court to render laws unconstitutional.
Either that, or Mr. Obama is simply a dim bulb who got passed along through Columbia and Harvard Law School as the poster boy for affirmative action.
When he chastises the Supreme Court as “unelected,’ does he consider that an “unelected” Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 to end segregation in our schools? That court certainly acted in a manner contrary to the wishes of Congress.
Not the mention the ninnies who usurped the powers of the 50 states in Roe v. Wade to allow the black genocide some call abortion and a woman’s right to choose.
I find Obama’s efforts to intimidate the Supreme Court highly offensive, contrary to the Constitution and pushing the envelope in terms of high crimes and misdemeanors, grounds for impeachment.
This fraud took an oath of office to uphold the United States Constitution, but by questioning the integrity of a co-equal branch of government, he is doing all he can to undermine the Constitution.
Clearly he would prefer to run a regime like Red China or Russia, where he could have his way by dictate, not by compromise with competing political interests.
Mr. Obama obviously hopes that the Supreme Court will invalidate the Affordable Care Act and give him another phony issue to run on for re-election. By taking on the Court and questioning its legitimacy to rule on constitutional matters, Obama gives the GOP an issue it can run on in 2012.
Do we really want a renegade President who does not respect the separation of powers among our three branches of government to be in a position to appoint more Supreme Court justices like the two non-entities and mediocrities he already has appointed? Case closed.
Thanks for reading! Remember, it’s a great day to be an American when we can reject a President who reviles, not reveres, the Constitution!
March 26, 2012
Obama’s Damnable & Deceitful Energy Lies
Let’s get something straight right off the bat: President Barack Obama is a damn liar when he says America has two percent of the world’s oil reserves and used 20 percent of those resources.
It’s all Prog-Lib-Commie steer manure trying to inflict a guilt trip on the United States for being a developed nation that wants a better future.
Despite what the court stenographers in the Elite Traitor Media echo in Mr. Obama’s behalf, the fact is that the United States of America is sitting on more oil and natural gas reserves than any nation on earth and when you add coal to the equation, there is no question that we have an abundance of energy resources that can carry our grandchildren’s great-grandchildren to a prosperous future.
After being the President who has spurned these resources and squandered hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars on pie-in-they-sky energy schemes like wind and solar power, which have disastrous environmental consequences, Mr. Obama has the unmitigated gall and sheer dishonesty to try to take credit for the increase in oil and natural gas production.
Prog-Lib-Commies for years have road-blocked development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and offshore saying it would take at least ten years to bring these resources on line.
Now, Mr. Obama is lying to the American people saying the upswing in the past couple of years is due to his policies. So he is lying, or have the Democrats been lying through their teeth for the past 20 years? Take your pick, none of them have a shred of integrity.
After successfully blocking the progress of the Keystone XL Pipeline to bring oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries, the Lyin’ King made a big show this week of approving construction of a pipeline from Oklahoma to the refineries in Texas.
So, he is proud of building a pipeline that will carry nothing? This stupidity doesn’t say much for degrees from Columbia and Harvard Law School. If this guy is alleged to be so smart, remind me to tell my grandson he will be better off at Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he will get a real education grounded in reality.
As more geologists and scientists study fossil fuels and their future, they are coming to the realization that the conventional wisdom of the world running out of oil and natural gas someday is sheer nonsense. There is growing evidence that oil and national gas are renewable sources of energy produced within the earth through forces yet to be fully understood.
The notion that oil and natural gas have been produced from the residue of dinosaurs is as dated and ridiculous as Darwin’s theory of evolution, which has never been proven by one shred of physical evidence. It remains a theory that should be studied and explored, but to accept it on face value is totally foolish. If man is descended from apes, why are there still apes? Did evolution come to a complete halt?
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March 18, 2012
Obama’s Ugly War on Christians, Free Speech and The Constitution
Shifting into the highest campaign gear for re-election, President Barack Obama has put his Goebbels-inspired (propagate Big Lies) communications team into spreading the ridiculous meme that the GOP is waging a war on women.
He picked this fight with his outrageous healthcare mandate to try to force Catholic institutions into providing contraceptives, including morning-after abortions, for female employees.
He masked it with an alleged, fig-leaf exemption for Catholic employers that could show the institutions primarily employed and served Catholics. In addition, their primary charter has to be to promote their religion.
Clearly few, if any, institutions such as universities and hospitals could ever meet the test.
Brian Burch, director of the CatholicVote.org Legal Fund (visit www,catholicvote.org) said it best, “Since when did religious freedom become a privilege the government bestows on the few groups they deem as religious enough?”
This fight was deliberately picked to set up a phony election issue that would benefit Mr. Obama and further divide our nation. By doing so, the Lyin’ King has proved beyond any doubt that he is no Christian. If he’s a Christian, then I am an astronaut and a Navy SEAL to boot.
Even worse, he stands silent as radical Islam wages war on Christians and Jews worldwide. The slaughter of innocents and burning of churches and synagogues in such places as Egypt, Sudan and Nigeria such be roundly condemned worldwide.
On March 12, the grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheik Abdul Assiz bin Abdullah, issued a fatwa calling for the destruction of all Christian churches in the region. The Obama administration has had no reaction to this abomination.
A Washington Times editorial on March 16 noted, “When members of the Islamic establishment call for the religious equivalent of ethnic cleansing, the leader of the free world must respond or risk legitimizing the oppression that follows.”
For the time being, Mr. Obama stands meekly mute, and blind to the rising tide of radical Islamism that has come sweeping out of the phony “Arab Spring.”
Freedom of religion is not the only part of the First Amendment that the President spurns. Unfortunately, he is not alone.
The Congress of the United States has given him the tools to obliterate free speech, freedom to petition the government, and freedom of association by passing the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, which Mr. Obama signed into law in early March.
Under the guise of protecting federal officials, the Act permits the Secret Service to prohibit or limit where citizens can protest in front of the President and other leaders, or try in any way to confront those officials.
The determination of the limits may be based on the content of the free speech desired. Individuals who gather in a restricted area are subject to prosecution, as well as anyone who inadvertently wanders into such an area.
Sadly, this repulsive law passed by unanimous consent in the Senate and only three representatives in the House voted against it.
Welcome to the Banana Republic of the United States.
Furthering his desire to foster an authoritarian regime, Barack Obama signed an executive order two days ago that gives the President complete control over all the resources in the United States during times of war or emergency.
Does the President know something we don’t? Will a global war begin in the Middle East in the months ahead? Will it give him the pretext he needs to implement this order, and perhaps, even suspend or delay the November election?
Patriots on The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA, be at the ready. Challenging times lie ahead.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American if we are watchful for the rise of tyranny and stand up to stop it!
Ronald Reagan Quote of the Day: “Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God’s children.”
March 11, 2012
The Unraveling Obama Presidency
As the GOP presidential contenders keep slugging it out in the primary season, Dem strategists should not get too optimistic about Barack Hussein Obama’s re-election bid.
Yet another bogus unemployment report this week gave a false sense of relief to the “hope and change” crowd and the cheerleader, Obama court stenographers in the Elite Traitor Media. But behind the government’s numbers is the reality of more than 14 million unemployed Americans and another 9.3 million underemployed Americans.
Any rational observer can see the Lyin’ King’s policy failures regarding the economy, energy and foreign affairs are going to catch up with him in a big way.
The recent stock market rally and the economy in general is being pumped up by irresponsible Federal Reserve monetary policy that has resulted in a huge bubble getting ready to burst in a bad way.
By devaluing the dollar, keeping interest rates in the basement and running the dollar printing press at full speed, the Fed is helping the Wall Street banks and hedge funds to get richer than ever while seniors and others depending on savings interest are getting slaughtered.
Meanwhile, everyone suffers from a dollar that buys less and less. The pain is especially acute on The Forgotten Street -- Main Street USA.
Another policy corroding the economy’s underpinnings is Obama’s totally foolish energy policy that has led to the spike in gasoline prices while government billions are being flushed down the drain on “green energy” schemes and scams.
I’m all for exploring alternative sources of energy for future development, but we need reliable sources right now. The truth is the United States could, and should, be the leading producer of oil and natural gas in the world by a wide margin.
For more than a century, we have been sitting on the largest reserves known to man, but have been unable to fully develop them because of crackpot environmentalists who are more intent on destroying capitalism than preserving the environment.
These knuckleheads advocate wind power that has proven to be an environmental disaster by wiping out large wildlife populations, including golden eagles in the West that are allegedly protected species. In Pennsylvania, more than 10,000 bats were killed by wind turbines in 2010.
The standard Democrat argument has been that it takes “at least ten years” for new oil fields to come on line and that “we can’t drill our way” out of our energy deficit. We’ve heard this bogus argument for almost 40 years. If we had been able to drill back when we needed to, we’d have four times as much oil as we have now.
America’s energy independence also has been stymied by the hysteria over global warming, the greatest scientific hoax in human history.
Excluding the onerous federal and state taxes on gasoline and insane climate change policies, we could be driving around now for just under two bucks a gallon. Talk about an economic stimulus!
Just look at the oil boom in North Dakota, which has the nation’s lowest unemployment rate at 3.3 percent, and a state government with more than $1 billion in reserves.
All the focus on the economy and energy are soon to be eclipsed by the collapse of Obama’s “AAAA Doctrine” in foreign policy: Apology, Appeasement, Alienation and Arrogance.
Mr. Obama’s insistence on diplomacy in dealing with global threats like Iran, North Korea and radical Islam demonstrates his bias toward appeasement and apologizing for America, while he has alienated allies like Israel and Canada with his arrogance.
The farce billed as the Arab Spring has resulted in new regimes in Egypt and Libya tilting toward radical Islamism while the Obama administration plays the role of arrogant bully in dealing with Syria, raising the specter of an illegal military intervention.
The AAAA Obama foreign policy is pushing the Middle East closer to an all-out war because Israel has simply run out of time for stopping Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons, which Obama has facilitated with his weakness and pure folly in advancing diplomatic moves that help Iran stall for time.
Mr. Obama’s incompetence is spreading rapidly across a range of critical areas. The blocking of the Keystone XL pipeline was a slap in the face to Canada and had the added effect of further undermining energy independence and economic stimulus.
His biggest danger will come when Israel launches its strike against Iran, which I predict will be well before the fall election. How Obama responds in terms of standing with our most dependable ally is hard to predict. He brags about his support for Israel while he knifes Benjamin Netanyahu in the back whenever he gets the opportunity.
Given the ineptitude that is the hallmark of the Obama presidency, I think a conflagration in the Middle East may prove the final undoing of his presidency.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
Our best wishes to our foreign visitors in February who hail from such lands as: The Russian Federation, The Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Canada, Australia, The Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Israel, New Zealand, Switzerland, Japan, Denmark, Finland, Red China, Norway, Brazil, The Seychelles, The United Kingdom, Indonesia, Hungary, Argentina, Hong Kong and Romania.
March 1, 2012
Was Breitbart Murdered?
The sad news of Andrew Breitbart’s passing set my spider sense tingling: Was his death due to less than natural causes?
Andrew Breitbart was a warrior for liberty, the Constitution and America. In other words, he made powerful enemies of such disreputable organizations as SEIU, Acorn, Planned Parenthood and the radical Left in general.
His death was not an untimely natural event. I firmly believe in my heart that he was murdered. Decades ago, the Soviets perfected techniques in which they could dispense with their enemies and make it look like a heart attack or natural causes.
We can only hope that the L.A. coroner is honest and will run an autopsy that considers the possibility of foul play.
Truth be told, the Prog-Lib-Commies have a history of more than a century of murders to eliminate their political rivals, beginning with the assassination of President William McKinley.
Forget the “lone nut” theory on that criminal deed. More evidence is surfacing that clearly demonstrates a conspiracy was at work. We’ll have more on that later.
The McKinley murder set off more than a century of Prog-Lib-Commie murders that have altered the course of American history in an incredible way.
Your humble correspondent is hard at work at putting it all together. So if word comes of my demise due to natural causes, you will know that I am 100% right.
The whole Breitbart story just doesn’t seem right. If you followed him on Twitter, you would see the crazed Left at their worse, wishing him dead. Their wish came true, and it was by design, not fate.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American. In honor and tribute to the patriotism of Andrew Breitbart, let’s get truly belligerent in defense of our country and culture.
God rest his soul, and may God bless his family with His Grace.
February 10, 2012
Barack Obama, the New Benito Mussolini
It’s been quite a week, America, we’ve learned that our President is not a socialist, he’s a full-blown fascist. With his arrogant decrees, he sounds like Benito Mussolini. The only problem is that Mussolini was moderately competent.
Not content to be a mere President, the arrogant and cynical human that inhabits 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue disdains the U.S. Constitution and believes he can rule by decree.
This week he has abrogated the No Child Left Behind education law to grant waivers to 10 states to exempt them from requirements established by the United States Congress. The great bipartisan compromise worked out by Teddy Kennedy and George W. Bush has been flushed down the toilet without any public discussion.
And, after deliberately provoking a fight with the Catholic Church over funding of birth control and abortion requirements, he has unilaterally decreed that private insurance companies must bear the cost of such dictates, without any input from the United States Congress.
This guy, who bills himself as a Constitutional scholar, has done more to urinate on the Constitution that any President in history. With his cynicism and divisive partisanship, Barack Obama makes Richard Nixon look like James Madison.
To make matters worse, it appears that Barack Mussolini is a warmonger to boot. His entrance into the Libyan conflict on the flimsiest of reasons sets the precedent for intervening in the strife in Syria. When is America going to stand up and say, “Quit putting our young heroes into impossible situations that you are unwilling to deal with?”
I have often said that is patently immoral for any Commander-in-Chief to commit our soldiers, sailors and airmen to any conflict in which we are not willing to wage all-out war, using all weapons at our disposal to win a total victory as fast as humanly possible.
If Obama moves ahead with a Libya-style campaign in Syria, Americans must take to the streets in full revolt unless he is willing to pursue unconditional and total victory. If he masks it in the cloak of the inept United Nations, then we must push for impeachment proceedings immediately.
We are dealing with a complete disaster in the Obama presidency. Our economy remains in shambles, despite what the bogus reports from the Department of Labor say.
He is pegging his re-election to pitting Americans against each other in a class warfare campaign. Barack Obama has no concept that any President, when elected, has a constitutional responsibility to be President of all the people, not just those who voted for him.
He clearly has no interest, and full contempt, for the people on The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA, who cling to their guns and their God. He is an elitist prig, unworthy of his office and a disgrace to the history of the United States of America.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American if we can get a President who respects all Americans, not just those who vote for him.
February 6, 2012
The Gipper Offers the Real Hope for America
Today marks the 101st birthday of Ronald Reagan, our greatest modern President and the ultimate role model for our nation. It also brings to a close the Centennial celebration of his birth.
For the past year, The Forgotten Street has honored its political hero and inspiration with a Centennial Quote of the Day, sharing the Gipper’s incredible wisdom and values that must guide us today as we struggle to turn back the advance of militant secularism that is destroying the moral fabric of our country.
Ronald Reagan was renowned for his sunny optimism and boundless love for our country and its people. He would be heartbroken today to see the division that rends our society, a division deliberately stoked by the most cynical President and political leader in American history, Barack Obama, the anti-Reagan.
He also would shake his head in disgust at the food fight that passes for political discourse in the Republican Party presidential primary season. As the contenders violate President Reagan’s 11th Commandment, “Don’t speak ill of other Republicans,” they enhance the chances of Obama returning to the Oval Office on January 20, 2013.
Ronald Reagan gave his full devotion to his duty as President, forging a record of achievement by advancing the cause of world peace and returning prosperity to America that may never be matched again.
He gave the GOP a template that would have enabled Republicans to become an absolute majority. But the Eastern Establishment that never fully accepted his leadership retreated from the bold colors of the Reagan Revolution back into the pale pastels that have marked the GOP as a me-too political party too weak to challenge the Prog-Lib-Commies’ disastrous conventional wisdom that infects most of our major institutions.
We must take heart in the fact that there remain millions of us, the foot soldiers of the Reagan Revolution, who are ready to march again for traditional values, a strong national defense, free enterprise, individual liberty and the right to life.
Nothing sums us the essence of Ronald Reagan’s greatness than the epitaph on his grave in Simi Valley, California:
“I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.”
Words for all of us to live by. May their wisdom spread across America to inspire a new generation of patriots. Here at The Forgotten Street we will continue to speak up and do our part. The Centennial Quote of the Day is now gone, but you can count on more memorable quotes from the Gipper to inspire and cheer your heart from time to time.
God blessed America with the life of Ronald Wilson Reagan. Now we must keep spreading that blessing through an ongoing celebration of his life and priceless leadership.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American!
Our thanks to our foreign visitors in January from: the Russian Federation, Sweden, the Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Japan, Red China, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Honduras, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Latvia, France, Hungary, Israel, Moldova and the Seychelles. God bless you all.
“The history of our civilization, the great advances that made it possible, is not a story of cynics or doom criers. It is a gallant chronicle of the optimists, the determined people, men and women who dreamed great dreams and dared to try whatever it took to make them come true.” Ronald Reagan, May 18, 1973
January 2, 2012
Racing Toward the Abyss
Some economic pundits are spinning a rosier economic picture for 2012. Don’t buy what they’re selling. There are forces in motion that point to the undeniable fact that we’ll be lucky to mimic the pathetic performance of 2011.
Whatever the new year brings, we can count on one thing: The Lyin’ King will continue to try to blame everything on George W. Bush. I highly doubt that the bogus unemployment number, which is half what it really is, will budge much from the 8+ percent it is now. It’s worth recalling, unemployment was reported at 7.8 percent when Obama Disgustus became Emperor in 2009.
The spending spree that Obama and the Congress embarked on with his failed stimulus has put our country so far in debt that there is absolutely no way out without radically cutting spending to a level unseen since the Reagan Administration.
Our national debt will have increased by 67 percent under the Obama regime to $16.4 trillion, once he gets the latest extension of the debt ceiling from Congress. I can’t wait to see how The Kingfish demagogues this move.
The economic solution proposed by Obama and the Democrats is to further raise taxes “on the rich” while continuing to spend money at a mind-blowing pace on worthless boondoggles like high-rail in places where there are no riders or on alternative energy sources that are economically unfeasible.
To put things in perspective, consider this: the combined wealth of the Forbes 400 richest Americans is $1.5 trillion. If the government confiscated every penny of it, it would hardly cover the President’s pending request for a $1.2 trillion increase in the debt ceiling.
As we have seen in every place it’s ever been tried in history, wealth redistribution only will result in making everyone poor except the ruling elite who will continue to loot the public Treasury for themselves and their cronies.
Why are we so gloomy about the economic prospects for 2012? Consider these forces that are converging in a “perfect storm” we will be seriously challenged to survive:
- The housing market remains in a dismal slump, with the net worth of the middle class virtually eradicated by homes not worth their pending loans and foreclosures still booming;
- Europe remains a basket case, and the Obama Administration is likely to be suckered into providing some sort of bailout;
- A showdown with Iran could result in disruption to the world oil market and skyrocketing gasoline and heating oil prices;
- The enviro-commies in the EPA are trying to put in place regulations that will shut down coal-fired electricity plants, leading to higher prices for consumers and less reliability in the electrical grid;
- Opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline will deny tens of thousands of Americans needed jobs as well as a secure source of oil from Canada, making America more vulnerable to an oil shutoff;
- The looming Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) that kicks in in 2014 will require foreign financial institutions to reveal information on accounts held by Americans; failure to comply results in a 30 percent withholding tax on foreign investment in America, which means those dollars will begin seeking another home now;
- Red China’s bogus growth economy is in many ways a Potemkin village, ready to implode as a mammoth housing bubble gets ready to burst in a country where all economic data is suspect.
Other than that, Happy New Year! As we near the end of Obama’s hopefully last term, our hearts go out to black Americans who have suffered disproportionately under his presidency, with unemployment rates among young black males near catastrophic levels.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American because we have it within our grasp to bring about real change that can benefit everyone.
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day: “The weakness in this country for too many years has been our insistence on … carving an ever-increasing number of slices from a shrinking economic pie. Our policies have concentrated on rationing scarcity rather than creating plenty. As a result, our economy has stagnated. But those days are ending.”
November 29, 1982
December 30, 2011
Talking 99 Percent, Living One Percent & Other Nonsense
At year’s end, it’s time to think about The Forgotten Street’s yearly awards. First, let’s honor the Hypocrites of the Year: Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, by a landslide.
The President and former Speaker distinguished themselves by embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement, further advancing the Democrats’ divisive class warfare.
The Lyin’ King and Aunt Bethany are great at talking the 99 percent game, but they live like the one-percenters they disparage at every opportunity, except when they want to hold $35,000-a-plate fundraisers with Wall Street fat cats.
As the nation reaches year’s end with unacceptably high unemployment (well into double-digits and not the lie put out by the Department of Labor), the President and Ms. Pelosi vacation in ultra-rich luxury in Hawaii, incurring millions of dollars in costs at the expense of taxpayers.
Our Dirtbag of the Year award goes to the amazingly unfunny Bill Maher, the atheist, bigoted filth merchant of HBO. His remarks about Tim Tebow were beyond crude and blasphemous. Those of you on The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA, who subscribe to HBO help subsidize this garbage. Call your cable provider now to cancel your HBO subscription.
The Sheer Stupidity Award goes to the environmental scam artists who managed to con Congress into pushing the mandate to phase out the incandescent light bulb in favor of compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) in the name of saving energy. Now Americans are being forced to introduce a product into their homes that contains a very toxic poison (mercury), emits ultra violet rays (that cause skin cancer) and poses a real fire hazard. I absolutely refuse to buy one of the damn things.
The CFL uses electricity to heat an element in the lamp’s base to energize the mercury vapor in coils, which in turn emit light. When the CFL no longer can produce light, the electronics in its base still try to function, which then can lead to overheating, smoke and fire.
Try as they might, the Enviro-Commies haven’t come up with a product safer or better than what Thomas Edison invented. Shame on the Bush Administration for letting this monstrosity become law in 2007.
Next time I’m at Rocky’s Hardware, I’m stocking up on regular 100-watt light bulbs while they’re still around.
There’s plenty more to consider as the year winds down. On the drawing board is a look ahead at what we might expect for the economy in 2012 (hint, it ain’t getting any better) as well as how the 2012 election is shaping up.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American as long as we resist government product mandates (they already ruined our toilets and shower heads). Sorry for the lack of comment in the past couple of weeks. Even The Forgotten Street needs to take a break.
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day:
“Government has an inborn tendency to grow. And, left to itself, it will grow beyond the control of the people. Only constant complaint by the people will inhibit its growth.”
December 8, 2011
Obama’s No Socialist. He’s a Peronist.
Critics of President Barack Obama have gone too far in trying to paint him as a socialist. Truth be told, he is no socialist, but he is a Peronist, which is much more dangerous for the United States of America.
Obama is clearly fascistic in his political orientation. For far too long, the Prog-Lib-Commies have tried to associate fascism with far right politics, as in “right-wing Nazis.”
But the facts are otherwise. The Nazis in Germany were not “right-wing.” They were National Socialists. So fascism is aligned with statism and the concentration of power in a strong central government.
Barack Obama most closely resembles Juan Peron in Argentina. Although he came from a military background, Peron was a populist who tried to pit the masses against the establishment. He aligned himself with the labor unions, he nationalized major industries and he espoused anti-clericalism. Is that striking a familiar chord?
Much like Hugo Chavez in today’s Venezuela, whom Obama has publicly embraced as “mi amigo,” Juan Peron nationalized the broadcasting system, centralized unions under his control and persecuted opposing politicians and journalists.
In contrast, Obama has co-opted the Elite Traitor Media into serving as his court stenographers, relied on unions to intimidate opponents and demonized those who oppose him.
Mr. Obama has expressed his admiration for authoritarian regimes like Red China, and clearly he chafes under the traditional freedoms of the American republic.
Peronism was built on a cult of personality, which the Lyin’ King has tried to emulate. His embrace of the Occupy Wall Street movement shows his desire to try a populist approach to sway public opinion and win re-election.
In that sense, Barack Obama is trying to become the Kingfish, another Huey Long who inflames the masses with populist rhetoric, even at the expense of dangerously undermining the republic and abandoning the principle that the President of the United States is the representative of all the people, even those who did not vote for him.
Obama’s desire for a state-directed, regulated economy represents the height of fascism and Peronism. He wants state enterprise to control what was once private enterprise. His recent speech in Kansas displayed his complete disdain and contempt for the private enterprise system that made the United States the leading nation in the world.
As we get closer to the primary and caucus season, when GOP votes begin to have true meaning, we must consider which candidate can provide the most compelling alternative to the would-be Peron in the White House.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American and to repudiate the nascent fascism that Obama and the Democrats represent!
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day:
"I am convinced that today the majority of Americans wants what those first Americans wanted. A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority. Very simply they want to be left alone in peace and safety to take care of the family by earning an honest dollar and putting away some savings." July 6, 1976
November 22, 2011
JFK’s Death Still Haunts Us
48 years ago today, John F. Kennedy was brutally murdered in Dallas, Texas. The death of our President will be an event that haunts us forever.
I still remember being in history class after lunch when the news came over the loudspeaker that President Kennedy had been shot in Texas. Our teacher, also the basketball coach, was visibly shaken. Then came the horrifying news delivered by our principal that President Kennedy had died.
The class, including our teacher who was much respected and beloved, dissolved into tears. For our generation, it was a day we would never experience again until September 11, 2001.
John F. Kennedy was a great American. An authentic war hero, a superior patriot, a staunch anti-communist and an economic realist who recognized that strong tax cuts would revive a stagnant economy.
All of which are the reasons why he was so viciously murdered.
In the aftermath of his death, we experienced the dignity and majesty of his funeral, so well designed by his widow Jackie, but have since been subjected to the ongoing assassination of his character by the Prog-Lib-Commies right here in America, pond scum like Seymour Hersh, who have worked to denigrate his memory and destroy his legacy.
As a further insult, we were subjected to the sheer steer manure produced by the Warren Commission to cover up the enormity of the crime against America that John Kennedy’s death represents.
Some day the truth will be known, and when it is, American history will change forever, and the media establishment will be forever exposed for the frauds they’ve been for almost a half a century.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, because the truth is stronger than the lies propagated by the Prog-Lib-Commies, whose evil hand in our President’s death will be finally revealed.
September 11, 2011
Not a Tragedy, A Savage Atrocity
Looking back 10 years on the events of September 11, 2001, I cannot accept calling the terrorist attacks on our nation a “tragedy’ or “tragic events.” They were savage atrocities committed by sub-humans consumed by evil.
Labeling 9/11 a tragedy diminishes the sheer evil and ruthless premeditation that went into these crimes of war. Unfortunately there are people who believe that somehow America brought this mindless murder on itself, racist demagogues like Rev. Jeremiah Wright who crowed about “America’s chickens coming home to roost.”
We have far too many of the Prog-Lib-Comm crowd who blame America first and want to see the United States taken down a notch or two. But we sure as hell shouldn’t behave like victims and apologize for wanting to defend ourselves from the savages in the world around us.
We also have a politically correct knucklehead like New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who has desecrated the 10-year observance at Ground Zero by excluding clergy and the city’s firefighters. Does he believe that Americans want to shun God and ignore the 343 brave first responders who gave their lives in the service of their fellow citizens? He is a disgrace and thoroughly despicable human being.
For me this day brings a flood of memories, some all too painful and searing. Living in Alexandria, Virginia at the time, I was alerted to the unfolding events by a phone call at my office in Maryland from my wife, who had been called by our daughter.
While on the phone that morning, she heard a loud explosion. It was American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon. We subsequently learned that one of her coworkers and a very dear friend of ours was on that flight. She called me to tell me the sad news. I immediately broke down and finally left to come home and be with her.
No one tells the story of the impact of September 11 better than my wife did on the fifth anniversary in this special article on The Forgotten Street, Proud To Be American. Read it and absorb all that she says. No one ever said it better.
What ordinarily was a 45-minute ride turned into a four-hour journey as the greater Washington area was thrown into chaos, not knowing if more aircraft were on their way to carry out another deadly mission.
My usual route on the George Washington Parkway, which would take me past the CIA and the Pentagon, was blocked at the entrance by a U.S. Army armored personnel vehicle, flanked by soldiers with machine guns.
I meandered my way through local roads in northern Virginia until I finally got on a road that took me within view of the still burning Pentagon. Overwhelmed, knowing our dear friend M.J. along with other passengers and crew had met a horrible demise there, I somehow steered my way through wracking sobs to get home.
When I parked in front of our townhouse in Old Town and stepped out of the car, the burning smell from the Pentagon assaulted me. That night, as we held each other in bed, not knowing what coming days would bring, we heard the sound of fighter jets patrolling the skies overhead. The Combat Air Patrol (CAP) would last for several weeks, bringing us a reassuring sound overhead, yet one that reminded us of the horror that happened on September 11.
Now ten years later we still deal with the fallout from September 11, as brave men and women in uniform risk their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq trying to root out and defeat crazed Islamists who want to subjugate those who don’t share their twisted beliefs.
We also face committed terrorists within our borders seeking to carry out murderous acts to undermine our society. Through superior intelligence and eternal vigilance we hope to defeat them. But only through constant prayer, firm belief in American ideals and unshaken faith in God can we succeed.
Finally, no remembrance of September 11 would be complete without a note of deep gratitude and thanks for the courageous leadership of President George W. Bush in bringing our nation together in a time of overpowering grief and setting our government on a course that would keep us secure since. He was the rock and inspiration we needed.
He still fills that needed role. His speech in Shanksville at the dedication of the Flight 93 Memorial was magnificent, one of the greatest speeches ever given by an American President.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American and today is a day to again pray for the souls of the innocent who lost their lives ten years ago and those who have since given their lives to prevent such a day from happening again.
Let’s remember this wisdom from President John F. Kennedy: “There can be only one possible defense policy for the United States. It can be expressed in one word -- the word is first. I do not mean first when, I don’t mean first if, I mean first, period.”
Well said by a great American whom the Prog-Lib-Comms continue to assassinate.
“There is Purpose and Worth to Each and Every Life”
Seven years ago today came the sad but not unexpected news that Ronald Wilson Reagan’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease had ended. With his passing came the comforting realization that one of history’s giants had gone to his well-earned reward in the loving arms of Almighty God.
As more time passes since President Reagan left the land he so dearly loved, his legacy continues to grow as one of our country’s greatest Presidents and a political leader whose vision could restore our troubled land once again.
Ronald Reagan was, and today remains, my political hero. His greatness is exceeded by only one other American, George Washington, the Father of our Country. Ronald Reagan came out of America’s heartland, what I call The Forgotten Street, Main Street USA.
He truly lived the American dream, rising from humble roots to become a beloved Hollywood star, a courageous union leader who fought Communism, a leading figure in television and finally the political leader who restored conservative values and led the world to triumph in the Cold War, first as Governor of California and then as our 40th President.
In doing so, he breathed new life into the Republican Party and brought a generation of conservative leaders and voters into American politics.
At the time of his death, my wife and I were living in the Washington D.C. area. We fulfilled a promise we’d made to pay tribute to Ronald Reagan at the time of his death. You can read my remembrance of that time in a special article, June 5, 2004. It still brings tears to my eyes as I recall one of the most remarkable days in my life.
Those of us who cherished Ronald Reagan and all he stood for can help build his legacy and ensure that new generations of Americans learn of his vision for our country. You can do that by supporting Young America’s Foundation (www.yaf.org), the non-profit organization that saved the Reagan Ranch, Rancho del Cielo, located in the Santa Ynez mountains near Santa Barbara. The Foundation sponsors educational conferences for high school and college students. It brings speakers to college campuses to help students learn about conservative values in what is often a hostile environment for those ideas.
My wife Dottie and I have been fortunate in our life to support Young America’s Foundation and enjoy visits to Rancho del Cielo. We’ve been more fortunate to share 40 years of marriage, which we celebrate today. Through triumph and near-tragedies, we’ve endured because of our shared values and love for each other, and our desire to do what is right. Clearly on June 5, 1971, I did the smartest thing I’ve ever done in my life. Here is a shot of Dottie and me at the Freedom Wall at the Reagan Ranch.
We urge you to also visit and support The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library (www.reaganfoundation.org) in Simi Valley, California, where a museum houses an incredible display of memorabilia from President Reagan’s life, including the Air Force One airplane he flew in as President. The Library is also where President Reagan is buried, with these inspirational words on his final resting place: “I know in my heart that man is good, what is right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.”
Today we honor the purpose and worth in Ronald Reagan’s life and thank Almighty God for sharing The Gipper with us.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American, and a greater day to carry on the Reagan Revolution. As we head into a presidential election in 2012, I urge the Republican Party to launch a new Reagan Revolution with leadership that can use the Reagan model to rebuild and restore our United States.
We also thank our foreign visitors in May from the following countries: the Russian Federation, Sweden, Italy, Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Ukraine, Japan, South Africa, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Brazil, Spain, China, Hungary, the Seychelles, Switzerland, France and the Czech Republic.
Ronald Reagan Centennial Quote of the Day (talking about his beloved “Shining City Upon a Hill” in his Farewell Address to the nation on January 11, 1989):
“We’ve done our part. And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan Revolution, the men and women across America who for eight years did the work that brought America back. My friends: We did it. We weren’t just marking time. We made a difference. We made the City stronger, we made the City freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad, not bad at all.”
November 1, 2010
The Forgotten Street’s Humble Beginning
Four years ago today, this humble scribe decided the time had come to stand up and speak up for America. That determination led to the creation of The Forgotten Street.
Since then, we’ve seen Americans from all walks of life, from all parts of this great land, do the same. The Tea Party movement that is sweeping the country and ready to unleash a tidal wave of disapproval against Washington tomorrow at the ballot box was always out there on Main Street, USA, just waiting to rise up and be heard.
To commemorate the launch of The Forgotten Street, I think it most fitting to reflect on our initial credo, as first published on November 1, 2006:
How America’s Political, Media and Academic Elites Are Selling Out Main Street. For far too many Americans, it seems we have lost control over our lives to a swollen federal government and self-appointed elites who want to impose on us their beliefs and their morals.
From out-of-control federal spending to attacks on traditional marriage, from runaway lawsuit abuse to persecution of people of faith, we see daily events that shake our confidence in the American system.
Behind it all is the political, media and academic elites’ total disdain and contempt for what I call The Forgotten Street - Main Street USA.
These elites show more concern for the opinions of K Street, the Arab Street and the Champs-Elysees. They view us as boorish and stupid, unsophisticated, because we love our country, its religious heritage and its ideals. Like other elites in the past and present, they seek to control and manipulate people for their own gain and power while restricting individual freedom.
These are people who distrust our military and are quick to blame America for our troubles in the world. People who insist on securing their financial futures by robbing us of ours. People who believe God has no place in public discourse. People who glorify drug use, promiscuous sex and abuse of women in their media and music.
The Hollywood that created movie classics that celebrated our country, our freedom and our optimism has been replaced by cynics who present a warped view of America that tears us down in the eyes of the world and promotes bizarre conspiracy theories.
These elites control so many of our institutions -- our mainstream media, much of our government and judicial system, our schools and universities, our churches, big business and the entertainment industry.
So what can we on The Forgotten Street do to reclaim the heart of America and restore pride in our country and its rich traditions? To begin with, we have to stand up and speak up. We have to be heard. We have to be prepared to endure public scorn as we fight to uphold our values and our beliefs.
The moral equivalency promoted by the elites is just plain wrong. America is the greatest force for good in the world, the most noble and generous nation in human history. It’s time we all embrace that idea as our foundation moving forward. And, it’s time we tell the elites that we are fed up with their inability to understand that simple premise.
These words and the beliefs behind them ring as true today as they did four years ago. What they foreshadowed was the creeping socialism that has reached an apex under President Obama, who epitomizes the elites first discussed here. But within the sense of frustration of that first edition of The Forgotten Street was the underlying optimism about the inherent goodness of the American people and their ability to rise to meet the challenges that threaten our republic.
We see such a time right now. We pray tomorrow’s election results will hopefully turn America in a better direction to help restore our way of life on The Forgotten Street -- Main Street USA.
Thanks for reading! Always remember, it’s a great day to be an American! God bless my loyal readers both past and present. I cherish those who have shared this journey with me and I appreciate the interest of those in more than 30 countries around the globe.
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