The Transformation of America

Guest Column

       by Zeno Potas

     The transformation of America has kicked into high gear in many areas as the point of no return seems to be passing us by. This started back in the 1960s. And now, today, our largest primary social institutions – education, the media, Hollywood (entertainment) have become really nothing more than a soap box for Socialistic Progressivism. Furthermore, we have allowed the Democratic Socialists to undermine the institutions that instill good character – marriage, the family, communities, schools, and our churches. So, here we are, at least two full generations later – we are reaping what we have sown. It took nearly fifty years to get here; it will take another fifty years to get back if we can.

     The violations of the Constitution are at an all time high and because the Socialists are in power, and true Americans cannot get a hearing to stop this snowball down the hill race towards total government control of every citizens life. The stretching, ignoring, and insane interpretations of this hallowed document is frightening. Let's look at just a couple of the daggers into the heart of America.

     The Fourth Amendment protects everyone in America from government intrusion in their persons, houses, papers and effects, whether the government is looking for evidence of crimes or of evidence of sophistry. The whole purpose of the Fourth Amendment is to prevent the government from going house to house without probable cause until it finds evidence of a crime -- as British soldiers did to the colonists -- and then using that evidence in criminal prosecutions. But if the NSA is being allowed to go from computer to computer without probable cause until it finds what it wants -- and turn some of that evidence over to law enforcement. The Constitution’s protections are effectively short-circuited. The NSA’s argument that the Fourth Amendment only regulates criminal prosecutions is nonsense. It never has seriously been made to or accepted by the Supreme Court, and it defies what we now know about the client list of the NSA.

      Obamacare could be the biggest voter registration fraud scheme in the history of the world? This is the bombshell assessment of a pair of conservative activists: Gregg Phillips, founder of  Voters Trust, and Catherine Engelbrecht of  True the Vote. A 1993 law  requires any government office that provides “public assistance” to make voter registration part of the process. Since many applicants applying for coverage in the Obamacare “insurance marketplace” will be eligible for Medicaid (public assistance), not “Marketplace coverage,” voter registration by law must be part of the available health insurance package. The  Obamacare “navigators.” handling the applications have been hand selected by members of the Democratic/Progressive/Socialist party to "enroll" the masses.  Obamacare “navigators”  “can say and do things that government employees can’t, such as urging people to register as Democrats.” It has been reported on many separate occasions that these  “navigators.” are encouraging these new voters to register as Democrat in clear violation of the law. This is the finding, not of conservatives Phillips and Engelbrecht, but of a report by Demos, a left-wing organization funded by George Soros.(Remember him?) The report’s title says it all: “Building a Healthy Democracy: Registering 68 Million People to Vote through Health Benefit Exchanges” Could registering millions of new Democrats always have been the main goal of Obamacare?  It is a means “to collect personal data and voter registration information and share it with the federal government, which would in turn share it with left-wing groups … to conduct what is essentially a taxpayer-funded Get-Out-The-Vote operation for the Democratic Party.”

     The back-door Socialists have control of the schools, the media, one political party and about half of the other, and now, they begin to tilt the courts. The so-called "nuclear option" enacted by Comrade Reed has begun to nominate Leftist progressive thinkers to fill vacancies and will tilt the court system hard left. By stifling opposition this one party dictatorial ruling class are taking over and will probably be impossible to stop. Anyone who stands up to these Democratic thugs are said to be obstructionists who are damaging the country by not falling in line. Obstructing what, the destruction of our Republic? Damn right we are and we will go down with the ship, fighting to the end.

      When most Americans look out their windows they know this is not the country it once was. There's something wrong, something awfully wrong. The majority of Americans do not seem to see what is coming. That is what makes me so sad today. I see the country I love headed toward the end of the Republic, and I cannot seem to reach those who are unknowingly taking it there.
     

Time to Play Hardball with the Media

by

     M. Richard Maxson


      Glenn Greenwald is an American columnist, blogger, and author. He  was named by Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013. Three of the four books he authored have been New York Times bestsellers. Greenwald is a frequent speaker on college campuses, including Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, UCLA School of Law, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Maryland. Greenwald became widely known after The Guardian published the first of a series of reports detailing United States and British global surveillance programmes, based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. His NSA reporting has won numerous awards around the world, including top investigative journalism prizes from the 2013 Online Journalism Awards.

      So it is of no surprise that at the thirtieth annual Chaos Communication Congress he presented the keynote address. In it he condemned the mainstream media and accused his colleagues of failing to challenge erroneous remarks routinely made by government officials around the globe. He argued that the media establishment at large is guilty of failing significantly with respect to accomplishing its most crucial role: keeping governments in check. He stated, "....the reason why we have a free press is because national security officials routinely lie to the population in order to shield their power and get their agendas advanced.” He added, "journalists tasked with reporting on those issues have all too often been compliant with the blatant lies made by officials from those governments." 

       Using the NSA revelations as a recent example he said, "...I think one of the ways that you can see what it is that we were targeting is in the behavior of the media over the past six months since these revelations have emerged almost entirely without them and despite them. We knew in particular that one of our most formidable adversaries was not simply going to be the intelligence agencies on which we were reporting and who we were trying to expose, but also their most loyal, devoted servants, which calls itself the United States and British media.”

      From there, he went on to cite the example of US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who earlier this year made remarks to Congress that were quickly proved false by documents leaked to Greenwald by Mr. Snowden. The very first National Security Agency document he was shown, Greenwald said, “revealed that the Obama administration had succeeded in convincing court, a secret court, to compel phone companies to turn over to the NSA every single phone record of every single telephone call.” Clapper then “went to the Senate and lied to their faces...which is at least as serious of a crime as anything Edward Snowden is accused of." 

       Greenwald said that the established media continues to reject the notion that government officials spew lies. Snowden’s NSA documents have exposed those these lies on more than one occasion, yet reporters around the world continue to take the word of officials as fact rather than dig from the truth. The US “knows that its only hope for continuing to maintain its regiment of secrecy behind which it engages with radical and corrupt acts is to intimidate and deter and threaten people who are would-be whistleblowers and transparency activists from coming forward and doing what it is that they do by showing them that they’ll be subjected to even the most extreme punishments and there’s nothing that they can do about it,” he said. “And it’s an effective tactic.”

       The wealthy Socialists, who now control everything in the US media. They recently met with Mr. Obama to decide which news will be reported. This quote from the White House sums it all up nicely. “By meeting privately with the people who shape national opinion, the president ensures that his points of view will be represented in the media — even if those points of view aren’t directly attributable to him. The President's private conferences with columnists "serve as an alternative means of shaping the debate in Washington: a private back-channel of genuine sentiment that seeps into the echo-chamber."

      
       Someone once said that "the propagada in the US media makes the old Soviet Union's look like child's play. Those of us that have a world view could not disagree with this statement. We are given a pablum of slanted news stories 24/7. If you have read one newspaper, it seems as if you have read them all. The articles all seem to be the same – the same wire service telling us what to think and what they say is important to know.

       The US Media is not our friend, it is the enemy.  They have been trying to swing national elections since at least the early 1990s. In 2008 and again this year, we saw the media cravenly cover up for the incompetence and deceit of this President. This is on top of the daily barrage of insults that Constitutionalists must endure at the hands of this arrogant bunch of elitist snobs. 

       What can you say about reporting by such well known journalists like Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post and  David Gergen, of CNN, stated for the record "  "This has been a scandal-free administration by and large, and we should appreciate that." Bias is one thing, but this is a mental disorder that some call Democratic Socialism. We  need to be prepared to play hardball with the Pravda press from here on out.

      
       

JFK - Fifty Down and Twenty-Five To Go

by

     M. Richard Maxson


     Seventy-five years, that is when the truth may come out about the Kennedy murder. For those of us that were alive on this fateful day in history remember that the "official" story and documents of the murder were sealed for seventy-five years, supposedly by the family, so that everyone connected to it would, most likely, be dead and therefore could not be held accountable. For those of you who were not born yet, you may never have heard of this before. If you haven't, you have now. .

     Since the fabricated Warren Commission Report was published, many in the public have stepped up to say that they got it wrong in finding that the assassination was the work of a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. Too many other facts and too many what seemed to be coinsidences almost immediately surfaced. The original report had to be "modified" after James Tague came forward. He not only witnessed the murder he himself was in the line of fire. Then 27, is believed to be the only bystander who was wounded that day in Dallas.( http://news.yahoo.com/video/jfk-assassination-witness-recounts-missed-015912500.html) The original report had three shots fired, three shots hit, but did they? No, says the revised version. This is the birth of the single bullet theory.

     Top forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht calls the Warren Commission's findings "absurd," noting that the "single bullet theory" supported by the commission is inconsistent with Kennedy's head wounds. He calls the killing a "CIA-orchestrated coup d'etat."  It was done with the help of the military/industrial complex for many reasons that I will not go into in this article.
    
      A second commission was formed years later, the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations of 1976-79. They disagreed on whether there may have been a second gunman. But the committee also said there was a high probability of a second shooter, citing acoustic evidence gathered from Dealey Plaza.

       "You have two official investigations conducted by the government reaching contradictory conclusions," says Larry Sabato, who wrote about the impact of the assassination in his book The Kennedy Half-Century.

     John T. Orr is the author of "Analysis of Gunshots in Dealey Plaza." Orr's independent research convinced the FBI to conduct additional testing on JFK evidence as late as 1997. He stated "On April 17, 1995, I mailed a 72-page report on the final results of my research project to Attorney General Janet Reno. It presented what was then, and I believe still is, the only complete visual reconstruction of the gunshots together with all of the evidence supporting it. 

     
     The report proves beyond a reasonable doubt that four shots were fired during the assassination. Oswald fired three shots--the first wounding the President in the back and neck, the second missing the President completely and hitting Governor Connally in the back, chest, and thigh, and the third missing the 25-foot-long limousine entirely. While Oswald was spraying bullets wildly, another shooter, an expert marksman fired a fourth shot, a near-perfect fatal hit at the center of the back of the president's head that exited the right side of the head and struck the governor's right wrist.

     In the report, I recommended a number of things the Justice Department could do to further confirm my analysis. The Department directed the FBI to do only one of those things -- examine important forensic evidence I had pointed out on one of the bullet fragments found in the limousine. It took about five years to complete that examination and report the results.

     In the end, the FBI did only a portion of the fragment examination I had requested, and the results were incomplete and inconclusive. The Department permanently shut down any further investigation of my analysis."

     Another investigator added "I don't think we have a good explanation of the assassination," says Jefferson Morley, creator of the website JFKfacts.org. "The causes of the crime were obscured, and we're still living with the consequences." Crime scene investigator Sherry Feister, author of the book "Enemy of the Truth: Myths, Forensics, and the Kennedy Assassination," insists that the president was shot from the front, not from behind as the commission maintained.
    
      Even Secretary of State John Kerry recently said he believed that Oswald did not act alone.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently disclosed that the Kennedy family does not believe the lone gunman finding.


     The truth remains elusive, as thousands of pages of documents remain classified by the U.S. government. We may find out in another 25 years, if it's released, if any of us who were there are still alive to remember.

A "Democratic Socialist" Mayor for New York

  by

     M. Richard Maxson

      New Yorkers have elected a new mayor who dedicated himself to the Sandinistas in the 1980s, honeymooned in Cuba in the 1990s (in violation of a U.S. travel ban), and participated in a New York City Council event honoring Zimbabwe's tyrannous Robert Mugabe in 2002?

     In 1988, Bill de Blasio went to Nicaragua to aid the Marxist, Soviet-supported Sandinistas. He came home, as The New York Times put it, with "a vision of the possibilities of unfettered leftist government." Today, 25 years later, New York City Public Advocate de Blasio, has been elected mayor and  remains "very proud" of his radical activities. Mr. de Blasio's class warfare strategy in New York City is directly out of the Marxist playbook. Initially, he denied having once claimed for himself the "democratic socialist". "I am a progressive who believes in an activist approach to government.  The people of this city have chosen a progressive path, and tonight we set forth on it together as one city."

     As Americans brace for the federal takeover of one-sixth of the economy with Obamacare, do we know what's hitting us yet? It's called socialism, and it has increasingly transformed the American political landscape.  We are now at a place where there are legitimately fewer Americans who desire a free republic with a free people than there are those who think the government should give them stuff. There are fewer of us who believe in the value of free exchange and free enterprise. There are fewer of us who do not wish to demonize successful people in order to justify taking from them. Quite unexpectedly, socialism -- or its variant, "democratic socialism" -- has quickly emerged in New York City.  

     Americans are so grievously under-educated about the tenets of Marxism-Leninism. The left's vision of the world is the implicit assumption that high-minded third parties like themselves can make better decisions for other people than those people can make for themselves. The fact that the "new Democratic Socialism" is never "democratic," and that "socialism" destroys free markets. Such ideas, which have entered the Democratic Party mainstream flow from anti-liberty, collectivist roots. The new mayor's policies have less to do with the principles of free people under the U.S. Constitution than with government controls in the old Eastern bloc -- from de Blasio's plans to expand government's role in the economy by controlling prices in the housing market and imposing a higher minimum wage, to degrading the concept of national citizenship by introducing a "Universal City ID card" and allowing driver's licenses for illegal aliens. The promised "fundamentally changing  of America" continues.

Putting America in it's Place

by 

      M. Richard Maxson



     In July of 1944, 730 financial leaders from 44 nations met at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire for a conference in which they recreated the economic world: They established the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. They founded the International Monetary Fund. And they created the World Bank. They established themselves as de facto rulers of the western world. They are the invisible men behind the presidents and prime ministers that REALLY control everything on the planet.

     Now, 67 years later, another conference has just concluded that gives several observers flashbacks to Bretton Woods. A left-wing billionaire did fund two major conferences that start on the same day, in two different locations just a three hours apart by car. Two liberal events packed into one long weekend. The guest list is said to have included former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and former chair of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors, Joseph Stiglitz  to produce “a lot of high-quality, breakthrough thinking.”

     The conference organizer? None other than George Soros — the internationalist and mega-investor who, in his own words, sees a pressing need to “rearrange the entire financial order.” and no one seems to have noticed. More than 200 did attend, but only 79 speakers are listed on its site – and it already looks like a Soros convention. The rest of the list read like a "Who’s Who" of left-wing organizations and talking heads, including the president of PBS, a senior vice president with American Public Media, an Al Jazeera English executive, the president of the Newspaper Guild – CWA and Washington Post columnist Rob Pegoraro, two commissioners from the FCC, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Bernie Sanders, four Democratic representatives, the head of Columbia University, and assorted left-wing journalist types, from Salon’s Glenn Greenwald to disgraced former MSNBC host David Shuster, who now works for Soros.

      Twenty-two are on Soros-funded INET’s board and three more are INET grantees. Even Soros admits his ties to INET are a problem, saying, “there is a conflict there which I fully recognize.” He claims he stays out of operations. That’s impossible. The whole event is his operation. Nineteen are listed as contributors for another Soros operation – Project Syndicate, which calls itself “the world's pre-eminent source of original op-ed commentaries” reaching “456 leading newspapers in 150 countries.” That’s just the beginning. The emphasis of both conferences is a familiar one to American voters – change. In one conference Soros wanted to begin changing the global economy in one event. In the other, his flunkies want to “Change the world. Change the media.”

      The billionaire  told Australia 's national newspaper "The Australian." " America , as the  centre of the globalized financial markets, was sucking up the savings of  the world. This is now over. The game is out," he said, adding that the  time has come for "a very serious adjustment" in American's consumption  habits. He implied that he was the one with the power to bring this  about."  

     When the anti-American Soros spent $50 million creating the New York City-based Institute for New Economic Thinking(INET), he began a major move against the dollar. The billionaire openly declared his plans to “reform the currency system.” "The dollar needed to take a back seat and end its stint as the world reserve currency." “The big question is whether the U.S. dollar should be the reserve currency; and, in fact, it no longer is,” Soros told Bloomberg. The move against the dollar has gained momentum rapidly. Soros wrote that “the rising powers must be present at the creation of this new system to ensure that they will be active supporters.” “Reorganizing the world order will need to extend beyond the financial system and involve the United Nations, especially membership of the Security Council.” Soros emphasized that point, that this needs to be a global solution, making America one among many.  The Bush-hating billionaire says America is scary “because a declining superpower losing both political and economic dominance but still preserving military supremacy is a dangerous mix.”

     Sadly, those who actually report the news didn’t reporting on Soros or either event. And that’s even though staffers or even executives from Reuters, the Financial Times, NPR, PBS, The Washington Post and other major media outlets are speaking at one event or the other. The Soros empire is silent about these conferences because it isn’t just designed to change global economic rules it is, as Soros puts it, "to put America in its place"


 

WORLD VIEWS

Guest Column

       by  Nadezhda Alexeeva

     In late 2012, The New York Times published a long article where it called on citizens to prepare for a major collapse. It turns out that Barack Obama is prepared to prevent a civil war and the manifestations of totalitarianism. However, the measures were the most striking manifestation of totalitarianism from which the American public has to be rescued. The main job of the Department of Homeland Security is total surveillance over the population of the country. This organization was created after 9/11, and is endowed with nearly unlimited power. Its employees have the right to arrest, physically eliminate, carry a total surveillance of anyone who the U.S. government announces an "enemy of the people" or a terrorist. The Department has numerous informants scattered in all layers of the American society and is allocated enormous funding from the federal budget.

     There are also numerous rumors about special exercises conducted by U.S. intelligence agencies dedicated to suppression of hypothetical popular uprisings. Various situations are modeled. For example, in 1984, the U.S. conducted exercises under the code-name Rex- 84 that worked out the course of action in the event of a political crisis. In response, the Constitution would be suspended, and the absolute power would be transferred to the president, followed by the military suppression of the population.

      This army is mentally ready to start a war against its own population. It was trained for this more than once. There have been numerous exercises on the participation of the armed forces in rebellions suppression. The so-called Zombie Apocalyspe is a meer training session for the military to supress it's citizens.

     We can assume that these are just rumors, but, as the saying goes, there is no smoke without fire. It seems that the news of this kind produces a very negative impression on ordinary Americans, including the growing distrust in the institution of the government.

    Why is this active, vibrant nation that has managed to build cities, factories and a huge empire on the bare, uncharted land, the nation that gave the world so many great artists, writers, and prominent political figures in such a lamentable state? 

     Americans as a nation are going through a difficult period. Their traditional values have been abandoned. The U.S. is likely facing a serious social upheaval due to the Socialization of their school systems. They are the basis for the planned, phased elimination of those rights and freedoms stipulated by the U.S. Constitution and crammed into the consciousness of the American public. If the pace of taking away rights does not keep up with the pace of reformatting(brain-washing) the consciousness of the American population, the crisis in the American. society will worsen.

The End of the US was in 2007

Forward by

     M. Richard Maxson

This blog always promises the TRUTH whatever that may be. many people believe that the old USA is dead (1776-2006). and that we are now living in the Democratic Socialist States of America. They may not be that far off.


This tells the story, why Bush was so bad at the end of his term.
Don' t just skim over this, it’s not very long, read it slowly and
let it sink in. If in doubt, check it out!!!

The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.

The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.

For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this:
 
January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress.

At the time:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS
of JOB GROWTH

Remember the day...
January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee. The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?

BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!
 
They added to this crisis by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 trillion dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!

Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy.

And who took the third highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac?
OBAMA

And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA and the Democrat Congress

So when someone tries to blame Bush.

REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!"

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.

Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011.

In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.

For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.

And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009.

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.

If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.

The Shutdown is a Constitutional Responsibility

Guest Column

           by G. Sontag 

     

       Re·spon·si·ble : able to be trusted to do what is right or to do the things that are expected or required : involving important duties, decisions, etc., that you are trusted to do. There are some in Congress who, perhaps by being "educated" by our national school system, forgot the meaning of this word. It is, after all, their reason for being in Washington in the first place.

      James Madison, the 39 other men who signed the Constitution in 1787, wisely provided for separation of powers among the three branches of government. The president would faithfully execute the laws and be commander in chief of the military, but both houses of Congress would have to approve of every penny the government could spend. All spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives, which means that Congressmen there have a right to decide whether or not they want to spend money on a particular government activity. A right under the Constitution to with hold money from ANY program the choose.

     Whether legislation by appropriation is a good idea or a bad idea is a matter of opinion. But whether it is both legal and not unprecedented is a matter of fact. You cannot blame other people for not giving you everything you want. And it is a fraud to blame them when you refuse to use the money they did vote, even when it is ample to pay for everything else in the government.

      Government shutdown is not exactly a new thing. We have had 17 government shutdowns since the late 1970s. Almost all involved legislative-executive disagreement. So when we hear from Harry Reid or Barack Obama keeps claiming that it is some new outrage for those who control the money to try to change government policy by granting or withholding money, that is simply another one of their lies.

    

    

Is It News or Propaganda?

by
     M. Richard Maxson

    The disgracefully slanted coverage of the trial of George Zimmerman, an EPA study that failed to link fracking with environmental contamination and a recent study by Justice Department concluding that gun control laws are ineffective in reducing gun violence is only the latest, prominent example of liberal media bias. Many Americans are experiencing despair over what we believe is the destruction of this nation from within led by the Liberal media. We see a rejection of the moral principles and system of government that have made this the greatest nation in the history of the world.

     Since the 2006 election, America’s national media hasn’t let up. It’s pushing harder on its pro-liberal Democrat, Socialist, anti-Constitutionalist Republican slant. They run stories that help Democrats hard and long. The media does not insist that Democratic politicians explain why they defy public opinion on extreme positions like late term abortion, partial birth abortion, or parental consent and stories that help Republicans, will be be ignored, or should be delivered quietly and, especially if they hurt the president.

     The Press today is based upon a manipulation of the truth, half-truths, a cynical representation of manipulated facts, screenshots, sound-bites video clips, and outright lies, to sway public opinion. The press doesn't listen and then ask questions about the results found, instead it asks questions and relentlessly quizes Republicans and Independants, eagerly hunting any gaffe that they can be discredited with. They attack the persons who have presented the creditable evidence that doesn't fit the liberal agenda.
   
      For most Americans, their entire informational and intellectual universe is shaped by the left -- from elementary school through graduate school, and of course, in the news media.  The non-political middle hears only stories shaped by the leftist media. They rarely, if ever, encounter non-left viewpoints. The media is nothing short of a corrupt PR arm for the Democratic/Socialist Party. The cynical, despicable thing about all this is that even though the public knows it’s being played by the liberals, the game still works.
      
     Average Americans might not trust the media, but the networks still set the agenda and control the subject. Sadder still is that few in the general public even seem to be taking notice of the loss of quality reporting across the state and nation. Walter Cronkite, the great news reporter, once remarked, “Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy; it is democracy,”


     We are the first to live in a total mass-media-oriented world, and every night when we turn on the television and the news comes on, we see the almost unbelievable hypocrisy and deceit and even outright idiocy of our national leaders and the corruption and disintegration of all our institutions, from the police and courts to the White House itself, and we are told is is alright. This is the norm. This is the Leftist media.

     The media in the United States, while still not completely controlled by the government, is mostly under the direction of large Liberal contributors which dictate the content of the newspapers, magazines, and TV networks they own, so except for small independent efforts it is no longer really free. In a democracy, we need journalists to hold the government accountable.  An independent, experienced and competent press is vital to governmental transparency – and a check on unfettered government power.

     Friedrich Hayek noted in his book, The Constitution of Liberty, that democracy only makes sense if individuals are able to form an opinion independent of their government.  That is the reason behind first amendment rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press, but as a rare moderate Democrat recently stated "America has no functioning democracy at this moment," - Jimmy Carter
   
     

Islam - I'm Tired of the Lies

by

    M. Richard Maxson

     

      How many more 9/11’s do we need before we wake up? How many more Bali bombings? How many more attempted beheadings? When will we wake up and realize that Islam is in fact a political ideology cult which has always been spread by the edge of the sword?

      “When will we believe the words of Muhammad? When will we believe the Koran? When will we believe the hadith? When will we take them at their word when they tell us they intend to kill us? When will we understand that they want to see the entire world under submission to Islam and sharia law?”

      On this anniversary of our nations greatest loss, when thousands of Muslims are preparing to march on Washington because of their perceived anti-religious indignities, I am reprinting a post that is a truth, a fact, that is staring us all in the face but is yet unrecongnized by the Western masses.

                                                       Islam is not a religion.

                                                                        It is a cult

    What is a religion? All religions are basically the same; do these things -- pray, penance, repent, be good to others, etc -- and earn your salvation. Christianity says your salvation has already been given and will not be lost as long as you practice the aforementioned. 

    There are some violent passages in these "holy books" of religion but nowhere does it say to murder, rape, lie, and degrade our fellow human beings as it does in Islamic texts. It says what it means. To say that a believer can pick and choose what parts of the Koran to adhere to is folly.

     To understand Islam one must understand the prophet Mohammad himself. His words and deeds. Mosab Hassan is the author of "Son of Hamas". His father was one of the founders of Hamas. Hassan says, "In order to know what Islam is all about we need to study and learn the behavior of Mohammad, the same in Christianity we need to study who Jesus is.

     In Islam's early days, Mohammed spread the faith with the sword. He was a murderer, a rapist, and a pedophile who showed no mercy to anyone who opposed him. This is made quite clear in the five Islamic holy books which details Islam. (see Craig Winn (teawithterrorists.com) and his soon-to-be-released manuscript, Prophet of Doom.)

   In the translated versions of the Koran and the Hadith (books of Mohammed's teachings) show the manuscripts to be riddled with exhortations to commit violence and terror against those who don't follow their doctrine. Peaceful Muslims are only deluding themselves by believing Islam is a religion of peace. The fact is that "According to Allah the most vile of creatures is a peace-loving Muslim," said author and Islamic terror expert Craig Winn "Muslims are the victims of Islam"

   The basic message of these Muslim fundamentalists is to "slay the infidels wherever you find them," which includes Christians and Jews, as well as Muslims who don't believe in the Jihad. "I came to the conclusion that this so-called religion, Islam, is poison." Winn believes it is essential to fully comprehend doctrines such as the Koran in order to understand the roots of terrorism.

The big problem is that the public is widely misled about Islam, thinking that it is a peaceable religion that was hijacked by a small segment of fundamentalists, when it is actually based on violent teachings. Winn puts forth that the western world must own up to the fact that "Islam is at war with us."

   When will this happen? After a "nuclear dirty bomb" is detonated in New York, or Washington, or Los Angles is probably the correct answer. there is too much political correctness in this country to allow the truth to shine through.

     I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor", raping eight year old brides that do not survive the first night, of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari’a law tells them to.

     I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America and Canada , while no American nor Canadian group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.

                                                                        I'm tired of the lies

The Powers of War

by M. Richard Maxson                                                              

     The president of the United States is also known as the Commander and Chief of the Army and Navy and has the powers to:
- Declare war, grant letters of marks and reprisal
- Call forth the Militia
- Provide and maintain a Navy
- Define and punish offenses against the law of nations
 - Raise and support armies
- Make rules for the government and regulation of [the armed forces]
- Make rules for captures on land and sea
- Define and punish piracies and felonies on the high seas
- Organize, arm and discipline the militia
- Exercise authority over building of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings.

    If you agree with the above then you are compeltly WRONG. These are the powers given to the Congress, but most Americans, believing many powers assigned to Congress belong to the president.  The Framers gave only the Congress the authority – and duty – to make such decisions. James Madison observed, “In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department.”

    Recent Presidents have advanced an interpretation of Art. II that gives the “commander in chief” power over any and all issues that can be tied to the defense of the nation. In these arguments, so many actions are defined as under the president’s  limit of authority that the executive branch becomes an unlimited and unstoppable force. However, this misunderstanding about whether the constitution could be amended through the making of treaties was denied in the case of Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1 (1957):  "This court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the constitution over a treaty" [Reid, at p. 17]. "No agreement with a foreign nation (no executive orders, no Presidential directives, no "accords" etc.) can confer power on Congress or any other branch of government, which is free from the restraints of the constitution" [Reid, supra].

      The current perversion of the Constitution is a lethal attack on our core value of divided government.  Constitutional powers are not subject to be “taken” from one branch by another. However Congress and the public now seem satisfied to let the president exercise this pilfered authority. The Framers intended that decisions regarding the use of military force were to be safely in the hands of Congress while the execution of those decisions were to be solely presidential. Today's Democratic Socialists have no regard for the Constitution or rule of law and have severely weakened it in many places, and as a result, our liberty, our prosperity and our very nation are in decline and in grave jeopardy.
    
    


 

Leftism - Part 2

By
   M. Richard Maxson

    

     Liberalism was once a philosophy based in Constitutional respect and American exceptionalism, but it’s been a long time since that was the case. Perhaps not since John Kennedy has there been a national Democrat who believed in this vision of America, one in which individual liberty and personal responsibility brought about collective greatness, not a partisan legislative agenda and the systematic silencing of dissent.
     The Democratic Party was infected by the progressive (Leftist) philosophy at the dawn of the 20^th century, as was the Republican Party and the world. Republicans largely rejected them, but they found a willing host with the Democrats. The concept sounds great – government can make things better. Soon, they had metastasized through the Democratic Party and won the White House with Woodrow Wilson. Wilson abused his power and sought to imprison opponents whose only crime was criticizing his administration. (On top of his rabid racism, another staple of the progressive movement no one likes to talk about.)
    The Leftist movement during the post WWII era tried again to gain control but were forced underground by the rabid Anti-Communism that had swept the country. The Cold War was upon us and only good Americans were required to fight this battle. The re-election of Harry Truman may have been the last election of a "true" Democrat. Some may say that it was John Kennedy and that topic is truly up for debate, but this was the time of the silent take-over of the Democratic Party (1946-1964).
    The election of 1960 brought huge numbers of Leftists into the party to fight the "establishment" Democrats behind a new younger leader, John F. Kennedy. Was Kennedy a Leftist? Far from it, but it was that huge influx of young Leftists into the party that sealed it's fate. Kennedy was not of their mindset but his campaign was a means to an end.
     The 1960s, became the decade liberals love to hate. Why? Because the path-breaking supply-side tax cuts of John F. Kennedy generated one of the greatest booms in economic history showing once again that left alone our system of economic freedom works!  Actually, it was two big tax cuts. The first was a business tax cut put in place in 1962, and the second was an across-the-board personal tax cut that began in early 1964. Kennedy cut the top tax rate from 91 percent to 70 percent, but all other tax rates were also reduced for top-to-bottom income earners. The result was an eight-year expansion from 1961 to 1969 saw growth of 48 percent -- a third more in an eight-year period than in the 16 years ending in 1960.
    Since that time, conveniently, John Kennedy’s powerful tax-cut slashing on business, individuals, and investors doesn’t exist in the Left’s post-war, economic narrative. It’s been rubbed out of history, replaced by a liberal vision of powerful unions and high tax rates on the rich, which is supposed to create growth.
     This was one of the most turbulent times in our nations history. War, riots in the street, and on our university campuses decided the election of 1968. Law and order and an end to the war won the day but something else was happening......... in our schools. Across the country the universities had a new generation of teachers who had other ideas of what the United States was going to be. Educating the masses in the ideology of the Left was the new way to power.
     The uprisings on our nations campuses was directly due to the anti-American ideals that were being ingrained from these new Leftist teachers into our youth to mold them for a new world. Reported as anti-war protests, when if fact, it was not only protests against the war but they were the beginning of anti-American protests from within our own country.
 

        America will never be destroyed from the outside.
                    If we falter and lose our freedoms, 
         it will be because we have destroyed ourselves.
                                                                                  - Abraham Lincoln


NEXT - Part 3 - New World Order
    
     

What America's Schools Should Be - An Announcement by the Principal

 

Guest Column  

By Dennis Prager 

To the students and faculty of our high school:

    I am your new principal, and honored to be so.
There is no greater calling than to teach young people.
I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers and against our country.
 
First , this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity.
     I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships. The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity -- your character, your scholarship, your humanity. The only national identity this school will care about is American.
    This is an American public school, and American public schools were created to make better Americans. If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial or religious identity through school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity, race and non-American nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America , one of its three central values -- epluribus Unum, "from many, one."  This school will be guided by America 's values. This includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness.
    Your clubs will be based on interests and passions, not blood, ethnic, racial or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism -- an unhealthy preoccupation with the self -- while the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already speak, carpentry and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being interested in are those based on ethnic, racial or sexual identity, that means that little outside of yourself really interests you.
 
Second , I am uninterested in whether English is your native language. My only interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has united America 's citizens for over 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you leave this school without excellent English language skills, I would be remiss in my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully compete in the American job market. We will learn other languages here -- it is deplorable that most Americans only speak English -- but if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your school.
 
Third , because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor , everything in this school will reflect learning's elevated status. This means, among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our society dress more formally for Hollywood events than for church or school. These people have their priorities backward. Therefore, there will be a formal dress code at this school.
 
Fourth , no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school's property -- whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events. If you can't speak without using the f -word, you can't speak. By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission, plus epithets such as "Nigger," even when used by one black student to address another black, or "bitch," even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few your age to instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene.
 
Fifth , we will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way -- the way people attained it until decided otherwise a generation ago -- by earning it. One immediate consequence is that there will be one valedictorian, not eight.
 
Sixth , and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will be devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue... There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual or not Christian. We will have failed if any one of you graduates this school and does not consider him or herself inordinately fortunate -- to be alive and to be an American.
 
Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country. As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.

Leftism - Part 1

by M. Richard Maxson

    The Constitutional Republic that was created after the Revolutionary War was fragile at the beginning, but it has prospered over the centuries beyond the founding generation’s wildest dreams. Our Founders developed an ingenious system of checks and balances, which George Washington described as, “though not absolutely perfect, it is one of the best in the world.” This government “by the people, for the people.” The primary architects of our constitutional republic understood that history teaches essential lessons. They meticulously studied history and comparative political systems in preparation for crafting a system of government likeliest to maximize liberty.

    Around the same time Socialism began to take hold in France. They were called "Leftists" due the fact that people with certain views sat on the left side of the National Assembly. The French Revolution was their chance to show what they could do when they got the power they sought. In contrast to what they promised -- "liberty, equality, fraternity" -- what they actually produced were food shortages, mob violence and dictatorial powers that included arbitrary executions, extending even to their own leaders.

    By the eve of World War I, poor working and living conditions in American cities helped clear the way for socialism.  In 1912, Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene Debs won 6 percent of the popular vote.  And there were hundreds of Socialist elected officials in cities and towns across the country. Terrorist bombings and assassinations of government officials that were happening in the United States were the seeds that sprouted agencies like the FBI. These governmental agencies were extremely anti-Communist and crusaded to hinder their spread. The party had other problems."The Socialists, who were a small third party, had very little to offer," says political scientist Gary Marks.  "What they could offer was ideological purity.  They could offer a beacon for a different society.  But the labor unions were rooted in the 'here and now.'"

    The economic upheaval of the 1930s gave many socialists hope that the time had come for a workers’ party in the United States.  But political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg says it was too late. "During the period of the Great Depression and economic downturn, there was more of a possibility for the creation of labor parties," says Ginsberg.  "But with the advent of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition, labor became such a prominent force within the Democratic Party that most labor leaders could see no advantage to trying to go out on their own."

   Labor unions have been very active in promoting voter participation within the context of America's two-party system.  And since the Great Depression, organized labor generally has supported the Democratic Party, which has embraced many people on the left of the U.S. political spectrum.

     After the McCarthy hearings left them reeling they reinvented themselves as the "new" left. They threw out the concept of right and wrong for the ideal that it was a persons circumstance that caused all of societies problems. They struggled to avoid facing the plain fact of evil -- that some people simply choose to do things that they know to be wrong when they do them. Every kind of excuse, from poverty to an unhappy childhood, is used by the left to explain and excuse evil.

    Published in 1963, in the congressional records are the 45 goals of the Communist party. One of these is the take over of one of the political parties. The Democratic party was ripe for the taking. Since the Civil War, America's two major political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, have averaged between them about 95 percent of the popular vote in national elections. Essentially this means that third parties have no chance to gain representation at the national level in the United States.  So it's a logic where one has to try to create the broadest coalition that one can," says Marks. They began to infiltrate and mold the democratic party into their liking. "And to do that means that under normal circumstances, one has to downplay ideology and appeal to as many diverse groups as possible."

NEXT - Part 2 - The Last "Real" Democrat.