Obama's "Bully Pulpit" -- very scary!

Do we really want a bully preacher for a president?

"As your President, I will use the bully pulpit to urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws," he wrote. "I personally believe that civil unions represent the best way to secure that equal treatment. But I also believe that the federal government should not stand in the way of states that want to decide on their own how best to pursue equality for gay and lesbian couples — whether that means a domestic partnership, a civil union, or a civil marriage."

Obama pledges to use a "bully pulpit" to overcome states' rights in choosing to recognize marriage. He seems to be saying that he will fight for states' rights to make their own decisions re guarding marriage, but in reality he is on the opposite side of states' rights, since he will essentially force states to recognize the marriage laws of other states. Whatever your take on the issue of gay marriage, this should continuance of the patter of the Democrats to trample over every remaining state right left should scare you badly. The Federal government under Democratic control next year will continue to usurp authority, taking more and more ground, becoming less and less efficient, tax more and more until the American people are pretty much stifled out of existence as a nation.




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American Dream Fading Fast?

Is the American dream a dying breed?

The American dream is a dream I've had for a while. I'd love to have a nice car, nice house, family... all the things that have been long associated with the American dream.

But is this dream fading away?

I know very few peers who even have the ability to reach this dream. Most of those that I know who even have the financial stability and security to be able to start a family, continue to delay it.

Will we soon be saying, "it was just a dream"?

America has long been based on principles of family and freedom. Slowly but surely politicians have been chipping away at those principles until they've become so faint that the ability to trace and find them has all but nearly disappeared. A few Americans still know what it means to be free but are they passing those principles on down to their children? Where has freedom gone? Is it just a pipe-dream? A lost reality that no one any longer can embrace or hold with pride?

A New Generation: Hope (but not in the government)

Hope. Change. Hope. Change.

Such is the slogan of a presidential candidates. It sounds so "hopeful." Apparently, since this candidate's campaign really has taken off, American's are quite hungry for a message of hope and change. Yet this politician has hope in all the wrong places. He's placing it entirely in the fact that he is a politician and can give people what they want for their hope... "free" healthcare, more government support of education, more entitlements.

This type of change may be welcome by many but for those who possess common sense realize that there's "no such thing as a free lunch" even when it is the government that's making the promise. The government can't just create money (without inflation anyway) so the resources have to come from somewhere. The government gets it's money from the people.

So obviously, the people's source of hope is the government and the government's source of resources is the individual taxpayers. There's something wrong with logic that goes in circles like that. The people end up as the resource of their "hope" in the long run anyway.

So why have the middleman government to begin with? Why not just get the big middleman government out of the way and let the people determine their future? America is great because it was founded on a principle of individual people exercising individual freedom. That's commonsense politics.

The death of common sense?

The Death of Common Sense
Lori Borgman
www.loriborgman.com

Three yards of black fabric enshroud my computer terminal. I am mourning the passing of an old friend by the name of Common Sense.

His obituary reads as follows:

Common Sense, aka C.S., lived a long life, but died from heart failure at the brink of the millennium. No one really knows how old he was, his birth records were long ago entangled in miles and miles of bureaucratic red tape.
Known affectionately to close friends as Horse Sense and Sound Thinking, he selflessly devoted himself to a life of service in homes, schools, hospitals and offices, helping folks get jobs done without a lot of fanfare, whooping and hollering. Rules and regulations and petty, frivolous lawsuits held no power over C.S.

A most reliable sage, he was credited with cultivating the ability to know when to come in out of the rain, the discovery that the early bird gets the worm and how to take the bitter with the sweet. C.S. also developed sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn), reliable parenting strategies (the adult is in charge, not the kid) and prudent dietary plans (offset eggs and bacon with a little fiber and orange juice).

A veteran of the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, the Technological Revolution and the Smoking Crusades, C.S. survived sundry cultural and educational trends including disco, the men's movement, body piercing, whole language and new math.

C.S.'s health began declining in the late 1960s when he became infected with the If-It-Feels-Good, Do-It virus. In the following decades his waning strength proved no match for the ravages of overbearing federal and state rules and regulations and an oppressive tax code. C.S. was sapped of strength and the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, criminals received better treatment than victims and judges stuck their noses in everything from Boy Scouts to professional baseball and golf.

His deterioration accelerated as schools implemented zero-tolerance policies. Reports of 6-year-old boys charged with sexual harassment for kissing classmates, a teen suspended for taking a swig of Scope mouthwash after lunch, girls suspended for possessing Midol and an honor student expelled for having a table knife in her school lunch were more than his heart could endure.

As the end neared, doctors say C.S. drifted in and out of logic but was kept informed of developments regarding regulations on low-flow toilets and mandatory air bags. Finally, upon hearing about a government plan to ban inhalers from 14 million asthmatics due to a trace of a pollutant that may be harmful to the environment, C.S. breathed his last.

Services will be at Whispering Pines Cemetery. C.S. was preceded in death by his wife, Discretion; one daughter, Responsibility; and one son, Reason. He is survived by two step-brothers, Half-Wit and Dim-Wit.

Memorial Contributions may be sent to the Institute for Rational Thought.

Farewell, Common Sense. May you rest in peace.

No Nonsense Politics

What is no nonsense politics? It's politics that allows for individual freedom, not government intervention. It calls on politicians of both political parties to stop pandering and create policies that are based on principles of justice and liberty for individuals.

It's ideal yet not idealogical.

It recognizes the death of "common sense" and sees that as a sad thing. It is a new breed of politics that realizes there is not just a past, but there is a future as well. It realizes that we cannot continue to live in the past but move on to the future and the challenges that we face.

No-nonsense politics has been embraced by some but still is eschewed by many if not most.

It is not merely political but is significantly spiritual. It is the spirit of Patrick Henry when he says "give me liberty or give me death." It is also embodied in the spirit of Abe Lincoln when he states that "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."

It transcends political figures and personalities and recognizes that individual people with creativity are what have made great nations great. It recognizes that harsh reality that some individuals are more talented than other individuals, but yet each individual has value in society.

It represents a can-do attitude and overcomes opposition of impossibility of great odds.

It is the policy that our nation was founded upon but has somehow been made to believe is a thing of the past.