Choosing The Right Lane To Follow

In pursuit of Constitutionally grounded governance, free markets and individual liberty

"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." --George Washington

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Shocking! Out of 44 U.S. Presidents, Obama ranks as 4th best ever: I was just reading that after less than 4 years, Obama has been rated the 4th best president ever:

·       Reagan and 9 others tied for first,

·       15 presidents tied for second,

·       19 other presidents tied for third.

·       Obama came in fourth.

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52% Favor Reducing or Eliminating Tax Deductions for Wealthier Americans

Voters tend to think income tax deductions help wealthier Americans more than taxpayers in the middle class, and most favor reducing or eliminating those deductions for those who earn more than $250,000 a year. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters believe tax deductions help upper-income Americans the most.

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Islamic Sharia Law Comes to Great Britain

Stoning for adultery. Amputations for theft. Death for apostates. And second-class status for Christians and Jews. This is life under Sharia law, the Islamic system practiced in countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Great Britain. Yes, Great Britain. There are reportedly some 85 Sharia courts now operating there, with Islamic judge's ruling on cases ranging from financial to marital disputes among British Muslims. "We went into some proceedings and there were a couple of Islamic judges sitting up above the rest," said Alan Craig, who recently stepped down as leader of the Christian People's Alliance party. "And there was one Muslim woman who was suing for divorce."

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Sam Donaldson Says America is No Longer Our Country

Promises of change made by revolutionaries in 18^th-century France and 20^th-century Russia were said to bring about a new world order that would arise Phoenix-like from the dead ideas of the past. Give us power and time and the bloody mess that’s today will fade in memory as we look forward to a glorious future. Promises, promises. When America’s founders called for change, they did it in terms of universally held principles that had as their source God’s law, both special and natural revelation, as English Jurist William Blackstone (1723–1780) made clear:

“This law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God Himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered [permitted] to contradict these.”

There were certain principles that could not be set aside even for the most claimed utopian promises. In addition, these governing principles had been tested in the crucible of history. Now we come to our nation and the claim by some that the old principles must be discarded for a new set of principles. But these new principles aren’t new. They also have been tested in the crucible of history and have been found wanting. Consider this from Sam Donaldson:

“It’s the Tea Party and thinking of the Tea Party and people like that that are driving the Republicans out of contention as a national party. You cannot win nationally if you don’t know something about the way the country’s changed, and the Tea Party seems to think the country can go back 25 or 30 years. The greatest slogan that I hated during this last campaign was ‘We want to take back our country.’ Guys, it’s not your country anymore — it’s our country and you’re part of it, but that thinking is going to defeat Republicans nationally if they don’t get rid of it.”

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Pete Sessions: GOP Ready to Make a Deal After Christmas By: Bill Hoffmann

House Republicans are ready to make an eleventh-hour deal to stop the nation from falling over the fiscal cliff, senior Texas Rep. Pete Sessions assured Newsmax in an exclusive interview. "I would let the public know that the Republicans will come back quickly next week. We are ready to do business," Sessions, Chairman of National Republican Congressional Committee, said Friday. He said Republicans quashed House Speaker John Boehner’s "Plan B" to extend Bush-era tax cuts for all but those with incomes over $1 million because of concerns about whether President Barack Obama would accept it or try to add to it. "A group of members felt like it was unwise to move forward on a plan that the president would veto," he said. "Members are very much concerned. We want to make sure we pass a bill that does not hurt the economy further." He said Republicans believe that under Obama’s solution to the fiscal cliff, the nation stands to lose 700,000 jobs and see businesses be hit with new taxes, putting undue pressure on the economy. "What I would suggest to people is that the president is the person who during his reelection said ‘I will work on a bipartisan basis,' " Sessions said. While some critics have said the rejection of Boehner’s plan by House Republicans points to a GOP in disarray, Sessions strongly disagrees. "I would call this a good team exercise for John Boehner," he said. "I’m a member of the Republican leadership and I have known and do know each of these members personally. We will stand together and work together. The president has only himself to argue with." There have been rumors that Obama and Boehner may try to hammer out yet another alternative plan in secret over the Christmas holiday — before Congress returns to the negotiating table next week. But Sessions discounts that scuttlebutt. "I don’t believe there have been or there will be any secret meetings Both sides recognize that would not be productive," Sessions said. He said another issue figuring into the fiscal cliff talks is the huge expenses Americans are about to be hit with when Obama’s health-care initiative becomes law on Jan. 1. "We know that Obamacare taxation is going to kick in by law and that will mean a massive tax increase," Sessions said. "We believe we should digest those first." Sessions has said House Republicans could accept higher tax rates on the wealthy if those increases were paired with cuts to entitlement programs. "If it’s a good deal, yes," he told Bloomberg Television’s "Political Capital with Al Hunt," last week. "If it does something long term that betters the circumstances."

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Momentum Grows for Gun Buyback Programs, Confiscation

A letter from 40 members of Congress and directed toward House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) demanded a national gun buyback program yesterday. The letter was penned by Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL). “Gun buybacks have proven successful in communities across the nation,” the open letter to House colleagues reads. “Adding $200 million to the final compromise on the fiscal cliff could remove as many as one million guns from our streets.” Such a step, said the Congressmen, would be a “simple, immediate step we can take to assure the public we are committed to taking meaningful action.” The Democrats also argued that the gun buyback program would be a form of stimulus: “Distributing funding to the states to run buyback programs using prepaid debit cards with a three-month expiration date could provide a jolt to local economies that have stagnated in the wake of the recession and concerns over the fiscal cliff.”

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Christianity in the Middle East: Persecution Escalates by Gary North

America’s wars in the Middle East have resulted in the widespread persecution of Christians in the region. When George W. Bush called America’s response to September 11 a crusade, this revived memories of medieval invasions. Islamic nations are the main persecutors, but some regions in India have also joined in. This strategy has limits in this era of digital communications. People can read literature that promotes controversial ideas of all kinds. Christianity historically is a text-based religion more than most. Attempts to suppress it will fail. But these attempts create terrible problems in the meantime for Christians whose churches have existed in the Middle East for many centuries. A report published in the British Telegraph has been picked up by other sites. Sadly, the organization that prepared the report, Civitas, has no American website. A search for www.civitas.org does not connect with a server. The article did not identify the organization’s location or provide a link to the report, which is a major lapse in online reporting. I tracked down the report. It is here. The site is www.civitas.org.uk. Here, we read this:

A glance at the position on several continents confirms the picture. In the large area between Morocco and Pakistan, for example, there is scarcely a country in which church life operates without restrictions. Syria has been one of the exceptions until now. As I write, however, the country is enduring full-scale civil war, and tens of thousands of Christians have been ousted from places including Homs and Qusayr. The prognosis for the rest of the Middle East is hardly encouraging: there is now a serious risk that Christianity will disappear from its biblical heartlands. Anthony O’Mahony of Heythrop College, London, echoes other scholars in estimating that between a half and two-thirds of Christians in the region have left or been killed over the past century. Comparable tragedies have unfolded elsewhere.

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The strange birth of NY’s gun laws by Doug Giles

The father of New York gun control was Democratic city pol “Big Tim “Sullivan — a state senator and Tammany Hall crook, a criminal overseer of the gangs of New York. In 1911 — in the wake of a notorious Gramercy Park blueblood murder-suicide — Sullivan sponsored the Sullivan Act, which mandated police-issued licenses for handguns and made it a felony to carry an unlicensed concealed weapon.  This was the heyday of the pre-Prohibition gangs, roving bands of violent toughs who terrorized ethnic neighborhoods and often fought pitched battles with police. In 1903, the Battle of Rivington Street pitted a Jewish gang, the Eastmans, against the Italian Five Pointers. When the cops showed up, the two underworld armies joined forces and blasted away, resulting in three deaths and scores of injuries. The public was clamoring for action against the gangs. Problem was the gangs worked for Tammany. The Democratic machine used them as shtarkers (sluggers), enforcing discipline at the polls and intimidating the opposition. Gang leaders like Monk Eastman were even employed as informal “sheriffs,” keeping their turf under Tammany control. The Tammany Tiger needed to rein in the gangs without completely crippling them. Enter Big Tim with the perfect solution: Ostensibly disarm the gangs — and ordinary citizens, too — while still keeping them on the streets. In fact, he gave the game away during the debate on the bill, which flew through Albany: “I want to make it so the young thugs in my district will get three years for carrying dangerous weapons instead of getting a sentence in the electric chair a year from now.” Sullivan knew the gangs would flout the law, but appearances were more important than results. Young toughs took to sewing the pockets of their coats shut, so that cops couldn’t plant firearms on them, and many gangsters stashed their weapons inside their girlfriends’ “bird cages” — wire-mesh fashion contraptions around which women would wind their hair. Ordinary citizens, on the other hand, were disarmed, which solved another problem: Gangsters had been bitterly complaining to Tammany that their victims sometimes shot back at them.

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GOP Senators Won’t Confirm Kerry Until Clinton Testifies on Benghazi

Republican senators will refuse to confirm Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as Secretary of State until the nation’s current top diplomat, Hillary Clinton, testifies about her handling of the Benghazi terrorist attack.

“The Senate is expected to take up Kerry’s nomination in early January, but multiple Republican senators have already said they won’t agree to a vote on Kerry’s nomination until Clinton testifies about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi,” The Cable’s Josh Rogin notes. Clinton backed out of testifying at a congressional hearing last week after fainting and suffering a concussion. She was the first cabinet-level official to acknowledge that terrorists played a role in the assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi.

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Professor: Global Warming “Deniers” Should be Executed by Philip Hodges

The funny thing is, Professor Richard Parncutt of the University of Graz isn’t even a climate scientist. He teaches Systematic Musicology. So, if you’re one of those global warming deniers, then you shouldn’t be allowed to have an opinion because you don’t have enough expertise in climate science, or if you do, you should have your credentials stripped from you because you’ve proven yourself unworthy to have them. So what did this professor actually say? You can read his entire rant here. Here’s an excerpt from the beginning:

 “In this article I am going to suggest that the death penalty is an appropriate punishment for influential GW [global warming] deniers. But before coming to this surprising conclusion, please allow me to explain where I am coming from.”

 He then goes on to explain that he’s actually opposed to the imposition of the death penalty in general. He doesn’t believe that everyday murderers should receive such a “barbaric” sentence, that not even mass murderers deserve it. He referred to the Norwegian mass murderer Behring Breivik who killed 77 people last year and said that “if the Norwegian government killed him, that would just increase the number of dead to 78.” Then he moves on to the “deniers”:

“GW deniers fall into a completely different category from Behring Breivik. They are already causing the deaths of hundreds of millions of future people. We could be speaking of billions, but I am making a conservative estimate… With high probability it will cause hundreds of millions of deaths. For this reason I propose that the death penalty is appropriate for influential GW deniers. More generally, I propose that we limit the death penalty to people whose actions will with a high probability cause millions of future deaths… I wish to claim that it is generally ok to kill someone in order to save one million people. Similarly, the death penalty is an appropriate punishment for GW deniers who are so influential that one million future deaths can with high probability be traced to their personal actions. Please note also that I am only talking about prevention of future deaths – not punishment or revenge after the event.”

More from the compassionate lunatic Left while conservatives are considered extreme!

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Neither Guns Nor More Laws Will Fix What’s Wrong in America by Gary DeMar

In a recent statement in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Congressman Ron Paul had this to say:

“Real change can happen only when we commit ourselves to rebuilding civil society in America, meaning a society based on family, religion, civic and social institutions, and peaceful cooperation through markets. We cannot reverse decades of moral and intellectual decline by snapping our fingers and passing laws.”

Congressman Paul is right. Self-government is the necessary foundation for any society. But self-government must be coupled with knowledge of a higher law. Consider the following from Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959), American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films, who steps out on stage at the beginning of his 1956 film The Ten Commandments:

“Ladies and Gentlemen, young and old. This may seem an unusual procedure, speaking to you before the picture begins, but we have an unusual subject: the birth of freedom. The story of Moses.”

Those who watch The Ten Commandments on television never get to see DeMille make his speech. DeMille considered the topic of freedom under God’s law to be the movie’s most important message. In his rare on-screen appearance, he explained his reason for re-making The Ten Commandments (there was a 1923 silent version):

“The theme of this picture is whether men ought to be ruled by God’s laws or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator like Rameses. Are men the property of the State or are they free souls under God? This same battle continues throughout the world today.”

There is no eternal fear of the State. That’s why so many of these mass murderers kill themselves. They’ve been taught that there are no consequences beyond the grave. Famed evolutionist Richard Dawkins argues that teaching children that there is judgment after death is worse than child abuse. So what’s the big deal about killing some kids? Ultimately, there’s no one to judge the killer.

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View From The Outside: IT’S TIME TO STOP THE LEFT by Howard Galganov

I was just about to publish my latest editorial as promised, on Canada’s Supreme Court Decision to suspend Freedom of Speech, in favor of promoting one language over all others.
THEN THE CONNECTICUT SCHOOL-SHOOTING HAPPENED.
Next to language issues in Canada, and a failed Judicial System in both of our countries, what happened in Connecticut takes precedence. I won’t waste words describing my feelings, because how I feel about as many as, and maybe more than 26 people murdered, including 18 children is indescribable.
BUT I WILL TELL YOU WHY IT HAPPENED:

·       It didn’t happen because of the so-called gun culture, or because of poor security at the school.

·       It happened because of the modern LEFTIST culture that has removed all semblances of personal responsibility and respect.

·       It happened because of the Hollywood and television types who lecture the Conservatives on how people should live, while they make FORTUNES producing absolute FILTH in their movies and on television programs.

·       It happened because of reality television shows that demean humanity. And shows that make people laugh at the pain and humiliation of others.

·       It happened because multi-millionaire computer game producers create UGLY digital scenarios that poison young minds with abject and gratuitous violence.

·       It happened because the school system doesn’t teach values, and promotes the idea that everything goes. And that all people are equal regardless of the truth. And that no one ever fails.

·       It happened because LEFTISTS won’t allow concerned and loving parents to discipline their children, or raise their children the way they want to.

·       It happened because far too many Liberals spend far too much time and effort ridiculing and attacking people who want to live by the lessons of the Bible and the Torah.

In truth . . . this and other horrible acts of violence happen, because our society from our entertainment industry, to schools, to the media, and our governments have created the social and cultural foundation that is eating away at our countries like a cancer.  I know that what I just wrote WILL inflame those on the LEFT, and that’s OK, because if they don’t like it . . . they can ROT in HELL along with the demons of their own creation.  I want my old country values back . . . . . . when we stood in school when an adult entered the room. When we were really disciplined for bad behavior. When we were measured by our successes and failures. When not everyone had to waste years of his or her life in college studying basket weaving instead of taking a trade course, or going to work right after finishing high school. When your mom was a woman and your dad was a man. And when there weren’t vulgar parades extolling the “virtues” of being gay.   If you want to stop the sickness . . . IT’S TIME TO STOP THE LEFT.

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No ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal? 44% Blame GOP, 36% Obama - Dramatic shift in one week

Sixty-two percent (62%) of Likely U.S. Voters think Congress and the president should stop the tax increase and spending cuts totaling more than $500 billion from going into effect on January 1.

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