Just a brief update:
We’ve (finally) added three new links to our main navigation: The Jury Box, The Ammo Box, and Contact.
The Jury Box contains a brief summary about why you should serve on jury duty if selected, and one of the most important roles a jury can play in the preservation of liberties: jury nullification. There are links describing what jury nullification is, as well as some other informative links. Be sure to bookmark this page and share it with others who you know get selected for jury duty.
The Ammo Box has an explanation of our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, a list of duties for all citizens, as well as links to several important web sites. Be sure to check this out, especially since all three presidential candidates have varying degrees of animosity toward your Second Amendment rights.
The Contact form is self-explanatory. If you have a news article you’d like us to cover, or if you have some inside information you’d like us to report on, please drop us a line. We will hold your identity private if you wish, but we do ask that if you send us anything other than a link to an article on a web page that you provide us your real name and email address so we can contact you with any questions.
Finally, we’ve added a two more federal bills to watch to our Action Center. We’ll be covering them both in the upcoming days.
In Liberty,
– The Publisher
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Comments (0) The Democrats in this country is on a never-ending march toward a larger, more powerful government. They have been since the beginning of the progressive movement, and really gained momentum under FDR.
Look at recent news. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, across the nation the three levels of government added 76,800 jobs to their payrolls in the first quarter of 2008. [1]
Meanwhile Michelle Obama tells people “Don’t go into corporate America,” and her husband and presidential hopeful Barack Obama blasts executives with the tired old line ”Some CEOs make more in one day than their workers make in one year.” Never mind that corporate America is where the best-paying jobs with the best benefits are. Never mind that these “greedy” executives are in charge of multi-billion-dollar corporations that employ tens of thousands of people, and their stock is owned by many retirement plans. According to the Obamas, these “greedy companies” should be punished by taxing them into oblivion.
But are the Republicans any better? Now we have headlines trumpeting the fact that McCain is promising billions in spending.
Republican John McCain is making promises that would cost billions of taxpayer dollars, yet he is vague about how he would pay for them.
McCain is handing around a campaign grab bag of goodies. There are little treats like a summer gas-tax holiday and new mortgages for struggling homeowners, and there are big plums like tax breaks for corporations and families with children.
Aren’t all politicians vague about how they intend on paying for their campaign bribes promises? They all fail to do the math. Which is why we’re in the situation we’re in, forced to choose between three trains with the same destination — socialism — just different speeds in which we’ll get there:
John McCain: The local commuter train who’s top speed is 20mph and will stop at every station.
Hillary Clinton: The freight train chugging along at 60mph with few or no stops between here and there.
Barack Obama: The 200mph express bullet train that will get us from liberty to tyrannical socialism in mere minutes.
Perhaps this is the reason that there’s been such an interest in Libertarian-leaning candidate Ron Paul. His new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto, has hit #1 on Amazon. [2]
The question is: can we turn this train around before it is too late?
From across the pond, the Daily Mail reports that asylum seekers are trying to break out of Britain. Why?
And England has — say it with me — socialized healthcare.
Perhaps the proponents of a socialized healthcare system here in the United States, like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are actually trying to eliminate one of the reasons border-jumpers come here in the first place: our top-notch healthcare system. Perhaps their plan is really an anti-illegal immigration plan in disguise.
That would be believable until you remember that these presidential hopefuls are courting the Hispanic vote as well.
Conclusion: proponents of socialized healthcare systems can’t learn the lessons from other people’s failures. Instead they insist that “it’s a good idea, but it just hasn’t been implemented properly,” while trying to convince everyone that their way will work. For everyone who’s been paying attention, socialized anything never works, never has, and never will.
CNN is reporting that a true hero, Sergeant Merlin German, has passed away:
A Marine who survived being burned over more than 95 percent of his body in Iraq and established a charity to help burned children has died, the military has announced.
Sgt. Merlin German was 22.
He was severely wounded February 21, 2005, en route to Camp Ramadi when his Humvee hit a roadside bomb.
He was not expected to survive, but he was transported to Germany and then to Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas, which has the U.S. militarys top burns unit.
He spent nine months in intensive care and underwent more than 100 operations.
Sergeant German did not sit idly by and let his injury beat him down. Instead, he turned his injury into a mission, which he attacked with the same can-do attitude that served him well in the Marine Corps, and helped him fight his injuries for three years. His new mission: to establish a foundation to help burned children and their families.
Please consider making a donation to Merlin’s Miracles. According to the website:
The donations would be used to assist burned children and their families to take vacations, trips, outings or anything the families needed to make life a little easier. Merlin loved to travel and knew how difficult it was for him to endure long lines at amusement parks or the frustration of not being able to do certain things because of the heat or being able to go to certain places because of special transportation needed.
Rest in peace, Sergeant German. Semper Fidelis.
Last month, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said that Social Security is “financially unsustainable” and needs an urgent overhaul.
Ya think? Simple elementary-school math shows it’s unsustainable.
“As the baby boom generation moves into retirement, these programs face progressively larger financial challenges,” Paulson said.
The Treasury secretary said a growing number of retirees and the programs rising costs could harm Americas future prosperity if Social Security and Medicare are not overhauled and bolstered.
The needs of the Social Security program, which provides retirement benefits to all Americans as long as they have contributed to the program, are less acute, however, than Medicare.
Paulson said the Social Security programs cash flows are projected to turn negative in under 10 years and that a Social Security trust fund would likely be exhausted in 2041 without urgent reform.
Regardless what any politician will tell you, Social Security cannot be maintained. And you can prove this by doing some simple math. So sharpen your pencils, and read on for today’s lesson.