To all of our living service members, we salute you, pray for you and hope for your safe return. But if, by destiny, like my brother Wieland, you should breathe your last breath on the battlefield, rest assured that your sacrifice will not be in vain, for you will have purchased some aspect of someone’s future freedom.
Your legacy will continue, and you never will be forgotten. Fight the good fight; keep the faith; and press on for the prize!-Chuck Norris
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“Now it doesn’t require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property? And such machinery already exists. The government can find some charge to bring against any concern it chooses to prosecute. Every businessman has his own tale of harassment. Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural, unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.” -Ronald Reagan
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“Lord, You are the source of every good thing. You are our only hope, and we stand before You in awe of Your power and in gratitude for Your blessings, and in humility for our sins. Father, our hearts break for America. We see discord at home. We see fear in the marketplace. We see anger in the halls of government, and as a nation we have forgotten Who made us, Who protects us, and for that we cry out for forgiveness.” –Rick Perry
By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann
Harry Truman, frustrated by economists who couched their opinions by saying “On the one hand?but on the other hand,” wanted a one-handed economist. I’ve got one. James Fitzgibbon, director of the Highlander Fund, has been spot on in predicting the course of economic events for the past three years. As each estimate of GDP growth came in, I would e mail him and he would explain that the growth rate was materially overstated and then explain that it would soon be adjusted downward. And it was. He has been accurate in predicting a long, long term recession with only a few “false dawns” for recovery.
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By Thomas Sowell
Amid all the concerns about the skyrocketing government debt, a front-page headline in the Wall Street Journal said: “Families Slice Debt to Lowest In 6 Years.” It is remarkable how differently people behave when they are spending their own money compared to the way politicians behave when spending the government’s money.
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It doesn’t seem very scientific to have a good-looking nurse taking a man’s blood pressure.-Thomas Sowell
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By David Limbaugh
One thing is for sure: It’s not in Barack Obama to accept personal responsibility for the consequences of his actions and policies. He still won’t own this economy and the exploding spending spiral, reminding us at every turn that our problems are a result of what he “inherited” from President Bush.
Consider also the arrogance of this administration for lecturing anyone else about his budgetary acumen. We’ve not experienced a financial train wreck in our national history so directly traceable to the White House.
More and more Americans are coming to realize that our three humongous problems — runaway unsustainable discretionary spending, insanely unsustainable and exponentially exploding unfunded entitlement liabilities, and a lifeless economy — are mostly Obama’s fault. But more importantly, they are coming to see that our far greater problem is his (and his party’s) abject refusal — as evidenced yet again in his disgraceful speech Monday — to make the government live within its means.
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By Byron York
Some critics have trouble with even the most basic facts. George W. Bush was indeed president for eight years. But do Brown and her colleagues remember that Congress was fully controlled by Republicans just four of those eight years? The GOP ran the House from 2001 to 2007, Bush’s first six years in office, while Republicans only controlled the Senate from 2003 to 2007. (In Bush’s first three months, the Senate was divided 50-50 until the May 2001 defection of Republican Sen. James Jeffords gave Democrats control.)
As far as tax cuts are concerned, Bush did indeed cut taxes for the wealthy — along with everybody else who paid income taxes. But does Brown remember that tax revenues actually increased in the years after the Bush tax cuts took effect?
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Reagan himself never bragged about his ability to convince the American people.
He thought speaking was a big part of leadership, but only part, and in his farewell address he went out of his way to say he never thought of himself as a great communicator. He thought he simply communicated great things — essentially, the vision of the founders as applied to current circumstances.
But speeches aren’t magic. A speech is only as good as the ideas it advances. Reagan had good ideas. Obama does not. Peggy Noonan
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“By calling attention to a well-regulated militia for the security of the Nation, and the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms, our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fear of governmental tyranny, which gave rise to the 2nd amendment, will ever be a major danger to our Nation, the amendment still remains an important declaration…in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the 2nd Amendment will always be important. … If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy
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