Join the Fight to Save America!

Over the years since the birth of our nation, many threats to our safety and well being have come. One such threat was launched on December 7, 1941. For the United States, the attack on Pearl Harbor marked the beginning of World War II, a global conflagration that put our country and way of life at grave risk.

One of our nation’s first meaningful responses to that fast moving and escalating danger was made on August 7, 1942 with the invasion of Guadalcanal. On that day, 11,000 U.S. Marines were put ashore on that obscure, malaria ridden island. By the second and third days, fierce clashes between U. S. and Japanese aerial and naval forces caused our carrier task force and supply ships to withdraw, leaving our marines stranded and desperately short of supplies. Nevertheless, they did not despair. Instead, they fought, and fought hard. For much was at stake.

The battle for Guadalcanal lasted six months. During that time reinforcements and additional supplies gradually trickled in. Many savage battles were fought on land, sea and in the air. But in the end the Japanese were driven from the island and, with its occupation, the tide of battle in the Pacific began subtly shifting in our favor.

Was it easy? No. Many American lives were lost, and those who survived suffered unimaginably. But an important victory in a long war was achieved. America and her people were made a little safer, a little more secure, by the courageous actions of those marines on that distant island and in that desperate hour.

Now, only sixty-seven years later, our generation stands face to face with another threat, a threat every bit as dire and sinister as the one thrust upon our country by the Axis Powers in World War II. I speak of the threat from within. I speak of the ruthless and relentless assaults being made upon our nation’s very heart and core, the Constitution, by elected officials sworn to uphold it. These men and women in high places pretend to be good and faithful servants, but their perverse and persistent actions reveal an unmistakable pattern that leads the vigilant among us to one inescapable conclusion: These turncoats intend to destroy America. Therefore, like those who went before us, we are left with no recourse but fight for our survival. We have arrived at another crucial turning point in American history.

So where do we begin? Our first mission in this bizarre and emerging conflict will be to thoroughly expose the enemy, for many of our friends and neighbors still are blind to the threat that surrounds us. They must be awakened, energized and mobilized quickly into an army of outraged and resolute citizens, citizens willing to make any sacrifice necessary to save the Constitution and our special way of life that rests upon it.

Then we must strike back with every legitimate means and tool at our disposal, and keep hitting, hard and sure, though the road ahead may seem long, grim and arduous. To do otherwise would be an insult to the brave men who seized Guadalcanal from the Japanese at a time when the fate of the world hung precariously in the balance. Those men fought nobly and unrelentingly to keep freedom and democracy alive in the world. And they did it with the odds squarely against them and while enduring unspeakable horrors and hardships. Will we let them down? Will we, now that it is our turn to fight, forget the gallant battle they waged? Will we simply hand over to our current foes that which those brave and loyal men fought so hard to preserve? Or will we be inspired and vitalized by their example?

I say, let us take heart from their splendid example, and overthrow these despots in sheep’s clothing just as our fathers and grandfathers threw back the Japanese. This is not an attack upon a naval base in Hawaii, this is an attack upon our Constitution!

On this Veterans’ Day, let us remember and pay tribute to those gallant men living and dead who fought on Guadalcanal. And to all those who have fought and sacrificed around the world to keep America free. But let us show our thanks not by mere flag waving alone but by doing our utmost now to preserve our precious freedoms so they may be passed undiminished to our posterity.

Unlike the battle waged on Guadalcanal, this is not yet a call to arms; rather, it is an urgent and peaceable plea to support and perpetuate the system of government wisely formulated by our Founding Fathers. This we can do systematically and successfully at the ballot box if we are organized and united.

Remember, freedom is not free. Every generation or so, a select few, a favored few, must pay an installment. It is now our turn. We must not waver; we must not despair; we must not turn away. For much is at stake.

Join the fight to save America!

A New World Order

Unless you have come out of a de-cade-long coma re-cently, you doubt-less have heard the terms
“World Order,” One World Order,” or “New World Order.”

Some may dispute whether a purposeful and bona fide effort is being made to formulate and implement such an order; however, may I suggest to you that the very existence of a United Nations serves as definite and material proof that more than a casual effort is being expended to create one. Moreover, the words “world order” seem to be issuing forth from politicians mouths with ever-increasing regularity these days.

It is not my intention at this time to call into question whether the implementation of a one world order is vitally necessary or not. In my opinion, it is not a world order that we should be in fear of. Indeed, a world order may actually be a good idea.

The question, rather, that we currently should be asking ourselves is whether we have advanced sufficiently as human beings to provide the kind of leadership necessary to successfully run a world order; that is, run it in a manner and on a basis whereby we all are much better off with it than without it.

Human beings, after all, have grave, serious and obvious flaws and limitations. For example, we still are greedy; we still are selfish; we still are petty; we still are intolerant; we still are hateful; we still are imperious; we still are stupid.

Who, therefore, from among us would possess the moral and intellectual qualifications to lead and manage such a powerful and colossal organization? Who and where are the wise and self-sacrificing elder statesmen fit to take on such an important and challenging task--Bill Clinton, George Bush, Al Gore, Dick Cheney?

When you look at it that way, the idea of a new world order seems rather ludicrous, doesn’t it? And also very premature.

My opinion? Let’s wait awhile. Maybe if we’re lucky, in a thousand years or so, an honorable man may come along.

In the meantime, consider this: “Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.”

God Save the Constitution

The British have a say-ing: “God save the King.” I suppose that’s okay if you have a king and are labor-ing under the misconception that he is necessary to your survival, but we Americans have something far better than a king. We Americans have a Constitution, so our daily and fervent prayer ought to be: “God save the Constitution.”

You see, the reason our Constitution is vastly superior to a king is because our Constitution is what stands in the way of anyone ever becoming a king (or queen) in this country. But in order for our Constitution to be effective, we must employ it. And that’s where we’ve been letting ourselves and our founding ancestors down. We haven’t been taking full advantage of the priceless gift they left to us. We haven’t been demanding that our political leaders adhere strictly to its terms. Foolishly, we have been allowing them to break their contract with us. That is why they’ve been able to make so many pernicious inroads into our freedoms. While we were sleeping and getting “cash for clunkers,” they, like hungry termites, were hard at work boring holes in our Constitution.

People who were born free, as we Americans were, have no use for a father-figure looking over us. We don’t need a king. We prize our independence and freedom far more than any false sense of security an earthly king might provide us with. And from a purely personal standpoint, I would just like to say that I wouldn’t want to be staking my future happiness and welfare, or the future happiness and welfare of my children, on the hoped for benevolence and generosity of a king. Rather, I hope I would always possess the gumption and grit to make my own way in the world, without stooping down to accept bogus dollars from a bankrupt federal government--bogus dollars that have many dangerous and entangling strings attached.

And if at some point I refuse to go on taking care of myself, I fully understand and accept the fact that I will have to live in the unfavorable circumstances and squalor I have created through my own indolence. After all, why should I expect to be rewarded by my government for being incompetent and lazy, especially when that reward will have to come at the expense of someone who is not incompetent and lazy--someone who is enterprising, bold and daring. Why should the government be permitted to permanently break that person’s spirit in order to temporarily boost mine? Someone’s got to produce the wealth in this country and God knows the government can’t do it.

Our Founders knew that nature and nature’s God would reward the persistent and the industrious. Therefore, they saw no need for the federal government to get into the middle of this divinely ordained equation and throw it all out of balance. And look at the many national and personal blessings we have reaped as a result of their uncanny wisdom and astonishing insight. We have become the most richly blessed country in all the world.

But we Americans must remember one thing: We were created by God, who is the omnipotent Ruler over all things seen and unseen. As His creation, we belong to Him. Therefore, our first and ultimate allegiance must always be to Him. He is our King. He is our Savior. He is our Deliverer. So long as we have faith in Him, we may confidently reject the spurious promises made to us by smooth-talking charlatans, men who yearn to be kings, men who yearn even to be gods over all the earth.

If we truly wish to successfully resist and defeat tyrants, we must return to God and the Constitution. There and there alone is where genuine safety lies, despite what the so-called elite of this country are shouting at us day in and day out.

“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.”--George Washington, first inaugural address

As Sound as a Dollar

You may have you heard the expression: “As sound as a dollar.”

A sound dollar is the kind of dollar our grandparents had. A sound dollar is a dollar that holds a fixed value. A sound dollar is a dollar people can have faith in--both here and abroad.

Anyone who has been around a while knows that a new car costing $3,000 forty years ago may now cost as much as $30,000. Granted, auto workers earn more today, but on the other hand, cars are constructed of cheaper materials. Moreover, cost-efficient robotic machines do much of the work. So what’s up here?

The fact is, a U.S. dollar simply is not worth as much as it was forty years ago. Therefore, it takes many more of them to purchase a new car. Or anything else, for that matter.

Now let’s view this from another angle, the working person’s angle. There was a time when a man earned $3.00 an hour and could barely support his family. Now a man must earn $20.00 an hour and his wife $10.00 an hour, or vice versa, to make ends meet. That’s how we maintain some semblance of economic stability in our lives. We dicker and fight with our employer for a pay raise. And when it comes, if it comes, it comes in the form of devalued dollars. So the long-awaited pay raise turns out not to be a pay raise after all.

Some things have intrinsic value; that is, by their very nature they possess value. This is because people just seem to want those things. And that’s the key, people have to want something in order for it to have value.

Gold and silver, for example, have intrinsic value. Since the beginning of time human beings have wanted to possess gold and silver. When U.S. dollars contained gold and silver they had intrinsic value, value that went beyond that which was established by the government.

Even when the dollar was merely anchored to gold and silver, it retained its value. It still possessed intrinsic value because it was associated in people’s minds with gold and silver. In those days, a paper dollar could be exchanged for a silver one because a paper dollar was a “Silver Certificate,” not a “Federal Reserve Note” as it is today.

Now, due to poor leadership at the highest levels of our government, our country is deep in debt--so far in debt that some in the world wonder if we have the resolve to correct the situation. Even so, and with disaster looming, our government recklessly continues on with its shortsighted borrowing and spending rampage.

You see, now that our dollars aren’t anchored to anything of genuine value, when our government thinks it needs more money, it simply prints some. Where do you suppose all that “stimulus” money came from?

Unfortunately, printing more money is a little like watering down booze. The watered down booze just doesn’t possess the same kick as the 80 proof stuff. And neither do dollars watered down daily with a steady stream of newly printed ones.


That is why a “Federal Reserve Note” is no longer held in high esteem, at home or abroad. That is why merchants the world over demand ten times as many dollars for an item now than they did forty years ago. There’s just too many dollars out there in relation to the number of goods and services that currently are available.

Returning to the booze analogy, our money is no longer 80 proof money; it is now 40 proof money. Could it be put any more simply or graphically?

But what is worse than our perpetual inflation problem--which primarily is fueled by too much money being in circulation--is that now a growing number of the world’s central banks don’t want our dollars. They simply don’t want them. They have no faith in them. Instead they are favoring yens and euros as their reserve currency. This is alarming news because since the end of World War II, the American dollar has been the preferred reserve currency of most central banks.

Now remember, for a thing to possess value, someone has to want it. So when foreign countries refuse to accept U.S. dollars, and demand instead yens or euros, where do you suppose that puts us in the world marketplace?

Well, I’m not an economist, but I’m almost certain it won’t make our lives any easier.

My advice: Begin sending strong and repeated messages to Washington to put our economic house in order, or start learning to say: “As sound as a euro.”

The Generosity of Government

One of the things Americans seem to be forgetting as their gov-ernment continues to balloon crazily out of control is that govern-ment is force. At least that is how our first president viewed it.

An enormous degree of power is vested in government, even the ones believed to be benevolent. Everyone knows, for example, that a government can compel its citizens to obey its laws, whether those laws be reasonable or unreasonable. In fact, government may severely punish you, even hang you in some instances, if you refuse to submit to its demands.

With that in mind, let us examine how our government grants wishes to those it deems “underprivileged.”

When our government decides to bestow a special benefit or entitlement upon a particular segment of society, it does so at the expense of another. That is because government does not and cannot create wealth. Government squeezes its income out of the incomes of its working citizens, those who have been prudent, those it deems “rich.” What it can’t extract that way, it borrows--to be paid back by those same industrious, hardworking citizens.

So next time you hear the president or a member of congress bragging about what he or she is going to do to help someone, remember that the funds necessary to pay for that so-called good deed will have to be picked from the pocket of another citizen, or maybe even from the pockets of his or her yet unborn children and grandchildren.

But what if that other citizen doesn’t wish to contribute to this latest cause? What if he doesn't agree with the philosophy behind it? What if he is growing tired of having his pockets picked?

The force of government will be applied, for that is how the generosity of government is made possible.

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." --George Washington

The Blessings of Liberty

Thomas Jefferson made it clear in the Consti-tution’s preamble that it was written to, among other things, “se-cure the Blessings of Liberty to our-selves and our Posterity.”

To have liberty means to be able to act without undue hindrance or restraint. To secure something means to lock it into place.

With that in mind, can anyone doubt that the central objective of Thomas Jefferson and the other Founders was to keep Americans free forever of unnecessary and unreasonable government interference?

This is not an obscure detail in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. It is the all-encompassing and pervasive theme around which our entire system of government is built. Therefore, it is surprising to a great many of us that it has escaped the attention of such a large number of our recent and current leaders in Washington.

Keeping government small and innocuous, after all, is why our Founding Fathers went to the trouble of drawing up a written contract between citizens and government. That is why they erected so many safeguards around our precious liberties and set up so many barriers to government expansion.

They knew, as we ought to know, that ambitious and unscrupulous men and women live in every generation and every age, men and women who pose as champions of the people by offering them insubstantial and fleeting security in exchange for priceless and hard-won freedoms.

Over the years members of congress, presidents and supreme court justices, while serving in their official capacities, have acted in ways that have seriously diminished the rights of citizens while enlarging the power and scope of government.

I suppose we could be lenient and excuse their conduct by saying these decisions undoubtedly were made in ignorance. But are members of congress, presidents and supreme court justices supposed to be ignorant? When they seek or accept these high offices do they not lead us into the belief that they are the most worthy, wise and eminently qualified citizens in all the land? And if their assessment of themselves is correct, is it unreasonable to assume that they possess at the very least some small understanding of and appreciation for our Constitution, the document upon which our entire philosophy of government rests and which they swear before their fellow citizens and God to uphold?

Admittedly, correctly interpreting the Constitution could in certain instances and cases prove difficult, but should there ever be any doubt in anyone’s mind about what the Founders wanted most for American citizens, among them their own children and grandchildren? Doesn’t the whole tone and tenor of everything written by our Founders, beyond their mere words, resound with liberty?

Would it be asking too much then that when members of congress are debating and enacting a law, a president is executing a law or a supreme court justice is interpreting a law that they keep their eyes squarely focused upon this one preeminent fact--that our Constitution was written to secure the blessings of liberty?

Barnyard Wisdom

Recently there was a huge gathering at our nation’s capital of concerned citizens who have come to the realization that their once-limited government has mushroomed into something much too big, much too unwieldy, much too expensive and much too intrusive. These astute citizens also know that their government has a long and dismal record of hastily implementing costly and convoluted programs that exacerbate rather than solve problems.

In the period immediately following this orderly rally, some in the news media were attempting to portray these patriotic citizens--who had every right to assemble--as a disgruntled and meaningless bunch of radicals, a mere fringe group on the outer margins of society whose simple-minded 18th century views on politics were distinctly out of harmony with today’s more stylish, regal, paternalistic and avant-garde approach to ruling people. There were further insinuations that the march was motivated not by patriotism but by racism, even though many blacks were clearly in attendance.

Mislabeling and mischaracterizing those who stand in the way of advancing tyranny is not an unfamiliar tactic. Anyone who has studied even recent history knows that this tactic was employed with great success during the last century by Communists and Nazis alike. Though clever, the tactic essentially boils down to this: an unscrupulous and unhesitating willingness to engage in boldfaced lying.

As a reminder to everyone, just let me emphasize this. From the outset our government was never intended to be unnecessarily large or meddlesome. The Founders knew they could either have a big government that granted few individual liberties or a limited government that granted a great many individual liberties. They chose the latter and we have been richly blessed for it.

The recent demonstration in Washington was nothing more nor less than a legitimate means of emphatically conveying to our chief executive and lawmakers an important and urgent message: “You are leading this nation off course!”

Though some may have forgotten it, in this country the government is not permitted to wield absolute power. In America the government is authorized to exercise only those enumerated powers surrendered to it by the people and specified in writing in the Constitution.

Rather than casting doubt on those who are lawfully attempting to preserve our system of government, it would seem to me we ought to be questioning the motives of those who are using illegitimate means to pervert and destroy it. Since when is forsaking long-established values and principles considered to be more honorable and brave than standing up for them?

What is happening before our very eyes is that many of our political leaders and their accomplices in the news media are turning reality up-side-down. In order to make us believe that free enterprise is bad and collectivism is good they are subtly redefining terms--cleverly using what George Orwell called “newspeak.”

Don’t be taken in by it! It’s a shame that fewer and fewer Americans are capable of distinguishing truth from the stuff bulls leave behind, but nevertheless that seems to be the case.

Perhaps the day will come when spending four days in a barnyard will prove more beneficial to citizens than spending four years at Harvard.