Kasich Stands up to Obama About Balancing the Budget

Freedom Must be Defended or it Will Die

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We did not pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." Ronald Reagan

"Reasserting Federalism in Defense of Liberty by Ken Cuccinelli (Imprimis a publication of Hillsdale College)

SOME FAVORITE VIRGINIANS OF MINE who inspired and crafted our federal Constitution—Mason, Madison, Jefferson, and Henry—also drafted the Constitution of Virginia. And in the latter, they included a critical statement that said, “No free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved . . . but by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”

Our founders well understood that our liberty could not be preserved without frequently referring back to first principles. But while they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to defend those principles, we have often taken them for granted, as we have become complacent in thinking that government will take care of every problem.

We have asked government to do more for us, and all the government asks for in return is a little bit more of our liberty. Over the decades, we kept asking. And because the courts and the politicians were all too happy to oblige, regardless of what the Constitution said, we no longer have a federal government of limited powers. We have an overreaching central government—a government that seeks to plan and control virtually every aspect of our lives and our economy, from health care, to energy, to automobile manufacturing, to banking and insurance.

Thankfully, though, in the last several years, people have woken up and are pushing back. With this pushback, we are seeing the idea of federalism reemerge. People want to return to a government of limited, enumerated powers, and an arrangement in which states serve as a check when the federal government oversteps its constitutional bounds...READ THE REST HERE.

Atlas Shrugged - The Movie and Just at the Right Time

Listen to this conversation about Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" the movie part 1. I saw it last week and loved it. I'd been waiting for decades for a movie and I was ecstatic to see it on the big screen. The timing of course is impeccable! What with our politicians taking us down the road to self destruction as a country it couldn't have come out at a better time. Ayn Rand knew where we were headed 50 years ago and wrote down all her ideas and forecasts for America in a great novel called "ATLAS SHRUGGED".
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What Islam Does to Civilized Life - Destroy Human Happiness

The following is from a marine stationed in southern Afghanistan. It is a sad and realistic assessment of Islam I read at "Atlas Shrugged" by blogger Pamela Geller.

I am growing increasingly upset with the culture of Islam here. I am growing increasingly vocal. In a meeting the other day as local elders were discussing ways to improve this place, I announced that the reality of the situation is that the men have screwed this place up so bad it’s time to arm the women with machine guns and give them a turn. A few laughed; I didn’t. Soon, no one laughed when they realized I was serious. What I have learned is that Islam is pain and human suffering. For the rest of my life I will fight it wherever it creeps. Even the Northern Afghanis who fight with us against the Taliban and their much more open minded (think New York Catholic) view of Islam (who say the only solution is to genocide the south and start over) lack an element of humanity, that righteous desire to “defend the defenseless.” I have attached an unclassified intelligence report that sheds some light on what Islam in it’s pure form does to civilizations.

I have seen the face of Islam and I do not care what Charles Johnson or Ibrahim Hooper say: social, economic, and religious systems must be judged by their fruits. The same standard by which I reject socialism, communism, and Nazism is what I use when I reject Islam. That standard is human happiness.

"Where Your Tax Dollars Are Going"

Via: Heritage Foundation

Atlas Is Shrugging and We All Know Why! People Are Fed Up with Intrusive Government

Go to the movies and watch Part 1 of Atlas Shrugged and you'll see how Ayn Rand showed in her novel what is going on today and for the past 100 years!

The Averted Government Shutdown - Key elements

Key elements of the deal that averts a government shutdown:

• Sets discretionary spending for the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, at $1.049 trillion. That is $39 billion less than was budgeted for 2010 and $79 billion less than President Obama had requested. House Republicans had wanted $22 billion in additional cuts.
• Includes $513 billion for defense – less than Republicans and President Obama wanted but more than the $508 billion provided in 2010.
• Drops Republican-backed provisions that would have ended funding for the new health-care law, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and National Public Radio.

• Drops Republican-backed provisions that would have barred funding for Environmental Protection Agency regulation of greenhouse gases and for the Federal Communications Commission to implement "net neutrality" rules.
• Bans the use of funds for the transfer of prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba to the U.S. mainland.
• Calls for the Senate to take up-or-down votes on separate bills to cut off funding for the health-care law and to turn federal aid to family-planning programs into block grants to the states.

• Bans the use of any public funds – federal or local – to pay for abortions in the District of Columbia.
• Re-establishes a school voucher system for the District of Columbia, a longtime cause of House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio). The program provides low-income children with vouchers to attend a school of their parents' choice.
• Includes a mandate calling for an annual audit of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had been created by last year's Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law. Republicans have been widely critical of the law. SEE ARTICLE at WSJ.