Flipping “The Bird” in America’s Face!

Flipping “The Bird” in America’s Face!
The Abomination at Ground Zero!
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

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We knew the minute the first reports hit the wires concerning the building of an Islamic mosque on a site so near Ground Zero in New York City, that it would be approved. All one had to do was consider the liberal government of New York City.

Liberals are nothing, if they are not predictable. We American conservatives have known that for, oh, about two and half centuries. Our enemies know it, too. And they take advantage of it.

The most current example of intimidating a liberal government into giving them what they want is the mosque at Ground Zero.

Yes, the NYC government is pathetic. I can think of no other word to better describe their actions. Well, actually, I CAN, but they are unprintable here.

As a conservative, I have grown deeply weary of being expected to continuously bail the liberals out of trouble in order to save our country. We have done it for so long, now, that they seem to expect us to be on stand-by every minute of every day to rescue them. I have often wondered if we simply stopped bailing their butts out, it would force them to be a bit more circumspect with the security of the nation. But elitism, and arrogance are powerful drugs, especially to liberals and progressives, and I suspect it would take another 250 years for them to realize they are on their own and actually responsible for the welfare of the US.

Look, New York was played like a Stradivarius. Those behind that mosque knew all they had to do was play the part of a poor, put upon, minority – and a religious one at that, and it would so intimidate the leaders of New York, one of the most liberal cities in the world, they would melt like a skewered marshmallow over a girl scout’s camp fire. And of course they did just that. May we suggest that New York City drop the use of the nickname, “The Big Apple,” and immediately adopt “The Big Marshmallow” because it is far more accurate in its description of the reality that is today’s New York City.

Our politically correct leaders have so bought into the BS about diversity, and inclusiveness, until it has become a sickness. We have forgotten the scriptural warning that “a little leaven leavens the whole lot.” We have embraced political correctness until we have devolved from a crucible to a melting pot to a sewer.

The mosque at Ground Zero, just 600 feet from our national wound, is only the latest evidence of the limp-wristed fecklessness of our dangerously naive leaders -- at all levels of government.

If any more evidence is required, look only to our southern border. How much longer will our government look away while an insurgency takes over our southern neighbor, Mexico? At some point, the US will be required to invade Mexico and TRY to set things aright. All the while Mexico’s citizens are streaming north into America and into the waiting arms -- and pocketbooks -- of the clueless citizens of sanctuary cities.

The hard core of America has been diluted by inclusiveness and diversity. Our leadership is hopelessly naïve, clueless, and pathetically incapable to lead the US as a world power – let alone a world super power.

The mosque at ground zero is nothing more that an “in your face” insult to the American people. It is grandstanding. It is an “end zone dance” celebrating a victory over the infidels of the Great Satan, America! It is adding insult to injury.

New York’s government has brought shame not only on New York, not only on the families of those who lost their lives on 9/11, but on the entire country. What they did is immeasurably disgusting.

J. D. Longstreet

Change the 14th Amendment! No More Anchor Babies!

Change the 14th Amendment! No More Anchor Babies!
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told “The Hill” on Monday that Congress “ought to take a look at” changing the 14th Amendment, which gives the children of illegal immigrants a right to U.S. citizenship.

There is growing support within the GOP for the controversial idea, which has also recently been touted by Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

Senator McConnell said: “I think we ought to take a look at it — hold hearings, listen to the experts on it,” McConnell said. “I haven’t made a final decision about it, but that’s something that we clearly need to look at. Regardless of how you feel about the various aspects of immigration reform, I don’t think anybody thinks that’s something they’re comfortable with.”

Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) has said: “There is a constitutional provision in the 14th Amendment that has been interpreted to provide that, if you are born in the United States, you are a citizen no matter what. … And so the question is, if both parents are here illegally, should there be a reward for their illegal behavior?” Kyl went on to say: “We should hold some hearings and hear first from the constitutional experts to at least tell us what the state of the law on that proposition is.” Kyl’s Remarks were made on CBS’s “Face the Nation” last Sunday.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has said: “birthright citizenship is a mistake.” We should change our Constitution and say if you come illegally and you have a child, that child is automatically not a citizen.” Read the entire article here:("THE HILL")

If you are a regular reader of our rants, then you know we have been calling for an end to the practice of “Anchor Babies” for a good long while now.

Anchor babies are children born in the United States to illegal alien parents. “These children may instantly qualify for welfare and other state and local benefit programs. Additionally with the passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the child may sponsor other family members for entry into the United States when he or she reaches the age of twenty-one (See also Chain Migration). The sheer numbers are staggering. In Stockton, California (2003), 70 percent of the 2,300 babies, born in San Joaquin General Hospital’s maternity ward were anchor babies.” (From FAIR The Federation for American Immigration reform. You may read the entire article here: SOURCE)

Section one, of the 14th amendment, was written to ensure that former slaves would enjoy full citizenship in the US. But, it has been stretched to encompass the babies of those who have entered this country illegally. Once that baby is born, they have their “anchor” here and, at age 21 that now “grown” baby, can petition the government to bring his family into the US as well.
It is estimated that 300,000, or more, anchor babies are born each year in the United States. The US is now the only country, which allows this practice. Ireland did, for a while, but quickly changed the law when it became obvious that pregnant immigrants from Africa were flooding their country every year. The Anchor Babies instantly quality for a host of federal, state, and even local benefit programs. All of this happens as a result of the way the courts decided to interpret the 14th amendment to the US Constitution.

One must remember that at the time the 14th amendment was passed, the United States had no immigration policy at all. The amendment was added to our Constitution as part of the reforms (after the Civil War), which were intended to address injustices to African Americans. It states: "all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States." It was worded in that manner to stop any state government from denying citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

Look closely at the wording of the amendment. Notice the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” The intention of that phrase was to exclude from automatic citizenship American-born persons whose allegiance to the United States was not complete.

It is the belief of many in the US, today, that illegal aliens (who are in the US unlawfully, remember) have little, if any, allegiance to the US. At the very least that allegiance is “incomplete. Therefore, it logically follows that any children born of them, within the US, are NOT automatically United States citizens.

Action by Congress is needed, and needed desperately, to make clear, once and for all, that the 14th Amendment did not intend for children of illegal aliens, born in the US, to automatically become citizens.

It is time to lean on our Congresspersons and Senators and let them know how you feel about "Anchor Babies." Let them know you want it stopped. Let them know you want the US borders sealed, and secured, and the illegal aliens already within the US deported – and -- you want the 14th Amendment changed to put a stop to Anchor Babies once and for all.

J. D. Longstreet

Poor economic policies damage the business environment

Commentary By James H. Shott


So many people in this country do not understand the workings of business, including the vast majority of our elected leaders in Washington. Their anti-business policies proliferate and have formed giant roadblocks to a healthy economy, have delayed the recovery and kept millions of Americans on the unemployment line for far too long.

If you want to end a recession, leave as much money in the hands of the people as possible; the more money people have, the more they can spend. Create a stable environment so that businesses feel comfortable in hiring; make it easy for existing businesses to expand and for new businesses to start up. That environment will create jobs and new taxpayers, and more jobs and more taxpayers will fuel a recovery.

What government is doing now, however, is implementing policies that create uncertainty and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit; increasing taxes that rob needed capital from small businesses and punish the wealthiest consumers, who are the ones with the most to spend; crafting regulations that raise business costs and make it difficult to add workers and expand.

It was a failure of the federal government and the Federal Reserve following the 1929 stock market crash that led to a 15-year depression, and that is what is happening now.

Testimony from someone who has as good a set of credentials as one could expect, Las Vegas casino resort and real-estate developer Steve Wynn, sees exactly this view. He is credited with much of the dramatic resurgence and expansion of Vegas, and he is splitting up his headquarters in Las Vegas and putting half of it in Macau, China. Why? In a May interview with CNBC, Mr. Wynn said: “The opportunities I see are far superior abroad than in America.”

Asked by the CNBC interviewer, “What about the regulation, the [communist] government oversight and working there, as opposed to here?” he replied, “Macau has been steady. The shocking, unexpected government is the one in Washington. That’s where we get surprises every day; that’s where taxes are changed every five minutes; that’s where you don’t know what to expect tomorrow. To compare political stability and … predictability in China to Washington is like comparing Mt. Everest to an ant hill. Macao, in China, is stable. Washington is not.”

From Steve Winn’s point of view, the actions of our elected representatives have created a situation in this country that not only discourages the very activities needed to turn the economy around, they have created a business environment that is less stable, and therefore is less appealing, than a communist economy. That is remarkable, and more than a little unsettling.

The Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress think that the way to turn the economy around is for the government to spend money it doesn’t have and to raise taxes on virtually everyone, and especially on “the rich.” This method is deeply flawed, as evidenced by what happened in the 30s, because it not only takes money from those at the bottom of the economic scale who need as much of their money as possible to survive, but it takes even more money from those at the top of the scale who are the ones in the best position to positively affect the economy by buying additional goods and services, and investing money in new and existing businesses.

Government cannot exist without the money it takes from the private sector. Why, then, since government cannot exist without a vibrant private sector, would anyone think that government can fix a downturn in the economy without supporting activity in the private sector?

President Obama wants to raise taxes on “the rich” by allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire, and that is a horrible idea.

George W. Bush took office in January 2001 and inherited a recession that was substantially complicated by the September 11 terrorist attacks. The 2001 Economic Growth and Recovery Tax Act and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 together ended the recession, and did so not with spending and tax increases, but with tax cuts for everyone. And, according to the (begin ital) Wall Street Journal,(end ital) contrary to the “tax cuts for the rich” demagoguery, the Bush tax cuts resulted in the richest five percent paying 60 percent of all income taxes in 2005.

This is the kind of stimulus that we need today, but is the opposite of the steps that President Obama and Congressional Democrats have taken.

And a CNN/Opinion Research poll taken last month shows that the country disapproves of the way the economy is being handled by 57 to 42 percent, and by 62 to 36 percent Americans say the federal budget deficit is a serious problem.

Deficits result when government spends more than it takes in. Mr. Obama and Congressional leaders want to keep spending at record levels and increase revenue by raising taxes, which will thwart private sector productivity by transferring money to the government that would be better spent by the people who earned it.

The way to cure a deficit caused by too much spending is to spend less.

Cross-posted from Observations

Will Raising Taxes On The Rich Threaten Your Job?

Will Raising Taxes on the Rich Threaten Your Job?
Poor People Don’t Provide Jobs!
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

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Rich people provided every job I have had in my life. I expect the same is true of your work history.

One of the truisms in life is this: “If You Bought Something, Someone Worked to Make It; If You Have Something that Requires Service, Someone Is Servicing It; If You Have A Lot of Money, It Is Working Somewhere.” (SOURCE)

Today in America unemployment is hovering near the ten percent mark. Well, that is the figure supplied the public by the government. Honestly, I am not comfortable with the unemployment figures provided us by the government. I have heard reports from private organizations that the REAL national unemployment figures are closer to 22% than 10%.

How can that be? Because the government plays all sorts of “tricks” with the numbers to get a, shall we say-- more favorable figure for the administration in power at the time. A true accounting would very likely result in a figure closer to 22% than that ten percent we have been offered for sometime now.

Let’s say we split the difference and agree that the real unemployment rate in America today is around 16% to 17%. That is still a whopping chunk of the American workforce out of work.

Why are there no jobs, then? Well, that takes us back to the point I made at the beginning of this piece. Wealthy people provide the jobs in America.

Yes, the wealthy still have money. Maybe not as much as they had before the recession hit us so hard, but they still have an ample supply. But they are not spending it on plant expansions, new operations, purchasing new equipment, building up their inventory, etc, etc. When that money they are sitting on is static, when it is not working, then it is not creating jobs. As a result, Americans can’t find jobs.

For the most part, rich people are not fools. They did not get rich by doing stupid things. Risking their fortunes on an American economy on the threshold of being regulated into oblivion by a President and a government on the cusp of completely embracing socialism and fascism would, indeed, be stupid.

Wealthy Americans are nervous. They are sitting on their money waiting, and hoping, for better times, when they can again put their fortunes to work creating jobs for the American work force and making lots more money for themselves. That’s the way business works.

I don’t know where the idea that -- business is in business to do you and I a favor -- originated. But I tell you as strongly as I can, that it is untrue. Business is in business to make money, to make a profit, for the owners and the stockholders of that business.

Bludgeoning the wealthy with even more taxes is certainly not going to make them take what’s left of their fortunes and blow it on “make work” jobs creating “stuff” the public doesn’t have the money to buy because they don’t have the jobs with which to earn the money it takes to purchase that “stuff.”

If anything, increased taxes will result in the wealthy holding even tighter to their fortunes and spending even less of it. It will also result in corporations looking for countries around the globe that have a ready workforce, willing to work for much lower wages, and a government that is willing to provide a tax friendly environment within which that corporation can operate at a substantial profit. The latter is happening even as America is beginning the long road back from the recession.

Corporations have seen where the American government is going with their regulations and taxes and they are not stupid enough to sit here on American soil and allow the new American socialism to take over their corporate investments. They are getting out – sooner, or later -- and they are taking their companies offshore to countries that welcome the jobs they bring to that country’s people with open arms.

So, the answer to the question I posed above is – yes. Higher taxes, on the rich, do threaten your job. There is no question about it.

We haven’t even touched on the whether, or not, the government’s taking over half of what a wage earner makes to redistribute to those who make less, is even moral. I didn’t bother to spend much ink on that topic because the answer is so obvious. NO, it is NOT MORAL. It is, in fact, thievery. When a government does it -- it is called taxing. When an individual does it, it is called robbery.

In the next few weeks, we Americans are going to hear and see a lot of debate about raising taxes on Americans, and on American business. Raising taxes will prolong the recession, and make the unemployment figures continue at unacceptable highs. It will also drive many large corporations away from America and stop those considering locating in America to look elsewhere. In short, higher taxes will crush what is left of the American economy.

With Election Day approaching we ask that you observe which political party is pushing those higher taxes, and remember them when you cast your vote in November.

J. D. Longstreet

New Documentary on Leftist Cultural Destruction Strategy

By James Simpson

Below is a trailer for a must see new video by Curtis Bowers, Agenda: Grinding America Down.  It includes the perspective of many well-known policy experts, including Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese, III, Trevor Loudon, Phyllis Schafly, Brannon Howse, M. Stanton Evans, Dr. Robert Chandler, and many others. This documentary DVD is well worth the modest price.

Note: while I was also interviewed for this documentary, I will not receive, nor did I ask for any remuneration. My only interest in promoting this video is seeing the facts contained herein communicated to the public -- facts that our media has utterly failed to disclose.



AGENDA: Grinding America Down (Trailer) from Curtis Bowers on Vimeo.

Effort Already Underway to Repeal ObamaCare

Effort Already Underway to Repeal ObamaCare
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

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It is “not getting much press,” as they say, but the repeal of ObamaCare is very real in the US House of Representatives. “More than three-quarters of the needed members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed onto a measure to have a new vote on Obamacare that essentially would allow the chamber to withdraw its approval of the law and begin the process of banishing it from American shores.” (From World Net Daily. For more go HERE.)

Well, that’s interesting, what? Hadn’t heard about it – had you?

Are you surprised?

You shouldn’t be. With the mainstream media in the tank for Obama, they seem ready to sweep under the rug, look the other way, or completely ignore, in this case, one of the biggest stories leading up to the Democratic Party massacre in the Mid-Term Election just a few weeks away.

Ok, so what’s going on with the efforts to repeal ObamaCare, anyway?

According to WND, the discharge petition has already obtained 162 signatures of the 218 it will need. Under the provisions of the discharge procedures in the House, the signatures of 218 members, a majority, of the 435-member chamber is needed before it can move forward. As the 218 signatures IS a majority of the House membership, it is near certain to be approved once it reaches the point of advancement. With a majority signing onto the discharge petition, Speaker Pelosi cannot stop it.

You may remember that all of the Republicans and 34 Democrats opposed Obamacare when it was passed on a narrow 219-212 vote earlier this year. That should mean that at least 212 members of the House should be ready to repeal ObamaCare since they were against it, and voted against it, just a few months ago. If it turns out that way, those pushing the discharge petition will only need a handful (roughly a half dozen) of democrats for the petition to advance.

Now, all of this activity on the repeal of ObamaCare has been going on, successfully, in the face of massive opposition from Speaker Pelosi and the hardcore Obamacrats in the U. S. House.

You may remember that Pelosi said they’d have to pass ObamaCare before we could find out what was in it, right? Well, they passed it, and we read it, and the majority of the electorate is P.O.ed that the US Congress would foist such a statist, socialist, piece of bovine scatology on the American citizens. As a result, the Democrats in the current “Kamikaze Kongress” are facing the worst defeat at the polls in the modern history of the United States.

This November, a slew of Democrats are going to have to answer to their constituents for having voted for socialized medicine and saddling those same voters with massive tax increases, and even more government intrusion in their lives.

If there are any two things Americans hate, it is taxes and government meddling in their private lives.

Here’s the wording on the petition: "Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XV, I, Steve King of Iowa, move to discharge the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Rules, House Administration and Appropriations from the consideration of the bill (H.R. 4972) to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was referred to said committees on March 25, 2010, in support of which motion the undersigned Members of the House of Representatives affix their signatures."

So, the effort to repeal ObamaCare is underway and your help is needed. If you want to see this law, which was dragged from the sewer of socialism, repealed -- and a spike driven through its heart so that it can never be revived -- then we suggest you contact your congressperson right away and tell them you want them to sign on to the discharge petition TODAY! With your help it is not impossible to overturn ObamaCare during THIS SESSION of Congress!

Congressman John Boehner, Republican of Ohio, is recently reported to have said: "While rushing their massive government takeover of health care through Congress, President Obama and congressional Democrats promised it would create jobs, lower costs, reduce the deficit, allow Americans to keep their health care, protect seniors' coverage, prohibit taxpayer-funded abortion and, of course, gain the support of the American people…” Boehner continued: "It isn't just that none of these promises or predictions have turned out to be true. In every instance, Obamacare has made matters worse."

Boehner went on to say: "The American people remain squarely opposed to this government takeover of health care that has already failed to live up to specific promises made by President Obama and Washington Democrats.

"Republicans are listening to the American people, and fighting to repeal Obamacare so we can replace it with common-sense reforms focused on lowering costs and protecting jobs…"

There is much to be done to ensure the repeal of ObamaCare and the sooner we begin -- the sooner we will be rid of this abomination from the depths of hell.

There is an online petition to support the repeal of ObamaCare you may wish to sign HERE.

It is time to take your life out of the hands of the government. We begin by repealing ObamaCare.

J. D. Longstreet

Sderot- The bomb shelter capital of the world

By Findalis of Monkey in the Middle

For the last week rockets fired from Gaza have been a daily occurrence.  Although they have caused limited damage to property and no one has been hurt or killed. (Frayed nerves and a couple of neurotic cats.)  It is only a matter of time before someone is killed.

A Grad rocket fired by Gaza terrorists hit an open area near a residential neighborhood in Ashkelon on Friday morning. No physical injuries were reported, although several people suffered shock and required medical attention. A vehicle was also damaged.

Ashkelon had experienced relative quiet following the Cast Lead counterterror operation in Gaza in early 2009.

The attack follows an attack last week that was carried out using an imported rocket more sophisticated than the short-range “Kassam” rockets produced in Gaza. In that case, the rocket failed to explode, and no injuries were reported.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has followed a policy of quick response to attacks from Gaza. Air Force planes have demolished smuggling tunnels and weapons factories in the region following previous rocket attacks.

Sderot is the only town and the Western Negav is the only region in the world, where missiles are fired towards civilian population in the 21st Century.--Sderot Media Center

If you are planning a visit to Israel, plan a side visit to Sderot.  You can contact the Sderot Media Center for a tour.

No child should have to endure this.  Please help!