Showing posts with label patriotism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patriotism. Show all posts

Judge Napolitano's Lesson On Edward Snowden's Action

On the courage of a patriot.       Judge Andrew Napolitano reacted this morning to the NBC News interview with NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who showed no remorse for breaking U.S. law to leak a trove of classified documents outlining the NSA's massive surveillance program. "There have been times throughout American history where what is right    ... MORE

Remembering Our Ultimate Defenders Of Freedom

by Rob Woodall.      It was President James A. Garfield who said, “For love of country they accepted death,” and in that brief sentence we find a simple, solemn truth. It’s a truth for which we set aside a special day each year to pay tribute to the sacrifice of so many. Their sacrifice is a gift for which we are grateful, and on Memorial Day we pause to    ... MORE

The 2016 Presidential Candidate We Need

by George F. Will.      All modern presidents of both parties have been too much with us. Talking incessantly, they have put politics unhealthily at the center of America’s consciousness. Promising promiscuously, they have exaggerated government’s proper scope and actual competence, making the public perpetually disappointed and surly. Inflating   ... MORE

VIDEO: The REAL Bundy Ranch Story


The day free American citizens stood down their heavy-handed government.

Court Slams First Amendment & Free Expression In School

Upholds ban on clothing with American flags.     It might offend Mexicans. Officials at a Northern California high school acted appropriately when they ordered students wearing American flag T-shirts to turn the garments inside out during the Mexican heritage celebration Cinco de Mayo, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 9th U.S.    ... MORE

Free Speech: A Relic Of The American Past

by John W. Whitehead.     Living in a representative republic means that each person has the right to take a stand for what they think is right, whether that means marching outside the halls of government, wearing clothing with provocative statements, or simply holding up a sign. That’s what the First Amendment is supposed to be about.        ... MORE

Obama Shamelessly Exploits Wounded Vets In Big Speech

by Nick Gillespie.     The most emotionally powerful moment in Barack Obama’s State of the Union address was also its most morally dubious. The nation’s commander in chief drew attention to a wounded warrior while eliding any responsibility for placing the young man in harm’s way. A record number of Americans – 60 percent – think the government  ... MORE

Rand Paul Sues NSA Over Sweeping Spying Practices

To protect and defend Constitution taken seriously.      Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is suing the Obama administration over the National Security Agency’s spying practices in an effort to “protect the Fourth Amendment,” he told host Eric Bolling Friday on "Hannity."“The question here is whether or not, constitutionally, you can have a single    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Tea Party At The Crossroads

Just what is in their rational self-interest?      Third parties have had an unbroken record of failure in American presidential politics. So it was refreshing to see in the Tea Party an insurgent movement, mainly of people who were not professional politicians, but who nevertheless had the good sense to see that their only chance of getting their    ... MORE

Jonathon Moseley: Will The Real Traitor Please Stand Up?

Okay, who is the real traitor?       Is Edward Snowden a heroic whistleblower or a traitor? Well, maybe Snowden is a bit of both. He is both a hero and a traitor, arising from different aspects of his dramatic actions. Snowden was a computer whiz and former Booz Allen contract employee handling secret work for the National Security Agency  ... MORE

Edward Snowden: Hero Or Traitor?

by Robert Romano.    Let us take Edward Snowden at his word. For a moment, assume he disclosed publicly the National Security Agency’s (NSA) broad, sweeping surveillance of all telephone, Internet, and email communications everywhere — not to hurt people or undermine security but to stop an unconstitutionally intrusive program. Did he do  ... MORE

IRS Scandal Shows Importance Of Privacy Protections

by Phil Kerpen.    IRS apologists are furiously trying to change the subject from the outrageous targeting of political opponents by the IRS to a policy debate over forced disclosure of contributions to groups that engage in political speech. The story is that a deluge of applications forced the IRS to cut corners and the targeting scandal was an  ... MORE

Sheldon Richman: Abolish The IRS

(and the income tax with it)    The Internal Revenue Service has been caught engaging in political profiling while processing applications for tax-exempt status. In this case it was against organizations with “tea-party” or “patriot ” in their names and other right-wing groups. Next time it could be libertarian or left-wing antiwar and pro-civil-liberties  ... MORE

Steve Chapman: Obama Is Not Nixon

Are babies like snakes because some have rattles?   "The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know," said Harry Truman, who made it his task to absorb a lot of it. Many people who have not followed his example are not averse to using what little they do know, with the inadvertent effect of exposing how much they have to  ... MORE

The Obama IRS Nightmare Is Just Getting Started

by Ed Rogers, Washington Post.   Your government, as currently administered by President Obama, doesn’t like the word “patriot.”  If you associate yourself with an organization using that word, you may be investigated and prosecuted. Under Obama, government employees think they are doing what their superiors want them to do when they  ... MORE

Matt Welch: When The Madness Began To Lift

The fruits of Rand Paul's historic filibuster.   The 2004 Republican National Convention, held in New York City as close as possible to the three-year anniversary of the day the World Trade Center was pulverized by terrorists, was a three-day festival of chest-thumping snarls directed at anyone who’d dare mention the concepts of civil liberties or   ... MORE

Gary North: An Anomaly In American History

Ron Paul's farewell address.   On Wednesday, November 14, Ron Paul delivered his final speech at the podium of the United States House of Representatives. It was covered by C-SPAN live, and was later posted on C-SPAN's site. It was soon posted on YouTube, and from there was posted on numerous sites. Within hours, various media outlets began to     ... MORE

Harry Binswanger: Outsourcing Is America At Its Best

Why Obama and Romney are wrong on outsourcing.    Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are currently fighting over who is the more patriotic. Obama slams Romney for having outsourced jobs to China during his Bain Capital days. Romney punches back by labeling Obama “Outsourcer in Chief.” The latest is that both John Boehner and ... MORE