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May 14
This year, we can expect to see almost nothing but assaults as the campaign progresses. The Republican attack against Obama all but ignores the issue differences between the candidates to go after what is presumably his inadequate American identity. He is, writes one leading conservative columnist, “out of touch with everyday America.” His reluctance to wear a flag pin, writes another, shows that he “has declared himself superior to an almost universal form of popular patriotism.” There are good reasons Republicans are focusing on identity rather than issues this year: In poll after poll, there’s not a single major issue on which the public agrees with them or their presumptive nominee. Not Iraq, certainly. Not the economy. Should the election turn on the question of “What are you going to do for America?” rather than “Are you a real American?” Republicans are doomed. They offer no solutions for the stagnation (or decline) of American living standards, or for the weakening of America’s economic power. They offer no resolution to America’s war of choice in Iraq.
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It is a misconception pushed by the left these days that Christianity is not to be so much as even mentioned in school, especially when it comes to science because it might “breach” the separation of church and state. The two problems are 1) The establishment clause never says anything of a “separation of church and state”, this is only something activist judges put in themselves. 2) If there were really this “separation” we could legally teach nothing at all. What we teach in schools today is what is called Secular Humanism. Secular Humanism has been established and referred to many times as a religion by the Supreme Court in such cases as the “Torcaso vs. Watkins” case and the “Washington Ethical Society vs. District of Columbia” which held that secular humanism is a non-theistic religion within the meaning of the First Amendment. So why don’t we truly go back to the establishment clause and stop establishing secular humanism as our national religion. Rather we should go to the establishment clauses original intent, which is that all religious beliefs be treated equally, rather than suppressing the ones that the PC crowd doesn’t like.
God bless and many, many thanks to Bill Davis and the organization he founded, the Cochise County Militia. Bill and many like him are the true Americans who are supporting the difficult work of the Border Patrol. It’s criminal that President Bush calls these patriots “vigilantes” but that just shows where Bush’s heart is. Bush, John McCain, Jon Kyl and Gabrielle Giffords appear to love illegals, amnesty and the so-called “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” Never mind the wreckage these illegals are doing to our country. Take a look at the mountains of trash left behind as they invade our country nightly. Check out the overcrowded schools, jails and prisons and overwhelmed health care systems. Even worse, terrorists walk in waiting to do their dirty work. Bush, McCain, Kyl and Giffords don’t care. Big business wants the cheap labor and our national leaders bow down and comply. These are sad days in America when the people we elect refuse to enforce the laws in place which would protect our borders and we the people.
I can write a letter or sign a greetings card and put it in my mailbox (in Coronado National Memorial) and the post office will send out a carrier in their vehicle, pick it up and transport it to the airport in Tucson or Phoenix, fly it to Jacksonville, Florida (or anywhere else in the country, including Alaska and Hawaii) where another carrier will then hand deliver it to my son’s house. All this for only 42 cents — what a bargain.
As a postal employee, I read with great excitement in today’s On Your Mind that I am getting a raise! Oh, and benefits, too. Health care, retirement, and I only have to drive around in a truck for 20 years to do it. Whoo hooo. Can’t wait for that to happen.
Now it’s strange the man who wants to be president said the United States had 57 states? Yes, Barack Hussein Obama said the other day there were 57 states. Mercy, is that what they teach at Harvard? Or, was he thinking of the Islamic states around the world that number 57? Very curious.
I’m calling in response to the OYM call about bikers to defend my stand on what I said when I called in. I said people who drive cars don’t look out for motorcyclists, and that’s true. Of course we have a small percentage of bikers who drive like morons and will pass people on the right, that’s true. But my own personal experience is with those in cars who don’t look out for me. I don’t pass people on the right. I don’t drive my motorcycle like a maniac. I do follow laws and I do watch out for cars but the car drivers don’t watch out for us.
The terrible flooding and destruction going o in our own country right now and in Myanmar and China are hard to deal with for sure. We hope we here have learned from our New Orleans disaster to help without criticism of the victims.
Hah Hah wrote on May 28, 2008 6:14 PM: