Here is a television interview from Beaumont of U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz. The entire interview is good, but to me, the strongest portion comes at time mark 7:22, where Ted reminds us that of all the candidates for Senate nation-wide, he is the only one to receive endorsements from the four strongest conservatives serving today: Senators Jim DeMint, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and Pat Toomey.
For the full list of endorsements (including former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese and radio host Mark Levin), go to the Ted Cruz Website.
October 27, 2011
October 24, 2011
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I normally use my Facebook page to post videos and other similar items, but this one deserves space here as well. Enjoy.
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October 10, 2011
The Next Senator From The Great State of Texas? I Sure Hope So!
The following is a video of former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz’s speech to the Family Research Council’s 2011 Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC on October 7th.
Mr. Cruz is running for the U.S. Senate and I can think of no one I’d rather have representing me. With luck, there will be other Senate candidates from around the country that have the same passion for liberty and the Constitution that Ted has. We can only hope.
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Mr. Cruz is running for the U.S. Senate and I can think of no one I’d rather have representing me. With luck, there will be other Senate candidates from around the country that have the same passion for liberty and the Constitution that Ted has. We can only hope.
October 9, 2011
Is This Obama’s “Watergate?”
Most who weren’t alive during the early 1970s (and many who were) could not tell you what Watergate was all about, just that it had something to do with the President of the United States of America resigning his office, something that had never happened (before or since).
Without going into great detail (Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s All The President’s Men is the gold-standard), “Watergate” refers to the Watergate Hotel and Office Building in Washington D.C., which among other things, housed the offices of the Democratic National Committee. One night in 1972, a hotel security guard caught a group of burglars inside those offices. As the story unfolded, it was learned that the burglars were there at the behest of President Richard M. Nixon’s reelection committee — in fact, one of the burglars worked directly for the committee. In this case, ca-ca flowed uphill and President Nixon sealed his own fate by getting directly involved in trying to cover up the connection after he learned of it (Catch-phrase of the day: “What did the President know and when did he know it?”).
Two years after the burglary and facing certain impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate, Nixon resigned. What is unfolding now has many wondering if history is repeating itself.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE, or more commonly, ATF) has more or less been caught red-handed intentionally sending weapons across the border into Mexico, weapons that they were supposed to be stopping. Known variously as “Gunwalker” or “Gunrunner,” the official ATF name for the project appears to be “Fast and Furious”…having never seen the movie(s) of the same name, the connection is lost on me.
Without getting into the details, insiders are blowing whistles and a Congressional investigation has ATF and other Justice Department honchos stonewalling and circling the wagons. It now appears that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder may have at least known about the project and did nothing to stop it. The only step up the ladder from there goes directly to the Oval Office.
There is more to discuss on this subject (including the possibility of a much more sinister motive for the project than catching druggies), but for now I just wonder how long it will be before we hear people in positions of power channeling Senator Sam Ervin — “What did the President know and when did he know it?”
Without going into great detail (Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s All The President’s Men is the gold-standard), “Watergate” refers to the Watergate Hotel and Office Building in Washington D.C., which among other things, housed the offices of the Democratic National Committee. One night in 1972, a hotel security guard caught a group of burglars inside those offices. As the story unfolded, it was learned that the burglars were there at the behest of President Richard M. Nixon’s reelection committee — in fact, one of the burglars worked directly for the committee. In this case, ca-ca flowed uphill and President Nixon sealed his own fate by getting directly involved in trying to cover up the connection after he learned of it (Catch-phrase of the day: “What did the President know and when did he know it?”).
Two years after the burglary and facing certain impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate, Nixon resigned. What is unfolding now has many wondering if history is repeating itself.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE, or more commonly, ATF) has more or less been caught red-handed intentionally sending weapons across the border into Mexico, weapons that they were supposed to be stopping. Known variously as “Gunwalker” or “Gunrunner,” the official ATF name for the project appears to be “Fast and Furious”…having never seen the movie(s) of the same name, the connection is lost on me.
Without getting into the details, insiders are blowing whistles and a Congressional investigation has ATF and other Justice Department honchos stonewalling and circling the wagons. It now appears that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder may have at least known about the project and did nothing to stop it. The only step up the ladder from there goes directly to the Oval Office.
There is more to discuss on this subject (including the possibility of a much more sinister motive for the project than catching druggies), but for now I just wonder how long it will be before we hear people in positions of power channeling Senator Sam Ervin — “What did the President know and when did he know it?”
October 7, 2011
“…Where Men Were Free.”
Okay, I’ve officially given up on pretending this is going to be a traditional “blog”…I just don’t have the time to sit down and vent every time something pushes my buttons and short, pithy paragraphs only tease my appetite for writing. For those of you who have checked back here over the last three months expecting to see something new, I apologize.
I always try to wait until I have something profound to relate before sitting down to make an entry here…maybe that’s why nothing has been posted for so long. Perhaps I should just let the words flow and not worry so much about how insightful or cutting-edge they might be. Read that as: “Don’t be so full of yourself, Nathan—just write.”
I have been on the “off-cycle” lately when it comes to listening to the voices on conservative radio. I’ve learned that if I don’t back off every so often, I let the state of affairs in our country twist me up in knots to the point I can’t function clearly. Not that I would for a minute waste time listening to liberal radio…if I want the state-sanctioned view of life, all I have to do is watch NBC, ABC, CBS or any of their “news” off-shoots languishing in the ratings cellar on cable. My “male bovine excrement” meter works just fine, thank you very much.
What I have noticed more and more is that nothing much has really changed over the last 40 years. We still have left-wing ideologues (masquerading as educators) indoctrinating our children in universities and colleges around the country, with very few standout institutions left (Hillsdale College being a prime example of the latter).
Democrats (Liberals/Progressives/Marxists/Utopians/take-your-pick) always say that more money—yours, not theirs—is the answer to every problem and that government is the be-all-end-all solution to mankind’s shortcomings.
Moderates are constantly basing their positions and actions on what Liberals will think about them…more interested in being liked by the establishment media than in being right, more interested in compromise than in standing on principle.
Those Republicans that don’t identify themselves as Moderates still delineate themselves as Social-Conservatives or Fiscal-Conservatives, each often eyeing the other with ill-concealed loathing and opening the door for Moderate candidates to “bridge the gap” in a brotherly expression of compromise that usually results in the Democrat candidate winning the race — why vote for “Liberal Lite” when you can have the real thing?
But something changed slightly over the last few election cycles: real Conservatives started winning…and winning BIG. What often goes unreported about the 2010 election is that not only the U.S. House of Representatives, but a majority of state legislatures went Republican…and for the most part, those candidates were Conservatives, not Moderates.
Don’t believe the disinformation spread by the Democratic Party and the liberal media: ours is not a liberal society, it is predominately conservative. According to Gallop polling, 2011 is the third straight year that those identifying themselves as “conservative” (41%) outnumber “moderates” (36%) and “liberals” (21%)…with conservatives outnumbering liberals by almost 2:1! Just try to prove that by listening to the nightly news.
We have to quit listening to those who say we have to go along to get along; that ship sailed with John McCain. [I heard someone from the McCain campaign complain that if someone other than Sarah Palin had been on the ticket, the race would have been too close to call. What a moron! Palin on the ticket is what prevented it from being a 49-state landslide for Obama!]
“OK, Nathan, you’ve been rambling on for awhile now…what’s your point?” My point is, we are reaching a tipping point in our history. For the last hundred years, those who detest our capitalist way of life, our societal exceptionalism, our status as the world’s last superpower have been firmly ensconced in the halls of academia. But now, they are firmly ensconced in the halls of power and running the country!
We are rapidly running out of time to turn the tide…some say it’s already too late. It’s time for us to wake up, for each of us to make a difference in whatever way we can—voting, campaigning, speaking, writing, praying—to reclaim our country before it is lost forever.
President Ronald Reagan made many profound statements over his lifetime, but one in particular rings even truer today than when he originally said it:
I always try to wait until I have something profound to relate before sitting down to make an entry here…maybe that’s why nothing has been posted for so long. Perhaps I should just let the words flow and not worry so much about how insightful or cutting-edge they might be. Read that as: “Don’t be so full of yourself, Nathan—just write.”
I have been on the “off-cycle” lately when it comes to listening to the voices on conservative radio. I’ve learned that if I don’t back off every so often, I let the state of affairs in our country twist me up in knots to the point I can’t function clearly. Not that I would for a minute waste time listening to liberal radio…if I want the state-sanctioned view of life, all I have to do is watch NBC, ABC, CBS or any of their “news” off-shoots languishing in the ratings cellar on cable. My “male bovine excrement” meter works just fine, thank you very much.
What I have noticed more and more is that nothing much has really changed over the last 40 years. We still have left-wing ideologues (masquerading as educators) indoctrinating our children in universities and colleges around the country, with very few standout institutions left (Hillsdale College being a prime example of the latter).
Democrats (Liberals/Progressives/Marxists/Utopians/take-your-pick) always say that more money—yours, not theirs—is the answer to every problem and that government is the be-all-end-all solution to mankind’s shortcomings.
Moderates are constantly basing their positions and actions on what Liberals will think about them…more interested in being liked by the establishment media than in being right, more interested in compromise than in standing on principle.
Those Republicans that don’t identify themselves as Moderates still delineate themselves as Social-Conservatives or Fiscal-Conservatives, each often eyeing the other with ill-concealed loathing and opening the door for Moderate candidates to “bridge the gap” in a brotherly expression of compromise that usually results in the Democrat candidate winning the race — why vote for “Liberal Lite” when you can have the real thing?
But something changed slightly over the last few election cycles: real Conservatives started winning…and winning BIG. What often goes unreported about the 2010 election is that not only the U.S. House of Representatives, but a majority of state legislatures went Republican…and for the most part, those candidates were Conservatives, not Moderates.
Don’t believe the disinformation spread by the Democratic Party and the liberal media: ours is not a liberal society, it is predominately conservative. According to Gallop polling, 2011 is the third straight year that those identifying themselves as “conservative” (41%) outnumber “moderates” (36%) and “liberals” (21%)…with conservatives outnumbering liberals by almost 2:1! Just try to prove that by listening to the nightly news.
We have to quit listening to those who say we have to go along to get along; that ship sailed with John McCain. [I heard someone from the McCain campaign complain that if someone other than Sarah Palin had been on the ticket, the race would have been too close to call. What a moron! Palin on the ticket is what prevented it from being a 49-state landslide for Obama!]
“OK, Nathan, you’ve been rambling on for awhile now…what’s your point?” My point is, we are reaching a tipping point in our history. For the last hundred years, those who detest our capitalist way of life, our societal exceptionalism, our status as the world’s last superpower have been firmly ensconced in the halls of academia. But now, they are firmly ensconced in the halls of power and running the country!
We are rapidly running out of time to turn the tide…some say it’s already too late. It’s time for us to wake up, for each of us to make a difference in whatever way we can—voting, campaigning, speaking, writing, praying—to reclaim our country before it is lost forever.
President Ronald Reagan made many profound statements over his lifetime, but one in particular rings even truer today than when he originally said it:
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't 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 day 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.”
July 4, 2011
Why Did You Fight?
Around 1843, historian Mellen Chamberlain interviewed one of the last surviving Minutemen present at the Battle of Concord in 1775, 91-year-old Captain Levi Preston. This was like interviewing a World War II veteran today:
Something to remember as we celebrate Independence Day.
Captain Preston, what made you go to the Concord Fight?“We always had governed ourselves, and we always meant to.” That was the bottom line for the entire Revolutionary War. They were not going to let an increasingly oppressive authority in some distant capitol that was not responsive to the will of the people dictate to them how they were going to live their lives.
What did I go for?
Were you oppressed by the Stamp Act?
I never saw any stamps, and I always understood that none were ever sold.
Well, what about the tea tax?
Tea tax? I never drank a drop of the stuff; the boys threw it all overboard.
But I suppose you had been reading Harrington, Sidney, and Locke about the eternal principle of liberty?
I never heard of these men. The only books we had were the Bible, the Catechism, Watts’ psalms and hymns and the almanacs.
Well, then, what was the matter?
Young man, what we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: we always had governed ourselves and we always meant to. They didn’t mean we should.
Something to remember as we celebrate Independence Day.
June 2, 2011
Where are the REAL men in the Texas Senate?
I’m still trying to understand why our supposed-Republican Lt.Gov. David Dewhurst would lobby against a Republican bill that would protect our women and children from repeated molestation by agents of the Transportation Security Administration.
According to Dewhurst himself (as reported in the Austin American-Statesman), his activity on the Senate floor that night was about the Sanctuary Cities bill, not the TSA bill (also known as the Anti-Groping Bill)...but that doesn’t seem to match up with what state senators are saying. They accuse him of lobbying against legislation that would make it a state-jail felony to perform the sexual-assault searches now being used in airport security checks...with federal lawyers in tow as he wandered the Senate floor. I’m not going to get into whether or not that constituted a violation of lobbying practices according to Texas law, but David Dewhurst has received his last vote for any office from yours-truly. And we definitely don’t need someone like him in the US Senate!
But what I am really irritated over is the federal government’s threat to turn the entire state of Texas into a no-fly-zone if the bill became law! Apparently, more than a few of our state senators can’t read a bluff and should never play poker for the rest of their lives. Shutting down all air traffic in and out of Texas (even if the Feds had the huevos to try it) would in all likelihood be the spark for a full-blown revolt against an overreaching Federal government...a government that is now reaching into areas we teach our children to scream loudly for help when touched there! [I know, Miss D: bad grammar.]
We have got to get people to understand that Washington is NOT the heart of the USA...our state capitols are. I can’t remember who to cite as the author, but someone stated it very plainly:
According to Dewhurst himself (as reported in the Austin American-Statesman), his activity on the Senate floor that night was about the Sanctuary Cities bill, not the TSA bill (also known as the Anti-Groping Bill)...but that doesn’t seem to match up with what state senators are saying. They accuse him of lobbying against legislation that would make it a state-jail felony to perform the sexual-assault searches now being used in airport security checks...with federal lawyers in tow as he wandered the Senate floor. I’m not going to get into whether or not that constituted a violation of lobbying practices according to Texas law, but David Dewhurst has received his last vote for any office from yours-truly. And we definitely don’t need someone like him in the US Senate!
But what I am really irritated over is the federal government’s threat to turn the entire state of Texas into a no-fly-zone if the bill became law! Apparently, more than a few of our state senators can’t read a bluff and should never play poker for the rest of their lives. Shutting down all air traffic in and out of Texas (even if the Feds had the huevos to try it) would in all likelihood be the spark for a full-blown revolt against an overreaching Federal government...a government that is now reaching into areas we teach our children to scream loudly for help when touched there! [I know, Miss D: bad grammar.]
We have got to get people to understand that Washington is NOT the heart of the USA...our state capitols are. I can’t remember who to cite as the author, but someone stated it very plainly:
“The states are not creatures of the Federal government, the Federal government is a creature of the states....States: get your creature on a leash!”But like the fictional Dr. Frankenstein, I fear our monster has become uncontrollable.
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