As the rednecks down here in the South say, “Who’d have thunk it?”
About a year and a half ago we saw the beginning of the 9/12 and Tea Party movements. We were accused of being ‘astro-turf’, racist, trouble making folks inciting to riot and social unrest. In actuality, we were people who recognized incompetence and arrogance in our elected officials who were seemingly bent on installing a Socialist – Marxist government. We were appalled by the misdirected ‘stimulus’ and bail-out programs and growing power of big government and unions. We were dismayed by the increasing manipulation of Obama’s ‘Chicago’ politics and cronies. The disrespect of our Armed Forces, misuse of our Judicial System, failed Middle East policies, continued high unemployment and a poorly conceived and unconstitutional HealthCare program only made us more determined to increase our efforts. We evidenced a fiscal and housing policy compiled overnight that will take us years with undue hardships from which to recover. We saw an immigration policy completely in disarray with the administration pandering for latino votes and, of course, an increased pandering for gay and lesbian votes.
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Can art change minds? Most artists wouldn’t be doing their art if they didn’t think their work had an effect on people. Such is the art featured in this video. Artist Jon McNaughton has created an amazing painting called “The Forgotten Man”. The video is narrated by the artist, but here’s a quick overview of the painting:
Against the background of a darkening sky, all of the past Presidents of the United States gather before the White House, as if to commemorate some great event. In the left hand corner of the painting sits a man. That man, with his head bowed appears distraught and hopeless as he contemplates his future. Some of the past Presidents try to console him while looking in the direction of the modern Presidents as if to say, “What have you done?” Many of these modern Presidents, seemingly oblivious to anything other than themselves, appear to be congratulating each other on their great accomplishments. In front of the man, paper trash is blowing in the wind. Crumpled dollar bills, legislative documents, and, like a whisper—the U.S. Constitution beneath the foot of Barack Obama.
A Sweet Song:
Editor’s Note: The following comments were written by guest writer David Evans who blogs at http://daevans34.blogspot.com. He sends much of his material out via email and after receiving a forwarded email copy of this particular article we contacted him and got his permission to repost it here. It dovetails with our belief that many people who are now Tea Party members got their wakeup call on September 11th, 2001.
It is said that most of us can vividly remember past events of disaster and calamity. Being somewhat older than most of you, I can recall listening to radio reports of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (Contrary to some reports, I cannot remember the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor). I can recall all of the events relative to the assassination of President Kennedy including where I was and what I was doing. My wife and I were in the Brussels, Belgium airport when the first survivors of the Belgian Congo Massacre arrived there in Nov. 1964 with the Queen of Belgium in attendance. We have witnessed history in the making.
All those of school age and older can (or should) recall the same things about that awful day on Sep. 11, 2001 . . . where they were and what they were doing, etc. Most Americans never will forget what happened that terrible day.
But not all.
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President Obama “unveiled” his new “stimulus” plan in Wisconsin today. It was a lot like watching an alcoholic unveil his new plan to get sober by switching to lite beer:
We’re going to “fire up sluggish economic growth” by plowing another fifty billion deficit dollars into roads, rail, and airports? It’s hard to believe even the American media would be lazy enough to write such a headline with a straight face.
Does anyone seriously think our economy is just waiting for another fifty billion dollars’ worth of roads to come roaring back to life? I guess business owners have all sorts of property staked out for new factories and shops. They’re just waiting for someone to build roads leading to them. Does all of this Administration’s economic knowledge come from playing “Sim City” computer games?
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Back in the early part of 2010 when I was putting together the concept of TeaPartyConnect.com, I decided that other voices should be included and promoted. My thinking was that having other writers contribute to the site would add variety as well as expand the material presented from areas I wasn’t necessarily investigating.
I was using a tool called FeedDemon to subscribe to various conservative blogs and news sources (I can highly recommend FeedDemon, so get it!). In the previous year, I subscribed to many RSS feeds and I sorted through the wheat and chaff by identifying the sources where the best articles originated. That process produced a short list of great bloggers who I now follow on a daily basis.
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Hear Michael Berry daily at 950KPRC.com (3:00 – 5:00, Central Time) or at KTRH.com (5:00 – 7:00, Central Time) Visit him on Facebook or at his blog: “http://ktrh.com/pages/michaelberry.html”
Turn your volume down. This gets a little loud.
On second thought, turn the volume up so your neighbor can hear it too!
Are you involved yet? Have you helped out a campaign with your time, your talents or your money? Have you decided to grow a backbone and stand up instead of running scared? A lot of people have already, but they would welcome your help too. Join a tea party, volunteer to work for a candidate, call your friends and tell them how you feel, email this video to everyone you know, or just send them to www.TeaPartyConnect.com! We’ll get them educated and fired up!
Good job Michael Berry! Keep it up!
Caroline Baum posted a great article on Bloomberg.com on August 15th, 2010 and it is instructive.
First, she reminds each of us that We, The People give Congress the power to levy and collect taxes. However:
There’s nothing in there about carving out special exemptions for certain individuals or groups; about using tax credits to achieve socially desirable outcomes, such as getting married and having children; or about doling out earmarks in an implicit exchange for campaign contributions.
How can we get Congress out of the tax-favor business?
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Backstory: Todd Starnes reported:
A Tennessee middle school football coach said he got fired after he wrote a song that criticized President Obama.
Bryan Glover, an assistant coach at Grassland Middle School near Nashville, co-wrote the country music song, “When You’re Holding a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail.”
It was co-written by a parent who has a child on the team. Glover, 26, said he emailed a copy of the song to friends, family members and player’s parents through his personal email account.
And that’s when all the trouble started for the self-described independent conservative.
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Today on WMOX, we discussed the History Channel’s new show, Jefferson. One of the many interesting facts about the author of the Declaration of Independence was the three accomplishments he was proud of that he had placed on his tombstone. They are (1) The Declaration of Independence, (2) the Virginia Bill of Religious Freedom and (3) Founding of the University of Virginia.
The Virginia Bill of Religious Freedom is powerful and short. Its preamble is in the style of the Declaration and worth reading. I have provided a link or check out this short but powerful prose.
The letter declining an invitation to attend a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is also very powerful. This phrase about the 4th is something we should all remember each year: “For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.” For full text of the letter to Roger Weightman.
Be sure watch or DVR this show when it comes again on the History Channel. In the mean time checkout some the material the History Channel has pulled together on our most thoughtful Founder.
- The Professor
The strands of the Internet hum with confusion, anger, and message manipulation from an increasingly desperate Left. Their last-ditch strategy involves brewing up a petri dish full of viral memes about the conservative grassroots, in the hope of weakening their resolve, and perhaps frightening a few independents into staying home in November. They hope to nourish the disgust of the “pox on both their houses” types into lethargy.
It’s not going to work. The next two elections are vitally important, and we remain focused. I hope we’ll also remember the lesson that all elections are important. Today’s crisis is the output of many generations of error.
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The AP reported today that the total debt of this country is now $13,310,379,000,000.00.
A staggering sum of money, so let’s try to make this number a little more understandable.
According to the 2009 IRS Data Book, there were 144,103,000 tax returns filed in 2009, but according to Scott A. Hodge of The Tax Foundation, 36% of those filing returns owed no taxes or received more money back in tax refunds than they actually paid into the system. This leaves 92,225,920 households in the U.S. to carry the tax burden PLUS pay for all of the credits that went to those with a negative tax liability.
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The AP reports that while in Milwaukee today, the President said “Don’t give in to fear, Let’s reach for hope.”
The story continued:
…he warned of reliving a dreadful past, saying Republicans want voters “to be afraid of the future.”
“The worst thing we could do is to go back to the very same policies that created this mess in the first place,” Obama said at a fundraiser in Wisconsin. “In November, you’re going to have that choice.”
Sometimes, I just can’t fathom how stupid Obama must think the American people really are.
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Set against the backdrop of today’s headline – 67% of Americans don’t approve of Obama’s economic policies, the film takes a provocative look at our deeply depressed economy using the words and actions of Presidents Reagan and Obama and shows the marked contrast between Reaganomics and Obamanomics. The film contrasts two views of the role that the federal government should play in our daily lives using the words and actions of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.
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On October 31, 2008, I sent out a letter to many of my friends regarding the upcoming Presidential Election. Although my expressed hope that the American People could see through the charade was proven wrong, I feel that with the November 2nd, 2010 election just around the corner, the letter deserves to re-read. I made several predictions in the letter that did come true and I stated my beliefs in a way that surprises me today considering that it was written prior to my involvment in Tea Parties (although I’m pretty sure the letter is a good indication of why I got involved in them in the first place). I’m proud to say that I had a pretty good grasp of the situation and my own beliefs in Freedom and the Constitution. We’ve all come a long way through this and we’ve all learned a lot.
Read this letter for what it is: the musings of an American Citizen concerned about the future given what was known then about the potential of an Obama Administration.
My Friends,
I freely admit that I am fearful of what might happen on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008. As a business owner, if Barack Obama wins, my taxes are going to go up even if he does nothing but allow the Bush tax cuts to expire. As a Christian, I am concerned because Obama has stated without hestitation that his first order of business will be to strike down every State law against abortion and have the Federal government become the central authority in family planning and population control. As a radio personality, I am frightened by the re-institution of the Fairness Doctrine which like many laws has been severly mis-named and will do anything but provide fairness and instead will stop free speech in its tracks. As an individual, I am scared that the new levels of taxation on small businesses everywhere will cause the economy to contract and will impact my ability to earn a living by working for myself. As an American, I am worried that as Joe Biden has pointed out, Obama will be tested and many Americans could lose their lives in that test and many more could lose their lives trying to repair the damage done by his inexperience.
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