“I would mention that this amount is much higher than that collected during previous campaigns …it is a sign of popular support”

“In terms of the reduced funding available, I requested all Sectors/Bureaux/Offices to prepare Work Plans for 2012-2013 that reflect an overall reduction of 29% in the Approved Budget. I determined 29% as a realistic measure of good contingency planning in the face of the accumulated deficit.”

“Rest assured, the Global Priorities of Africa and Gender Equality are programmatic priorities,and targeted action will be identified in favour of youth,Least Developed Countries,Small Island Developing States and countries in post conflict and  post-disaster situations.”

“Early analysis of work plans for the five Major Programmes and the rest of the Organization as of 20 January 2012 shows the profound impact of the severe funding constraints across the entire Organization, which reaches into core priorities and operations.”

Even Ronaldus Magnus, the last good President left Washington bigger than he found it.

Jimmy Carter not only walked in the Inaugural Parade he walked us into the grip of a Department of Energy that works tirelessly to limit our energy production and a Department of Education that presides over the greatest decline in education in world History.   He chastised us in his malaise speech about our crisis of confidence never realizing it was our confidence in him not our country that was hobbling America.  And what was his advice?  Should we work harder, invent more, or launch out in bold new ways?  No he suggested we wear sweaters and turn the heat down.  Managing the decline has long been the theme song of those who see America’s glory days in the rearview mirror instead of in the headlights as we travel towards the future.

What about Nixon?  Forget about it!  He gave us price controls, OSHA, and the EPA.  He took us off the gold standard and left us at the mercy of the Federal Reserve, all this from the conservative wing of the Dualocracy which is the bi-polar Party of Power.

Lyndon Johnson and his Great Society, Medicare, Medicaid, and Food Stamp revolution created the entitlement monsters which are poised to devour the budget.

Though he cut taxes to spur the economy, Kennedy with his phony missile gap and foreign policy blunders did little besides set the stage for Johnson.

Eisenhower spent eight years guiding the construction of the Military Industrial Complex he warned us about as he left the stage.

The Fair Deal was merely Truman’s election driven attempt to increase the size, scope, and power of FDR’s New Deal which was a massive and unprecedented intrusion of the central government into the economic and social life of America.

FDR was the 20^th century poster boy when it comes to stretching the size of government and putting the stamp of entitlement as the cause on liberty’s death certificate.

Hoover, contrary to FDR’s story line and the accepted version of America’s History, responded to the stock market crash with a massive extension of government and its programs.  The Great Engineer, as he was known before his name became a household word for failed presidency, was a champion of government intervention, and though today his devotion to the tenets of laissez-faire are blamed for the depression when it was instead his federal interference that provided a deep recession for FDR to turn into the Great Depression.

Silent Cal Coolidge was America’s last limited President.  He limited himself and stayed with the confines of the Constitution.

Harding tried but died.

Wilson used the War he bragged of keeping us out of as the excuse to arrest and detain citizens, seize control of the economy, foster segregation and racism, and generally slap the cuffs of a greatly expanded central government on America’s wrists.

Taft was Teddy Roosevelt’s handpicked successor.  And although he continued the Progressive agenda of attacking business and expanding government he didn’t do enough.  So Roosevelt broke him and his presidency running against him splitting the Republican vote and opening the door for the Progressive Democrat Wilson.

Teddy was the grandfather of them all.  His trust busting interventionism was Progressivism personified.

Though this may be the litany of the current gang of statists who are poised to smother freedom, the struggle to keep constitutionally limited government, personal liberty, and economic freedom alive has been one long series of attack defenses declines and rebirths.

The second President, John Adams, was a man who helped write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.  He was a man who worked tirelessly for the ratification of the Constitution, and passed and signed the Alien and Sedition Acts under which he arrested people who criticized him, his administration or his policies.  From there it goes on and on.

Jefferson compromised his beliefs about the limited power of the central government and purchased Louisiana without Constitutional authority, a good deal but a bad precedent.   Monroe committed America to defending the entire Western Hemisphere. Polk sent American troops into territory internationally recognized as part of Mexico and then asked for a declaration of war when Mexican troops fired on those troops.  Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus whenever he needed to in order to maintain the Union though the Constitution does not grant that power to the Federal Government. The 10^th Amendment strictly prohibits the Federal Government from having any powers not expressly delegated to it, and at least one state, Virginia, in their ratification convention expressly considered the Union voluntary and reserved the right to secede.

From one battle to another America’s freedom fighters have stood before the Leviathan of Central Government and clung relentlessly to the promises first set forth in the founding document of the United States of America, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”  Considering that these uplifting and timeless words of human liberty were penned by a slaveholder and that it took four score and nine years for this stain to be removed from our nation we can see that our road away from serfdom has always been one of fits and starts.

Today we face the next great challenge.  Progressivism, America’s current variation on the age-old theme of government knows best is poised to break the bounds of limited government, regiment the people, and smother the economy.  After more than one hundred years of incremental growth in just three years the promises of hope and change have broken the bank and mortgaged the future.  One more term of this profligate spending and oppressive regulations and they will kill the golden goose.

The forces of freedom cannot afford to lose this next election to the purveyors of class warfare and division.  If we do this great experiment in limited government, personal liberty and economic liberty will have progressed from a new country on the margins of civilization to the greatest power the world has ever known, to just another socially engineered centrally planned economically shackled democracy voting itself benefits it can’t afford.

Our adversaries believe they have stacked the deck by taking control of both major political parties which operate as two wings on the same bird of prey.  They hope by nominating a Progressive in both parties there will be no way for the forces of freedom to prevail.

Our ranks are filled with those who have been in the trenches for a lifetime and are weary of the fight.  They have been joined by the recently awakened who know little of the history and less of the tactics.  Our opposition is comprised of the slickest, best funded, and most corrupt professional politicians, labor barons, and crony capitalists the world has ever seen with thousands of Occupy storm troopers thrown in for good measure.  The odds are against us.  The smart money is betting on the victory of the all-powerful government, lining up to get their deals and haul away the loot.

The odds have always been against us.  We fought the greatest empire in the world to gain our freedom.  We have persevered and prevailed against plot after plot to extinguish the light of liberty and in this battle too we must remember that the one we should never be forgotten told us long ago, “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

Yes, the blood of more than 54,000,000 innocent lives cry out for justice, yes we as a people have legalized what should be unlawful and condoned what should be condemned.  Yes, we have fallen from the high road and are weakened by an entitlement mentality and an addiction to entertainment.  But we are the American people.  We are, “We the People” and if we will but turn and acknowledge the one who has given us everything we have a chance.

The time is now.  The place is here.  We are the people we have been waiting for.  We must rise to the occasion.  We must win this battle because if we don’t win we lose.

Keep the faith.  Keep the peace.  We shall overcome.

Why should it be portrayed as a greater tragedy when a “single mother” loses her job rather than a man with a wife that stays at home? Seems both domestic arrangements are in similar positions without income.

In calling for a single source for the unemployed to seek information on training opportunities, doesn’t that involve the federal government assuming more control over education?

Obama insists it should be illegal for students to drop out of school before they are 18. Why should this be a matter of federal interference and what will the punishment be for those leaving prior to that age?

If no country is better than any other according to multiculturalist dogma, then why should foreign students be allowed to remain here after graduation?

If women are to earn equal pay for equal work, then make them lug the same weight around the stockroom or warehouse without having to seek masculine assistance to do so.

If lightweight vests are being developed by federal researchers that can stop any bullet, will such protective garments be made available to civilians as well or do we have an obligation to be shot by law enforcement?

Interesting how it was mentioned derisively about a company that at one time only produced yachts.

If it should be impermissible for insurance companies to charge more for women’s health coverage, then why should men have to pay more for motor vehicle policies?

Obama claimed politics is not about clinging to rigid ideologies. So why is it conservatives that must always surrender their basic ideals and ideas?

Obama claimed that government ought to only do what people are unable to do for themselves. Thing of it is, given his Frau’s desire to manipulate and meddle in your dietary intake, the First Couple doesn’t think you are really capable of doing anything for yourself.

Obama wants to grant tax credits to businesses hiring veterans. Why should the military status of a business’s employees be any business of the federal government?

The best way to insure opportunities for veterans, as well as all other Americans, is for the federal government to know the least amount possible regarding the nation’s workforce.

If it doesn’t matter in the military what color or gender you are, as Obama insists, why are certain standards lowered for females seeking advancement and White males held back because of the color of their skin rather than the content of their character. If color has no bearing in the military, why are we often reminded that Colin Powell was the first Black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as if that is suppose to immunize him against all criticism and scrutiny?

Would Bob Gates have been kept on as Secretary of Defense had he been a solid conservative Republican rather than an ardent establishmentarian compromiser?

Obama admonished the American people to look at what the nation could accomplish if the people were organized along military lines. However, the purpose of the military is to defend democracy, not practice it. In a civilian state, the average person is allowed to question the decrees and decisions of leaders elected, appointed, and bureaucratic. Such bottom up scrutiny is not allowed in the military and is punished severely.

This analyst tabulated approximately 80 rounds of applause in the 2012 State of the Union Address.

Rather than presenting a balanced honest look at Black History, leftist school teachers and the media say America is still racist and whites should feel eternally guilty. Also included in the left’s message is that blacks must continue to vote monolithic for Democrats in order to keep rich white Republican racists at bay. Yes, for the most part, Black History Month is a propaganda tool of the Democratic party.

Black history is woven with remarkable blacks who strove for excellence and achieved major success. Knowledge of such black pioneers would inspire black youths and help them realize how blessed they are to be born in America; the greatest land of opportunity on the planet.

America is unique in that you can grow beyond your family history and humble beginnings. Most folks around the world are destine to walk in their parents foot steps. If your dad was a peasant worker, you will be a peasant worker.

In American, countless hugely successful blacks came from humble beginnings. This is why it so offends me to hear black politicians and the media constantly telling blacks that they are not functioning in an equal playing field. Such rhetoric inspires resentment, hopelessness and a “why should I try” attitude in black youths. Consequently, 70% of black youths drop out of high school and many enter a life of crime. These self serving black politicians are selling their lie to black America solely for political reasons; to keep blacks voting for their supposed saviors and avengers, the democrats.

Allow me to address this “equal playing field” trap. Folks, “nothing” in life is equal or totally fair. I am sorry, but some folks are born thin and beautiful. In some cases, they may have an advantage. But in regards to minorities not having opportunity, there is not enough racism in America today to stop anyone from achieving anything. To blacks who “want” to believe America is systematically keeping them down, I say stop whining, making excuses, get up off of your butt and go for your dreams.

It drives me crazy hearing black and white liberal intellectuals discussing the problems in the black community without any references to blacks taking personal responsibility for their behavior/choices. Every solution offered by the left to deal with urban black issues revolve around more taxpayer spending and more failed government programs. And no discussion of problems in the black community would be complete without including the classic excuse “it’s the white man’s fault”, thrown in for good measure.

Now, I know some blacks reading this article will respond like a black radio show host did while interviewing me, “Sounds like you don’t like your own people”. Wrong! I say these things because as a Christian, I love, not just blacks, but all people. And I want what is best for them.

While some blacks may find comfort and think it racially loyal to keep blaming “whitey” for everything, black youths are going to h— in a hand basket. Blacks have epidemic school dropouts, 70 percent out-of-wed births and half of black babies are aborted via an organization founded on racism, Planned Parenthood. Blacks are actively involved in a self induced genocide.

This is why I do not give a hoot about what black racists and self-serving poverty-pimp politicians think of me for suggesting my fellow blacks assume responsibility for their own lives. Lives are at stake.

Ironically, liberals claim to want black empowerment. News flash, personal responsibility IS black empowerment!

Here’s a little of my personal black history. Back in the 70s when I was in my mid twenties, I repented from my life of drugs, sex and rock and roll to become a born-again Christian. My desire to share the “good news” of my new relationship with Christ lead me to prisons to minister to inmates. I was struck by the high number of gifted and talented blacks who were incarcerated solely because of their negative attitudes. Thank you Democratic Party.

Black History Month should not just feature “how America done us wrong”. It should also celebrate the greatness of our extraordinary nation and how both blacks and whites sacrificed blood, sweat and tears to make things right. Rather than Black History Month being exploited as a divisive tool for extortion, allow the truth of our history to bring people together.

Some idiot decided that it would be a good idea to spore test sterilizers in healthcare facilities. One problem with all these regulations is that it does not directly affect the average person. Unless you own a business or own apartments the average person is not directly affected by the regulations, that doesn’t mean you don’t pay for them, it just means you don’t have to deal directly with the government regulations.

So this organization the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is a major component of the Department of Health and Human Services. It started out over 60 years ago on a $10 million dollar budget and now they want to conquer disease all around the world. At least that’s what they say.

Granted if there is an outbreak of some kind of goofy disease, we want the government out there protecting us. Will that actually happen, we don’t know. The politicians and their families will get the vaccination first, will there be enough left for you and your family?

But some idiot for the CDC writes up some guidelines and in there they recommend and do not require that all sterilizing machines should be tested with a spore tester on a weekly basis. To the lay person, why not. But in reality to do so would have no basis and it makes no sense.

Remember when I wrote about all the antibiotics that were consumed and paid for by people for prophylactic reasons and now that has been reversed. The same holds true here. I would investigate the CDC and find out if someone from the spore testing industry lobbied for this regulation. Was anybody paid off?  Spore testing costs about $100 a year for a monthly test. There are 200,000 dentists in the country so that equates to about a $20 million dollar industry. Wouldn’t you like to have a piece of that action?  That’s based on a monthly test, Massachusetts wants it tested weekly!

So with a stroke of a pen someone is making some real serious money. That’s only dentists. And that is assuming one dentist per office and only one office per dentist. What about all the other health professionals? So this is how the government creates useless jobs. And by the way, you the patient pays for that extra fee each and every time  you or your insurance company pays for your healthcare. So the stupidity effects you indirectly.

Among the professionals there is a debate as to whether this should be weekly or monthly. Wouldn’t you like to be the lucky patient that gets the unsterilized instruments. So if you were really serious you would test every load of instruments. It would be stupid but if you were serious whose the idiot that determines that once a week or once a month is adequate. It would be like playing Russian Roulette if this precaution was necessary.  Do you pay to have the brakes on your car checked weekly?

If you were really serious about protecting the public, you might want to start by testing the instruments. There was no testing done. Absolutely not. No testing was done. So they don’t know if spore testing will have any effect whatsoever on the outcome. Someone sat on the toilet and made this recommendation because it sounded nice, but common sense says it makes no sense. But it opens the door to harassment of our health care providers, and in the end it will cost you a bundle.

Stated another way, does this recommendation which is not required by the CDC guarantee that the instruments used are sterilized. And if the spore test is not done, is the result improperly sterilized instruments?  The issue should be are the instruments sterilized? In order to know that you would need to test the instruments! The spore test does not achieve that.

The sterilizer that is used in my office comes with a cassette and it is all automatic. You pop the cassette in and it runs through its cycle and at the end it tells you immediately if the instruments are sterilized. My machine has  27 fail safe measures. And we have used it for well over a decade without any errors. It has never failed the spore test.

So I called the testing company and asked them how often do they get a failed test and what was the cause. A failure was very rare. And when there was a failure it was human error and not the machine. Now this makes the requirement of  spore testing even more stupid then first thought.

So now we are not testing the machine we are now testing the person working the machine. So we are doing this only once a week or once a month. I think you could be the stupidest person on the planet and you would realize this testing makes no sense.

First off if someone was going to run a spore test, wouldn’t they make sure they did it correctly. Hell, what would stop them from running the spore test with the same sample 2 or three times. I bet that test strip would show no growth.

There are 2 main reasons the test would fail for human error. The first is that the operator did not wait for the cycle to be completed. And the second is the machine was over-loaded. So when CDC only recommended this testing, they realized the testing itself was bogus. The machine works fine every time, there would be no consistent basis for testing if it comes down to human error. If the doctor needs an instrument in a hurry, what is to keep the attendant from taking the instruments out before the cycle is complete. Does it mean the instrument is not properly sterilized?  Prove it?

If the sterilizer has a cassette, it would be impossible to overload, because you wouldn’t be able to fit the cassette in the sterilizer.

So the bottom line in the case of Chadwick is that they wanted to take his license away for 6 months because he failed to do a spore test weekly. So this doctor spent thousands of dollars to save his right to practice dentistry.

And after all that the Supreme Court of Massachusetts rules that this is malpractice. Keep in mind that at no time has the Court proved that the instruments were not sterilized and that any harm came from using the instruments. The legal system is taking bogus regulations to a new and dangerous level!

Again this shows the world of transformation. Instead of a fair country based on fairness and prosperity, we have become a country ruled by lawyers whose only purpose is to penalize the citizens.

In the old days the board was made up of a few dentists and their main concern was conducting standardized tests to license dentists so they can provide health care services to the masses. Their big concern was dealing with dentists who may have fallen under the influence of drugs and alcohol. But now the Boards have been transformed to include a horde of lawyers. And their main concern is to justify their outrageous expense by prosecuting innocent dentists for bogus regulations.

I would hope that all the people in Massachusetts will write to their representatives and reverse this abuse of power. If the Board wants to pass a law or regulation that a spore test must to be done weekly or monthly, all fine and good. But they don’t. And like a judge that sits on our liberal benches they stretch regulations into violations that must be paid in the thousands.

If they would pass a law, or a regulation it would be found in any court to be bogus. Let the board show the world the studies that show that sterilizers that are spore tested monthly are more apt to produce sterilized instruments then those that are not.

If they can’t prove that then the malpractice and abuse of power lies with the Board and the Courts and not the dental profession.

If we could eliminate all the bogus legal costs that are associated with Healthcare, my guess is your healthcare premiums would be reasonable. Let’s make a lawyer rich today, keep passing bogus and expensive regulations.

Over forty years ago I befriended Mrs. Keyes personal secretary who invited me to the author’s restored home in the French Quarter of New Orleans only a few years before Mrs. Keyes died. The house was once the residence of General Pierre Toutant Gustave Beauregard who was also an inventor and a writer as well as a prominent general in the army of the Confederate States of America.

Marge Lilibridge was slightly older than me, but it was impossible not to be intrigued with the facets of the personal tour she gave me of the recently restored mansion on Chartres Street just across the street from the famed Ursuline Convent. In the rear slave quarters, she showed me stacks of black and white composition books and allowed me to peruse through them. They were the handwritten manuscripts that Mrs. Keyes used to pencil almost every one of her books, with nearly perfect penmanship. She did not use a typewriter.

It seemed unimaginable to me that she could sit and write enough to fill even one composition book, but here were stacks of them lined up against the wall. I also could not imagine that one day sitting amidst several published and un-published manuscripts of my own that I would be sending articles to the entire world almost on a weekly basis from an electronic gadget called a computer. It is something I could not see and it is a vision I surely would have rejected, never coddled.

I never met Mrs. Keyes but over the years I always knew someone connected to the historic Beauregard mansion. I spent many hours in its hallowed rooms and offered many quiet prayers sitting pensively on the wrought iron benches of its beautiful herb garden. The handwritten manuscripts always fascinated me but they gave me no compunction to write. It took something far more compelling to urge me to write and I could not yet see it coming through the mist, montage and melee of my own future.

Keyes was born in Charlottesville, Virginia as were my mother’s parents, but there were no other connections or parallels between us except for one. Something, or in my case, someone, had driven us both to write down what we thought our readers, if not the entire world should read and ponder for themselves.

I always just wrote when I felt like it, and never entertained any notions about being a writer. Almost by accident something I wrote was picked up in 1979 by Guideposts Magazine and later by Catholic Digest. Other magazines and publications ran some of the short pieces I wrote, but it always came as a surprise when I got published because, I didn’t care whether they took my material, or used it to light the fireplace.

Years later I had a book or two published and began blogging on the internet, but just to answer some remark that seemed to beg me to answer. Blogs became popular and with that popularity all hell seemed to break loose. Today blogs are tapering down just a bit, but who will miss the endless, aimless and feckless ranting of those who seem to get some strange relief from spewing out what is on the top of their heads. Don’t worry, I also know, that some of the most well written and highly intelligent remarks on any subject can be found interspersed throughout the great sea of internet rambling we call the blogs. I am a little too old to be endlessly fussing around the breakers of that vast ocean looking for a fish.

We have all seen blogs, videos and internet radio rise and almost fall, but solid, informative and well written articles don’t seem to have budged a single bit. They are the deep currents, the tide or the persistent breaking waves near the shore. They are the way most of us ingest, digest and assimilate the actual events of the day in that hopefully quiet place we call our brains where we analyze, categorize, hate or sympathize with what we read.

Each writer seems to have strong reasons to write or a pathology that is all their own and I long ago gave up trying to figure out what that may be. I am sure of my own reason for writing but it took several years to be sure of that. My writing is to convey a message that I’m sure I have derived from inspiration, if you understand that you need no further explanation, if you do not, I have no explanation you could possibly comprehend.

After being led to the Lord by a neighbor who just happens to share Mrs. Keyes maiden name of Frances Wheeler (coincidence I presume) I began to receive dreams and dream visions sometimes every single night of the week. As the years rolled by it became apparent that there were two separate kinds of dreams I was seeing.

The daily kinds of visions were often about nothing in particular. They were events that, had do with, me or those around me, and although sometimes the events seemed almost impossible, they all happened just as I saw them. It took me several years to learn that the one hundred percent accuracy rate of fulfillment with the minor visions were preparation for the larger visions having to do with this nation or the world at large. God was clearly teaching me that regardless of the content of the vision, the size or length of the vision or its details it could be trusted.

The greatest vision of them all was a picture of Christ’s return to the earth at a time when practically everyone on the planet had pretty much given up faith in God, and religion was also under direct attack and outlawed in many places. Other messages just as clear had to do with America’s economy collapsing and a fairly long period of hard times for the nation.

I have striven endlessly but never more than now as we face an election period where almost every candidate is running on the ‘fix the economy’ platform, to warn that America is not just a big business to be yanked out of a hole or a big trading center like Wall Street, where fortunes are won and lost only by those with amazing financial and business acumen. We are a nation of people whose various places in life are not simply defined by our net worth and our security. Our relationship to God is exponentially more important than our economy, but few are getting the message.

I have no doubt, that if we decide to elect a man who has all the business savvy in the world; my vision will not be thwarted or vacated. Oddly I know that all wisdom gained from hindsight is cheap and I can see that by the time anyone realizes that I was right it will be far too late to make much of a difference. My only consolation in all of this is that God also indicated to me that some, howbeit not many, will decide to redeem what is left of their lives and call upon the name of the Lord.

These visions are like writing to me, I would prefer to be doing something else. I have always dreamed of becoming a gold miner or an artist and there was a time I just wanted to be a humble teacher to help kids prepare for their future. Some people tell me that I have already found the gold in the gospel and have been granted the art with which to sculpt and paint it for others to behold. They tell me to write to explain what I have seen to prepare others for what is coming because they are all children who don’t have a clue about what is ahead. In my best moments I know they are right.

Under the guiding hand of God I always take courage and re-apply myself to the work regardless of the indifference or the resistance. The only remaining sorrow is the picture that I see emerging just by studying the reactions to my work garnered from my own website and what I can see of my articles on other websites.

My site is approaching a quarter of a million reads, but the articles read on other sites have been read many times more. It seems safe to say that about ten million people have read my articles worldwide, but mostly readers are from the states.

It is the statistics that tell me the most and that is where I am left in a state of amazement about what Americans think is important. I wrote a piece about UFOs once that got about 20,000 reads in a matter of days while my latest article about the scourge of abortion in the U.S. took one site about three days to get more than ten people to read it.

I have concluded that this happens for two reasons. The first is that we are happily diverted by anything that does not require any personal assessment of our own behavior or would make us feel culpable for anything at all. The determination that truth is purely subjective and relative has been ingrained into this entire generation and now only tech pursuits, celebrity fluff and personal gain are worthy of anyone’s full attention.

The second reason is far more spiritual and will hardly be accepted by the crowd. The Bible clearly says that one of the chief works of God’s Holy Spirit throughout time will be cranked up near the end of time as we know it. In theological circles we call that the convicting power of the Holy Spirit. It is best defined in the following verse in which Jesus tells his followers that when he goes away another will come from God to help them and to provoke others who have not yet believed, to see, that their chosen path is wrong.

“Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.” (Jn 16: 7,

Why won’t Americans look hard at the abortion issue? Is it because it’s the law of the land, is it because scientists who make swelling authoritative statements about everything from earth to the distant stars have indicated that they don’t know exactly when life begins in a woman’s womb? Or is it because we are really the champions of women’s rights and we want them to have the chance to succeed as well as our sons, as President Obama recently exclaimed to the world?

Let’s come down from this lofty and exalted place where popular illusion is creating the delusion that is currently in profusion. In simpler terms let’s cut the baloney, because the Spirit of God is always pressing the human spirit to make us see that the slaughter of unborn humans is a crime of the highest kind, a crime against all humanity. That is what we call conviction and that is why some articles are gobbled up like candy and others are avoided like the plague. There is no statistical anomaly at play in the equation, it is a human equation, and it will have its final product.

The disciple that hung so close to Christ got the nickname of ‘John the Beloved’ because he was so loving and dedicated to Jesus. It is from this amazing disciple that we learn that conviction unheeded leads to condemnation. Oddly, the result, or the product of the equation is also based on how much someone or something is loved. Look at it if you dare.

“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.” (Jn 3: 19, 20)

1. A politician believes the people exist for the use of the state.

A statesman believes the state exists for the use of the people.

2. A politician makes decisions guided by  popular opinion and personal gain, and is

blown about with every political wind.

A statesman makes decisions guided by integrity with the constitution as guide.

3. A politician will respond to a question in long sentences, with vague and ambiguous

statements, never really answering the question or addressing the issue.

A statesman will answer a question honestly and briefly, responding to the issue and

actually answering the question.

4. A politician’s favorite color is plaid.

A statesman’s favorite color is either black or white, but never both at the same time.

5. A politician will be guided by emotion and misguided compassion, catering to the

few who yell the loudest.

A statesman will make tough decisions guided by facts, truth and a genuine

compassion, considering the good of all.

6. A politician has a rubber backbone, sensitive feelings, will play the race and gender

card, claiming to be color/gender blind, while at the same time giving preferential

treatment to special groups

A statesman has a backbone of steel, the hide of a rhino, is fair to all regardless of

race or gender, not giving preferential treatment to anyone.

7. A politician will give lip service to God at election time, but will deny God and

religious liberty while promoting other non-Christian religions and anti-Christian

groups.

A statesman is a true patriot, will stand firm for God and country, acknowledging the

distinctly Christian heritage of this country, honoring freedom of religion and its

expression, not afraid to speak the name Jesus in any public setting.

8. A politician will vote with their party regardless of the issue.

A statesman will vote for principle, regardless of party.

9. A politician views an elected position as a personal career.

A statesman views an elected position as an honor, entrusted by the people to perform

a public service as a servant of the people.

10. Politicians are a dime a dozen.

Statesmen are a dying breed.

All the arguments have been put on the electorate’s table. We have seen the anal examinations of all the Republican front-runners and the candidates are doing a bang-up job on each other. It seems everyone is ignoring Barack Hussein Obama. Obama has never had to face (or bend over for) the type of anal exam liberal media has been harping against Republicans.

If Romney held a truly conservative line, liberal media would be carving him to shreds. That the liberal media wants Romney to be the Republican nominee simply tells me they do not fear Romney or his watered-down version of Republican leadership. Obama unilaterally walks all over the current crop of establishment Republicans, and they keep smiles on their faces because they have power, want to keep power and don’t want to appear racist.

It seems Romney enjoys dirty, lying politics against true Conservatives. His campaign has slung so much dirt at his Conservative opponents; cities need dump trucks to haul away the political dross. He has no such vitriol for Obama or his communist czars. Romney simply does not speak ill of Obama and he probably will not talk about Obama’s suspect nationality, Obama-Romneycare, his relations with Tony Resko, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, ACORN, SEIU, Solyndra or the several hundreds of thousands Obama sucked in campaign cash from Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. Romney was all over Gingrich about that!

Perhaps Romney isn’t a liberal. He once described himself as a “moderate”. Well, what is a “moderate”? A moderate is a fool who sits back watching the trees in the wind. If the wind blows to the north, a moderate heads north, south, east and west until he’s completely out of the wind. He doesn’t have to make decisions. He just has to agree with decisions. He doesn’t have to lead. He can pretend he is leading by hiding behind the decision-makers.

Hell! We have someone like that in the White House right now! (Yeah, I wrote “Hell!”) His name is Barack Hussein Obama. Until the elections of 2010, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were the puppet masters of economic decay. The Republicans might be the majority in the House of Representatives now, but our string-puppet, President Obama insists (again with Reid’s help in the Senate) on blocking any and all attempts by the House to reform legislation and cut entitlements. Obama is ruling by Executive Order Fiat; usurping the budgetary responsibility of the House, while Harry Reid in the Senate has failed by law to draw any federal budget for more than 1000 days to this point. Every Democrat Senator should be impeached for dereliction of duty.

And how about those establishment Republicans? Do they call for investigations? Do they call for impeachment against a President so obviously unconstitutional? Do they investigate 400 visits to the White House by Union thugs? Have they bothered to ask the President to stop taking so many vacations and golf outings and actually sit down in his office to work? Hell! (Yes, I wrote “Hell” again.) Obama’s days in the White House are beginning to look like his 143 days in the Senate! He didn’t accomplish anything there either. He was schmoozing Democrat butts from day one; attempting to angle himself into the nation’s good graces. He was a do-nothing before he got elected into Illinois’ dirty, political world. He was a do-nothing state senator. He was a do-nothing Federal senator and now he’s officially a do-nothing president.

This brings me back to Romney. Romney will not beat Obama. Romney is already beat by the liberal media and his unconstitutional love for “mandated” health care. Everyone agrees that Romney’s health care plan in Massachusetts is Obama’s blueprint for Obamacare. Entitlements will not be cut by Romney. They will expand exponentially. So…what is the difference if Obama or Romney is President?

America is screwed if it allows the liberal media to pick John McCain…er…Romney, as the Republican candidate for President. I’m sorry. Forty-seven percent is NOT a “Landslide”!