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Ae We America, the Enabler of Despots and Tyranny or America, the Promoter of Liberty & Freedom? By Robin Lennon

A Commentary by Robin Lennon

The harsh rhetoric is not and never has been about immigration.

It is about breaking and entering into the United States. Too many of those illegally entering our country are dangerous criminals, OTM terrorists, or those who break our laws with fraudulent social security cards. The laws of our land force us to educate, medicate, and too often house and feed them at the expense of hard-working Americans. They stand on the steps of our State Houses demanding education, medical care, insurance, citizenship, and more amenities are not theirs.

Too many progressives complain about the too low, often unlivable wages. What they apparently don’t understand is the downward pressure on wages that is exerted by these unlawful shadow workers. Many take jobs once held by teenagers and minority men, particularly Blacks and Hispanics.

Aiding and abetting illegal immigration is just as ruinous to our Nation as Affirmative Action and the Welfare State has been to us: promoting injustice, racism, and the breakdown of our families, values and culture.

In the final analysis, illegal immigration is a Rule of Law issue.

Do we really want to welcome men and women who break our laws, as well as violent criminals and terrorists into our country? If you think so, invite them into your home, with no background checks. Feed them; pay for their schooling and medical costs yourself. It’s a free country, which means you have no right to make me donate my hard-earned dollars to these people who don’t respect U.S. taxpayers or America enough to emigrate legally. Have you researched how Mexico handles illegal immigrants, voter fraud, and non-citizen protests? Why is it okay for them to protect their country, but not for us?

It’s a shame that we enable Mexico’s leaders to abdicate their duties to control the drug cartels and develop their own economy so proud Mexican citizen’s could live and raise their families in their own county.

The US needs to secure our borders and use political pressure on Mexico to fix their own problems. I believe that people of all colors can enjoy Freedom and Free Markets. They don’t have to sneak in and steal it–they could create it at home if their government was willing.

We are America, the Enabler of Despots and Tyranny. I’d rather be America, the Promoter of Liberty, Freedom, and Opportunity once more.

Declaration of American Decline Premature

Just when we read obituaries about an unruly nation of excess, unlikely nobodies pop up to pioneer fracking, the Napa wine industry or Silicon Valley. Why? No other nation has a Constitution whose natural evolution would lead to a free, merit-based society that did not necessarily look like the privileged — and brilliant — landed white male aristocracy who invented it.

The end of American exceptionalism will come not when we run out of gas, wheat or computers, but when we end the freedom of the individual, and, whether for evil or supposedly noble reasons, judge people not on their achievement but on their name, class, race, sex or religion — in other words, when we become like most places the world over.

America Not in Decline 23 March 2013

Development of California’s Oil Shale Can Solve It’s Economic Problems

A recent study by the University of Southern California forecast that the Monterey Shale could yield 2.8 million jobs and $24.6 billion in state and local taxes by 2020 — enough to lift the state’s economy out of malaise.

California Oil Boom 21March 2013

Democrats Plan Expropriation of Retirement Savings Accounts

The proposed Cyprus Deposit Tax to pay for bank bailouts enraged depositors who were threatened with a tax on their savings. Fear generated by this proposal caused a run on the banks. Repercussions from this proposed confiscation of personal savings can affect saving and investment throughout Europe. Worse still it could catch on in here. Congressional democrats are plotting the expropriation of American’s private 401(k) and IRA retirements savings accounts in favor of “a guaranteed income”.

Tax On Savings in Cyrpus Could Happen In US 18Mar2013

Automatic IRA Oct2012

Video & Article: US Foreign Policy Speech by Sen. Rand Paul, Discussion by Forbes Op/Ed

Very interesting discussion of Foreign Policy. It’s about time we have substantive discussions about America’s role in the World today.

Rand Paul on Foreign Policy Video at Heritage Foundation, 2/6/2013

In an op/ed article on 2/13/2013 discussing Paul’s speech, Forbes’ wrote the following:

On February 6, Senator Rand Paul gave a speech on foreign policy entitled, “Containment and Radical Islam” to a Heritage Foundation meeting.

Paul began with refreshing realism and candor, pointing out that we are, in fact, at war with Radical Islam. He also noted (correctly) that, within Islam, Radical Islam is not a “small minority”, but a “vibrant, often mainstream, vocal and numerous minority”. Paul dismissed as naïve those who think that Radical Islam would leave us alone if we would just be nice to them.

Having asserted that Radical Islam is “…no fleeting fad but a relentless force”, Paul then seemed to call for a strategy of “containment”, along the lines of the one that George Kennan outlined regarding the Soviet Union in his “Long Telegram” of February 22, 1946. Paul cited this as a needed “middle path” for U.S. foreign policy

What Paul missed in his speech is that it was not Kennan’s “containment” policy that led to the downfall of the Soviet Union, but the approach that Ronald Reagan summed up in the following words: “Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win; they lose.”

Read the entire article here.

VIDEO: Dianne Feinstein Protecting Our 2nd Amendment Rights -NOT

20 years in office has made Sen. Feinstein confuse being old and emotional and feeling entitled with being logical and capable of defending our RIGHTS as Americans. Studies prove that a well armed citizenry makes crime go down.

Taking guns away from lawful citizens only makes every place public and private the shooting galleries of criminals and the criminally insane individuals with us. Sen. Feinstein, how do you explain the high crime rates in Chicago and DC which have some of the most severe, and UNCONSTITUTIONAL, gun laws in the Nation? Are you also going to ban hammers, knives, and hands and feet?

ICYMI, here is Freshman Senator, Ted Cruz calmly taking Feinstein to task for her emotional decision to enslave us all by leaving,us at the mercy of an out of control government that is seeking to tell us where we can go, what we can say, what we can eat, and what kind of medical treatment we can have. Our right to bear arms is not for hunting or games, it is to protect ourselves against an overweening government that thinks it has the right to tell us what we may and may not do.

VIDEO: Sen. Cruz Intros CR Amendment to Defund ObamaTax.

Sen. Ted Cruz fulfilling his promise to fight the implementation of ObamaTax. He already filed a bill to completely repeal it. Now he has all the Senate Republicans supporting his amendment to the Continuing Resolution to defund ObamaTax while our economy is essentially flat.

TX HB300: Independent School District Bill

From Corie C. Whalen:

Hey everyone, I’m working hard to promote an important school choice bill that has recently been filed as HB300. The press release with details about the legislation is here: http://www.tffeducation.org/bill_press_release. This legislation would gives districts that opt into the new code greater freedom to set goals, curriculum, testing, schedule, calendar, and staffing policies of their schools. Unsurprisingly, the usual suspects who elevate bureucracy over quality education are organizing against this bill. So please check it out and contact your state representative to encourage them to support HB300. http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/find-your-representative/

HB300 Press Release

The “Independent School District Bill” proposes an alternative education code that empowers families to make education decisions and hold schools accountable, and provides the support they need to embrace the best public school for their children. The plan gives districts that opt into the new code greater freedom to set goals, curriculum, testing, schedule, calendar, and staffing policies of their schools.

Must Read: Families doing more w/less; govt. doing less w/more

Since 2002, total federal spending has increased nearly 89% while median household income has dropped 5% and median wealth has dropped 23%. In other words, while families have been doing more with less, government has been doing less with more.

–Sen. Tom Coburn, OK-R

H/T Instapundit: Read the entire article here.

VIDEOS: Sen. Ted Cruz and TexasPatriots #standwithrand

Sen. Cruz makes history--reading Tweets to Sen. Rand Paul

Sen. Ted Cruz “asks question” & joins Sen. Rand Paul in Brennan Filibuster – Part 1

Sen. Ted Cruz “asks question” & joins Sen. Rand Paul in Brennan Filibuster – Part 1