ACORN = liars and cheats

They attack WalMart, they campaign for minimum wage, but....they don't want to pay it themselves. If their employees try to unionize, they are fired. Wearing the mask of 'common good', groups like ACORN are simply pursuing their own gain by working the system and cheating. They are the real life villains of a Rand novel. Read this excellent column by John Fund...

OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail: "Founded by union organizer Wade Rathke in 1970, Acorn boasts an annual budget of some $40 million and operates everything from 'social justice' radio stations to an affordable-housing arm. Still run after 36 years by Mr. Rathke as 'chief organizer,' it is best known for its campaigns against Wal-Mart, and for leading initiatives in six states to raise the minimum wage. "

Earning the Socialists' praise is not a good thing...

See the quote below from an article about how our enemies and competitors around the world are celebrating the Dems taking congress. When Socialists are going out of their way to praise the direction we are going, it is a sad, sad day for those who love freedom and value the rights of the individual.

BREITBART.COM - World Welcomes Shift in U.S. Politics:

"In an extraordinary joint statement, more than 200 Socialist members of the European Parliament hailed the American election results as 'the beginning of the end of a six-year nightmare for the world.' "

The Only Issue This Election Day - Orson Scott Card

This essay sums up so much of what I've been trying to tell my friends and colleagues for the past 3 years, from before the first soldier set foot in Iraq. I won't spoil it with my own analysis tonight...it's too important that everyone read this essay by Orson Scott Card, Democrat, and one helluva novelist.

October 29, 2006 - The Only Issue This Election Day - The Ornery American: "I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations.
But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it -- and in the most damaging possible way -- I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages.
To all intents and purposes, when the Democratic Party jettisoned Joseph Lieberman over the issue of his support of this war, they kicked me out as well. The party of Harry Truman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- the party I joined back in the 1970s -- is dead. Of suicide. "

Collectivism every school year hammered home

I posted a comment to this article, though I didn't see it show up. Problems with their php I think. Therefore I thought I would go ahead and post a teaser here. The schools teach more and more collectivism every day, and are much more overt about it now. The day will come where they are not only overt, but that push to pass laws to block individualism, such as anti-homeschooling legislation, and more.

The Baltimore Reporter: "Each year as the school year gets underway, I write a column about the mandatory communalism that takes place in numerous schools across the country where unsuspecting students and parents are forced to surrender their supplies to educational authorities, deemed by the state to be of superior enlightenment than those actually acquiring the school supplies, for redistribution as these demagogic pedagogues see fit. "

Religious Terrorism vs. Free Speech by Leonard Peikoff -- Capitalism Magazine

This essay was written in 1997 by Leonard Peikoff, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute --
originally published as an advertisement in the New York Times. The same essential issues underlie the Rushdie debacle and the current uproar over cartoons of Mohammad.

Religious Terrorism vs. Free Speech by Leonard Peikoff -- Capitalism Magazine: "The ultimate target of the Ayatollah, as of all mystics, is not a particular 'blasphemy,' but reason itself, along with its cultural and political expressions: science, the Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution. If the assault succeeds, the result will be an Age of Unreason -- a new Dark Ages. As Ayn Rand wrote in Philosophy: Who Needs It, in her prescient 1960 essay 'Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World':"