Posted on 04/25/2011 4:36:32 AM PDT by bestintxas
The genius of the Constitution is not some person, time, or place. It is a very improbable conjunction of all three. Jefferson and Madison were not the only ones to fear the abuse of power. That idea goes back to the Epic of Gilgamesh. Every family with an alcoholic father or a tyrannical grandmother knows it. In England John Locke and Edmund Burke feared tyranny as much as the American founders, but they never had a chance to build the foundations of a new, independent, great power.
Obama is our first Marxist-Leninist president. He never quite uses those words, but in words and deeds he makes it clear beyond doubt. His two autobiographies all but say it.
I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. ... The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists ... we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.
The Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation has also published a careful summary of the public record that leaves no doubt about who Obama is.
Obama wrapped himself in his own lifelong cult. Universities are supposed to be places of open debate and open minds, but Obama knew his own life course from childhood on, and never opened
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
its not the paper, it is the people that will do it
In its category, American Thinker has got to be the best damned site on the web. It’s amazing how infrequently I’m disappointed by going there and reading the full.
50% + 1 in the House is just barely possible.
2/3 in the Senate, absolutely no way.
What is the point of talking about the use of remedies requiring super-majorities, such as impeachment and removal from office or constitutional amendments, when we aren’t even able to muster a simple majority to elect a president?
It’s about time that Congress at least start a panel to examine IMPEACHMENT. I honestly believe that there are more than just a few reasons to do so.
We must throw out not just an individual but a weltenschauung, a mind set, a way of thinking about the world that is fundamentally crazed and evil, progressivism, socialism, liberalism, by whatever name it seeks the destruction of the American Way of Life and the establishment of a permanent ruling class. It is not only democrats but also republicans who lust for total control and power.
It may be too late to reform the republican party, the next election cycle will tell. It may be that another horrible civil war is our only means of restoring Copnstitutional government. As with all war, however, there are no automatic winners. We may lose.
this article should be required reading before voting..excellent.
Exactly right. Our "leaders" in Washington must have the b*lls to stand for what is right (and what is constitutional) -- and so far.... It doesn't look good. Acting like a bunch of scared little girls.
Clinton was neutered by that simple majority.
Obama has provided easy fodder to impeach.
Removal is difficult but neutering achieves similar purposes.
First sentence, IMHO - Wishful thinking.
Until we deal with the root of the problem, nothing will change. Forgive me for posting this for the 100th time. That almost 1/2 of our population still support a Marxist president in our current tragic economy and moral condition is an indication of how far gone things are.
The Marxists control the education system where kids are brainwashed from 6 yrs. old to the mid-20’s in Marxist thinking and world-view. Then the media continue that brainwashing through adulthood. All as they planned years ago. With a whole generation plus of Americans now lean Marxist.
Where is the movement to re-take our educational system? Yes, the home-schooling movement is a start, but it is only that (we home-schooled 8 long before it was acceptable/cool)
But your last paragraph is spot on. Sadly so.
If the Republican leadership do not have the balls to merely subpoena a birth certificate, there is NO WAY that they would pursue impeachment.
Obama’s ineligibility: Congress is both guilty and gutless
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/35841
Exactly! Our government K-12 schools and our colleges and universities are our nation's MOST serious THREAT! ( Yes, I am shouting, jumping up and down, and having a fit!)
I, too, fail to understand why fellow conservatives do not see the urgency. I, too, am on Free Republic nearly **every** day. I am continually posting that we MUST do the following:
** Shut down every government school in the nation. ALL of them are godless. ALL of them are, and always have been, socialist-funded, collectivist managed, and voter mob controlled. Simply by attending children become comfortable with godlessness, collectivism, socialism, and voter mob control of their lives.
** Work mightily to see that every child in this nation has access to a private and conservative education that fully integrates the child's **specific** Judeo-Christian belief and our nation's founding principles into every minute of their education day.
It is more urgent that we close down the K-12 schools. If we could fill our nation's colleges and universities will young adults who were prepared to defend their faith and our nation's founding principals, their Marxist professors would wither before their righteousness. In 10 to 20 short years we would see a dramatic change in our culture.
not so much scared little girls, just covering THEIR OWN ASSES for their OWN benefit
they don’t want to end up like JFK or Jack Wheeler
Conservatives could start on that defense against the left by working to shut down every government K-12 school in the nation. We MUST work to see that every child in this nation has access to a private and conservative education.
Whole departments of universities could be completely shut down by simply doing as Charles Murray suggests: Qualifying exams. Most of the information and lectures could be Internet based and completely free to anyone of any age. Businesses, right now, use university diploma merely as a screening device for applicants. Qualifying exams could fill that need for the employer and be more dependable, as well.
” We live in a post-Constitutional country “
Mark Levin
Nice thoughts, but there is no way to “shut down” the existing system. Do you know how many Americans would want to do that? MAYBE 10%.
And I bet more than 50% of conservatives are so clueless that they too would oppose it.
If that were even proposed in our congress, or by a president, the outrage would be far more than anything we’ve ever seen about any other issue. Sadly.
The progressivist dream, at all times and in all places.
Good article. I don't entirely agree with him on Latin America; it is not so much the "hidalgo" mentality as the revolutionary populist man-on-a-white-horse mentality that afflicts Latin America, at least in part because many of their revolutions (for independence from Spain) occurred after the Napoleonic period. Napoleon, of course, had invaded Spain and while he and the French were not popular with the people, many of the Spanish intellectuals adored French leftist thought, to the extent that they were known as "afrancesados," that is, "Frenchified." Napoleon was eventually defeated, Spain had a brief and very leftist "Republic," and then the absolute monarch came back into power - but only for a fairly short time.
Spanish politics subsequently became entered into a century of bitter battle between the left and the right, leading to the description of the "dos Españas" (the two Spains). The Latin American colonies, which were now becoming prosperous enough and strong enough to demand their independence,were shaped by these intellectual currents and in addition by the populism that was necessary to get enough support to lead a revolution and a Napoleonic style government. Look at Simon Bolívar and others of his ilk.
I think the US avoided this primarily because at the time of our revolution, Britain and English thinkers might have been influenced by the French Revolution and French enlightenment thought, but not by Napoleon, the ur-progressive, and did not have this model. The Spanish colonies, unfortunately, did have the Napoleonic model.
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