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They're almost the same, if not the same, in their principled beliefs.

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The natives are restless.

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The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

We Americans fought against ourselves to free ourselves in the first civil war, only to then lose much of our soul as the casualty of the second civil war in the 60s.

Sad that we needed two conflicts to live up to the ideals our founding fathers originally fought for, but we haven't quite gotten there yet.

Three's the charm?

[River Hawk]

Kudos to Dr. Sowell, who is a very smart man. Most blacks however, don’t care what he says, and are going to continue voting for the Democrats.

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It is infuriating talking to low information liberals. All evidence to the contrary they still insist they are being more caring by following policies that sound good.

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Yes even under slavery when the parents or children could be sold there were more 2 parent households than today. Lame.

[Yosemitest]

" ... LIBERALS take positions that make THEM look good and feel good —
and show VERY LITTLE interest in the ACTUAL consequences for others,
even when LIBERAL policies are leaving HAVOC in their wake.

The current LIBERAL crusade for more SO-CALLED "gun control" laws is MORE of the SAME.
Factual studies over the years, both in the United States and in other countries, repeatedly show that "gun control" laws DO NOT in fact REDUCE CRIMES committed with guns.

Cities with some of the tightest gun control laws in the nation have murder rates FAR ABOVE the national average.
In the middle of the 20th century, New York had FAR MORE RESTRICTIVE gun control laws than London, but London had FAR LESS GUN CRIME.
Yet gun crimes in London SKYROCKETED AFTER severe gun control laws were imposed over the next several decades.

Although gun control is NOT USUALLY considered a racial issue, a wholly disproportionate number of Americans killed by guns are BLACK.
But here, as elsewhere, LIBERALS' devotion to THEIR ideology GREATLY EXCEEDS THEIR CONCERN about what ACTUALLY happens to flesh and blood human beings as a result of THEIR ideology.

One of the most polarizing and counterproductive LIBERAL crusades of the 20th century has been the decades-long busing crusade
to send black children to predominantly white schools.
The idea behind this goes back to the pronouncement by Chief Justice Earl Warren
that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

Yet within walking distance of the Supreme Court where this pronouncement was made
was an ALL-BLACK high school that had scored HIGHER than two-thirds of the city's white high schools taking the same test — WAY BACK IN 1899!
But WHO CARES ABOUT FACTS, when you are on a LIBERAL crusade that makes YOU FEEL morally superior?

To challenge government-imposed racial segregation and discrimination is one thing.
But TO CLAIM that blacks get a better education IF they sit next to whites in school IS SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT.
And it is something that goes COUNTER TO THE FACTS.

Many LIBERAL ideas about race SOUND plausible, and it is understandable that these ideas might have been attractive 50 years ago.
What is NOT understandable is how so many liberals can BLINDLY IGNORE 50 YEARS OF EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY since then. "

Thomas Sowell hit the LIBERALS' FAILURE right on the head.
Most blacks are too blinded by racism to see the truth, that LIBERALS ARE PLAYING THEM FOR DUPES.
They couldn't admit the truth to themselves if their life depended on it, because of their misplaced pride and fomented hatred of others.
Their racial hatred hinders their ability to THINK CLEARLY.

Thomas Sowell is correct about the FAILURE of "gun control," too, and how it INCREASES crime rates.
The United States Citizens KNOW that they're going to have to fight TYRANTS in their own government.
You cannot protect life, without the ability to take life.

While you are WAITING for the police to respond, someone could be losing their life.
All people of a responsible age should be armed.

As EternalVigilance reminded us:

The Second Amendment IS Pro-Life.

"Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these:
First, a right to life;
Secondly, to liberty;
Thirdly, to property;
together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation,
commonly called the first law of nature...
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society,
to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights;
when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights;
the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation.
The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty,
it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift
and voluntarily become a slave."




-- Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists

Click here to read the 12 page pamphlet.

Let us NEVER FORGET THAT !

Let's subjugate them to OUR end game, DUST!
"COMPROMISE" is a DIRTY word!
People who study the Bible know that COMPROMISE almost always leads to destruction.


It's time to mock the "Gun Control" Zombies!
"Gun Control" is a firm grip, steady breathing, accurate aim (developed by lots of practice), and a slow trigger pull.


The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
We need to learn from the Swiss and implement their "gun control measures" here in the United States right now, today!
These laws are the ones we should shove into the "2nd Amendment Haters" faces.

" Today, military service for Swiss males is universal. At about age 20, every Swiss male goes through 118 consecutive days of recruit training in the Rekrutenschule. ...

Even before required training begins, young men and women may take optional courses with the Swiss army's M57 assault rifle.
They keep that gun at home for three months and receive six half-day training sessions.

From age 21 to 32, a Swiss man serves as a "frontline" troop in the Auszug, and devotes three weeks a year (in eight of the 12 years) to continued training.
From age 33 to 42, he serves in the Landwehr (like America's National Guard); every few years, he reports for two-week training periods.
Finally, from ages 43, to 50, he serves in the Landsturm; in this period, he only spends 13 days total in "home guard courses."

Over a soldier's career he also spends scattered days on mandatory equipment inspections and required target practice.
Thus, in a 30-year mandatory military career, a Swiss man only spends about one year in direct military service.
Following discharge from the regular army, men serve on reserve status until age 50 (55 for officers).

By the Federal Constitution of 1874, military servicemen are given their first equipment, clothing and arms.
After the first training period, conscripts must keep gun, ammunition and equipment an ihrem Wohnort ("in their homes") until the end of their term of service.

Today, enlisted men are issued M57 AUTOMATIC assault rifles and officers are given pistol.
Each reservist is issued 24 rounds of ammunition in sealed packs for emergency use.
(Contrary to Handgun Control's claim that "all ammunition must be accounted for," the emergency ammunition is the only ammo that requires accounting.)

After discharge from service, the man is given a bolt rifle free from registration or obligation.
Starting in the 1994, the government will GIVE ex-reservists assault rifles. Officers carry pistols rather than rifles and are given their pistols the end of their service.

When the government adopts a new infantry rifle, it sells the old ones to the public.

Reservists are encouraged to buy MILITARY ammunition
(7.5 and 5.6mm-5.56 mm in other countries-for rifles and 9 and 7.65 mm Luger for pistols)
which is sold AT COST by the government, for target practice .
Non-military ammunition for long-gun hunting and .22 Long Rifle (LR) ammo are not subsidised, but are subiect to NO sales controls.
Non-military non-hunting ammunition more powerful than .22 LR (such as .38 Spl.) is registered at the time of sale.

Swiss military ammo must be registered IF bought at a private store, BUT NEED NOT BE REGISTERED IF bought at a range.
The nation's 3,000 shooting ranges sell the overwhelming majority of ammunition.
Technically, ammunition bought at the range must be used at the range, but the rule is barely known and almost never obeyed.

The army SELLS a variety of machine guns, submachine guns, anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft guns, howitzers and cannons.
Purchasers of these weapons require an EASILY OBTAINED cantonal license, and the weapons are registered.
In a nation of six million people, there are at least two million guns, including 600,000 FULLY AUTOMATIC assault rifles, half a million pistols, and numerous machine guns.
Virtually every home has a gun.

Besides SUBSIDIZED military surplus, the Swiss can buy other firearms easily too.
While long guns require NO special purchase procedures, handguns are sold only to those with a Waffenerwerbsschien (purchase certificate) issued by a cantonal authority.
A certificate is issued to every applicant over 18 who is not a criminal or mentally infirm.

There are NO restrictions on the carrying of long guns.
About half the cantons have strict permit procedures for carrying handguns, and the other half have NO rules at all.
There is NO discernible difference in the crime rate between the cantons as a result of the different policies.

Thanks to a lawsuit brought by the Swiss gun lobby, semi-automatic rifles require NO PURCHASE PERMIT and are NOT registered by the government.
Thus, the ONLY long guns registered by the government are FULL AUTOMATICS."

The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
Let's adopt THEIR LAWS !

Remember:

The beauty of the Second Amendment is
that it will not be needed
until they TRY to take it.

Read Second Amendment: It’s Not About Hunting, IT'S ABOUT TYRANNY .

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One other thing.
Obama is NOT black !
The ILLEGAL: ALIEN IN CHIEF is ARAB-KENYAN.

"Genealogical evidence has revealed that the impostering "first black president" Barak Hussein Obama is 6.5% Negro and 48% Arabic, the remainder 45% Caucasian."

The Arab-Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama II, (a.k.a. Barry Soetoro), ( the one guilty of TREASON ! ) has NO legitimate Social Security Number.
His father was NOT an immigrant to the United States. Barack Obama Sr. was a "Transient Alien" because he did NOT intend on residing in the United States permanently.
Barack Obama Sr. was a dual citizen of Great Britain and Kenya, and NEVER a United States Citizen.

Read British National Archives Show Son Born To Obama Sr. In 1961 In Kenya!

His mother could NOT impart U.S. citizen to her son, Barack Obama II, because she did NOT meet the legal requirements to do so,
at the time her son was born IN the Coast Provincial General Hospital, MOMBASA, KENYA at 7:21 pm on August 4, 1961.
Democrats knew this and tried to eliminate the "Natural Born Citizen" requirement at least 8 times BEFORE Obama won his election in 2008.

Obama is NOT a United States Citizen, and is NOT a LEGAL IMMIGRANT.
He has no VISA allowing him into this country.
Barack Hussein Obama II IS ILLEGAL !
He should be IMPEACHED IMMEDIATELY, tried for TREASON, SENTENCED to death, and then have his body deported back to Kenya.

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Thomas Sowell is my favorite columnist, his ability to see, express and offer solutions to societys’ failures is unmatched.

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The minimum wage law of 1938 was enacted to price Blacks, Mexicans, Chinese and other “undesirable” immigrants out of the labor market. Forced to pay a set wage, employers replaced these people with the next tier of manpower—poor whites who had better language and social skills. In some cases it was cheaper for businesses to automate than pay the new minimum wage.

From a Jeff Jacoby column last July:

“Congress enacted the first federal minimum wage in 1938. A provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act, it covered about 6 million workers and set a wage floor of 25 cents per hour.

“It also cost a lot of people their jobs. The Labor Department reported that as many as 50,000 employees, mostly poor Southern blacks, were thrown out of work within two weeks of the law's taking effect. In the months that followed, the carnage spread. ‘African Americans in the tobacco industry were particularly hard hit,’ wrote David Bernstein in his 2001 history of labor regulations and black employment. ‘In Wilson, N.C., for example, machines replaced two thousand African American tobacco stemmers in 1939.’”

http://townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/2012/07/11/minimumwage_laws_are_costly_for_the_unemployed/page/full/