Posted on 02/02/2017 5:27:32 PM PST by 198ml
I confess that today I was … triggered.
Watching CNN in the office, as is my habit while I work, I heard Carol Costello repeat a common claim made by those on the Left who have zero understanding of the American founding. In this particular segment of “CNN Newsroom,” she asked her guests about something President Trump said today.
Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, the president said that the people in that room were united by their common humanity. “We are not just flesh and bone and blood, we are human beings with souls, Our republic was formed on the basis that freedom is not a gift from government, but that freedom is a gift from God.”
And Costello found that strange.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativereview.com ...
I am finding that most newsreaders are mind-numbed idiots or just plain stupid.
Remember that most are there to read the news because of their looks, not their brains.
I just turned on CNN for a while tonight & they were saying that Trump takes medicine to keep his hair growing.
He’s doing important things & that’s what they were talking about.
It was one of the best speeches ever given at the prayer breakfast.
The left believe that our rights are a consequence of the so-called “social contract”, i.e. they come from the state. So of course a leftists would regard Trump’s reference as hopelessly wrong.
Agnostic and Atheist Fringe Lunatic Liberals find the entire concept of a higher power than themselves and the Democrat party machine to be an entirely alien concept and a falsehood.
And anyone “clinging” to their God and guns are fanatics to be neutralized, subjugated and reeducated.
This is what “Dumbing Down” looks like...
Stupid people doing an incompetent job because they are somewhat less incompetent than others who might be doing it. It’s like trying to pick the least-rotten apple from the wormy mess at the bottom of the barrel...
Trumps “gets it” better than many politicians that call themselves “conservatives”. He’s filling Reagan’s shoes very well.
Excellent essay well worth reading. Here is a gem:
As the Claremont Institute’s Dr. John Marini wrote in an excellent essay, “The Progressive movement … had as its fundamental purpose the destruction of the political and moral authority of the U.S. Constitution.”
This is why I moved from being a Constitutionalist to a Declarationist.
The Left and the Uniparty has had too many years to work on the Constitution, and to implant the notion that our Natural Rights are "given by government".
In the Declaration, it's there in black and white: "...that they [all men] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..."
No diddling about.
Which explains why they had to inundate Twitter with the Arnold schtick...
In Wisconsin the media used to fuss over Scott Walker’s bald spot. It’s what they do.
This is why I moved from being a Constitutionalist to a Declarationist.
The Left and the Uniparty has had too many years to work on the Constitution, and to implant the notion that our Natural Rights are "given by government".
In the Declaration, it's there in black and white: "...that they [all men] are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..."
No diddling about.
But looking at Carol Costello, she is ugly, both inside and out
True.
"Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God service, when it is violating all His laws. - John Adams letter to Thomas Jefferson, Feb. 2, 1816The semantics of "Progressivss" define the Constitution's limitations on their power differently than did the Founders and Framers of America's Constitution, which, by its own provisions, limited government and the coercive power which future elected individuals might wish to wield.
From Page xv of "Our Ageless Constitution," here are excerpted words from President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation of December 10, 1832:
"We have received it [the Constitution] as the work of the assembled wisdom of the nation. We have trusted to it as to the sheet anchor of our safety in the stormy times of conflict with a foreign or domestic foe. We have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here and our hopes of happiness hereafter in its defense and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution . . .? No. We were not mistaken. The letter of this great instrument is free from this radical fault. . . . No, we did not err! . . . The sages . . . have given us a practical and, as they hoped, a permanent* Constitutional compact. . . . The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defense in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace: it shall descend, as we have received it, uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity. . . ."
*Underlining added for emphasis
And, it was Thomas Jefferson who used another metaphor with reference to the Constitution when he asserted that "the People" must "bind them (government) by the chains of the Constitution." In another instance, he declared: "It was intended to lace them up straitly within the enumerated powers. . . ."
The only path to making America "great again" begins and ends with understanding of, and adherence to, the ideas and principles underlying the Constitution of the United States of America, as they were explained in the 85 essays of THE FEDERALIST, newspaper essays addressed directly to "the People" in the States prior to their ratification of that Constitution by the people in the states.-------------------------
"On every question of construction, let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823, The Complete Jefferson, p. 322.
"Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." Thomas Jefferson to W, Nicholas, 1803.
In his own 1801 Inaugural Address, after listing what he called the "essential principles" to guide his Administration, Jefferson added:
"These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety." - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural, 1801
We might contrast Jefferson's understanding with today's Democrat Party "progressive" policies which, in effect, would undo all the monumental work accomplished by the Founders on behalf of liberty, turn their ideas of liberty upside down, and leave the law afloat and without anchor, relying, as of old, on mere men and women.
To her, this was blasphemy. Government is God!
“.....medicine to keep his hair growing.”
What is the name of the medicine? I’m asking for a friend, of course.
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