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1 posted on 02/02/2017 5:27:32 PM PST by 198ml
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I am finding that most newsreaders are mind-numbed idiots or just plain stupid.


2 posted on 02/02/2017 5:29:06 PM PST by MagUSNRET
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Remember that most are there to read the news because of their looks, not their brains.


3 posted on 02/02/2017 5:33:15 PM PST by Uncle Sam 911
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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.


4 posted on 02/02/2017 5:35:43 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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It was one of the best speeches ever given at the prayer breakfast.


5 posted on 02/02/2017 5:37:12 PM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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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.


6 posted on 02/02/2017 5:38:18 PM PST by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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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.


7 posted on 02/02/2017 5:38:21 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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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...


8 posted on 02/02/2017 5:38:29 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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Trumps “gets it” better than many politicians that call themselves “conservatives”. He’s filling Reagan’s shoes very well.


9 posted on 02/02/2017 5:39:46 PM PST by zipper (In their heart of hearts, every Democrat is a communist.)
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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.”


10 posted on 02/02/2017 5:41:44 PM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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President Trump said: "...Our republic was formed on the basis that freedom is not a gift from government, but that freedom is a gift from God.”

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.

11 posted on 02/02/2017 5:42:04 PM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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"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, 1816

The 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.
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"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.

18 posted on 02/02/2017 5:57:19 PM PST by loveliberty2
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To her, this was blasphemy. Government is God!


19 posted on 02/02/2017 6:00:58 PM PST by Restless
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Very few, if any, progressives believe in God.

Therefore, the following statement to them is not just meaningless but also absurd. So when they encounter such a statement it is repugnant to them.

“freedom is a gift from God.”


22 posted on 02/02/2017 6:43:42 PM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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Dumber than a door stop...


23 posted on 02/02/2017 6:48:35 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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25 posted on 02/02/2017 6:54:50 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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26 posted on 02/02/2017 6:56:37 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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What did they have for breakfast and was there bacon? As for what clueless libs think, who cares?


28 posted on 02/02/2017 7:10:46 PM PST by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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Freedom and liberty are God given, but governments like to restrict them.


30 posted on 02/02/2017 7:13:28 PM PST by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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If anybody on the Right is still trying to prove that the Left "just doesn't understand the Founding" is irrelevant.

32 posted on 02/02/2017 8:03:47 PM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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OMG, I can’t find the thread where I think this was posted last night, but this recording of Yahoo News’s Katie Couric-led election night courage is pure gold.

I am three hours in and they still haven’t a clue that it is not going to be a straight funeral and burial for Trump all night. A brief interview with Ann Coulter shows the only one fully in touch and they of course do nothing by sneer at her.

Frank Luntz is interviewed at the top and he is so smug and so wrong on everything. Right now Rand Paul is on, and though he too expects Trump to lose, but he at least is evenhanded and gets in points that the clowns have no answer too (just as they had no answer to Coulter).


38 posted on 02/03/2017 4:45:01 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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