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90 Year-Old Veteran Of THREE Wars and Medal Of Honor Recipient Forced To Remove His Nation's Flag From His Lawn

Fox News - A Medal of Honor recipient in a dispute over his right to fly the American flag in his yard will have another week before D-Day -- when he'll be forced to take down the Stars and Stripes or face legal action.

Ninety-year-old Col. Van T. Barfoot, a veteran of three wars, initially was given a 5 p.m. Friday deadline to dismantle his flagpole or face a legal battle over violating an order from his townhouse community association in Henrico County, Va.

Barfoot, who fought in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, was told in July that he could not put up his freestanding flagpole in his Sussex Square neighborhood — but he installed it anyway.

On Tuesday, he says, he got a letter from the homeowners' association telling him the 21-foot pole he erected in September violates the community's aesthetic guidelines.

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Instead of a "thank you for faithful service in your call to duty (3 times)" a home owners association is telling the 90 year-old Medal of Honor recipient that his flag pole, in which he has proudly displayed his allegiance to the U.S., violates the association's aesthetic guidelines. Retired Army Col. Van T. Barfoot, distinguished service member did more in one battle than most soldiers do in their entire military careers. Read his Medal of Honor Citation for yourself. He is a highly decorated retired veteran of more than thirty years and three wars.

First of all, I HATE HOA's. Always have, always will. Their very existence is Socialistic in concept. HOA's do not pay a home owner's mortgage and/or their property taxes and therefore should NOT be allowed to tell a home owner what he/she can and cannot do on his/her property. No one bats an eye anymore at giving up the liberties that people like this notable American hero fought so selflessly to protect.

Right off the back, I can guarantee the argument that no one is forced to purchase a home in any community is going to come up. This is true and I can’t argue against it, but some things in this country ought to be sacred and the right to place a flag pole in your yard and proudly display your country’s flag should be one of them; especially when you take such good care to follow proper flag etiquette by raising the banner and lowering the banner at the proper times each day for more than thirty years. A flag pole with your nation’s flag on it isn't going to lower property values, the very thing HOA’s were charted to protect.

This is unpatriotic anytime, but particularly at a time when our soldiers are off fighting for our national interests. This HOA and any others with similar restrictions should be ashamed of themselves for spitting in the face of their motherland and all the fighting men and women who have answered the call to serve their countries interests. I’m pleased to see that U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va has taken up the cause of this patriot (although, I’m a bit surprised to find out that he is a Democrat, but I digress).

Even if you support the right of the HOA to disparage a person’s right to demonstrate their patriotism, exceptions can be made to any rule and if you can’t make an exception for a man who single handily destroyed two machine gun nests, stared down an enemy tank with a bazooka and destroyed it and captured 17 enemy combatants, and carried 2 fellow soldiers 1700 yards to safety all in one day, who can you make an exception for.

This HOA is a classic example of everything that is wrong with America and the decay that is eroding what makes America the greatest nation on earth. This isn’t a simple case of complying with the restrictions in the HOA guidelines. This is much much bigger and if you can’t see that, then perhaps you should go serve on the front lines for a period of time.

The New Democratic Designer Drug!

Obama as the cover picture is absolutely appropriate!

Obama The Great Failure

Despite his effort to get SEIU union jobs in Chicago by personally lobbying in Copenhagen for the 2016 Olympics, Barack Obama now has yet another failure to add to the impressive list of failures he is stacking up.

Most Transparent Administration - Failure

North Korea - Failure

Socialized Health Care by August - Failure

Iraq - Surrender

Russia - Putin is laughing at him - Failure

Iran - Laughing in our faces as they launch missiles and claim enough plutonium to build a bomb - Failure

Afghanistan - 43 dead troops since General McCrystal asked for reinforcements and no response - Heading for failure

Olympics in Chicago - Failure

Unlike Bush, who was disliked by many socialist nations in Europe and the world, but respected... Obama is a laughing stock and a failure.

Its going to be a rough 4 years as the "Novice-in-Chief" continues to flail away.

I do not take pleasure in this. It is truly disturbing.

Unless Obama dumps his leftist advisers and moves to the middle, he is going down as worse than Jimmy Carter and the USA is going to be in a dangerous and ultimately worse shape.

Auburn Journal.com

Since becoming POTUS, Obama has failed to achieve victory in anything. Even the leaders of other countries scoff at him. The IOC is just the latest slap in the face to his over inflated narcissistic ego, placing him squarely back in the real world.

Unemployment continues to balloon out of control due to Obama's dismal economic policies. The stimulus plan is a complete and utter failure!!! Meaningful health care reform is failing to gain any ground and his push for a public option is failing. Government Motors is closing down a whole division on the cusps of his nationalized car companies formation (which by the way, has done nothing but make people committed to NOT buying GM in the future).

People all over the world are beginning to realize just what an empty suit this liberal puppet is. He's failed at least three times to convince world leaders to back him, once in France, once at the UN and once at the G20 summit. American leaders are beginning to realize that Obama and his failed policy attempts are going to be the ruin of their political careers. Obama can't even unite his own party, let alone the United States of America.

Obama is the biggest joke this nation has ever known. Obama, after learning about the IOC decision stated, " it is always a worthwhile endeavor to promote and boost the United States." WHAT??? This coming from the man who traveled all over the world on his 'apology' tour bashing America? This from the man who thinks American's are all racists? Obama is the biggest hypocrite of all time.

How can anyone look another human being in the face and say that Obama is one of the greatest leaders this country has ever known? What has he led on? What has he been successful at? Who has he united? Where are his successes?

Pledge of Confusion?

It's a new school year, but an old fight is brewing in American classrooms. Teachers and administrators around the country are scratching their heads once again over the Pledge of Allegiance.

The courts have consistently ruled that students have the right not to recite the pledge in public schools. But now some First Amendment advocates are taking it one step further, arguing that the law compels educators to inform kids at the beginning of school that the decision is entirely up to them.

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I'm torn about this. I'm a deeply patriotic person. I've served my country. I continue to serve the public. There's no avoiding the anxiety and fear, however that I have about this once great country of ours. The America that I live in today, is not the same America that I pledged allegiance to as a child. The liberal movement in America has so blurred who we once were and the things that we stood for that made us great, that I don't even really know who America is anymore.

I'm a grown man, with a fair amount of understanding about the world and how it works and if I'm this uncertain myself, do I really want my kids reciting that pledge? Doesn't that send them a mixed message about making promises you can't truthfully make? I mean, I wouldn't pledge allegiance to this country under the present leadership and direction this nation is heading. Why would I expect my kids to recite empty words?

America is a very dangerous place to be right now. Not dangerous like living in some third world country under a brutal dictatorship...but dangerous like we've lost our identity and our moral compass. If we can't keep our moral compass in our ever changing world, how do we expect the rest of the world to tow the line? I can't pledge allegiance to a nation that is promoting socialism, pushing the liberal agenda so hard that people of morality are demonized, and with leadership that is weakening our nation defensively, fiscally, and morally.

I want very much for my children to have a deep sense of patriotism and serve their fellow countrymen, but they have nothing worthy of pledging allegiance too. I don’t really know how to proceed with my kids in areas like this. I’ve lost my hope in this country and the future scares the living daylights out of me.

Recently, I was engaged in a conversation with a dear relative of mine who accused me of having the socialistic stance compared to that of our national leadership. This discussion took place during the rage that was sweeping America over Obama’s indoctrination speech to our children, in which we kept our kids out of school for.

His argument against me was that I am basically brainwashing my children, because I won’t let them decide for themselves whether or not our leadership is harming America in this present day. I explained that I couldn’t disagree with him more.

My children are 8 and 6 years old. They have no real understanding about how choices made today can dramatically affect so many others for such a long period of time. They’re developing their moral compass and as responsible parents, it’s my wife’s and my job to teach them right from wrong, lives lessons about choice and consequence, and instill in them a value system that will make them productive and responsible members of society.

In short, they’re too young to understand the complexities of how badly Obama and the liberal movement are damaging our nation with lasting bad choice after bad choice. So, we, as parents, must make choices about how best to protect them from the rhetoric of the worst President and congress in American history. We must make choices about how best to explain to them why they are not allowed to watch the speech of an irresponsible man, who has no business speaking to elementary aged school children.

It pains us to look our children in the eye and tell them that our nations President and congress are bold face liars with a seemingly endless lack of morality. How do you explain to a child who knows that killing the defenseless unborn child is a terrible wrong, yet our President sponsored the very bills that support unchecked murder of the unborn? Or how do you have a discussion with them about how our tax system is supposed to work, when the news is pouring in about our leadership cheating the tax system? How do you try to teach them fiscal responsibility when our leadership is spending us into oblivion? How do you explain to a child the need to work for the things in life you want, when our nation is making entitlements our national way of life?

No, I am not the socialist. I am the responsible parent who wants my children to stand for morality, integrity, honesty, and responsibility. It is my first job as a parent to educate my children and give them the tools they need to one day - when they reach an age of maturity and understanding - make responsible, informed, and moral choices for themselves.

The Wizards of Washington

Obama is a Blatant Liar

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama said Tuesday that political motives are behind GOP efforts to block the overhaul of health care in Congress.

President Obama takes on critics of health care legislation in remarks Tuesday at the White House.

In a Rose Garden statement from the White House, Obama said Republicans "who openly announce their intentions to block this reform" would "rather score political points" than confront an ailing health care system that is draining the federal budget while leaving 46 million Americans uninsured.

"Time and again we've heard excuses to delay and defeat reform," Obama said a day after Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele called for blocking health care legislation under debate in Congress.

The president said such tactics "play the politics of the moment instead of putting the interests of the people first."

He opens his mouth and proves once again how disconnected he is from the rest of the country. I oppose nationalized health care and it has nothing to do with political tactics. I'm against further denigrating this nation by reinforcing laziness. Social handouts do nothing to improve our country. We're already a nation of expected entitlements.

Every person who has looked at both the House and Senate versions of the proposed Bills have agreed that Obama is a bold face American liar. While this legislation will let you maintain your present policies, the minute anything changes in your status (no matter how insignificant your change) you WILL lose your present policy and be forced to enroll in a policy that is designed by the government. Obama knows this, but he is again recklessly lobbying to have inadequate and horribly crafted legislation passed BEFORE the American people are fully informed. Can anyone say, "Stimulus?"

What has the federal government ever done in a cost effective manner and done it efficiently. It can't even make it's own deadlines for preparing reports about where they can make the cuts Obama says are necessary to very partially fund his handout to America.

Then, in a slap in the face to all American soldiers and veteran's, Obama and his political allies dramatically weakened a nation today by cutting the funding to the unmatched and most technologically advanced fighter jet in the world. If we don't continue to stay ahead of the rest of the world in military innovation, then we are just inviting military confrontations.

Your president is the worst in history. I wondered who would be worse - him or Carter - and it's clear that he is surpassing Carter in every category of terrible.

No One Ever Seizes Power With The Intention Of Relinquishing It.

“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.” I wonder if he knew just how prophetic his words would be when he penned them. Obama and the worst congress in history are recklessly hurrying through legislation, because they know they only have a limited amount of time before the masses begin to realize just how damaging they really are to America.

The truly unfortunate aspect of this, however, is that the damage will be done before America stands up and calls them on it. By then they will have unprecedented power. By then, the money and lifestyle that they have worked so hard to obtain and maintain will be public domain at the pleasure of the government. By then, their liberties and freedoms will be controlled and dispensed at the pleasure of the government. By then, their healthcare will be dictated and rationed at the pleasure of the government. By then, private business will no longer be in control of their destiny and will be told who they can hire/fire, what products they can/cannot produce, and who/where they will be allowed to market those products.

Wake up America.

We The People!

Why I Am Abandoning GM And Other American Car Companies

General Motors Corporation

Attn: Ed Peper, North American Vice President
P.O. Box 33170
Detroit, MI 48232-5170

Dear Sir, 26-May-09

Today, I received in the mail a form letter signed by Ed Peper, encouraging my family to continue to buy Chevrolet. I felt compelled to write and inform you that, although we have always bought GM, we will no longer do so. In fact, I am in the market for a new pickup truck to pull our camper; however, GM is not going to be a consideration for us in our selection.

The reason for our abandoning GM in their time of need is very simple. GM no longer stands for General Motors. It stands, instead, for Government Motors. When GM or any other American car company can be told who it can employ, how it will conduct its business, and what kind of products it will produce from a government administration, especially the Obama administration, then I will no longer support that company.

The bailout and the Obama administration’s participation in GMs future are costing you business. For too long, GM has been saddled by the unions and made terrible contract concessions. GM has never maintained its resale value, like that of Toyota, Honda and other foreign car companies. Had you worked on these issues sooner, GM would not be in the predicament it is in now. GMs failures as a company will dramatically hurt this nation’s economy, but I would rather the economy suffer than validate Obama and/or the federal government’s involvement in private business practices.

Mr. Obama...Dead is Dead No Matter How You Candy Coat It.

Thanks to my friend Sten, for turning me onto this.

Ron Paul: Secession is American

Finally, I agree with something Ron Paul says. I'm seriously thinking secession. I have never been more ashamed of my government and the people of America who elected them. The positive is that Obama's popularity numbers are in decline and I predict he'll be out after the first term.

Resident's of New Orleans Should Reimburse U.S.

When I read the following headline on Fox News I was dumbfounded. Trial Starts Monday in Suit Against Army Corps of Engineers for Katrina Flooding. I think the Corps should receive a medal for keeping the residents of a "disaster waiting to happen" city safe for as long as they have. This isn't rocket science people, when you build a metropolitan area below sea level in the middle of the swamp it is eventually going to flood, no matter what you do to prevent it. Those people who are rebuilding in this location are complete idiots!

The article quotes residents arguing "the corps' poor maintenance of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, a shipping channel dug in the 1960s as a short-cut between the Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans, led to the wipeout of St. Bernard Parish and the city's Lower Ninth Ward when Katrina struck in August 2005." Come on, seriously? What do you think is going to happen when you’re an Oceanside city built below sea level surrounded by swamp?

"It's really something the people of St. Bernard and the Lower 9th Ward, and New Orleans East, everybody in that area, have needed for a long time. What happened there should not happen in the United States of America," said plaintiffs' attorney John Andry. "It's the largest preventable catastrophe in American history." Yeah, because the United States of America is exempt from the wrath of Mother Nature and the laws of physics. The only way this catastrophe could have been prevented, is if the city had never been located there to begin with. You can't cheat the odds and the odds were, are, and always will be that New Orleans is going to flood for reasons already mentioned in this blog.

I was all about getting them the immediate help they needed to survive, but I am not sympathetic to their claims of victimization. The blame for the loss of life, the damage to property and the lack of preparation lie squarely on the shoulders of the people dumb enough to live there to begin with.

Christian's Must Start Defending Their Rights and LIberties

I'm thrilled to read that two college students are defending their right to practice their religion and rally against the oppression and attack of a morally deficient and corrupt nation. We’ve allowed the liberal and godless minority to become louder than we who should be publicly living our faith and reaching out to a dying world.

As Christians, we should seek out peace and forgiveness, but we must balance that with the advancement of the cross. Apathy is the enemy and simply doing nothing in defense of our faith is corrupting our world. Beyond our God given right to practice our religion, it is also our constitutional right. If three people want to pray privately, how can that be a violation of any institutions policies?

The case detailed in the following article is a testament to two incredibly brave college students in one of the most amoral and sinful cities in our nation. I pray that God’s vengeance will reign down on this college and a precedence of protection for a Christian’s rights will be set. Please join me in praying on behalf of these two brave Christian’s and for Christianity in this nation.

San Fransico Chronicle - Two students who were threatened with suspension at the College of Alameda after one of them prayed with an ailing teacher in a faculty office can sue the community college district for allegedly violating their freedom of speech, a federal judge has ruled.

The students, Kandy Kyriacou and Ojoma Omaga, said college officials at first told them they were being suspended for "disruptive behavior," then held disciplinary hearings and sent them letters warning that they would be punished if they prayed in a teacher's office again.

The women sued, and U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled in San Francisco that their case could proceed, saying a college student has the right to pray in private outside the classroom.

Although a public college, like other government agencies, must refrain from endorsing religion, Illston said in her March 31 ruling that an objective observer probably wouldn't have thought that the Alameda community college was making any such endorsement just because the teacher bowed her head while the student was praying.

The case dates from the fall of 2007, when Kyriacou and Omaga were studying fashion design and merchandising at the two-year college and took breaks from class to pray with each other and other students on a balcony, according to their suit.

Kyriacou prayed with the teacher, Sharon Bell, at an office Bell shared with other teachers, on two occasions in November and December 2007. The second time, a day when Bell was feeling ill, another teacher entered the office and told Kyriacou, "You can't be doing that in here," and the student stopped praying and left, the suit said.

Kyriacou and Omaga received suspension notices 10 days later. Omaga was accused of praying disruptively in class, Illston said, citing testimony at the students' disciplinary hearings.

The students' suit seeks an acknowledgment of their rights, an apology and removal of all disciplinary action, but no damages apart from attorneys' fees, said Steven Wood, one of the lawyers.

In seeking dismissal of the suit, lawyers for the Peralta Community College District argued that the school was entitled to designate faculty offices as "places for teaching and learning and working," and not for "protests, demonstrations, prayer or other activities" that would be disruptive.

The students countered that they were being punished for the content of their speech, not its disruptiveness.

Illston said the students could try to prove that the school treated religious expression more harshly than other speech.

Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, which is representing the students, said, "It is alarming that a publicly funded college would seek to suspend and expel students for praying on campus, then dig in its heels to defend an untenable, unconstitutional position."

Jeff Heyman, a spokesman for the college district, said its leaders "respect freedom of speech and the First Amendment," but would not comment on a pending case.

Obama Administration Caught In Another Lie on Mexican Gun Statistics

Recently, there has been much dialogue on the drug violence in Mexico knocking on the U.S. door. Obama’s administration has tried, as it always does, to place the blame for this violence on the American gun laws. They’ve put out, on various occasions, that 90% of the guns used in the violence in Mexico are purchased in the U.S. Hillary, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, William Hoover, assistant director for field operations at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and others have made this proclamation.

The problem??? Well, it’s just not true. In fact, it’s not even close. In fact, it’s a blatant lie, fabricated to purposely mislead the American public.

Here is the truth, because I know you won’t get it from the government. Only 17% of the weapons recovered at Mexican crime scenes have been traced back to America. In other words, 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.

Fox News, reported today that Ed Head, a firearms instructor in Arizona who spent 24 years with the U.S. Border Patrol, recently displayed an array of weapons considered "assault rifles" that are similar to those recovered in Mexico, but are unavailable for sale in the U.S.

"These kinds of guns -- the auto versions of these guns -- they are not coming from El Paso," he said. "They are coming from other sources. They are brought in from Guatemala. They are brought in from places like China. They are being diverted from the military. But you don't get these guns from the U.S."

Some guns, he said, "are legitimately shipped to the government of Mexico, by Colt, for example, in the United States. They are approved by the U.S. government for use by the Mexican military service. The guns end up in Mexico that way -- the fully auto versions -- they are not smuggled in across the river."

Many of the fully automatic weapons that have been seized in Mexico cannot be found in the U.S., but they are not uncommon in the Third World.

The Mexican government said it has seized 2,239 grenades in the last two years -- but those grenades and the rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) are unavailable in U.S. gun shops. The ones used in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey in October and a TV station in January were made in South Korea. Almost 70 similar grenades were seized in February in the bottom of a truck entering Mexico from Guatemala.

"Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries or by sea, eluding U.S. and Mexican monitors who are focused on the smuggling of semi-automatic and conventional weapons purchased from dealers in the U.S. border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California," according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

It’s terrible that our government leaders would bold face lie to us in order to advance their agenda; an agenda that is clearly at odds with our nation’s constitution.

Kingdom Bailouts

Earth Hour: The Ridiculous Waste of Ambition and Resources

Absolute non-sense! There is NO credible science to support man-made global warming. The extreme amount of narcissism necessary to fabricate a crisis of global proportions is astounding. What’s even more astonishing are the masses of mindless numbskulls that will fly straight into the fire without thinking for themselves.

We know, for instance, that the world has NATURAL warming and cooling cycles. Sea levels rise and fall with these naturally occurring phases. Natural disasters occur at varying levels based on the stages the Earth is in. Ice ages, global flooding, volcanic eruptions, massive hurricanes, cyclones and tornadoes, earthquakes, etc. can only be attributed to our correlation with the Earth’s orbit and axis and, of course, the wrath and fury of God.

I detest everything about the global warming alarmists and their cause. The whole charade of their ridiculous crying is nothing more than a ploy to raise taxes and scare the populous into submission. I had seen the news explaining the Earth Hour event coming up, but I had purposely not paid any attention to it. When I saw the pictures covering the event, however, I was disgusted. Had I known specifically when the event was to take place, I would have turned on everything in my house that uses electricity.

My wife informed me that I should be happy for this event since I constantly go around the house turning off the lights that everyone in the house leaves on. This is different, though. I gripe about the lights being left on and the garage door not being closed on cold days, out of a conservation of spending and not out of a sense that we’re raping the earth.

Renegade Judges, Attack on the Family, and False Perception of Home Schooling Part 1

A Wake County, North Carolina judge has ordered three children to attend public schools this fall because the homeschooling their mother has provided over the last four years needs to be "challenged."

The children, however, have tested above their grade levels – by as much as two years.

The decision is raising eyebrows among homeschooling families, and one friend of the mother has launched a website to publicize the issue.

The ruling was made by Judge Ned Mangum of Wake County, who was handling a divorce proceeding for Thomas and Venessa Mills.

A statement released by a publicist working for the mother, whose children now are 10, 11 and 12, said Mangum stripped her of her right to decide what is best for her children's education.

The judge, when contacted by WND, explained his goal in ordering the children to register and attend a public school was to make sure they have a "more well-rounded education."

"I thought Ms. Mills had done a good job [in homeschooling]," he said. "It was great for them to have that access, and [I had] no problems with homeschooling. I said public schooling would be a good complement."

The judge said the husband has not been supportive of his wife's homeschooling, and "it accomplished its purposes. It now was appropriate to have them back in public school."

Mangum said he made the determination on his guiding principle, "What's in the best interest of the minor children," and conceded it was putting his judgment in place of the mother's.

Adam Cothes, a spokesman for the mother, said the children routinely had been testing at up to two years above their grade level, were involved in swim team and other activities and events outside their home and had taken leadership roles in history club events.

According to Williams' website, the judge also ordered a mental health evaluation for the mother – but not the father – as part of the divorce proceedings, in what Williams described as an attack on the "mother's conservative Christian beliefs."

According to a proposed but as-yet unsigned order submitted by the father's lawyer to Mangum, "The children have thrived in homeschool for the past four years, but need the broader focus and socialization available to them in public school. The Court finds that it is in the children's best interest to continue their homeschooling through the end of the current school year, but to begin attending public school at the beginning of the 2009-2010 instructional year."

The order proposed by the father's lawyer also conceded the reason for the divorce was the father's "adultery," but it specifically said the father would not pay for homeschooling expenses for his children.

The order also stated, "Defendant believes that plaintiff is a nurturing mother who loves the children. Defendant believes that plaintiff has done a good job with the homeschooling of the children, although he does not believe that continued homeschooling is in the best interest of the children."

The website said the judge also said public school would "prepare these kids for the real world and college" and allow them "socialization."

Williams said the mother originally moved into a homeschool schedule because the children were not doing as well as she hoped at the local public schools.

Reported by World Net Daily
By Bob Unruh
Reported 03/11/2009

Renegade Judges, Attack on the Family, and False Perception of Home Schooling Part II

I have several problems with this. First of all, everyone involved in this believe that the children are thriving and excelling in their education via homeschool. The judge even admitted that they were, the father admitted it too.

The judge cites “socialization” and the “real world” as motivators for his decision. Obviously, this lunatic has no idea what he is talking about. Allow me to elaborate a bit on socialization.

Socialization is knowing how to act appropriately in various situations and is best taught by adults who care about the child. Socialization is not the same as having a social life. Remember this when you hear the dreaded ‘S’ word from others. Your homeschooled kids will have as many friends and activities as they want and you allow (and likely more time than their PS peers to enjoy them).

They will be socialized by their parents and other caring people who will help them learn appropriate behavior in different situations- at home, in public, in informal and formal activities. They will have many opportunities to learn and practice social skills as they will be interacting with the real world on a regular basis.” (www.about.com)

Let’s remember what the article said about these socialized lacking children, “…the children routinely had been testing at up to two years above their grade level, were involved in swim team and other activities and events outside their home and had taken leadership roles in history club events.” It sounds like they have been anti-social to me, not!

According to L.M. Rudner, he discovered that nearly 25% of homeschooled students were enrolled one or more grades above those of the same age enrolled in traditional schools. Even with a conservative analysis of the data, the achievement levels of the home school students in the study were exceptional. By the time home school students are in 8th grade, they are typically four years ahead of their public/private school counterparts.

Cloud also discovered that homeschoolers also did quite well in 1998 on the ACT and SAT college entrance examinations: “They had an average ACT composite score of 22.8, which is .38 standard deviations above the national ACT average of 21.0. This places the average home school student in the 65th percentile of all ACT test takers. The average SAT score for homeschoolers in 2000 was 1100, compared with 1019 for the general population”

Another argument in favor of homeschooling is that most children learn at different paces. A child who is a quick study can easily become bored by the lesson plan that accounts for the rest of the classroom in the student body. This boredom can be perceived as manifestations of behavioral issues and children who really do not need to be on medications end up on them. My friend Rachel homeschools her children for this very reason. Ethan was reading well ahead of all other children his age. His speed of learning would have resulted in his boredom and so she decided it best to educate him from home, where he has subsequently excelled in academics.

Personally, I feel a very strong need as a parent to protect and shelter my children from influences that I find contrary to our belief and value systems. I realize that as they grow and mature, they will have to come face to face with questionable situations. It is my hope, however, that, by sheltering them or, at the very least, educating them that they will be better equipped to function properly when confronted with the situation.

According to Dr. Gordon Neufeld, a leading developmental psychologist, “traditional schooled peer interaction has become more of a problem than an asset. Instead of peer interaction facilitating the process of socialization, it is now more likely to lead to the premature replacement of adults by peers in the life of a child. Such children become peer-oriented rather than adult-oriented and are more difficult to parent and teach. Furthermore, peer-oriented children fail to mature psychologically and their integration into adult society is compromised” (Neufeld). A parent who is truly interested in his child's education and not just kicking against the system, can easily find ways to give his child the socialization skills that will make him a better member of society.

In 1992, Stough’s research looked particularly at socialization, comparing 30 home-schooling families and 32 conventionally schooling families, families with children 7-14 years of age.

The researcher found no difference in the self-concept of children in the two groups. “According to the findings, children who were schooled at home ‘gained the necessary skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed to function in society...at a rate similar to that of conventionally schooled children.’ Stough maintains that ‘insofar as self-concept is a reflector of socialization, it would appear that few home-schooled children are socially deprived, and that there may be sufficient evidence to indicate that some home-schooled children have a higher self concept than conventionally schooled children”

Taylor, in 1987, did a similar study employing what many consider today as being “the most validated self-concept scales available” (Taylor). Taylor randomly sampled 45,000 home-schooled children and found “that half of these children scored at or above the 91st percentile—47% higher than the average, conventionally schooled child” (Taylor). His conclusion? “Since self concept is considered to be a basic dynamic of positive sociability, this answers the often heard skepticism suggesting that homeschoolers are inferior in socialization”

Homeschooled children have most all of the same socialization opportunities available to the traditionally schooled child and perhaps with a lot less peer pressure. Home economics is a class taught by schools, which would seemingly not be necessary for the homeschooled student since they spend the largest portion of their day with the mother at home (usually). Communities often have sports opportunities available through parks departments. Clubs abound, and some include Boy/Girl Scouts of America, Explorers, Civil Air Patrol, ROTC, 4-H, community choruses and bands, etc. Many communities have various different homeschooling associations and plan field trips and play dates.

Webb, who is one of only a few researchers to have examined aspects of the adult lives of homeschooled people “found that all who had attempted higher education were successful and that their socialization was often better than that of their schooled peers”

Colleges are beginning to seek out homeschoolers. One such school is Kennesaw State University in Georgia (Cloud). Smith and Skikkink discovered that “parents who homeschool their children are more likely to vote, contribute money to political causes, contact elected officials about their views, attend public meetings or rallies, or join community and volunteer associations” (Smith, Christian, and Sikkink).

Homeschooling no longer holds the social stigma it once did. All of the evidence overwhelmingly proves that homeschooled children not only excel, but also do so exponentially. If we are to believe the data, than it is no longer feasible to argue that children who are homeschooled are socially inept.

So, I've demonstrated via the scientific research that has been done, that in fact colleges seek out homeschooled students. That students who are homeschooled excel exponentially in every category including socialization and we've determined that the kids in this particular case are doing exceptionally as well.

That makes it very clear then that this is really an attack on the mother and homeschooling and religion by a renegade judge. The father, who is responsible for breaking up this family because of his extramarital affair, has even stated that the kids are doing superior. Despite all of the judges reasoning and the evidence to the contrary, this judge has acted against the will of the mother and her best judgment for the children and removed her rights. A mother the judge, himself, has said Ms. Mills had done a good job [in homeschooling]," he said. "It was great for them to have that access, and [I had] no problems with homeschooling."

Why order this mother, who everyone agrees is a good mother, to undergo a psychiatric exam? Did she commit adultery and break up this family? I would think that the one with the deviant behavior should undergo the scrutiny of mental health examinations.

Get ready people. With Obama and the Liberals at the helm, there is much more of this non-sense to come. Christian's, pro-family, pro-moral and value programs, individual liberty to live their faith out loud is going to come under fire more and more.

Guantanamo Detainees Say They Planned 9-11 Attacks

The five detainees at Guantanamo Bay charged with plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks have filed a document accepting responsibility for the deaths of nearly 3,000 people and expressing pride at their accomplishment, The New York Times reported late Monday.

The document, which the newspaper said may be released publicly on Tuesday, describes the five men as the "9/11 Shura Council," and says their actions were an offering to God, according to excerpts of the document read to a reporter by a government official, the report said.

"'To us,' the official read, 'they are not accusations. To us they are a badge of honor, which we carry with honor,'" the paper said.

The document is titled "The Islamic Response to the Government's Nine Accusations," the military judge at the U.S. Naval base said in a separate filing, obtained by the Times, that described the detainees' document.

The document was filed on behalf of the five men, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who has called himself the mastermind of the attacks.

Some of the men had said earlier that they planned the 2001 attacks and that they wanted to be martyrs. The reason for the new filing, which the report said reached the military court on March 5, was not clear. The brief court order describing the filing said the men sought no legal action.

I'm sure that, despite their clear and concise confessions, that the Obama Administration will find a way to release these terrorists in the name of some "reward failure" policy.

Roland Burris Admission Trumps Obama's Historic Signing

While the President of the United States was signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, officially transforming our country into a Socialized government, the junior Senator from Illinois dropped a bomb shell. He stated that he did in fact attempt to raise money for the former Governor of Illinois.

Okay, one thing at a time. First, Obama stated - and I'm paraphrasing - that it was weird for so many people in Washington to come together for something so unprecedented . I laughed out loud at this comment. Where has he been living? Has he not seen the polls, watched the markets and reveiwed th voting records on this legislation? He barely got the 60 votes he needed and he only got those on party line votes. When this Spendulus package fails, this will fall squarely on his shoulders and nobody else's. He is the one who used scare tactics, included but not limited to, planting people in town hall meetings and using words like Armegeden and Catastrophe.

Today's historic signing gave Chicom a much firmer grip on our country. After all, where are we getting the money to pay for this bill? It has to come from somewhere. The Bush haters cried like babies about how Bush doubled our national deficit in his EIGHT-year's in office. Well, people of the world unite...Obama just did the same thing in his first month of his Presidency.

The Chicago Tribune reported today, "U.S. Sen. Roland Burris has acknowledged trying to raise money for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich before being appointed to the Senate. According to a transcript posted on the Chicago Tribune's Web site, Burris told reporters in Peoria Monday night that he talked to some friends about putting together a fundraiser after being called by the ex-governor's brother."

Lastly, Time Magazine release of a list of the top 25 people to blame for the economic crisis we're in right now and, not surprisingly, Bill Clinton was ranked as number 13. Clinton's tenure was marked by "lots of financial deregulation, which in many ways set the stage for the excesses of recent years," according to Time. Under Clinton, Gramm was able to push through the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, which is widely blamed for opening the door to all those shady credit swaps that have brought the economy to the brink of collapse. George Bush was number 14. I was astonished at this, since Time Magazine is such a left leaning publication.

CATO Institute Calls Obama Out!

"There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy."

— PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA, JANUARY 9 , 2009

With all due respect Mr. President, that is not true.

Notwithstanding reports that all economists are now Keynesians and that we all support a big increase in the burden of government, we do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance. More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s. More government spending did not solve Japan's "lost decade" in the 1990s. As such, it is a triumph of hope over experience to believe that more government spending will help the U.S. today. To improve the economy, policy makers should focus on reforms that remove impediments to work, saving, investment and production. Lower tax rates and a reduction in the burden of government are the best ways of using fiscal policy to boost growth.

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Venezuela Behind on Billions in Payments to Oil Contractors

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's state oil company is behind on billions in payments to private oil contractors from Oklahoma to Belarus, some of which have now stopped work, even as President Hugo Chavez funnels more oil revenue to social programs.

This is yet another example of how socialism cannot and will not ever be successful. Obama and his Democrat allies are so sold on socialism. I'm so disgusted that they're about to pass this outrageously over-funded spendulous bill. All hail comrade B. Hussein Obama!

The Inconvenient Debt

Republican's Learned Nothing From McCain Candidacy

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Members of the Republican National Committee elected their first African-American party chief Friday, choosing former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele to chair the organization after six tumultuous rounds of voting.

For the duration of his campaign, Steele fought suspicions that he was too moderate to lead the party because of his blue state roots and his former membership in the Republican Leadership Council, a group that sought to curb the influence of social conservatives in the party.

The Republican Party continues to astound me. If John McCain did nothing else for us during the presidential elections, he taught us that the Republican Party does not want a Moderate to pilot our cause. Steele summed up the desperation of the vote that led to his election, "We have been misdefined as a party that doesn't care, a party that's insensitive, a party that is unconcerned about minorities, a party that is unconcerned about the lives and the expectations and dreams of average Americans. Nothing could be further from the truth."

After today, no fair-minded observer can believe the stereotype of the Republicans as the party of old white men. Likewise, no reasonable person can believe that the Republicans are interested in advancing the Conservative principles that this nation is so desperately craving.

I wish this election had been less about race and more about doctrine. The RNC needs to be purged and returned to the philosophy that shaped its one time greatness. I’ll remain open-minded about Steele, as I don’t really know much about him.

Blago Worried About Precedence

In an impassioned plea to spare his job as Governor, Rod Blagojevich rambled endlessly and at times aimlessly for forty-eight minutes today in front of the Illinois Senate during his closing statement at the trial that will decide his political future. An ominous silence fell over the senate members as the two-term governor concluded his statements and exited the senate chambers.

As the senate members sat somberly through the rambling annotations of Governor Blagojevich, he described a concern over future precedence. "If they can remove a governor elected twice by the people, and a legislative branch can do it without being required to prove any wrongdoing, and, conversely, not allowing the governor to prove he didn't do anything wrong, if they can do it to me, they can do it to you and any other citizen and they can do it to other governors in other states," Blagojevich said.

As a private citizen, I am equally concerned about precedence. I’m concerned that if our representatives do not send an unequivocal message that political corruption will not be tolerated – especially in a case that has such blatant and public evidence – and will not go without penalty, then we will never see an ending to malfeasance.

I empathize with the soon to be former governor, in that he was unable to call any witnesses during the impeachment trial. I believe that in every situation where allegations of misconduct are present, the reprobate should be able to put on a defense (no matter how ridiculous or out of touch that defense may be).

The senate vote could come at any time.

Barack Fails First Test

Breaking News

President Barack Hussein Obama has failed his first attempt to achieve the bipartisanship he has been promising. Divided precisely on party lines, the final vote was 244 to 188. No Republicans voted for the bill, while just 12 Democrats voted against it. The president couldn't even attain 100% of the votes from his own party.

Contradicting his promise to acheive bipartisanship after being asked whether he was confident of getting Republican support, the President replied only: "I'm confident we're going to get it passed."

In a remarkably out of touch statement the President stated, "I hope that we can continue to strengthen this plan before it gets to my desk. We must move swiftly and boldly to put Americans back to work, and that is exactly what this plan begins to do."

House Republicans, trying to protect the American people from the expansive and expensive spending bill, noted that the bill does nothing to cut taxes and put money directly back into the people’s pockets. "The underlying bill, while it has some good provisions, has a lot of wasteful provisions and slow-moving spending in it," said House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. "We have to act -- we have to heal the ailing economy. The question is how to do it best; we think that fast-acting tax relief is the way to get it done."

At the end of the day, the president and his party will undoubtedly pass this bill with very few concessions despite the will of the American people. Change - the word the president campaigned on - remains elusive. These are the same strong-armed tactics that have dominated the oppressive Democratic Party for decades. This is business as usual.

Obama The Defeatist

In yet another example of defeatism ideology, Barack Hussein Obama has declared to the Arab community and the Middle East that the United States is not their enemy. The Oligarchic Obama made it clear that his priority is to repair the broken relationship between the west and the Muslim hatemonger’s.

Calling for mutual respect and interests, Obama pleaded his apologetic propaganda. B. Hussein Obama has done a magically fantastic job of capitulating the war on terror and empowering the Jihadists of the world. His words, posture, and actions signal a weakened resolve and a tempered sovereignty.

Combined with his immense failure to lead the citizenry through this damaged economy and propagate its rapid decline through increased government and excessive spending paints a dangerously weakened and unprepared naivety. Elections have consequences and electing the most inexperienced and unqualified person in history to lead our nation is clearly going to have dangerous significance.

Now, I’m not against diplomatic solutions to ugly situations. Negotiating with a culture and a religion that has unmistakably demonstrates through word and action their intent to rid the globe of anyone contrary to their fanaticism is not the proper course of action any leader who wants to remain credible and respected should pursue.

I have never felt more afraid in my lifetime then I do right now. I’m not fearful because I question the resolve of the American people; I’m fearful in spite of it. I’m fearful because this president and his oligarchic allies, Pelosi and Reid, are leading us into an inconceivable state of weakness and defeat militarily, economically and socially.

We must stand our ground and demonstrate our unyielding intention to protect our liberties and defend our interests. We must rally and send a clear message to the leadership of this nation that we will not relinquish our freedoms or our security in them. We must insist that our government return stop taxation and return motivation to industry and business owners. We must restore morality and vitality to the people.

I wish you dismal failure Mr. President!

Like all dictators around the world, Obama will need additional security. An Indonesian man fits the bill and has taken steps to place himself into the line of fire. Like Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler, Barack Hussein Obama will have a body double.

Having had the costliest inauguration in United States history amidst one of the most challenging financial times in history, President Obama’s speech was full of continued empty words and endless rhetoric. Nearly two million spectators packed the National Mall and surrounding areas to observe this historical moment of the most unqualified person in history assuming command of the United Socialist States of America.

reports the cost of today’s activities exceeding $150 million dollars. 20 + jumbotrons, more than 5,000 port-a-potties, and 10,000 National Guard and active duty troops. $40 million just for the parade. 58, law-enforcement and other agencies working on security. 8,000, District of Columbia police officers on duty, and those hired from departments around the country. 1,000, U.S. Park Police officers on duty, and those hired from outside departments. 550, Metro transit police on duty, and those hired from outside departments.

These are astonishing numbers amidst the mass populous losing their homes, jobs, and businesses. Yes, change has come. Obama, having visited a D.C. homeless shelter yesterday dined on a very impressive lunch. The president, his family, and members of congress will be dining on seafood stew in puff pastry, duck breast with cherry chutney, herb roasted pheasant with wild rice stuffing, molasses whipped sweet potatoes, winter vegetables (which curiously include asparagus and wax beans), and a dessert they are calling “Cinnamon Apple Sponge Cake,” which is more like an apple charlotte made with brioche. When was the last time you dined so well?

The racist Jeremiah Wright announced recently that tonight, Michelle Obama will be the first black woman in U.S. history to sleep in the White House legally. One has to wonder when it was ever illegal to sleep there?

Lastly, today if you still doubt that we’re rapidly approaching a socialist dictatorship, read the news out of Flint Michigan. The state of Michigan is giving a man a choice – marry the mother of his child or pay for the cost of the birth. Now, I am not fond of unwed people giving birth. I am also deeply opposed to abortion and divorce. Forcing people to take a sacred vow of marriage is not the answer. However, this took up very little press on its announcement in light of this emerging socialist regime.

I love how everyone in the nation is wishing this president success. What a politically correct and empty thinking nation we have become!? I hope this far left, liberal, “government is the solution” joke of a President is a colossal failure. I want our nation to heal and recover, but if Obama and the Democrats succeed in their agenda our nation will lose it’s freedom, reach a debt we may never come out of, and lose our precious liberties as we sink into a moraless people. No thank you! I wish you dismal failure Mr. President.

Editorial Note: I've been corrected by a friend. My opinion that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid form a singular dictatorship is incorrect. This is actually the definition of an oligarchy. From now on, I will use the word oligarchical or other variation of the word.

The Coming Power Struggle

(CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday tried to persuade Senate Democrats to get behind his plan for the second half of the $700 billion bailout, warning he would veto a threatened disapproval resolution, according to senators who met with him.

Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Banking Committee, reminded fellow Democrats what a bad political situation it would be to pass the disapproval resolution and force Obama use his veto pen on it as one of his very first acts, the senators said.

On Tuesday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House is making "great progress" and that "we won't leave here without an economic recovery package."

This is the first example of the power struggle that is to come. Is Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid going to run the nation or is the radical Dictator-elect Barak Insane Obama going to run it? Look for more news like this in the future. We mustn't forget that Obama is just the puppet and that others are pulling his strings. How else could he have gotten elected? It sure wasn't on his merits or history.

Barak the Baby Killer

My wife chastised me for telling my children that Obama is a baby killer. Besides sponsoring legislation that would mandate leaving a botched abortion baby to die without any intervention, he has promised, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act."

The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) would eliminate every restriction on abortion nationwide.

• FOCA will do away with state laws on parental involvement, on partial birth abortion, and on all other protections.
• FOCA will compel taxpayer funding of abortions.
• FOCA will force faith-based hospitals and health care facilities to perform abortions.

Barak and the Democrats are determined to destroy this country and any sense of morality. My children will know that the Dictator-elect is IN FACT a BABY KILLER! Be informed. Inform others. Become a member of the Conservative Resistance.

Obama Meets Reality

George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC's This Week, interviewed the unqualified, highly inexperienced, CHANGE (to Socialism) mantra Dictator-Elect Barack Hussein Obama earlier today. In many of Obama-hood's answers, you can hear the naive failed community organizer begin to admit that he won't be able to deliver on all the rhetoric of his campaign. Take for example the following exchange on the issue of health care taken from transcripts of the interview.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So how do you pay for health care?

OBAMA: Well, you know, these are going to be major challenges. And we're going to have to make some tough choices...

...I'm not suggesting, George, I want to be realistic here, not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace that we had hoped.

In other words, it's not going to happen. There isn't any money for it. Obama has yet to admit that his election is one of the contributing factors in the slow recovery of the economy. Thus, why we call this Obama's recession.

Also, did you hear that the even bigger boob Biden was refused entry to a Delaware movie theater in Concord Pike? He tried to attend the 7:45 screening of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but it was sold out. None of the other movie goers noticed him and/or his wife, despite the Secret Service that was with them. This is even more laughable since Delaware is where he lives and serves in the Senate.

My Hometown School System Under Attack by ACLU

One student's parent is about to jeopradize 55-years worth of voluntary religious education in elemenatry schools where I was raised. This is a program that generations of local families have enjoyed. For many families, this is the only exposure to issues of faith and morals they may ever experience. The seed that is planted at the elementary age is something that is often generously harvested later in life.

I'm asking all of my readers to please pray for this legal battle. Pray for all the parties involved and for the judge that will be presiding over this attack. This is a program that I participated in as a child and one I'd love for my children to be able to go through in our current city.

Below is a link to a story detailing this attack that made national news on WorldNetDaily.com.

FAITH UNDER FIRE
ACLU to churches: Not on school grounds, you don't
Mom sues district for allowing 'Back to the Book' classes on campus

The American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of an offended parent, is suing an elementary school district for allowing its students to attend a non-taxpayer-funded religious education program that meets on campus.

For the past 55 years, the Huntington County Community School Corporation of rural Indiana has permitted students in its eight elementary schools to attend religious study groups through a "released time" program.

The program, coordinated by an area church association, enables students with parental permission to be released from classes one hour during the school day to receive religious instruction that cannot be otherwise offered by the public school.

And while a 1952 U.S. Supreme Court ruling permits "released time" religious instruction, the ACLU is alleging that since Huntington County's programs are housed in trailers on school property, they violate the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.

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Democrat Reward System

This cartoon is a prime example of our growing Democratic reward system for sloth. Obama is about to take this mentality to a brand new level with his Redistribution of Wealth economic dooms day welfare package.

Sick of Racism Claims

So, my family and I are vacationing in Indiana for a long weekend with my side of the family. I woke up this morning and caught the news. I was disgusted to read that profiling or racism was discussed as a possibility in the removal of a Muslim family from an Airtran flight after passengers heard them discussing security issues at the airport.

Given the FACT that Muslims are the leading perpetrators of terrorism in the world, a Muslim family discussing airport security on a flight warrants their removal. Airline officials are being bedeviled for taking action even after the FBI cleared them. Why isn't the Muslim family being judged for being stupid enough to bring up such a topic in that setting? How moronic of them! Shame on them!

I was equally outraged at how Blago's attempted replacement of Obama is playing the race card. Burris, on a Today show interview, repeated comments made earlier in the week by Democrat Bobby Rush. Burris is quoted as saying, “It is a fact there are no African-Americans in the United States Senate. Is it racism that is taking place? That's a question that someone may raise."

HELLO!? This has nothing do with racism. This is solely an issue of a corrupt Governor, who has lost the ability to govern, appointing ANYONE to replace Obama. It is absolutely nothing to do with racism.

I'm so tired of racism always being the go to when an African American or some other perceived minority can't get their way. Even if Blago could appoint this man in spite of his present legal circumstances, after comments like this I would make every attempt to have him disqualified and/or vote against him.

African Americans are not the oppressed people they once were and are barely the minority. According to the Washington Times and other media sources, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that by 2042 caucasions will be the minority. While I'm confident that racism still exists in America (represented by every race on earth), I am not convinced that racism plays a significant role in most majority decisions.

For instance, Obama was elected despite being severely unqualified and inexperienced and despite his terribly failed efforts to be a community organizer. IF racism ruled American policy or attitudes, do you think he would have been elected? It is doubtful, despite America’s desperation to escape GW Bush’s inexcusable lack of conservative leadership.

I’m sick of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson alarmists. The American people are sick of them. We’re sick of political correctness doctrine. We're sick of organizations like the Anti-Christain Law Union (click link to see their logo) twisting our laws to strong arm our liberties away from us. Enough is enough. Crawl back into the hole you came from.

Al Gore; A Friend to OPEC

Blago - Obama Connection II

Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Obama's chief of staff, had direct discussions with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about Obama's vacant Senate seat, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Sources with knowledge of the conversations told the Sun- Times Emanuel spoke with the governor and pushed for the appointment of Valerie Jarrett in the days after the presidential election and asked that it be done by a certain date.

The sources said Blagojevich told aides about conversations with Emanuel and sometimes gave them directions afterward. Some conversations between Blagojevich and Emanuel were likely caught on tape, the sources said.

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I told you this was going to come out. How much damning evidence does one person need before the world sees him for the fraud and man of ill repute that he is? Why does Obama seem bullet proof? Nothing sticks to him, because everyone always looks the other way. Can you really believe for a minute, that Obama was not in discussions with the man who would appoint his replacement?

Blago - Obama Connection

Deny! Deny! Deny! That is the Democrat’s chief strategy.

No one can convince me that the snake Obama and his political team did nothing wrong in the replacement for Obama’s vacant Senate seat. A couple of things stick out in my mind.

First, Blago states, apparently unaware that he is being recorded, that if Obama isn’t willing to deal in how and who replaces him that he (Blago) will give it to someone who Obama hasn’t endorsed. That implies that Blago had spoken to Obama or someone high on his staff about this.

Second, why wouldn’t Obama be extremely interested in who replaces him in the Senate? He’s going to want to have someone in there that he can work with in the Senate, plus he wants someone in there who will continue his legacy of corruption and questionable associations.

Obama thinks, and largely he is right since he was elected, that the American people are stupid enough to follow him without questioning his character and/or motivation. Rham Emanuel is in this neck deep as well. I predict that he will never become Obama’s Chief of Staff or that if he does he won’t be there long. His internal review shows …. Who the hell cares what his internal review shows? We all know it is a review, if one even took place at all, to cover up any links to Obama.

Blago is for sure going down. I hope he takes Obama with him!

Controversy Erupts Over School Proposal to Teach Kids to Fight Back Against Gunmen

A proposal to teach children as young as 10 years old to fight back against a classroom gunman is causing quite a stir in a small town in Massachusetts.

Georgetown Police Chief James E. Mulligan told FOXNews.com the proposed technique was intended to be a "last ditch" thing to be used in cases where a gunman has been able to thwart police and get inside a classroom alone with students.

But others think the last thing you want to teach young kids is how to fight off an intruder with a gun.

"To put that expectation on young, emotional, scared, frightened children is really a slippery slope," says Kenneth Trump, the president of National School Safety and Security Services. "It has a high risk and higher probability of escalating a situation than it would to neutralize the situation."

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I have to confess as a parent of two elementary aged children, I am torn. I absolutely can appreciate the points of both sides of this argument. I have said many times that the public school system is the number one most dangerous place in America for a child to be in these days.

We have taught our children since the time they were able to understand us, that if anyone they do not know or even if they do know them tries to make them or take them and they know that's not right, that they are to scream at the top of their lungs, "that man/woman is not my mom/dad, please someone help me." I want them to fight in an environment like that. I want them to make as much noise to draw attention to themselves.

A man with a gun in their school, well I'm just not sure about that. If a man with a gun has entered the school and made it through the ridiculously inadequate security provided, I think I'd rather my child find a safe place to hide and be quiet. It just isn't the same as a group of adults being held hostage on an airplane. Adults are capable of fighting; their capable of reasoning out what the odds are and how best to play them. Children just aren't strong enough or developed enough in their ability to reason out their next move. They can reason, "I need to run from here to there," but they would have trouble with more complex decision making items. "If I have to make contact with this guy, where should I hit/kick him and what should I use as a weapon?"

I guess I lean more on the side of just biding your time and following directions until a rescue plan can be devised and implemented by experts. I just don't think the average child has the capability to make wise choices in such a high stress environment.