Of the remaining viable Republican candidates on Super Tuesday, you'll have the chance to vote for a member of an anti-Christian cult, a liberal Republican from Arizona, or a Southern Baptist preacher from Arkansas named Mike Huckabee.
Please watch some (or all) of the following speech and I think what you'll see that there's something different about this guy. My vote will be going for Mike!
The following clip tells the facts about Mike Huckabee and Chuck Norris:
With a friend like Chuck Norris, who needs Secret Service protection??
Seeing as though this my personal blog and it is not part of a 501c3 Tax Exempt organization [or rather gagged by the government because of a lust for a IRS tax exemption on my part!], I'm totally free to comment on politics and endorse candidates.
Therefore...
I am officially endorsing Mike Huckabee for President!
I'm certain that the Huckabee Campaign will be delighted to receive my support seeing how I am such an influential person within the Southern Baptist blogosphere!
(insert roaring laughter here)
Until I heard of Mike, I had actually been fairly depressed at the line up of candidates within the Republican Party (not to mention my overall displeasure with the party as it is...) I have to thank Bob Hayton at Fundamentally Reformed for first exposing me to Gov. Huckabee. (Bob has many articles about Mike on his blog)
Mike is gaining in the polls in Iowa and getting more press coverage as a result. I have a hunch this rise in popularity is only going to increase as more conservative Christians are exposed to Huckabee and they realize that there is a candidate that represents their views much better than a liberal ex-mayor or a Mormon from Taxachusetts.
If you are undecided or just plain disillusioned, I encourage you to visit www.mikehuckabee.com and check out the man for yourself.
The following article was written by Gary DeMar of American Vision Ministries. Orignally published online here.
The first rule of economics is TANSTAAFL: There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.1 While something might appear to be free (e.g., education, healthcare, etc.), there is always a cost to someone. Ignore this law, and all economic hell breaks loose. Of course, politicians believe they can ignore and even break any law because they consider themselves to be gods. They believe they can create economic prosperity ex nihilo, “out of nothing,” simply by legislating it. Most Americans don’t care about these economic realities any more than the politicians who propose them because they are the first-in beneficiaries.
When Social Security was implemented, the maximum amount any one person paid into the system was $60 per year—a total of two percent from employee and employer of a maximum $3000 per year. Today, the percentage is 12.4% on $97,500 per year because TANSTAAFL is coming due. Those who are receiving these benefits are not concerned because someone else is paying for them. Economic realities and ethics be damned. Yes, ethics. For example, families who are sending their children to the “free public schools” are using the money of their neighbors to pay for their children’s education. They assume since they elected people to do this it is morally acceptable. We’ve grown accustomed to this type of logic.
Consider Social Security. The Social Security Administration estimates that those born in 1877 (and retiring in 1942) got an average of 36.5 percent real rate of return on their Social Security contributions, while those born in 1950 (me) will receive on average a 2.2 percent return. Those born in 1975 will get 1.8 percent return. It’s even worse for future workers. The government should have seen this coming when Ida Fuller received her first Social Security check. She paid $22 into the program and received more than $20,000 in retirement benefits.2
In 1935, there were 45 people paying into SS for every one person receiving benefits. Today, that ratio is about three to one.3 Is it any wonder the SS has been described as the “world biggest chain letter”?
“The World’s Biggest Chain Letter—Unless You’re the Government”: Social Security is a pay-as-you-go retirement program. Those paying in now are paying those receiving benefits now. Social Security works like a chain letter. Some people have described SS as a “Ponzi scheme,” named after Charles Ponzi, a con artist who bilked people of a lot of money. How did he do it? He would tell people that he would pay them a huge return on their investment within a few months. Then he would take their money and pay off the previous investors. It worked great for the first ones to (unknowingly) get in on the scheme. Ponzi then used his early “investors” as testimonials to attract new “investors.” After a time, the number of investors ran out, and so did Ponzi with their money. Ponzi had worked the “pyramid scheme”: the people at the top (those who get in early) receive the benefits that are being paid in from those at the bottom (those getting in late). The following appeared in Parade Magazine (March 28, 1976): “Social Security is a wonderful plan. People say it’s going bankrupt. Don’t believe them. It works. I know. My uncle reached 65 and he sent in the appropriate forms. In a week he received a wonderful letter: “Dear Mr. Gold. Welcome to the Social Security System. Attached is a list of ten names. Just send $100 to each name on the list and retype up a new list with your name at the bottom. But remember, don’t break the chain!’”4
If a private insurance company operated this way, the directors would be arrested, tried, and sent to prison for a long time. Democrat fundraiser Norman Hsu was charged with a “massive Ponzi scheme.”5 One of the biggest beneficiaries of his contributions is Hillary Clinton. It’s Clinton who is proposing that every newborn should receive $5000. Other politicians are pushing for some form of “universal heath care.” Who will pay for this? The same people who are paying into Social Security to keep the Ponzi scheme alive—the most productive members of society. You and I know them as “the rich” who are already paying the majority of taxes. Hsu couldn’t keep the scam going because he couldn’t force people to keep contributing. Politicians can by the force of law.
Just because politicians can create economic programs does not mean they will work. Putting people in power so they can take money from your neighbors and give it to someone else does not make it right, whether they are Republicans or Democrats.
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1 The phrase has been attributed to science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein in his 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Two of Heinlein’s best known science fiction works are A Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) and Starship Troopers (1959). Heinlein’s political philosophy was anti-socialist (“correct morals arise from knowing what man is—not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be.”) and anti-communist (“All the work one cares to add will not turn a mud pie into an apple tart.”).
2 Gary North, Government By Emergency (Ft. Worth, TX: American Bureau of Economic Research, 1983), 8.
3 James M. Pethokoukis, “Boomer Burden,” U.S. News & World Report (January 17, 2005), 46.
4 Quoted in North, Government by Emergency, 4–5.
5 “Fundraiser Hsu charged with pyramid scheme” (September 20, 2007)
by Gary DeMar
8/06/2007
On Saturday, August 4, 2007, the House of Representatives passed a $16 billion increase in taxes on oil companies. Actually, this is a lie. Oil companies, like every company in America, see taxes as the cost of doing business. Any tax increase will be passed onto consumers. If the voting public supports this increase, then they have only voted for a tax increase on themselves.
The profits oil companies make goes to pay millions of share holders. Additionally, the money brought in from the sale of gasoline and other petroleum products is used to locate, transport, refine, and distribute. The oil industry employs tens of thousands of people, creates related support businesses, takes all the risks in drilling and transportation, pays billions of dollars in taxes, and gets blamed for gouging the consumer for unfair “profits” for delivering a volatile product safely to outlets of distribution a few miles from our homes and next to highways that criss-cross America. Government agencies, on the other hand, simply cash the checks for the taxes the gas stations collect from their customers.
The combined state and federal taxes for California is over 50 cents per gallon. The United States average is somewhere around 45 cents per gallon. With the bridge collapse in Minneapolis, you’re going to hear about taxing the oil companies even more. Here’s a question: Where have all the taxes gone that we’ve been paying every time we put gasoline in our cars? Our politicians have been spending these billions of dollars on their own pet projects to keep them in office and grow the government.
Politicians don’t want to talk about high gasoline taxes. In fact, revelations of high taxes on gasoline might anger the American public and produce sympathy for “big oil.” It would expose the fraud of “price gouging” by the oil companies. I’m hopeful if prices remain high that more people will start talking about how state and federal governments are the real problem. Maybe even some in the mainstream media will start asking lawmakers why oil profits of about ten cents per gallon are “obscene” but nearly 50 cents per gallon of taxes is . . . patriotic?
As a national security issue, as president I would declare a state of emergency and state and immediately enact the following:
Oil is the lifeblood of this economy. As a nation, we are too dependent on foreign sources for oil. As you know, the oil we need—11 million barrels a day—is located in the most hostile region in the world. While we consider a nuclear attack to be a possibility, our enemies could do far more damage by destroying the majority of oil fields in Saudi Arabia. Any disruption in the flow of oil could bring our nation to a standstill, not just economically but militarily. We would find it almost impossible to defend ourselves against domestic and foreign aggressors if gasoline supplies were jeopardized. As a result, I am issuing an Executive Order that will open up all lands and sea rights in the possession of the United States to oil exploration. In addition, I am temporarily suspending stringent environmental laws that make it nearly impossible to build and bring online new refineries. I am proposing that ten new refineries be built and running within eight years. Five of these refineries will be designed in such as way to be impervious to a military attack. The goal is to have at least a three-year supply of crude oil stored in the United States to take care of domestic and military needs as if the real possibility exists of being completely cut off from our present foreign sources. We need a Manhattan project for oil independency.
As a Conservative Christian voter, I have to admit that the Republican Party sure knew how to pull my strings for the past decade. I don't look to the Government as some sort of savior, nor do I believe the Republican party is "Christian", but I have voted Republican almost exclusively since I was 18 years old. Lately, it seems like they've dropped the ball on just about all the issues that I think are important.
Quite frankly, I believe they forsook the values of those who got them elected and they paid for it in the last election cycle by losing the House and Senate to the Democrats. If the Republicans don't get their act together, they will pay even more dearly by losing the White House in '08.
Being the disgruntled Republican that I am, I decided to cut off the RNC from the few dollars they've normally crooked out of me each year. They have responded to that with a constant barrage of letters reminding me that they are the Party of Ronald Reagan, begging me for money, and passionately telling me how important my membership in the RNC really is... (As if the fate of the Free World depends on my membership and $25.00! Yeah, right!!)
I have tried to get them to see that they aren't getting anymore of my stinky little Federal Reserve notes and that I no longer wish to communicate with them. Yet, like those heretical Prosperity Preachers on TBN, they continue to harass me with letters that promise me the world -but for a small fee.
finally did something, I couldn't help but be angry that the government let things get that bad before they did something. From the looks of the banner I found on the GOP website, I think the Republicans have some more sinister plans for all these illegals: grant them amnesty, fast track them to citizenship, and then trick them into voting Republican!
As an Southerner who's ancestors fought valiantly against Lincoln's "Grand Army of the Republic", I still believe in "States' Rights." Though it may sound like treason to say it, I believe that if any one of the 50 States in the Union decided that they no longer wanted to be a part of the United States, they ought have the right to seceed peacefully and go their seperate way. The South was brutally conquered and subjected to years of terrible military occupation (Reconstruction) because of their decision to do just that.
Though I support States' Rights, my support of these rights is not absolute. I do not believe in Statism. There are some things that no State has the right to stick it's nose in, and one of those things is how a parent wants their children educated about homosexuality!
In Maryland, the State Education Board has determined that a parent's right to control the upbringing of a child is, "...not absolute. It must bend to the State's duty to educate its citizens."
This determination was made so that Maryland could push ahead with a controversial sex-education program that teaches a favorable view of homosexuality and will not allow for views to be taught that oppose the sinful lifestyle.
Just another one of many reasons to consider educating children at home with curriculum that teaches a solid Biblical worldview!
To see the Washington Post article on this: click here.
For the American Family News Network article: click here.
Historical Trivia:
Before the Civil War, Maryland was a "slave state." Lincoln feared it would seceed and leave Washington D.C. in Confederate Territory. Therefore he declared martial law and had the mayor of Baltimore and Maryland State Legislators imprisioned! For more myth-busting info: click here!
What true 2nd Amendment freedom is supposed to look like...
"An Armed Society is a Polite Society!"
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) shirt.
Redefeat Communism in 2008
Celebrate Diversity
Old School Conservative
Clinton Larval Stage
Less Flower Power, More Fire Power
Communism killed 100 million people and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
Shirt for the Fide-O Blog (and this one too!)
Defeat Hillary
Have you ever noticed that your nice crisp one dollar bill buys less and less every year?
Once upon a time, a dollar could buy an acre of land outside Orlando Florida, but now it won't buy a 20 ounce Coke at a gas station. In the video below, you will learn some economic history, the reasons why our economic system is broken, and what it will take to fix it.
The video is really long, but I found it very interesting and educational!
I found this video posted on the Puritanism Today Blog.
of these may qualify a person as a cultist but certainly more than one of these would cause us to look at this person as a threat and his family as being a risk that qualifies for government interference." In the video below, please pay careful attention to what the Representative has to say about the so-called American Civil War. Not many people have a clue about what actually took place in the 1860's. Rep. Paul hits the nail on the head!!
Listen as Maher, who claims to be a Libertarian, cleary demonstrates his Socialist belief that the State is the Messiah of us all...
Yes, Bill, You truly are "Chairman Mao" in comparison to a true lover of freedom!
If Congressman Ron Paul is a "Libertarian," then sign me up today!
(I found this video on the Chalcedon blog.)
Please visit this website, browse the pages for a few mintues, and see if you can tell me who is the central focus of worship!
