Public Being Snookered on Amnesty Bill in US House? ... J. D. Longstreet

Public Being Snookered on Amnesty Bill in US House?
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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I don't know, but I have this queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach that is screaming at me that we voters are having the wool pulled over our eyes by the US House of Representatives concerning the Immigration Reform bill,  known otherwise by its more truthful moniker -- the Amnesty for Illegal Aliens bill.

In the past few days I have become convinced the House is going to pass that monstrous bill no matter the opposition against it by the electorate. 

I am ashamed of the GOP.    It is not the political party I was proudly a member of for a solid fifty years -- until last November, to be exact. After the awful handling of the republican campaign for president I had had it up to the gills with the lack of testosterone within the hierarchy of the party.  Before that election was over I had become convinced that the GOP was actually trying to lose the election -- keep the numbers reasonably close, but lose, nonetheless. 

Look.  The blue bloods and the country club set who are, for the most part, liberal republicans and/or moderate republicans, seem far more interested in maintaining their prestigious positions in the Congress than in acting in the best interests of the voters and the country as a whole.  

It is despicable!    Nevertheless, to an outsider looking in, that is exactly what it looks like, just more underhanded, duplicitous, back room deal making. 

Early last month (July 2013) the chance for passage of the immigration bill in the US House seemed to be slim and nine.  Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado was quoted in the press as saying: "there's almost unanimous agreement among the Republicans that the Senate bill is fatally flawed."

The bill most certainly IS flawed, in many ways, chief among them is not securing the southern border -- FIRST -- before anything else, and that so-called pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens who are already criminals for having broken US law when they jumped the border fence and entered the country illegally.  It's the same as breaking and entering into your abode -- into your home.

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Buck McKeon of California has been quoted in the press as saying: "There was pretty strong consensus that the border has to be secured before anything else."  Well, DUH!!!

Early last month (July 2013) Speaker of the House, John Boehner, issued the following statement:

"Today House Republicans affirmed that rather than take up the flawed legislation rushed through the Senate, House committees will continue their work on a step-by-step, common-sense approach to fixing what has long been a broken system. The American people want our border secured, our laws enforced, and the problems in our immigration system fixed to strengthen our economy. But they don't trust a Democratic-controlled Washington, and they're alarmed by the president's ongoing insistence on enacting a single, massive, Obamacare-like bill rather than pursuing a step-by-step, common-sense approach to actually fix the problem. The president has also demonstrated he is willing to unilaterally delay or ignore significant portions of laws he himself has signed, raising concerns among Americans that this administration cannot be trusted to deliver on its promises to secure the border and enforce laws as part of a single, massive bill like the one passed by the Senate."

You know what's frightening about Boehner's statement above?  He uses the words "common sense" not once -- but TWICE!  Any time our national legislators begin referring to "common sense" it scares the heck out of me.  The depth of their lack of that quality is immeasurable. 

Look.  It is no secret that our immigration policy is out of whack. It has been for too long now.  But we don't need a "Grand Plan" to fix it.  What we need is a moratorium on immigration for an undetermined length of time until we can devise a cool-headed approach to fix what ails the current policy.  Much of the "fix" I suspect would be simply enforcing the law we already have on the books.   

The first thing we must do is secure the borders of the United States.  Heck, we have US troops securing borders of foreign countries today and yet, our own border is as porous as a cullender.  Plus, it MUST be understood that amnesty/pathway to citizenship is off the table ... period.  If you're in the country illegally and we find you, we WILL arrest you and deport you.

Believe me when I tell you that in the southern states there is absolutely no sense of compromise on amnesty/pathway to citizenship. 

Consider the words of Representative Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.): "I cannot sell in South Carolina a border security plan where the security comes after the legalization. I can't sell a border security plan where Janet Napolitano gets to tell us the border is secure. I can't tell sell a border security plan when the executive can turn on and off triggers for politically expedient reasons, nor would I try to sell any of those plans."  SOURCE:  http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/06/30/rep_gowdy_the_senate_bill_is_not_going_to_pass_in_the_house.html

It is a sad commentary on America when I cannot believe that my government will do what it says it will.  Even with all the assurances coming from the House of Representatives that the Immigration Reform Bill will not pass in the House, I believe that it will.

Yeah, I know.  I have a real problem with suspending my disbelief.  You won't be surprised to learn that I don't believe in the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny, either.

© J. D. Longstreet
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"When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer.

"Therefore say to them, 'This is the nation that has not obeyed the LORD its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips'." – Jeremiah 7: 27-28
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A Military in Decline ... Alan Caruba

A Military in Decline

By Alan Caruba

Wars are often unpredictable. The outcome of such conflicts is also unpredictable, but defeat in future conflicts is now being “baked into the cake” and I suspect most Americans are totally unaware of how serious this threat is. You can be sure potential and actual enemies are calculating the odds.

A recent USA Today article noted that the choice between troops and modern weapons would require the Army to shrink to “as few as 380,000 soldiers and the Marine Corps to 150,000 troops. There would also be fewer Navy aircraft carriers and Air Force bombers. Current plans envision an Army of 490,000 soldiers in the coming years, and a Marine Corps of 182,000”, added that “The Army hasn’t been that small since before World War II when it had 267,767 soldiers.”

In January, the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sent a letter to Sen. Carl Levin, the Chairman of the Committee on Armed Forces.

“The readiness of our Armed Forces is at a tipping point. We are on the brink of creating a hollow force due to an unprecedented convergence of budget considerations and legislation that could require the Department (of Defense) to retain more forces than requested while underfunding that force’s readiness.” The letter addressed the “sequestration that has trigged “a cut in operating budgets of more than twenty percent across the Joint Force compared with the President’s budget.”

While “Troops on the front lines will receive the support they need…the rest of the force will be compromised.” The “looming readiness crisis” would force the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines “to ground aircraft, return ships to port, and stop driving combat vehicles in training.” After more than a decade of hard fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Joint Chiefs warned that “We will be unable to reset and restore the force’s full-spectrum combat capability…”

The U.S. military is on life support. In July, The Washington Times reported that Gen. Raymond Odierno, the Army’s chief of staff, told a gathering at the American Enterprise Institute that fewer than one-quarter of today’s youth can qualify for Army service” but what struck me as odd was his view that this makes “the recruitment of women even more important.”

In the long history of the American fighting forces—indeed in the history of civilization—nations have not called upon their women to be front line combat personnel. The feminist movement in America has changed that and the military is under orders to recruit more women in the name of “diversity.”

It does not take an expert in military affairs to know that the demand to include more women in the ranks will degrade unit cohesion throughout of our fighting forces.

The Center for Military Readiness devotes itself to this topic and its findings should be front-page news. Instead, Americans remain unaware of the deterioration of the nation’s ability to train a new generation to defend itself and project its strength.

A recent Pentagon study by the Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Office (SAPRO) fills two hefty volumes. The Center says it “documents the dysfunctional consequences of social experiments with human sexuality in our military over many years” warning that “Failing to see the big picture, the Department of Defense is moving ahead with plans to extend problems of sexual assault and misconduct into the combat arms.”

As someone who has served in the U.S. Army well before women were introduced as part of the fighting elements, it comes as no surprise that, between 2004 and 2012, the number of sexual assault cases among military personnel “escalated from 1,275 to 2,949, an increase of 129%.” This has occurred in a military that has ”more sexual response coordinators (25,000) than it does recruiters (19,000).”

From the chiefs of staff down through all the officer ranks, the pressure has been on to accommodate the very real differences between men and women. It is compromising all elements of military service and is most evident in the area of training. The Center says “It does not matter what Pentagon officials and women-in-combat activists are promising now…incremental pressures to assign women to fighting infantry battalions eventually will drive qualifications standards down.”

The Marine Corps, an elite fighting force, serves as just one example. They reported that obvious differences in physiology should rule out women in combat. “On average, women have 47% lower lifting strength, 40% lower muscle strength, 20% lower aerobic capacity (important for endurance), and 26% slower road march strength. In addition, both female attrition/injury rates during entry level training and discharge rates were twice those of men and non-deployable rates where three times higher.”

“There is no incentive,” says the Center, “for ensuring that tough training standards for elite fighting battalions remain high and uncompromised.” That is the description for a fighting force that can no longer meet the rigors of the battlefield.

Every indicator of how our military’s combat readiness is being degraded is available to those in the Pentagon and in Congress. Double standards in the name of “diversity” will undermine the vital element of survival in combat, team and unit cohesion.

The Center has called on Congress to acknowledge these ancient and present challenges and to shape policy for the military as is its responsibility under Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

“To truly honor and respect our courageous servicewomen, Congress should take this issue seriously,” says the Center. “The highest priority should be military necessity, not self-interest, political illusions, or ideology that denies differences between men and women.”

An under-funded U.S. military, riven with all manner of social experimentation involving women and gays, is putting the nation and our global interests at risk.

© Alan Caruba, 2013

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Living under tyranny and the solidification of the Obama dictatorship--Part I ... Sher Zieve

Living under tyranny and the solidification of the Obama dictatorship--Part I

By Sher Zieve

The Obama dictatorship is virtually complete. Since he began the occupation of what was once our White House, the dictator-in-chief has been busy writing one Executive Order after another designed to replace US law...with ObamaLaw. Under normal and saner times, these EOs would mean little-to-nothing because the checks and balances of co-equal branches of government would render them null and void if they flew in the face of Constitutional law. But, today, insanity is reigning supreme.

Note: For those of you raised in the government public school systems over the last three decades, the US Congress (which includes the House of Representatives and the Senate) and SCOTUS (the Supreme Court of the United States of America) are co-equal (under the US Constitution) with and to the Executive branch and each of the three branches of the US federal government legally carries 1/3 each of the power to run said government.

However, co-equal branches of the US government – like the Bill of Rights for US citizens – are no longer applicable in the USA. They have been replaced by dictatorial rule of and from the US White House; specifically under the now almost complete tyrannical control of Barack Hussein Obama. Why? Because Congress refuses to act and/or follow through on stopping Obama and his demolition-of-America team from destroying the US Constitution, individual rights and SCOTUS is now openly ruling in both bizarre and unconstitutional ways. This abrogation of duty has resulted in the submission of the Legislative and Judicial branches of government to the Executive branch. Question: Are members of Congress and SCOTUS (minus their female members) now required to bow down and pray five times a day in the direction of Washington D.C. to Obama? Does Obama provide the prayer mats?

What has occurred that has allowed this to happen is nothing less than treason and the "aiding and abetting of the enemies of the United States of America."

Militarized Police Force illegally grabbing guns (all source materials and complete articles below)

1. In April 2013, under the NY SAFE (Secure Ammunition & Firearms) Act, Governor Cuomo of New York issued orders revoking permits for legally owned guns and advised the owners that they must surrender those permits and "any and all weapons" over to the police. The persons receiving this mandate are those citizens who are taking anti-anxiety drugs. First, HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) laws were broken and the information received about individual prescribed drugs acted upon by NY was obtained illegally and second...the Right to Bear Arms contained in the Second Amendment was (following Obama's example) thrown onto the street, stomped on and swept into the gutters of New York by another dictatorial Democrat executive.

2. In Medford Oregon May 2013, military veteran Corey Thompson's AR-15 was confiscated and he was arrested when wanted felon Jonathon Kinsella tried to force his way into Thompson's home and Thompson fired a warning shot. The Blaze reports: "Thompson was charged with unlawful use of a weapon, menacing and reckless endangering. The veteran's AR-15 was seized by police because they claim it was used in the commission of a crime."

3. Army Master Sgt. C.J. Grisham, who had previously been honored for his service by President George W. Bush, was arrested while on a 10-mile hike in Texas with his son in March 2013. He was arrested by police (who had apparently been following him) for "rudely displaying" his firearm. Huh? Is this a real law? The rifle was being carried, as the area of the hike contains wild boar, cougars and other potentially dangerous animals. His AR-15 was confiscated. By the way, AR-15 rifles are still legal in all US States.

4. After the Boston Marathon Bombings, multiple reports of house to house forced entry by Boston police and SWAT teams emerged with pictures taken of multiple heavily armed militarized police on the doorsteps of private homes. In one video (below link), the initial knock on the private home door almost knocks it in.

IRS used as another arm of the Obama Gestapo

Only those who do not have access to communication of any type can possibly not know about what has happened to the IRS. Along with the highly-militarized local police forces, Obama and his syndicate have used the IRS as, yet, another arm of his growing Gestapo. If you are a TEA Party member, Patriot organization, Christian or Jewish group or a group committed to liberty and the preservation of the US Constitution, you have likely been targeted by the now – apparently – all Marxist all the time Internal Revenue Service. The IRS – in what increasingly appears to be getting closer and closer to its orders coming directly from the Oval Office – has been summarily withholding tax exempt status from those groups that oppose Obama's policies. These group members have also been asked highly-intrusive – and probably illegal – questions by the IRS. If they don't answer them, the IRS has – also in writing – advised them that they can and/or will be held in contempt and subject to perjury charges. Many of the same groups have waited for years for approval and some are still waiting. However, groups that publicly agree with Obama or have group names indicating they're on the Left politically have sailed right through and received their tax exempt status.

The IRS has actually admitted that it affected the above actions and is still continuing the illegal activities today! In fact, recently the IRS began targeting conservative groups for "audits" and "special attention" which already have tax exempt status. Additionally, the IRS has also finally been caught having leaked information on former Republican (and TEA Party) Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell's tax records to the Delaware Democrat Party!

These are way beyond dirty-tricks and it should be abundantly clear to any and all with a bit more than a brain stem that Obama has set up and is in the process of using his personal hammer and sickle groups to implement his increasingly violent police state activity. The Iron Curtain encircling the USA is almost fully down. But, even these actions are only the tip of the iceberg.

Part II coming soon.

"When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer.

"Therefore say to them, 'This is the nation that has not obeyed the LORD its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips'." – Jeremiah 7: 27-28

Gun Confiscation Has Reportedly Begun in New York State:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/09/a-form-of-gun-confiscation-has-reportedly-begun-in-new-york-state-heres-the-justification-being-used/

Military Veteran's AR-15 Confiscated by Police:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/29/police-confiscate-vets-rifle-charge-him-because-he-fired-warning-shot-at-wanted-felon-trying-to-break-into-his-home/

Decorated Vet Arrested After 'Rudely Displaying' His Rifle:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/16/decorated-vet-arrested-after-rudely-displaying-his-rifle-says-officer-pulled-gun-on-him-in-front-of-boy-scouts/

Boston Martial Law: 'They were confiscating guns from residents':

http://21stcenturywire.com/2013/04/24/boston-martial-law-they-were-confiscating-guns-from-residents/

VIDEO: Boston Bombers Police State in America – Police Officers illegally...:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MezLoczjfY

New targeting allegations leveled against IRS, this time by [existing] tax-exempt groups:

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/2013/07/30/new-targeting-allegations-leveled-against-irs-time-tax-exempt-groups#ixzz2aXwsYM51

IRS Leaked Christine O'Donnell's Info the Day She Announced Her Senate Candidacy: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/07/18/irs-leaked-christine-odonnells-info-the-day-she-announced-her-candidacy/

© Sher Zieve
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Sher Zieve is an author and political commentator. Zieve’s op-ed columns are widely carried by multiple internet journals and sites, and she also writes hard news. Her columns have also appeared in The Oregon Herald, Dallas Times, Sacramento Sun, in international news publications, and on multiple university websites. Sher is also a guest on multiple national radio shows.

Sher can be reached at sherzieve@bajabb.com

 

“Darwin’s Doubt” ... Jerry Newcombe

“Darwin’s Doubt”
By Jerry Newcombe

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Every time I log into a computer and have to enter my password, I’m reminded of how impossible evolution is.

One little mistake on the keypad, and I can’t log in. There’s even a website where I seem to be in permanent “log-in purgatory.” I can’t login ever. Granted, it’s operator error. But still…


How does this tie to evolution?  Because if evolution were true, then we are to believe a whole series of complex sequences managed to get everything right—-repeatedly.


To use a clichéd example: It would be like a monkey typing at random and coming out with the complete works of Shakespeare without any errors.


There’s a new book on evolution that is getting a lot of attention—-and deservedly so. It is Darwin’s Doubt by Stephen Meyer. If you’re familiar with the topic, the subtitle is very clever “The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design.”


This is not some minor book by an “obscurantist backwoods fundamentalist.” It is published by HarperCollins and was written by a man who earned his Ph.D. at Cambridge. This 500-page illustrated book made its way to 7th place on the New York Times bestseller list.


I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Meyer of the Discovery Institute on my radio show last week. He said of his book, “The title tells the story. I tell the story of a doubt that Darwin had about his own theory.” The doubt centers around what’s known as the Cambrian Explosion.


About a decade ago, TIME magazine had a cover story on the Cambrian Explosion. They called it “Biology’s Big Bang.” Geologists place the Cambrian period, which they say was supposedly 550 million years ago, seven geological periods before the Jurassic one, as in Jurassic Park.


Meyer explains, “The Cambrian Explosion refers to the geologically sudden or abrupt appearance of the major group of animals early in the fossil record, in a period of time that geologists call the Cambrian.” The key word is “abrupt.”


In his classic book, On the Origin of the Species, Darwin wrote, “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.”


But Meyer says Darwin was aware of the Cambrian period (“at first commonly called the Silurian” (Darwin’s Doubt, p. 6)). Meyer says, “it was a challenge to his theory because he anticipated that the mechanism of natural selection, acting on random variations, would have to work very slowly and gradually. He thought that the variations would be slow, minute, and incremental. If they were big, the mechanism would create deformities that would not survive, so he thought the mechanism needed to generate small and incremental variations. And that would take a lot of time.”


As noted, Darwin was aware of the Cambrian Explosion, but hoped that future discoveries would somehow nullify the significance of the Cambrian. However, they have not.


Meyer told my listeners, “What we see in the fossil record is the abrupt appearance of these animal forms. [Darwin] knew of some of them in his time. But he anticipated or hoped that subsequent generations of fossil-hunters and paleontologists would discover the ancestral precursors to these animal forms in the lower pre-Cambrian layers.”


What has happened since Origins was first published in 1859?  “In fact,” says Meyer,  “what’s happened is that more and more Cambrian animals have been discovered—-most of which have still lacked these ancestral forms. And so we have this pattern of very abrupt, discontinuous appearance, in contrast with the picture of the history of life, which Darwin drew of a slow, gradual, unfolding of life.”


This problem for Darwinism is not just in the fossils. The so-called missing links are still missing. But Meyer also notes, “It’s this deeper problem of coming up with a mechanism that explains complex animal life, especially in the wake of all the things we discovered in the last 50, 60 years in biology about the importance of information—-digital code and other forms of information that are stored in DNA and elsewhere in the cell.”


Meyer adds, “It’s just like in computer science. If you want to have a new function on your computer, you’ve got to have lots of code, lots of instruction. If you want to build these complex animal forms, we now know, you need information, you need instructions. And that’s the crucial question that is really creating an impasse in evolutionary theory. Where does that information come from?”


Oh, I get it—-“In the beginning was the Word…”


Jerry Newcombe

LINK:  http://revaustinmiles.com/index.php/more/440

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Jerry Newcombe,  D.Min., is co-host of Truth that Transforms and a spokesperson for Truth in Action Ministries. He has also written or co-written 23 books, including The Book That Made America: How the Bible Formed Our Nation and (with D. James Kennedy), What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? http://www.truthinaction.org
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Fearing Obama ... Alan Caruba

Fearing Obama

By Alan Caruba

I have been sensing something about the mood of many Americans that I think is unprecedented in the history of the nation. It is a fear of the President. A fear that one observer, Daniel Henninger of The Wall Street Journal, calls “the president’s creeping authoritarianism.”

Obama has had four and a half years to pursue his goal of “transforming” America and, along the way, he has continually expressed his disdain for the constraints of the Constitution, his contempt for Congress and the Supreme Court, and, if his recent speeches are any indication, his belief that enough Americans are so dumb they will believe anything he says.

Overall, there is a growing sense of foreboding as four in five Americans are facing some degree of poverty and a small chance of finding work. One can feel the nation slowing down, its momentum sapped, its national sense of optimism being drained.

The bankruptcy of a major American city, Detroit, tells one everything they need to know about the result of decades of liberal governance and its acceleration under Obama. What other cities face a similar fate? Is the nation on the path to becoming a third-world economy?

I had my own fears evoked by a news report that “The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge user’s stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.”

In countless ways, the Constitutional protection of privacy is being eroded along with reports that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been purchasing huge quantities of ammunition and military-style vehicles. A new book discusses the way local police forces have been developing SWAT teams with similar capabilities. What kind of domestic uprising is DHS anticipating? And why is it anticipating it?

The National Security Agency is building a huge complex in Utah, larger even than the Pentagon, to store data it collects, presumably about Americans as well as foreigners. Kiss the Fourth Amendment goodbye, yet Congress just voted to sustain the NSA without restraints.

Why hasn’t Congress acted to repeal the National Defense Authorization Act that permits the government to arrest and detain any American without recourse to an attorney or the courts?

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has been on a tear, presumably to find out the sources of leaks in the Obama administration, seizing the telephone records of the Associated Press without giving the AP due notice.

Americans are beginning to suspect that there is little justice to be found in the DOJ, particularly since the revelations about “Fast and Furious”, an idiotic program of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agency to purchase and “walk” guns into Mexico in order to “track” them. It was obvious they would end up in the hands of the drug cartels. It took an executive order by Obama to shut down a congressional investigation into this bizarre scheme. His administration has done everything it could to undermine the Second Amendment.

Over at the Internal Revenue Service, one of its officials accused of targeting patriot organizations seeking tax except status has plead the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering a congressional committee’s questions.

Meanwhile, the Affordable Care Act—Obamacare—is in the process of expanding the IRS as the government begins its takeover of one sixth of the nation’s economy with a piece of legislation that has already been declared a “train wreck”, unmanageable and, most importantly, so intrusive into our personal lives that no previous generation would have ever allowed it. Obamacare is already wrecking the economy as businesses large and small try to anticipate its costs.

The appalling lies about the terrorist attack on the U.S. Benghazi consulate are evidence in themselves that the Obama administration is prepared to deceive Americans about the killing of a U.S. ambassador and three of his security personnel. The orders given during the course of the attack were to do nothing. This is unprecedented. And frightening.

Millions of Americans out of work have very real cause to fear for their well-being, but the President recently told them the real threat was “climate change”, not an economy that is not producing jobs, but in fact shedding them, keeping the rate of unemployment unchanged for years.

There is a point when one must ask if this is deliberate and not just the result of bad domestic policies. If the answer is yes, then Americans have real cause to fear the President and the prospect of living in a surveillance state where everything they communicate and everyone with whom they communicate can be identified.

There are those raising warnings about the direction in which the nation is going, but unless there are demonstrations by Americans that want to see an end to these laws and trends, the progress toward tyranny will continue.

Marches are being planned for Washington, D.C., and they may hold the key to the future before America becomes a totalitarian nightmare.

© Alan Caruba, 2013

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Demonizing Masculinity ... J. D. Longstreet

Demonizing Masculinity
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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Whatever happened to real men?  If that question leaves you a little stunned, a little off balance, a little peeved, a tad amused, or even a little angry, then I MAY have made my point, already! 

Our 21st century American society is so screwed-up today that, honestly, I don't think we even know what a REAL man is anymore.

Today we have at least three kinds of males:  heterosexual, homosexual, and metrosexual.

I think we understand the first two well enough, at least, for the purposes of this "diatribe." So, let's look at the metrosexual because I fear that is the genus of males that is really screwing up the world view of what a REAL man is these days.

When you "Google" metrosexual the following seems to be the agreed upon definition, at least on the Internet:

"Metrosexual is a neologism, derived from metropolitan and heterosexual, coined in 1994 describing a man (especially one living in an urban, post-industrial, capitalist culture) who is especially meticulous about his grooming and appearance, typically spending a significant amount of time and money on shopping as part of this. The term is popularly thought to contrast heterosexuals who adopt fashions and lifestyles stereotypically associated with homosexuals, although, by the definition given by the originator, a metrosexual "might be officially gay, straight or bisexual."

For a shining example of a metrosexual male one only has to look as far as the Oval Office of the White House today. At least that is my opinion. 

It is also my opinion that metrosexuals are not much use to anyone. They are sort of like drones -- except LESS useful.

It is also unfortunate, in my view, that they are able to, occasionally, aid in the reproduction of another human being with a roughly fifty-fifty chance of producing another male who, after years of instruction and indoctrination, will become another adult metrosexual male further reducing the role of contributing males in American society and intensifying the weak strain of masculine DNA in the approximately three billion chemical base pairs of the American genome.

It is said that today women do not want real men as mates.  What they really want is another sensitive female for a "husband."  Enter -- the metrosexual. 

Many blame the women's feminist movement for destroying men.  Feminists have taken the role of men upon themselves.  I must tell you as a man myself, women acting and sounding like men is not becoming, in the least, to me, anyway.

These ladies, er, women, will tell you they don't need men.  OK.  That's fine. But women of such a mind set should realize that men, sure as hell, don't need them, either.

Back when the movies actually had male actors who not only portrayed real men, and were, in fact, real men, real man roles were far more easily defined on screen and off.  This was also before the day of the feminist movement.

John Wayne was the supreme example of what being a real man looked like on screen.  Fortunately, according to those who knew him personally,  he was the same man off screen.  Then there was Gary Cooper, James Cagney, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Sean Connery, Charlton Heston,  Lee Marvin,   and a few others who wore their masculinity without apology.

Try coming up with a short list like that today.  I'm thinking Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck,  ..., ..., uh, gimme a few minutes.

Oh well, moving right along ...

Consider this from Wilbur Smith at the Daily Mail, a UK newspaper:

"The world has changed. Today, men are afraid to say what they think, to stand up for their beliefs, to fight for what has become an unfashionable cause. Women’s rights have been the great driver of so many social changes in the past 40 years. But what about men’s rights?

One of the worst inventions of the 20th century was political correctness.

It has forced a generation of males to keep their masculinity under wraps. It has made millions of men too timid to admit their true views about the world. It’s not fashionable to be a macho man today, is it?

Even the concept of a ‘hero’ is not politically correct. In this new climate of supposed equality, uniformity is to be treasured above the outstanding."  SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1376688/Wayne-Rooney-Whatever-happened-real-men.html#ixzz2ajftNzW6

Now a few words from an insightful lady at "Coffee Talk Mom." 

"What happened to the real men? The men who make decisions (leader), lock the doors at night (protector), check the oil in all of the cars (thinker). I have a feeling that we "do it all" moms are kicking ourselves in the butt! After all, our controlling natures have taken away the very essence of who men really are…What do you expect from your man? Maybe we need to be better with the quick communication skills men have."   SOURCE:  http://www.coffeetalkmom.com/my-blog/2011/09/whatever-happened-to-real-men.html

It seems humans need role models.  Boys need men to teach them how to be men, and not perpetual boys. And the real men role models just aren't there today.  Now, in 2013, you see,  we idolize wimps and sissies. 

Whatever happened to testosterone?   You know -- the hormone that gets things done!   Now we are cursed with a new ailment called "Low-T."   

I just read that the military is going to have to redesign its uniforms to fit the female form ... tucked in at the waist, let out at the buttocks.  There's goes the army.

The question is, I believe, what does all this mean for our country?  For the answer, simply look about you.  We are a nation in indisputable decline.  We are leaderless.  Our Congress is pathetic, our President is a metrosexual, our military has just been feminized, and we are preparing to elect a woman as the next President of  the United States. There is NO LIGHT at the end of the tunnel. 

I hear it referred to as the "New Normal" in America.  Believe me.  It's NOT NEW and it's NOT NORMAL!  What it is  -- is a perversion of the natural order.  (A normal society does not place its women in harm's way intentionally.  It is they who reproduce life and perpetuate the species.  A normal society protects them at all costs ... even when they don't want to be defended -- or think they don't.) It is an abberation.  It is an abberation that has already cost America its leadership role on the world stage and has us a fair distance down the slippery slope to becoming a third world country.

Real men would not have allowed placing women in combat roles in the US military.  But then, real men in positions of leadership in America would not have allowed the country to decline as it has.

Yeah, I'm old, and I am a romantic in the sense that I am idealistic and, some would say, unrealistic.  But I long for a return to the days when men were men -- and the women were glad of it.

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DC to Legalize Rape Soon? ... JB Williams

DC to Legalize Rape Soon

By JB Williams

jb.uspu@gmail.com

Once we decide to ignore the rule of constitutional law, we are a lawless society and no law on the books carries any weight at all. There is no such thing as “crime” once no one is obligated to abide by any law in a lawless society.

In a letter dated 30 July, 2013 and sent to congressional Republicans, almost a hundred top GOP donors call for House Republicans to immediately pass legislation legalizing illegal immigration. Their reasoning… “the current system is already allowing them to stay and so it makes sense to register them and bring them into the system.”

These morons have one thing right here, the current system is already allowing illegal aliens to stay. Of course, the current system is doing this in direct violation of our federal immigration and naturalization laws, making the system just as illegal as the illegal immigrants. We have a lawless government pandering for the illegal alien vote, that’s all.

In the letter, Cuban immigrant Carlos Gutierrez makes some astonishing statements, such as – “Doing nothing is de facto amnesty.” That’s exactly right… passing any form of amnesty for illegals or so-called immigration reform is a mere formality. The criminals running our illegal government have already established de facto amnesty for millions of illegal invaders by simply refusing to uphold and enforce existing immigration and naturalization laws.

Once again however, in doing so, they have become criminals themselves, traitors to the U.S. Constitution, to all legal American Citizens of the United States and violators of the rule of law. So, why bother writing anymore laws, since lawmakers clearly have no need to abide by or enforce our laws?

In the same letter, Gutierrez writes – “We need to take control of whom we let in our country and we need to make sure everybody plays by the same rules.” Wait, I thought this is exactly what we did when we ratified the 14^th Amendment and established our national immigration and naturalization laws…

Had our existing laws been enforced at any point over the last thirty-years, we would not be having this discussion over millions of illegal invaders on our soil today, nor would we need Obama’s DHS Gestapo to protect American Citizens from jihadists and MS-13 members allowed to live among us.

Yes, I realize that any opposition to insane anti-American public policy is an act of “racism” now. Never mind that I fully support LEGAL immigration and only oppose ILLEGAL migration and the ongoing massive exploitation of every American taxpayer forced to pick up the tab for our government’s illegal activities.

By opposing illegal immigration, just as I oppose illegal bank withdrawals (bank robbery) and illegal sex (rape), I’m sure it will only take milliseconds for some totally indoctrinated moron to call me a racist for my comments here.

It’s worth noting that Cuban Carlos Gutierrez was entrusted to anchor the Hispanic vote for Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential race, a race in which Gutierrez was only able to deliver 27% of the Hispanic vote, compared to Obama’s 71% Hispanic vote. It’s also worth noting that Carlos Gutierrez is head of APCO Worldwide, a Global Political Strategist firm.

Also signing Tuesday’s donor letter were Karl Rove and a number of ambassadors who served Mr. Bush, as well as former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, former Vice President Dan Quayle and several former governors. Note that these are all “former” one thing or another’s…

According to the Washington Times, the donor letter came the same day that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and 400 other businesses and umbrella groups fired off a letter to House leaders of both parties, urging them to pass something — though the business leaders did not specifically call for legalizing illegal immigrants.

A list of those 100 signers is made public by the New York Times so that American consumers and ICE agents know which businesses are pushing Republicans to join Democrats in the utter destruction of our once great Constitutional Republic. Wonder how many of the 400 businesses already employ illegal aliens illegally?

The subject is not at all complicated… Not arresting someone for robbing banks is de facto amnesty for all bank robbers. If we don’t enforce our laws against rape, that is de facto amnesty for all rapists. Murder is okay too, so long as the murder is committed by the mother during the first nine months of a child’s life. We are already a lawless society and nobody ignores the law more than lawmakers themselves.

Many Americans seem to get it though, judging from the comments regarding the RNC RICH FAT CAT letter. Let’s be clear here, people like this are NOT GOP members, they are only RNC donors. The RNC (Republican National Committee) agenda has not represented the GOP base since Reagan.

Karen posted this comment – “And as long as Holder allows them

to keep coming here illegally, while American taxpayers pay for their free stuff, they will keep coming.” Indeed, lawlessness leads only to more lawlessness.

Another comment reads – “I always wonder why they support criminals? Just because someone breaks our laws and gets away with it for a few years is no reason for them to get to the front of the line. Deport them and let them apply to come back.” Maybe it’s because our politicians are criminals too and birds of a feather…

Why not issue a Presidential Medal of Honor to rapists, thieves and white collar criminals? I mean, if we are trying to destroy the entire legal system and social fabric of the United States, why not go all the way with it?

The bottom line here folks is that we are a nation in control of our own destiny, which requires control of our own borders, or we are a nation living under the dictatorship of a few white collar criminals in Washington DC and their rich fat cat friends.

The RNC has not represented the GOP since the Reagan era. Today’s Democrat Party is controlled by Democratic Socialists like Barak Obama, Hillary Clinton and their entire Federal Cabal. But today’s GOP finds itself under the dictatorship of the Republican National Committee which is funded and run by foreign fat cats like Gutierrez and Ivy League indoctrinated morons like Spencer Abraham, both of whom are thoroughbred Globalists.

People like this have no business being in positions of public power in the United States. They belong in the private sector doing what they do best, making money and creating private sector jobs. In the public arena, they can be just as disastrous as the Democratic Socialists running Washington DC today.

You bet we have a problem… an aging American population ready to collect the social benefits they have paid into all their lives and a dwindling reproduction rate of less and less productive citizens who feel entitled to the American Dream without any input or sacrifices of their own. 50 million murdered Natural Born American Citizens via “women’s rights” (aka abortion) over the last fifty-years has left America about 50 million taxpayers short of footing the bill, after Washington DC criminals raided the public trusts.

But who in Washington DC represents Americans today?

Washington DC politicians obviously represent the 6.3% of people who invaded our country illegally and started mooching off of American taxpayers. But who represents the other 93.7% who were born here or came here legally, live by our laws and respect our language and culture?

If you want to know how this happened it’s quite simple. Alinsky Marxists took over the Democrat Party decades ago. Left-leaning RINOs were allowed to seize control of the Republican Party years ago. None of them represent American interests now, but at the end of the day, the American people are to blame.

Instead of letting criminals take over both parties and our federal government, we should have thrown the bums out on arrival. Instead, as the parties and the nation drifted farther and farther left, the American people packed their bags and handed the keys over in search of a new political home, which they have yet to find.

That’s what makes this comment the most frightening of all…

“Here Here! The Republicans are DEAD...long live Libertarians.”

If this were true, then the country would be finished as today’s libertarian movement appeals to less than 15% of the population and for pretty good reasons. As of the most recent surveys, only 24% now call themselves Republicans, 34% Democrats and 41% Independents. But only a tiny fraction of those independents identify with the modern libertarian movement.

Turncoats like Marco Rubio, John Boehner and John McCain are responsible for the death spiral of the Republican Party. But the people who left their party in the hands of folks like this are equally responsible.

If the people cannot stop these people from destroying American sovereignty and security on the immigration issue, they cannot stop these people from creating a totally lawless society and soon, even rape will be legal in America.

At what point will American Citizens stop the lawlessness of their alleged leaders?

 JB Williams

Co-Founder
www.PatriotsUnion.org
www.VeteranDefenders.org
www.ThePatriotsNews.com

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JB Williams is a writer on matters of history and American politics with more than 3000 pieces published over a twenty-year span. He has a decidedly conservative reverence for the Charters of Freedom, the men and women who have paid the price of freedom and liberty for all, and action oriented real-time solutions for modern challenges. He is a Christian, a husband, a father, a researcher, writer and a business owner. He is co-founder of action organizations The United States Patriots Union, a civilian parent organization for The Veteran Defenders of America. He is also co-founder of The North American Law Center, a citizen run investigative legal research and activism organization preparing to take on American's greatest legal battles. Williams receives mail at: jb.uspu@gmail.com