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Mark Levin's 'Rediscovering Americanism'
by David Limbaugh
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Hate-Monger Maxine Waters Warns
President Trump – “I’m Coming For You”
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ If it weren’t for tired cliché’s Maxine Waters would be forced to campaign by standing in front of her audience and allowing them to simply admire her beauty and her shiny orange hair, not necessarily a winning strategy... But with cliché’s she can remember her lines and her feeble minded attendees can follow along and whip themselves up into a frenzy. Waters tells the assembled geniuses, “I’ve decided to take the gloves off, to put my career on the line.” Please don’t take anything else off, Maxine, your “hair” especially, we don’t want to know what’s under that James Brown special. She makes the announcement that would terrify any man, saying, “Donald Trump, I’m coming for you.” That desperate freak’s not going to try to grab him, is she?...Big mouth Water is a idiot. http://rickwells.us/hate-monger-maxine-waters-warns-president-trump-coming/
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The Difference Between Being Wrong and a Liar
by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ As the Supreme Court noted in the landmark libel case Times v. Sullivan, the First Amendment is of little use unless we provide “breathing space” for controversial reports that end up containing unintentional mistakes—like the CNN story... as long as they’re made without malice. As I’ve written before, journalistic errors aren’t a modern thing caused by the 24-hour news cycle or stimulated by Twitter’s itchy trigger-fingers. Show me a famous set of historical stories—the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the Normandy invasion, the Cold War, the civil rights struggle, the 9/11 attacks or the day-to-day coverage of past presidents, and I’ll show you grievous errors in the reporting. From Tucson to Abbottabad to Mumbai, breaking news routinely tosses off condemnable errors of fact, usually made by conscientious reporters doing their best under intense pressure. Malice is the key word. Everyone makes mistakes. No one is perfect. But there's a big difference between mistakes and motivated lying. The difference is good faith. It's ethics and integrity... http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267153/difference-between-being-wrong-and-liar-daniel-greenfield.
The Freedom Center Beats
the Southern Poverty Law Center
by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ The left has a problem. Americans are doing all the wrong things. They’re voting for Republicans, reading conservative sites and donating to conservative organizations... Something needs to be done about it. Something is being done. Post a conservative story on Facebook or search for it on Google and out pops Snopes, a partisan site, to warn you of wrong thinking. And, until recently, when you searched for a conservative organization on Guidestar, out popped the Southern Poverty Law Center to accuse you and it of being deplorable bigots. The Southern Poverty Law Center and Snopes are left-wing partisan groups with no qualifications to do anything except hate conservatives. The SPLC’s list of hate groups includes numerous individuals, including me, also listed until recently as a hate group was a sign outside a Pennsylvania bar... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267147/freedom-center-beats-southern-poverty-law-center-daniel-greenfield
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Does Fewer Insured Lead to Early Deaths?
{americanlibertyreport.com} ~ You’ve seen the reports. The liberal media is full of claims that the GOP’s new healthcare plan will leave millions uninsured. This plan is so bad that it will literally kill Americans... While you already know that this is hyperbole at its worst, we should still take a minute to really think about the consequences of a new healthcare plan. The failure to do so last time left us with the current liar-nObamacare mess, and we should hold ourselves to a higher standard. So, let’s assume the worst and that the GOP plan really will slash insurance rates. Does that hold the deadly consequences we’re being told to expect? You won’t be surprised to see that the left is wrong again, but you might be surprised about why... http://www.americanlibertyreport.com/articles/does-fewer-insured-lead-to-early-deaths/
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With Iran’s Profile Rising,
Saudi Arabia Must Unite with U.S. on Terror
by Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret.)
{aim.org} ~ In a Middle East country where terrorist attacks by suicide bombers are rare, Saudi Arabia suffered such an attack on June 23rd. Both target and timing were significant... The target was Islam’s holiest site – the Grand Mosque in Makkah; the timing was the last day of Ramadan, when attendance was unusually high as hundreds of thousands of worshipers gathered for afternoon prayers. The good news was Saudi security, learning in advance of the planned attack, arrested five suspects. Closing in on the bomber forced him to detonate his explosives prematurely. The bad news was six foreign pilgrims were wounded... http://www.aim.org/guest-column/with-irans-profile-rising-saudi-arabia-must-unite-with-u-s-on-terror/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Jun-30-2017&utm_medium=email
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by David Limbaugh
Mark Levin's 'Rediscovering Americanism'
by David Limbaugh
{wnd.com} ~ My friend Mark Levin is nothing if not a patriot of the first order. He loves the United States and its founding principles – and his latest book, “Rediscovering Americanism,” explains his passion and encourages ours.
Levin believes that America’s greatness lies in its unique founding ideals and correctly observes – and documents – how far we’ve strayed from those principles and the structure of government they inspired.
In his other books, Levin has outlined the problems confronting us and proposed solutions, but in this book, he takes a deeper look into the framers’ vision and examines the anatomy and historical development of the pernicious progressive mindset that has systematically chipped away at our governmental structure and our liberties.
This book is remarkable in its simultaneous succinctness and thoroughness. It’s hard to fathom how Levin could have adeptly covered so much important, relevant material in a relatively short book. But he did.
Why would Levin take us on this historical tour of our nation’s competing political and philosophical ideas? Haven’t we moved beyond such considerations in the modern age, with the federal government micromanaging so many aspects of our lives? Do these lofty notions even matter anymore in our modern era of short attention spans, sound bites and our endless obsession with daily polling? Why contemplate the proper role of government when our ruling class rarely concerns itself with preserving our liberties, when the Washington establishment rarely focuses on whether government has the authority to act but fights instead over the most efficient way it should act?
The answer is that Levin understands that our belief and confidence in our founding principles and our steadfast commitment to them are essential to preserving our individual liberties, our prosperity and our national uniqueness and greatness. In Levin’s words, “philosophy and practical politics are linked and, therefore, have a real effect on the life of the individual.” As our history has increasingly demonstrated, we cannot preserve our constitutional structure – and thus our liberties and the rest – if we do not understand and embrace its necessity. For our failure to grasp that truth has resulted in the steady erosion of the system built on it.
Levin is convinced that unless we have a national reawakening of the indispensability of our first principles, we will continue our march toward statism and squander the blessings bestowed on us by our visionary ancestors. “What will (future generations) say about us?” he asks. “Will they say that we were a wise and conscientious people who understood and appreciated the blessings of our existence and surroundings and prudentially and conscientiously cared for them; or will they say we were a self-indulgent and inattentive people, easily shepherded in one direction or another, who stole the future from our own children and generations yet born, and squandered an irreplaceable heritage?”
In other words, our remarkable system of government, despite its brilliance, is not self-sustaining. An intellectually lazy and spiritually negligent body politic will not nurture and care for this gift, and it will continue to descend by incremental steps into tyranny beyond the point of redemption.
By reintroducing us to our founding ideas and their importance, Levin is both sounding an alarm over the threats that imperil us and calling on us to man our battle stations by first understanding the gravity of our predicament and then arming ourselves with a true understanding of our national uniqueness.
In Chapter 1, Levin unpacks the concept of natural law (and natural rights) – “the foundational principle at the core of American society.” This principle “permeated American thought from the beginning of our republic and well before.”
As clearly and firmly reflected in the Declaration of Independence, all men are created equal by God and have certain unalienable rights. These rights are universal to all men and are divine and spiritual in origin – not government constructs – and thus no government has the right to deny them. Levin shows further the importance of the rule of law, the mutual dependence between private property and freedom, and the interrelationship between economic liberty and political liberty.
The framers designed our system to preserve these rights (and liberties), thus crafting a constitution that empowered and limited government – with those powers and limitations each designed to achieve the overarching goal of establishing and preserving our individual liberties. The framers understood that mankind is imperfect and that a government led by imperfect people would, unless checked, tyrannize citizens and swallow their liberties.
Progressives, on the other hand, believe that mankind is perfectible and that centralized government is the means to achieving this social engineering, and they have been working steadily toward that goal in America for more than a century.
Whereas our framers ardently believed that mankind’s natural rights are transcendent and that the principles they enshrined in the Constitution are also timeless, progressives have always been convinced that our founding principles and documents were applicable only to their unique historical setting and that our system must constantly evolve to accommodate the changing times.
The tragic irony is that our short national history has vindicated the framers and exposed the folly of the progressives, who are still in denial that their arrogant attempts to engineer human perfection through expansive government – particularly the runaway administrative state – have resulted in a stunning erosion of our liberties.
Unless we dismantle the federal leviathan and its suffocating bureaucracy, we’ll slide ever further – and irreversibly – into tyranny. Unless we “rediscover” our “Americanism,” we can’t conceivably resurrect and sustain our liberties.
Levin believes that America’s greatness lies in its unique founding ideals and correctly observes – and documents – how far we’ve strayed from those principles and the structure of government they inspired.
In his other books, Levin has outlined the problems confronting us and proposed solutions, but in this book, he takes a deeper look into the framers’ vision and examines the anatomy and historical development of the pernicious progressive mindset that has systematically chipped away at our governmental structure and our liberties.
This book is remarkable in its simultaneous succinctness and thoroughness. It’s hard to fathom how Levin could have adeptly covered so much important, relevant material in a relatively short book. But he did.
Why would Levin take us on this historical tour of our nation’s competing political and philosophical ideas? Haven’t we moved beyond such considerations in the modern age, with the federal government micromanaging so many aspects of our lives? Do these lofty notions even matter anymore in our modern era of short attention spans, sound bites and our endless obsession with daily polling? Why contemplate the proper role of government when our ruling class rarely concerns itself with preserving our liberties, when the Washington establishment rarely focuses on whether government has the authority to act but fights instead over the most efficient way it should act?
The answer is that Levin understands that our belief and confidence in our founding principles and our steadfast commitment to them are essential to preserving our individual liberties, our prosperity and our national uniqueness and greatness. In Levin’s words, “philosophy and practical politics are linked and, therefore, have a real effect on the life of the individual.” As our history has increasingly demonstrated, we cannot preserve our constitutional structure – and thus our liberties and the rest – if we do not understand and embrace its necessity. For our failure to grasp that truth has resulted in the steady erosion of the system built on it.
Levin is convinced that unless we have a national reawakening of the indispensability of our first principles, we will continue our march toward statism and squander the blessings bestowed on us by our visionary ancestors. “What will (future generations) say about us?” he asks. “Will they say that we were a wise and conscientious people who understood and appreciated the blessings of our existence and surroundings and prudentially and conscientiously cared for them; or will they say we were a self-indulgent and inattentive people, easily shepherded in one direction or another, who stole the future from our own children and generations yet born, and squandered an irreplaceable heritage?”
In other words, our remarkable system of government, despite its brilliance, is not self-sustaining. An intellectually lazy and spiritually negligent body politic will not nurture and care for this gift, and it will continue to descend by incremental steps into tyranny beyond the point of redemption.
By reintroducing us to our founding ideas and their importance, Levin is both sounding an alarm over the threats that imperil us and calling on us to man our battle stations by first understanding the gravity of our predicament and then arming ourselves with a true understanding of our national uniqueness.
In Chapter 1, Levin unpacks the concept of natural law (and natural rights) – “the foundational principle at the core of American society.” This principle “permeated American thought from the beginning of our republic and well before.”
As clearly and firmly reflected in the Declaration of Independence, all men are created equal by God and have certain unalienable rights. These rights are universal to all men and are divine and spiritual in origin – not government constructs – and thus no government has the right to deny them. Levin shows further the importance of the rule of law, the mutual dependence between private property and freedom, and the interrelationship between economic liberty and political liberty.
The framers designed our system to preserve these rights (and liberties), thus crafting a constitution that empowered and limited government – with those powers and limitations each designed to achieve the overarching goal of establishing and preserving our individual liberties. The framers understood that mankind is imperfect and that a government led by imperfect people would, unless checked, tyrannize citizens and swallow their liberties.
Progressives, on the other hand, believe that mankind is perfectible and that centralized government is the means to achieving this social engineering, and they have been working steadily toward that goal in America for more than a century.
Whereas our framers ardently believed that mankind’s natural rights are transcendent and that the principles they enshrined in the Constitution are also timeless, progressives have always been convinced that our founding principles and documents were applicable only to their unique historical setting and that our system must constantly evolve to accommodate the changing times.
The tragic irony is that our short national history has vindicated the framers and exposed the folly of the progressives, who are still in denial that their arrogant attempts to engineer human perfection through expansive government – particularly the runaway administrative state – have resulted in a stunning erosion of our liberties.
Unless we dismantle the federal leviathan and its suffocating bureaucracy, we’ll slide ever further – and irreversibly – into tyranny. Unless we “rediscover” our “Americanism,” we can’t conceivably resurrect and sustain our liberties.
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