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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 | Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Spiegel Online recently published a fascinating article, An American GI from Berlin, on Jeff Jamaleldine - a real American hero.
Jeff was born in Berlin and even participated in anti-American demonstrations as a teenager. But as Jeff grew up he came to appreciate freedom and respect those who make it possible.
Jeff moved to the United States to attend school and in 2005 he joined the United States Army.
Jeff is happily married and have two sons, Aron and David. Jeff says “How can I say to my sons, stand up for something, fight for what you think is right, if I don’t do anything myself?”
Jeff has been shot in battle twice. The first time he was hit in the chest, but his bullet resistant vest stopped the round from penetrating. On the next occasion, Jeff was not so lucky. He was hit in the chin with a rifle round and nearly killed. His chin had to be surgically rebuilt — a long and painful process.
In addition to his service in the U.S. Army, Jeff donates 10% of his Army pay every month to UNICEF.
Jeff Jamaleldine is a real American hero.
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 | Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on a resolution calling on Communist China to end its crackdown on Tibet and release thousands of Tibetans whom they had imprisoned for nonviolent political demonstrations.
The measure passed by a vote of 413 to 1.
The one dissenting vote was Congressman Ron Paul.
In the past, Congressman Paul also refused to condemn terror attacks against Israel.
One might come to the conclusion that Congressman Paul is simply against the American government supporting American outside of our strict borders.
However, this analysis fails completely when you consider that Paul voted to condemn terror attacks in Egypt and to tell the Romanian government how they should handle child welfare
What can we deduce from this bizarre voting pattern?
It appears that Ron Paul is completely fine with terrorists murdering Jews, but is opposed to terrorists murdering Egyptians.
It appears that Ron Paul is completely fine with telling Romanians how to raise their children, but is morally opposed to speaking up for the citizens of Tibet — whose country has been invaded and occupied by the brutal and totalitarian Chinese communists.
Ron Paul won’t speak a word to support freedom for the people of Tibet. This brings to mind a quote from Elie Wiesel:
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
And another from Dante Alighieri:
The hottest seats in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crises, choose to do nothing.
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 | Posted in Politics | No Comments »
When the Independent Voters of Illinois (IVI) asked Barack Obama if he supported a “ban [on] the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns” — he responded “yes.”
On the Illinois State Legislative National Political Awareness Test, Obama wrote that he wanted to “ban the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.”
Barack also personally told John Lott “I don’t believe that people should be able to own guns.”
In addition to all of these statements, Obama served as a board member for the Joyce Foundation, a virulently anti-freedom organization which funds front groups such as the Violence Policy Center (VPC) and Handgun Free America.
The Obama campaign is currently attempting to “spin” Obama’s previous statements to make him more acceptable to American voters. This involves both denying past statements and making new statements which directly conflict with past statements. Where I come from, we have a very clear term for such shenanigans: lying.
If Obama is elected, which Obama will rule as President? The Barack who has believed all his life that only the government should possess the right to self-defense, or the new Barack that his campaign has invented over the course of the last few months? Which Barack do you believe?
The American public school system has been overrun by liberals with no respect for the rights of parents or students.
The administrators of Copperas Cove High School recently suspended young Brandon Hill for accepting a telephone call from his father during class.
Let’s put aside for a moment the idea that no public school system should ever prevent a parent from contacting their child.
Brandon’s father, Master Sergeant Morris Hill, is currently deployed to Iraq. This phone call was one of the few times that Morris and Brandon have been able to talk.
How do the school officials express their respect for Master Sergeant Hill’s service to his country — they deny his child an education by suspending him from school.
Worse, school officials refused to even discuss the issue with Brandon’s mother Patricia until the national media became involved.
We Americans need to understand how terrible it is that we have abandoned our public school system to these leftist bureaucrats. Our children are being left at the mercy of people who have no respect for our children, for their parents, or for their nation.
We need some kind of accountability. These people need to be fired and replaced with educators who are capable of educating our children with respect for the children, their parents, and our nation.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the physician who fought the government on the topic of assisted suicide — and lost — is now running for Congress.
Dr. Kevorkian was imprisoned for eight years for the crime of helping willing but unable patients end their lives.
The doctor needs to collect 3,000 signatures in the next three months to get on the ballot. That alone could present a challenge for the 79 year old crusader.
Dr. Jack is a strong advocate of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He believes that the government does not have a legal or moral right to prevent people from ending their lives at a time of their own choosing.
In Dr. Jack’s own words, “Without rights, life isn’t worth living.” We could not agree more.
The next time you head to the polls, you might pause to remember what the penalties are for voting unwisely.
Here’s a quote from ‘Crackdown’ in Zimbabwe as Police Raid Hotels:
“He (Mugabe) ordered the often-violent seizures of white-owned commercial farms, ostensibly to return them to the landless black majority. Instead, Mugabe replaced a white elite with a black one, giving the farms to relatives, friends and cronies who allowed cultivated fields to be taken over by weeds.
Today, a third of the population depends on imported food handouts. Another third has fled the country and 80 percent is jobless. Inflation is the highest in the world at more than 100,000 percent and people suffer crippling shortages of food, water, electricity, fuel and medicine. Life expectancy has fallen from 60 to 35 years.”
Robert Mugabe is a collectivist and a statist. He believes that big government is the answer to all of a nations problem. He has devoted the last 28 years of his life to turning Zimbabwe into his vision of a collectivist paradise.
Next time you hear a U.S. politician offer to solve your problems with “free” help from the government, take a moment to consider the cost.
Shawn Sage has been a foster child since the age of two, and the State of California’s foster care system has recently found a new way to try to keep Shawn down.
Last October, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Marilyn Mackel denied Shawn request to join the United States Marine Corp.
As a 17yr old foster child, Shawn could not legally join the Marine Corps without the permission of this anti-American bureaucrat.
Shawn was trying to sign-up for the Marine Corps early enlistment program, which would have let him join the Marine Corps when he was 17 and report for duty when he turned 18. The early enlistment program would have meant a $10,000 signing bonus for Shawn.
Marine recruiter Sgt. Guillermo Medrano reported “The judge said she didn’t support the Iraq war for any reason we’re over there. She just said all recruiters were the same — that they ‘all tap dance and tell me what I want to hear.’ She said she didn’t want him to fight in it.”
Sage himself was quoted as saying “Foster children shouldn’t be denied [an] ability to enlist in the service just because they’re foster kids. Foster kids shouldn’t have to go to court to gain approval to serve one’s country.”
Shawn is working with California Assemblyman Cameron Smyth to get the law changed so that future generations of patriotic Californians cannot be harassed by leftist bureaucrats. State bill AB2238 will allow minors in California Foster Care to join the military with the permission of a foster parent or social worker.
Shawn plans to join the Marine Corps when he turns eighteen and frees himself from the California Foster Care system. Shawn says “I’m not going to benefit from this, because I will be 18 years old by then, but other foster children will benefit from it. I’m doing this so they won’t have to go through a lengthy court process like I did and just be denied their rights.”
Shawn Sage is a real American hero. He has struggled with adversity and not let it defeat him. He withstood the assault from Marilyn Mackel and took his struggle to the California legislature. His strength of character will benefit generations yet to come.
It’s not getting much press here in the U.S., but the backwards government of Belarus has imprisoned Aleksandr Sdvizhkov and set him to three years hard labor for the imagined crime of publishing cartoons containing drawings of Muhammad.
These cartoons originally appeared in the Jyllands-Posten in Denmark and sparked a global wave of riots, arson, and murder by militant Islamists.
After the cartoons were republished in Zgoda, Belarus’s totalitarian government shut down the newspaper and arrested Sdvizhkov. Sdvizhkov is now being held by the government and is allowed no communication with the outside world.
It is worrysome to see Islamist totalitarians and Communist totalitarians joining hands and closing ranks against freedom.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 | Posted in Politics | No Comments »
The mad mullah’s in Tehran have forcibly shut down nine magazines for… publishing stories and pictures of Western film stars. Thirteen other publications were also warned that they could be next if they fail to obey the dictates of their totalitarian government.
The move was accomplished by the “Press Supervisory Board” of Iran’s “Culture Ministry.”
The publications censored in this round were Baznegari, Talash, Be Sooy-e-Eftekhar, Donya-e-Tasvir, Haft, Havar, Neday-e-Iran, Shooka, and Sobh-e-Zendegi.
The Iranian regime has shut down more than a hundred newspapers in the last few years, imprisoning many of the writers and editors.
It’s a strange world that we live in when the Hollywood elite — Iran’s greatest supporters in America — are singled out for persecution by their allies.
