Democrats Want to Raise Spending on Everything but Defense

A recent poll by Pew Research was intended to highlight the differences between mainstream Republicans and Tea Party Republicans.  While it achieved minor success at doing that, it also pointed out something far more significant — the Democrats still do not “get” the fact that the United States federal government is spending the nation into poverty.

In the survey, those who represent themselves as Democrats or as leaning towards the Democratic Party supported spending increases by the federal government in these areas:

• Education
• Public school systems
• College financial aid
• Agriculture
• Medicare
• Social security
• Energy
• Combating crime
• Health care
• Environmental protection
• Aid to needy in the U.S.
• Scientific research
• Aid to world’s needy
• Unemployment aid
• Roads and transportation
• Terrorism defense
• Veterans benefits

The only category of federal spending which the Democrats feel we don’t need to increase is military defense, and even that was only by a difference of 9 percentage points.  That’s barely more than a tie.

I have no idea where these children think that the federal government gets the trillions of dollars it spends. Benjamin Franklin wrote, “It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income.” I cannot imagine trying to explain the myriad of federal, state, and local taxes under which we currently suffer to the venerable Mr. Franklin.

Thomas Jefferson, the author of our Constitution, provided excellent guidance for federal spending, “The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.” We were not even allowed to read the recent health care “reform” act before it was passed into law.

The solution is clear — Ronald Reagan explained it in back in 1982: “We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.” This is a lesson which the American people — including those Democrats among us — must learn.

Egyptians Hate America and Want Islamic Rule

In July of last year, the University of Maryland commissioned Zogby to poll the people of Egypt. Here are a few of their findings:

• 85% of Egyptians hold an unfavorable attitude toward the U.S.
• 87% of Egyptians have no confidence in the U.S.
• 92% of Egyptians believe the U.S. is one of two nations that is the greatest threat to them (the other nation the Egyptian people hate is Israel)
• 52% of Egyptians hold an unfavorable opinion of American people
• 65% of Egyptians believe that Islamic clergy must play a greater role in the Egyptian political system
• 79% of Egyptians believe that it would be positive if Iran is able to acquire nuclear weapons

The Zogby poll results back up a similar project conducted by Pew in April and May of last year.  Among Egyptian Muslims polled, 85% felt that Islam’s role in politics was a positive one.  In a struggle between modernizers and Islamist fundamentalists, 59% of Egyptians who foresaw such a conflict stated they would side with the Islamists, while only 27% stated that they would side with the modernizers.

Another Pew poll last June revealed that only 17% of Egyptians hold a favorable view of the United States, while 20% hold a favorable view of suicide bombing.  Yes dear readers, Egyptians like suicide bombing more than they like you.

Pew also revealed that 82% of Egyptian Muslims support stoning human beings to death for having sex outside of marriage and that  77% of Egyptian Muslims support public whippings and cutting people’s hands off for theft.  In addition, a terrifying 84% of Egyptian Muslims support the death penalty for anyone who has the good sense to leave the religion of Islam.

As much as we may not like Hosni Mubarak, there are many worse people who could be in power in Egypt — and they are very likely to be in power before the end of the year.   We would all like to believe that the protesters in the streets of Egypt are all fighting for freedom — but that is not what they say about themselves.  By their own admission, they prefer Islamic fundamentalism to modern civilization by more than 2 to 1.  They don’t want a modern democracy; they do want to murder people for having sex outside of marriage.  They don’t want freedom of religion — in fact 84% of them want to establish the death penalty for it.

What does this sound like?  It sounds a whole lot like Iran in 1979.  Westerners with common sense should be leaving Egypt as quickly as possible, with no plans to ever return. We would like to hope for the best, but we must plan for the worst.

14yr Old Rape Victim Beaten to Death by Islamic Court

Hena Begum was a fourteen year old girl growing up in the Shariatpur region of Bangladesh until her forty year old cousin decided to rape her.

After she was raped, the rapist and his family then beat her until she was unconscious.

Next, the local Sharia (Islamic) courts ruled that yound Hena should receive 101 lashes for the crime of adultery — for the crime of being a child raped by an adult.

The Muslim clerics took the young girl, who still could not stand on her own, to a public square and proceeded to deliver the 101 lashes. After receiving 80 lashes, young Hena collapsed. Her family was allowed to take her to a hospital where she died from her wounds.

The child’s father, Dorbesh Khan, was also ordered to pay a fine equal to approximately $700 USD — quite a considerable sum in a nation which is suffering under the poverty which almost inevitably results from Islamic rule.

The rapist, Mahbub Khan, had been previously convicted of rape and sentenced to marry his rape victim. The rape victim from that encounter was one of the family members who helped beat young Hena unconscious before her “trial.” Mahbub has since disappeared in order to avoid punishment for this more recent rape.

What sort of people would beat a fourteen year old girl to death in a public square — and call it justice? This is not the sort of religious tolerance that I as a moral human being am willing to accept.

Sentence in Afshan Azad Torture Sends Unclear Message

A British court sentenced Ashraf Azad to only six months in jail for torturing his sister for three hours and threatening to murder her.

Afshan Azad, the young British actress who played Padma Patil in the “Harry Potter” movies, was beaten and tortured in London because she was caught talking to a Hindu boy.

Her brother Ashraf called her a prostitute and screamed “Marry a Muslim or you die!’” and “I’m going to kill you. I’m actually going to kill you” while punching, strangling, and dragging his young sister by her hair.

Judge Roger Thomas stated “This is a sentence that is designed to punish you for what you did and also to send out a clear message to others that domestic violence involving circumstances such as have arisen here cannot be tolerated.” Unfortunately, Judge Thomas is completely incorrect. Six months is far too lenient a sentence to send a clear message. Islam is the fastest growing religion in Western prisons, precisely because it encourages violence towards women. Ashraf will spend a short six months as a celebrity in prison and will then be released to continue to prey upon defenseless women.

Even worse, Afshan’s mother and father have not been charged — even though neither came to her aid or called police to stop the torture. Instead, they joined in by calling her names, threatening her, and stating that they would sell her into an arranged marriage in Bangladesh.

The trial of Faleh Hassan Almaleki begins in Arizona on Monday. Faleh is another Muslim man who murdered his daughter because she was becoming too “Westernized.” Let’s hope that the American courts can send a clear message where the British courts have failed to do so.

Obama Birth Certificate Cover-Up Continues

Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie’s efforts to have Barack Obama’s birth certificate made public have failed.

State Attorney General David Louie states “There is nothing more that Governor Abercrombie can do within the law to produce a document.”

The Obama administration continues to refuse to authorize the release of his birth certificate. The Obama campaign did release a certificate of live birth, which is a non-legal document. It was a computer printout, not an official birth certificate.

It would only take a few minutes for Obama to authorize the release of his birth certificate. Obviously there is some sort of cover-up occurring here.

Normal Americans must submit to drug tests and background checks for government jobs. What makes Obama special? Why does the U.S. Constitution not apply to him?

The United States Constitution Will Not Disappear

Speaking recently on NBC’s Meet the Press, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stated “The Tea Party will disappear when the economy gets better and the economy’s getting better all the time.” Separate from the fact that Senator Reid’s statement on the economy is a complete fabrication, Mr. Reid misses the point of the tea party movement entirely.

The tea party movement is not simply a reaction to the Democrats driving the American economy into the ground with a trillion dollars of kickbacks to their union supporters, combined with more new government regulation than we have suffered under since Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society.”

The right of every American to choose how to spend their own money is just one of the rights upon which the United States government is trampling. The Congress has been passing laws for decades with absolutely no concern for their Constitutionality — and the courts have not been stopping them. Jefferson’s delicate system of checks and balances has been subverted by judicial activism. Jefferson himself foresaw this. He wrote, “The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.”

Harry Reid and his band of criminals believe themselves to be above the law. The Constitution is the highest law of the land and they believe that their wishes are more important than the Constitution. The tea party will not disappear until people like Mr. Reid are thrown out of government and replaced with Americans who believe in the rule of law — not the rule of men.

In considering his political future, Mr. Reid would do well to re-examine the Tea Party Principles:

• Fiscal responsibility
• Lower taxes
• Less government
• States rights
• National security

Improving each of these items will improve the national economy, but an improving economy will not make the tea party irrelevant. The tea party will never be irrelevant as long as Mr. Reid has a job in the United States government.