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President Obama - Gas Prices Fulfilled

Written by Lee Anderson
Friday, 29 April 2011 21:59
February 2009. The National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission said that raising gasoline taxes and taxing miles driven instead of gallons are the only viable ways to get the tattered U.S. road and transit system back on track. Findings by the Commission included that Americans are driving less and switching to more fuel-efficient vehicles, reducing gas-tax revenues. In response, President Obama urged the country to boldly confront challenges and take responsibility for the future - like in this video. All you need to do is trade your cars for trains. (Note that he wants $60bb to fund mass transit and plans to fund it by ending military action in Iraq and Afghanistan.) If you won’t act responsibly, then gas prices will have to be adjusted upward as stated in this interview. Also, the President’s Cap and Trade approach, found here, states that he intends to restrict new sources of energy to raise rates. Fast forward to today, April 2011. $6/gallon gas is becoming the norm. Remember to thank President Obama. He’s only looking out for you. Comment on this article here.

UNsanity! Mother Earth to get Human Rights

Written by Lee Anderson
Thursday, 14 April 2011 03:40
Coming to a United Nations resolution shortly - a treaty giving "Mother Earth" the same rights as humans. No, you did not misread that. And no, I am not joking. Bolivia this month will draft and submit a treaty that aims to have the UN recognize the Earth as a living entity that humans have sought to "dominate and exploit" — to the point that the "well-being and existence of many beings" is now threatened. The wording may yet evolve, but the general structure is meant to mirror Bolivia's Law of the Rights of Mother Earth, which Bolivian President Evo Morales enacted in January; this is a domestic law that gives bugs, trees, and all other natural things in the South American country explicit rights. The UN treaty would define natural resources as "blessings," and grant the Earth a series of specific rights that include rights to life, water and clean air; the right to repair livelihoods affected by human activities; and the right to be free from pollution. As the UN has a track record of not really acting, this treaty would change all that by establishing a Ministry of Mother Earth, providing the planet with an ombudsman whose job is to hear nature's complaints as voiced by activist and other groups, including the state. No word (yet) if Al Gore has a lock on the job. The UN debate begins two days before the UN's recognition April 22 of the second International Mother Earth Day — another Morales-led initiative - which supports the celebration of the 1992 Rio Declaration (the United States is a signatory who has not yet ratified they treaty). So why should you care about such gibberish? In 2008, Morales published 10 Commandments to Save the Planet: 1. We are obliged to end the capitalist system. 2. Renounce war as only the transnational corporations benefit. 3. Form a world without imperialism nor colonialism. 4. Avoid individual and national privatization of water resources. 5. Implement policies to impede the use of agro-fuels to avoid hunger. 6. Organize an international movement in defense of Mother Nature. 7. Basic services such as water, electricity, education or health need to be human rights. 8. Prioritize what we produce and consume and end consumerism, decadence, and luxury. 9. Promote the diversity of cultures and economies (i.e. interdependence). 10. Live well by promoting and improving socialism. Keep in mind that Bolivia is among one of the poorest and least developed countries in South America. In the 1980s, reforms spurred private investment, stimulated economic growth, and cut poverty rates. But a 2005 hydrocarbons law designed to reduce global warming imposed significantly higher royalties and required foreign firms to surrender all production to the state energy company; this caused significant price increases drove away foreign investment (CIA Fact Book). This begs the question - how is socialism working for Bolivia? Not so well. Yet, Bolivia wants to offer the same solution to the world under the guise of environmentalism. A common saying is that repeating the same mistake and expecting different results is insanity. Let's hope other countries see passing this treaty is UNsanity. Share your thoughts on ACNation.com.

The Non-essential Military--What next?

Written by Kenneth McClenton
Tuesday, 12 April 2011 00:00
On last night's The Exceptional Conservative Show, I had the honor and pleasure of interviewing Dr. Adam Dorin [http://www.adamdorin.com/About.html] on the debilitating tentacles of Obama-care on the future of the United States of America. Dr. Dorin earned his undergraduate pre-medical degree at the University of Maryland with magna cum laude honors. After four years of medical training at the University of Maryland-School of Medicine, Dr. Dorin completed his residency training in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. With a resume of this magnitude, most physicians would spend their lives toiling to pay-off their massive student loan debts and writing books to score long term residual income for retirement. However, Dr. Dorin chose a different route in order to express his love of country and desire to serve. Dr. Dorin joined the military. While at Hopkins, Dr. Dorin served as an officer in the United States Naval Reserve, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He joined the Navy in July of 1990. Like his father, he is proud to have served our country as a member of the armed forces. Dr. Dorin believed it essential to serve rather than to be served. Dr. Dorin is not unlike millions of soldiers that have come before him and will, for the sake of patriotism, follow. Love of country drives them to look beyond themselves to protect the rights and freedoms that we take for granted daily. They seek no spotlight and bemoan no grievance when there is a lack of support from home. Night and day pass. Rain and snow falls. Sunlight beams intolerably and moonlight seems endless. Yet, these men and women stand fast, loyal and true to their duties and Constitutional call. The least that any of us can do is honor them and treat them with the reverence due their commitment to this country and the Constitution. It is the least. According to the Bureau of Labor, the Federal Government's essential duties include defending the United States from foreign aggression, representing U.S. interests abroad, crating and enforcing national laws and regulations, and administering domestic programs and agencies. However, our Commander-In-Chief Barack Obama deemed his military as "non-essential" [http://biggovernment.com/...down-t...]. While many have sought to cast blame upon John Boehner for not allowing the government to close, none seem to shine a light upon the most reprehensible action taken by a US Commander-in-Chief in our history. He literally threw the US Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Army, the Merchant Marines and the Coast Guard under the bus in one swipe. The same man threw his grandmother under the bus when the political light availed [http://www.dailymotion.com/...white-person_...]. The same man threw his spiritual father under the bus [http://www.americanthinker.com/...under_ob]. Rick Moran writes, "Reverend Jeremiah Wright, friend and spiritual advisor for whom the candidate bravely stood up -- at first -- until Wright's performance at the National Press Club caused the candidate to open the door himself and push the old man under the wheels." No one is safe from the political ambitions of President Barack Obama. Certainly not the men and women of the armed armed services that received the support of President Ronald Reagan and President William Jefferson Clinton administrations when the threats and actual "shut downs" occurred. They never once thought of forgoing the pay of military personnel. They felt at most, a moral obligation, and at least, a reverence for the honor of serving this country in peacetime and war. Neither man served in the armed forces but neither would expose his men to wilds of the economic and political winds out of Washington, DC. You do not have to fly a bomber over Japan, fight back the Germans at the Battle of the Budge or Night Raid Al-queda in Afghanistan to know that these men and women are beyond the sport of Washington politics.
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Pat Boone on "A President Without a Country"

Written by Ed Koeder, Jr

Tuesday, 29 March 2011 15:32

By Pat Boone

"We're no longer a Christian nation." - President Barack Obama, June 2009

" America has been arrogant." - President BarackObama

"After 9/11, America didn't always live up to her ideals."- President Barack Obama

"You might say that America is a Muslim nation."- President Barack Obama, Egypt 2009

Thinking about these and other statements made by the man who wears the title of president, I keep wondering what country he believes he's president of.

In one of my very favorite stories, Edward Everett Hale's "The Man without a Country," a young Army lieutenant named Philip Nolan stands condemned for treason during the Revolutionary War, having come under the influence of Aaron Burr. When the judge asks him if he wishes to say anything before sentence is passed, young Nolan defiantly exclaims, "Damn the United States ! I wish I might never hear of the United States again!"

The stunned silence in the courtroom is palpable, pulsing. After a long pause, the judge soberly says to the angry lieutenant: "You have just pronounced your own sentence. You will never hear of the United States again.. I sentence you to spend the rest of your life at sea, on one or another of this country's naval vessels - under strict orders that no one will ever speak to you again about the country you have just cursed."

And so it was. Philip Nolan was taken away and spent the next 40 years at sea, never hearing anything but an occasional slip of the tongue about America. The last few pages of the story, recounting Nolan's dying hours in his small stateroom - now turned into a shrine to the country he fore swore - never fail to bring me to tears. And I find my own love for this dream, this miracle called America, refreshed and renewed. I know how blessed and unique we are.

But reading and hearing the audacious, shocking statements of the man who was recently elected our president - a young black man living the impossible dream of millions of young Americans, past and present, black and white - I want to ask him, "Just what country do you think you're president of?"

You surely can't be referring to the United States of America, can you? America is emphatically a Christian nation, and has been from its inception! Seventy percent of her citizens identify themselves as Christian. The Declaration of Independence and our Constitution were framed, written and ratified by Christians. It's because this was, and is, a nation built on and guided by Judeo-Christian biblical principles that you, sir, have had the inestimable privilege of being elected her president.

You studied law at Harvard, didn't you, sir? You taught constitutional law in Chicago? Did you not ever read the statement of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and an author of the landmark "Federalist Papers": "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers - and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation - to select and prefer Christians for their rulers"?

In your studies, you surely must have read the decision of the Supreme Court in 1892: "Our lives and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian."

Did your professors have you skip over all the high-court decisions right up till the mid 1900's that echoed and reinforced these views and intentions? Did you pick up the history of American jurisprudence only in 1947, when for the first time a phrase coined by Thomas Jefferson about a "wall of separation between church and state" was used to deny some specific religious expression - contrary to Jefferson's intent with that statement?

Or, wait a minute: were your ideas about America's Christianity formed during the 20 years you were a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ under your pastor, Jeremiah Wright? Is that where you got the idea that "America is no longer a Christian nation"? Is this where you, even as you came to call yourself a Christian, formed the belief that "America has been arrogant"?

Even if that's the understandable explanation of your damning of your country and accusing the whole nation (not just a few military officials trying their best to keep more Americans from being murdered by jihadists) of "not always living up to her ideals," how did you come up with the ridiculous, alarming notion that we might be "considered a Muslim nation"?

Is it because there are some 2 million or more Muslims living here, trying to be good Americans? Out of a current population of over 300 million, 70 percent of whom are Christians? Does that make us, by any rational definition, a "Muslim nation"?

Why are we not, then, a "Chinese nation"? A "Korean nation"? Even a "Vietnamese nation"? There are even more of these distinct groups in America than Muslims. And if the distinction you're trying to make is a religious one, why is America not "a Jewish nation"? There's actually a case to be made for the latter, because our Constitution - and the success of our Revolution and founding - owe a deep debt to our Jewish brothers.

Have you stopped to think what an actual Muslim America would be like? Have you ever really spent much time in Iran? Even in Egypt? You, having been instructed in Islam as a kid at a Muslim school in Indonesia and saying you still love the call to evening prayers, can surely picture our nation founded on the Quran, not the Judeo-Christian Bible, and living under Shariah law. Can't you? You do recall Muhammad's directives [Surah 9:5,73] to "break the cross" and "kill the infidel"?

It seems increasingly and painfully obvious that you are more influenced by your upbringing and questionable education than most suspected. If you consider yourself the president of a people who are "no longer Christian," who have "failed to live up to our ideals," who "have been arrogant," and might even be "considered Muslim" - you are president of a country most Americans don't recognize.

Could it be you are a president without a country?

College Student's Guide to Conservativism

Written by Allan Poteshman

Tuesday, 29 March 2011 15:25

I want to talk about college life, especially what college life is like for conservatives. As a conservative at a liberal institution I have found life is very difficult for us conservatives, we aren’t very vocal, we don’t bash the other side publicly, we keep to ourselves, but should our real opinions slip… we become pariahs. This is the state of affairs in the American college. So what should we all do to try to maintain our conservatism and still be accepted by our peers as well as maintaining our grades.

One easy thing to do is find the conservative groups in your school, be weary of groups that may be to wedded to a particular personality or candidate, look instead for more independent groups. Attend political protests in your area. Protests are a big place for conservative teens to “come out of the conservative closet” so to speak. You will be surprised how many of your peers you will find and protests.

Finally one big step is to find out who your conservative teachers are. This is not always easy, and conservatives usually won’t tell you out-right, as that would jeopardize their position. So there are a few questions you could ask. One question is what is your perspective on the federalist papers? If they actually read them, they are far more well-read than the average professor. If they say they agree or like them and have a positive response, you will find common ground with this professor and let your true feelings be heard. However if it is an unfavorable response, you know that you are going to keep your mouth shut for interest of self-preservation.

There is tremendous irony in the fact that liberal professors who profess tolerance of all people, who are tolerant of all races, creeds, religions and so forth, can be so intolerant of their conservative students and neighbors. While at the same time the conservatives who they often see as the great evil, tend to be much more tolerant of their liberal students.
My call to you my friends in my same position, be vocal, but preserve yourself. It is not In your interest to suffer academically. Start clubs, find your safety zones, be politically active, but save it for outside of the class room.

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