A MINORITY VIEW
BY WALTER WILLIAMS
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2009
Why did the founders of our nation give us the Bill of Rights? The answer is easy. They knew Congress could not be trusted with our God-given rights. Think about it. Why in the world would they have written the First Amendment prohibiting Congress from enacting any law that abridges freedom of speech and the press? The answer is that in the absence of such a limitation Congress would abridge free speech and free press. That same distrust of Congress explains the other amendments found in our Bill of Rights protecting rights such as our rights to property, fair trial and to bear arms. The Bill of Rights should serve as a constant reminder of the deep distrust that our founders had of government. They knew that some government was necessary but they rightfully saw government as the enemy of the people and they sought to limit government and provide us with protections...
The Constitution is meant to restrict the power, scope and reach of the federal government, not the individual!
Friday, July 31, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites
The Vancouver Sun
Geologist Ian Plimer takes a contrary view, arguing that man-made climate change is a con trick perpetuated by environmentalists
By Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun
July 28, 2009
Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.
Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and he may well be Australia's best-known and most notorious academic.
Plimer, you see, is an unremitting critic of "anthropogenic global warming" -- man-made climate change to you and me -- and the current environmental orthodoxy that if we change our polluting ways, global warming can be reversed...
Global warming/environmentalism is a religion, plain and simple! It's also one of the most vain beliefs a person can hold. To believe that our everyday living and prosperity is damaging/destroying this planet, when there are everyday examples of natural forces far more powerful and with far larger effects on this planet than anything done by humans throughout our time on this planet is pure arrogance and the height of vanity.
We are to be good stewards of the earths resources, but they are just that RESOURCES. They are here for us to use, yes use wisely, but use none the less. We should also not be worshiping CREATION, rather it's CREATOR! There's going to be a price we pay for how we conduct ourselves using these resources and how we carry on in these manners, but it's going to be having to answer to THE CREATOR for not following His instructions.
Number 1, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
Number 2, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."
Number 3, "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me..."
Now for the "elites" and "educated" amongst us I realize you're going to roll your eyes and view me as some sort of rube. All I can say is, try not to be such an arrogant elitist urban snob and be careful about going out in the the rain, you might drown with your nose turned up that much.
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Geologist Ian Plimer takes a contrary view, arguing that man-made climate change is a con trick perpetuated by environmentalists
By Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun
July 28, 2009
Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine of global warming, and he seems to relish the damnation they heap on him.
Plimer is a geologist, professor of mining geology at Adelaide University, and he may well be Australia's best-known and most notorious academic.
Plimer, you see, is an unremitting critic of "anthropogenic global warming" -- man-made climate change to you and me -- and the current environmental orthodoxy that if we change our polluting ways, global warming can be reversed...
Global warming/environmentalism is a religion, plain and simple! It's also one of the most vain beliefs a person can hold. To believe that our everyday living and prosperity is damaging/destroying this planet, when there are everyday examples of natural forces far more powerful and with far larger effects on this planet than anything done by humans throughout our time on this planet is pure arrogance and the height of vanity.
We are to be good stewards of the earths resources, but they are just that RESOURCES. They are here for us to use, yes use wisely, but use none the less. We should also not be worshiping CREATION, rather it's CREATOR! There's going to be a price we pay for how we conduct ourselves using these resources and how we carry on in these manners, but it's going to be having to answer to THE CREATOR for not following His instructions.
Number 1, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
Number 2, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."
Number 3, "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me..."
Now for the "elites" and "educated" amongst us I realize you're going to roll your eyes and view me as some sort of rube. All I can say is, try not to be such an arrogant elitist urban snob and be careful about going out in the the rain, you might drown with your nose turned up that much.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Vicious Academic Liberals
BY WALTER WILLIAMS
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2009
Ward Connerly, former University of California Regent, has an article, "Study, Study, Study -- A Bad Career Move" in the June 2, 2009 edition of Minding the Campus (www.mindingthecampus.com) that should raise any decent American's level of disgust for what's routinely practiced at most of our universities. Mr. Connerly tells of a conversation he had with a high-ranking UC administrator about a proposal that the administrator was developing to increase campus diversity. Connerly asked the administrator why he considered it important to tinker with admissions instead of just letting the chips fall where they may. His response was that that unless the university took steps to "guide" admissions decisions, the University of California campuses would be dominated by Asians. When Connerly asked, "What would be wrong with that?", the UC administrator told him that Asians are "too dull -- they study, study, study." Then he said to Connerly, "If you ever say I said this, I will have to deny it." Connerly did not reveal the administrator's name. It would not have done any good because it's part of a diversity vision shared by most college administrators...
Libs, especially those in academia are the biggest hypocrites going. They talk a big game about not judging based on race, but it always the thing that guides them. They are the biggest socialist/marxists going. They have no clue how the real world operates.
Perry raises possibility of states' rights showdown with White House over healthcare
Top Stories | Star-Telegram.com
By DAVE MONTGOMERY
dmontgomery@star-telegram.com
AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states' rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president's healthcare plan, which he said would be "disastrous" for Texas...
It would be disastrous for the entire nation. It's also completely unconstitutional! Unfortunately, we have enough Constitutionally illiterate people in this country that it could end up happening. It's time to stand up against these Constitutional encroachments and push back against them!
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By DAVE MONTGOMERY
dmontgomery@star-telegram.com
AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states' rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president's healthcare plan, which he said would be "disastrous" for Texas...
It would be disastrous for the entire nation. It's also completely unconstitutional! Unfortunately, we have enough Constitutionally illiterate people in this country that it could end up happening. It's time to stand up against these Constitutional encroachments and push back against them!
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Why I'm a Libertarian Nut Instead of Just a Nut
Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics
July 1, 2009 - 2:12 ET
By Penn Jillette
I don’t speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats. I’m not even sure my LP membership card is up to date. I’ve voted Libertarian as long as I can remember but I don’t really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty. When I go on Glenn’s show he calls me a Libertarian, I think that’s my only real credential...
...The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don’t want to pay for it. If you have to use a gun, it’s not really a very good idea. Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up on the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid...
...It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness. People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered. If we’re compassionate, we’ll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint...
Very succinct and to the point! I lean more libertarian myself. I think most conservatives, if they thought about it would find they have more in common with the Libertarian Party than they do the Republican Party. If the Libertarian Party could ever become a force and get members elected to Congress they'd become the new home of conservative Reaganites like myself.
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July 1, 2009 - 2:12 ET
By Penn Jillette
I don’t speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats. I’m not even sure my LP membership card is up to date. I’ve voted Libertarian as long as I can remember but I don’t really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty. When I go on Glenn’s show he calls me a Libertarian, I think that’s my only real credential...
...The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don’t want to pay for it. If you have to use a gun, it’s not really a very good idea. Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up on the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid...
...It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying laziness. People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered. If we’re compassionate, we’ll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint...
Very succinct and to the point! I lean more libertarian myself. I think most conservatives, if they thought about it would find they have more in common with the Libertarian Party than they do the Republican Party. If the Libertarian Party could ever become a force and get members elected to Congress they'd become the new home of conservative Reaganites like myself.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Live Free or Die
BY WALTER WILLIAMS
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2009
"Live Free or Die" is the title of author and columnist Mark Steyn's speech at Hillsdale College, reproduced in Imprimis (April 2009), a Hillsdale publication that's free for the asking. Canadian born, now living in New Hampshire, Steyn has had firsthand experience with socialist tyranny in his home country that is rapidly becoming a part of America. Commenting on one of his run-ins with Canada's human rights commissions, Steyn points how it might seem bizarre to find the progressive left making common cause with radical Islam. One half of that alliance is pro-gay, pro-feminist secularists and the other half is homophobic, misogynist theocrats. Steyn argues what they have in common overrides their differences, namely, "Both the secular Big Government progressives and the political Islam recoil from the concept of the citizen, of the free individual entrusted to operate within his own societal space, assume his responsibilities, and exploit his potential."
I'm not willing to give up my freedom and liberty for a little security! Our Founding Fathers believed in FREEDOM and LIBERTY above all else.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-- Ben Franklin, Respectfully Quoted, p. 201, Suzy Platt, Barnes & Noble, 1993
The Ohio State All-Alumni Team
Palestra.net ~ The College Network
See if you can guess who they might be before watching this.
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Americans Love Government
BY WALTER WILLIAMS
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2009
Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." And, it was Albert Einstein who explained, "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." So which is it -- stupidity, ignorance or insanity -- that explains the behavior of my fellow Americans who call for greater government involvement in our lives?
Things that make you go, "hmmmmmm."
Friday, July 03, 2009
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Dumbest Generation Getting Dumber
BY WALTER WILLIAMS
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2009
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international comparison of 15-year-olds conducted by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that measures applied learning and problem-solving ability. In 2006, U.S. students ranked 25th of 30 advanced nations in math and 24th in science. McKinsey & Company, in releasing its report "The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools" (April 2009) said, "Several other facts paint a worrisome picture. First, the longer American children are in school, the worse they perform compared to their international peers. In recent cross-country comparisons of fourth grade reading, math, and science, US students scored in the top quarter or top half of advanced nations. By age 15 these rankings drop to the bottom half. In other words, American students are farthest behind just as they are about to enter higher education or the workforce." That's a sobering thought. The longer kids are in school and the more money we spend on them, the further behind they get...
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