Op-Ed

It is now the day after the passing of Pennsylvania Congressman Jack Murtha. I have chewed through my lips biting them to wait this long, it’s long enough. More than he deserved. These are my opinions and do not reflect the opinions of The Minority Report or RedState. But I must speak them aloud.

There is a “Brotherhood of Arms” in the United States Military, as there has been in the best military units since the dawn of time. If Soldiers cannot be loyal to their brothers, how can they be loyal to the Nation, or in our instance, the Constitution, that they serve?

This was just a little too Orwellian for me:

I'm all for "green that pays." I've written about it before. But this Audi commercial was way over the line.

"Police" searching people's garbage for batteries. Road blocks to check emissions. "Compost infractions" as the police watch your home with spot-lights at the ready. Government regulations on just how hot your hot tub can get.

Sure, the ad was tongue-in-cheek and might have been really funny--to a European audience. We Americans, on the other hand, find such intrusion the hallmarks of a police state. This is the kind of intrusion and oppression our ancestors came to this country to avoid.

Let me get straight to the point: Americans' profound distrust of government is neurotic -- irrational, defensive and born of emotional trauma.

Thus I’ll follow his example and get right after a point of my own. Gregory Rodriguez was eloquent but profoundly and detrimentally wrong. Americans trust government when that government runs effectively and governs with honor. Neither of those things are happening at present, and the people demand condign redress –for logical reasons that in no way constitute a neurosis.

Barring the summoning of a demon from the fourth circle of hell and inventing a term no one can pronounce, this might be the best campaign idea I’ve seen in a while!! And unlike the demonsheep, it will work for the candidate who devised it.

Many of you were on hand this last evening to witness the destruction of the Indianapolis Colts this evening to the Nawlins Saints. (Side note to Indy fans-haha) However, what most people at RedState and around the political blogosphere have heard the most about was Tim Tebow's mothers ad, about her decision to keep her baby, who would grow up to be the best QB outside of Austin, Texas :-).

Ever since the election of Barack Obama and especially since we have witnessed the radical and socialistic agenda and policy of this totally incompetent individual, I have asked myself this question, ” why did it take electing this radical to finally get the American people to wake up to a problem that has been in our government for decades ?”

Now don’t misunderstand me, I am thrilled to see the massive support for the Tea Party movement and the anger of the American people regardless of party to the government take over that is being attempted by Barack Obama and his Marxist companions in both his administration and the Congress. But what Obama is doing is not new in our government but only escalated and more blatant in its approach than has been the case in the last 100 years.

Our Nation has been on a slide to Socialism slow and sure for decades, so much so that the majority of the American people cannot even recognize what true freedom from government oppression and dependency truly is and how personal responsibility in that freedom is the real essence of a Constitutional Republic whose government is limited and completely answerable to the people.

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It appears there is room under the Obama Bus for the Democrats in the entire Congress and Senate.

And the funniest thing about this?

THEY ACT SURPRISED!!!

Dems chafe as W.H. wavers on health

The Blue and Gray comes from the colors of the uniforms worn by the union army (blue) and the confederate army (gray) during the war between the states. The confederate states were all in the southeast quadrant of the US, and the union states were the northern states and Oregon and California. The confederate states had less freedom for its inhabitants which included slaves. That was then.

Now, William P. Ruger and Jason Sorens have published a paper, Freedom in the 50 States. This document just about flips the map on the states with less freedom(gray) and states with more freedom(blue). The following is a summary of their findings.

We develop and justify our ratings and aggregation procedure on explicitly normative criteria, defining individual freedom as the ability to dispose of one’s own life, liberty, and justly acquired property however one sees fit, so long as one does not coercively infringe on another individual’s ability to do the same. This study improves on prior attempts to score economic freedom for American states in three primary ways: (1) it includes measures of social and personal freedoms such as peaceable citizens’ rights to educate their own children, own and carry firearms, and be free from unreasonable search and seizure.

We find that the freest states in the country are New Hampshire, Colorado, and South Dakota, which together achieve a virtual tie for first place. All three states feature low taxes and government spending and middling levels of regulation and paternalism. New York is the least free by a considerable margin, followed by New Jersey, Rhode Island, California, and Maryland. On personal freedom alone, Alaska is the clear winner, while Maryland brings up the rear. As for freedom in the different regions of the country, the Mountain and West North Central regions are the freest overall while the Middle Atlantic lags far behind on both economic and personal freedom. Regression analysis demonstrates that states enjoying more economic and personal freedom tend to attract substantially higher rates of internal net migration.

The authors of this study have put the data online, and one is able to adopt their own weights to see how the overall freedom rankings change. LINK

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Two days from now we have the Superbowl, a typically big event in America. I’m not a football fan so don’t expect team assessments here. Two days from now we’ll also get to see a commercial that is at the heart of a political storm; such a storm that it’s being condemned sight unseen. Why? I’ll let Jehmue Greene tell you in her own words.

Wow! She hasn’t even seen the ad but she’s claiming there’s an agenda! Not to mention that she has an assumption that she should be allowed to approve of it beforehand with her comment that she hasn’t been allowed to see it. That doesn’t seem to stop her demonizing it.

The European Union is no longer charmed, it seems.