The 2010 Census results were released in Dec. The real bottom line has been mostly ignored by the Main Stream Media. The high tax, strongly unionized states continue to loose seats in the House as business owners in the NW and Midwest continue to move their plants and jobs to the south and west. People almost always vote with their feet and this means heading to low-tax states. So the attraction isn’t so much the nice weather as the nice tax climate. What does this mean for the military? If nothing else, the folks are moving to the very states that provide the vast majority of our nation’s enlistees—states with pro-America feelings and strong families in their culture.
Census results
December 30th, 2010Episode 159
December 30th, 201012/30/2010
Episode 159
Topics
News and Comment by the Col: Court-Martial of PFC Lawrence
Richard North Patterson: Author of Exile (Palestine)
Dave Agema: DADT and START
Last Thoughts: Regarding Congressman Mike Rogers
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The Pledge of Allegiance
December 28th, 2010It was today in 1945, a few months after the end of WW II, that the Congress formally recognized our current Pledge of Allegiance. We proclaim ourselves to be “one nation, under God.” And way too many kids in public schools do not recite that pledge daily. We need to change that.
On understanding laws
December 27th, 2010The Father of the Constitution, James Madison, wrote: “It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?”
Let us commit to have no more laws that we can’t understand, much less those that we have to pass to find out what they say.
Merry Christmas
December 25th, 2010It’s very clear to me, as one who has studied our nation’s history, that our founding fathers did want America to be a Christian nation. Indeed, the word “religion,” as in freedom of religion,” meant the different denominations of Christianity–back in the day.
It’s true that some of the founding fathers were theists–not Christians. Thomas Jefferson was perhaps the foremost of these. But look at all the things he did to promote Christianity. The most common way values are transmitted is through religion. I believe that the goal of our founding fathers was that our nation would have Christian values rooted in its culture.
On this Christmas day, I hope we get those values back. Merry Christmas to all.
