Because Antonin Scalia disagreed with the Supreme Court’s majority opinion on Arizona’s immigration dispute, Paul Campos, A prominent law professor at the University of Colorado called him a “blowhard” and an “author of hysterical diatribes.” “Scalia… has in his old age become an increasingly intolerant and intolerable blowhard: a pompous celebrant of his own virtue and rectitude, a purveyor of intemperate jeremiads against the degeneracy of the age.”  A UJCLA professor of constitutional law added that Scalia had gone crazy, “finally jumped the shark.”  They agreed that their only hope is that his increasing uncontrolled rage will trigger an aneurism (sic).”

Hello?  Scalia is the intolerant blowhard?  The left has absolutely no ability to argue inssues.  All they know is character assassination.

  President Obama has indeed become “The Imperial President.”  He bypasses congress by not enforcing laws sworn to enforce: immigration laws, marijuana laws, the Defense of Marriage Act.

           He has usurped congressional powers allowing arms of the executive branch to enforce laws that congress refused to pass. The EPA enforces Cap and Trade.  The NLR implements the Orwellianly titled “Free” Choice Act.  The FCC regulates the internet. Department of Education provides to school districts who accept a national curriculum.

          He violated advice and consent rules by giving recess appointments when congress was not in recess.

          He invokes executive privilege to prevent congress from seeing thousands of papers related to Fast and Furious relying on “precedent.”  Executive privilege protects the president’s ability to openly discuss issues with his staff.  Neither the president nor Holder knew anything about Fast and Furious, so what’s to protect?

         Even if we agree that his decisions immigration or EPA or drug laws, we must insist he work with congress, and he has refused to, imperiously shutting himself off.  If we allow one branch of the government to usurp the powers of the others, that is tyranny. 

         I wonder if Joseph Rouff was serious, (“America needs more socialism,” Yuma Sun, June 19, 2012).  My first hint is his suggestion that we should be more “civilized” like Europe and provide for free health care and cast a broader social net for the needy. Has he noticed that the socialistic states of Europe are crumbling?

         And we are quickly heading in the direction of Europe.  Fully ½ of us are being fully supported by government programs, and 70 per cent get some form of financial assistance.  That’s quite a burden for the ever dwindling percentage of wage earners.

My second hint that he might be joking was his bemoaning our military spending.  Whether or not we should be fighting those wars or keeping troops all over the world is arguable.  And we probably spend more on defense than all the other countries of the world combined; but when you consider the entire budget, our military spending is a drop in the bucket.  According to the Congressional Budget Office, from 2001 to 2011 we spend 1.3 trillion on the military. That's 4.4 percent of the total budget: $29.7 trillion.

          With regard to income taxes, Mr. Rouff says that we need to raise taxes on the rich. “Rich folks pay only 16 percent taxes while many of the rest of us pay 30 percent taxes. This is totally unfair.” He is talking about those rich people who have investment incomes.  What he doesn’t consider is that that income was taxed first at the corporate level at a 35 per cent tax rate and then taxed again at the individual level at 16 per cent.

         And if he is one of the “Some of us pay 30 per cent taxes,”  he is making upwards of $300,000 a year. Shut up!

          I also think he might be joking because he’s a man, and I don’t think men like being on the dole. Women like being taken care of.  That’s one argument against giving us the vote.  We like our safety nets.  For the most part, men like the sense of fulfillment they get from providing for their families. Oops.  I just saw the top of your head blow off.  Okay, maybe that’s way too broad a generalization, but it certainly describes the world I’d like to live in.

          My most ardent argument against a more socialistic state is that it corrupts the human spirit. As Denis Prager says, we end up like those shiftless youth in England who out of boredom, go to Europe and piss in every fountain they can find.

          Furthermore, it encourages us to rely on government rather than relying on ourselves and our God.  I agree with our founders.  God intended us to be free, and “when we sacrifice our freedom for security we lose both.”

    I was shocked at this morning's cartoon on the editorial page.  Our president dancing with Dracula?  I agree that President Obama has crossed the line with regard to abusing the powers of the presidency, but that was way over the line, disrespectful, disgusting, inappropriate, and not at all true.  It isn't the president that is sucking the blood out of our country. He does not control the purse. 

            Now picturing bloodsucking members of congress dancing with Dracula would at least be metaphorically applicable.  Grijalva and his ilk, for example.  They feed off the public, sell their souls for another election.   

         We pay members of the house a salary of  $200,000 a year and provide them with MRA's (Members Representative Allowances of  $1,400,000 year.   Senators get an additional $3,300,000 a year.   All of them are fully vested in the retirement system after only 5 years and by the time they retire, which is always none to soon, they are all millionaires. 

          Martha Stewart went to prison for insider trading, but members of congress get to do it without penalty.  They know they are passing a law on Monday that is going to affect the stock of a company, so on Friday they call their investment advisers.  It's perfectly legal for them.

         I am not a mathematician, so I would appreciate your correcting me if I'm wrong (http://www.senate.gov/CRSReports/crs-publish.cfm?pid='0E%2C*PL%5B%3D%23P%20%20%0A), but I think that means that we pay those bloodsuckers a trillion dollars a year and they can't even pass a budget.  Their one duty, their only real responsibility is to meet every year and establish a budget, and they can't get it done.

            When Nimrod gathered his people to build the Tower of Babel and create this perfect society, God blessed us all by confusing our languages and dispersing us to the ends of the earth. God intended that we should live free without the constraints of big government.
            Can you imagine how He would feel about letting the United Nations herd us into carefully designed sustainable development patterns. It's an uncanny coincidence that the new parliament building in Strasbourg looks so much like the ancient tower of Babel.
           "Thou shalt have no other Gods before me."  I'm pretty sure that includes the United Nations, our federal government, our state legislatures, even our city planners.  If we learn one thing from history, we learn that individually we are remarkable beings, but that collectively we are capable of great evil.
             Even if that weren't true, do you really believe that George Sorros or Al Gore or Alec Baldwin would huddle with us in high rises sandwiched between office buildings at the top and sandwich shops and grocery stories at the lower levels.  They'd traverse the world in their jets an enjoy their castles because they'd have us all penned up.  We wouldn't even have to leave the building.  All our needs satisfied under one roof.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL34H_PvTzg

                Anthony Barnosky, professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, says the earth is reaching a tipping point. 

               He points to climate change as evidence and suggests that the way we are using the land has interrupted the natural order of things. Had he read the article in this month’s National Geographic about the unusual solar activity we’ve been experiencing, he might have realized that there is more going on in the universe than can be explained and solved by his peewee brain.  What vanity!  (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/solar-storms/ferris-text)

Did he watch Venus rising last week?  That little speck, roughly the size of our planet, passed in front of our sun, 1,300,000 times as large, where a trillion nuclear explosions blast unceasingly.  Watching that should teach us, once again, one truth that God hopes we will hold fast to.  We are insignificant specks of dust held in the palm of his hand. 

Dr. Anthony Barnosky says we need to plan for the future, “for the long term in order to drive the planet in directions we want it to go.”  Thank you Mr. Barnosky , but I do not want some new version of William Burrows’ Dr Benway  or H. G. Wells’ Dr Moreau driving my planet.  There is nothing scarier to me than to let some PhD, or a group of PhD’s who are so full of themselves they think they can manage the universe.  Go find another planet to drive

I spent Memorial Day weekend on an emotional high.  When I signed up for the trip to DC, I had no idea I would have the privilege of flying with a bunch of WWII vets. We sang “God Bless America” as fire trucks doused the plane in gushers of water saluting the soldiers.  I swallowed tears when crowds of people lined the gate cheering the soldiers as they deplaned in Baltimore. This is a similar deplaning Reagan International, but that's the experience.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FgecqttxoQg#!

 I thought my heart would break riding the tram through Arlington Cemetery, among “Endless rows for all to see. Freedoms seeds in sorrow sown. These blades of grass and pure white stones.”  I was especially moved by the fields of stones where lay the American Negros who fought for our country in the Civil War.  So much hope.  So much sorrow. 

We had the priviledge of singing at the Kennedy Center accompanied by the Army Symphony Orchestgra.  You see me there, don't you, way up there in the top row?


We visited a number of monuments.  At the base of the North Dakota pillar in the WWII memorial someone had left a frame with pictures of the six Jacobson brothers died in WWII fighting for our freedoms.  The caption read, “It takes a whole family to win a war.” 

The next day I heard Chris Hays explaining that he was “uncomfortable” about calling America’s fallen soldiers “heroes” because it was “rhetorically proximate” to justifications for more war.  His apology the next day was “rhetorically” difficult, but I think he said he regretted the disconnect between the likes of him and those rubes in fly over country who do not have the intellectual capacity to understand his discomfort. 

He sits at that desk in the most affluent city in the world, and he doesn’t seem to understand that that privilege rests upon those graves.  They made his life possible, but he senses a disconnect.   Chris Hays is emblematic of the internal cultural rot that causes a society to decline. 

Our great universities are producing generations of effete snobs who are way too smart to buy into the drivel produced by our founding fathers.  They see nothing exceptional about our country, so in their eyes those silly soldiers die for naught, for foolishness.   

And that’s what divides us from them.  We know that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights, and that the single purpose of government is to protect those rights.   We recognize that no other government on earth was established for that purpose and that purpose alone. 

We recognize that it is only a free people living in a free country where courage and initiative and daring and skill are still rewarded in spite of the restrictions those stunningly brilliant intelligentsia are trying  to harness us with.

We are at a tipping point, however.  Both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to create a government so huge and so intrusive that only the companies that are “too big to fail” have the money and the lawyers and the expertise to work their way through the morass of red tape.  That cultural rot at the head is eating away at the heart of a great nation.