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Mitt is a Sore Loser

Wednesday, May 25th, 2016

Mitt is a Sore Loser
by: Wayne Allyn Root

Mitt Romney is a bitter, jealous, sore loser. But it’s more than that. It’s much deeper. It’s time to stop kidding ourselves. Mitt Romney just made it clear. This is war. The entire leadership of the GOP needs to be purged. Let them go start a third party for wishy-washy moderate losers who believe in slightly smaller government than the Democrats . . . and giving all the power to globalists, the United Nations, lawyers, lobbyists, government bureaucrats, billionaires and multi-national corporations. Let’s see how far they get with that message.  

Because there is no longer any room for the establishment GOP inside the GOP. It’s time for a hostile takeover. Enter Donald Trump.

This is what is causing such panic and desperation. Trump’s raw truth has unhinged the GOP establishment. They are losing their own party. They are losing their grip on power. They are losing their lifetime gravy train. It’s complete panic and pandemonium. The GOP leadership is in the last days of the end of Rome.   Bravo Donald Trump.

Donald Trump just conducted a hostile takeover of the GOP from within. Trump just proved “The truth will set you free.” The good voters of the GOP have been set free by the raw politically-incorrect truth of Donald Trump.

Trump has exposed the GOP establishment from Romney to Bush to Paul Ryan to Mitch McConnell. He’s brought them out of their dark hiding places. It turns out the establishment GOP is really no different or better than the socialists, Marxists and America-haters on the other side- the Obama, Hillary, Bernie side. They are on the same team- just using different slogans.

As one of my best friends put it just yesterday, “If any of them were real Republicans they’d be using their shock, outrage and vitriol to attack Obama and Hillary and Bernie every second of every day. They’d be condemning the Democrats over this horrible economy. We’re all drowning. Instead Republican leaders are in panic over Trump? Are you kidding me?”

Folks the U.S. economy is in free fall. It’s on the verge of total collapse. The middle class has been gutted like a fish. Obamacare has bankrupted the nation. Health insurance costs are wiping out the budgets of every middle class and working class household in America. That’s why record low gas prices have done nothing for the U.S. economy.

There are no middle class jobs. We are being told unemployment is low at the same time food stamp use is near record highs. Do you think we’re that stupid? Obama has created an entire economy for illegal aliens- the only jobs created are for cleaning toilets, mowing lawns, washing dishes, or serving drinks at a bar. Manufacturing has been destroyed- down for 15 months in a row- decent high-paying jobs have left the country. The border is wide open and illegals and terrorists are coming across in record numbers. We have $19 trillion in debt- the most in world history.

In response to this decay and decline of America under Obama, GOP establishment leaders like Paul Ryan have chosen to help Obama pass the Trans Pacific Partnership . . . refuse to put up a fight against Obama’s executive order legalizing millions of illegal aliens . . . pass bloated trillion dollar spending bills that add dramatically to the deficit and national debt…and pass funding to bring 300,000 new Muslim immigrants into the USA.

And . . .

 Donald Trump has them in desperation and panic mode, not Obama or Hillary or Bernie? Are you starting to sense something wrong here? “The fix” has been in. The GOP has never been on our side. Trump exposed the lies and fraud. He brought all the bad guys out of hiding.

The GOP’s leadership isn’t in panic not over what’s happened to the economy . . . or the border . . . or American jobs . . . or the middle class . . . or their last two losing presidential elections led by establishment candidates who stood for nothing . . .

Instead they are in panic over Donald Trump . . . a commonsense Republican businessman who has brought millions of new voters to the GOP . . . who has incited passion, intensity, enthusiasm and record turnouts into the GOP race . . . who has brought working class Americans to the GOP for the first time . . . who has brought people who quit voting, or voted Democrat in the past two elections back to the GOP. Trump has brought union members to the GOP. People who felt abandoned and hopeless are for the first time in their lives excited about voting for a GOP candidate. Polling indicates Trump could be the first Republican since Reagan to win New York state.

And this is bad? This is cause for panic? Desperation? Threats? This is worse than what Obama has done to the USA? This is more important than an economy in collapse? This is more important than the wholesale murder of the middle class and the death of mobility and the American Dream?

Thank God for Trump. He has exposed the GOP establishment as the frauds they are. They care nothing about America . . . or American jobs . . . or small business . . . or the middle class…or the working class. They care only about their own power . . . their billionaire donors . . . their own corruption and greed…their consultants, strategists, lobbyists and lawyers.

Trump is brilliant. He is a third party candidate from within the GOP. He is carrying out an internal hostile takeover of the rat-infested, corrupt, greedy, soul-less GOP. The establishment dynasty families that claim to be “Republican”- Bush’s, Romney’s, Bloomberg’s (and many more not-so-famous billionaire donors)- are out. “Business as usual” is out. The gravy train is over.

This is why they are hysterical. This is why they are more panicked over Trump than what Obama has done to our economy and country. Trump has exposed their true colors. Trump has exposed their conflicts of interest. Trump has exposed their deception and fraud and corruption. Trump has exposed their lies. They were never on our side. They were never on our team. They were double agents all along.

This is why they are screaming hysterically like little children realizing the jig is up. They have lost their power. They have lost their piggy bank. And the way it happened is humiliating. Trump not only destroyed the old guard in a matter of months . . . with the media arrayed against him . . . with hundreds of millions of dollars of Super PAC money against him . . . with the powerful party apparatus against him . . . with the Republican National Committee against him . . . he did it by spending almost NOTHING.

Trump accomplished a GOP takeover from within. He finished what the Tea Party started. And he conducted this hostile takeover of the GOP without spending any money. The establishment is embarrassed and angry and in shock. Trump routed them, destroyed them, left them standing in a torrential rainstorm without shelter . . . without a rowboat . . . without even an umbrella. They are homeless.

It’s OUR party now. Trump has given the GOP back to the people.

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2016 … It really is the most important election of our lives! And here’s why…

Monday, March 21st, 2016

A lot of people have brought up the fact that they won’t vote for Trump if he’s the eventual nominee. I just want to put something in perspective.

Justice Scalia’s seat is vacant. Ginsberg is 82 years old, Kennedy is 79, Breyer is 77, and Thomas is 67. Nowadays, the data shows that the average age of a Supreme Court retirement or death occurs after 75. These are 5 vacancies that will likely come up over the next 4-8 years. The next President will have the power to potentially create a 7-2 Supreme Court skewed in their ideology.

Think about that… 7-2. If the next President appoints 5 young justices, it will guarantee control of the Supreme Court for an entire generation. And 7-2 decisions will hold up much more over time than 5-4 decisions which are seemed to be lacking in mandate.

Hillary has made it clear she will use the Supreme Court to go after the 2nd Amendment. She has literally said that the Supreme Court was wrong in its Heller decision stating that the Court should overturn and remove the individual right to keep and bear arms. Period.

Everyone saying that they won’t vote for one candidate or the other if they are the GOP nominee, please realize this: If Hillary Clinton wins and gets to make these appointments, you likely will never see another Conservative victory at the Supreme Court level for the rest of your life. Ever.

The world that your children and grandchildren live in will truly, without shadow of doubt, be determined by the outcome of THIS presidential election.

If you are a Conservative, a vote for anyone BUT the GOP nominee, whomever that will be (or a vote for no one), is a vote for Hillary Clinton.

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An Open Letter to the Conservative Media Explaining Why I Have Left the Movement

Sunday, March 13th, 2016

Love or hate Trump, this letter seems to reflect the feelings of many out there:

An Open Letter to the Conservative Media Explaining Why I Have Left the Movement

by: John Kluge
March 3, 2016

Let me say up front that I am a life-long Republican and conservative. I have never voted for a Democrat in my life and have voted in every presidential and midterm election since 1988. I have never in my life considered myself anything but a conservative. I am pained to admit that the conservative media and many conservatives’ reaction to Donald Trump has caused me to no longer consider myself part of the movement. I would suggest to you that if you have lost people like me, and I am not alone, you might want to reconsider your reaction to Donald Trump. Let me explain why.

First, I spent the last 20 years watching the conservative media in Washington endorse and urge me to vote for one candidate after another who made a mockery of conservative principles and values. Everyone talks about how thankful we are for the Citizens’ United decision but seems to have forgotten how we were urged to vote for the coauthor of the law that the decision overturned. In 2012, we were told to vote for Mitt Romney, a Massachusetts liberal who proudly signed an individual insurance mandate into law and refused to repudiate the decision.

Before that, there was George W. Bush, the man who decided it was America’s duty to bring democracy to the Middle East (more about him later). And before that, there was Bob Dole, the man who gave us the Americans with Disabilities Act.

I, of course, voted for those candidates and do not regret doing so. I, however, am self-aware enough to realize I voted for them because I will vote for virtually anyone to keep the Left out of power and not because I thought them to be the best or even really a conservative choice. Given this history, the conservative media’s claims that the Republican party must reject Donald Trump because he is not a “conservative” are pathetic and ridiculous to those of us who are old enough to remember the last 25 years.

Second, it doesn’t appear to me that conservatives calling on people to reject Trump have any idea what it actually means to be a “conservative.” The word seems to have become a brand that some people attach to a set of partisan policy preferences, rather than the set of underlying principles about government and society it once was. Conservatism has become a dog’s breakfast of Wilsonian internationalism brought over from the Democratic Party after the New Left took it over, coupled with fanatical libertarian economics and religiously-driven positions on various culture war issues. No one seems to have any idea or concern for how these positions are consistent or reflect anything other than a general hatred for Democrats and the Left.

Lost in all of this is the older strain of conservatism. The one I grew up with and thought was reflective of the movement. This strain of conservatism believed in the free market and capitalism but did not fetishize them the way so many libertarians do. This strain understood that a situation where every country in the world but the US acts in its own interests on matters of international trade and engages in all kinds of skulduggery in support of their interests is not free trade by any rational definition. This strain understood that a government’s first loyalty was to its citizens and the national interest. And also understood that the preservation of our culture and our civil institutions was a necessity.

All of this seems to have been lost. Conservatives have become some sort of schizophrenic sect of libertarians who love freedom (but hate potheads and abortion) and feel the US should be the policeman of the world. The same people who daily fret over the effects of leaving our society to the mercy of Hollywood and the mass culture have somehow decided leaving it to the mercies of the international markets is required.

Third, there is the issue of the war on Islamic extremism. Let me say upfront that, as a veteran of two foreign deployments in this war, I speak with some moral authority on it. So please do not lecture me on the need to sacrifice for one’s country or the nature of the threat that we face. I have gotten on that plane twice and have the medals and t-shirt to prove it. And, as a member of the one percent who have actually put my life on the line in these wars movement conservatives consider so vital, my question for you and every other conservatives is just when the hell did being conservative mean thinking the US has some kind of a duty to save foreign nations from themselves or bring our form of democratic republicanism to them by force? I fully understand the sad necessity to fight wars and I do not believe in “blow back” or any of the other nonsense that says the world will leave us alone if only we will do that same.

At the same time, I cannot for the life of me understand how conservatives of all people convinced themselves that the solution to the 9-11 attacks was to forcibly create democracy in the Islamic world. I have even less explanations for how — 15 years and 10,000 plus lives later — conservatives refuse to examine their actions and expect the country to send more of its young to bleed and die over there to save the Iraqis who are clearly too slovenly and corrupt to save themselves.

The lowest moment of the election was when Trump said what everyone in the country knows: that invading Iraq was a mistake. Rather than engaging the question with honest self-reflection, all of the so called “conservatives” responded with the usual “How dare he?” Worse, they let Jeb Bush claim that Bush “kept us safe.” I can assure you that President Bush didn’t keep me safe. Do I and the other people in the military not count? Sure, we signed up to give our lives for our country and I will never regret doing so. But doesn’t our commitment require a corresponding responsibility on the part of the president to only expect us to do so when it is both necessary and in the national interest?

And since when is bringing democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan so much in the national interest that it is worth killing or maiming 50,000 Americans to try and achieve? I don’t see that, but I am not a Wilsonian and used to, at least, be a conservative. I have these strange ideas that my government ought to act in America’s interests instead of the rest of the world’s interests. I wish conservatives could understand how galling it was to have a fat, rich, career politician who has never once risked his life for this country lecture those of us who have about how George Bush kept us safe.

Donald Trump is the only Republican candidate who seems to have any inclination to act strictly in America’s interest. More importantly, he is the only Republican candidate who is willing to even address the problem. Trump was right to say that we need to stop letting more Muslims into the country or, at least, examine the issue. And like when he said the obvious about Iraq, the first people to condemn him and deny the obvious were conservatives.

Somehow, being conservative now means denying the obvious and saying idiotic fantasies like “Islam is the religion of peace,” or “Our war is not with Islam.” Uh, sorry but no it is not, and yes it is. And if getting a president who at least understands that means voting for Trump, then I guess I am not a conservative.

Fourth, I really do not care that Donald Trump is vulgar, combative, and uncivil and I would encourage you not to care as well. I would love to have our political discourse be what it was even thirty years ago and something better than what it is today. But the fact is the Democratic Party is never going to return to that and there isn’t anything anyone can do about it. Over the last 15 years, I have watched the then-chairman of the DNC say the idea that President Bush knew about 9-11 and let it happen was a “serious position held by many people,” watched the vice president tell a black audience that Republicans would return them to slavery if they could, watched Harry Reid say Mitt Romney was a tax cheat without any reason to believe it was true, and seen an endless amount of appalling behavior on the part of the Democrats which is too long to list here and which I am sure you are aware. And now you tell me that I should reject Trump because he is uncivil and mean to his opponents? Is that some kind of a joke? This is not the time for civility or to worry about it in our candidates.

Fifth, I do not care that Donald Trump is in favor of big government. That is certainly not a virtue but it is not a meaningful vice since the same can be said of every single Republican in the race. I am sorry but the “we are just one more Republican victory from small government” card is maxed out. We are not getting small government no matter who wins. So Trump being big government is a wash.

Sixth, Trump offers at least the chance that he might act in the American interest instead of the world’s interest or in the blind pursuit of some fantasy ideological goals. There is more to economic policy than cutting taxes, sham free trade agreements, and hollow appeals to “cutting government” and the free market. Trump may not be good, but he at least understands that. In contrast, the rest of the GOP and everyone in Washington or the media who calls themselves a conservative has no understanding of this.

Rubio would be — as Laura Ingram pointed out this week — nothing but a repeat of the Bush 43 administration with more blood and treasure spent on the fantasy that acting in other people’s interests indirectly helps ours. Cruz might be somewhat better, but it is unclear whether he could resist the temptations of nation building and wouldn’t get bullied into trying it again. And as much as I like Cruz on many areas he, like all of them except Trump, seems totally unwilling to admit that the government has a responsibility to act in the nation’s interests on trade policy and do something besides let every country in the world take advantage of us in the name of “free trade.”

Consider the following. Our country is going broke, half its working-age population isn’t even looking for work, faces the real threat of massive Islamic terrorist attack, and has a government incapable of doing even basic functions. Meanwhile, conservatives act like cutting Planned Parenthood off the government or stopping gays from getting marriage licenses are the great issues of the day and then have the gumption to call Donald Trump a clown. It would be downright funny if it wasn’t so sad and the situation so serious.

It is not that I think Donald Trump is some savior or an ideal candidate. I don’t. It is that I cannot for the life of me — given the sorry nature of our current political class — understand why conservatives are losing their minds over him and are willing to destroy the Republican Party and put Hillary into office to stop him. All of your objections to him either apply to many other candidates you have backed or are absurd.

I don’t expect you to agree with me or start backing Trump. I would, however, encourage you to at least think about what I and others have said and to understand that the people backing Trump are not nihilists or uneducated hillbillies looking for a job. Some of us are pretty serious people and once considered ourselves conservatives. Even if you still hate Trump, you owe it to conservatism to ask yourself how exactly conservatism managed to alienate so many of its supporters such that they are now willing to vote for someone you loath as much as Trump.

I would also encourage you to stop insulting Trump voters. Multiple conservative journalists — Kevin Williamson to name one — have said, in so many words, that Trump supporters are welfare queens, losers, uneducated, and bums. I am a Trump supporter. My father is a Trump supporter. We both went to war for this country. My father spent 40 years in the private sector maintaining this thing we like to call the phone system. I have spent the last 20 years in the Army and toiling away doing national security and law enforcement issues for the federal government. Just what exactly have any of the people saying these things ever done for the country? Where do they feel entitled to say these things? And more importantly, why on earth do they think it is helping their cause?

I am sorry, even if you can convince me Trump is the next Hitler, I don’t want to be associated with that. I don’t want to be associated with a movement that calls other Americans bums and welfare queens because they support the wrong candidate. If I wanted to do that, I would be a leftist.

Perhaps none of this means anything to you and the movement has left me behind. If it has, I think conservatives should understand that it is leaving a lot of people like me behind. I can’t see how that is a good thing.

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Cultural Fascism

Sunday, June 28th, 2015

 

Our politicians and the nation’s largest corporations run from truth, common sense and moral responsibility like cockroaches when faced with even the remote prospect of being targeted by the PC fascists … Knee jerk hysteria at its finest. Kids, save your money. Rather than earn your MBA, simply become a community organizer. There you will learn all that you need to know, according to the new world order.

The Confederate flag and cultural fascism
By Brent Bozell
Published June 26, 2015

(The Associated Press)

You cultural fascists have struck again…

You have shown you will say most anything, and do most anything to advance your radical agenda. But that’s not enough, is it? Your intent is to ban any opposition. Your goal is to ban even the expression of dissension.

You’re doing it everywhere. You are insisting scientists skeptical of global warming be banned from symposia discussing the subject. You shout down, even physically attack conservatives who dare express opinions on college campuses – that is, if you don’t succeed in banning them altogether. You demand TV networks fire Christians who dare to quote Scripture publicly. You pressure advertisers to stop their sponsorship of conservative talk shows, inventing scandals to justify your campaigns. You pressure businesses to fire employee for supporting traditional marriage. You call on government to imprison Christians who will not abide by the gay agenda.

Now it’s the Confederate flag.

I don’t know what’s more offensive, your disgusting character assassination or the outright embarrassment of politicians and businesses quaking in their shoes at the thought they might be next on your hit list.

As usual, you are using a horrific event, and the victims of that horror, as your excuse, just as you used a pro-life extremist detonating a bomb to smear the entire pro-life movement, just as you used a crazed gunman opening fire in a movie theater to advance your radical agenda to ban all guns.

You demand it be banned from society because you insist society accept your definition of what it represents. As usual, you are using a horrific event, and the victims of that horror, as your excuse, just as you used a pro-life extremist detonating a bomb to smear the entire pro-life movement, just as you used a crazed gunman opening fire in a movie theater to advance your radical agenda to ban all guns.

Now it’s Dylann Roof. He commits an unspeakable act of racist violence. What does the Confederate flag have to do with it? It is the symbol you’re using to suggest America is, and always has been racist.

So many are so intimidated and run away like an Iraqi army.

The Confederate flag has been removed from the Dukes of Hazzard’s “General Lee” car. We will no longer sell that horrible thing! declare Apple, Sears, eBay, Amazon, and the rest about the Confederate flag.

What frauds. Up until last week none had a problem in the world with that flag. The racially-sensitive folks at Amazon still sell Nazi and apartheid memorabilia. Sen. Lindsey Graham cynically whines, “God help South Carolina” if it continues flying the flag he has repeatedly defended.

Cowards all.

Let me tell you who you’re tarring with your smear campaign. Charlie Daniels is a friend of mine. I know and am friends with members of The Outlaws. I’ve met the Lynyrd Skynyrd band. I’ve seen The Allman Brothers in concert. They all sing about the South. Their millions of fans wear caps emblazoned with the Confederate flag. The Stars and Bars waves throughout the arenas.

You’ve called them all racists.

Racists? How dare you. They are celebrating Southern rock music – period.

You are insulting millions of NASCAR fans who do the same simply as a celebration of their Southern heritage. You are besmirching the memory of the thousands of Confederates who fought for their right to secede – and openly opposed slavery. Start with Robert E. Lee.

You will use this – you know you will – to tar any conservative you can tie to the evil you’ve invented. You’ll declare that person a racist if he doesn’t publicly agree with you, won’t you?

What’s next? How long will it take for you to demand that the American flag be removed? It’s a natural progression.

You’ll talk about Abu Ghraib. You’ll reach back to the My Lai massacre. You’ll find any excuse to besmirch the Stars and Stripes.

What about the Cross? You think it’s a symbol of religious oppression. The KKK solemnly sets it ablaze in their ceremonies. You’ll want that banned, too. In fact President Obama has already demanded it be covered if he speaks in front of one.

Tear down your own damn flags. The “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski was a terrorist, and a murderer, and a supporter of Greenpeace. Tear down your environmentalist flags. There are black racists waving black power flags. Tear them all down.

A gay fanatic shot and grievously wounded a security guard at the Family Research Council. His intent was to murder as many employees as possible. Tear down all LGBT flags.

But you won’t, of course. You cultural fascists are also raving hypocrites.

I have a Confederate flag proudly displayed in my home. It’ll stay. This afternoon I’m going to buy two or three more. Why? Just to defy you.

Brent Bozell is chairman of ForAmerica, the nation’s largest active online conservative network with over 7.3 million supporters.

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Confederate Flag & Monument-Sound Bite History: A Tool to Inflame the Ignorant

Friday, June 26th, 2015

Confederate Flag & Monument-Sound Bite History: A Tool to Inflame the Ignorant

By Capt. Phil Walters

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”
Future President Abraham Lincoln 1858

American History is a wide, rich and often conflicting mosaic of information. It can be difficult to dive into it and comprehend it’s meaning without a deeper understanding of human nature and the course humans have chartered since recorded time. Many in today’s “I want it NOW” self centered society attempt to interpret those who created the American legacy within the confines of today’s mores and “flash” values, often for political or self serving purposes. That is a disservice to the great people who provided to us the foundation for our prosperity, freedom and happiness we enjoy today.

The topic of “All Things Confederate are Evil” is a flash mob of cultural cleansing perpetrated by a small, self-serving portion of society determined to enflame the ignorant via “Sound Bite History” without any effort to put it into perspective or have educational dialog on the topic. This purging and cleansing with the resulting “good feeling by removing controversial sights so as not to offend” will not solve one problem or issue. I ask the question, where will the “offending” stop as there is plenty of ugly within the soul of mankind and the history of this great nation?

“The Jews, as a class, violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, are hereby expelled from the Department.”
General Ulysses S. Grant General Order #11 December 17, 1862

The divisive root of evil & sin of this conversation is slavery, of which is constantly directed to the Southern states and the Confederacy in general. Slavery is a human condition still practiced around the world and was instituted in each of the original 13 states. (Even still today in corners of this country as “human trafficking.”) To add some balance to the discussion, I pose these questions:

A) Who, for centuries captured, chained & sold the poor native Africans to the Dutch, Portuguese, British, Spanish, French and later AMERICAN traders for transit to the New World?
B) What part of America greatly profited from the “Golden Triangle” slave trade and used this acquired wealth to build their industrial base? (Hint: It’s not the South)
C) What impact did the Morrill Tariff, a Republican tax doubling the import/exports of the South have upon the Southern economy? Why did President Lincoln state the purpose of raising troops to suppress the Southern “Rebellion” was to preserve the Union and COLLECT the Tariff? (Remember, the war was fought to free slaves, right?) Note: 65% of the Federal revenue was generated & paid by the South with little of these funds returned to South for roads, bridges, ports, railroads or proposed allocated to free those in bondage. Why?
D) Explain Washington DC’s “Compensated Emancipation” Act of 1862 purchasing the freedom of slaves in Washington DC? Why wasn’t this offered to the rest of the Country, North & South? Could it be only to benefit the Washington elite and politically connected? Not in this country, right?
E) If the war was a crusade solely to end slavery, why did the slaves in the Union States receive their freedom AFTER those in the defeated South ?
F) Why was it offered by the Lincoln Administration, should the Southern States in Rebellion return to the Union prior to January 1, 1863, pay their 40% Morrill Tariff, that they could keep their slaves for an extended period of time? Thought the war’s sole purpose was to free them?
G) Why don’t we learn about the country’s greatest & deadliest race riot, the “1863 Draft Riots of New York” where over 100 black folks were lynched simply because they were black?
H) Why many Northern states had “Freedman Laws” limiting the time former slaves could visit the state before being removed?
I) Why did General Sherman order the pontoon bridge over Ebenezer Creek pulled out from under hundreds of Freedmen waiting to cross the river, resulting in the deaths of many of them from drowning?
J) If only 7-9% of Southerners owned slaves, why did 91-93% that did not own anyone go to war to keep the rich plantation owner in “High Cotton” resulting in hundreds of thousands of casualties?
K) Why did the MILLIONS of slaves in bondage across the remainder of the New World gain their freedom without a war?
L) Why did the US military pay it’s black soldiers 2/3 of a white soldiers pay (when the US military finally accepted blacks) while the Confederate Congress mandated equal pay for black & white servicemen?

Simply stating the “Civil War” was fought by the moral & benevolent North to free the slaves in the South from the evil slaveholder is a simplistic statement. There’s much information available to those that search offering sound and strong rebuttals to the statement and plenty of interesting facts to the contrary. However, discussing these topics to the layman who has not sought comprehension of the period and is judging the past via today’s interpretation is a discussion similar to one with an intoxicated 4th of July Revelers who stated “since the rocket went up, just add more powder to it to get to the moon.” Additionally, these topics do not quickly pop up in Google searches, you really have to dig to find them. Of course, in this Country we would NEVER suppress information from the citizens that might conflict with the “Pop Culture” progressive narrative villainizing a specific & targeted portion of the Country; the South.

When you read un-sanitized history, trends emerge that assist you to comprehend that history definitely has a “cause & effect” as very little is random in human activity. Attempting to inflame people via their ignorance is a horrible manipulation. When you compare the history of the world to our great society, we should all be very thankful for being Americans here in America and thankful for the actions of our ancestors as THEY BUILT THE FOUNDATION for us, as imperfect and flawed as they were.

“There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.”
General Robert E. Lee 1862 after freeing the slaves he inherited

Across the globe, war, famine, slavery, genocide, tribal conflicts, religious persecution and ethnic cleansing along with a multitude of other miseries are alive and well producing millions of casualties each year. We have nearly eliminated these sad experiences in America due to the fact we are a country of good people, willing to correct a wrong and also help the downtrodden. If you wake each morning and chose to either be offended or disturbed by history, then you must not be thankful for our blessings of peace, harmony & prosperity but choose to seek unhappiness. Maybe this is due to “The grass is always greener…” or ignorance of the human experience or that we are constantly fed a diet of sanitized, Politically Correct” selective view of history, or rather “Sound Bite History” for divisive purposes.

Take note and pride that America IS the EXCEPTION to the rest of the world and has worked hard to change evil tendencies found in mankind. In many parts of the world, dissent is not allowed & if practiced could cost you & your family their lives. (Think ISIS & Sharia for example) Please let the wave of divisiveness & cultural cleansing pass and leave our historic symbols alone; however please take the time and effort to learn more of our unfiltered history. Leave the Confederate monuments & flags where they are! If we don’t learn from history’s’ lessons, we WILL REPEAT them.

“Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late… It
means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be
trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the
war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as
traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision… It is said slavery is all we are
fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is
not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority
and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.”
Maj. General Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA, January 1864

Capt. Phil Walters
1st LCDR Judah P. Benjamin camp #2210 Sons of Confederate Veterans-Tampa.
I have over 30 Confederates in my lineage, none researched owned slaves. I take offense at my ancestors being called racists & traitors, generally by the same folks propagating “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.”

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The Confederate Flag has nothing to do with hatred toward anyone

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

I normally don’t respond, but I do feel compelled to do so on this. First, off what one finds offensive another find good. We nor anyone should be the judge of that. I am personally having trouble understanding the relationship between racism and the CSA. The roots are racism are not in the CSA but in the very bedrock of our great country. Yes the roots do act like weeds and when left unattended they can and do sprout. This is where my true confusion comes into play. We often hear the phrase those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat. Such is the case if you choose to forget history or worse sponge it. I honestly abhor some of the principals the CSA actual professed as part of their way of life, such as slavery but I also recognize I am looking this through a modern lens, and what may seam illogical or abhorrent by today’s standards wasn’t the case then.

To take it a step further I have study most military campaigns in history from the battle of Cannae to our modern conflicts and some of my very heroes of history do come from the American Civil War (also known as the first modern war) because of the honor they showed. Several names come to mind “The Professor” Chamberlain and his Tenacious Maine Regiment, not for their actions at the battle of little round top but for what occurred at Appomattox. He and his regiment recognized the honor for which our ancestors fought and was one of few the actually rendered military honors. Another hero of mine is General Robert Lee, besides being the brilliant tactician that he was he was profoundly honorable in the fact he disagreed with many of the reasons the south wanted to leave the union but he felt he had to honor his homeland and he couldn’t bring himself to fight against it. As he knew he would have ti had he remained (He was offered command of the Union Forces before he was he resigned his commission and lead the south). So if the American Civil War did produce such honor shouldn’t all of its figures and symbols be remembered for future generations

In another chain of thought, I had the privilege several years ago of going to Normandy. The thing the strikes me most about Normandy and today’s dilemma, is this observation. There is a German cemetery in Normandy. It is a little ways down from the American cemetery. This cemetery was not run down, vandalized, or destroyed. It was actually there proudly on display in a place of honor. If the French can find the ability to recognize the German’s honor and sacrifice despite the atrocities committed by the Germans/Nazis during WWII, which in my mind far exceed the slavery points, why is it our ancestors cannot be forgiven for their way of thinking, which was in tune with everyone’s way of thinking of the time and why must all future generations pay for “sins” committed by their forefathers. History is always written and rewritten by the victors where the truth becomes buried and disappears.

Therefore I argue to not hide history but acknowledge it for what is is. Be proud of the American journey and its symbols over the years. Don’t remove CSA from the history books nor any of its symbols because a part of it you disagree with. I would bet all of us disagree with parts of the CSA because when we look at it through a modern lens but let us remember us to not repeat it and embrace the good ideals of the CSA. If we must have visual representation of history instead of destruction, recognize and promote items that show the progress of our country in all races and encourage this progress by showing/using their symbols/statues and names. Then and only then will the good ideals of the CSA be remembered properly for future generations.

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Ban The Confederate Flag??

Thursday, June 25th, 2015

Many have been trying to remove symbols of our Confederate Heritage for quite sometime. The other side has shown themselves to be opportunistic sycophants, allowing no good tragedy to go waste. I’m sure that everyone else is completely disgusted, as am I, with the actions of the young “man” (I’m not sure what to call him) who would senselessly shoot others in a house of worship. He posed with a Confederate Battle Flag sometime before his execrable act. Politicians, being what they are, lost no time in exploiting this tragedy for their own ends.

I know at times, it seems every circumstance and everyone is against us. But I’m reminded that others have faced more perilous circumstances before. George Washington, while at Valley Forge wrote…”the Continental Army is bereft of decent clothing, and supplies…” He further went on…”one could follow the progress of the army through the snow by observing the trail of blood that feet without proper shoes left…”

The men at Valley Forge refused to let their circumstances destroy them. Rather they sharpened themselves on the edge of adversity, to become a first rate fighting force. So also did our Confederate Ancestors. Their conduct , both on and off the field of battle, at all times was glorious and righteous. No less a personage than Winston Churchill, wrote of their courage and bravery. In his seminal work, “A History of the English Speaking Peoples” he observed that Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was the finest fighting force the western world had ever seen.

Fellow compatriots, this is the heritage that we have been left. So as Washington’s Men did at Valley Forge, let us persevere in the face of adversity. As Sir Winston Churchill wrote during the Battle of Britain, let this be our finest hour! No man (or group of men) is ever in the minority when they stand with God for the truth! Deo Vindice!

 

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A Response to the State of the Union Address

Thursday, January 30th, 2014

A Response to the State of the Union Address
by: Ed Delgado
Five Star Institute

On Tuesday night, in President Obama’s State of the Union address to Congress, the President said the American people were “tired of stale political arguments.” I agree, Mr. President, we are tired. We are tired of the divisive language from our President. Instead of bringing America together and setting us forth on the path towards economic growth and prosperity, what I heard in his address was more of the same misguided, go-it-alone ideas we’ve heard before, as opposed to real job creation and economic growth.

First, raising the minimum wage will do nothing to bring people above the poverty line and ultimately will lead to fewer jobs, higher consumer prices, and reduced hours for those already working in minimum paying jobs. To add to that, not only will raising the minimum wage not produce the outcome the President so wants us to believe, but the mandates required by his healthcare plan, the Affordable Care Act, coupled with a rise in the minimum wage, will cripple job creation.

Raising the minimum wage will […] ultimately lead to fewer jobs, higher consumer prices, and reduced hours in minimum paying jobs.

We are already seeing hours being slashed by employers who cannot afford to insure everyone that wants to work over 25 hours; add on an increase in the minimum wage, and employers will cut even more hours, increase prices on products, and learn to work with fewer employees. All of which are very detrimental to our overall economy.

Next, the President likes to talk about income inequality.  There is income disparity, but I argue not income inequality. Everyone that has a job works for an agreed upon hourly rate or salary; no one is being forced to take a job without knowing the pay rate ahead of time. Additionally, if the President would actually lay out a viable jobs program—and not just delivering divisive rhetoric—we would see real unemployment decrease and incomes increase.

What we have today is a historically low job participation rate that skews our unemployment numbers. We need to get people back into the workforce, and the way to do that is through smart, thoughtful economic policies, not an increase in the minimum wage.

Whereas the late, great Ronald Reagan espoused trickle down economics, President Obama would like to try and rebuild our economy through “bubble-up” economics. What we need is a true jobs program, pro-growth economic policies out of the White House, and reasonable regulation. Instead, the President has created a hyper-regulatory atmosphere which has led to job loss and hurts the very people he so likes us to believe he is trying to help: the struggling middle class.

What we need is a true jobs program, pro-growth economic policies out of the White House, and reasonable regulation.

I will close by commenting on the housing market and the President’s statements about implementing policies that will not allow for or require the American taxpayer to come to the aid of faltering financial companies. In 2008, as the recession was reaching its peak and our nation’s economy was on the brink of collapse, our government provided an infusion of capital by loaning the largest financial institutions—whether they wanted it or needed it—billions of dollars to be paid back with interest. That money has been paid back with interest, and the government actually earned money. At the end of the day, the capital infusion was a win-win for all parties: the American taxpayer, the government, and our financial anchors.

Our housing market is slowly coming back around, but many Americans are still far from able to participate and take ownership of a home. As we continue with the over-regulation of the mortgage industry, we need to find responsible lending policies that help all Americans reach the dream of homeownership.

It will take collaboration from both the government and the private sector, where there is shared risk. The President’s policies of pushing all the risk to the private sector, while the government holds the strings, will cripple any hopes of a return of a thriving housing market, and, for lower income Americans, it will keep the dream of homeownership to just that—a dream.

I respect the office of the President, and have a great deal of respect for anyone who so chooses to be President; however, I believe our nation is in trouble. We have a President that chooses to bypass Congress and the will of the American people by ‘going it alone’ and governing by Executive Order. We have a polarized Congress that worries more about re-election than about doing what is right for America.

Let’s agree that the time has come to toss politics aside to do what is best for all Americans, not just the President’s chosen few.

Ed Delgado is the President & CEO of the Five Star Institute, parent company of DS News and DSNews.com.

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A Letter to Nancy Pelosi

Sunday, August 25th, 2013

Dear Ms. Pelosi:

I write to you out of utter disdain! You are as despicable and un-American as the traitor Jane Fonda.

I am a soon to be 65 year-old who has voted in every state and local election since 1966. I have voted for both Republicans and Democrats alike. I have worked on campaigns for both Republicans and Democrats, white and black. I served the country that I love in Vietnam , as my son did in the Middle East . I was awarded two bronze stars. I have been involved in politics since age 6 when my father was campaign manager for a truly great American Congressman, Charles Raper Jonas, who worked for his constituents and his country, and was to be admired, unlike you.

You obviously haven’t read the Constitution recently, if ever, the Federalist Papers, or even David McCullough’s book on John Adams. You ought to take the time while riding around in your government provided luxury executive jet to do just that. You represent Socialistic and even Marxist principals that our founding fathers tried to avoid when setting out the capitalistic republican form of government represented by our Constitution.

I find it interesting that you and your husband are multi-millionaires with much of your fortune being made as a result of your public service. You have controlled legislation that has enhanced your husband’s investments both on and off shore. At the same time you redistributed the wealth of others. Our system of a free market economy is being destroyed by the likes of you, Harry Reid, and now our President. You ride around in a Gulfstream airplane at the tax payer’s expense while criticizing the presidents of companies who produced something for the economy. You add nothing to the economy of the United States ; you only subtract therefrom.

I would like to suggest that you return to the city of fruitcakes and nuts and eat your husbands’ canned tuna and pineapple produced by illegal immigrants and by workers who have been excluded from the protection that 90% of the legal workers in the United States have.

I await your defeat in the next election with glee…

Don’t ever use the term un-American again for protesters who love this country and are exercising their rights upon which this country was founded. By the way, while I served in the Army, I was spit on by the same type of lunatics who support you and who you probably supported in the 60s and 70s. You are an embarrassment to all of us who served so that you would have the protected right of free speech to call us un-American. But at the same time, I have the right to write you to notify you that I consider you to be un-American, as do the majority of the people of this formerly great country. You are a true disgrace to most of the people who served this country by offering themselves for public service in the United States Congress.

I feel certain your aides will not share this letter with you, but I intend to share it with many…

Dennis L. Guthrie, Esq.

Born St.. Louis , Missouri , August 21, 1944; Bar Admissions:  North Carolina , 1969; U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina , 1969; U.S. Tax Court; Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals; Education: Woodford College , 1966 A.B.; Mercer University , 1969 J.D.; Phi Alpha Delta; Vice-Justice, District XIV, 1968 – 1969; Professional Associations and Memberships: North Carolina and American Bar Associations (Member, Sections on: Administrative Law; General Practice; Litigation); 26th Judicial District and North Carolina State Bar; Mecklenburg County Bar Association; American Association of Justice; North Carolina Trial Lawyers Association; Captain , U.S. Army, 1969-1971, Vietnam; National Defense Medal, 1969; Republic of Viet Nam Service Medal, 1970; Bronze Star Medals (2), 1971; Assistant District Attorney, Mecklenburg County , 1971 – 1974; Charlotte Chamber of Commerce; Chairman, Board of Trustees Providence United Methodist Church; Board of Directors, Alexander Children’s Home; Board of Directors, Charlotte Culinary Institute; Wofford Alumni Executive Council; Scoutmaster, Boy Scouts of America; Board of Directors, Boy Scouts of America of Mecklenburg County; Board of Directors, Girl Scout Council; Life Member, National Eagle Scout Association; Life Member, Girl Scouts of America

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Patriotic Creed

Sunday, August 25th, 2013

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me.

All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty … Our rights may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the Law in the Books of Moses and the Spiritual Teachings of Jesus Christ. No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when (Spiritual) Knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the contrary, when people are universally ignorant, and debauched in their manners, they will sink under their own weight without the aid of foreign invaders.

If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go back to your job and shopping center. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set heavily upon you, and with great discomfort, reminding you for every moment of your miserable life the foolishness of your decision, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

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