James Raymond Reese

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This is a disgrace! The City of Detroit has millions to throw around on things that have nothing to do with legitimate government. Or at least it used to. It squandered its wealth and now doesn't have a dollar with which to wipe its own butt.

Please click on the link and read the entire story.

Anybody want to join me in starting a fund to pay for cremations IF...

...a BIG "if"...

family members can show they haven't squandered their money on things like Blackberrys, gold teeth, fancy-ass clothes and expensive cars with $3,000 wheels?

The people who are, however, legitimately in need, should be helped. Can each of us find $5, $10, $20 or whatever? If so, hit the "Contact Me" button and we'll make it happen.

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The Olympic Committee has ordered a Chicago TV station not to re-play their story about a web site promoting the games be "awarded" to Brazil. President Obama is leading the in-person push for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Chicago.

The word "awarded" in the previous paragraph is in quotes because a growing number of people feel the games are no longer worth the cost.

Was the TV station's story so negative as to earn the wrath of the Olympic Committee? You can judge for yourself. Click on the link above to watch the report.

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I was in Cook County, Illinois last week. For the love of God I can't imagine why the Olympics would want to be there in the first place. The county has legitimately earned its reputation.

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It was Democrats who supported the 1857 Dred Scott SCOTUS decision declaring slaves to be property. The judges who voted in favor of that decision were all pro-slavery judges who were appointed by Democratic presidents. But wait. It gets better.

It was Democratic Party congressmen who voted in favor of the Fugitive Slave Laws, the Black Codes and other repressive legislation of the era.

At the same time, Democrats opposed:

- the 13th amendment granting freedom to slaves
- the 14th amendment granting citizenship to blacks
- the 15th amendment giving blacks the right to vote

Democrats also opposed:

- the 1866 Civil Rights Act
- the 1867 Reconstruction Act
- the 1870 Force Act
- the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act

And let us not forget that it was states controlled by Democratic governors, mayors, congressmen and state legislators that opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

It was the Democratic Party that opposed Brown vs. Board of Education.

And it pays to remember that of the thousands and thousands of lynchings of black people during the history of this country, MORE THAN 98 PERCENT happened in towns and cities where the local governments were controlled by, and the citizenry were overwhelmingly, Democratic Party members and voters.

Click on the link above to watch the entire video from Rev. Wayne Perryman.

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500,000 is a meaningful number. You take real risks going against the establishment in black America. Psychological risks, professional risks, and sometimes risks to personal safety. Peeling off a black who voted for Obama means moving heaven and earth.

Read more from Star Parker, a black columnist, by clicking on the link above.

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and then given the unions a huge stake in the company for free, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and then continued to flub it, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and "potatoe" as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

So, please tell me again what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? He's done all this in just 8 months.

Makes you proud of your president, doesn't it?

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How can state legislators, in ANY state, spend so outlandishly that they run the state $3 billion dollars in the hole EVERY year? Now, Michigan discovers that half of their problem can be paid for by other states (through the federal government) that haven't been so stupid, incompetent, immoral and unethical.

Why are we bailing them out? This makes no sense. Force all states like this to live within their means and they will find ways to do so.

Click on the link above for the full story from MyWay.

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Throughout this fractious summer, I was dismayed not just at the self-defeating silence of Democrats at the gaping holes or evasions in the healthcare bills but also at the fogginess or insipidity of articles and Op-Eds about the controversy emanating from liberal mainstream media and Web sources. By a proportion of something like 10-to-1, negative articles by conservatives were vastly more detailed, specific and practical about the proposals than were supportive articles by Democrats, which often made gestures rather than arguments and brimmed with emotion and sneers. There was a glaring inability in most Democratic commentary to think ahead and forecast what would or could be the actual snarled consequences -- in terms of delays, denial of services, errors, miscommunications and gross invasions of privacy -- of a massive single-payer overhaul of the healthcare system in a nation as large and populous as ours. It was as if Democrats live in a utopian dream world, divorced from the daily demands and realities of organization and management.

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I just learned of this. It was uncovered by the Detroit News.

Click on the link above the read the article.

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While the mainstream media raved about a new era of leftist intellectual supremacy during the liberal ascendance on the bestsellers lists, the return of conservative books to the tops of those lists seems to be going unnoticed.

The full story from NewsBusters can be read by clicking on the link above.

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At August's town-hall meetings, voters often started with complaints about health care, only to shift to frustrations about all the other things President Barack Obama and the Democrats have done or tried to do since January. The $787 billion economic-stimulus package, the government-led rescue of General Motors Corp. and climate-change legislation all came in for criticism.

Click on the link for the rest of the story.

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Honduras, which despite two months of intense pressure from Washington is still refusing to reinstate Manuel Zelaya, its deposed president. Last week the Obama administration took off the gloves and sent a message that it would use everything it has to break the neck of the Honduran democracy. Its bullying might work. But it will never be able to brag about what it has done.

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The once-great Wolverine State is a bucket of woes these days. A bankrupt government. No jobs. High taxes. It's major city an embarrassment. The root cause of all this is beginning to leak out: Michigan voters don't know what the hell they're doing.

The governor is a joke. Detroit's city government is the laughing stock of the country, barely ahead of Washington, D.C. The state legislature is dominated by union goons. Detroit, with its apparent average IQ of 46, has far too much influence over the rest of the state.

And Michigan's representatives in Washington are abysmal.

So-called "representatives" like John Dingell is a good example. That senile old coot was nothing but a hack when I lived in his district 25 years ago and since then he has only gotten worse.

And Representative John Conyers is so bad that even a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner is taking note. You can read the article by clicking on the link above.

And behind all of these disasters are the Michigan voters. One has to wonder why anyone is their right mind would keep voting for these mental neanderthals.

There's a lot of whining coming from the other end of I-75. If things are this bad with the bureaucrats and legislators they have, why do Michiganders keep electing them?

That's an excellent question when you remember that one classic definition of insanity is to keep doing the same as you have done in the past and expecting a different outcome.

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While auto sales are now described by one pundit as "eye-popping," there are fears that the long-term results of the "Cash for Clunkers" program will be bad for the economy as a whole.

All of the money being poured into the purchases of new autos is money, all except for the government hand-out portion, that would go to the purchase of other things.

In addition, the artificial stimulus to the auto industry now, it is feared, will reduce dramatically the number of cars purchased in future years after the give-away expires.

Click on the link above for more on the story.

By Frances Rice.

"NY Times: Obama's Economic Ideas Great...Just Like Hitler's Were?" by Warner Todd Huston provides an analysis of the stunning comparison of President Barack Obama to Adolph Hitler made by David Leonhardt in "The New York Times" which is owned by a Jewish family.

Huston's article can be found on the Internet at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/04/03/nytimes-obamas-economic-ideas-great-just-hitlers-were . Leonhardt's article "Times Topics: Economic Stimulus" is on the Internet at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/business/economy/01leonhardt.html?_r=4&ref=business

In his article, Huston expresses amazement over two equally astonishing facts. First, Leonhardt's admission that Obama is just like Hitler, and second, Leonhardt didn't mean it as an insult. Leonhardt, Huston points out, was saying that it was a good thing that, in an economic sense, Obama was being like Hitler. Huston explains how Leonhardt encourages Americans to ignore World War II and the Holocaust and just focus on how Hitler's polices were good for Germany because Hitler, in essence, made the trains run on time.

With a level of hubris reserved only for Democrats, Leonhardt wrote approvingly about how Obama is emulating Hitler's economic policies with massive "stimulus" spending and the take over of private industry.

Obama, incredibly, provided credence to Leonhardt’s assessment of Obama as being Hitler-like when, with a straight face, Obama looked Americans straight in the eye during his New Hampshire town hall meeting and declared that he has never favored a single-payer health insurance plan. Yet, there is a video of Obama stating, unequivocally, that he does favor a single-payer health insurance plan. That video can be found on the Internet at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAyan1fXCE .

Just as deceptive was Obama’s declaration that Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia was the author of the “end-of-life” language, but Isakson later publicly stated that he had nothing to do with the Democrat-devised legislation.

Democrats expressed no outrage over Lenohardt's favorable comparison of Obama to Hitler. Yet, Democrats reflexively use Hitler references to denigrate average Americans who oppose Obama's government-run health care scheme.

The reason Americans do not what ObamaCare are clearly explained in a video by the Cato Institute on the Internet at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-1ZfFBMf8s .

Details about ObamaCare can be found in the article "Physicians speak out on health care bill - Many say the costly plan won't fix problems" by Cindy Horswell on the Internet at:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6563705.html .

The Democrat’s 1,000-page health care scheme would:

Restrict the enrollment of people with special needs (page 354)
Decide what level of “end-of-life” treatment you receive, according to a pre-determined government-mandated schedule managed by a government “death” panel (page 430)
Build government databases which include your private, personal medical history (page 503)
Work to systematically “increase birth intervals between pregnancies,” opening the very real possibility of forced, tax-payer funded abortions (page 768)
Have the federal government serve as the final, ultimate authority on which health care conditions will be treated, dramatically increasing the likelihood of rationing (page 800).
Average Americans are alarmed by the $1 trillion increase in entitlement spending. They are incensed by the failure by Democrats to explain legislation that would cause 119 million people to lose their private health care insurance and socialize 17 percent of the economy, while leaving 36 million Americans uninsured. Americans understand that what is truly “un-American” is the very idea that 300 million Americans should place their personal health care decisions in the hands of a Democrat-controlled Congress.

Seniors are opposed to the $500 billion cut in medicare and the Government having the right to decide if health care for seniors is worth the cost. Those seniors exercising their freedom of speech at town hall meetings are accused by Democrats of being the kind of people, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who go around "carrying swastikas." Closer to the truth is Leonhardt's analysis of Obama's socialist actions, since the word "Nazi" is an acronym for National German Socialist Workers' Party.

In his article "Obama's Authoritarian Style" found on the Internet at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574341111401651266.html James Taranto writes about how one of Obama's special assistants urged supporters on the White House Web site of ObamaCare to report dissent: "If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov ".

If ever there was an example of a totalitarian tactic and an assault on our civil liberties, that White House website is it. Texas Sen. John Cornyn accused the White House of compiling an "enemies list" and asked Obama to halt the collection of information on Americans who are merely exercising their constitutional right to seek from the Government a redress of grievances. A video of Sen. Cornyn can be found on the Internet at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QLpErbWGLA and an article at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-cornynflag_06nat.ART.State.Edition1.4bb4d44.html

Part of the Democrats' orchestrated effort to silence opposition includes accusing protestors of being "un-American" and an "angry mob". An even more troubling aspect is the deployment of union thugs to intimidate and attack protestors. Goons from the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) physically assaulted a black Conservative, Kenneth Gladney, who was handing out "Don't Tread on Me" flags after a town hall meeting in Missouri.

According to "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch", six people were arrested by the St. Louis County police after the Gladney beating -- two on suspicion of assault, one for resisting arrest and three on suspicion of committing peace disturbances. There was no media uproar over the racial slurs, including calling him the “N-word”, hurled at Gladney by the angry mob of liberal Democrats. Thuggish Democrats stomped Gladney, time and again, sending him to the emergency room of the St. John's Mercy Medical Center, where he was treated for injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face. The video of the Gladney beating can be found on the Internet at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqpfU_AC7Ls .

An interview of Gladney is on the Internet at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgjMF3y1ytQ&feature=related

The assault on Gladney calls to mind the fact that during the 1960's, Democrats physically attacked Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Republican, and bombed his home several times because he dared to protest peacefully against the Democrats who were denying civil rights to blacks. Democrat Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Conner in Alabama let loose vicious dogs and turned skin-burning fire hoses on black civil rights protestors. In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tennessee after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968. For more details, see the article "Democrats Smeared MLK in the 1960's" at: http://cache.trustedpartner.com/docs/library/NationalBlackRepublicanAssociation2009/Democrats%20Smeared%20MLK%20in%20the%201960's.pdf

"You Are Terrifying Us - Voters send a message to Washington, and get an ugly response" by Peggy Noonan shows how attacking American citizens is a desperate move by Democrats. That article is on the Internet at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334623330098540.html

When President George W. Bush was in office, Democrats and their leftist groups, such as ACORN, ANSWER, Code Pink, USAction and MoveOn.Org, are famous for declaring that "dissent is the highest form of patriotism" as is demonstrated by Glenn Harlan Reynolds in his article "Remember when protest was patriotic?" which is on the Internet at:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Sunday_Reflections/Remember-when-protest-was-patriotic-52767517.html

Hypocritically, when left-wing groups protest, Democrats call it "community organizing," but when conservative groups protest, Democrats call it phony "astroturfing", that is conservative protestors are fake grassroots, just like astroturf is fake grass. Obama encouraged leftist groups to "argue with neighbors and get in their face", and that video showing Obama is urging his supporters to act like an angry mob is on the Internet at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCMDur9CDZ4 . Even more chilling is the video of Obama stating his intention to set up a civilian national security force that is on the Internet at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwaAVJITx1Y&feature=related

"Mr. President, Americans are not an 'angry mob'" is an Washington Examiner editorial which shows how the Obama Administration is turning America into a country that is at war with its own people and can be found on the Internet at: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Mr_-President_-Americans-are-not-an-_angry-mob_-8076144-52674832.html

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
– George Orwell

The truth about how Americans gave of their lives and treasure to gain freedom for ourselves and others around the globe was not learned by Obama at the feet of his childhood mentor and avowed communist, Frank Marshall Davis, nor in college where Obama was taught by Marxist professors, nor in the church of his anti-American pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Obama's failure to understand that Americans are freedom-loving people is the reason he is blind to the depth of opposition to the universal, single-payer health care scheme that will result in expanded government and a loss of freedom.

”When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson

In The Declaration of Independence, our founders wrote:

"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

Showing his passion for freedom on March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry spoke on behalf of all who love liberty.

"They tell us, sir, that we are weak -- unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

"Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable -- and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!

"It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
– Patrick Henry

Frances Rice is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and Chairman of the National Black Republican Association. She may be contacted at: www.NBRA.info