The Rule of Law

Here are Parts 1 and 2 to Mark Alexander’s essay on The Rule of Law. The essays are an indictment on the Left turning the U.S. Constitution into a “living” document rather than a framework for the Rule of Law in America.

JRH 9/14/09

Right-Wing Extremists

Here is an excerpt from the Patriot Post of a Mark Alexander essay pertaining to Tea Parties and the Department of Homeland Security led by its Cabinet Secretary Janet Napolitano and that Departments Report that is inclusive of American Veterans being ample targets for Right Wing extremism.

JRH 4/19/09

Alexander: ObamaNation – The USSA

Mark Alexander’s Patriot Post is upset at the socialist transformation trend President Barack Hussein Obama is moving America. The point being the more government programs, the more government intrusion in the private and personal lives of Americans.

Leftists cried and whined about President Bush’s “Patriot Act” taking away privacy of Americans. I myself do not view the Patriot Act in that manner. The Patriot Act was designed to spy on Islamic terrorists inside and outside the nations and any traitorous American or resident foreigner contacting and/or aiding Islamic terrorists. The time of the Patriot Act has been proven successful. The last successful huge terrorist act on American soil was on September 11. 2001.

The dose of socialism BHO is embarking to insert in American society will make the perceived government intrusion of the Patriot Act look like a game of silly putty compared to the Big Brother intrusion of a socialist society (This link is to a Ron Paul opinion. Although I am not a big fan of Paul I tend to agree with his Big Brother article).

On SlantRight.com I am posting an excerpt of February 27 Patriot Post. Be sure to read the whole thing HERE.

JRH 3/1/09



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Friday Digest
Vol. 09 No. 08
27 February 2009
The Patriot Post

THE FOUNDATION

"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood." --John Adams

PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE

ObamaNation -- The USSA

By Mark Alexander

Prior to the election of Barack Hussein Obama, some Republicans complained that identifying him as a socialist, which I have done since he announced his presidential aspirations, was "too extreme." Shortly after his election, the same lot insisted, "He's our president now. We should show him respect."

It is notable, however, that I have not heard a single such complaint since BHO's inauguration.

In fact, Newsweek magazine ran a cover story about Obama's so-called "Recovery Act" legislation proclaiming, "We are all Socialists now." Of course, because Newsweek is suffering from an acute case of revenue shortfall, a tabloid shock cover like the aforementioned is to be expected.

But there is no shortfall of truth in my claim that the "stimulus bill" has much less to do with economic recovery than it does with, in Obama's words, "the fundamental transformation of the United States of America."

Obama is accomplishing this socialist transformation at lightning pace under cover of "responding to the economic crisis" in order to "save or create 3.5 million jobs." (Note the clever construction "save or create," which is to say that even if there is no net increase in jobs, he'll still take credit for having saved 3.5 million jobs.)

Despite Obama's claims, this ruse wasn't a "crisis spending bill." Nor does it provide "economic growth," and it certainly has no legitimate "bipartisan support," with only three RINO senators from among 219 Republican legislators having been swayed by BHO's incessant fearmongering.

In fact, some Republican and Democrat governors have since calculated the costs associated with accepting the redistribution of "your money" by Obama, and they're saying, "no thanks," because the terms of acceptance would mean significant state tax increases on their citizens.

In my home state of Tennessee, Republican Sen. Bob Corker concurs with the Congressional Budget Office's summary that "the [Obama] legislation would result in a slight decrease in gross domestic product compared with CBO's baseline economic forecast." Sen. Corker has determined that it will not create any new jobs in Tennessee and is assisting Democrat Gov. Phil Bredesen with a determination of how to minimize the impact of the federal mandates.

Indeed, when all the mandates and interest expenses of BHO's programs are calculated, his legislation amounts to more than $3 trillion of "your money" being redistributed to his constituencies.

In an effort to restore the consumer and market confidence so essential to economic recovery, Obama addressed Congress, and by extension the nation, Tuesday night, saying, "While our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken, though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before."

But even Obama's messianic standing among his adoring adolescents has begun to wane, as it becomes increasingly apparent that he's far more fragrance than substance.

Of course, he spent less time cheerleading than he did promoting his next stab at the free market. To wit, a $3.6 trillion budget for the coming year that includes significant military cuts and significant tax increases on the innovators and entrepreneurs who dared turn a profit during the "era of profound irresponsibility," but which also expands government funding for his constituencies so much that it stands to increase the federal deficit to $1.75 trillion for 2009, or 12.3 percent of GDP.

The U.S. has not been saddled with a deficit representing that much of our GDP since we were fighting a World War on two fronts in 1942.

Regarding the "transformation of America," Obama proclaimed that "the day of reckoning has arrived, and the time to take charge of our future is here. Now is the time to act boldly and wisely -- to not only revive this economy, but to build a new foundation for lasting prosperity."

The New York Times gleefully summed it up: "The budget that President Obama proposed is nothing less than an attempt to end a three-decade era of economic policy dominated by the ideas of Ronald Reagan and his supporters."

"The ideas of Ronald Reagan?" Well, only in that President Reagan's ideas were dominated by the foundational principles of our nation -- individual liberty, constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, free enterprise, strong national defense and traditional American values.

BHO also continued his Herculean effort to redefine the reality that the current economic debacle is not the result of Democrat housing policies, insisting, "I know how unpopular it is to be seen as helping banks right now, especially when everyone is suffering in part from their bad decisions."

Obama added, "CEOs won't be able to use taxpayer money to ... buy fancy drapes or disappear on a private jet. Those days are over." (For the record, Michelle has been renovating the White House, and Barack has been crisscrossing the country in his private 747 with his "dog and pony" show, all with taxpayer money.)

Regarding Obama's "war on success," The Wall Street Journal notes, "A tax policy that confiscated 100 percent of the taxable income of everyone in America earning over $500,000 in 2006 (before the recession started) would only have given Congress an extra $1.3 trillion in revenue. That's less than half the 2006 federal budget of $2.7 trillion and looks tiny compared to the more than $4 trillion Congress will spend in fiscal 2010. Even taking every taxable 'dime' of everyone earning more than $75,000 in 2006 would have barely yielded enough to cover that $4 trillion."

Needless to say, there will be far fewer folks with earnings over $500,000 this year.

In addition to tax increases on "the wealthy" (which all get passed along in the form of increases in the cost of products and services), Obama proposes to limit tax deductions. In other words, he doesn't want billions of dollars in tax-deductible donations to go toward charitable ministries and services, because his administration knows better how to allocate "your money" for social services.

For all his lofty grandstanding about private-sector greed (a.k.a. "free enterprise"), Obama hasn't proposed any salary rollbacks in the executive or legislative branches, much less big layoffs. Conversely, Obama's proposals will swell the ranks of the central government to unprecedented levels, all paid for with your tax dollars.

So much for the federal government tightening its belt amid massive salary cutbacks and layoffs in the private sector, or, should I say, out here in the real world.

Despite all this, the biggest expansion of government programs and spending in history, Obama had the audacity to say, "There is, of course, another responsibility we have to our children. And that is the responsibility to ensure that we do not pass on to them a debt they cannot pay. ... We cannot simply spend as we please and defer the consequences."

One might fairly conclude that Obama is attempting to spend our constitutional republic -- and its assurance of individual liberty predicated on individual responsibility -- right out of existence. Indeed, it's no coincidence that Obama's recovery plan is similar in principle to Red China's emergency $586 billion "stimulus package," emphasizing massive government growth and infrastructure projects.

In doing some research this week, I came across the bios of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Wilson Reagan on Obama's White House Web site. 

Under Roosevelt, one finds accolades for all the government spending he enacted in an effort to end the Great Depression (the Obama model) but not one word about the lack of effectiveness of any of those programs. Of course, not even the most zealous Leftists among Obama's historical revisionists in the White House would dare make such a claim, because they're unable to find a reputable economist who stands behind FDR's New Deal policies.

On the other hand, when I visited the Reagan bio, much to my amazement and amusement, I found this information: "Dealing skillfully with Congress, Reagan obtained legislation to stimulate economic growth, curb inflation, increase employment, and strengthen national defense. He embarked upon a course of cutting taxes and Government expenditures, refusing to deviate from it when the strengthening of defense forces led to a large deficit." (Translation: Congressional Democrats refused to cut spending for "social programs.") "A renewal of national self-confidence by 1984 helped Reagan and Bush win a second term with an unprecedented number of electoral votes. In 1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income tax code, which eliminated many deductions and exempted millions of people with low incomes."

The Reagan bio concludes, "At the end of his administration, the Nation was enjoying its longest recorded period of peacetime prosperity without recession or depression. Overall, the Reagan years saw a restoration of prosperity, and the goal of peace through strength seemed to be within grasp."

So, what is one to conclude about the policies of Obama versus Reagan? Well, Obama's own White House Web site says it all.

(Oh, and I took a peek at Obama's bio and almost suffered a myocardial infarction after reading this opening line: "His story is the American story -- values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family...." What? Barack who?)

Despite Newsweek's cover proclamation, we are NOT all socialists now. In fact, there are more than 60 million gun-owning Patriots across this nation, many of whom have taken sacred oaths "to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Of those, more than a few stand ready to honor that oath.

After all, in the words of John Adams, "A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."

Radical and thus uncomfortable as this fact may be, there is, nonetheless, a groundswell of discontent across the nation -- millions of Patriots who reject Obama's agenda for transforming the USA into the USSA. In the first Revolutionary War, George Washington mustered fewer than one percent of his countrymen against the mighty army of King George at the onset of hostilities. A far larger percentage of Americans stand ready to defend liberty today.

A year ago, I could not have forecast that the tenor of discontent would have reached such fervor that one now ponders, "Is insurrection the only answer?" I hope not, but it is the 800-pound gorilla at the table, and a growing number of Americans are taking note -- and I am not referring to only those who have lost jobs or incomes. At this writing, every Patriot I know, employed or not, subscribes to the sentiments of Thomas Paine, who penned these inimitable words in 1776: "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."

Indeed.

P.S. For those who have been most grievously affected by the liberal agendas that seeded the housing and financial market crisis, those of you who have lost your job, had your income cut and your savings and retirement funds gutted, help is just a click away. Visit the Federal Election Commission's campaign finance disclosure page, and under the map, select the search criterion menu "Donor's Name" and change that criterion to "Zip Code." Enter your zip code and click "Go." (This search may take up to a minute, so be patient.) Once the search is complete, select the column to search by "Candidate Name," and scroll down to see all the donors in your neighborhood who supported Obama. Since they enabled Obama to redistribute your wealth, surely they would be willing to share some of their own to cover your expenses until Obama's recovery plan has restored your job, your income, your savings and your retirement fund. (Heck, you might even find, as I did, that one of your neighbors far exceeded the legal giving limits to Obama's campaign.)

THERE IS A LOT MORE PATRIOT POST – GO HERE
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Patriot Post Promotion

I am a huge fan of Mark Alexander and the Patriot Post. Indeed, Alexander writes other places as well; therefore if you see his name, read the article.

The Patriot Post is Alexander’s primary Internet baby. I use it as a research source often. So this is my plug for the Patriot Post and below is a few words from Mark Alexander.

JRH 6/10/08
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Dear Fellow Patriots,

As you know, our readers are our best promoters. There are threeeasy ways you can help advance our message of individual liberty, the restoration of constitutional limits on government and thejudiciary, and the promotion of free enterprise, national defenseand traditional American values.

1. Please take a moment and invite your family, friends andassociates to subscribe. Copy and paste this message to yourgroup-list e-mail:

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2. Please consider posting these links in your e-mail signaturecard:

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3. Many of our readers, who operate their own websites and blogs, have asked us to provide information on how to link to The PatriotPost. New banners and link information are now available online at http://PatriotPost.US/main/media.asp

Thank you for your help!

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis!

Mark AlexanderPublisher,
PatriotPost.US

More Democrat ‘aid and comfort’ to the enemy

Mark Alexander is an awesome Conservative writer and U.S. Constitutional analyst. Alexander writes (or at has written) for many blogs; however if you want insight on what Constitutional Intent is, go to Alexander’s Patriot Post and visit his commentaries at the Patriot Post Blog.

I just read an Alexander blog post in which he utilizes an Ivy League Leftist University Study as a starting point of the theme that the Democrats and the Left Wing Mainstream Media by publicly saying or writing that the War in Iraq is a lost cause is aiding, abetting and providing comfort to the enemy.

It is an awesome analysis!

JRH 4/3/08

A Time for Choosing

Mark Alexander is an excellent political writer who is a Conservative and a Constitutionalist in the tradition of the Founding Fathers. I usually do not pass these kinds of requests to spread the word about an e-newsletter; however Alexander’s Patriot Post is well worth reading in this day and age of attacking and creating law in the Constitution that simply is not there.

So here is Alexander’s email to me which I share with you.

JRH 2/23/08
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Dear Fellow Patriots,

It is critical in this election year, as it was when Ronald Reagan delivered "The Speech,"

( http://Reagan2020.US/speeches/A_Time_for_Choosing.asp ) that ThePatriot Post's message of individual liberty, the restoration ofconstitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and thepromotion of free enterprise, national defense and traditionalAmerican values reaches as many people as possible. As you know,our readers are our best promoters and there are three easy waysyou can help advance our mission:

1. Please take a moment and invite your family, friends andassociates to subscribe. Copy and paste this message to yourgroup-list e-mail:

I subscribe to The Patriot Post, a concise, informative andentertaining analysis of the week's most important news, policy andopinion delivered to my e-mail inbox at no charge. I stronglyrecommend that you do the same! Subscribe to The Patriot Post at http://PatriotPost.US/subscribe/ and join the ranks of Patriots whoread the Internet's leading advocate of individual liberty, therestoration of constitutional limits on government and thejudiciary, and the promotion of free enterprise, national defenseand traditional American values.

It's Right. It's Free. -- http://PatriotPost.US/subscribe/

2. Please consider posting these links in your e-mail signature:

Read The Patriot It's Right -- It's Free http://PatriotPost.US/subscribe/ Visit The Patriot Shop http://PatriotShop.US/

3. Many of our readers who operate their own websites and blogshave asked us to provide information on how to link to ThePatriot Post. New banners and links are now available online at http://PatriotPost.US/main/media.asp

Thank you for your help!

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis!

Mark Alexander

Publisher, PatriotPost.US

Patriot Post Assesses Fred Thompson’s Viability

Mark Alexander is a remarkably erudite Conservative writer for many blogs and he is the manager of the Patriot Post. Rather than me blather along describing the value of the Patriot Post, here is an excerpt from Internet periodical’s ABOUT PAGE:

America's most widely read Internet-based publication, The Patriot Post, is a highly acclaimed journal advocating individual liberty, the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and the promotion of free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values.

The Patriot Post is crafted by a national editorial team headed by Mark Alexander and serves as a hard-hitting rebuttal to contemporary political, social and mainstream media protagonists on the Left. It is written for those who seek a brief, informative and entertaining analysis of the week's most significant news, policy and opinion. This comprehensive synopsis of reliable information is drawn from reputable media, research and advocacy organizations and published in three parts each week: Monday's Patriot Brief, Wednesday's Patriot Chronicle and Friday's Patriot Digest.

The Patriot Post's readers include high-level policymakers in the executive and legislative branches, leaders in state and local government, key thinkers in the community of conservative research and academic policy organizations, and, most important, grassroots conservatives across the nation. The Patriot Post is available free by e-mail, and is thus an invaluable news resource for hundreds of thousands of our military and mission-field personnel around the world, as well as an ever-growing readership on our college campuses.

I enjoy reading the Patriot Post and it is a source of many of my articles and thoughts.

With that in mind the Patriot Post has providing some glowing information that has all the appearances of an endorsement for Fred Thompson who happens to be the guy I like the most for the Republican nomination for President.

So here it is, the Patriot Post assessment of Fred Thompson: