Presumptive nominee John McCain is back to his old ways -- speaking to La Raza and promising comprehensive immigration reform. Can conservatives trust McCain? Should we start a movement to dump him from the ticket? Let us know what you think.

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5/16/2008

Barack Hussein Obama has come unglued because of something President Bush said. In a speech to Israel's Knesset, Bush said... 

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Monday, May 19

Richard Collins - 9:30AM
Founder of the premier Hillary Clinton educational website StopHerNow.com Collins has declared StopHerNow.com’s mission accomplished and how now launched Stop-Him-Now.com to do the same to Sen. Obama.

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Wes Riddle's Horse Sense
November 12, 2007

U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Joseph Story was appointed by President James Madison, Father of the Constitution.  Story was well acquainted with many of the Founding Fathers.  In his Commentaries on the Constitution (1833), he addressed the Founders’ concept of the First Amendment: “We are not to attribute this prohibition of a national religious establishment to an indifference to religion in general, and especially to Christianity, which none could hold in more reverence than the framers of the Constitution….  Probably at the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the Amendments to it, the general, if not universal sentiment in America was that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the State….” 

The first clause of the First Amendment says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”  That’s all it says, and Americans knew for nearly two centuries what it meant.  There were established religions in various States well into the 19th century and prayer in public schools into the late 20th century.  The kind of diversity prevalent throughout this great country in the 18th and 19th centuries, in terms of free thought and the democratic exercise of freemen living according to their lights, puts this plastic post-modern, weirdly homogeneous consolidated empire of ours to shame!  No Rainbow Coalition substitutes for freedom where stupidity reigns and every bad decision is force fed, top-down on us all.  We have dismantled the federalist construct of the Constitution and dual sovereignty of States according to the compact and its terms. 

If all men and women are created equal, they are as quickly sacrificed to the idol of Almighty Power seated in Washington, equally enslaved until free men shall stand.  Those who pass today for learned liberals are the worst sorts of Philistines and worse, petty little dictators.  They wouldn’t know a complex thought or extended argument if it hit them between the eyes.  Yet complexity and argument is what deliberative democracy is all about, which takes place where the people are at the level of states and communities where local majorities rule and determine how to live and whose values are determinant.  Humility helps and libertarian approaches are very often the right ones to take—yeah and people do make mistakes, at least free people do; and they are allowed to do that and to call it that, and to try different approaches another day. 

But whose judgment shall be imposed to stop certain types of learning forever or to hinder the passing of the torch of a people’s culture—including those regional variations and peculiar stripes that once comprised a wonderfully diverse and compound republic known as America?  Only petty little dictators decide for us today: those too uncertain to make up their minds unless the Supreme Court tells them what their minds should think; too envious to allow others a living space for the dictates of conscience; too cowardly to move or to fight city hall; too lazy and utterly unfit for the freedom of our fathers.  In 1620 the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.  This band of hardy English Puritans comprised church and civil government and somehow managed to survive and eventually thrive and even change.  They broke bread with the Indians.  They ventured into communal economic arrangements and then switched to private enterprise.  They lived, loved, hoped and died, taxed and built schools and churches together and read the Bible in them both. 

Today there is no place in America they could live.  Few Americans would want to live that way anyway, but say they did.  The Constitution was ratified in 1789, so the Founders were far removed from the Pilgrims.  But consider and answer truly: if the Founders and Framers of the Constitution were here today, would they say the Pilgrims had no place to live, that the Republic under the Constitution was just too small?  Would they look back to the Pilgrims and find there, wisdom; would they find in their ancestors’ way of teaching and learning a similarity to their own, or would they opt to go forward if they could, to the example of Madeline Murray O’Hare?  Whom do you think they pattern most closely, these men we call Founding Fathers—the Pilgrims or us? 

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Wesley Allen Riddle is a retired military officer with degrees and honors
from West Point and Oxford.  Widely published in the academic and opinion
press, he ran for U.S. Congress (TX-District 31) in the 2004 Republican
Primary.  Email: wes@wesriddle.com.