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2009 Flag Day Keynote Address
It would be much more appropriate for me to be introducing Tom Fuentes, rather than Tom introducing me. His influence has been felt throughout the nation. When Presidents speak at dinner events, it is common for people to want to be able to sit next to the President. But there have been Republican Presidents, when coming to events here, have insisted that they sit next to Tom. He is such a magnificent man and has done so much for Orange County and the nation.
I thank all of you deeply. I have always been a Republican and, of course, always will be, but many years ago there was a morning radio show in which the host asked the participants what they would do if they were told they had but one week to live. When it came my turn, I said ”in that case I would ask Tom Fuentes to come over and bring me a voter registration form – so that I could change my registration to Democrat – and in that way I would know that in one week there would be one less of them.”
There are two other people to whom I give particular thanks: Former President George W. Bush and Former Vice President Dick Cheney. Thanks are due them particularly because they insured that there isn’t one person in this room who was killed in a terrorist attack on the United States. We are all alive. Additionally, appreciation is due for President Bush’s directive for a surge in Iraq, the outcome of which has been a brighter outlook for a free Iraq. Please remember that two years ago, Democrat; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid turned our flag that we honor tonight, from red, white and blue into a white flag alone -- a White Flag of surrender when he said, "This war is lost. And the surge is not accomplishing anything.” And after two years; no apology. And one year ago, none of the Democrat’s eight presidential aspirants said they wanted to win the war – only to end it -- as though they didn’t know that wars are not ended; they are either won or lost. To this day, not one apology from any of those eight.
One of them is President, one is Vice President, and one is Secretary of State.
Former President Bush has become a victim of his own unwavering dedication to the success of the United States. In short, no matter the domestic opposition, he performed his constitutional duty to preserve the common defense. Therefore, if I wasn’t a Republican already – I surely would be a Republican now -- particularly after witnessing the first 143 days of the Obama Administration on this Flag Day Eve: 143 days that have brought about the most dangerous jack-hammering into the foundation of the United States – the Constitution. Our generation must not be guilty of leaving such rubble on which the next generations are expected to stand.
President Obama consistently states his primary goals for the nation: not the common defense, but Energy, Education, and Health Care. Unlike the common defense, none of those words are even in the U.S. Constitution. The reason they are not in the Constitution is that none of them are the business of the federal government. President Obama’s major pursuits are constitutionally not his to pursue. The 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights reserves all powers not included in the Constitution, directly to the States and to the people -- not the federal government. That is why we call this nation the United States of America. However the Department of Homeland Security issued a report in which it is written that one way to identify rightwing extremists is that they are “in favor of state or local authority.” That means that rightwing extremists include the Founders of the United States.
The rest of Bruce Herschensohn's 2009 Flag Day Keynote Address:
2009 GOP Senate-House Dinner - MC Jon Voight's remarks
were sensational ... MUST see!)
media folk I listen to on the radio and watch on TV. Good on him!
Gingrich (guest of honor) called Voight's comments a rallying cry
until the next elections in 2010.
I had not heard the following either ... it needed to be said and
repeated over and over ... IMO:
"Certainly, at the outset, the democrats fulfilled their mission to paint
President Bush as a war monger. And once they were able to reach
out to the youth in colleges, on the internet with this lie, painting him
as the evil one, never giving him credit for keeping us safe .. once they
established that, then it would be easy to bring in 'The One', as
Oprah Winfrey crowned him.
I’m also ashamed to say that Hollywood was a big part of tearing down
President Bush."
Video ===> Bringing An End To This False Prophet Obama!
“A lot of people talk about Barack Obama and his messianic complex.
He does have one thing in common with God. God does not have a birth
certificate either."
"Fortunately, the Fairness Doctrine is so obviously unconstitutional in the eyes of
most Americans, so blatantly an attempt to block free speech, that it should be easy
to defeat. Respect for the First Amendment is broad in American society - American
soldiers fight to defend it, schoolchildren understand its importance. Happy warriors
like Rush and Sean are already taking on the Fairness Doctrine with full confidence.
Smart politicians on the left know this and it's unlikely that a Rahm Emanuel, for
example, would recommend support for heavy-handed attempts to censor conservative
radio via a renewed Fairness Doctrine.
obscurity, without an open showdown."
~ Ishmael Jones - January 29, 2009
Why is Hillary laughing?
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.. .Clinton: World must end 'scourge' of piracy.
| Rush Wraps Up CPAC on Saturday, Feb 28 |
FLASH: 1 March 2009 !
See CPAC articles on Rush/FOX videos on our Officers/Contact page......
16:00 Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Day 45 of first 100:
WE GOT YOUR MONEY !
GONNA SPEND YOUR MONEY !
GONNA PRINT SOME MORE MONEY !
In case you've got a little red x above play this video:
Quote of the Day, 20 January 2009
"The best thing about it was it wasn't long."
~ Rush Limbaugh re "it" ... Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
Ten things the president got right.
by Fred Barnes
01/19/2009, Volume 014, Issue 17
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The postmortems on the presidency of George W. Bush are all wrong. The liberal line is that Bush dangerously weakened America's
position in the world and rushed to the aid of the rich and powerful as income inequality worsened. That is twaddle. Conservatives--okay,
not all of them--have only been a little bit kinder. They give Bush credit for the surge that saved Iraq, but not for much else.
He deserves better. His presidency was far more successful than not. And there's an aspect of his decision-making that merits special
recognition: his courage. Time and time again, Bush did what other presidents, even Ronald Reagan, would not have done and for which
he was vilified and abused. That--defiantly doing the right thing--is what distinguished his presidency.
Bush had ten great achievements (and maybe more) in his eight years in the White House, starting with his decision in 2001 to jettison
the Kyoto global warming treaty so loved by Al Gore, the environmental lobby, elite opinion, and Europeans. The treaty was a disaster,
with India and China exempted and economic decline the certain result. Everyone knew it. But only Bush said so and acted accordingly.
He stood athwart mounting global warming hysteria and yelled, "Stop!"
He slowed the movement toward a policy blunder of worldwide impact, providing time for facts to catch up with the dubious claims of
alarmists. Thanks in part to Bush, the supposed consensus of scientists on global warming has now collapsed. The skeptics, who point
to global cooling over the past decade, are now heard loud and clear. And a rational approach to the theory of manmade global warming
is possible.
Second, enhanced interrogation of terrorists. Along with use of secret prisons and wireless eavesdropping, this saved American lives.
How many thousands of lives? We'll never know. But, as Charles Krauthammer said recently, "Those are precisely the elements which
kept us safe and which have prevented a second attack."
Crucial intelligence was obtained from captured al Qaeda leaders, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, with the help
of waterboarding. Whether this tactic--it creates a drowning sensation--is torture is a matter of debate. John McCain and many
Democrats say it is. Bush and Vice President Cheney insist it isn't. In any case, it was necessary. Lincoln once made a similar point in
defending his suspension of habeas corpus in direct defiance of Chief Justice Roger Taney. "Are all the laws but one to go
unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated?" Lincoln asked. Bush understood the answer in wartime
had to be no.
Bush's third achievement was the rebuilding of presidential authority, badly degraded in the era of Vietnam, Watergate, and Bill Clinton.
He didn't hesitate to conduct wireless surveillance of terrorists without getting a federal judge's okay. He decided on his own how to treat
terrorists and where they should be imprisoned. Those were legitimate decisions for which the president, as commander in chief,
should feel no need to apologize.
Defending, all the way to the Supreme Court, Cheney's refusal to disclose to Congress the names of people he'd consulted on energy
policy was also enormously important. Democratic congressman Henry Waxman demanded the names, but the Court upheld Cheney,
7-2. Last week, Cheney defended his refusal, waspishly noting that Waxman "doesn't call me up and tell me who he's meeting with."
Achievement number four was Bush's unswerving support for Israel. Reagan was once deemed Israel's best friend in the White House.
Now Bush can claim the title. He ostracized Yasser Arafat as an impediment to peace in the Middle East. This infuriated the anti-Israel
forces in Europe, the Third World, and the United Nations, and was criticized by champions of the "peace process" here at home. Bush
was right.
He was clever in his support. Bush announced that Ariel Sharon should withdraw the tanks he'd sent into the West Bank in 2002, then
exerted zero pressure on Sharon to do so. And he backed the wall along Israel's eastern border without endorsing it as an official
boundary, while knowing full well that it might eventually become exactly that. He was a loyal friend.
His fifth success was No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the education reform bill cosponsored by America's most prominent liberal
Democratic senator Edward Kennedy. The teachers' unions, school boards, the education establishment, conservatives adamant about
local control of schools--they all loathed the measure and still do. It requires two things they ardently oppose, mandatory testing and accountability.
Kennedy later turned against NCLB, saying Bush is shortchanging the program. In truth, federal education spending is at record levels.
Another complaint is that it forces teachers to "teach to the test." The tests are on math and reading. They are tests worth teaching to.
Sixth, Bush declared in his second inaugural address in 2005 that American foreign policy (at least his) would henceforth focus on
promoting democracy around the world. This put him squarely in the Reagan camp, but he was lambasted as unrealistic, impractical,
and a tool of wily neoconservatives. The new policy gave Bush credibility in pressing for democracy in the former Soviet republics and
Middle East and in zinging various dictators and kleptocrats. It will do the same for President Obama, if he's wise enough to hang onto it.
The seventh achievement is the Medicare prescription drug benefit, enacted in 2003. It's not only wildly popular; it has cost less than
expected by triggering competition among drug companies. Conservatives have deep reservations about the program. But they shouldn't
have been surprised. Bush advocated the drug benefit in the 2000 campaign. And if he hadn't acted, Democrats would have, with a much
less attractive result.
Then there were John Roberts and Sam Alito. In putting them on the Supreme Court and naming Roberts chief justice, Bush achieved
what had eluded Richard Nixon, Reagan, and his own father. Roberts and Alito made the Court indisputably more conservative. And the
good news is Roberts, 53, and Alito, 58, should be justices for decades to come.
Bush's ninth achievement has been widely ignored. He strengthened relations with east Asian democracies (Japan, South Korea,
Australia) without causing a rift with China. On top of that, he forged strong ties with India. An important factor was their common enemy,
Islamic jihadists. After 9/11, Bush made the most of this, and Indian leaders were receptive. His state dinner for Indian prime minister
Manmohan Singh in 2006 was a lovefest.
Finally, a no-brainer: the surge. Bush prompted nearly unanimous disapproval in January 2007 when he announced he was sending
more troops to Iraq and adopting a new counterinsurgency strategy. His opponents initially included the State Department, the Pentagon,
most of Congress, the media, the foreign policy establishment, indeed the whole world. This makes his decision a profile in courage.
Best of all, the surge worked. Iraq is now a fragile but functioning democracy.
How does Bush rank as a president? We won't know until he's judged from the perspective of two or three decades. Hindsight forced a
sharp upgrading of the presidencies of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. Given his achievements, it may have the same effect for
Bush.
--Fred Barnes, for the Editors
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QUOTE FOR THE DAY!
"Here's what I do want to ask you to do today, and this is something
you can do yourself. We don't need to spend a whole lot of time here
on the radio reliving it in order for you be able to accomplish this. I
want you to take, especially with what is happening in the country today
and around the world, the threats that we are faced with, take just a
few seconds and recall how you felt on that day when you first saw
pictures or when you first heard what had happened. We usually don't
want to dwell on feelings. We like to deal in thoughts here at the EIB
Network. But this is an exception. Because I think we've lost the
feeling, and naturally so. These are not the kind of feelings you want to
revisit. They're not the kind of feelings you want to stew in. I think you
should, though. I think you should take the time whenever you have
time today, just think back to how you felt. I don't care what the feeling
was: shock, sorrow, disbelief, rage, anger, desire for immediate
reciprocity. Because I think the whole country needs to be yanked back
into the memorial of how we all felt that day, how scared, how helpless,
how stunned and how shocked and how sad and how mad everyone was
as the event unfolded right before our eyes. This is one bad memory
that we need to keep as a bad memory and never forget it, if we are
to deal with these people who perpetrated this act effectively in the
future."
~ Rush Limbaugh ... 9/12/07
Monday, December 15, 2008
Democrats don't need to kill talk radio
Many pro-Republican talkers helped push more votes to Obama
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/talk-radio-immigration-2255389-percent-mccain
There are four comments thus far, only one is at all "fair and balanced":
"talk radio" like "soap operas" is just entertainment. Intelligent, educated people don't ssek out talk show hosts to guide their politics, religion or economics, instead they seek out credible sources to make informed decisions on important issues. the fairness doctrine
is another useless piece of legislation that will demand tax dollars to support the fairness doctrine agency to monitor radio talk shows.
In essence it will be just a costly, self-serving government appendage .
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech...."
Do liberals actually believe that conservative opinions are pornography?
Are liberals so threatened that they're plotting and planning right now, at this very minute, to silence conservative thoughts and opinions from the public airwaves?
You be the judge.
FOX News asked Senator Chuck Schumer if liberals in Congress will try to implement the so-called Fairness Doctrine - a measure specifically designed to shut down Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and conservative talk radio.
Schumer replied indignantly:
“Do you think we should allow people to put pornography on the air? Absolutely not. Particularly on television or radio."
Huh? No, it's NOT a joke! And he didn't stop there.
Schumer nastily admonished decent Americans for some imagined hypocrisy:
“The very same people who don’t want the Fairness Doctrine want the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] to limit pornography on the air.... That’s not consistent.”
It's almost beyond belief.
We couldn't have made it up!
Is Schumer so unhinged, that he's not even capable of understanding the fundamental difference between smut and political expression?
Craig Parshall, general counsel for the National Religious Broadcasters said:
"I was stunned by Senator Schumer’s suggestion that by keeping filth off the air, the federal government has somehow become empowered to take over the control of legitimate programming content of broadcasters."
But Parshall missed one very important point.
With control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives, Schumer and his liberal colleagues are twisting the First Amendment’s guarantees of Freedom of Speech and of the Press – ALL TO SET THE STAGE TO SILENCE RUSH, HANNITY AND OTHERS.
If you're a liberal, you can burn the flag, put four-letter-word bumper stickers on your car, commit lewd acts on-stage, play profane rap music loudly on your car radio, produce, rent and distribute the most disgusting filth in broad daylight and on the Internet in plain view of minors and even use taxpayer dollars to depict Jesus suspended in bodily waste.
But when it comes to shutting down conservative thoughts and opinions, now that they have grabbed the reins of power, liberals are making control over the content of speech a top priority!
They're plotting and maneuvering behind the scenes to make it happen RIGHT NOW!
Peter Kirsanow writing in National Review Online tells us why this fight is URGENT:
"Imposition of some form of the Fairness Doctrine likely will be one of the Democrats' agenda items for the first 100 days of the new administration. It's important that conservatives begin working now to stop it."
Kirsanow went on:
"Waiting until Inauguration Day to get geared up is too late. By that time the Fairness Doctrine Express will be at full steam— wavering Democrats will be pressed to support the new Democratic president, weak-kneed Republicans will want to display comity, the mainstream media will not be saddened to see talk radio annihilated and much of the public will be too enraptured by Obama's Camelot inauguration to notice or care."
Kirsanow is right.
There is not a moment to lose. If we take a stand now, we can defeat this threat to our civil liberties.
If we wait, it will be too late.
"Congress Shall Make No Law..."
We must act now! Liberals in Congress may try to sneak the Fairness Doctrine into legislation any day now. Liberal pundits inside the Beltway and members of the elite media are already attempting to sell conservative Senators on the notion that their only chance for political survival is to display comity. Unless they hear from you now, they WILL believe it, as they have in the past.
We can win this fight. It only takes 40 Senators to stand firm . But if patriotic Americans do not speak up, we will lose this fight for our liberties.
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You might think it's almost beyond belief, but our Founding Fathers understood and dreaded the danger we presently face.
They feared the danger to such an extent that they ratified, as the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, words they thought would be our primary line of defense against the government evolving into a tyranny that would trample on the rights of the people.
To them the danger was real:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech...."
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Semper Fidelis, Larry M. Collins
"You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and some of the people some of the time, but you
can not fool all of the people all of the time."
~ Abraham Lincoln ... must have been thinking of '09 Obamanation
Tea Parties work in Cal.e.fornia!
California voters kill budget measures
Only salary curbs survive in a rout of Schwarzenegger's slate of reforms
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 4709.story
folk I listen to on the radio and watch on TV. Good on him!
Gingrich (guest of honor) called Voight's comments a rallying cry until the
next elections in 2010.
I had not heard the following either ... it needed to be said and repeated
"Certainly, at the outset, the democrats fulfilled their mission to paint
President Bush as a war monger. And once they were able to reach
out to the youth in colleges, on the internet with this lie, painting him
as the evil one, never giving him credit for keeping us safe .. once they
established that, then it would be easy to bring in 'The One', as
Oprah Winfrey crowned him.
I’m also ashamed to say that Hollywood was a big part of tearing down
President Bush."
Video ===> Bringing An End To This False Prophet Obama! “A lot of people talk about Barack Obama and his messianic complex.
He does have one thing in common with God. God does not have a birth
certificate either."
