Slavery or Freedom?

THE QUESTION:

When Benjamin Franklin was asked at the close of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, "What have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”, the learned gentleman answered both wisely and cynically, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

Can we keep it? That's the question at the heart of the great struggle for America's soul. Are we a nation of laws or a people of pop culture?

THE SITUATION:

America, the original Ownership Society, is swiftly becoming the Owned Society. The Ownership Society meant that Americans were one of the few citizenries that actually government themselves, because they owned their country. The Owned Society by contrast rolls everything together into one massive bureaucratic pyramid that owns everything and controls everyone, from cradle to grave.

The way to turn one into the other is through disempowerment and devaluation. And by causing people to forget that they are owners, by promising them that life as slaves will be so much easier for them. Why bother working hard when your new bureaucratic masters promise to take care of you instead? Universal health care, unlimited immigration, universal laws, universal everything. Come for the free chains, stay for the 16 hour ditch digging in the volunteer community corps.

Read the following article to understand that we, as a nation, are now facing the determing question of our future...slavery or freedom?

The Struggle for America's Soul - a Nation of Laws or a People of Pop Culture

Liberty and Tyranny: Get it

All in all, Mark Levin has given us a remarkable gift. Read this book, and buy copies for those you care about, too. Anyone from a clever high schooler to a scholar of political philosophy can benefit from reading Liberty and Tyranny. --Thomas Lifson, editor and publisher of American Thinker

America: much less well off than when Obama started campaigning!

The stark truth is that America is much less well off than when Obama started his run for the presidency. The country has less wealth and, consequently, fewer options. Annual government spending had already ballooned under Bush to ­$2 trillion and then $3 trillion. That was before the government started spending freely to bail out banks and businesses.

That’s why it’s so unnerving to hear Obama describe his economic plans as a break from the Bush administration’s. The spending is targeted differently, but it is essentially the same approach to America’s economic woes: Spend, spend, spend, and worry about it later, if at all.

Republicans have their faults, but they seem to have finally figured out that that’s the wrong approach to the nation’s economic problems. Hopefully Obama will, too. The country can ill afford another trillion-dollar mistake.

Obama shouldn't do it his way

New Photo Suggests Iran's President Was One of the 1979 Hostage-Takers

Right Politics USA pulished this story today:

A new photo, published in a Russian paper, seems to suggest that Iranian President Ahmadinejad was indeed one of the the Iranian Hostage-takers who stormed the U.S. Embassy in November 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.