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Following World War II, Europe and the U.S. grew at an annual rate of about 3 percent.  Not too far from today’s rate.  The difference was that Europe invested much of that growth in social entitlements.  The U.S. let people keep their money in their own pockets.  By the seventies, Europe’s socialist dedications stopped their growth rate in its tracks and eventually created a 40 percent income gap between their people and ours.  That’s precisely the model Obama and company are duplicating here – and they’re succeeding.  Promises of something for nothing like union retirement bail-outs, student loan passes, ObamaCare, and other social-welfare commitments are making us like Europe.  Our young should take note of peer unemployment rates of 50 percent in Spain and 36 percent in Italy.  Europe reveals that liberal promises of something for nothing are right about just one thing – nothing. 

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It’s hard to believe a year’s passed since Osama Bin Laden’s spirit left the planet.  Anniversary thanks is due Seal Team Six and everyone else with a hand in OBL’s departure.  Everyone that is except our President.  His latest effort to prop reelection potentials was distasteful.  Claiming a big chunk of the credit is more about arrogance than accuracy.  Contrary to a liberally biased media that has worked hard to portray Obama’s strong hand at the helm, in truth he was just an arm-chair quarterback.  Images of Presidential anguish in the face of a difficult decision are dishonest.  The only choice was between using intelligence resources or the military to get this guy and that wasn’t much of a choice.  The how was up to the doers.  It comes down to this – once we knew where Bin Laden was, there was never an option of walking away.  Obama does not deserve accolades for doing the only thing he, or any other President could have done.     

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North Carolina just handed the left its most stunning defeat in recent memory.  By a resounding majority, voters supported a Constitutional amendment affirming marriage as between one man and one woman.  North Carolina has been a successful playground for liberals seeking to downgrade America with their corrupt version of progress.  In word and deed, deviance, division, and dependency define the Democratic Party.  They’ve had great success in capturing the Tar Heel state – to a point of arrogant assumption on their infallibility.  Sounds a bit like our President, doesn’t it?  Curiously, PBO came out in favor of same sex marriage after the vote.  For liberals it was a day late and dollar short.  For conservatives it was just the affirmation they needed to further rally against Obama’s brand of liberal socialism.  Election day was a reality check for the left’s culture vultures.  Their head bird may have also wrung his own neck-

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There are four ways to seat a state judge – appointment, nonpartisan election, partisan election, and merit.  In a country busily betraying the rule-of-law for cronyism, it makes very little difference which we employ.    

NC’s liberal Democrats have long embraced a nonpartisan system because voters lean toward conservative judges.  Being unable to identify party, the electorate is thus left to guessing on judicial candidates. 

Appointment systems put the selection power in the hands of politicians.  Merit systems do too, but half the nation’s states use this method because a non-partisan commission can at least pretend to pick the best candidates.

No matter who sits on our benches, we’re still stuck with a corrupt judiciary.  Both physicians and attorneys have successfully secured a monopoly, but it’s telling we have far more lawyers than doctors.  With one attorney for every 265 citizens, America has the highest concentration of legal professionals in the world.  They have to eat. 

That cause is aided by a political system whereby the fox guards the henhouse.  A disproportionate percentage of politicians are attorneys empowered to protect their own.  That includes limiting accountability and competition, facilitating legislation that necessitates legal services, sidestepping judicial reform, and chronically underfunding our court systems.   

We support attorney politicians in making laws, but forget their peers are then in charge of interpreting and adjudicating those laws.  America has more people in jail than any other country in the world – about 2.5 million.  Any society having the world’s highest percentage of attorneys and jailed citizenry is missing something. 

95% of all criminal cases are characterized by extensive delays ending in a plea bargain.   Built-in inefficiencies, combined with a lack of alternative sentencing resources, do more to habituate than rehabilitate criminals.  The only clear winners in this murky system are the attorneys, as politicians, judges, and practitioners, who manufacture, manipulate, and milk the dysfunction.  There’s a reason career criminals view lawyers as peers. 

Attorneys represent you, but they’re even more dependent upon colleagues and judges.  Guess where client needs fit on that priority list?   Certainly not all attorneys wear black hats, but very few have the courage to ponder, much less challenge, the systemic harms of their fraternity.

Our legal system, like education and healthcare, functions as a rigged enterprise.  It doesn’t matter how we acquire our judges.  With fees of two hundred-fifty plus an hour, the wheels of justice will continue to turn slowly. 

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British Prime Minister David Cameron is concerned about his country’s slow-motion moral collapse.  The UK has been in a slide for decades.  We don’t know all the reasons, but a blooming nanny state, expanded entitlements, careless immigration policies, and political correctness are clearly part of the formula of harm.  Less we smugly smile at our island cousins, it’s important to understand the same thing is happening right here at home.  Researchers tell us that half the Christian men in America routinely look at pornography.  More and more people are buying into the liberal theme that something for nothing is a right even though Mother Nature persistently demonstrates that fantasy doesn’t exist.  As Mike Huckabee noted, “A lot of Americans are born on third base and think they’ve hit a home run.”  We’re blessed, but history shows those blessing will go away – if we don’t hold tightly to our moral compass.

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The biggest difference in conservative and liberal love is not how much we care, but how we put love into action.  Liberals confuse enabling, which makes people weaker and dependent, with loving.  Conservatives like to give help that uplifts and creates independence, not vanity fixes for politicians and helpers.  One example of a guy who’s got the helping thing down is L.A.’s Jay Goldinger.  His mission is homelessness, but instead of fantasy programs that pretend to end it, his deal is real. Jay is having more success than anyone we know, and his approach has nothing to do with free housing, medical care, or addiction treatment.  His solution centers on three words – opportunity, responsibility, and contribution.  Incremental opportunities are tied directly to accountability and participants giving something back.  The result?  Fewer professional victims – more men and women standing on their own two feet.  That’s love-

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By now you’ve seen, heard, or read an expert’s opinion that deficit spending is not a big deal.  Most of these “spend it if you’ve got it or even if you don’t” enthusiasts say everything can be easily fixed later – but not now.  When have we ever been able to cut back on government spending?  Clinton’s famous budget excess resulted from increased revenue, not a decrease in government spending.  Our “G-Men” will not cut-back on spending until disaster forces that action – period.  And then there’s that other dangerous “D” word – debt.  Everywhere you look forward, there are a ton of unfunded mandates, entitlements, retirement plans, and other obligations.  Deficits and debt represent a double whammy that can’t be explained away, promised away, or hidden away.  True conservative thinkers recognize the dangers of postponing accountability and the importance of preparing a way – today.

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Edward Gibbon, author of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, offers a light bulb conservative culturists might appreciate.  It’s his observation that Rome’s demise was coached in five realities.  One was the undermining of the dignity of the home and family.  That’s definitely happening in America.  Another was spending public money for bread and circuses for the masses.  People as non-productive pets don’t make good nation builders.  Pleasure and immorality became job one in Rome, as it seems to be here. Rome built a wondrous military but neglected the home front.  Pretending to police the world when we can’t control our own borders mirrors Rome’s model.  Their final miscue? They lost their moral compass.  Refusing to learn from others sets us up for avoidable mistakes.  Solutions for avoiding Rome’s end are found in laying aside the assumption we’re exempt from failure and reversing course on these five paths to oblivion. 

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One of the nice things about being a liberal is a core belief that ends justify means.  That means it’s OK to hide, exaggerate, or otherwise abuse the truth because your mission is holy.  Take illegal immigration.  The left takes great pride in supporting porous borders, resisting enforcement, and conspiring to enable illegal aliens wherever possible.  One recent falsehood centers on the pretense that tough laws in Georgia and Alabama are costing farmers million in rotting crops.  Farmers have access to unlimited workers through the migrant visa program.  The rotten crops came from farmers who preferred hiring illegals under the table.  By the time they starting working within the law, it was too late.  Too bad – that’s their fault, not ours or the system.  Farmers who refuse to stay legal or mechanize crop recovery are getting what they’re earning.  Once again the left reveals it’s addiction to half-truths.

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Shortly after his inauguration, President Obama visited Turkey and tendered his iniquitous declaration America did not consider itself a Christian nation.  Listening to Reverend Jeremiah Wright for twenty-years helps explain his confusion. 

The Declaration of Independence provides an early clue on our country’s Christian heritage – “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights...” 

That the referenced Creator was not Buddha, Mohammad, or Confucius is validated by the credentials of the fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention.  Participating were twenty-nine Anglicans, eighteen Calvinists, two Methodists, Catholics, and Lutherans, and one guy who couldn’t make up his mind.  That left one deist, Benjamin Franklin, who routinely attended Christian worship services and encouraged public prayer. 

Spiritual antagonists commonly abuse the First Amendment.  The language, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” was intended to support freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. 

Western civilization, with its incomparable systems of justice, health, education, science, arts, and commerce, was birthed from a distinctive roadmap – the Bible.  Though other cultures had successes, applying those to the needs of the common man was unique to Western culture.   Nowhere has that vision been more fulfilled than in America. 

Obama might be confused, but NC’s Constitutional framers  weren’t – “We, the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for the preservation of the American Union and the existence of our civil, political, and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those blessings…”

A march through time and the minds of our country’s leaders provides further clarification.   Harry Truman told the Pope, “We are a Christian nation.”  Woodrow Wilson offered, “America was born a Christian nation.”  Andrew Jackson was even more direct, “The Holy Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests.”  When Washington proclaimed “Thanksgiving” a holiday in 1789, guess who he was encouraging us to thank. 

What we put our energy into is our god.  That explains why those worshipping money, sex, power, celebrities, comfort, drugs, or politicians enthusiastically hustle to obfuscate our spiritual heritage.  Christ’s unique model and message of love and accountability is the keystone of America’s success equation.  We’re risking our future by devouring the fruit, preserving the peel, and discarding the seed of our blessings.

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The liberal media, and that includes most media,  has revealed its hypocrisy and immaturity on the fantasy of an Egyptian spring.  Instead, extremists now control 72 percent of parliament.  The left told us the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists were not popular in Egypt.  The New York Times called them the “Bumbling Brotherhood” and, amazingly, argued that poor people who took their help would not vote for them.  Though that’s precisely the model the Democrat Brotherhood successfully uses here.  The Huffington Post touted the UN Secretary General’s naïve belief that, “The power of the Muslim Brotherhood has been exaggerated.  It’s been a European obsession more than an Arab reality.” Wrong – by a long shot. The brotherhood won 47 percent of Egypt’s parliament and other hardliners won 25 percent.  You can count on the left to continue marketing hope and change fantasies over unpleasant realities.

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America’s faith based community is asleep at the wheel and liberals are beating the tar out of conservatives.  The left’s fantasy messages of something for nothing, entitlement, and victimization are a powerful draw.  The right’s message is filled with responsibility, accountability, and reality.  That difference in priorities is like giving people a choice between playing a video game and learning to type on a keyboard.  It’s easy to see why the left’s winning in that arrangement.  All is not hopeless.  The ways of man are ultimately not enough – for anyone.  That’s why it’s important that Christians be engaged and active.  Their model, voice, and love are important.  But it’s also important to separate Christian country club membership from following an honest Christian roadmap.  That’s easy – if your church and minister is all about Jesus’ love and indifferent to his powerful message of responsibility, well, guess what-

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America’s social services net is a mess.  Though agency budgets and staffing continue to grow, performance and positive impact is shrinking.  There’s a reason for this poor performance –programs developed out of government are doomed to fail.  That’s a bold statement, but it’s readily validated.  Meaningful change in human beings always comes from relationships.  No matter the activity or opportunity, if it doesn’t prioritize relationships, it won’t work.  That’s why low-budget programs like Girl Scouts, Big Brother, and A.A. work better than expensive big government efforts high on expectations – low on performance and outcome.  Government takes the relationship factor out of everything and replaces it with the cold, hard, and indifferent hand of bureaucracy.  Without a human-to-human relationship with those we wish to help or change, nothing good will happen.  The hollow promises of big government will always be just that.

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The violence going on south of our border matches the worst horrors you can find in history.  It just doesn’t get much worse than cutting off heads, burying people alive upside down, and using older folks for target practice.  All that and more has happened in Mexico – a place where 15,000 or more people are murdered each year by drug cartels.  It’s all thanks to an informal free-trade arrangement whereby Mexico exports illegal immigrants and drugs to us and we export dollars and guns to them.  The money comes from our employers who like the cheap labor and our drug users who like the high. Both groups portray themselves as innocent victims but, in fact, are silent partners in an Hispanic version of Murder, Inc.  As of now, Mexican authorities are losing the fight against drug gangs and cartels.  And both are entrenched in the U.S.  It’s just a matter of time before they start exporting their terror here to.

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Come 2013, the Federal Reserve will celebrate it’s one hundredth anniversary.  No doubt the event will be studded with accolades for the good works of this secret society.  We can tell you one of their achievements – the dollar has lost 95% of its purchasing power in that hundred years.  That’s called currency debasement and though it’s brushed off by most economists, you and I should be concerned.  It now costs the U.S. Mint 2.4 cents to make a cooper penny made of zinc.  It costs 11.2 cents to make a nickel.  Most everything we use – gas, food, housing, clothing, and school tuition – is costing more because our dollar buys less.  U.S. monetary policy, strong on borrowing and spending and weak on saving and producing, is destroying the dollar.  Societies who do that have a short future.  Protections?  Do what depression era folks once advised – buy what God makes – sell what man makes.  And don’t trust anyone selling 100 years of failure…

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Child Abuse Comes In Many Forms

Child abuse is one of the most rampant and under reported social problems in twenty-first century America.  Though physical brutality and sexual exploitation rightfully capture our attentions, there are many other abuses hiding behind political correctness and escaping responsible scrutiny and action.  

Remember Asheville’s topless street party?  In that teens participated and children observed sexual performances, at least one guy I know thinks everyone there, including the police, abetted child abuse.

Having children we can’t care for is an overlooked form of child abuse.  Half the mothers under thirty now give birth out of wedlock.  Absentee fathers and repeat mothers without means of support are exploiters, not victims.   

Objective comparisons to international standards illuminates our public education failings.  Running this system as a political and financial enterprise is more about serving adults than children.  Drop-out rates and graduate skill deficits further affirm the abuse.

Political seduction of our young through hollow messages of something for nothing, entitlement over responsibility, and victimization as a lifestyle is predatory behavior.   We make people into pets for our benefit – not theirs.

We’re also into habitually sacrificing our children to the pretense of policing a corrupt world.  Politicians camouflaging military adventurism as “fighting for our freedom” merit rebuke, not reelection.  If killing our young for political vanities isn’t child abuse, what is?

In that heart disease, dietary diabetes, and many other health issues begin early, making your kid fat is child abuse.  Taking someone’s life with a gun is called murder.  Taking a child’s future with too many happy meals, sodas, and sweets is the same activity with slower acting weapons.  

We have fewer teens working today than at any point in our history.  We don’t need them or the fifty-million children we’ve aborted by choosing convenience over character.  It’s abusively easier to import an exploitable underclass than to nurture our own. 

Then there’s the debt burden we baby-boomers are downloading on our children and grandchildren.   Dumping debt is like dumping any toxic waste.  By the time the abuse is evident, the perpetrator has moved on.

Our young are not equipped to protect themselves and there’s no evidence we have the courage to do the job.  It’s easier to watch, whisper, or whine while our culture slides into darkness.  That failure of effort, example, maturity and love may be our biggest abuse – and call to action. 

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Research indicates that most Americans elect their President based on the answers to one or more of three questions.  Do I like this person?  Do I like the way they look?  Do I believe they will do something for me?  Notice that honesty, experience, knowledge, and principle are nowhere to be found in this electoral formula.  What is found is the certainty we’ll get no better than we’re earning.  Treating a Presidential election like a contest for a prom queen may secure a happy inauguration – it will not secure America’s future.  Voting for someone who makes us feel good instead of someone we honestly believe will do good turns us into political mascots for social manipulators.  Black Americans reliably vote Democratic for the same reason white Americans reliably voted for the pretend conservatism of George Bush – habit and comfort.  People aren’t designed to be pets.  Conservative thinkers walk toward principles – and avoid feel good politics.  

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Our current President wants to keep his job.  Since his earlier boldly successful “Hope and Change” message turned out to be a bold failure, he’s had to change to keep his hope.  He’s now the champion of the poor and middle class and enemy of the wealthy.  Half of America pays no federal tax.  The middle class pays an average rate of 15% compared to the rich who pay 28%.  PBO knows a campaign winner when he sees one.  Pitting us against one another in the name of fairness is about his future, not ours.  Federal tax policy has always been a shell game.  Democrats have created as many loopholes for their rich cronies as Republicans.  That pattern won’t stop because Obama embraces a new campaign pretense of “fairness.”  He’s a socialist intent upon spreading the wealth and big government.  His new polices demonstrate ignorance on growth, investment, and economic vitality – lots of savvy on voter seduction.   

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Obama is a social manipulator.  While pretending to seek unity, he persistently uses racism and classism to foster division.  A house divided soon falls, and America is no exception.  Pulling together doesn’t require we all think alike – we can have unity without uniformity.  Unity has two key ingredients – a belief we’re in this together and what Ronald Reagan called “skin in the game.”  There’s a reason liberal-socialist-progressives like Obama are now misusing Reagan to manipulate the masses – this conservative icon was one of the few presidents in history to faithfully attempt to walk his talk.  He wasn’t perfect, but there was a sincerity of effort that Obama cannot comprehend, much less duplicate.  50% of Americans pay federal income tax.  The poorest among us have thus become like rich crony capitalists milking our system.  Both are seeking benefits without responsibilities.  Reagan got it – Obama doesn’t. 

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Though conservatives are America’s majority, we’re losing the struggle for our country’s future.  The left and opportunists who flow with the prevailing wind are clearly guiding our society toward disaster.  Common sense says conservative dedications to reality, reason, responsibility and right should be winning.  But the power of the “4 R’s” is only as strong as the people who bring them to life.  Recirculating emails, watching FOX news, and hand wringing doesn’t cut it.  Reversing the self-destructive certainties of liberalism requires we face the enemy with enthusiasm.  That’s hard because, frankly, the left outtalks us.  Shy conservatives can find their voice by standing firm on the “4 R’s” and a simple statement – “This is what I believe and I have no wish to prove or justify my beliefs.”  Are you a conservative?  Smile, stand for something, and let your example do the talking.  The minute we stop talking and start doing, we begin winning.

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There’s a war going on against religious liberty.  The reasoned concept of “Freedom of Religion” is being replaced with the power agenda of “Freedom from Religion.”  Curiously, those leading this effort are just as motivated by worship for higher authority as people of Judeo-Christian dedications.  Liberal-progressive-socialists like to think big too, but they have more faith in science and government than the idea of a spiritual power.  Though they mock the idea the world was created by God, the fact evolution is founded on  fantastical assumptions like “The Big Bang Theory” escapes their keen discernment.  Then there’s the left’s curious mockery of the possibility of a big God at the same time they worship at the altar of big government.  For now in America we’re free to embrace big bangs, big government, or a big God.  We’re not free to pretend the first two “bigs” represent advanced, enlightened, or superior thinking.

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No One Can Deliver Something for Nothing

By objective international measurements, we have the fastest, cheapest, and most reliable mail service in the world.  Neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.  Four apocalyptic horseman hiding behind red, white, and blue camouflage might. 

USPS hurdles track to shrinking utilization, volume and revenue blended with swelling costs.  This agency knows how to fix itself.  Those four horseman won’t let it happen.     

The first, Uncle Sam, makes it his business to control everyone else’s business.  Rather than follow the Constitution and do a few things well, this dark rider prefers to do a lot of things poorly.  Political meddling convolutes the USPS just like it does healthcare, education, energy, food, drugs, and the environment through unfunded mandates, micromanagement, and assumed authority without accountability for outcome.  Disaster awaits anytime power is separated from responsibility. 

Speaking of labor, the second horseman wears a union suit.  The USPS operates under the watch of four of them.  Though their public persona speaks to the pursuit of fairness, these unions do much better than that.  According to the Office of Management and Budget, the average postal employee makes eighty-thousand a year in wages and benefits.  That’s twenty-thousand a year more than private workers.   Unfortunately, their extra-nice healthcare and retirement plans have not been properly funded.  Generous and sustainable are rarely compatible.

Those first two horseman require a third to carry their load.  The postal service must maintain a complex bureaucracy to juggle a parade of regulations, constraints, demands, and special interests.  The more top heavy the ship, the more energy goes to carrying itself versus cargo.

The last horseman is an entitled American public demanding maximum services at minimal costs.  When it comes to cheap, fast, and good, reality rarely supports more than two at a time.  We can’t decrease our utilization of postal services, refuse to subsidize those services with taxes, and then demand fast six-day-a-week delivery and easy access to a neighborhood post office. 

Preventing our postal service from running off a cliff requires we rein in those horseman.  Revenue must be realistically matched to services, costs, benefits, and salaries.  Closing marginally utilized post offices and going to five-day-a-week delivery schedule is realistic, prudent and necessary.    

The USPS, like most politicians and all left-handed thinkers, is incapable of delivering on their promise, persuasion, and pretense of something for nothing.  

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Liberal Democrats continue to win the hearts, minds, and votes of a majority of women.  The left’s most recent success centers on convincing women Republicans are warring against them.  Any attempt to question abortion policy or forced birth control funding has been boldly proclaimed as evidence of conservative hate for women.  Ironically, it’s actually the left that’s warring against women.  Need proof?  Well how about the fact that 50-percent of women under 30 have their children out of wedlock, and that 75-percent of all black children are born out of wedlock.  Taking daddy out is deadly for children and moms.  We’ve aborted 50-million children in America.  Half would have been women and does anyone really believe that killing your off-spring uplifts women?  What the left’s done is create an America where women are neglected toys for immature little boys.  That’s not progressive – it’s a hollow victory in the left’s real war on women.

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Objective review of left-wing America reveals most liberals functioning as political mascots.  There’s a reason and compassionate conservatives should say so – most Democrats are hypnotized.  That process begins with the left’s promise their followers can have something – peace, benefits, prosperity, and happiness – for nothing – even though every message in nature says there is no such thing.  Then there’s that left-handed nonsense that anyone who’s faced hardship is a victim entitled to a special deal.  No one goes through life without hardship, so, in liberal theory, everyone’s an entitled victim.  Great recruiting tool – bad uplifting tool.  Last comes the not so bright core of the liberal agenda – making people dependent on the least dependable thing in the universe – politicians – and pretending that’s a good thing.  Get busy conservatives – there are lots of hypnotized liberals needing a “hey you – wake up” finger snap.

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Anyway you cut it, Trayvon Martin died tragically.  He’s either a victim of a Latin vigilante, a black thugs-are-us cultural model, or liberal whites teaching victim thinking to minorities as a means to acquiring political mascots.  Time will reveal the truth, but by then most folks will have moved on to the next drama.  Trayvon won’t be moving onto to anything and George Zimmerman will be in danger for a long time to come – no matter who first attacked who.  It seems the New Black Panther Party has put a bounty of $10,000 for the “capture” of Mr. Zimmerman even though the police know his whereabouts 24/7.  Ironically, the old Black Panther Party is criticizing their new competition.  It was OK to murder people in the sixties, but now that most of those old Black Panthers are dead criminals or live university professors, bounties are out of bounds.  Using dead teenagers as a PR tool – well that’s evidently OK for the old and the new.

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on misguided priorities…

Have you noticed the way the left screams whenever conservatives raise questions about morality, abortion, and promiscuity?  An alien monitoring from another planet would quickly assume life in America revolves around our private parts.  Raising the fact we have so many single women better at making babies than parenting them is a liberal scream producer.  Recognizing we’ve aborted 50-million children in America – more screams.  Questioning why anyone should be forced to pay for someone else’s birth control or sexual performance drug – even louder screams.  Noting that promiscuity among homosexuals is the number one cause of HIV infection – yes, more screams.  Diversity of use, misuse, or abuse of our private parts sums up much of today’s liberal progressive agenda.  If our culture rests mostly on the freedom to fool around, the Founding Fathers wasted a lot of energy on our Constitution. 

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on “Picking Your Ism”…

Most Americans struggle between the extremes of pessimism and optimism.  Having more to do with habit than reality, both are dangerous places to take a stand.  Life is a blend of good and bad – no one formula fits all situations.  Optimists believe staying positive keeps you on the sunny side of life.  Try that approach when your house is on fire.  Pessimists believe looking for the negative will keep you from being surprised.  That’s true, but you’ll also lose your ability to see the good.  The third option is  realism.  Realists recognize the good and bad and avoid being kidnapped by either. They keep a big eye on the good, but don’t ignore the bad.  Liberal media outlets do a great job of misusing the power of positive thinking.  We’re constantly programmed to believe down is up and bad is good and not to worry about our culture’s slide.  That’s not positive, negative or realistic thinking – it’s just plain old stupidity… 

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on missing character…

Whoops – President PBO just got caught.  While meeting with Russia’s President Medvede on Strategic Missile Defense, Obama said out loud he needed space because of the upcoming election.  In other words, he asked an avowed adversary to the US to be his friend and be patient until he could accommodate them from a more secure position.  That’s first order political opportunism folks – and that’s a form of treason, not leadership.  Such men and such practices will never keep America safe.  Remember, it was Obama who recently embraced a one sided nuclear arms appeasement agreement with Russia in 2010.  Bending over backwards is not an effective way to lead. Neither is asking for favors from the opposition or pretending to be one thing and practicing another.  Obama is dangerous for America.  Resistance to this gentleman has nothing to do with his color –everything to do with his dark character. 

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on bold law breakers…

North Carolina has a long standing reputation as an unofficial sanctuary state for illegal aliens.  An organization there, Cape Fear Fire, is fighting hard to tarnish that ill-gotten standing.  Recently, Maureen Wilson, a representative of Cape Fear Fire sent an unusual letter to that state’s general assembly.  She requested action to prevent non-citizens from dominating legislative meetings on illegal immigration.  In NC, like other states, flooding hearings and maligning opponents of illegal immigration is a common strategy.  Most elected officials are moral cowards on the subject and afraid to take a stand.  Officials in Asheville, NC take a similar path.  Self-admitted illegals held a recent protest on Asheville’s public square and brazenly revealed their status without fear of enforcement.  When we replace the rule of law with rule by people and special interests, we’re accelerating the downgrading of America.  Our government does just that on a routine basis.

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on playing a dangerous game…

If you’re a NY Giants fan, you’ll have to wait one more day to watch your champions take the field.  The NFL, in an effort to accommodate the Democratic National Committee and President Obama, is going to postpone the season opener.  There was a conflict with the game and PBO’s speech.  Though it’s all political theater, there’s a difference in a State of the Union or other public appearance by the Commander-in-Chief and a Party election rally.  Moving a game opener is no easy task – moving one to help reelect somebody is a bad call.  With the habitual denials common to all addicts, the media disclaims any liberal bias.  That’s nonsense and everyone with an ounce of retained objectivity knows it.  For the NFL to join the parade is disappointing.  Conservative fans might want to express their displeasure to those in charge.  Still, opportunity exists in this misstep – the postponement preempts Vice-President Joe Biden’s convention speech.    

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on lukewarm Christians…

The book of Revelation in the Bible offers a verse relevant to conservatives and liberals alike – “So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.” The message is that sitting on the fence, in a position of safety and appeasement, is neither wise nor realistic.  In a recent interview with Laura Ingraham, former President Jimmy Carter gave us a perfect example when he touted himself as being against abortion.  With denial so typical to those practicing the dark art of political opportunism, he took an abortion position with his party about as powerful as a bucket of warm spit.  His request?  That they “deemphasize abortion in the party platform.”  In other words, lets tone down the rhetoric to avoid alienating folks.  Sorry, Jimmy, it’s not possible to protect your party and the unborn at the same time.  But you did remind us of your talent for embracing that warm & fuzzy place between hot and cold.

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on dangerous enablers…

One of the most sinister forces in modern America is enslavement as a path to power.  That’s the central agenda of twenty-first century liberals – make people dependent on the least dependable things in the universe – politicians.  The poor, weak, disadvantaged, insecure, angry, fearful, young, and damaged are especially vulnerable to this seduction.  Most of us fall into one or more of those categories at some point in our lives and the left is there with a message of false hope as a recruitment tool.  Conservative thinkers believe that everyone occasionally needs a safety net and a hand-up.  Understanding the ease with which functional individuals embrace dependency, we resist the harms of hand-outs and safety-nets turned into hammocks.  Creating entitlement, victim, or dependent thinking is the mark of a social predator – not a benefactor.  Liberals on that mission, and that’s most of them, are operating from power and vanity, not love.

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Cravings are Different Than Hunger

Asheville Citizen-Times Editorial 72 – Hunger – April 1, 2012

The biggest beneficiaries of America’s hunger programs are government and non-profit  organizations busily creating a need for their services.  There’s no faster path to personal advantage than making people dependent.  Just ask OPEC.

The deceptive term “food insecurity” is used to justify food banks because real hunger is rare in a much blessed and much spoiled America.   The broader roots of food insecurity – more realistically food anxiety as a form of withdrawal – are found in addiction or eating badly versus not enough. 

Ironically, the ones most familiar with the insincerity of our trumped up hunger problem are the same ones handing out the food.   The obesity of many of the recipients, visible four-dollar-a-pack cigarettes, and a greater interest in Twinkies than pintos reliably separates the social predators from the needy. 

We make the same mistake with hungry people we make with homeless people.  Homelessness can originate from bad luck, bad choices, mental illness, addiction, non-conformity, unemployment, predatory dedications, or a combination.  It’s just easier to hand out group victim badges.  That’s a great plan for employing social workers – not so good when it comes to matching nuts to bolts.   

There’s a difference in a safety net and a hammock.  Thanks to Obama and his party of merry socialists, we now have forty-five million Americans on food stamps.  Some need and deserve the help.  Others use the opportunity to dodge personal accountabilities. 

Free food and food stamps are not free.  They’re paid for by the sweat of those who chose to live in a responsible, productive, and rationale manner.  Politicians and enablers know that robbing Peter to pay Paul secures the loyalties of a very quickly addicted Paul. 

For proof positive that a real “hunger game” is being played on America, flip this coin.  Hunger doesn’t remotely touch the harms, numbers, and obesity associated with too much food. 

The best deceivers con themselves first.  Hunger statistics come out of loaded questions like, “Have there been times in the past year when you did not have enough money to buy the food your family needed?”  Heck, I triggered a “yes” on that one last week when I went into a Burnsville fast food restaurant with two bucks to my name.

Those seeking to really do good separate helping hands from handouts.  There’s no morality, love, or nourishment found in enabling.  Vanity, free stuff, and dependency, like salt, sugar, and fat, are remarkably addictive… 

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on safety trumping truth…

Man may be equal, but cultures certainly aren’t.  An often overlooked trait among many Muslim cultures is the credibility given to aggression as a measure of character.  In many countries, the Judeo-Christian model of reason and composure is interpreted as weak.  That assessment is essentially correct – unless reason and composure is backed up with determination and courage.  Mark Thompson, head of the United Kingdom’s socialist propaganda arm – the BBC – is missing that grit. During an Oxford University interview, Thompson admitted the fear of Muslim retaliation makes him treat stories about Islam differently than he does stories about Christianity.  That’s an endorsement of Christians and an indictment of the BBC and Islam.  Thompson noted a recent show portraying Jesus in diapers would not be duplicated with Mohammed.  He thus revealed who’s really wearing the diapers in our darkening world.

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on another Obama success…

Everyone, except those operating in reality, seems excited about improving job statistics.  The drop below nine percent has been heralded as validation of Obama’s leadership.  Actually, that’s correct, he does deserve credit for what’s happening, but it’s got more to do with failure than success.  The percentage of people working in America is around 58, the lowest it’s been since we starting abandoning the family and putting mom to work.  That puts us on par with socialist Europe.  It also means a lot of people have given up.  The number of available jobs equals what we had in the year 2000 and the jobs we’re gaining pay less.  Curiously, under Obama we have more seniors working and fewer youth.  One in four teens work – the lowest number in history.  In a form of poetic justice, baby-boomers are being forced back to work to pay their bills. Jobs are our best social service.  Statistics are working hard to hide our failure to create new ones. 

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on Obama reelection insurance…

We’re running out of time on Iran, and President Obama’s recent affirmation of Israel’s right to protect itself affirms imminent adventure.  Until now, Obama’s public position has centered on peace and appeasement.  He’s counted on sanctions to strangle Iran’s nuclear despots.  It’s not happened and can’t.  Oil and support from Russia assures Iran can defeat sanctions until they have the bomb.  Obama now gets it, and in fact his future may be tied to what happens next.  Israel now has U.S. license to attack.  They will – and in fact already have through espionage, computer viruses, and assignation of key Iranian players.  There’s more adventure to come, but Iran’s leaders have invited the pain.  Direct threats to Israel’s right to exist combined with the potential power to make sure they don’t has sealed Iran’s fate.  Obama’s change of heart on this adventure centers on sealing his reelection.     

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on a group therapy healthcare system…

There was a time when healthcare centered on a mutually responsible relationship between patient and physician. Costs were low, access was good, and that relationship was healthy. Today, every time a patient meets with their physician there’s an insurance bureaucrat, attorney, regulator, and politician crowded into the exam room. This complexity has corrupted healthcare. Insurance entities like Medicare, BlueCross, and Medicaid are in control.  Government agencies make big promises, underfund their programs, and transfer costs to those with private insurance.  Those companies, in turn, dictate physician protocols and practices. Patients get service without accountability.  Attorneys and other system predators get their piece too.  Employers get the tab.  Healthcare recovery requires greed therapy and a return to relationship, responsibility and restraint.  ObamaCare will insure that doesn’t happen.     

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on Uncle Sam’s phantoms…

Ever tried to locate an email address for a Federal or State service agency?  Save yourself a headache – it can’t be done – at least not easily.  In a time of unprecedented technology leaps, when it comes to communication and service, our bureaucrats still rely on the phone and post office.  There’s a reason for that restricted access – availability translates to responsibility.  The more accessible you are, the more people will look to you for assistance.  Isn’t that what a service agency is supposed to be about?  Sure, unless you have a system of so many laws, rules, regulations, and procedures you can’t administer it openly and efficiency.  That’s government – a top heavy ship using all its energy to keep itself afloat.  Your interest in adding more cargo is actively discouraged. Isn’t it fascinating how the left continues to push government as the answer, while reality persistently points to their key role as a big part of the problem…

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If It’s OK There It’s OK Here

While my birddog “Pepper” pesters me with a never ending game of fetch, I’m pondering the possibility of revolution.     

It’s a personal belief our President, his Czars, party, and followers are dangerous.  Treating the Constitution as a curiosity one might find on the Antique Road Show is like taking a road trip without a roadmap.  Countries get lost the same way people do.

My rebellion is in the formative stage.  I’m mostly collecting discount coupons for food and ammo.  In my spare time I muse over an Obama birth certificate having more miscues than a UNC-A playoff game with Syracuse. 

One of my first steps will be requesting military assistance from China and Russia.  I’ve got time for diplomatic entreaties because a benevolent administration busily turning America into a socialist utopia wouldn’t use violence in response to my revolt.  Would they?  Heck, if I shifted from resistance through written word to weaponry, I’d have the longevity of a June bug in a chicken coop.

And so goes Syria.  People have decided they don’t like their leadership either and moved beyond coupons to actions.  Though their courage is admirable, we should not intervene. 

Vanity kings from both parties love to pretend America can police the world, but our inability to police our own borders demonstrates otherwise.  Ten years hard work in Iraq and Afghanistan is unraveling before our eyes.  The rampage of a mentally ill soldier turned murder mirrors the actions of political adventurers who sent him to that crazy place to begin with.  He’ll go to jail.  They’ll use sound bites to dodge accountability and retire with honors. 

By what right can America support an overseas revolt we wouldn’t tolerate at home?  Yes, Syria’s Assad is several notches higher up the despot scale than Obama, but my unprincipled Chinese and Russian allies are correct.  We have no more license to militarily aid rebellion against disliked leadership in Syria than I have license to attack ours.

Those who believe we should intervene are invited to go and join the fight.  Using our young soldiers as proxies is cowardly.  Before you join-up, review the results of our current administration’s recent policing foray into Libya.  We won. They got Sharia law. 

As Pepper continues to pester me with a tennis ball, I’ll continue to ponder armed rebellion.  And the mission of those black ops guys sneaking up my driveway...

Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on factual hysteria…

In a recent issue of Vanity Fair, a magazine as characterized by its first name as it is distanced from its second, the TEA Party and the parade of Republican Presidential candidates were liberally chastised.  That’s liberally both in the sense of “a lot” and liberally in the sense of “spin.”  Two Republican limitations brightly illuminated on back to back pages – one an article and the other an ad – were a supposed aversion to taxes and personal liberties.  Both are distortions common to a political movement dedicated to the promise of something for nothing and making people more dependent on politicians. TEA partiers, Republicans, and conservatives are not against taxes – they’re against waste and resist taxes to resist big government.  We’re also not against liberty.  We’re against deviance and genocide endorsed behind a pretense of liberty. Factual hysteria is a dead giveaway of intellectual and moral bankruptcy Mr. and Mrs. Liberal.

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on fading hope and less change…

By all indications, the Republican Party has done about all it can to assure Obama’s reelection.  Refusing to stand for something people can count on has a major down side most politicos ignore – it creates an organizational structure prone to producing political opportunists, not leaders.  Nonetheless, there is hope on the horizon.  Obama recently – surprise, surprise – reversed his earlier position against Super-PAC’s.  He’s now all for the idea and kept quiet when Bill Maher, whose vulgar attacks on women make Rush Limbaugh’s “slut” accusations look innocent, contributed a million dollars to PBO’s Super-PAC.   Hypocrisy comes cheap in Washington, but he’ll need a lot more Bills to secure a November victory.  Obama’s campaign contributions are down at all levels and his costs are up.  His “hope and change” fantasy has lost its sparkle.  Accordingly, recovering Obama-Zombies are keeping their own change.

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on standing for something…

In our community, like yours, we have a few conservatives with a courage button.  One, a mother and homemaker, sits on our school board.  Her peers function as cheerleaders for the system’s administrators, but Mrs. Lisa Baldwin believes in the importance of oversight.  Persistently, she champions budgetary transparency, staff performance scrutiny, and other efforts to be careful with other people’s money.  More times than not, her efforts fail on a 6-1 vote and a heap of personal criticism.  Mrs. Baldwin, recognizing that habit and personal insults are the sanctuaries of immaturity, presses on.  Look around your community and you may find another leader who stands on principle over power, popularity, party or profit.  Give them your support.  Maybe you can become like them.  Country-club boards, commissions, and councils are corrupting America.  It’ll take more of those “6-1” type people to save it…

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on a difference in talk and walk…

For an inside view into what’s wrong with the Republican Party, take a look at two Party stalwarts – Senator Jim Demint of SC and Richard Burr of NC.  Burr recently led a bi-partisan effort to plant government in the business of subsidies for the natural-gas industry.  He failed, but demonstrated a repeated pattern of complaining about big government and then using Senatorial powers to make government and crony capitalists bigger. Senator Tom Coburn, a guy who’s supposed to be a leader in fighting tax subsidies, joined right in with Burr.  Senator Jim Demint seems less inclined toward political opportunism.  This guy walks his talk and attempted a bill that would get government out of subsidizing energy at all levels.  He trusts the self-correcting nature of a true free market far more than the special interest meddling of government.  Demint failed too – but, importantly, he failed doing the right thing. 

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Hi - this is TheCandidConservative with today's minute on governmental sickness...

Barring a miracle Obamacare is going to put government in charge of our healthcare.  The Congressional Budget Office, one of few Federal agencies practicing numbers honesty, says the gross cost will be twice the $930 billion figure used to market the scam.  Unless you’re one of  growing number of Americans devoted to the pretense of something for nothing, Obamacare is not a cause for celebration.  For starters, this lemon was sold with truth distortions matching the best efforts of an unscrupulous used car salesman – starting with bogus promises of savings.  The early sales pitch included already implemented Obamacare initiatives like ACO, MSSP, and IPAB.  Without exception they’ve fallen far short on savings predictions and fallen into government’s inevitable traps of paralysis by analysis, special interest indulgences, and bureaucratic meddling.  A government that can’t run itself certainly can’t run our healthcare.   

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When our President first campaigned, his vehicle of choice was a 17 mpg GMC Yukon.   Since his election, the price of gas has doubled and he’s now flying about in a Boeing 747 burning one gallon per second.    

According to U.S. News, during last year’s Earth Day celebration, Obama’s three-day campaign-style trip on Air Force One consumed 53,000 gallons of fuel.  A figure not including his limo, motorcade, and security.  It’s a safe bet those military jets circling Asheville throughout another recent vacation weren’t hybrids.  So much for walking your energy talk.

That said, out nation’s Commander-in-Chief is not responsible for the cost of gas.  If Obama had the ability to control fuel prices, you can bet we’d be paying about the same thing for a gallon of liquid sun we’re paying for a grande cup of java and he and Michelle would be planning four more years of tax-funded vacations.

Gas prices arise from three factors – geo-politics, geo-economics, and geo-dependency. 

In an safe world, fuel production, refining, and distribution fall into reliable patterns supporting price stability.  We do not live in a safe world.  Though we get only 15 percent of our fuel from the middle-east, this unstable region is the world’s oil barrel.  Turmoil there equals higher gas prices here.

Nothing is free.  In recent years both political parties have been debasing our currency in order to conceal overspending and mismanagement.  As the dollar goes down, the price of gas goes up.  Our high gas prices have more to do with missteps back home than black-gold banditry overseas. 

America imports about half the fuel we consume.   Our leaders jump up and down when OPEC producers use that dependency to manipulate supplies.  Yet that’s precisely what our government does right here at home with hyper-regulation, environmental extremism, and special interest indulgences that impair homegrown energy production. 

Authentic energy independence by the world’s largest economy will nullify much of OPEC’s power and thus ease the price of gas.  The path to that energy independence requires we either reduce consumption, increase production, or both.  We have the resources.  We do not have the will, courage, unity, or discipline.

Our current President’s leadership model is more about commotion than action.  Though he’s now imitating conservative “all of the above” energy talk, his walk is pure please and appease seduction politics.  It’s unfortunate hot air does not qualify as a viable energy resource. 

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on how eagles don’t flock…

There are four kinds of people in the world.  Chicken, chickens pretending to be eagles, eagles who act like chickens, and eagles.  Your average person is a chicken.  They accept the pecking order, like the security of the flock and fence, and spend their days in desperation scratching for food. Occasionally there’s a strutting chicken, but their wings are weak and they fall quickly when they try to fly.  Think most politicians.  Then there are eagles who don’t now they are eagles, are afraid to be eagles, or don’t know how to be an eagle.  They fly into the coop but never feel comfortable or accepted.  We also have real eagles.  Eagles don’t flock.  They reach high and live with great independence.  Eagles have a courage button.  We live in an America increasingly devoted to the security of a big government chicken coop circled by a fifth group – buzzards.  Which feathers we wear in America, for now, remains in our own hands.

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on liberal hypnotism…

A good example of the left’s intellectual bankruptcy is the concept of hate speech.  The dictionary defines it as, “speech not protected by the First Amendment, because it is intended to foster hatred against individuals or groups based on race, religion, gender, sexual preference, place of national origin, or other improper classification.”  That’s covering a lot of ground and creates obvious free speech conflicts.  What the left lacks in intellectual honesty, they make up for in activism.  Anytime a conservative dares to find his or her courage button and speak against downgrading our culture, the “hate speech” label is quickly applied.  When the left calls right minded people “stupid”, “teabaggers”, or “racists”, that’s OK and not hateful.  Sorry Mr. and Mrs. Liberal, you can’t have it both ways.  Hate speech is nothing more than what common sense folks call “being a jerk.” Using the term to silence dissent is a hateful thing to do…

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today’s minute on murder in a war zone…

At the time this minute was recorded, news about the American soldier who murdered 16 people in Afghanistan was sketchy.  Nonetheless, we can reliably assume three things – one that the soldier was mentally ill – two that he was angry – and three that he had reached the end of his capacity to manage his participation in a corrupt circumstance.  Anyway you cut it, this event was a tragedy.  Women and children were executed by an American soldier turned gunman.  If burned Korans resulted in more of our soldiers being killed, then women and children murdered by an infidel are likely to trigger more of the same.  Our war in Afghanistan has turned a father into a murderer.  The fact he was stationed in an area where civilian support for the Taliban was strong is telling.  We’re really dealing with a number of mentally ill murders –the Taliban, our solider, and those who sent him to that crazy place to begin with.

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Hi, this is TheCandidConservative with today's minute on a culture in decline...

American has more than 45 million people on food stamps. Some, without question, need the hand up. Others, without question, are abusing the hand out. You’ve heard about the lady who won the lottery and continued to collect food stamps. Unemployment technically qualified her. That may ease her conscience, but it does not protect her from bona fide status as a social predator. Social predators are like any predator - they take advantage of the weak and vulnerable. America has a whole lot of social predators pretending to be weak and vulnerable so they can prey on a our system. There’s a difference in weak and vulnerable and immature and self-destructive. The left has spent so many years selling victim and entitlement thinking that most have bought the nonsense. There’s a simple way to spot a social predator. Truly needy and responsible people utilize help to get ahead - predators use help to just get by...

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