In yet another victory for the enemy, Barack Obama has decided to scrap missile defense systems in the Czech Republic and Poland.   You will recall that these shields were initially proposed by the Bush administration as a way to intercept missiles from Iran or another rogue Middle Eastern state.   Given our rocky history with Russia, the locations selected couldn’t have been more ideal, as they would have killed two birds with one stone.  

What’s one to do in this day and age where our commander in chief routinely appeases our enemies, at home and abroad.   Whether it’s the Pelosi democrats in Congress or al-Quada at Club Gitmo, it just doesn’t seem to matter just so long as their seditious pals in the mainstream media vilify anyone who stands up for America, God and families.

At least the U.K. Telegraph is calling out Obama with a headline that reads “Barack Obama surrenders to Russia on Missile Defence”.   Yes, it is indeed a cowardly act by arguably the most unfit person to ever lead our nation.   Can you imagine Ronald Reagan, or even old school Democrats such as Roosevelt or Truman, acting in such a cowardly way?   Seriously, is this Barack Obama or a reincarnation of Neville Chamberlain? 

With each passing day it seems that the only war being waged by liberals is against our own citizens. Heaven forbid we call someone an Islamic fascist but don’t let a day go by without referring to true patriots who attend tea parties as terrorists.   Don’t get me wrong, there are domestic terrorists and most of them are in Washington and all of them are liberals.  

These are the people who are seeking to silence free speech and who use the mainstream media to indoctrinate the young, the dumb and the uninformed, best known as the Obama electorate.   The amazing thing is that these people still support Obama despite his doing everything in his power to undermine the free market and national security. 

Can you imagine the outrage if George Bush had bankrupted our nation, increased troops in an Islamic fascist stronghold or grew government exponentially? Oh, I forget, he did that too.   Yes, the liberals were outraged, calling him every name imaginable. But one Congressman calls Obama a liar and all hell breaks loose.   Once again, we are seeing typical liberal hypocrisy.   Don’t voice your opinion unless you agree with us and if you do, we will use every means possible to silence you.   Sounds a little bit like a third world banana republic. Kenya perhaps? 

 

Without fail, the dawn of the new year brings about the inevitable bevy of new laws to hit the books across the fruited plain.   Effective January 1, 2009, it is now illegal to pee in New Hampshire and those who have the sudden, uncontrollable urge to do so will be faced with a $1000 dollar fine. Of course, the law goes on to say that the person urinating must know that they will be offending someone.   I guess this is a case where ignorance truly is bliss.

In California it is now illegal to text while driving. So let me get this straight, it’s perfectly fine to come across the border, live on the dole and get in state college tuition rates but it’s no longer acceptable to text my illegal alien cousin in Fresno while I drive my low rider through the barrios of East LA.

In Oregon, transfats are now banned.   Yes, another example of idiocy led by liberals who seek to control everything from bodily functions to waistlines. It’s a good thing that there aren’t any transfats in the pot that is legal there. 

In Illinois it is now illegal for contractors with more than $50,000 in state contracts to contribute to the office holder who oversees the deal. At least they excluded Senate seats from this punitive measure that is part and parcel to how business in the most corrupt state in the land is conducted. 

What this amounts to is more evidence that we have far too many unaccountable bureaucrats deciding how we can and can’t live our lives, caring nothing of the masses in their never ending quest for complete government control.

There is nothing wrong with new laws, if they are sensible. Laws that would deport illegal aliens and make illegal border crossings a felony punishable by death would make sense. Rather than banning transfats, wouldn’t it make more sense to sentence anyone driving slow in the fast lane to a month in jail? 

There are a number of things that our legislators could be doing, but are choosing not to.   We need laws to separate schools and state, ban teachers unions and preserve the right to free speech.  

How about some real sensible electioneering laws, like requiring that voters pass a test before they can cast their ballot.   It need not be overly difficult, but perhaps knowing the name of your Senators and Congressional Rep would be a start. Heck even having to know the sum of 1+1 would get rid of half the Obama constituency. 

So why is it when we have a need for real laws that would have a meaningful impact do we find legislators passing what can be described as complete idiocy? Banning transfats, seriously. What next, banning SUV’s, fireplaces and charcoal grilles? 

Take a look around at what liberals have in their crosshairs and this isn’t as far fetched as one may believe.   Liberals are already seeking to ban free speech with something called the Fairness Doctrine.   They are continuing their never ending assault to ban your right to defend your family from criminals, the only people they deem worthy of the right to bear arms.   Perhaps the most sensible law that we could ever pass would be a permanent ban on liberalism, a disease that afflicts nearly one half of our population who are either too dumb or too uninformed to know that there is a cure called common sense.  

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

 

Welcome to 2009 and a call from liberals to raise the gas tax by 50%.   State and federal governments already receive as much as seventy cents on the gallon, compared to a paltry eight cent profit seen by Big Oil, perpetually in government’s cross hairs for their purported excess profits. 

The federal tax alone is eighteen cents, with the remainder of what can only be described as legalized thievery coming from the states.   Now the feds are seeking to impose another ten to twelve cent increase, with recommendations that states do the same.  

Leave it to some unaccountable bureaucrats in Washington to see taxation as the only solution to decreased revenues coming on the heels of decreased driving that began with gas approached five bucks a gallon this past summer, which was largely due to decreased supply as the result of failure liberal policies that limits domestic oil exploration and production. 

Rather than looking to steal more from Americans, already struggling in difficult economic times, caused by liberal abuses of power such as the Community Reinvestment Act and corruption at Fannie and Freddie, how about giving us some real solutions. 

If more money is needed for roads, then find it elsewhere. How much cash is being used to subsidize education, healthcare and welfare for illegal aliens? How much of the ill gotten gains of government is being used for bridges to nowhere or union bailouts? The waste of government is endless, yet rather than fix what they have created they seek to steal more from us? 

It’s utterly amazing that they are doing exactly what we would go to jail for.   If we were to demand money from another under the threat of a loss of life or liberty, we would be held accountable.   Yet government remains immune, having a pass to seize as much of OUR money as they see fit from OUR pocketbooks and if we object, they will punish us with a loss of freedom and liberty.

Way back when some folks got a little upset about this type of abuse, which was far less egregious than what we are witnessing today.   Tea was dumped in the Boston Harbor, muskets were procured and a few folks like Adams, Washington, Jefferson and Franklin brought about change. Not the kind of change being promised by the chosen one, which really is just proving to be more of the same, but real change that we could count on. Well, at least we could count on it until liberals got into power.  Maybe a more sensible approach to getting more funds into the government coffers would be to sell liberals, instead of arms, to our enemies abroad. Now there’s some change I could live with.

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

 

As snow falls from Malibu to Houston one would think that the cries from the global warming alarmists would be silenced with the fact based reality that their silly notions rivaled only by the claims of the flat earth society. 

But as is usually the case with liberals, they will make excuses and use the courts to get their way, even when their way defies all semblance of common sense.   Similar to the Franken Coleman election in Minnesota where actual Election Day results don’t matter when fabricated ballots and activist judges can be used to set those aside in the name of advancing liberalism.  Just as liberals are using every means possible, legal or illegal, to certify Franken the winner, they will do the same to brainwash the American sheep of the plight of the planet. 

While evidence continues to mount that global warming is nothing more than a hoax brought about by anti-capitalist environazis, there are those on the left who still fail to see the forest through the trees. One of the factually challenged zealots would be none other than the messiah himself, who won election on the promise that he would bring about falling sea levels and global harmony.

In showing his true colors of economic and environmental illiteracy, B. Hussein Obama has named John Holdren as his Science Advisor.  Aside from the fact that this guy is a radical left wing zealot let me pose a simple question; why should the American taxpayers be paying for yet another unaccountable, incompetent bureaucrat?

Even the extreme left wing BBC announced this year that 2008 is the coldest year of the 21^st century and validated the fact that average mean temperatures have steadily declined since 1998.   Since these facts seemingly contradict Al Gore’s science fiction film, the liberal enviro wackos decided that they would rename the cyclical nature of weather as climate change. That’s great, now they have all their bases covered.   Snow in San Diego, climate change.   An 80 degree January day in Minneapolis, climate change.   This is perfect for liberals who are measured solely on intent as opposed to results.   What better way to achieve their redistributionist wealth agenda than to create a myth that nobody can debunk.

Unfortunately for hard working Americans with common sense, this will hit us in the pocket book.   The entire global warming/climate change ponzi scheme was created to simply give the government unfettered access to seize more of our earnings. 

For those of you who actually think that global warming exists, I have a bridge to sell you.   For those who think that climate change is some type of manmade phenomenon, look at the facts which are that history provided five distinctly warmer periods than we are witnessing today, including the 12^th century when much of Greenland was arable.   For those who like to blame SUV’s, fireplaces and charcoal grilles what’s your excuse for Pluto and Mars, where climate change is also occurring.   Once again, facts trump fiction which is precisely why liberals are going to use their new found power to enact the unFairness Doctrine which is designed to silence those of us who dare to tell the truth.

Throughout the pages of history, censorship and intimidation have been used to silence those who fought freedom.   Be it Stalin, Hitler or Mao, understand that what liberals are doing today is no different.   Sure, they may not want to kill you but that doesn’t mean they don’t seek to take away your economic and individual liberties.  Ask yourself, is it better to live on your knees or die on your feet?   I think our founding fathers provided that answer, which sadly is no longer discussed in our government schools where the concepts of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness have taken a back seat to nanny state entitlementalism and political correctness. 

Christopher Van

www.christophervan.com

For those who still don’t understand the risk that liberals pose to our nation, our freedom and our individual liberties please take a gander at this story about a student who was punished for wearing a t-shirt depicting an American flag. http://www.mercedsunstar.com/275/story/460170.html

I am sure that when high school sophomore Jake Kelly donned that apparel the last thing he had on his mind was being punished. Apparently Dos Palos High School, a government operated indoctrination center in Merced, California, has a policy against students wearing anything that “promotes certain cultures, races or ethnicities.”

My guess is had this student been wearing a turban or shirt depicting a Mexican flag he would not have gotten in trouble because double standards and hypocrisy are the foundation of modern day liberalism. The bigger issue is the administrator who thought for one moment that the American flag can be deemed offensive. This is a person who is not only unpatriotic and almost certainly an Obama Bin Biden supporter, but one who also should be charged with treason.

Certainly it’s no secret that a large number of liberals absolutely abhor everything that Old Glory stands for. They hate the foundations of our Republic, in particular our freedom of speech and expression. How else can one explain the increase in the Marxist tyranny of political correctness where anything that liberals deem to be offensive is suddenly the object of ridicule and persecution?

Liberals have fought for years to outlaw Christianity, because they found it to be offensive. While they have no problem with radical Islam, car bombs and planes flying into tall buildings, Heaven forbid you erect the Ten Commandments or utter the Lord ’s Prayer. While they have great disdain for traditional marriage and family values, these are the same seditious liberals who promote gay marriage and the dissemination of condoms in the lunch line at your local elementary school.

As a nation we need to be increasingly concerned about the decimation of our government schools, brought about by liberals and their unpatriotic allies in the teacher’s unions. These are the people who are raping the minds of our youth in many of our schools that have become nothing more than socialist indoctrination centers.

Liberal leaders in Washington are now attempting to ban free speech, vis a vis the Fairness Doctrine. Their seditious allies in the courts, in particular the 9th Circus Court of Appeals, are banning attempts to preserve the Constitution.

This is the future of our nation with an Obama presidency, as he will rubber stamp and give unfettered access to un-American and unpatriotic actions of our Democrat Congress and the biased mainstream media while all the while appointing more gavel thumping goofballs to our federal bench in their never ending quest to turn our Constitution into a roll of Charmin.


While John McCain may not be perfect, at least the case can be made that he loves his country. The same cannot be said of the Saul Alinsky trained community organizer who has spent twenty years worshiping the rantings of a Marxist, black separatist lunatic while bowing at the altar of an unrepentant terrorist who once suggested that youth should kill their parents.

Christopher Van
www.christophervan.com

Where do liberals come up with their figures?   If anyone knows, please enlighten me.   Do they take an abacus around and tally up the purported 12 million illegals? Just how certain are they that there are 45 million people without health insurance?   Considering these are the same clowns who came up with the science fiction of global warming less than a generation after they claimed we were headed for an ice age, it would seem that their credibility is greatly lacking. 

What liberals don’t want you to know is that there are a grand total of zero people in this country without access to healthcare because laws mandate an entitlement to emergency room care for not only citizens, but for illegals.   Perhaps all the ruckus is nothing more than liberals attempting to create a perceived need for more government.   

What is truly astonishing is that as the Canadian and British government healthcare systems are on the brink of collapse, Democrats continue to push for socialized medicine in our own backyard.  They won’t bother to tell us that in other nations with similar systems, most folks pay not once but twice for coverage.  First, the government takes enough of your cash to run their own failed system which is filled with unaccountable government bureaucrats.  In our current system the government pays 2.5 times more for healthcare than private sector counterparts because of the inherent failure of government.  Second, if this is forced upon all of us, we can expect to not only be forced to fund the government program but will have to purchase our own private health insurance.  

Conservative estimates peg the cost of socialized medicine as a 25% tax increase.  In our own nation we already give close to two thirds of our paycheck to the government when federal, state, local, transportation, social security, infrastructure, property and school taxes are factored in.   If you add another 25% to the tax burden, there will be record numbers of bankruptcies and foreclosures.  The economy will go into a downward spiral and we will likely plunge into a recession that will make the great depression seem like a walk in the park.  

Despite the overwhelming facts, statistics and real life case studies, liberals do not care.  They are putting big government partisanship over the needs of the American people.   Like a junkie needs his next fix, liberals need more dependents.  They realize that wreaking havoc on the economy will only create more entitlementalists which will make them stronger.    Sadly, many Americans are too ignorant, uninformed or just plain stupid to understand that the simple fix to our healthcare crisis is less government regulation and interference and stringent laws that cap frivilous lawsuits by the ambulance chasing trial lawyers.      

Christopher Van

www.goldenpansy.com