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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Yes, Virginia, Conservatism Does Win When It Is Tried!

Despite boat loads of money, time, and establishment support in Iowa for Mitt Romney, the Iowa caucuses narrowly chose the moderate over the conservative Rick Santorum. The fact is conservative ideas work. The establishment has turned its back on any conservative willing to speak strongly. It shuns people like Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh. Interestingly, Rick Santorum embraced the names of those two and others on his way to coming in a close second in Iowa (only 8 votes difference--a statistical tie and political win for Santorum). You know, there are a lot of people that have agreed with the likes of Sarah Palin and Rush, but most of the Republican establishment is afraid to get behind any passionate conservatives. The principles of limited government and individual liberty need strong voices and those voices need support.

The American Spectator : An All-American Miracle

Santorum Points to Praise from Palin, Limbaugh, and Other Conservatives

Here is a great commentary by Rush Limbaugh from last year speaking on how liberals fear true conservatives.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

It is Finished! A Poem of Jesus by Kimberly Alligood

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (1 Timothy 3:16)

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. (1 John 4:9)

Check out more Jesus inspiration at Kimberly's site

Monday, December 19, 2011

Getting Back to the Declaration and Constitution

In the video below, Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, discusses the Declaration of Independence, the founders, Woodrow Wilson, and the founders of modern liberalism and how they gave more power to government.

"The first thing he [Woodrow Wilson] got wrong was looking back on earlier America as a simple age. There was nothing simple about it. The Founders had to fight a war against the largest force on earth. They had to figure out how to found a government based on a set of principles that had never formed the basis of a government. The original Congress was called the Continental Congress, although no one would understand the extent of the continent until Lewis and Clark reported to President Jefferson in 1806. They had to figure out a way for the first free government in history to grow across that continent. These things took vast acts of imagination. And this is not even to mention the crisis of slavery and the Civil War. So the idea that the complications of the late 19th century were something new, or were greater by some order of magnitude, is bunkum.

The second mistake Wilson makes is fundamental, and goes to the core of the American idea. Wilson is opposed to the structure imposed on the government by the Constitution—for instance, the separation of powers—because it impedes what he calls progress. But what idea was behind that structure? James Madison writes in Federalist 51:

[W]hat is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

In other words, human nature is such that human beings need to be governed. We need government if we are not to descend into anarchy. But since human beings will make up the government, government itself must be limited or it will become tyrannical. Just as we outside the government require to be governed, those inside the government require to be governed. And that has to be strictly arranged because those inside the government need, and they will have, a lot of power." --Larry Arnn