Execution of Sgt. Owen
As a retired law enforcement officer, I am outraged by the execution of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sgt. Owen by a career criminal who should not have been out of prison. Indeed, it is obvious and frightening that President Obama and California Governor Brown are responsible for the executioner’s heinous act because of Obama’s war against the police and Brown turning violent criminals loose to prey upon Californians and the American people.
Clearly, Sgt. Owen’s blood is on their reckless hands, and those are crimes against society and the people.
Worse, the assassination of many police officers throughout the country has been brought on by President Obama’s aggressive Black Lives Matter movement and the Attorney General. It doesn’t matter to Mr. Obama or Mr. Brown that the police are the first line of defense against terrorists, invaders and criminals in America.
Of course, the reasons for increased crime is because of President Obama’s edicts to release violent federal prisoners. Likewise, Governor Brown’s AB 109 – and related legislation -- Proposition 47 and the current ballot initiative, Proposition 57, have and will release thousands of felony state prisoners. Indeed, the public and police are being placed at ever increasing risk.
Surely, both President Obama and Governor Brown must be replaced by responsible people of real character and integrity – federal and state guardians and patriots.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley
Riverside Press Enterprise
October 7, 2016
The war on police is anarchy
The insidious war on police fomented by President Obama is anarchy. Recklessly attacking our first line of defense is un-American and places America in danger in these perilous times of terrorism. Indeed, the latest attack, a deputy sheriff’s sergeant was shot in Lancaster.
As a retired 41-year veteran in law enforcement and the criminal justice system, I am deeply troubled and offended by what has been going on throughout President Obama’s two terms in office, which has put my family and fellow Americans in extreme peril.
Clearly, Mr. Obama is not only responsible for increasing violent crimes and murders, he is responsible for Russian aggression, a nuclear Iran and the proliferation of ISIS and terrorism in the world.
Hopefully, Donald Trump will turn things around and allow America to survive and prosper, instead of Hillary Clinton continuing to steer America down the road to ruin.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley
VV Daily Press
September 27, 2016
O.J. Injustice dominates Emmys
The insidious injustice of O.J Simpson getting away with a vicious double murder honored by dominating the Emmy Awards comes as no surprise, as it headlines the reckless decline of the entertainment industry.
Indeed, Hollywood has become a superficial society of social aggression, political tyranny, selfish interests and extremes of shallow minds, absent social redeeming value.
Coupled with damaging violence, lazy remakes, true stories without core truth, stupid sit-coms and soaps, overdone cop, legal and medical series, and the obsession with horror, apocalypse and superhero movies, Hollywood has turned into a tasteless entertainment wasteland.
Add the irresponsibility of television commercials depicting loud, obnoxious behavior, idiotic situations and reckless speeding cars to the equation, and there isn’t much left but mind-numbing experiences….
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley
The Washington Times
September 21, 2016
Emmys show Hollywood’s decline
The insidious injustice of O.J. Simpson getting away with a vicious double murder honored by dominating the Emmy Awards comes as no surprise, as it headlines the reckless decline of the entertainment industry.
Indeed, Hollywood has become a superficial society of social aggression, political tyranny, selfish interests and extremes of shallow minds, absent social redeeming value.
Coupled with damaging violence, lazy remakes, true stories without core truth, stupid situation comedies and soaps, overdone cop, legal and medical series, and the obsession with horror, apocalypse and superhero movies, Hollywood has turned into a tasteless entertainment wasteland.
Add the irresponsibility of television commercials depicting loud, obnoxious behavior, idiotic situations and reckless speeding cars to the equation and there isn’t much left but mind-numbing experiences.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.
San Diego Union-Tribune
September 20, 2016
O.J. Emmys highlight decline of television
The insidious injustice of O.J. Simpson getting away with a vicious double murder honored by dominating the Emmy Awards comes as no surprise, as it headlines the reckless decline of the entertainment industry.
Indeed, Hollywood has become a superficial society of social aggression, political tyranny, selfish interests and extremes of shallow minds, absent social redeeming value.
Coupled with damaging violence, lazy remakes, true stories without core truth, stupid situation comedies and soaps, overdone cop, legal and medical series, and the obsession with horror, apocalypse and superhero movies, Hollywood has turned into a tasteless entertainment wasteland.
Add the irresponsibility of television commercials depicting loud, obnoxious behavior, idiotic situations and reckless speeding cars to the equation and there isn’t much left but mind-numbing experiences.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad
Riverside Press Enterprise
July 12, 2016
President Obama’s sermon insults Dallas police
President Obama’s carefully articulated sermon at the memorial for the five assassinated Dallas police officers was nothing more than a veiled attempt to justify his underlying contempt for law enforcement – the rule of law’s first line of defense.
Considering President Obama’s divisive history with race relations, and his hateful war against the police, at this point, it’s gone too far. Indeed, he must pull back the militant Black Lives Matter movement for the good of the nation before it’s too late.
Surely, it’s painfully clear that President Obama is losing the war against terrorism, and winning the war against the police, which is tantamount to treason.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley
VV Daily Press
June 9, 2016
Rising threats, shrinking military
Bret Bair’s Fox News Special Report regarding America’s Rising Threat, Shrinking Military is a comprehensive dire warning about President Obama’s perilous national security legacy of causing the rise of violence and terrorism in the world, dangerously shrinking our military, and the rising of threats to America from, Russia, China and North Korea.
Indeed, because of President Obama’s long record of divisions -- attacking our society, our economy and our freedoms -- and his overall contempt for America, supported by the liberal media and Democrat Party, he has recklessly placed our country and our people in extreme debt and danger.
Therefore, at the end of his destructive terms in office, he must be replaced by a strong, qualified Republican patriot in the November presidential election. At this time, the nominee to restore America is Donald Trump.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley
VV Daily Press
June 2, 2016
California socialists vs. America
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, indoctrinated students, unions, illegal aliens and the Socialist State of California have made is painfully and violently clear that Republican candidate, Donald Trump, is an enemy of the socialist state.
Indeed, America is already in deep trouble because of President Obama’s 7 ½-year socialist assault on our Constitution, our free society, our free market economy, our domestic security and our national security.
So, it’s now a matter of a political war between anti-American socialists and Republican freedom fighters, currently being led Donald Trump for our survival as true constitutional democratic republic.
Attention voters: Vote for freedom and recovery. Not for giving up to socialism and surrendering to terrorism. Don’t be a fool!
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley
The Washington Times
May 30, 2016
Culture warriors can save U.S.
As President Obama’s corrosive legacy continues to bulldoze the best interests of the American people, we are painfully reminded of just how insidious overwhelming government can be. It is not so different from the tyrannical government that inspired the American Revolution.
Indeed, Mr. Obama’s arrogant monarchial reign and reckless, narcissistic pursuit of a legacy has been bent on increasing government attacks on our social, political and economic freedoms with unconstitutional executive orders, taxes and regulations. Worse, Mr. Obama has been undermining our economic security with his “climate change” hoax and its wars on oil, coal and natural gas in favor of costly and unreliable solar and wind. This constitutes an overall attack on our economy and cost of living.
Even worse, President Obama has divided our nation, conducted a wars on the police and our domestic security, and critically compromised our national defense, military strength and readiness. His expanding romance with Communist nations – Russia, China, Cuba and Viet Nam -- is surpassed only by his record of allowing the unbridled growth of the Taliban, al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Our only hope after President Obama’s 8-year war on America, is to reject the continued socialism of Clinton/Sanders and elect conservatives to government. Otherwise we will be committing voter-assisted social, political and economic suicide.
Unfortunately, most of my state of California has long been in the forefront of socialism, with overbearing government attacking the people and business with punishing taxes and regulations, and allowing crime to flourish. Fortunately, there is an island of hope in most of San Bernardino and our Victor Valley high desert community. Here have solid conservatives both in office and running for office, which is comforting in a world fraught with fear and evil.
Hopefully, there are enough culture warriors remaining our country to overcome our enemies. This November, vote Trump and vote Republican.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.
VV Daily Press
May 2, 2106
Canceling papers, keeping Daily Press
For years, I have subscribed to print newspapers with a focus on major news stories and what is going on in my community, region, state, country and the world. And my main focus has been the opinion pages. I also subscribe to the Washington Post and New York Times online, along with the Orange County Register and Riverside Press Enterprise.
I realize that newspapers have been struggling because of online news via the Internet. Television news notwithstanding, I have kept informed with great interest. Unfortunately, the news has become so biased, that the American people have been dangerously misinformed.
Indeed, if it were not for Fox News and the few honest, conservative traditional newspapers, Americans would be fully indoctrinated against themselves and seriously against their interests of liberty, freedom and self-determination.
Getting to the point of this letter, I now feel betrayed by my newspapers, particularly, the L.A. Times, USA TODAY, the San Bernardino Sun, the Washington Post and New York Times online, and sadly, the Wall Street Journal.
Therefore, I cancelled my L.A. Times subscription because their editorial and letters pages are too liberal, with little or no room for conservative opinion. I cancelled USA TODAY because of liberal slant and their betrayal of traditional letter-writers – focusing of blurbs from Facebook and Twitter.
I cancelled my San Bernardino Sun subscription because of liberal letter slant -- half their letters in response to editorial questions of the week -- and too many letters from L.A. County instead of from loyal readers from our San Bernardino County.
And I cancelled my Wall Street Journal subscription because they ignore letters from readers related to government and politics discussed in editorials and commentary, and the honest, independent opinions of letter-writers. I also cancelled my Washington Post and New York Times online.
Fortunately, our local VV Daily Press remains firmly truthful and balanced, focusing on freedom. Of course, I kept that subscription and I also subscribe to NewMax Magazine. My greatest fear for my family is the failure of our government and the direction President Obama has taken against America.
For years, I have felt that my opinions have been of value to readers, and I have had many letters published, which I have consolidated into 5 published volumes of Letters to the Editor: From the Trenches of Democracy, which includes commentary and tips on writing letters. Volume 6 will be published after the 2016 Presidential Election.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley
Note: Below is an email to me from the WSJ letters editor, and my response:
From: timothy.lemmer@wsj.com [mailto:timothy.lemmer@wsj.com] On Behalf Of ltrs, wsj
Mr. Jeffs,
How can you say the Journal ignores letters on government and political issues? That is a slander and is completely wrong. I look at 600 or so letters a day and we run as many as we can fit in the space. I've printed four from you in the past five years.
Timothy Lemmer
I resent the implications and your condescending attitude, which you displayed the last time I complained to you. Four letters in the last five years is very limited. The only letters on government political issues I’ve seen for a very long time were the group on the 2016 presidential elections a while back. Too bad, the WSJ is a good newspaper.
Dan Jeffs
Riverside Press Enterprise
Letters to the editor:
Scourge of mail theft
My small street of six residences has a group mailbox that was recently pried open and our mail stolen. The theft and vandalism was bad enough but the total lack of interest or action on the part of the Post Office was even worse. I think this problem is much more widespread than we know. The people I spoke with while picking up my mail were from many neighborhoods and some had boxes vandalized multiple times. If the Post Office were a private company, it would be out of business in short order.
John Ray
Woodcrest
(response published)
Riverside Press Enterprise
Re: Scourge of mail theft letter
Get a Letter Locker for secure mail
Mr. Ray, I have a suggestion to resolve you and your neighbors mailbox vandalism and mail theft problems. Jayco Industries in Apple Valley manufactures, sells and installs Letter Locker mailboxes, the highest quality and secure mailboxes on the market. Letter Lockers have patented Claw Locks and the boxes cannot be pried open. The boxes are also large enough to store a quantity of mail that remains secure while you are away or on vacation.
Letter Lockers can be ordered via the Jayco Industries and Letter Locker web sites, or you can pick up a box at the manufacturing plant at 21483 Waalew Rd. in Apple Valley, 92307. The Post Office does require group mailboxes, so you might contact your neighbors to arrange for a cluster of six boxes. It’s certainly worthwhile looking into. I hope this helps your problem. Our son, Jay Jeffs is the founder and owner of Jayco Industries.
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
Obama and Pravda
President Obama’s speech at the Journalism awards ceremony, telling them that Journalists should hold (Republican) presidential candidates accountable for their actions and policy statements confirms his undue influence over the already liberal news media.
Indeed, President Obama speaks as the acting chairman of the liberal ( Putin-controlled Pravda light-like) news media in furthering his corrosive fundamental transformation of the United States America from a Democratic Republic to an authoritarian-style state. No accountability allowed.
Unfortunately, Mr. Obama began his life as one of the last members of the heavy-laden liberal element of the Boomer generation, who infected their children and the next generation in their hostile counter-cultural and political takeover of the safe conservative-American republic as it was founded.
Alas, the Clintons were the first of the Boomer generation, and Obama has been the last and end-all of an insidious revolution, which could end it all for our freedom. Particularly if Hillary Clinton becomes president as the power and greed commander-in-chief.
Clearly, Obama, Clinton and the liberal media have betrayed the Constitution and the First Amendment. Donald Trump is a troubling alternative, but far better than a Clinton-continued calamity….
Daniel B. Jeffs
(Hateful letter and my response)
VV Daily Press
Propaganda vs. reality
Wow! It was a wingnut love fest today, March 24, for the Cranky Old White Men of Apple Valley. All three spewing their vitriol, intolerance, and ignorance on the same editorial page. I really did not read their letters all the way through, since their diatribes are as predictable and trite as all the others they have written. They are a template of the Repugnican (as in Repugnant) propaganda spewed daily by Fox News: President Obama is the worst person in the world who is destroying the USA single-handedly; ObamaCare is the worst government program in the world; all the world’s ills can be blamed on the liberals; Repugnicans good, Democrats evil.
The Crankies, you see, are members of the GOP — God’s Only People. Only they have the God-given right to rule America. Only their candidates should win. Only their opinions matter, since they possess superior knowledge over all of us who don’t agree with them. In other words, they possess no democratic instincts whatsoever. They are inerrant. It’s all about them. We who think differently than they do don’t matter.
I am guessing, though, that these three have it made. They never had is so good, but that doesn’t stop the gritching and groaning. They love their socialist programs, Social Security and Medicare, even though they paid in a lot less than they will receive. They live in the Fox News twilight zone of balanced government budgets, the end of welfare and food stamps, big concealed weapons and big, high walls on the border.
Boys, why don’t you go to the library and educate yourselves. The world doesn’t revolve around you. All the modern, progressive things we take for granted — Social Security, 40-hour work week, Medicare, family leave, ban on child labor, unemployment insurance, auto safety, etc. — sprang from liberal, progressive thinking. Your side of the political equation comes up with nothing except tax cuts for the rich, which have just worked wonders, haven’t they? Please take off your Fox News-colored glasses and experience reality.
Edward Weinberg
VV Daily Press
Condescending diatribe
Hesitant to lower myself to a writer’s level, I seldom, if ever, engage in personal debates with the left. However his personal attacks are beyond the pale.
His spiteful condescending diatribe against conservative letter-writers is painful evidence of his indoctrination as one of useful idiots of the far left, which is a clear and present danger to our society and America.
Surely, his scurrilous comments about “cranky old white men of Apple Valley” and the “GOP God’s Only People” are blatantly racist and bigoted -- unfortunately, expected from the hateful Left.
It’s a shame that he doesn’t appreciate being published in a conservative, libertarian newspaper.
Indeed, his hypocrisy is the result of a vast infection spread by the un-American discrimination of the intolerant left, which is carried by government, the news media, the education establishment and the entertainment industry.
No conservative speech allowed. Enough said!
Daniel B. Jeffs
The Washington Times
Greatest threat: Leftist ideology
Since the eras of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt, the insidious liberal Democrat ideology has tightened its iron grip on America by infecting our government, our schools, our news media and the entertainment industry. All of this has had an extensive influence over our society.
Indeed, if it were not for people who hold fast to conservative Republican and libertarian constitutional principles, freedoms, moral values and religion, our nation and our future would be lost forever to liberal indoctrination.
The 2016 presidential election run-up has been a brutal display of the battle between good and evil, exacerbated by two terms of the insidious Obama administration, starring Republican Donald Trump, and Democrats Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Unfortunately, pathological narcissist billionaire Donald Trump is a political anomaly, a gift to Democrats intent on destroying the Republicans. He is playing into their insidious ideology.
Fortunately, Republican candidates such as Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas have the wherewithal to beat Mr. Trump, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders. That is, if the Republican Party gets its act together and works to dismantle the greatest threat to our country: Liberal Democrat ideology….
Daniel B. Jeffs
NewsMax Magazine
Obama’s legacy
President Obama does not live in our American universe, but in his own world of legacy-seeking deceit, distraction, abuse of power and chaos regardless of the social, political, economic, domestic and national security damage inflicted upon our nation. On the other hand, that appears to be exactly what he wants.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Kasich our last chance
Who will be elected president in 2016? Considering the probable nominees, it doesn’t look good for America. Clinton or Trump? No!
Unfortunately, too may clueless and indoctrinated voters influenced by biased media will go along with lemming voter-assisted suicide. Why? It already happened with two-term President Obama: Social, political, economic, domestic and national security disasters.
Worse, the state of the Republican Party, Democrat Party and outsiders in the presidential election have created a Trump-driven, ringmaster-cheapened political circus with ugly side-shows, making it painfully clear that America is steeped in election trouble.
The news media, of course, are exacerbating the dilemma. It’s time for voters to get our act together and promote real democracy wherein we decide -- not the personal power-hungry narcissistic fools running our country into the ground….
Sen. Rubio or Sen. Cruz are OK alternatives, particularly against Corrupt Hillary Clinton or socialist Bernie Sanders.
However, Ohio Gov. John Kasich is the only grounded, qualified candidate with the character, integrity and deeply proven federal and state government experience to pull our country together against government self-destruction, economic ruin and terrorism.
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
Valley Voices
Revolting development scenarios
By Daniel B. Jeffs
The rise of uncivilized Islamic assaults on civilization in the world, have been exacerbated by the rise of uncivilized technology resulting in superficial societies of selfish interests, social aggression, political tyranny, economic stress and extremes – particularly in America.
Indeed, America -- the model and historical leader of peace and freedom in the world -- has been severely undermined by the post-WWII cultural revolution resulting in tearing down our established institutions, corrupting our society and diminishing our freedoms.
Clearly, the revolting developments have been caused by social, political and economic extremists from the 1960’s and 70’s, who spawned countercultural hate and decay in society and government, leaving America vulnerable to attack by enemies from within and the outside.
Which leads us the revolting political developments of now and how we got here. Alas, most Democrats have made a costly mess of things, and most Republicans have been less than efficient in cleaning it up. The best of both have been Kennedy and Reagan. The worst: Carter, Clinton and Obama.
Surely, the best outcome for the 2016 presidential election would be either Rubio, Kasich, Christie or Fiorina. The worst would be Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, with Barack Obama on the Supreme Court. The elephant in the room isn’t really an elephant. He’s certainly not a Trump card. He’s a dangerous anomaly.
Presidential race to oblivion?
It’s still the economy, stupid is not Hillary Clinton’s truth any more than it was in 1992, when Bill Clinton schemed his way into the presidency, then undermined the economy by causing the unaffordable housing and financial collapse of 2008.
Indeed, the counter cultural revolution and decades of extremist and socialist indoctrination by the miseducation and media cartel came to fruition with the 2008 election of Barack Obama, humiliating John McCain and the bumbling Republican Party, and assigning Hillary Clinton to dismantle foreign policy and escalate terrorism.
Now, the 2016 presidential race to America’s oblivion is on again, with corruption-in-her-heart and fire-in-her-eyes Hillary Clinton leading, challenged by the cranky old socialist Bernie Sanders and his wild-young indoctrinated crowd of supporters.
Of course, they’re being chased by a narrowing herd of patriotic Republicans, stampeded by wheeler-dealer Donald Trump, and struggling to gain traction with Cruz, Rubio, Carson, Christie and Kasich – with a Bush in the background.
Alas, the liberal media curse is the venomous snake in the grass that will frighten the voter multitude all the way through to the poisoned finish line. Hopefully, the American voters will be concerned enough to find the antidote and a way back to the strong tradition of who we are: Home of the brave and land of the free.
Question is, who will it be? First woman,? first Hispanic? or who? -- I vote for Kasich/Fiorina, for political sanity.
Daniel B. Jeffs is an Apple Valley resident and retired law enforcement officer who served on two San Bernardino County Grand Juries.
VV Daily Press
Brown’s attack on California
Governor Brown is so wrapped-up in himself as the only real governor of California, that he fanaticizes about holding the office until his last breath. However, when and if reality sets in, the state will realize that he has been little more than a political hustler whose Prop. 30 taxed the lives, and Prop. 47 endangered the lives of the people of the state. Now he has another prison initiative to release even criminals to prey on the people.
Indeed, Gov. Jerry has been the miserable master of California’s punishing taxes, implementing anti-economy Prop. 32 regulations, the miseducation money pit, sanctuary state of crime, leaking rainy day surpluses, drought neglect, and the San Francisco to Los Angeles bullet train wreck. Clearly, Mr. Brown now wants his $68 billion-times-two-toy train to start in Northern California instead of Southern so he can play with it first.
All at taxpayers’ expense and security, of course. For that is the languishing lament of liberal state politics – and what a longtime diminishing development it has been. Alas, rather than suffering in silence, it’s time to for voters to wise-up and make changes to survive and prosper – for a change….
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
Public betrayal in Hollywood
Black activists hardly have room to complain about being snubbed by white dominated Hollywood awards time. Particularly, when black movies have increased over the past few years. Indeed, Concussion was black dominated because sports are black dominated. And Straight outta Compton was a success, even though irresponsible in depicting angry black gangster rap, which is damaging to young people and society – yet very popular so-called music that is frequently used in movies. Surely, it must be noted that blacks are over-represented in television, commercials and many movies.
The Big Short incompletely and irresponsibly depicts Wall Street greed as the culprit in the 2008 housing and financial crash, when in fact, it was President Clinton and his administration who caused the collapse by intimidating banks and mortgage lenders into giving home loans to unqualified buyers to push his affordable housing agenda. Wall Street simply did the best they could in reaction to being faced with disaster.
Spotlight incompletely and irresponsibly depicts the child molestation in the Catholic clergy, but fails to portray why it happened: A massive move by gay pedophiles into Catholic seminaries during the 1970’s and 1980’s, wherein, as Catholic priests, they would have an unlimited supply of altar-boy victims to prey upon. The church was simply the overwhelmed by the predators and struggled to deal with it.
Alas, Hollywood certainly falls short in depicting truth, overdone with violence, lacking in social responsibility, and long on shamelessly celebrating themselves….
Daniel B. Jeffs
(Revised last paragraph sent later)
Public betrayal in Hollywood (revised)
Black activists hardly have room to complain about being snubbed by white dominated Hollywood awards time. Particularly, when black movies have increased over the past few years. Indeed, Concussion was black dominated because sports are black dominated. And Straight outta Compton was a success, even though irresponsible in depicting angry black gangster rap, which is damaging to young people and society – yet very popular so-called music that is frequently used in movies. Surely, it must be noted that blacks are over-represented in television, commercials and many movies.
The Big Short incompletely and irresponsibly depicts Wall Street greed as the culprit in the 2008 housing and financial crash, when in fact, it was President Clinton and his administration who caused the collapse by intimidating banks and mortgage lenders into giving home loans to unqualified buyers to push his affordable housing agenda. Wall Street simply did the best they could in reaction to being faced with disaster.
Spotlight incompletely and irresponsibly depicts the child molestation in the Catholic clergy, but fails to portray why it happened: A massive move by gay pedophiles into Catholic seminaries during the 1970’s and 1980’s, wherein, as Catholic priests, they would have an unlimited supply of altar-boy victims to prey upon. The church was simply the overwhelmed by the predators and struggled to deal with it.
Alas, Hollywood certainly falls short in depicting truth, overdone with violence, lacking in social responsibility, and long on shamelessly celebrating themselves, with few exceptions. Fortunately, Joy, the true story of Joy Mangano and her HSN mop, played by Jennifer Lawrence, recognizes true success with social redeeming value and worthy of reward for both Joy’s achievements….
San Diego Union-Tribune
Sean Penn should be ashamed of his actions
Sean Penn is at least a three-strike traitor and should be in jail or worse. Over time, he has aided and comforted our enemies, Saddam Hussein, Hugo Chavez, and now the current infamous drug lord -- with impunity -- simply because he’s a so-called talented Hollywood actor.
Problem is, he has been an arrogant, un-American bad actor who, unfortunately, represents the infected, self-absorbed arrogance of Hollywood’s sick manipulation of America’s movie-going mind -- Kick-start the Golden Globes and the warped deceit of the mindless award season…
Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad
VV Daily Press
Sean Penn is a traitor
Sean Penn is at least a three-strike traitor and should be in jail or worse. Over time, he has aided and comforted our enemies, Saddam Hussein, Hugo Chavez, and now the current infamous drug lord -- with impunity -- simply because he’s a so-called talented Hollywood actor.
Problem is, he has been an arrogant, un-American bad actor who, unfortunately, represents the infected, self-absorbed arrogance of Hollywood’s sick manipulation of America’s movie-going mind -- Kick-start the Golden Globes and the warped deceit of the mindless award season…
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Bernardino Sun
State of union a mess under President Obama
Under the painful, indefensible administration of President Obama – backed by the irresponsible liberal media -- the state of the union has gone from disheveled to seriously fractured and dangerous, hopefully not beyond repair.
The solution: We, the American people, and our elected representatives must get our collective act together, recover from the destructive Obama era and move up to social, political and economic strength, real security and prosperity – the way America is meant to be….
Unfortunately, I am somewhat of a voice in the wilderness, relentlessly doing my best to save our precious nation for the sake of my family, my community, state and country by writing traditional letters to the editor in sea of technology. And so it goes, as long as tangible print news media survives….
Daniel B. Jeffs
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Obama’s state of disunion salvageable
Under the painful, indefensible administration of President Obama – backed by the irresponsible liberal media -- the state of the union has gone from disheveled to seriously fractured and dangerous, but hopefully not beyond repair.
The solution: We, the American people, and our elected representatives must get our collective act together, recover from the destructive Obama era and move up to social, political and economic strength, real security and prosperity – the way America is meant to be.
Unfortunately, I am somewhat of a voice in the wilderness, relentlessly doing my best to save our precious nation for the sake of my family, my community, state and country by writing traditional letters to the editor in sea of technology.
And so it goes, as long as tangible print news media survives.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Riverside Press Enterprise
Need for a different kind of climate change
Dwarfing his costly Obamacare failure, President Obama spearheaded his legacy-seeking U.N. conference on climate change in Paris, resulting in a worldwide agreement to avert the worst effects of global warming by shifting economies to cleaner energy sources.
Sadly, the economy-busting climate change deception simply adds to the dangerously corrosive, decades-long social, political and economic climate change in America caused by liberal government, the miseducation establishment and media.
Alas, what America really needs is a reverse climate change -- of good and against evil -- with the strength of determined leadership and limited government. It’s a matter of our survival.
Daniel B. Jeffs
(Original letter)
Deadly climate change deception
Dwarfing his costly Obamacare failure, President Obama spearheaded his legacy-seeking UN conference in Paris on Climate Change resulting in a worldwide agreement to avert the worst effects of global warming by shifting economies to cleaner energy sources to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
However, beginning with Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth global warming deception backed by climate alarmist scientists, the campaign against greenhouse gases went into overdrive, exacerbated by reckless legislative actions highlighted in California by conference attendee, former Gov. Schwarzenegger’s punishing AB 32 carbon taxes.
Indeed, Ca. Gov. Brown gave a speech at the Paris conference, followed by a scene outside the center, singing along with Barry McGuire’s 1965 song, “We’re on the eve of destruction” as his legacy-seeking anthem to take drastic actions justifying his radical political moves by slashing oil consumption and sounding false alarms against drought, disasters and terrorism. And, of course, L.A. Mayor Garcetti attended the conference and jumped on the environmentalist bandwagon.
Sadly, the delirious economy-busting climate change deception simply adds to the dangerously corrosive decades-long social, political and economic climate change in America caused by liberal government, the miseducation establishment and media bent on social, political and economic suicide.
Clearly evidenced by tyrannical laws and taxes, indoctrination of students robbing them of a real education --the Clinton-government-caused 2008 housing and financial meltdown -- President Obama’s feckless foreign policy and border enforcement resulting the proliferation of terrorism, illegal alien criminals, gangs and drugs -- and the collapse of our national and domestic security.
Alas, what America really needs is a reverse climate change to good against evil with the strength of determined leadership and limited government. It’s a matter of our survival….
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
True Americans
Monica Kelley’s “English” and “Left-wing radicals” letters drive home the points of what America was meant to be. Indeed, English is the American language, as it was meant to be. And we are a constitutional republic of representative democracy, as it was meant to be.
What America is not, is what a half-century of counter-culture revolution of radicals and extremists have done to undermine our nation’s constitutional freedoms -- in the name of freedom -- with insidious, vitriolic movements bent on destroying our society with chaos created by our enemies within.
And that is the big-government-socialist way of political indoctrination against conservatives, family, morals and free markets by dividing and conquering, creating a path to tyranny – propelled by the liberal education establishment, the malicious media and the malignant entertainment industry.
Fortunately, we the people are now more informed and painfully aware of the consequences of the intentional failures of good intentions.
Instead of settling for a superficial society replete with social and political aggression, selfish interests and extremes, we must hold on to our liberty, and keep a tight grip on our freedom. The shame of good deeds is they are not appreciated for generations.
The tragedy of bad deeds is they are not resisted until it’s too late. Therefore, as Monica Kelley writes, “Please think before you act. There is a lot going on in this country, and Americans can fix this.” Indeed, fixed by true, moral, family, self-reliant, strong, traditional Americans -- as it was always meant to be….
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Bernardino Sun
Some thoughts on Pope Francis’ visit to U.S.
After reading newspapers, viewing in the news media and then listening to Pope Francis’ address to Congress and the United Nations, it was disturbingly obvious that the Pope has been unduly influenced by President Obama regarding, the distribution of wealth, ObamaCare, Cuba relations, the bad Iran deal and Climate Change – which is a social, political and economic shame.
It was, however, heartening to hear Pope Francis’ strong support of life at conception, traditional marriage, family and America.
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
Motorcycles and the law
The California Legislature must take immediate action to criminalize the dangerous activity of motorcycle gangsters intimidating law-abiding motorists on our freeways and highways, and the similar insanity by dangerous single motorcyclists lane-splitting at 20 to 50 MPH above the flow of traffic. Indeed, they act with total disregard for their own safety and the safety of automobile drivers and their families.
For example, the single reckless driving motorcycle lane-splitters is a daily danger on the freeways, and the motorcycle gangster groups are all too frequent. Recently, my wife and I traveled to Temecula and stopped at a Chevron station near Old Town. The station pumps were completely tied-up by a gang of motorcyclists, some of whom were done with the pumps, but hung around talking to each other causing us to wait nearly 20 minutes for a pump.
After we left looking for a restaurant, one of the gang bikers stopped traffic on a busy road so his fellow gangsters could ride out of a parking lot. The next day, while traveling to our home on the I-15, a different gang of bikers were dangerously lane-splitting in a group, and when traffic slowed in the freeway construction areas of the Cajon Pass, they rode past recklessly on the inside shoulder of the freeway.
Surely, these are crimes, not traffic infractions. Again, the Legislature and Governor must criminalize this menace, which must be strictly enforced by the CHP and other law enforcement agencies for all our safety. After all, the menacing motorcyclists don’t own exclusive rights to the freeways and highways, the motoring, tax paying public does.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Los Angeles Times
Pope Francis and his message cross religious and political lines
After reading newspapers, viewing in the news media and then listening to Pope Francis’ address to Congress and the United Nations, it was disturbingly obvious that the Pope has been unduly influenced by President Obama regarding, the distribution of wealth, ObamaCare, Cuba relations, the bad Iran deal and Climate Change – which is a social, political and economic shame.
It was, however, heartening to hear Pope Francis’ strong support of life at conception, traditional marriage, family and America.
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
2016 rescue needed
President Obama has made it painfully clear that he has no responsibility for America’s national and domestic security as evidenced by coddling the Taliban (Bowe Bergdahl prisoner exchange); ISIS (allowing them to flourish and run over the Middle East); Russia’s aggression in Europe, Syria and assisting Iran’s nuclear ambitions; making a bad deal with Iran than will ensure them obtaining nuclear weapons; China undermining our economy, and illegal alien criminals preying on our citizens with impunity.
Indeed, Mr. Obama has intentionally established himself as our greatest threat by turning his back on America and our enemies to pursue his insidious agenda of fundamentally transforming the United States. Surely, Obama and family will bask in secure retirement, while his socialist legacy will ensure the demise of our freedom -- unless there is a voter revolt and a concerted conservative rescue and recovery from the 2016 elections – Fiorina and Rubio anyone?
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
Prosecute Clinton gang
Former president Bill Clinton, AG Janet Reno, HUD director and Andrew Cuomo Intimidated banks and mortgage lenders into giving home loans to unqualified buyers to promote Clinton's unaffordable housing scheme, which was carried out by co-conspirator Fannie Mae chairman and CEO, Franklin Raines, and perpetuated by congressional finance chairmen, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, until the housing and finance crash of 2008. Indeed, Raines consulted with Senator Obama during his campaign for president, and the collapse was wrongly blamed on President Bush and Wall Street – thus Obama won the election.
President Bush attempted to stop the runaway housing problem, but was stopped by Frank and Dodd, who ended up authoring the Dodd/Frank finance act so President Obama could control the banks. The Entire insidious, deceitful plan was perpetuated throughout the Obama administration, which fueled the Occupy Wall Street movement and the call for the prosecution of Wall Street executives. Now late in Obama’s distraction legacy game, his Justice Department is targeting executives for prosecution, when they should be targeting the Clinton gang, and probably Obama before the bigger crash comes.
Surely, it’s time for big, liberal government’s abuse of power to start losing, and for the American people and taxpayers to start winning….
Daniel B. Jeffs
Riverside Press Enterprise
The war on law enforcement’s latest casualty
The ugly ambush and assassination of Deputy Darren Goforth continues the war against police by murderous gangsters throughout the nation.
It is a result of the counter culture revolution of the 1960’s, intensified by riots, perpetuated by gangster rappers led by those like Tupac Shakur inciting the assassination of cops, exacerbated by people like former Attorney General Eric Holder and Al Sharpton.
I know this from 41-years of service in law enforcement and the criminal justice system. I am deeply concerned for my friends, family, community, state and country.
Indeed, since President Obama’s election, promising to fundamentally transform America, he has pushed our already damaged nation further down a social, political and economic road to legacy-seeking ruin at hyper-speed.
Sadly, America has been deeply infected by the socialist cancer carried by the far-Left’s extremists’ tyranny of the minority, and the miseducation of our students by indoctrination.
Together with severely weakening our national security in the face of a growing world of terrorism, and the police -- our first line of defense -- our future looks desperately grim.
Hopefully, the people will wake up, and the silent majority will speak up and work to turn it all around – for our survival – and return to what America really means. God bless Deputy Goforth’s family and his memory. We must not let his tragic death and all the others be forgotten.
Daniel B. Jeffs
The Washington Times
Obama silent on police murder
The unconscionable ambush assassination of Houston Deputy Darren Goforth this week continues the war against police by murderous gangsters throughout the nation. This war is a result of the counter culture revolution of the 1960’s, intensified by riots, and perpetuated by gangster rappers such as Tupac Shakur that incited the execution of cops. It has been exacerbated by President Obama’s former Attorney Gen Eric H. Holder Jr. and the Rev. Al Sharpton whose actions against local and state law enforcement failed to condemn the escalating the black-against-black gang murders.
I know this from 41-years of service in law enforcement and the criminal justice system, beginning in 1960. I am deeply concerned for the safety of my friends, family, community, state and country. Indeed, since the 2008 presidential election, prior to which Mr. Obama promised to fundamentally transform America, our president has pushed our already damaged nation further and further down a social, political and economic road to ruin. He seeks a legacy at all costs.
Sadly, America has been deeply infected by the socialist cancer of the far left. The miseducation of our students by indoctrination has robbed our next generation of a real education. The current administration continues to move to severely weaken our national security even as we face the global spread of terrorism. Our future looks desperately grim.
Hopefully, the people will wake up, and the silent majority will find its voice prior to next year’s presidential election. It must do so for our survival and in order to return to America to its roots.
Mr. Obama spoke out against the murder late last year of the two New York Police Department officers, but he has yet to condemn Deputy Goforth’s assassination. The silence is deafening. God bless Deputy Goforth’s family and his memory. We must not let his tragic death and all the others be forgotten.
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
Clinton’s email espionage
Hillary Clinton will likely escape prosecution for her top secret email espionage simply because the Clinton’s have “gotten away with murder” since they burst on the political scene in 1992, winning the presidency by default, handed to them by Ross Perot.
Indeed, as a former law enforcement officer since 1960, and since my retirement in 2006, I have witnessed the rise and decline of our country -- including the Clinton “horror story” and President Obama’s abysmal terms in office – causing me to be deeply concerned for my family, my country and the American people.
Clearly, It was bad enough that Bill Clinton’s silver tongue conned his way passed a long history of sexually abusing women, to accomplish his goals for fame and power, backed by his greedy, ruthless wife and first lady, Hillary -- at any cost.
Alas, that cost included fraudulent land and stock deals, the lives of Arkansas state troopers, White House troubled ally, Vince Foster, surviving impeachment and removal from office, Pardoning America’s foremost tax cheat and traitor, Marc Rich, stealing White House property, being the root cause of the 2008 housing and financial collapse, and working the system for personal gain and absolute power.
Coupled with her profitable illegal deals with foreign powers, incompetent service as secretary of state – costing the lives of four Americans including our ambassador at Benghazi, Libya – and receiving classified emails on her private server (tantamount to treason), Hillary Clinton is not qualified to hold public office, particularly the presidency. Clearly, there will be ample evidence to prosecute her.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Bernardino Sun
Time to turn our government around
Re: “Can California cut gasoline usage in half in 15 years? Probably not” (Aug. 12)
California government punishing the populace
Look what’s happening to Californians: The California political elite in Sacramento and elsewhere are leading activists, and indoctrinated voters to punishing businesses and the populace with insane laws, which will surely result in a self-imposed collapse of our economy, our security and our society.
Highlighted by the costly miseducation of our students, strangling our energy resources, electricity, transportation, personal and business income with onerous regulations -- deceitful voter-approved Propositions, including a stupid bullet train – Californians are literally under siege by a destructive ideology.
Alas, taken together, Assembly Bill 32 cap and trade, Proposition 30, extreme taxation and now Senate Bill 350 cutting gas use by 50 percent, coupled with AB 109 and Prop. 47 criminal releases and sanctuary cities, and opening prison and jail gates, releasing criminals to prey on the people in the middle of an unjust war against the police, our first line of defense, is bad government that needs to be replaced by limited government and real democracy….
Indeed, at a time when California’s authoritarian government is trying to eliminate voters’ constitutional rights to initiative, referendum and recall, it’s time to turn government around.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Sacramento Bee
Stewart’s damage is permanent
Anyone who has seen and listened to Jon Stewart before he gained fame and influence from his satirical “Daily Show” would know he is, at the core, an angry, vicious, radical socialist, who used his devious talents for a 16-year run on Comedy Central.
Indeed, his political influence poisoned the minds of his young-voter audiences, which gave him the power to lure powerful people and politicians to his table. Hopefully, he will not use that power to continue his cloaked crusade of liberal tyranny in his retirement.
But don’t count on it. The infection is permanent, [just as it is with Bill Maher, including their mutual war against religion.]
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
City kills innocent woman
As a retired law enforcement officer, I am outraged by San Francisco’s insidious sanctuary policy that caused the murder of an innocent young woman at the hands of a habitual criminal alien with 7 felony convictions and 5 deportations, who was released by San Francisco authorities after felony drug charges were dropped, refusing to honor an ICE hold placed on him.
It’s bad enough that California’s open door to illegal aliens is costing taxpaying citizens $billions to provide education, healthcare, housing and welfare – much more in terms of crime and drugs – exacerbated by President Obama’s open border failure to protect our citizens from the predators. Legal pursuit of citizenship notwithstanding, it’s time to slam the door on the invasion.
Indeed, San Francisco is as guilty as the heinous shooter, and should be held responsible. The murderer should be convicted and sentenced to death. Even though he won’t be executed, at least he will serve life without parole, which is redundant as is San Francisco and the feckless State of California, in dire need of a complete social, political and economic overhaul….
Alas, the loss of this precious life is sad and unforgiveable.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Riverside Press Enterprise
Greece betrayed Democracy
Since the birth of Democracy in 5th Century BC, Athens by Pericles, Greece has betrayed democracy by using it to establish a self-destructive society strangled by self-imposed socialism. Indeed, the Greek people became too reliant on government providing them with all the benefits of living without responsibility, and rejecting government austerity.
Clearly, in the centuries since the success of Pericles direct democracy, it has been demonized as being the tyranny of the majority and the people voting themselves largess. However, a socialist-style society is vulnerable to be consumed by Communism, wherein a dictatorship government owns everything, including the people, who have no rights, no property, and become slaves of the state.
Alas, the world knows that through many years of tyrannical monarchies, the dictatorial socialism/fascism such as Germany and Italy -- and the scourge of Communist Russia, China, North Korea and Cuba -- are the mortal enemies of freedom.
Indeed, America became the hope of the world by separating from a monarchy with a revolutionary war and establishing a unique constitutional republic of representative democracy and all the freedoms that came with it -- for as long as we could hold on to it. And we have, against and all enemies, foreign and domestic. Yet, even here, the tyranny of the minority and the evils of socialism have grown and persist with indoctrination, government growth and the abuse of power.
Surely, with the additional threat of terrorism against us, we have reached critical crossroads and must recover and survive. The only way to do that is to truthfully inform the people and establish a direct representative democracy, wherein professional government managers – not politicians – are elected. They must be confirmed each year, and must truthfully inform the voters. Voters would decide all matters of taxation and public policy. We can do that with a 28th Amendment to the Constitution.
Greece lost its roots of democracy and failed. America cannot to the same.
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
Obama’s monarchial legacy
President Obama is making it painfully clear that he will leave a monarchial legacy of social, political and economic pain, severely diminished national and domestic security -- and racial divisions. Indeed, of elected, Hillary Clinton would leave a similar legacy including gender divisions.
A Republican president and Congress would reverse Mr. Obama’s executive abuse of power, recover the economy, national and domestic security, simplify the tax code, reduce spending and the national debt, limit government, rescue education and ameliorate racial discontent.
The dangerous alternative is for the electorate to commit voter-assisted social, political and economic suicide.
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
Forest Service is no service
The Lake Fire near Big Bear Lake, which started before 4PM, June 17, 2015, blew up overnight and quickly grew from 500 acres to 10,000 acres was exacerbated by Forest Service refusal to control Bark Beetles, the neglect to have immediate access to Super Scooper and DC 10 water tankers, and the overall incompetence of Forest Service fire-fighting and control burns gone out of control. The fire has since surpassed 30,000 acres and still burning.
Indeed, every major fire in Southern California – including the Rim Fire, Old Fire, Station Fire, Oak Hills fire, San Diego and Orange County fires -- would not have raged out-of-control if they had of been extinguished immediately by massive fire retardant and water drops. And they would not have burned so quickly, if it were not for dead trees killed by Bark Beetles, and the Forest Service’s refusal to thin forests.
Cal Fire, county and city fire departments notwithstanding, there is simply no excuse for the Forest Service not to own and distribute sufficient water dropping DC 10’s and Super Scoopers, rather than skimping on leasing them, and failing to activate them immediately to forest fires. Clearly, the Forest Service’s overall incompetence and irresponsibility are why the Lake Fire and other major fires raged and exploded.
Coupled with the loss of life, property and damage to people’s health, the Forest Service is no service in fire prevention and forest fires -- is costly, outrageous and unacceptable -- not so different from all big government. Alas, as a retired law enforcement officer and former fire dispatcher, I can say that the environmentalist-friendly news media’s silence on these critical matters is destructively deafening….
Daniel B. Jeffs
The Washington Times
In 2016, one way out
President Obama is making it painfully clear that he will leave a monarchial legacy of social, political and economic pain, severely diminished national and domestic security -- and racial divisions. Indeed, of elected, Hillary Clinton would leave a similar legacy including gender divisions.
A Republican president and Congress would reverse Mr. Obama’s executive abuse of power, recover the economy, national and domestic security, simplify the tax code, reduce spending and the national debt, limit government, rescue education and ameliorate racial discontent.
The dangerous alternative is for the electorate to commit voter-assisted social, political and economic suicide.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Diego Union-Tribune
President Obama’s monarchial legacy
President Obama is making it painfully clear that he will leave a monarchial legacy of social, political and economic pain, severely diminished national and domestic security -- and racial divisions. Indeed, of elected, Hillary Clinton would leave a similar legacy including gender divisions.
A Republican president and Congress would reverse Mr. Obama’s executive abuse of power, recover the economy, national and domestic security, simplify the tax code, reduce spending and the national debt, limit government, rescue education and ameliorate racial discontent.
The dangerous alternative is for the electorate to commit voter-assisted social, political and economic suicide.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Los Angeles Times
Supreme Court betrays Democracy again and again
Chief Justice Roberts -- nominated by President Bush – was a stealth liberal in conservative clothing as evidenced by upholding nationalized Obamacare twice along with other rulings usurping states’ rights in violation of the 10th Amendment to the Constitution.
Worse, Chief Justice Roberts’ deeply-flawed reasoning for the decision was based upon the people electing a Congress to enact Obamacare, even though it was done by a Democrat majority behind closed doors with no debate.
Alas, the Court wasn’t done betraying democracy and the fabric of America when the next day they abused the 14th Amendment and violated the 10th Amendment by declaring same-sex couples had the right marriage, severely diminishing traditional marriage between one man and one woman, the historical family institution -- already damaged by extreme feminism – regardless of the damage to children with no choice adopted by same-sex couples.
Unfortunately, to no avail, Chief Justice Roberts temporarily slipped into his conservative suit to dissent from the 5-4 majority opinion. Certainly, it was made painfully clear with President Obama’s declared “Victory for America,” that the Constitution is meaningless to Obama’s Executive branch, and Roberts’ Judicial Branch of our deeply wounded union and democratic republic.
Coupled with the Court supporting “disparate impact” added to the Fair Housing Act, supporting President Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing action by HUD’s unjust intrusion on freedom -- tantamount to President Clinton’s intimidation of banks and home lenders, causing the housing/finance meltdown – is further proof of the political activist Court.
Indeed, the liberal majority on the Court is blatantly supporting President Obama’s monarchial mandate to fundamentally transform America from a constitutional republic into a socialist nation.
Surely, Roberts’ Court will back President Obama’s legacy as the first black president, regardless of the social, political, economic and constitutional harm to America and the people.
Daniel B. Jeffs
NEWSMAX Magazine
Obama regulations
ObamaCare, ObamaFinance, ObamaEnergy, and now the ObamaNet are making it painfully clear that President Obama’s ObamAmerica and leftist Democrats – including Hollywood -- are the party of tyranny against the best interests of the American people with destructive regulations, punishing taxation and unsustainable national debt. (“President Obama, You’re no Ronald Reagan,” March).
Daniel B. Jeffs
(original letter)
ObamaCare, ObamaFinance, ObamaEnergy, and now the ObamaNet are making it painfully clear that President Obama’s ObamAmerica and leftist Democrats – including Hollywood -- are the party of tyranny against the best interests of the American people with destructive regulations, punishing taxation and unsustainable national debt.
Worse, President Obama’s legacy is on reckless course to disarm the United States in the face of dictator Putin’s Russian aggression, a rapidly expanding Islamic terrorist movement – feigned negotiations with Iran’s nuclear weapons state, regardless of Israeli President Netanyahu’s real warnings – all of which threaten to annihilate Israel, America and the West.
Clearly, it’s bad enough that the counter-culture revolutionists have turned our country into a superficial society of social injustice, political chaos, selfish interests, economic instability/uncertainty, and extremes. Indeed, developing a nation of fools by indoctrination, distractions, deceptions, lies, the insidious intended consequences of failed good intentions, and the loss of freedoms is what a socialist takeover is all about.
Alas, the next two years will be our nation’s reckoning with the enemy within the 7th round of President Obama and his minions vs. America, with only the Republican Party and the informed people standing in the way of an 8th round knockout. Attention: Republican Congress, governors and presidential nominee! Strong language and action is what is needed -- for our survival and restoration. The washed-out Washington way simply won’t cut it!
VV Daily Press
Rush to judgment
Re: “Baltimore state's attorney indicts and convicts police for homicide”…. It was bad enough that the Baltimore mayor handcuffed the police to give rioters space to loot and destroy, and incited violence against officers in response to the tragic death of Freddie Gray while in custody.
Worse, the young and reckless Baltimore state’s attorney has made a rush to judgment by filing homicide charges against the 6 officers involved in the incident, convicting the officers, while boasting to the young rioters that, “This is our time.”
Clearly, it is painfully obvious that the Baltimore mayor is a star to the irresponsible element of the black community, and that the state’s attorney is a rising superstar, advancing her political ambitions.
Indeed, this rush to injustice is looking more like a lynching of police, while the Baltimore mayor declares that this is a model for the nation to follow. Sadly, President Obama, Al Sharpton and others have directly and indirectly caused the rise in racial unrest and the insidious war against police in America.
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
Rioters respond to mayor (unedited)
As a retired law enforcement officer with 41 years of experience in the criminal justice system, including the Watts Riot, I am appalled by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake giving “space” -- license to those demonstrating about the tragic death of Freddie Gray -- “to destroy.”
Indeed, Mayor Rawlings-Blake’s unconscionable behavior spurred cause to inciting riots, looting businesses, burning 15 buildings and 144 vehicles – including police cars – and seriously injuring 15 police officers with rocks the size of tennis balls. Five officers are still hospitalized.
Further, it was tantamount to the reckless behavior of President Obama’s counselor on race-relations, Al Sharpton inciting riots in Ferguson, Missouri, New York Mayor de Blasio doing the same, resulting in the assassinations of two New York police officers, and President Obama himself causing division against the police and being late in condemning the violence of rioters.
Clearly, the rioters in Baltimore throwing rocks were assaults with deadly weapons, which could have lawfully resulted in police firing upon the rock-throwers in self-defense. Alas, my heart goes out to the brave police, our first line of defense, and to the brave, responsible mother who physically disciplined her son for throwing rocks.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Riverside Press Enterprise
Baltimore mayor’s role in rioting
As a retired law enforcement officer with 41 years of experience in the criminal justice system, including the Watts Riot, I am appalled by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake giving “space” -- license to those demonstrating about the tragic death of Freddie Gray -- “to destroy.”
Indeed, Mayor Rawlings-Blake’s unconscionable behavior spurred riots, looting businesses, burning 15 buildings and 144 vehicles – including police cars – and seriously injuring 15 police officers with rocks the size of tennis balls, 5 of whom are still hospitalized.
Further, it was tantamount to the reckless behavior of President Obama’s counselor on race-relations, Al Sharpton, inciting riots in Ferguson, Mo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio doing the same, resulting in the assassinations of two New York police officers, and President Obama himself causing division against the police and being late in condemning the violence of rioters.
Clearly, the rioters in Baltimore throwing rocks were assaults with deadly weapons, which could have lawfully resulted in police defending themselves.
Alas, my heart goes out to the brave police, our first line of defense, and to the brave, responsible mother who physically disciplined her son for being involved in the riot and throwing rocks.
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
Limit government (unedited)
Preceded by government growth under Presidents Teddy Roosevelt, the 16th income tax Amendment, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, six years of the Obama administration’s government growth, debt, abuse of power, abject domestic and foreign policy failure -- backed by the liberal media and blind allegiance of a Democrat Congress -- have metastasized the tumors of liberal government growth into a terminal case of social, political, economic and national security cancer.
Even though there was a revival under President Reagan, the Newt Gingrich congressional Contract with America, and the American people have since elected another Republican Congress to fight the liberal disease, President Obama has made it painfully clear that he will not be deterred from finishing his legacy terms in office, regardless of the consequences, which are forthcoming social, political, economic and national security disasters.
There is but one cure for these cancers, and that is to significantly reduce and limit the size, scope and power of government over our lives, by electing a president and vice-president, and tougher Republican Congress to take on the extremely difficult jobs of real leadership, undeterred – which will take a full two terms -- with a follow-up presidency and Congress.
Indeed, “It’s time for a change” is no longer a hackneyed phrase in these critical times of social, political, economic and moral decay brought on by the counter cultural revolution of the 1960’s. We must recover our social compatibility, political integrity, economic growth, military and foreign policy strength with true leadership and simply getting it done.
At this point, in the 2016 presidential elections, those leaders appear to be Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina. So, my fellow Americans, let’s wake up and get it done for our survival and the survival of our nation – and recover the land of the free and home of the brave.
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
The threat from within
It is frightening to realize that the counter-culture, anti-establishment boomers of the 1960’s and 70’s have become an undermining threat to the survival of America from the shroud of the miseducation establishment, the tyranny of anti-Capitalism socialists, and the insidious growth of government.
Worse, the counter-cultural revolution has turned America into a superficial society of government dependency, social aggression, political hostility, relentlessly assaulted by selfish interests and the failures of good intentions.
It should be noted that Bill and Hillary Clinton are from the first of the Boomer generation, and President Obama is from the last of the generation. Enough said.
Indeed, our nation is steeped in uncertainty, and our freedom is fleeting from a deadly second front -- which is being fatally demonstrated by the new barbarians on the block -- who are the world-domination Jihadists of radical Islam obsessed with eliminating non-believers from the face of the earth at any cost.
Alas, it has been said, and how true it is, that the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to remain silent and do nothing.
Therefore, the burning question is: what are we going to do about it?
Daniel B. Jeffs
The Washington Times
Limit government, grow America
Preceded by government growth under Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, as well as the Sixteenth Amendment, six years of an Obama administration has turned the federal expanse into a terminal case of social, political, economic and national security disease.
Even though there was a revival under President Reagan and the Newt Gingrich congressional Contract with America (and the American people have since elected another Republican Congress to fight the liberal disease) President Obama has made it painfully clear that he will not be deterred from finishing his legacy terms in office, regardless of the consequences. Those consequences are forthcoming social, political, economic and national security disasters.
There is but one cure for these cancers, and that is to significantly reduce and limit the size, scope and power of government over our lives by electing a president and vice-president capable taking on the extremely difficult job of real leadership.
Indeed, “It’s time for a change” is no longer a hackneyed phrase in these critical times of social, political, economic and moral decay brought on by the counter-cultural revolution of the 1960’s. We must recover our social compatibility, political integrity, economic growth and military and foreign policy strength with true leadership that simply gets things done.
At this point in the 2016 presidential elections run-up, those leaders appear to be Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Marco Rubio Florida Republican and Carly Fiorina. So, my fellow Americans, let’s wake up and get it done for our survival and the survival of our nation – and recover the land of the free and home of the brave.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Bernardino Sun
We must take action to counter terrorism
It is frightening to realize that the counter-culture, anti-establishment boomers of the 1960’s and 70’s have become an undermining threat to the survival of America from the shroud of the miseducation establishment, the tyranny of anti-Capitalism socialists, and the insidious growth of government.
Worse, the counter-cultural revolution has turned America into a superficial society of government dependency, social aggression, political hostility, relentlessly assaulted by selfish interests and the failures of good intentions.
It should be noted that Bill and Hillary Clinton are from the first of the Boomer generation, and President Obama is from the last of the generation. Enough said.
Indeed, our nation is steeped in uncertainty, and our freedom is fleeting from a deadly second front, which is being fatally demonstrated by the new barbarians on the block, who are the world-domination Jihadists of radical Islam [obsessed with eliminating non-believers from the face of the earth at any cost].
Alas, it has been said, and how true it is, that the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to remain silent and do nothing.
Therefore, the burning question is: what are we going to do about it?
Daniel B. Jeffs
The Washington Times
Oscars miss the mark again
The 2015 Academy Awards was simply the final round of Hollywood celebrating itself again – and again and again. Alas, with few exceptions, the film and entertainment industry continues to decline into little more than sex, violence, shallow stories, lack of imagination and original thought reduced to narcissism resembling “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
As for the exceptions, mostly-true stories such as “Selma,” “The Theory of Everything,” “The imitation Game,” “Foxcatcher,” “American Sniper,” “Still Alice,” “Boyhood,” and “Whiplash” rounded out the exceptions. However, “Birdman or (The unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” overshadowed them all with the darkness of mass neurosis that consumes the hopelessly self-involved. “Best Picture” and “Best Director”? Hardly.
Certainly, the only clarity coming from the Oscars dog-and-pony costume show was the host with least, Neil Patrick Harris, those promoting liberal social and political issues and the whiners. Snubbing the genuine talent and integrity of the real best director, Clint Eastwood, epitomizes the intolerance and the ongoing lack of morality that is Hollywood.
However the name fits. Holly is supposed to be a symbol of joy – yet its leaves are extremely prickly, guarding a soul of wood. Society needs a do-over.
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
Hollywood celebrating itself, again….
The 2015 Academy Awards was simply the final round of Hollywood celebrating itself again, and again, and again…. Alas, with few exceptions, the film and entertainment industry continues to decline into little more than sex, violence, shallow stories, lack of imagination and original thought reduced to fifty shades of grey narcissism.
As for the exceptions, mostly-true stories such as “Selma,” “The Theory of Everything,” “The imitation Game,” “Foxcatcher” and “American Sniper” – and “Still Alice,” “Boyhood,” plus “Whiplash” – rounded out the exceptions. However, “Birdman or (The unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” over-shadowed them all with the darkness of mass neurosis that consumes the hopelessly self-involved. Best Picture and Best Director? Hardly.
Certainly, the only clarity coming from the Oscars dog and pony costume show was the host with least, those promoting liberal social and political issues, and the whiners. Snubbing the genuine talent and integrity of the real best director, Clint Eastwood, is the intolerance and the ongoing lack of morality that is Hollywood.
However the name fits. Holly is supposed to be a symbol of joy – yet it’s leaves are extremely prickly, guarding a soul of wood. Society needs a do-over.
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
Community organizing not the answer
Contrary to President Obama’s naïve experience with community organizing, his feckless global summit focusing on the empowerment of local communities to counter the violent extremism of ISIS, al-Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists with social justice, strong leadership, families, opportunity, education, economic improvement and jobs is simply ludicrous.
Certainly, decades of the failed war on poverty and community organizing resulted in the unresolved liberal government’s proliferation of disorganized, disoriented, irresponsible welfare neighborhoods, miseducation, single mothers, absent fathers, drugs, gangs, violent crime and perpetual anger in vulnerable American communities, which are living proof that it doesn’t work.
Alas, it’s become painfully clear that President Obama has abdicated his role as the free world leader against radical Islamic terrorism by allowing the not holy, but unholy war by evil savages against the good world to proliferate. Indeed, the unintended consequence of the failures of good intentions is not an option against terrorists bent on world domination. It’s intentional insanity.
Daniel B. Jeffs
NEWSMAX Magazine
Race tensions rise
After decades of progress, race relations are obviously worse since President Obama was elected and became an imperial president (“Success wins over black victimhood,” December 2014).
Race relations will certainly deteriorate even further as the protests continue and grow throughout the country, invading streets, highways and freeways, blocking traffic and endangering the public. President Obama should step-up to improve race relations as a major part of his legacy. If not, the insanity goes on, unabated.
Lest we forget, the police are our first line of defense in neighborhoods, communities, and cities against criminals and terrorists.
Daniel B. Jeffs
(original letter)
Race relations in America
After decades of progress, race relations are obviously worse since President Obama was elected and became an imperial president, to the extent of giving African-Americans an arrogant superiority complex and/or being treated as sacred cows in the Obama era. Indeed, Hollywood and advertisers have responded by over-representing blacks in films, television and commercials.
Worse, racial protests, demonstrations, rioting, arson and looting have been exacerbated by President Obama, his aggressively radical race counselor, Al Sharpton, indoctrinated college students and the complicit news media -- touched off by the Travon Martin case -- then magnified by the Michael Brown and Eric Garner death cases at the hands of police -- who were not indicted by local grand juries.
Race relations will certainly deteriorate even further as the protests continue and grow throughout the country, invading streets, highways and freeways, blocking traffic and endangering the public – even blocking Christmas shoppers in stores and malls. President Obama should step-up to improve race relations as a major part of his legacy. If not, the insanity goes on, unabated……
Lest we forget, the police are our first line of defense in neighborhoods, communities and cities against criminals and terrorists.
San Bernardino Sun
New year of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
The best New Year’s resolution would be for the American people to resolve to fight-off the socialist cancer metastasizing throughout the body of our society from the attacks against the Founders’ traditional America, our Constitution and free markets, the abuse of power by big government – complicit news media and entertainment industry -- to badly misinformed parenting, to students being indoctrinated by the miseducation system in factories of ignorance, to anti-social media, and the relentless spread of mind-numbing propaganda and criminal behavior.
Indeed, 2015 should be embraced by getting our lives together for life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness -- and the defense of our domestic and national security freedom.
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
Shared blame
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik should have included President Obama when he accused Mayor Bill De Blasio and Al Sharpton of having “blood on their hands” over Ismaaiyl Brinsley’s execution of two NYPD officers in Brooklyn in retaliation for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
Indeed, New York City voters share that blame for electing a police-hating socialist mayor, as are U.S. voters for electing like-minded President Obama, who appointed Sharpton as his race-relations counselor and sent him to Ferguson, Missouri, then to New York to lead protests against police – deepening racial divisions – and weakening our first line of defense: The protection and service of law enforcement.
Daniel B. Jeffs
(original letter)
NYPD officers executed
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik should have included President Obama when he accused Mayor De Blasio and Al Sharpton of having “blood on their hands” over Ismaaiyl Brinsley’s execution of two NYPD officers in Brooklyn in retaliation for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
Indeed, New York City voters share that blame for electing a police-hating socialist mayor, as are U.S. voters for electing like-minded President Obama, who appointed Sharpton as his race-relations counselor and sent him to Ferguson, Missouri, then to New York to lead protests against police – deepening racial divisions – and weakening our first line of defense: The protection and service of law enforcement.
As a former deputy sheriff, sergeant, personnel officer, public defender investigator and two-time grand jury member with 43 years of service, I witnessed and experienced the anti-establishment, anti-war counter-traditional-culture revolution and criminal law revolution from 1960’s Watts Riots to the first decade of the 21st Century and the rise of terrorism.
Alas, it is deeply troubling to attest to reasons for the steep decline of America’s domestic and national social, political and economic security – particularly, since the 2008 elections -- at the un-American hands of President Obama and the Democrat Congress. Surely, it’s time for a traditional-culture revolution and the restoration of our land of the free and the home of the brave.
VV Daily Press
Communicable disease
Allowing illegal aliens and the Ebola disease to come to America is bad enough. Worse, President Obama has the ideological disease that infected his administration, his domestic policy and his foreign policy with incompetence, distraction, lies and deceit.
The question is: how much more damage will the Obama disease cause throughout the remainder of his term, and will it be fatal to our economy and national security? Considering his dismal record, the outlook is bleak at best.
Indeed, Gov. Brown and the Democrat-controlled Legislature and extreme environmentalists are infected with the same ideological disease, which infected California with punishing taxes and regulations against the people, driving up the cost of living and doing business.
Alas, California welcomes illegal aliens and criminals to the state to prey on our taxes, public services, citizens and our property. The only cure for the state and national diseases is our votes. We must use them to survive and prosper.
Daniel B. Jeffs
USA TODAY
Ferguson shooting
There has been an overreaction and a rush to judgment in the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Missouri, exacerbated by outside hateful activists, looting, violence, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.
Indeed, at this point evidence may lead to the conclusion that the shooting was justified. Unfortunately, it is doubtful that true justice will prevail. [Clearly, this unnecessary situation is a sad commentary on selfish political interests and the decline of our society.]
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Diego Union-Tribune
Californians want the death penalty
The State of California's de facto abolition of the death penalty comes as no surprise, even though the voters of California have made it clear that they want the death penalty.
Judge Cormac J. Carney was correct in ruling that California's execution system of extraordinary delays render the death penalty unpredictable, arbitrary and useless as retribution or deterrent -- thus in violation of the 8th Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.
It's bad enough that a Northern California federal judge incorrectly ruled that California's lethal injection system was cruel and unusual punishment even though it is used in many states and is the most humane way of administering the death penalty.
As a Southern Californian retired from 41 years working in the criminal justice system, I've witnessed California's unconscionable decline in the administration of justice, unnecessarily making the people much less safe and secure against violent crime. That's injustice!
It is well known and understood that the death penalty is a deterrent against murder. California should follow the State of Texas in their administration of the death penalty: After a reasonable time for appeals, the death penalty is carried out as it should be. That's justice!
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Bernardino Sun
Elliot is a product of our failed society
Elliot Rodger's rampage in Isla Vista, California is the result of bullying, irresponsible parenting, weak 5150 enforcement, corrosive social media, political blindness, and a failed mental health system replete with the hollow interests of psychologists.
Indeed, Isla Vista has been needlessly added to the mental illness tragedies of Columbine, Virginia Tech., Sandy Hook, Aurora and others.
Alas, too much of our culture has sunken into a superficial society of selfish interests, social aggression, political tyranny and extremes. Now retired from a 41-year career in law enforcement and the criminal justice system since 1960, I have witnessed the deterioration of society first hand, and I am worried about the future of my children, grandchildren and all American families.
One thing is certain: demonizing Republicans and the NRA is a shallow exercise in futility, particularly when big government built by liberal Democrats and the dangerous indoctrination of students by the education establishment are responsible for our failing society. Indeed, guns don't kill people. People kill people is not a hackneyed phrase. It is the sad truth.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Diego Union-Tribune
Elliot Rodger: product of failed society
Elliot Rodger's rampage in Isla Vista, California is the result of bullying, irresponsible parenting, weak 5150 enforcement, corrosive social media, political blindness, and a failed mental health system replete with the hollow interests of psychologists. Indeed, Isla Vista has been needlessly added to the mental illness tragedies of Columbine, Virginia Tech., Sandy Hook, Aurora and others.
Alas, too much of our culture has sunken into a superficial society of selfish interests, social aggression, political tyranny and extremes. Now retired from a 41-year career in law enforcement and the criminal justice system since 1960, I have witnessed the deterioration of society first hand, and I am worried about the future of my children, grandchildren and all American families.
One thing is certain: demonizing Republicans and the NRA is a shallow exercise in futility, particularly when big government built by liberal Democrats and the dangerous indoctrination of students by the education establishment are responsible for our failing society. Indeed, guns don't kill people. People kill people is not a hackneyed phrase. It is the sad truth.
Daniel B. Jeffs
VV Daily Press
Don't blame Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II should have explained that the church was infiltrated by pedophile priests who entered Catholic seminaries during the aggressive gay movement of the 70's and 80's.
Indeed, the church was mostly unaware of the unconscionable pedophiles -- who were purposely becoming priests to prey upon the ample supplies of altar boys -- and church leaders struggled too long with it.
Pope Francis would do well for the church by explaining the historical problem openly. Certainly, leaders of the gay community should break their silence and condemn all pedophile priests.
Surely, the Catholic church should not be blamed for their unspeakable sins. And surely, Pope John Paul's sainthood should not be blemished by it.
Daniel B. Jeffs
The Washington Times
Pedophile priests' sins aren't church's
Pope John Paul II should have explained that the church was infiltrated by pedophile priests who entered Catholic seminaries during the aggressive homosexual movement of the 1970's and 80's.
Indeed, the church was mostly unaware of the unconscionable pedophiles who were deliberately becoming priests to prey upon the ample supplies of altar boys, and church leaders struggled too long with it.
Pope Francis would do well for the church by explaining the historical problem openly. Certainly, leaders of the homosexual community should break their silence and condemn all pedophile priests. The Catholic Church should not be blamed for pedophiles' unspeakable sins. Surely, Pope John Paul's sainthood should not be blemished by it.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Bernardino Sun
Re: What did you think of the Oscars show?
(Question of the Week)
A shameful awards show
Previous Oscar shows and a few enlightening films notwithstanding, the 2014 Academy Awards show -- culminating the extensive annual awards season -- was an outstanding graphic display of core elements of the entertainment industry rewarding themselves and promoting the liberal/progressive social, political and economic agenda to the viewing public.
Talented acting and good films are one thing -- but rare -- overshadowed by the extreme selfish interests of celebrities and the extended bubble of Hollywood clouded by overwhelming numbers of crash-action trash movies, re-imagined and blatant reconstruction of history, stupid science fiction, and walking dead/vampire/blood and guts monster movies -- overall without any redeeming value.
Quality animated movies and "Gravity" did most to save the season. Even Ellen would have done well entertaining the Oscar and television crowd with her wit and the Pizza bit -- if it were not for her vain and cruel act of attacking Liza Minnelli as a man impersonating "Dorothy's" daughter. All things considered -- even with a celebrity-obsessed society -- the Academy Awards were little more than a shame.
Daniel B. Jeffs
USA TODAY
Games out of touch with tradition
When I participated in high school track and field as a cross country runner in the 1950's, my understanding of the Olympics was traditional and related to the original competition. Since then, I have been extremely disappointed in the expansion to include events that have little or nothing to do with the original Olympics.
Adding the Winter Olympics and the multitude of sideshow competitions from modern sports, of which there is already too much, is simply a disgrace to real meaning of the Olympics.
As if that were not bad enough, it was a gross mistake to have the Winter Olympics in Russia -- under the dangerous and miserable circumstances. Also, the broadcast of the games interferes with television programming, which is inconsiderate. Not everyone is interested in the winter games. Indeed, it's time to restore the original Olympics.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Bernardino Sun
Restore the traditional meaning of the Olympics
When I participated in high school track and field as a mile and cross country runner in the 1950's, my motives and understanding of the Olympics was traditional to the original games.
Since then, I have been extremely disappointed decade after decade in the expansion of events from track and field, wrestling and archery -- into events that have little or nothing to do with what the Olympics is supposed to be: the suspension of world tensions and hostilities to gather Olympic athletes from all nations to participate in the friendly competition of the games, which have a positive effect on international relations.
Adding the Winter Olympics and the multitude of side-show competitions from modern sports -- which there is already too much of -- to basket weaving, is simply a disgrace to real meaning of the Olympics.
As if that were not bad enough, it was a gross mistake to have the Winter Olympics in Russia -- under the dangerous and miserable circumstances -- and it's an annoying interference with television programming and quality series, which is simply inconsiderate. [Particularly, when there are probably not that many people interested in the winter games. Indeed, it's time to restore the original Olympics.]
Daniel B. Jeffs
Daily Press Apple Valley Review
Commentary
Obamacareless ruining the economy
When presidential candidate, Barack Obama campaigned for national healthcare because people were going bankrupt from medical bills, and lied about people being able to keep the health care plans and doctors, it was preview of his abuse of authority when pushing through the Affordable Care Act.
Indeed, the bad actors in the Democrat-controlled Congress abused their authority when ramming through the Act without debate and behind closed doors, and the Supreme Court Judiciary abdicated their duty to justice with their failure to find the Act unconstitutional.
Worse, the Affordable Care Act is turning into the Unaffordable Obama careless Act destined to ruining the economy with cancelled health insurance, raising the cost of healthcare, bankrupting health insurance companies, increasing costs of businesses, and raising the cost of living for most Americans.
It was bad enough that the Clinton administration created the housing bubble by forcing banks to make home loans to unqualified borrowers to create affordable housing, and caused the housing and finance collapse. Surely, the unaffordable health care act should be knocked down, eliminated, and replaced with reasonable health care reforms as necessary.
Deport Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber's arrest for DUI, unlicensed driving and resisting arrest in Miami is the last straw in the Canadian pop star's bad behavior in America. It's bad enough that Bieber thinks he can do whatever he wants with impunity. But when he races dangerously around the country and constantly terrorizes and assaults his neighbors, he has no place here. Indeed, when this Canadian's act has become that bad, his welcome in America is worn out and he should be deported before he kills someone.
Daniel B. Jeffs is an Apple Valley
Riverside Press Enterprise
Prioritize patriots
Former South African leader Nelson Mandela's greatness notwithstanding, the press' and President Obama's preference in paying more attention to him than those who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, is unconscionable.
Issuing a Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Proclamation and laying a wreath is not enough.
Obama should have attended the ceremonies at Pearl Harbor and paid tribute to the victims, survivors and World War II veterans.
The terminal lack of patriotism by Obama and the media is simply shameful.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Bernardino Sun
Pearl Harbor remembrance given short shrift
Mandela's greatness notwithstanding, the news media and President Obama's obsession with his life and a lack of Pearl Harbor media coverage in favor of Mandela is unconscionable.
President Obama's issuing his annual Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Proclamation and laying a wreath is not enough. Indeed, the terminal lack of patriotism by President Obama and the media is simply shameful.
Daniel B. Jeffs
(original letter)
Mandela's greatness notwithstanding, the news media and President Obama's obsession with his life -- without a Presidential attendance at Pearl Harbor remembering the December 7th, 1941 attack honoring the victims, survivors and WWII veterans -- and a lack of Pearl Harbor media coverage in favor of Mandela is unconscionable. Issuing his annual December 6th Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day Proclamation and laying a wreath is not enough. Indeed, the terminal lack of patriotism by President Obama and the media is simply shameful.
The Wall Street Journal
(Lead Letter of 5 letters)
Remembering and Fulfilling Dr. King's Great Dream
Regarding your editorial "Government and Segregation" (Aug. 29):
Commemorations of the 1963 march on Washington have fallen short. President Obama could be the driving force in realizing Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream by turning around problems in African-American communities by condemning the violent gang, rap and drug culture, calling for family values and stability, personal responsibility, self-reliance, skill training and serious education reform.
President Obama missed that opportunity. He could have stressed these issues to his fellow African-Americans and their misguided leaders and then follow through with it for the remainder of his term. As the first black president, that could be President Obama's major legacy, finalizing what Martin Luther King accomplished.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Diego Union-Tribune
Big jump in fast food pay is a bad idea
My first job out of high school was at the first McDonald's in Downey in 1957, and I was happy to get it. My high school sweetheart and future wife's first job was at Foster Freeze. One of our son's first jobs was at a Carl's Jr. and our daughter worked at a Subway Sandwich in Apple Valley. Learning those first job skills, responsibilities and self reliance were vital to our future success.
We need to reign in the SEIU union, which is now organizing fast-food workers with the unconscionable notion of doubling their entry-level minimum wage. It will hurt the small business franchises of McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Taco Bell and all the others, and in the end will harm the workers, raise the cost of food, reduce jobs, and hurt low income consumers who depend on low-cost meals.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Daily Press Apple Valley Review
Op-Ed
SEIU puts entry-level jobs at risk
Surely, we need to reign in the self-corruption of big government tied to big unions, such as the SEIU -- now organizing young, innocent fast food workers with the untenable notion of doubling their entry-level minimum wage -- which will hurt the small business franchises of McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Taco Bell and all the others -- and in the end will hurt the workers, raise the cost of food, reduce jobs, and hurt low income consumers who depend on low cost meals. The fast food industry has long-provided valuable entry-level work for millions, which is being put at risk in an already failing economy.
My first job out of high school was at the first McDonald's in Downey, California in 1957, and I was happy to get it. My high school sweetheart and future wife's first job was at Foster Freeze. One of our son's first jobs was at a new Carl's Jr. and our daughter worked at a Subway Sandwich shop in Apple Valley, California in the 1980's. Learning those first job skills, a work ethic, responsibilities and self reliance were vital to our future success. Our son built a successful business and our daughter is on the executive staff in the federal prison system.
After working at McDonald's, I worked at a tire shop, a fiberglass laminating shop, on the assembly line at a GM plant, in aerospace as a laminator and draftsman -- and subsequently went on to a 41-year career in law enforcement and the criminal justice system. I watched the liberal/progressive ideology rip the heart out of public education, the workplace, government, traditional morals, the family, society, our founding principles, the rule of law, and our nation as a whole.
Indeed, when liberal social justice tyrants takeover education, government, unions, business and industry with over-regulation, punishing taxes on small business and personal success, while runaway government spending and insurmountable debt go on unabated -- driving our country on a fast track to ruin -- it's time to put on the breaks and just say, "No more."
Daniel B. Jeffs is a resident of Apple Valley
New York Post
King's dream could be realized by Obama
Commemorations of the 1963 march on Washington fell short. Indeed, Obama could be the driving force in realizing King's dream if he worked to solve problems in African-American communities.
He could have done so by condemning the violent gang and drug cultures, calling for family values and stability, personal responsibility, self-reliance, skills training and serious education reform.
Obama missed that opportunity in his address to the nation at the Lincoln Memorial. He could have stressed these issues to the African-American community and its leaders, and followed through with it for the remainder of his term.
As the first black president, that could have been Obama's major legacy: finalizing what King accomplished.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Bernardino Sun
Obama's speeches distract from his failures
President Obama's perpetual campaign continues with the latest round of biased media-supported, staged travel-trivia speeches -- stroking the economy and the middle class -- with his clueless people backdrops of bobbleheads nodding and applauding his every point, on cue.
Of course, Obama's latest charges against his Republican opponents -- of causing Washington to take its eye off the ball with "distractions, political posturing and phony scandals" -- are in fact his phony-in-chief maneuvers to detract from his abusive government, social, political, economic and national security failures.
Meanwhile, the president relentlessly continues his unprecedented abuse of power, executive orders and edicts, political appointments, and administrative regulations forcing his destructive injustice, miseducation, energy, environmental, healthcare, immigration, financial, debt and spending agenda upon America.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Los Angeles Times
Edward Snowden is a traitor, and so are Pvt . Manning and Major Hasan
There is no question that Edward Snowden is a traitor for revealing NSA secrets aiding our mortal enemy Islamic terrorists. Indeed, Army Pvt. Manning is a traitor for doing the same with classified material concerning Iraq and Afghanistan, and Army Major Nidal Hasan is murderous a traitor for assassinating our troops at Fort Hood being processed for a tour of duty in Afghanistan.
The problem is, none of these blatant traitors are being prosecuted for treason, which Is the historical product of our cowardly liberal government's unwritten policy of "none dare call it treason." Of course the Snowden, Manning and Hasan cases were exacerbated by President Obama's weakness with China and Russia, and the screening and security failures of the CIA, NSA and the U.S. Army allowing the traitors to operate in their respective positions.
Nonetheless, all three should be convicted of treason, punishable by either death or life in prison and the loss of citizenship. Surely, their open contempt for the privilege of being a Unitized States citizen is an indictment of how casual and cynical too many people have become about being American and the freedom that goes along with it, including President Obama.
Alas, Obama's blind obsession with forcing social justice in America and his narcissistic ill-perceived leadership in the world -- at the expense of our economy, our freedoms and our national security -- abandoning Israel, Iran's nuclear threat, and the al-Qaeda/Muslim Brotherhood takeover of the Middle East and North Africa -- and their Jihadist agenda for terrorist attacks against America and the West -- makes him the greatest threat to our future and our survival.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Diego Union-Tribune
President inflames Zimmerman anger
President Obama's Trayvon Martin-driven remarks regarding race do little to nothing to relieve tensions brought on by the intense radical African-American leaders' reaction to George Zimmerman's not guilty verdict that resulted in a national call to protest the perceived injustice of justice being served in the Florida court. Indeed, the president failed to recognize or condemn the violence, and did nothing to dispel the self-inflicted stereotype.
Alas, lest we forget, the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman conflict was not black and white. It was black and Hispanic.
Daniel B. Jeffs
(original letter)
The most divisive president
President Obama's Trayvon Martin-driven remarks regarding race do little to nothing to relieve tensions brought on by the intense radical African-American leaders' reaction to George Zimmerman's "Not Guilty" verdict that resulted in a national call to protest the perceived injustice of justice being served in the Florida court. Indeed, the president failed to recognize or condemn the violence, and did nothing to dispel the self-inflicted stereotype.
In fact, President Obama's divisive racial statements exacerbated the resulting violence and rioting in the streets of Los Angeles and elsewhere with gangs of African-American juveniles and young adults assaulting and robbing innocent people, looting stores and setting fires -- including two American flags. Indeed, now there is another media-driven Al Sharpton-Jesse Jackson move to protest in 100 major cities across America.
Alas, lest we forget, the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman conflict was not black and white. It was black and Hispanic.
Clearly, America has been placed in deepening social, political and economic stress, chaos and deterioration by the most divisive president in our history. One who's blind social justice political agenda -- supported by congressional Democrats -- has grown government with a tyrannical war against free market Capitalism, imposing economy-crushing national health care, costly green energy, spending, insurmountable debt, abused his personal power and abdicated our national security.
Daily Press
Verdict should end it
There is absolutely no excuse for African-American teenagers protesting the tragic death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of George Zimmerman to shut down the Mall, jump on cars, assault people and steal from a convenience store. Coupled with gangs of juveniles rioting, looting, damaging property, and setting fires -- including burning two American flags (one up a flag pole) -- on Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles and mugging people on Hollywood Boulevard were blatant exercises in hate, racism and terrorism.
African American leaders Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others exploited Trayvon's death in the unconscionable exercise of their power to incite demonstrations and rioting all across the nation -- labeling the death as racist, when it was not.
The entire Trayvon/Zimmerman madness was, and still is, media-driven. George Zimmerman's life is in danger and it has been destroyed by insidious persecution. If anyone should be prosecuted further, it should be Sharpton, Jackson and others for inciting to riot and for making the young black male stereotype they vehemently protest, a reality. They have bullied America into believing they are untouchable sacred cows. Our free society doesn't work that way. If they hate America that much, they are free to leave.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Bernardino Sun
'Exploitainment' distracts from real threats to U.S.
Relatively innocent fright movies such as Dracula, Wolfman, The Thing, The Blob, Attack of the Body Snatchers, War of the Worlds, Star Wars, Psycho and The Walking Dead have evolved into the exploitainment proliferation of violent extremes in video games, movie and television series, vampires, werewolves, zombies and apocalypse and techno/mechanical end of the world frauds, such as World War Z and Pacific Rim.
It's bad enough that the abandoned and malignant hearts of Hollywood abdicate quality television, movies and social responsibility with lazy, shallow minds, absent original thought to feed their selfish interests by exploiting the emotions of children, juveniles and immature young adults. But when they violate the innocence of children's stories from Snow White to the Lone Ranger with multiple insults, lies and distortions, it's simply unconscionable.
Worse, romanticizing fictional evil, attacks on nonexistent Presidents and the White House, promoting social and political charlatans as liberal saviors, and relentlessly grinding away at mythical corporate demons is stale and spiteful nonsense. There are no zombies, vampires, werewolves, world=ending aliens, monster machines or corporations. Our world deterioration comes from dictators, Communism, Socialists, and the greater threat from Islamic Jihadists bent on the elimination of infidels and ruling the World.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Riverside Press Enterprise
Recall Harris, Brown
Attorney General Kamala Harris continued her activism on behalf of homosexual causes by requesting that the stay on same-sex unions be immediately lifted in California following the Supreme Court's ruling on Prop. 8 ("Gay marriages resume," June 29).
Once it was lifted, she then went on to preside over a gay wedding.
This is outrageous malfeasance.
Gov. Jerry Brown and Harris violated their oaths of office by refusing to defend Prop. 8 simply because their personal agendas were against the will of the people who voted to prohibit gay marriage.
Worse, the Supreme Court betrayed democracy and the Constitution by saying the sponsors of Prop. 8 did not have legal standing to appeal.
And this was after the ballot measure was struck down by Vaughn Walker, a gay federal judge in San Francisco.
How was it not a conflict of interest for Walker to hear the matter?
The decisions against the majority of California voters were unconstitutional and unconscionable.
Daniel B. Jeffs
(original letter)
Recall Attorney General Kamala Harris and Governor Brown
Attorney General Kamala Harris continued her gay activism by asking the federal 9th Circuit to lift its stay immediately, which was done, then performing the first gay marriage in California -- which is outrageous malfeasance.
It didn't matter that former Attorney General, now Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris violated their oaths of office by refusing to defend Proposition 8 simply because their personal agendas were against the will of the people, who passed the state constitutional amendment by a 52 percent vote, prohibiting gay marriage -- which was over 7 million voters in a nearly 80 percent voter turnout. Harris and Brown should be recalled.
Worse, Chief Justice Roberts and the Supreme Court majority betrayed democracy and the Constitution by saying the sponsors of Proposition 8 did not have legal standing to appeal after the ballot measure was struck down by Vaughn Walker, a gay federal judge in San Francisco, which was a conflict of interest. Both decisions against the majority of California voters were unconstitutional and unconscionable.
The proponents of Proposition 8 did have standing. In a final appeal to stop the marriages, they were maliciously denied by Justice Kennedy as was the institution of marriage.
Los Angeles Times
Letters: Love and the courts
California Atty. Gen Kamala Harris played the role of an activist by calling on the 9th Circuit to lift its stay immediately, which it did.
It didn't matter to her that she herself and her predecessor, Jerry Brown, now the governor, violated their oaths of office by refusing to defend Proposition 8, which passed in 2008 with the support of more than 7 million voters. Harris and Brown deserve to be recalled.
Worse, the Supreme Court betrayed democracy and the Constitution by saying that the sponsors of Proposition 8 did not have legal standing to appeal. This decision against the majority of voters was unconscionable.
Proposition 8's proponents did have standing. In a final appeal to stop the marriages, they were denied, as was the institution of marriage.
Daniel B. Jeffs
(original letter)
Recall Attorney General Kamala Harris and Governor Brown
Attorney General Kamala Harris continued her gay activism by asking the federal 9th Circuit to lift its stay immediately, which was done, then performing the first gay marriage in California -- which is outrageous malfeasance.
It didn't matter that former Attorney General, now Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris violated their oaths of office by refusing to defend Proposition 8 simply because their personal agendas were against the will of the people, who passed the state constitutional amendment by a 52 percent vote, prohibiting gay marriage -- which was over 7 million voters in a nearly 80 percent voter turnout. Harris and Brown should be recalled.
Worse, Chief Justice Roberts and the Supreme Court majority betrayed democracy and the Constitution by saying the sponsors of Proposition 8 did not have legal standing to appeal after the ballot measure was struck down by Vaughn Walker, a gay federal judge in San Francisco, which was a conflict of interest. Both decisions against the majority of California voters were unconstitutional and unconscionable.
The proponents of Proposition 8 did have standing. In a final appeal to stop the marriages, they were maliciously denied by Justice Kennedy as was the institution of marriage.
The New York Post
Tearing down tradition: Court's attack on marriage
The Chief Justice Roberts and the Supreme Court majority betrayed democracy and the Constitution by saying the sponsors of Proposition 8 did not have legal standing to appeal after the ballot measure was struck down.
Both decisions against the majority of California voters were unconstitutional and unconscionable.
It didn't matter that Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris violated their oaths of office by refusing to defend Proposition 8, simply because they were against the will of the people, who passed the state constitutional amendment by a 52 percent vote.
San Francisco's tyranny by social intimidation and legal extortion has dealt fatal blows to our legal system and the traditional institution of marriage.
Daniel B. Jeffs
(Original letter)
Voters lose, gay federal judge and tyranny of the minority win
The Chief Justice Roberts and the Supreme Court majority betrayed democracy and the Constitution by saying the sponsors of Proposition 8 did not have legal standing to appeal after the ballot measure was struck down by Vaughn Walker, a gay a federal judge in San Francisco. Both decisions against the majority of California voters were unconstitutional and unconscionable.
It didn't matter that former Attorney General, now Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris violated their oaths of office by refusing to defend Proposition 8 simply because they were against the will of the people, who passed the state constitutional amendment by a 52 percent vote, prohibiting gay marriage.
Alas, the tyranny of San Francisco and the gay minority by social intimidation and legal extortion have dealt fatal blows to our legal system and the traditional institution of marriage, confirming the dangers of what is becoming a superficial society of moral decay, social aggression, political terrorism, selfish interests and extremes.
Los Angeles Times
Re: Proposition 8 deserved a defense
Erwin Chemerinsky is correct. Proposition 8 deserved a state defense.
The Chief Justice Roberts and the Supreme Court majority betrayed democracy and the Constitution by saying the sponsors of Proposition 8 did not have legal standing to appeal after the ballot measure was struck down by a gay federal judge in San Francisco. Both decisions against the majority of California voters were unconstitutional and unconscionable.
It didn't matter that former Attorney General, now Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris violated their oaths of office by refusing to defend Proposition 8 simply because they and the federal judge had conflicts of interest against the will of the people, who passed the state constitutional amendment by a 52 percent vote, prohibiting gay marriage.
Alas, the tyranny of San Francisco and the gay minority by social intimidation and legal extortion have dealt fatal blows to our legal system and the traditional institution of marriage, confirming the dangers of what is becoming a superficial society of moral decay, social aggression, political terrorism, selfish interests and extremes.
Direct Democracy
USA TODAY
Re: It's a sad day for democracy - by Brian S. Brown.
I agree. Voters lose, gay federal judge and tyranny of the minority win
The Chief Justice Roberts and the Supreme Court majority betrayed democracy and the Constitution by saying the sponsors of Proposition 8 did not have legal standing to appeal after the ballot measure was struck down by Vaughn Walker, a gay a federal judge in San Francisco. Both decisions against the majority of California voters were unconstitutional and unconscionable.
It didn't matter that former Attorney General, now Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris violated their oaths of office by refusing to defend Proposition 8 simply because they were against the will of the people, who passed the state constitutional amendment by a 52 percent vote, prohibiting gay marriage.
Alas, the tyranny of San Francisco and the gay minority by social intimidation and legal extortion have dealt fatal blows to our legal system and the traditional institution of marriage, confirming the dangers of what is becoming a superficial society of moral decay, social aggression, political terrorism, selfish interests and extremes.
Los Angeles Times
Re: Gay marriages should start now: AG Kamala Harris
California Attorney General Kamala Harris doesn't want the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals wait the usual 25 days to lift its Prop. 8 stay, and start gay marriages NOW!
It doesn't matter that former Attorney General, now Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris violated their oaths of office by refusing to defend Proposition 8 simply because they were against the will of the people, who passed the state constitutional amendment by a 52 percent vote, prohibiting gay marriage.
Indeed, overturning Proposition 8 comes from the tyranny of the minority, which rules California and most of the United States. Gay extremists and activist courts have joined environmental extremists in a long record of intimidating anyone or anything that opposes them.
Likewise, the 1994 voter referendum, Proposition 187, passed by 59 percent of the vote, prohibiting illegal aliens from using health care, education, welfare and other social services -- which were costing California taxpayers $3 billion per year -- was ruled unconstitutional by an activist federal court, which stood because Governor Gray Davis violated his oath of office, halted state appeals and refused to defend the law.
Of course, the tyranny of the minority has been perpetuated by liberal Democrats' insidious agenda of lies and deceit, punishing laws, taxes and regulations wagging the public dog from the Sacramento state house -- steadily driving California toward social, political and economic ruin.
Alas, California liberals -- the worst in the nation -- have rejected traditional American values and created a superficial society of moral decay, social aggression, political terrorism, selfish interests and extremes.
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Boy Scouts take wrong trail in approving gay members
Scouts take wrong trail
I'm a Bronze Palm Eagle Scout and have been active as a Boy Scouts district executive committee member. I've also been married for 53 years with three children, and I'm retired after 41 years of service in law enforcement and the criminal justice system. I credit the scouts with giving me a moral core, sense of duty to God and country, and the foundation of being a good, self-reliant citizen ("Boy Scouts lifts its ban on openly gay youngsters," May 25).
However, I'm dismayed by BSA leadership giving in to gay extremists and politically correct liberals to OK gays as members.
Daniel B. Jeffs
The New York Post
BSA's new policy on gays: Sizing up the fallout
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As a Bronze Palm Eagle Scout, active as a BSA district executive committee member, married for 53 years with three children and retired from 41 years of service in law enforcement and the criminal justice system, I credit the BSA with giving me the moral core, duty to god and country and the foundation of being a good self-reliant American citizen.
However, I am deeply dismayed by BSA leadership giving-in to intimidation by gay extremists and the liberal politically correct to accept gays as members of the BSA.
Likewise, I am deeply concerned by the national trend of states to damage traditional marriage by accepting same-sex marriage -- and the federal government's refusal to defend the Defense of Marriage, which further undermines the strength of our social fabric.
Daniel Jeffs
Newsmax Magazine
Challenging DOMA
The Defense of Marriage Act was made federal law and California's Proposition 8 denied same-sex marriage. Proposition 8 was passed by voters. Neither law was defended by President Obama's U.S. attorney general or Gov. Jerry Brown's state attorney general -- simply because it is not politically correct. That is gross malfeasance ("Supreme Court Tries to Avoid Another Roe v. Wade," May).
America's culture can ill-afford to damage the right-to-life and the institution of marriage any further, yet both have come under assault from abortion and same-sex marriage extremists who intimidate all opposition with a vengeance. A free and healthy society that abdicates its responsibility to itself is surely doomed.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Diego Union-Tribune
Remembering Margaret Thatcher
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's passing should serve as a prime reminder that she and former President Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War and rescued the U.K and the United States from the corrosive social, political and economic erosion caused by liberal government.
Alas, since then, liberal government, social, environmental and union extremists have taken a devastating toll on our country and our freedoms, which is also beset by legal predators who constantly inflate the cost of living and health care, along with dependency parasites conditioned by government to suck the life out of America.
Indeed, what a shame it is to see the condescending commentary in the media, and indoctrinated British young people dancing for joy over Thatcher's death. Little do they know that if it were not for leaders like Reagan and Thatcher stopping the march of world Communism, they would likely be crawling for survival as slaves of the state.
Long live the memories of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. We need them again, now, more than ever….
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Diego Union-Tribune
Time for bold GOP action
It's time for Republicans to take bold steps to stem the destructive Democrat tide continuing with the re-election of President Obama. Indeed, it's bad enough that the president got much of what he wanted in tax increases with no spending cuts. Though it further damages the economy, it's a drop in the bucket compared to Obama's grand plan to "fundamentally transform America" by edict, executive order and political bullying.
By transforming his Cabinet starting with the ideological appointments of "yes-men" -- Lew to Treasury, Hagel to Defense, Kerry to State, and Brennan to the C.I.A. (not a cabinet position) -- President Obama will make it painfully clear that he will sacrifice economic recovery, the middle class, foreign policy, and our national security to attain his world view that the United States must lose its status of first in military and economic world power, exceptionalism and freedom.
Worse, President Obama's reckless efforts are enhanced by decades of indoctrination by the national liberal media, Hollywood, unions and the education establishment left, which are largely responsible for his election and re-election, as evidenced by relentless attacks against America's work force, free enterprise, wealth, the fight against terrorism, religion, law enforcement, the criminal justice system, the Constitution and family. Not to mention his intention to reduce our national defenses, and disarm the American people.
Surely, Republicans must take decisive actions to hold the line against government growth and abuse of power, and to retain the House and regain the Senate in 2014 by convincing the electorate that the GOP is the only way out of the pain they feel from this Democrat-caused mess. Indeed, the deceitful, insidious Obama-Democrat agenda must be exposed for what it really is. Socialism by sucking the economy dry, and breaking the spirit of liberty.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Bernardino Sun
Same-sex marriage camp intimidates society
When the Defense Of Marriage Act was made federal law, and California's Proposition 8 denying same-sex marriage was passed by voters and neither law is defended by President Obama's U.S. attorney general or Gov. Brown's state attorney general -- simply because it's not politically correct -- that is gross malfeasance. And when courts that do the same it is judicial misconduct.
It's bad enough that traditional marriage has long suffered from attacks by liberals, feminists, the media and the entertainment industry. But when the attacks fundamentally affect relationships, families -- and the security of society because of single-parent children -- it is unconscionable.
Indeed, America's culture can ill-afford to damage the right-to-life and the institution of marriage any further -- yet it has been under assault from abortion and same-sex marriage extremists who intimidate all opposition. Alas, a free and healthy society that abdicates its responsibility to itself is surely doomed.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Desert Dispatch - Daily Press
In spite of liberals
The Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and all the left-stream media are practicing the height of hypocrisy by hailing Wall Street stock market gains as a series of new highs, not because of what President Obama and the Democrat cartel in Congress did over the past 5 years with their socialist effort at fundamentally transforming America, but what free enterprise and Capitalism has done in spite of it.
Worse, the liberal media continues to paint false pictures of the improving economy and unemployment numbers supporting President Obama's clouded vision and corrosive government growth. Lest we forget, it was President Carter and President Clinton who forced affordable housing on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, banks and mortgage lenders creating a sea of unqualified buyers -- and, the consequences of economic collapse.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Diego Union-Tribune
Letters: Gay marriage
Same-sex marriage activists intimidating society
When the Defense Of Marriage Act was made federal law, and California's Proposition 8 denying same-sex marriage was passed by voters and neither law is defended by President Obama's U.S. attorney general or Governor Brown's state attorney general -- simply because it's not politically correct -- that is gross malfeasance. And courts that do the same is judicial misconduct.
It's bad enough that traditional marriage has long suffered from attacks by liberals, feminists, the media and the entertainment industry. But when the attacks fundamentally affect relationships, families -- and the security of society because of single-parent children -- it is unconscionable.
Indeed, America's culture can ill-afford to damage the right-to-life and the institution of marriage any further -- yet it has been under assault from abortion and same-sex marriage extremists who intimidate all opposition with a vengeance. Alas, a free and healthy society that abdicates its responsibility to itself is surely doomed.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Diego Union-Tribune
Hollywood is hurting America
Hollywood taking dramatic or artistic license in fact-based or true stories such as Academy Award nominated movies, "Argo," Lincoln" and "Zero Dark Thirty," is one thing. However, it cannot be stretched to a facsimile or copy of the truth when the theme of the plot is altered or tainted by ideology. Indeed, it simply doesn't read the same when it promotes a liberal agenda.
Worse, American history revisionists such as Howard Zinn's book, "People's History of the United States," -- widely used in our education system of corrupted indoctrination -- and currently, Oliver Stone's book and film, "The Untold History of the United States," serve nothing more than the author's and artist's efforts to undermine the historical meaning of our noble culture.
Alas, Hollywood and liberal politicians' deceit in promoting socialism over capitalism, democracy and freedom is bad enough. But when children's stories such as "Snow White," "The Wizard of Oz" and "Jack and the Beanstalk" are warped by Hollywood into violent-action movie extremes, that is simply unconscionable.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Daily Press
Sheriff's Department did their job
As a former sheriff's sergeant and Grand Jury member with 41 years of experience in the criminal justice system -- who carefully followed the Christopher Dorner case -- I can say that San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon and his department did an outstanding and heroic job of ending Dorner's deadly rampage of vengeance against law enforcement without any further loss of officers' lives.
Indeed, ex-LAPD officer Dorner was waging war against the first line of defense for the American people, which was domestic terrorism tantamount to treason. If there is any other blame to be laid in this evil-laden tragedy, it is likely to be found in the failure of LAPD background screening, psychological testing, and training or lack thereof, behind the hiring and 3-year retention of Dorner until he was fired.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Los Angeles Times
Don't fault the police
As a former sheriff's sergeant with 41 years of experience in the criminal justice system, and who carefully followed the Christopher Dorner case, I can say that San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon and his department did an outstanding and heroic job of ending Dorner's deadly rampage against law enforcement.
Indeed, Dorner, an ex-Los Angeles Police Department officer, was apparently waging war against the first line of defense for the American people, an act of domestic terrorism that is tantamount to treason. If there is any other blame to be laid in this tragedy, it is likely to be found in the failure of LAPD's psychological testing, and training.
Daniel B. Jeffs
(original letter)
Sheriff's Department did their job
As a former sheriff's sergeant and Grand Jury member with 41 years of experience in the criminal justice system -- who carefully followed the Christopher Dorner case -- I can say that San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon and his department did an outstanding and heroic job of ending Dorner's deadly rampage of vengeance against law enforcement without any further loss of officers' lives.
Indeed, ex-LAPD officer Dorner was waging war against the first line of defense for the American people, which was domestic terrorism tantamount to treason. If there is any other blame to be laid in this evil-laden tragedy, it is likely to be found in the failure of LAPD background screening, psychological testing, and training or lack thereof, behind the hiring and 3-year retention of Dorner until he was fired.
San Diego Union-Tribune
Liberal agenda ruining America
President Obama's inaugural speech -- and endorsement of Hillary Clinton for 2016 on 60 Minutes -- confirms that his liberal agenda is leading America to ruin. Indeed, it's bad enough that Obama and the Democrat Congress rammed through the enormous cost of national healthcare, tyrannical finance laws, trillion dollar deficits, wasteful stimulus spending, and insurmountable debt in his first term -- not to mention toying with terrorism, national security, energy and the economy.
However, when blatantly backed by the unquestioning liberal media, President Obama continues his open contempt for the Constitution into a second term with the imperial abuse of power, edicts, executive orders and grossly deceiving the people and damaging America with impunity -- not to mention dividing the nation with activist groups and unleashing the forces of environmentalists and socialist engineers -- the forecast for our future is bleak at best.
Alas, when government, liberal politicians, the news media, entertainment industry, organized labor and academia's combined indoctrination promote everything liberal as good, and everything conservative as evil, the foundation of America crumbles into socialism, making us vulnerable to Islamist terrorists bent on the destruction of Western democracy. That's what's happening. Surely it's time to re-examine ourselves and turn it around.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Washington Times
Re: The Gay Scouts of America - editorial
I agree wholeheartedly with the WT editorial, and call upon the Boy Scouts of America leadership to stick by our standards
Victims of pedophile Catholic priests and Boy Scout leaders have suffered years of agony while the press persecutes the church and the BSA, avoiding the real cause of what is a national disgrace. Contrary to popular politically correct belief, gays are not sacred cows.
Indeed, little to nothing has been revealed about how -- as a result of the sexual revolution in the 1970's and 1980's -- gay pedophiles flocked to Catholic seminaries to become priests because they would have a constant source of altar boys to prey upon.
Media persecution has now advanced against the Boy Scouts of America, the victim of gay pedophile assaults by scout leaders from the same period and beyond, seriously damaging the best character-building program in America and the world for boys and young men.
Worse, gay activists have a history of aggression against any opposition to them or gay marriage. However, the gay community has never condemned the insidious practices in the church and the BSA, nor have they done anything to discourage or prevent it -- yet still remain silent -- except to condemn the BSA for excluding gays.
As an active Bronze Palm Eagle Scout, district executive board member, and supporter of the BSA -- retired from 41 years in law enforcement and the criminal justice system -- I strongly encourage the BSA to stick to our standards and not give-in to PC pressure or gay intimidation. The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are substantial last best hopes of each new generation. To lose them would be unconscionable.
San Diego Union-Tribune
Scouts and gays
As an active Bronze Palm Eagle Scout, retired from 41 years in law enforcement and the criminal justice system, I encourage the BSA to stick to their standards and not give-in to gay intimidation. The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are substantial last best hopes of each new generation. To lose them would be unconscionable.
Daniel B. Jeffs
(original letter)
Boy Scouts of America should stick to their standards
Victims of pedophile Catholic priests and Boy Scout leaders have suffered years of agony while the press persecutes the church and the BSA, avoiding the real cause of what is a national disgrace. Contrary to popular politically correct belief, gays are not sacred cows
Indeed, little to nothing has been revealed about how -- as a result of the sexual revolution in the 1970's and 1980's -- gay pedophiles flocked to Catholic seminaries to become priests because they would have a constant source of altar boys to prey upon.
Media persecution has now advanced against the Boy Scouts of America, the victim of gay pedophile assaults by scout leaders from the same period and beyond, seriously damaging the best character-building program in America and the world for boys and young men.
Worse, gay activists have a history of aggression against any opposition to them or gay marriage. However, the gay community has never condemned the insidious practices in the church and the BSA, nor have they done anything to discourage or prevent it -- yet still remains silent -- except to condemn the BSA for excluding gays.
As an active Bronze Palm Eagle Scout, retired from 41 years in law enforcement and the criminal justice system, I encourage the BSA to stick to their standards and not give-in to gay intimidation. The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are substantial last best hopes of each new generation. To lose them would be unconscionable.
San Bernardino Sun
A liberal plague
Gov. Brown has certainly found himself between a rock and a hard place in dealing with federal court edicts to comply with our state prison system's self-imposed problems and a self-inflicted budget crisis.
Indeed, the governor's prison realignment of shifting prisoners to county jails, early releases, and fighting the liberal 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals intended release of 9,000 serious criminals, is simply another side-effect of California's liberal plague, which leaves us in even more danger -- added to our children miseducated at great expense, our economy in decay, and our taxes and the cost of living steadily rising.
If it were not for California setting the bar for government growth, the selfish interests of state correction officer and teacher unions, costly and unnecessary environmental extremes, and inviting illegal aliens to take advantage of health, education, welfare and housing benefits to increase the Democrat base -- regardless of the criminal alien and gang invasion -- there would be no criminal justice, prison system or budget crisis.
Coupled with inviting more federal intrusion on state's rights, a reckless Democrat supermajority in the legislature, and regulatory madness, our state is surely headed for disaster.
Alas, the conservative cure, of course, has always been available but ignored: Very limited government, less taxation and regulation, more personal and property rights, and stimulated free enterprise.
Daniel B. Jeffs
USA TODAY
Re: Today's debate: Military - Shift on women in combat align policy with reality - editorial
Women in combat, a stupid PC idea
Women should not be in combat units because they would unnecessarily endanger male soldiers in the unit by not being able to meet the same physical demands of combat.
If President Obama wants to satisfy feminists, he should establish all female combat units. On second thought, that could be a problem if the female units required male units to bail them out in combat, or the female units were not up to the task of backing up male units.
Conclusion: Females in combat is a stupid PC idea and should not be done.
Washington Times
President Obama's dictatorial ascendency
President Obama's second term represents the progressive/regressive/socialist dictatorial ascendency that began with Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and continued by Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
Indeed, after the greatest generation suffered the ravages of the great depression, and preserved our freedom with World War Two, they made the understandable mistake of being too permissive with their boomer generation of children 1946-1964.
That boomer generation, of course, fell under the spell of liberal/progressive/regressive socialists and began the 1960's anti-establishment cultural revolution, with the good of civil rights, against the bad of traditional education and Capitalism, and the ugly of ant-war.
Which led to the boomers' Capitalist hypocrisy of the 1980's, the unabated, un-American liberal infestation and government growth through the 90's into the 21st Century, the proliferation of Islamic terrorism, the peak of partisan political rancor, and the birth of a monarchial presidency.
What we the people do or fail to do from now one, will decide the recovery or fall of America, our future and the future of our children…. or lack thereof.
Los Angeles Times
Re: It's too lare for Cardinal Roger Mahoney's apologies - Lopez
Review gay pedophiles flocking to Catholic seminaries
Victims of Catholic priests and the church have suffered years of agony while the press persecutes and avoids the real cause of what is a national disgrace.
Indeed, little to nothing has been revealed about how, as a result of the sexual revolution in the 1970's and 1980's, gay pedophiles flocked to Catholic seminaries to become priests because they would have a constant source of altar boys to prey upon.
Media persecution has also advanced against the Boy Scouts of America, victims of gay pedophile assaults by scout leaders from the same period and beyond, seriously damaging the best program in America and the world for boys and young adults.
Worse, the gay community has never condemned the insidious practices in the church and the BSA, nor have they done anything to discourage or prevent it, yet still remains silent, except to condemn the BSA for excluding gays.
Surreptitious gay predators in the church and BSA are simply a vile shame that should be aggressively prosecuted.
Time Magazine
President Obama invokes his liberal 'creed' on America
President Obama invoked his liberal "creed" upon America with his second-term 2013 inauguration speech, which marks the second half of the obsessive-compulsive Obama era, seriously diminishing the best interests of the American people.
Indeed, the historic election of the first black president set in motion candidate Obama's promise to fundamentally transform America, and that's exactly what his presidency has been doing. God bless the United States? God help America.
Wall Street Journal
Time to re-examine ourselves
At a time when our society has reached an all-time divisive high stemming from the cultural revolution, it is surely time to stop and re-examine ourselves. Particularly, when -- over the last few decades -- we have become a high tech superficial society of social aggression, political terrorism, economic repression, selfish interests and extremes.
Indeed, when our unique democratic constitutional republic has been distorted, circumvented and compromised by liberal indoctrination, dumbed-down education, relentlessly destructive government growth, laws, regulations and dependency -- replete with litigious predators and parasites, the unnecessary expansion of the psychology industry, intensely revolutionized technology and communications, and the corrosive nothingness of the entertainment industry -- the absolute necessity of personal responsibility and freedom is losing.
Clearly, we are living in an anxiety society exacerbated by visceral, self-destructive politics and a world mortally damaged and threatened by unrelenting Islamic terrorism. Too many of us escape into the cyber space fantasyland in the denial of reality and consequences, while being enveloped by the undue influence of meddlers, peddlers, self-serving pitches, and government abuse of power.
Unfortunately, an overall recovery of American life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and exceptionalism will not happen without -- painful social, political and economic experiences -- the restoration of family stability, work ethic, honesty and integrity. Fortunately, there is time to re-examine ourselves. And we must, before it's too late.
Fortunately -- in terms of overcoming our greatest threat of overwhelming government -- advances in technology could provide us direct representative democracy by means of voting networks wherein we elect well-compensated nonpartisan professional government managers -- subject to annual confirmation -- instead of professional politicians. All elections would be held over the voting networks. Voters would be truthfully informed and could communicate with their representatives. All matters of taxation, spending and public policy would be decided by the voters. A 28th Amendment to the Constitution establishing the system of direct democracy voting networks for all states would do nicely.
USA TODAY
Re: Obama's gun violence plan faces a race against time - editorial
USA TODAY's "Obama's gun violence plan faces a race against time," and Time Magazine's "The Gunfighters" (Bloomberg, Biden and Giffords) cover story against guns depicts the extreme liberal bias and arrogance of the media-driven, closed-minded political agenda against guns, conservatives, the Constitution and America.
Indeed, given the aggression of the Journal News publishing maps, names and addresses of gun owners -- and the hostility of the anti-gun movement advanced by President Obama -- it should come as no surprise if the Second Amendment did nothing to prevent soldiers armed with military assault weapons from seizing all law-abiding citizens' guns and disarming the American people.
Note: I am a gun owner. Hopefully, USA TODAY will continue the letters to the editor policy of not publishing addresses and phone numbers.
Los Angele Times
Hollywood celebrates Obama era
The Golden Globes deservedly handing Ben Affleck best director and best picture for Argo notwithstanding, the Hollywood Foreign Press self-indulging awards party was little more than a highly partisan celebration of the President Obama era -- as evidenced by former president Bill Clinton introducing the Emancipation Proclamation movie Lincoln, and the majority of the nominations and awards going to more politically-driven movies, Zero Dark Thirty, Game Change, Django Unchained, and television series, Homeland, Newsroom, and Political Animals.
Indeed, the Academy Awards will undoubtedly mirror much of the political bias without anyone in the entertainment industry acknowledging the fact that President Lincoln launched the Republican Party, or that films such as Zero Dark Thirty and television series such as Homeland and Last Resort intrude on dangerous national security territory that could adversely affect our national defense. Shame on the reckless arrogance of Hollywood.
San Diego Union-Tribune
Gun rights vs. gun control
Gun violence vs. mental health
It is well known and understood by the reasonable and serious-minded, that over-zealous gun control does little or nothing to prevent gun crimes, and that the hackneyed phrase, "guns don't kill people, people kill people," is painfully true.
Clearly, beyond the problem of gangsters and guns, the toxic mix of high profile, senseless killings and the mentally ill can only be reduced by the mentally ill being held and treated in mental institutions.
The real crime behind the severe problem of gun violence and mental health is caused by reactionary government regulators, social meddlers and the ACLU.
If it were not for them, mental health care facilities would not have been eroded from 500,000 beds to less than 50,000 beds in recent decades.
Indeed, if it were not for the intentionally self-inflicted social, political and economic sickness infecting our society, innocent lives would not be senselessly taken or destroyed. Surely, any finger-pointing to be done should be directed at society-controlling zealots who ignore the fundamental rule, "First, do no harm."
Daniel B. Jeffs
New York Times
Al Gore: American media traitor and global warming huckster
Former vice president Al Gore's treasonous sale of his far-left American cable television network to oil-rich-Qatar's terrorist-media-purveyor, Al Jazeera for $500 million adds to the clear and convincing evidence that he is not only a casual and arrogant traitor, but an opportunistic, self-enriching, global warming liar, an unconscionable huckster, and a Michael Moore-style anti-American fraud.
Alas, what else can we expect from Gore's experience with his former president Bill Clinton's inconvenient truth of bringing down the housing market, finance and the economy with the false-promises of affordable housing for unqualified buyers, at taxpayers' expense? Indeed, Wall Street and the banks are not to blame. The federal government is.
USA TODAY
NRA President attacked and shunned at press statement
In response to attacks against the NRA over the Newtown school shooting, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre appeared on television before the press and made strong statement defending the NRA and condemning the media and violence in video games and movies.
Unfortunately, it came as no surprise to see two anti-gun extremists assault Mr. Lapierre with signs and shouting. One sign read "NRA kills our kids," and "NRA blood on your hands." It was obvious that they were among the liberal lunatics bent on suppressing free speech.
Worse, broadcast television networks ABC, CBS and NBC ignored Mr. Lapierre's appearance, reinforcing the media's biased role against guns. Cable news networks, Fox News and CNN did carry the coverage. Our only local television news exception was Los Angeles KTTV Channel 5.
It also came as no surprise that Los Angles Mayor, Antonio Villagaiosa appeared on super-biased MSNBC, called Wayne LaPierre's statement a "diatribe," and criticized him for taking no questions, even though it was a statement, not a press conference.
Certainly, it didn't seem to matter that Mr. LaPierre announced the NRA establishment of a model shield plan to protect our schools, which is being headed by former U.S. attorney, congressman and Homeland Security undersecretary, Asa Hutchinson who outlined the plan.
The NRA should be commended for its work with firearms and resistance to disarming the American people, not demonized and condemned by over-reaching government's abuse of power.
San Diego Union-Tribune
Guns, taxes and the political culture war
Adam Lanza's finger-pulling trigger that murdered 20 innocent first-graders at the Connecticut elementary school was not a creation of his mind or the guns he used, but a Frankenstein miscreation of the exploitation of sick liberal tenets massaging the psychological assimilation of moral relevancy and mental illness in everything and the neutralization of right and wrong in the media and entertainment industry.
Lest we forget, after over a half century of America's liberal/conservative culture war, harmfully advanced by the anti-establishment counter-culture revolution of the late 1950's, 60's and 70's, which launched the drug culture and government growth -- despite a brief Reagan rescue of the l980's -- our country's unique brand of socialism has been deeply burned into the seriously thinned-skin of freedom.
Indeed, when the extreme liberal culture has become so imbedded in the social, political and economic takeover of the education establishment and their indoctrination of students -- supported by the liberal media's propaganda, and government's explosive growth into a national nanny dependency state replete with the abuse of power, punishing taxation, over-regulation and judicial tyranny -- America's and conservative's traditional days of liberty are seriously numbered.
Unfortunately, President Obama's unique presidency is symbolic of captaining the U.S.S. Titanic ship-of-state, recklessly sailing into the perfect storm of America's social, political, economic and national security demise -- similar to what his comrade-in-socialist-arms, Hugo Chavez is experiencing in Venezuela -- exacerbated by the sudden, sinking stop of congressional Democrats' iceberg budget, with no Republicans left to blame.
Daily Press Apple Valley Review
From Columbine to Connecticut, shootings means war against guns
The immediate reaction by the liberal media, President Obama and other anti-gun politicians to the tragic shootings of children and teachers at the elementary school in Connecticut signals an all out war against guns. Which could very well lead to a movement to disarm the American people, leaving law-abiding people vulnerable to criminals who will always have guns.
This coupled with mass shootings from Columbine to Colorado and others is a manufactured crisis that the president and congressional Democrats will not let go to waste. Particularly, as a distortion and distraction from the social, political and fiscal crisis.
Regardless, one thing is glaringly and painfully clear: The insidious long-time secular, liberal progressive agenda has undermined our constitutional freedoms and moral imperatives with unbridled government growth, waste, fraud, abuse of power, corruption, regulation, taxes, dependency and debt.
Add, public education, media and Hollywood indoctrination -- social aggression, political terrorism, selfish interests and extremes -- to such an extent, that our nation is rife with functionally illiterate students, "anything goes," sex crimes, drugs, gang violence, murders, robberies, burglaries, theft and imported crime.
That is the problem. Not guns.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Bernardino Sun
Time to govern
California lawmakers don't need to be told that it's time to govern. They have already governed the state to inevitable insolvency, to be celebrated by high speed rail connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles -- nowhere to nowhere at excessive taxpayer expense.
Indeed, Democrats have been in power and were elected to supermajority simply because powerful selfish interests, special interests and the dependency class -- created by liberal Democrats -- have given California government the power to satisfy their largess by robbing self-reliant producers and earners.
After the California gold-rush, if the state had lived up to the principles of the founders and the Constitution, we would be the model state for the country instead of leading America to ruin with the self-destructive rise and fall of America's western empire.
Surely, California's golden goose has run its course, laying eggs in the nation's foremost money pit. Alas, it's a dreadful shame that our state's natural assets are still being used and abused by authoritarian government and extreme environmentalists, and devoured by the predators and parasites of socialism.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Diego Union-Tribune
Connecticut shootings
Connecticut shootings means war against guns
The immediate reaction by the liberal media, President Obama and other anti-gun politicians to the tragic shootings of children and teachers at the elementary school in Connecticut signals an all out war against guns, which could very well lead to a movement to disarm the American people. This coupled with recent mass shootings and others is a manufactured crisis that the president and congressional Democrats will not let go to waste. Particularly, as a distortion and distraction from the social and fiscal crisis.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Diego Union-Tribune
President Obama's presidency is the final liberal straw
Liberal-progressive presidents are responsible for the rise in government growth, contrary to the dictates of the Constitution. Indeed, government growth and abuse of power began with the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, continued with Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, then Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, both of whom are directly responsible for the housing crash and financial meltdown.
Then comes President Barack Obama with a liberal-progressive vengeance in his first term with a Democrat Congress that threw fiscal borrowing and spending restraint to the wind with a wasted trillion dollar stimulus bill, and yearly trillion dollar deficits that sent the national debt soaring from $10 to over $16 trillion -- stemmed only by spontaneous Tea Party voter revolt resulting in Republican control of the House of Representatives.
But not before President Obama and his Democrats rammed through the enormous, costly and needless "Unaffordable Healthcareless Act," and the Dodd-Frank financial disaster laws -- as if their culpability in the housing crash wasn't enough. Then, of course, Mr. Obama' monarchial edicts are elevated with over 6000 more regulations and continuing his war against affordable energy and energy independence.
Surely, the "fiscal cliff" is meaningless to President Obama and Democrats, who extended the Bush tax cuts rather than making them permanent and intend to raise taxes beyond merely letting the tax cuts expire January 2013, which, coupled with the coming costs of "Obamacare" will decimate businesses, jobs and the middle class.
Alas, America has already been deceived, betrayed and pushed off the "fiscal cliff" -- hard landing dead ahead.
Daniel B. Jeffs
The Washington Examiner
America has already fallen off the 'fiscal cliff'
The "fiscal cliff" is meaningless to President Obama and Democrats, who extended the Bush tax cuts rather than making them permanent. They intend to raise taxes beyond merely letting the tax cuts expire January 2013.
President Obama is following and long line of liberal-progressive presidents responsible for the rise in government growth, contrary to the dictates of the Constitution. In his first term with a Democrat Congress, he threw fiscal restraint to the wind via a wasted trillion dollar stimulus and yearly deficits that sent the national debt soaring from $10 to over $16 trillion.
The spending was only stemmed by a spontaneous Tea Party voter revolt resulting in Republican control of the House of Representatives in 2010, but not before the Democrats rammed through Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank financial disaster laws -- as if their culpability in the housing crash wasn't enough.
Obama' monarchial edicts were elevated with over 6000 more regulations and continuing his war against affordable energy and energy independence. Coupled with the coming costs of Obamacare, this will decimate businesses, jobs and the middle class.
Alas, America has already been deceived, betrayed and pushed off the "fiscal cliff" -- and there's hard landing dead ahead.
Daniel B. Jeffs
New York Post
Spreading the wealth -- and choking U.S. growth
Surely, the fiscal cliff is meaningless to Obama and the Democrats. They extended the Bush tax cuts, rather than making them permanent, and then went on a $6 trillion borrowing, spending and regulation spree with impunity.
They intend to raise taxes beyond merely letting the tax cuts expire on Jan. 1, which coupled with the coming costs of ObamaCare, will decimate businesses, jobs and the middle class.
America has already been deceived, betrayed and pushed off the fiscal cliff. A hard landing and deeper recession are dead ahead.
Daniel Jeffs
Apple Valley Review - Daily Press
President Obama's presidency is the final liberal straw
Liberal-progressive presidents are responsible for the rise in government growth, contrary to the dictates of the Constitution. Indeed, government growth and abuse of power began with the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, continued with Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, then Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, both of whom are directly responsible for the housing crash and financial meltdown.
Then comes President Barack Obama with a liberal-progressive vengeance in his first term with a Democrat Congress that threw fiscal borrowing and spending restraint to the wind with a wasted trillion dollar stimulus bill, and yearly trillion dollar deficits that sent the national debt soaring from $10 to over $16 trillion -- stemmed only by spontaneous Tea Party voter revolt resulting in Republican control of the House of Representatives.
But not before President Obama and his Democrats rammed through the enormous, costly and needless "Unaffordable Healthcareless Act," and the Dodd-Frank financial disaster laws -- as if their culpability in the housing crash wasn't enough. Then, of course, Mr. Obama's monarchial edicts are elevated with over 6000 more regulations and continuing his war against affordable energy and energy independence.
Surely, the "fiscal cliff" is meaningless to President Obama and Democrats -- who extended the Bush tax cuts rather than making them permanent -- and intend to raise taxes beyond merely letting the tax cuts expire January 2013 -- which coupled with the coming costs of "Obamacare" will decimate businesses, jobs and the middle class. Alas, America has already been deceived, betrayed and pushed off the "fiscal cliff" -- hard landing dead ahead.
Daniel B. Jeffs
NEWSMAX Magazine
Middle-class extinction
President Obama's feckless bid for re-election to save the middle class masks his extreme ideology of social justice demonstrated by waging class warfare against Republicans, the rich, and the middle class.
This is evidenced by his deceitful record of pushing through laws of social, political and economic injustice against the American people ("Death of the Middle -- Why Conservatives Should Care," August).
Social injustice is the destruction of the middle class by socialistic government growth and taxation, creating a giant underclass. That is Obama's philosophy of social justice, also known as socialism.
Daniel B. Jeffs
San Diego Union-Tribune
Letters: Gay Marriage
President Obama backed gay marriage, just in time for the president's $15 million Hollywood campaign fundraiser in Beverly Hills, which is heavily funded by the gay community.
Indeed, along with gay-marriage-friendly California officials, Governor Brown and AG Harris, who refused to defend Proposition 8, President Obama endorses gay marriage and refuses to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, diminishing the institution of marriage.
It is simply unconscionable that gay activist-extremists consistently jerk around the majority who should not have to defend centuries of the institution of traditional marriage between one man and one woman. Particularly, when government has unreasonably institutionalized protected classes as sacred cows.
Worse, it's bad enough that liberal government is breaking the back of American free enterprise and the middle class with social aggression, punishing regulations, taxes, entitlements and extreme environmentalism. However, un-American, unconstitutional tyranny, and socialism cannot be allowed to stand against American freedom from overwhelming government.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Los Angeles Times
Times change
Obama's same-sex marriage evolution
Re: Obama takes stand for gay marriage May 10
“Obama takes a stand for gay marriage,” just in time for the president's $15-million Hollywood campaign fundraiser in California, which is heavily funded by the gay community.
Indeed, along with gay-marriage-friendly California officials — Gov. Jerry Brown and Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris, who refused to defend Proposition 8 in federal court — Obama endorses gay marriage and refuses to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, diminishing the institution of marriage.
It is simply unconscionable that gay rights activists consistently jerk around the majority, who should not have to defend centuries of the institution of traditional marriage between one man and one woman — particularly when government has unreasonably institutionalized protected classes as sacred cows.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Note: My letter was the only one of ten letters opposing same-sex marriage
San Diego Union-Tribune
President Obama caves to gay marriage on ABC
President Obama's only fear of commitment to gay marriage was full endorsement before the election. However, VP Joe Biden's calculated endorsement of gay marriage on Meet the Press is clear and convincing evidence that President Obama tested the election waters by assigning Biden to do just that -- followed by Education Secretary Arne Duncan's assigned endorsement -- which was intended to take Obama half way to a full endorsement after he wins the election.
However, after North Carolina's overwhelming vote against same sex marriage, the president was pressed by the left-wing of Democrat Party to endorse gay marriage so they could make it part of their convention platform, which will be held in North Carolina. Coupled with continuing heat from gay activists, President Obama caved-in to their demands, but lessened the national heat by making the endorsement quietly with an ABC personal interview, rather than a press conference.
The lingering question might be, will President Obama lose North Carolina, and many other states against gay marriage, including the embattled traditional marriage voters in California who passed Proposition 8?
A better question might be, how long will the traditional values voter majority allow the tyranny of left-wing extremists to jerk around the majority and wag the dog?
Daniel B. Jeffs
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Author's email published and read by Bill O'Reilly on the O'Reilly Factor, May 9, 2012 regarding the failures of celebrity-backed charities:
"Thanks for exposing self-serving celebrity charities for not doing their job."
(condensed from the email I sent below)
Bill,
Thanks for exposing self-serving celebrities who back charities, many of which are self-serving scams, serving no one but themselves in a circle of thieves.
Dan Jeffs
Washington Post
President Obama's social injustice
President Obama' feckless bid for re-election to save the middle class masks his extreme ideology of social justice demonstrated by waging class warfare against Republicans, the rich and the middle class -- as evidenced by his deceitful record of pushing through laws of social, political and economic injustice against the American people.
It is well known and understood that freedom is based upon a large, strong middle class, which tempers conflicts between the rich and poor. Social injustice is the destruction of the middle class by socialistic government growth and taxation, creating a giant underclass. That's Mr. Obama's philosophy of social justice, also known as socialism.
However, that's not our constitutional USA, wherein all political power is inherent in the people. Indeed, President Obama's corrupted vision would be the transformation of America into an unconstitutional USSA: The Union of Socialist States of America, ruled by the socialist elite.
The Washington Examiner
Re: A second term: Obama unleashed
What's the worst that could happen in the 2012 presidential elections. A re-elected President Obama, unleased.
Indeed, as if high gas prices aren't bad enough, President Obama is in the process of killing the coal-power industry as promised, which will cause electricity prices to escalate and affect those who can least afford it.
The energy and fuel crisis, job losses and cost of living increases are being caused by environmental zealots' litigation, EPA over-regulation, plus President Obama stifling domestic oil production, natural gas and coal energy in his arrogant pursuit of costly, unreliable green energy at any price.
In a nut shell, our national mess was started by the unmitigated misfeasance of former presidents Carter, Clinton and congressional Democrats, which caused the housing crash, financial crisis and a deepening recession set in motion by over-reaching government's irresponsible push for affordable housing.
Worse, the public miseducation system is a deeply flawed and failed money-pit of liberal arts and socialist indoctrination under the selfish interests of the education establishment, tenure and teacher unions robbing students of their future.
And President Obama is in the process of putting our national security at risk by disarming our nuclear defense weapons capabilities in collusion with Russia, and inviting terrorist attacks from Iran and other hostiles.
Fortunately, President Obama's massive health care law is being challenged by 26 states and a national small business organization in the Supreme Court, which will hopefully be declared unconstitutional by the Court.
Sadly, the out-of-control size, scope and power of our government is transforming America away from the founding principles of our unique constitutional democratic republic of limited government that made us the greatest nation of liberty and freedom the World has ever known.
If we are to survive these challenges, we must make our voices heard and our votes count in the 2012 elections. Without a strong and free America, we and the free world will collapse under the unbearable weight of tyranny. President Obama unleased on America with a second term is not an option.
The New York Times
Re: In Court, sharp questions on health care law's mandate
The truth behind major issue headlines
What is the truth behind what the American people are reading, hearing and seeing in the dominant liberal media regarding the constitutionality of ObamaCare and the tragic death of Trayvon Martin?
President Obama's unconstitutional health care law is being challenged by 26 states and a national small business organization in the Supreme Court. This is a stand against centralized government usurping state's and individual's constitutional rights. If the Court fails to protect those rights, the abuse of federal power will be significantly advanced.
Seizing on a tragedy, a national kangaroo court of black activists, Democrats and complicit media are accusing, trying and convicting a "white-Hispanic" man of the hate crime killing of a 17-year-old black teen, which will likely foment national hate crime riots if the white-Hispanic man is not charged with a crime.
America is increasingly disintegrating from a foreign ideology eating away at our foundations and constitutional principles of liberty and freedom. We are better than this. It's time for all responsible citizens to come to the aid of their country in the 2012 elections. Indeed, evil will prevail if good people do nothing.
Washington Post
Definition of fluke:
A flatfish/flounder; triangular blade at the end of an anchor; barbed head at the end of an arrow or harpoon; a stroke of good luck
The Democrat-induced Sandra Fluke flare-up was a stroke of luck (fluke) to harpoon (fluke) Rush Limbaugh, anchor (fluke) the outrage of the religious right, slap the GOP with and anti-women flatfish (fluke), rescue President Obama from the free contraceptives issue, and make Fluke (indoctrinated student/activist) an instant political celebrity -- indeed, a political fluke.
Meanwhile, President Obama ignores the tornado devastation in America's heartland, without question from the news media.
San Francisco Examiner
Is it socialism you want?
Recent polls indicating that most Americans believe wealth distribution is unfair are biased to the left. There is already too much distribution of wealth for welfare, entitlements, and over-reaching government programs.
The Occupy Wall Street bunch thinks that they want socialism over capitalism. They don't realize that Socialism would include them in creating a giant underclass under the guns of authoritarian government.
Daniel B. Jeffs, Apple Valley
Original letter:
Occupy movement wants equal distribution of poverty for all
Recent polls indicating most Americans believe wealth distribution is unfair are biased to the left. There is already too much distribution of wealth for welfare, entitlements, and over-reaching government programs.
The Occupy Wall Street bunch think they want Socialism over Capitalism. However, most are simply too ignorant or indoctrinated to realize that Socialism would include them in creating a giant underclass under the guns of authoritarian government.
There is nothing more insidious and unfair than the confiscation of wealth, equal distribution of poverty for all, and freedom lost.
New York Post
Biden teaching 4th-graders
Biden campaigning for the president’s jobs bill in front of 4th-graders is an invitation to expose the liberal indoctrination of students from elementary school to college.
It’s simply a crime against the fiber of America.
Indeed, the Occupy Wall Street movement is a direct result of the 1960’s cultural revolution, the takeover of the education and political establishment and the unbridled growth of government.
Free-market capitalism is the only thing keeping our country from social, political and economic extinction.
Dan Jeffs
(Original letter)
VP Joe Biden indoctrinating 4th-graders
VP Joe Biden campaigning for President's jobs bill to 4th-graders should be an invitation to expose the liberal indoctrination of students, from elementary schools to college -- by the NEA, teacher unions, tenured professors, and the Department of Education -- at great taxpayer and property owner expense -- while graduating functionally illiterate students and robbing them of a core academic education.
It's simply a crime against the fiber of America.
Indeed, the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement is a direct result of the socialist '60s cultural revolution, the takeover of the education and political establishment, and the unbridled growth of government. Free market Capitalism is the only thing keeping our unique constitutional republic from social, political and economic extinction.
San Bernardino Sun
Freedom taken
There were certainly no mature adults among the first Occupy Wall Street protestors simply because they were predominately functionally illiterate, indoctrinated disgruntled students taught by liberal academia to practice name-calling anti-American mobaucracy to intimidate their perceived enemy: free market Capitalism.
Of course, the spread of protests across the country was prompted by known liberal activist organizations such as Move On and others, to help focus blame for the failing economy on Wall Street, banks and the wealthy -- later joined by the usual suspects, unions, teachers, Hollywood creatures, and 60s and '70 revolutionaries.
And, of course, there has been no mention of the actual cause of the economic meltdown in the liberal media's credibility coverage of the hapless street mobs: Government's reckless intimidation of banks and mortgage lenders to give home loans to unqualified buyers for the sake of affordable housing.
[Indeed, blame for the giant housing bubble that burst -- causing the housing and economic collapse -- should be directed where it primarily belongs: Former President Jimmy Carter's CRA, Former President Bill Clinton -- along with Former HUD Director, Andrew Cuomo, and Former Attorney General, Janet Reno -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; Former Fannie Mae CEO, Franklin Raines; Rep. Barney Frank, and Senators Chris Dodd and Chuck Schumer.] (edited for space)
Alas, elected representatives' selling protection for their elections and re-elections is as old as politics in America -- as are free-market Capitalists paying for the protection to remain in business. It's simply big, gangster government by any definition -- with hard working taxpayers and consumers paying the ultimate price for government malfeasance: Freedom
Unfortunately, under the guise of saving the economy, gangster government was elevated to a disturbing and unworkable level by the Democrat Congress and the Obama administration. Now, it's worse, and the outlook is grim -- unless the 2010 Republican win in the House is repeated in the Senate and White House in the 2012 elections.
Lest we forget, the First Amendment protects the people's right to free speech, and to peaceably assemble, and to petition government for redress of grievances -- as the tea party movement does. There is no right to mob the streets to interfere with businesses and other people's freedom of movement.
That is illegal everywhere in America.
Daniel B. Jeffs
WRONG: Why Experts Keep Failing Us and How to Know When Not to Trust Them
Author: David H. Freedman
Overview:
Our investments are devastated, obesity is epidemic, test scores are in decline, blue-chip companies circle the drain, and popular medications turn out to be ineffective and even dangerous. What happened? Didn't we listen to the scientists, economists and other experts who promised us that if we followed their advice all would be well?
Actually, those experts are a big reason we're in this mess. And, according to acclaimed business and science writer David H. Freedman, such expert counsel usually turns out to be wrong--often wildly so. Wrong reveals the dangerously distorted ways experts come up with their advice, and why the most heavily flawed conclusions end up getting the most attention-all the more so in the online era. But there's hope: Wrong spells out the means by which every individual and organization can do a better job of unearthing the crucial bits of right within a vast avalanche of misleading pronouncements.
Our investments are devastated, obesity is epidemic, test scores are in decline, blue-chip companies circle the drain, and popular medications turn out to be ineffective and even dangerous. What happened? Didn't we listen to the scientists, economists and other experts who promised us that if we followed their advice all would be well?
Actually, those experts are a big reason we're in this mess. And, according to acclaimed business and science writer David H. Freedman, such expert counsel usually turns out to be wrong--often wildly so. Wrong reveals the dangerously distorted ways experts come up with their advice, and why the most heavily flawed conclusions end up getting the most attention-all the more so in the online era. But there's hope: Wrong spells out the means by which every individual and organization can do a better job of unearthing the crucial bits of right within a vast avalanche of misleading pronouncements.
Meet The Author
David H. Freedman (freedman.com) is a contributing editor at Inc. Magazine. His articles on science, business and technology have appeared in The Atlantic, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Science, Wired, and many other publications. His previous book (coauthored) is A Perfect Mess, about the useful role of disorder in daily life, business and science. He is also the author of books about the U.S. Marines, computer crime, and artificial intelligence. Freedman casts a critical eye on headline health news at his blog, Making Sense of Medicine.
Table Of Contents
Introduction 3
The Law Is a Class
The British economist John Maynard Keynes famously observed, 75 years ago, that statesmen who think that they are pursuing policies of their own devise are really showing themselves to be "the slaves of some defunct economist." In America today statesmen are more likely to be the slaves of some defunct legal theorist. Our litigation-prone culture and complex legal structure—not least the matrix of overlapping state and federal powers—regularly translate questions of policy into questions of law. As a result, American law schools wield more social influence than any other part of the American university.
In "Schools for Misrule," Walter Olson offers a fine dissection of these strangely powerful institutions. One of his themes is that law professors serve the interests of the legal profession above all else; they seek to enlarge the scope of the law, creating more work for lawyers even as the changes themselves impose more costs on society. By keeping legal rules in a state of endless churning, lawyers undermine a stable rule of law and make legal outcomes less predictable; the result is more litigation and, not incidentally, more billable hours for lawyers, who must now be consulted about the most routine matters of business practice and social life.
Mr. Olson reminds us that the mere presence of law schools on college campuses was deeply controversial at the turn of the last century. Thorstein Veblen said that law schools belonged in the academy no more than schools of dancing or fencing, because their practical, vocational training detracted from the enterprise of intellectual discovery. Thus if law teachers wanted to become members of the professoriate, they had to do more than merely impart the content of legal doctrine. They had to find arguments implicit in academic trends and critique the law's very architecture. To meet the need for intellectual respectability, Mr. Olson implies, professors became engineers of reform.
Mr. Olson shows that the reforms that had the most baleful effects were those that coincided with the expansionist interests of lawyers. Legal theorists dismissed, for instance, concerns that a wider use of "equitable relief"—a doctrine that judges properly employed to enforce school desegregation—would dissolve the difference between politics and judging. But the concerns we were well placed: Courts ended up playing an important role in managing schools, prisons and welfare agencies. Law professors also helped to develop the class action into an extortionate threat: Companies now pay out million-dollar settlements rather than bet their very existence on a single trial that might well impose massive liability.
Mr. Olson superbly describes the rise of legal clinics, the law-school component ostensibly designed to give students hands-on training. He notes that the charitable foundations that first funded these clinics were more concerned with creating turbines of social change than with educating students. These days, many more clinics engage in public-interest litigation (defined by a rather predictable liberal agenda) than devote themselves to matters like the legal ordeals of small businesses, though thinking about a deli's contract dispute with a supplier would be more relevant to a law student's future working life. Some of these public-interest litigation shops have substantial funds. Mr. Olson observes that the budget of Brennan Center at New York University alone comes to roughly 80% of that of the Federalist Society, the national organization of legal conservatives that is routinely vilified by Democratic politicians for its inordinate—and, of course, pernicious—effect on our legal culture.
While Mr. Olson offers an excellent description of where law schools have been, he is less effective at showing where they are going. He makes much of causes that have captured the interests of law professors—reparations for African-Americans, the return of lost lands to Indian tribes, theories that charge American law with pervasive racism (so-called Critical Race Theory)—but these are by now outlier campaigns. Today a large part of legal scholarship taps into the ever increasing capacity of computers for precise measurement and quantification. Indeed, the fastest-growing annual conference of law professors is the one that takes up legal empiricism, a field in which scholars measure the effects of laws in the real world (e.g., how certain laws may lead doctors to practice defensive medicine). The other vibrant field is law and economics, where scholars often compare the advantages of the market to other forms of social ordering.
Mr. Olson rightly complains of legal scholars who seem to have enormous enthusiasm for international norms. Domestically, they would use them to constrict democratic decisions, claiming, for instance, that life imprisonment for juveniles without parole violates universal human rights. But even in this area of scholarship a growing band of heretics contest the catechism—arguing, say, that the threat of being prosecuted at the International Criminal Court will make it less likely that dictators will give up power.
To be sure, intellectual life in the legal academy would be more vibrant if law schools were less lopsidedly left-liberal—if, that is, they encouraged more internal debate. Tenure also permits aging 1960s and 1970s ideologues to enjoy positions of academic power. But it is not aging scholars who generally advance the ideas that Keynes's statesmen will take to heart; it is the younger ones. The British Enlightenment ideas that shaped America's legal structure rested on the proposition that markets are central to prosperity and that government actions can be judged by real-world effects. What is novel about law schools today is that, compared with their checkered past, so many more scholars are vigorously returning to the methods that made America.
Mr. McGinnis is a professor at the Northwestern University School of Law.
The Washington Examiner
Boomers spawned an American culture of extremes
Re: "Baby boomers fueling boom in knee, hip surgeries," May 23
It's no surprise that the United States is "becoming a nation of bum knees, worn-out hips and sore shoulders." Physical fitness is one of the many extremes spawned by the boomer generation in creating a selfish, superficial society -- with shame in short supply.
This spoiled generation rejected their parents, the meaning of freedom in America, and formed an anti-establishment counterculture that launched the drug culture, extreme feminism and reverse racism. The "Me Generation" took over education, embraced socialism, and expanded government, political correctness and extreme environmentalism -- before embracing extreme boom-and-bust capitalism.
When these activists, demonstrators, demonizers and finger-pointers run out of gas searching for someone to blame for all the dishonesty, abuse of power, greed, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll -- all they need do is corner the market on mirrors.
Dan Jeffs
San Bernardino Sun
Culture of extremes
The boomer generation fact that 'We're becoming a nation of bum knees, worn-out hips and sore shoulders' comes as no surprise. (Re: "Boomers fueling boom in knee, hip surgeries," May 23)
Indeed, the extremes in physical fitness and resistance to aging is the least of extremes spawned by the boomer generation, which created a superficial society of social aggression, political tyranny, selfish interests and economic stress -- with shame in short supply.
Unfortunately, the spoiled generation rejected their parents, the meaning of freedom in America, and formed an anti-establishment counter culture that launched the drug culture, extreme feminism, reverse racism -- took over education, embraced socialism -- expanded government, political correctness and extreme environmentalism -- then embraced extreme boom and bust capitalism, and turned that into their shallow, instant gratification 'me generation.'
Alas, when the boomer generation of activists, demonstrators, demonizers and finger-pointers -- who said they would change the world -- run out of gas searching for who to blame for all the dishonesty, abuse of power, greed, sex, drugs and rock-n-roll -- all they need do is corner the market on mirrors and take a long look at the usual suspects who changed the world, ruined it for their parents, their children and all the generations to come.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Press Dispatch
More than a holiday
Memorial Day is more than a weekend holiday celebration, which has become too far removed from honoring our military Americans who gave their lives in defense of our country. Surely we can do more to give thanks, honor and remember the patriots and defenders of freedom. More than going somewhere to party, picnic, visit friends or relatives -- or to just get away -- with the meaning of Memorial Day lost in the action.
Though I did not serve in the military, many in my family did, and I lost an Uncle in WWII. I did, however, serve in law enforcement and the criminal justice system for 41 years, which is the first line of defense throughout our country. Indeed, law enforcement officers put their lives on the line every day to protect and serve their fellow citizens. Many have given their lives on duty -- some while serving in the military -- and they should also be honored and remembered.
America is the world's premier land of the free and home of the brave because of our patriots from 1776, our Constitution, and all our patriots who have supported and defended our liberty to this memorable day and beyond.
Daniel B. Jeffs
THE FLIPSIDE OF FEMINISM:
What Conservative Women Know -- and Men Can't Say
By Suzanne Venker & Phyllis Schlafly
Pub. Date: March 2011
Publisher: WND Books, Incorporated
Synopsis
Forty years have passed since the so-called women's movement claimed to liberate women from preconceived notions of what it means to be female - and the results are in. The latest statistics show that as women have gained more freedom, more education, and more power, they have become less happy. In The Flipside of Feminism, Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly provide readers with a new view of women in America - casting off the ideology that preaches faux empowerment and liberation from men and marriage. Their book demonstrates that conservative women are, in fact, the most liberated women in America and the folks to whom young people should be turning for advice. Their confident and rational approach to the battle of the sexes is precisely what America needs.
OVERVIEW
What if everything you’ve been told about women in America is wrong? What if what your college professors taught you – along with television, movies, books, magazine articles, and even news reports – have all been lies or distortions?
Since the 1960s, American feminists have set themselves up as the arbiters of all things female. Their policies have dominated the social and political landscape. The “spin sisters” in the media (aptly named by Myrna Blyth in her book of the same name) and their cohorts in academia are committed feminists. Consequently, everything Americans know -- or think they know -- about marriage, kids, sex, education, politics, gender roles, and work/family balance, has been filtered through a left-wing lens.
But what if conservative women are in the best position to empower American women?
Forty years have passed since the so-called women’s movement claimed to liberate women from preconceived notions of what it means to be female – and the results are in. The latest statistics from the National Bureau of Economic Research show that “as women have gained more freedom, more education, and more power, they have become less happy.”
Enough, say Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly. It’s time to liberate America from feminism’s dead-end road. Cast off the ideology that preaches faux empowerment and liberation from men and marriage. While modern women enjoy unprecedented freedom and opportunities, Venker and Schlafly argue that this progress is not the result of feminism.
Women’s progress has been a natural evolution – due in large part to men’s contributions. American men are not a patriarchal bunch, as feminists claim. They have, in fact, aided women’s progress. And like women, they have been just as harmed by the feminist movement.
In The Flipside of Feminism, Venker and Schlafly provide readers with a new view of women in America -- one that runs counter to what Americans have been besieged with for decades. Their book demonstrates that conservative women are, in fact, the most liberated women in America and the folks to whom young people should be turning for advice. Their confident and rational approach to the battle of the sexes is precisely what America needs.
The Washington Examiner
Quality entertainment is hard to find
Re: "Gervais stands his ground over Globes performance," Jan. 18
British comic/writer/actor Ricky Gervais' sharp-edged hosting of the Golden Globe Awards was a refreshing series of stabs at the shallow, self-congratulatory entertainment industry and its narcissistic players. He deserves praise, not condemnation, for his courage to say what most of the public is thinking.
With few exceptions, films have been reduced to unbelievable scripts of tripe, ugly plots, extreme violence, crude special effects, unrecognizable remakes, and incoherent story lines, with either a complete lack of imagination and original thought or drowned in political correctness. Independent films used to be unique, thought-provoking, informative and genuinely entertaining. Now their lack of redeeming value cast a toxic cloud over the film industry.
Television is even worse, with its unreal reality shows, stupid sitcoms, hollow dramas and trivial talk shows. Fortunately cable has managed to come up with a few riveting exceptions, even some with educational purpose.
Is it any wonder that our culture is turning into a superficial society of selfish interests, over-reaching government, failed public education, social aggression, political rancor and vile extremes?
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.
The Washington Examiner
Goodbye to decade of domain, decline and decay
After the first decade of the 21st century, America suffers from the triple "D's" -- the decline of freedom, eminent domain, and social-economic decay. All things considered, it appears that we are in for a not-so-happy new year.
The 20 percent of our population responsible for the triple "D's" are the statist-driven, liberal/progressive/socialists who control and dominate politics, government, education and the media.
But they are being put on notice that this is not a 20 percent democracy. It is a constitutional republic in the process of restoration.
As Americans have done time and time again, the spontaneous Tea Party movement is awakening to revive American's unique history of freedom and self-reliance.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.
http://www.sbsun.com/pointofview/ci_16894638
San Bernardino Sun
Why give more? I've given plenty
When asked what I would be willing to sacrifice, give up, or do without to help resolve the climbing deficit and looming national debt, I was stunned.
I thought, sacrifice what, when I am among most Americans being sacrificed by confiscatory government, which will take it?
What can I give up when I'm on a fixed retirement income, which could be threatened? What can I give up when the equity in my home vanished with the housing collapse, and I have little or no discretionary spending to give because of the economy, recession, and the increasing cost of living? What can I give up, when my health care insurance is going up, my taxes are going up, and the cost of energy is likely to skyrocket?
What can I give up when the nation is steeped in uncertainty, individual responsibility is at an all time low, and government irresponsibility is at an all time high? What can I give up when government's affordable housing crusade caused the housing crash, the economy to collapse, and plunged taxpayers into enormous debt? And What can I give up when I'm living in California, where our government and voters blindly exacerbate the problem with even more irresponsibility?
Considering what has happened to our country since the 9/11 attack on America in 2001, and what transpired long before that, I am deeply concerned by how government growth has systemically accrued so much intrusive power over our society and our daily lives -- with regressive ideology, tyrannical agencies, unreasonable laws, and destructive regulations attacking a struggling free market.
Let's face it. Even with the threat of terrorism and fighting wars to defeat it, we are living under the influence of a superficial society of selfish interests, social aggression, and extremes. Our education system has been reduced to costly factories of indoctrination and warehouses of ignorance.
And we are being consumed by runaway government. The good news is, there is a spontaneous awakening going in America that will overcome the worst because there is the fire of freedom burning inside us.
What I am willing to give is my time, energy and efforts to do what I can to help rescue our state and our country. And to restore our Constitution, our representative democracy, our republic, and the power of the people to limit government to only what we need for our security, liberty, freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
Along the way, I will continue to give what I can to worthy charities and the homeless.
Daniel B. Jeffs, founder
Time Magazine
Re: Time frames: What really happened?
Cover story
Frankly, I'm disappointed, but not surprised, by Time's slanted view of the first decade of 2000. What really happened to America since the turn of the century began much earlier in the 20th Century.
Our history, misinterpreted and distorted by the left, hardly defines or describes what really happened. Simply put, the progressive, liberal, socialist, left -- or whatever the next name for the insidious ideology becomes -- undermined our history, our Constitution, our education, our society, our government and our freedom.
Fortunately, there have been brief periods in time when there was an awakening to what America really means, such as the Reagan era and the short-lived Ross Perot false prophet betrayal. Now, there is an awakening born out of economic failure and over-reaching government that may very well turn into a time of reckoning for the soul of our nation. That's what is really happening (California not included).
The Washington Examiner
George Soros wants a legalocracy
Re: "Soros uses billions to undermine democracy," Nov. 14
If financier George Soros had his way, America would be ruled by the liberal legal establishment, not the rule of law. Soros is making every effort to undermine democracy by having the states appoint all judges rather than having them elected to their positions, and/or confirmed or rejected by voters.
Indeed, in addition to influencing public and political media with his millions, the Hungarian-American anti-American billionaire power monger is doing everything he can to undermine our constitutional democratic republic by every insidious way possible.
Unfortunately for freedom and most Americans, the legal establishment has far too much power already without any help from Soros. The federal judiciary has usurped power from the states and become a Star Chamber legalocracy, which is more damaging to our country and society than anything else.
Daniel B. Jeffs
(Original letter sent)
George Soros wants a legalocracy
If financier George Soros had his way, America would be ruled by the liberal legal establishment, not the rule of law. Soros is making every effort to undermine democracy by having the states appoint all judges rather than having them elected to their positions, and/or confirmed or rejected by voters.
Indeed, in addition to influencing public and political media with his millions, the Hungarian-American/anti-American billionaire power-monger is doing everything he can to undermine our constitutional democratic republic by every insidious way possible.
Unfortunately for freedom and most Americans, the legal establishment has far too much power already, without any help from Soros. The federal judiciary has usurped power from the states. It's become a Star Chamber legalocracy, which is damaging our country and society as much or more than anything else.
Lest we forget, the powerful selfish interests of trial lawyers, legal professionals and the courts have so complicated and over-involved our laws, rules and regulations, contracts, torts and class-action lawsuits -- they are responsible for much of the high cost of living, and loss of liberty.
The shame of good deeds is they are not appreciated for generations. The tragedy of bad deeds is they are not resisted until it's too late.
Anatomy of an Epidemic:
In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemic spreading most rapidly among our nation’s children. What is going on?
Anatomy of an Epidemic challenges readers to think through that question themselves. First, Whitaker investigates what is known today about the biological causes of mental disorders. Do psychiatric medications fix “chemical imbalances” in the brain, or do they, in fact, create them? Researchers spent decades studying that question, and by the late 1980s, they had their answer. Readers will be startled—and dismayed—to discover what was reported in the scientific journals.
Then comes the scientific query at the heart of this book: During the past fifty years, when investigators looked at how psychiatric drugs affected long-term outcomes, what did they find? Did they discover that the drugs help people stay well? Function better? Enjoy good physical health? Or did they find that these medications, for some paradoxical reason, increase the likelihood that people will become chronically ill, less able to function well, more prone to physical illness?
This is the first book to look at the merits of psychiatric medications through the prism of long-term results. Are long-term recovery rates higher for medicated or unmedicated schizophrenia patients? Does taking an antidepressant decrease or increase the risk that a depressed person will become disabled by the disorder? Do bipolar patients fare better today than they did forty years ago, or much worse? When the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) studied the long-term outcomes of children with ADHD, did they determine that stimulants provide any benefit?
By the end of this review of the outcomes literature, readers are certain to have a haunting question of their own: Why have the results from these long-term studies—all of which point to the same startling conclusion—been kept from the public?
In this compelling history, Whitaker also tells the personal stories of children and adults swept up in this epidemic. Finally, he reports on innovative programs of psychiatric care in Europe and the United States that are producing good long-term outcomes. Our nation has been hit by an epidemic of disabling mental illness, and yet, as Anatomy of an Epidemic reveals, the medical blueprints for curbing that epidemic have already been drawn up.
Biography
ROBERT WHITAKER is the author of Mad in America, The Mapmaker’s Wife, and On the Laps of Gods, all of which won recognition as “notable books” of the year. His newspaper and magazine articles on the mentally ill and the pharmaceutical industry have garnered several national awards, including a George Polk Award for medical writing and a National Association of Science Writers Award for best magazine article. A series he cowrote for the Boston Globe on the abuse of mental patients in research settings was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
Author: Larry Schweikart
June 2010
Synopsis:
The bestselling author of A Patriot's History of the United States examines some of the pivotal—yet mostly ignored—moments that shaped our history.
Every schoolchild is taught the great turning points in American history, such as Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy assassination, and 9/11. But other, equally significant events have altered our destiny without being understood—or even widely noticed.
Acclaimed conservative historian Larry Schweikart now takes an in-depth look at seven such episodes and reveals the profound ways they have shaped America. He also asks readers to reconsider them not just in terms of what happened, but in light of the Founding Fathers' vision for our nation. What would Washington, Jefferson, or Madison have said about these events?
In the same reader-friendly style of his previous bestsellers, A Patriot's History of the United States and 48 Liberal Lies About American History, Professor Schweikart doesn't merely recount our history—he forces us to rethink what makes our country great. He shows how individual liberty, private enterprise, and small government helped build a free and prosperous nation. Conversely, whenever these values have been threatened by big government, oppressive taxes, and special interests, we lose sight of the principles that made us strong.
You'll be surprised to learn how these events spurred sweeping changes that still affect us today. For instance:
Biography:
Larry Schweikart is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller A Patriot's History of the United States and the author of 48 Liberal Lies About American History. A professor of history at the University of Dayton, he has appeared as a guest commentator on Fox News and has written many academic books and articles on national defense, business, and financial history. He lives outside of Dayton, Ohio.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/letters/From-readers-95793474.html
Insulting former president in White House was rude Re: "Dim Bulb," June 4
It was profoundly ignorant and condescending for former Beatle Paul McCartney to say that former President George W. Bush does not know what a library is.
Bush has a B.A. from Yale, an MBA from Harvard and is married to a former librarian with a master's degree in library science. Bush may not be well spoken, but he is honest, forthright, well educated and well read.
It was arrogant and rude of McCartney to insult the presidency in the White House, whether or not the current president agreed. Mr. McCartney is clearly very talented at making music, but he is certainly no intellectual giant himself.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 9:51 AM
To: Dan Jeffs
Subject: Re: Cancelling newspapers
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June 2010
Freedman is currently the online editor of The Washington Examiner
1 Some Expert Observations 14
2 The Trouble with Scientists, Part 1 37
3 The Certainty Principle 68
4 The Idiocy of Crowds 87
5 The Trouble with Scientists, Part 2 104
6 Experts and Organizations 125
7 Experts and the Media 146
8 The Internet and the Technology of Expertise 168
9 Eleven Simple Never-Fail Rules for Not Being Misled By Experts 203
Appendix 1: A Tiny Sampling of Expert Wrongness, Conflict, and Confusion 231
Appendix 2: The Evolution of Expertise 239
Appendix 3: A Brief Sampling of Contemporary, High-Powered, Apparent Scientific Fraud 255
Appendix 4: Is This Book Wrong? 258
Acknowledgments 269
Source Notes 271
Index 285
Law schools wield more social influence than any other part of the American university. To what effect?
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Synopsis:
Publisher: Penguin Group
In this time of national uncertainty, it has never been more important for Americans to understand what has shaped our national destiny. This provocative book will enlighten anyone looking for clarity about our past and inspiration for our future.
The Washington Examiner
June 8, 2010
Take back America and restore the Constitution
By Daniel B. Jeffs, founder DDC
October 13, 2009
Government meddlers and dependency peddlers don't miss a beat, even in the
worst of times, when it comes to pushing their power agenda of health care
and energy takeovers on the American people, like it or not... while
relaxing our national security. What ever happened to the original law and
meaning of our Constitution?
Indeed, over the past century, social, political and legal power brokers
have circumvented, manipulated and compromised our federal state
constitutions and our freedoms, expanded the power of government executive,
legislative and judicial branches far beyond the intent of limited
government -- with hundreds of thousands of laws, rules, regulations and
court decisions -- establishing the tyrannies of minority selfish interests
over the best interests of the majority of our people with layers upon
layers bureaucratic walls, gates barriers and chains.
Simply put, the hearts have been carved out of our social, economic,
political, legal and moral centers by self-corrupting intrusive, invasive
and repressive government -- which is growing a dependant society of
insidious opportunists, and morally regressive predators and parasites --
bound to the service of the ruling elite.
Certainly, it is time for the collective judgment of the people to wise-up,
free ourselves, and turn it all around with common sense and a real and
unique democratic republic, the way it was intended by our founders. The
American way of limited government, freedom, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness....
AMERICA'S BEST FRIEND ENEMIES LIST
By Daniel B. Jeffs, founder DDC
October 8, 2009
The political elite believe that they know best and that they are the
people's best friends, looking out for their best interests. The list below
includes most of our best friends list:
Big government and the two-party system; Liberal news media; Big union
organizations; Corporate alliances with government; The AARP; The ACLU;
Trial lawyers associations; The National Education Association (NEA) and the
public education monopoly; ACORN; Socialists; Activist judges; Extreme
environmentalists; extreme conservationists; the entertainment industry;
George Soros, and people like Arianna Huffington, Michael Moore and Bill
Maher.
Indeed, with friends like this we don't need any enemies to reduce us
to a giant underclass ruled by the liberal, socialist elite.
To: USA TODAY - The Forum
Re: In defense of Glenn Beck
By Jonah Goldberg
In defense of Glenn Beck
By Daniel B. Jeffs, founder DDC
October 6, 2009
Jonah Goldberg's capable and interesting defense of Glenn Beck should have
included Bill Maher in the anti-Beck backlash from the left. Indeed, the
left crowd that let's Michael Moore and Janeane Garofalo speak for them,
goes even further by encouraging Maher to turn loose his vicious personal
attacks against Beck, such as his vile comment on Joy Behar's new show
saying, "Beck's a bimbo and he's a crazy one. I'm telling you - it is not
that long before we're going to find Glenn Beck dressed as a woman or
playing with his feces or something." Behar laughed in response said she
hoped he would melt down on air, adding "that would be so much fun to
watch."
On second thought, maybe leaving Maher out was a slap on his wrist.
Certainly, Bill Maher is the chief elitist and condescending purveyor of
ridicule, hate and contempt for conservatives, people of faith, and the
"stupid" American people who lack the intelligence to make decisions. And
surely, Bill Maher is convinced he is a mental giant, "The Decider" and the
leader of the liberal gang on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, where he
throws around foul language in front of his guest sheep and audience. Alas,
that kind of audacity is a portrait of the ugly American who hates patriots
and his country.
Antics aside, for many of us, Glenn Beck is refreshingly honest and a
fountain of common sense and useful information most of us need to defend
ourselves against big government's march of socialism, economic collapse and
being disenfranchised from democracy.