USA TODAY
June 28, 2013

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
June 27, 2013

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.

USA TODAY
June 25, 2013

President Obama ignores China/Russia rejection to return Snowden

Instead of dealing directly with the rejections by China and Russia to the return of criminally-charged NSA leaker/fugitive/traitor, Edward Snowden, President Obama has chosen to ignore the national security crisis -- along with the Benghazi and IRS scandals -- and deflect attention away from his domestic and international failures by assisting Syrian rebels, reducing our nuclear power deterrent, and campaigning against global warming.

Indeed, President Obama is adding insult to injury by limiting oil exploration and production, pushing expensive green fuel, wind and solar energy, carbon taxing coal energy, industrial and business emissions, and implementing unnecessary/economy-crushing Obamacare. Clearly, with Obama and company in charge, there has been little or no direct leadership in dealing with real social, political, economic, and increasing national security threats.

Alas, Mr. Obama appears to be a presidential imposter who only knows the deceit of distraction, perpetual campaigning and manufactured crisis, with no accountability.

Sacramento Bee
June 21, 2013

Federal courts abuse power against California

Governor Brown's dispute with the federal court over the release of state prison inmates goes far beyond compliance by prison re-alignment, which has already impacted local county jails and endangered communities. Now, the three-judge 'Star Chamber' has order the immediate release of 9,600 state prisoners, which will put California citizens in eminent danger. However, liberal California government bears a substantial part of the blame for crowded prison conditions.

Indeed, state and federal Democrats are responsible for tyrannical government growth and the proliferation of illegal aliens, by failure to enforce immigration laws, inviting illegals to partake in welfare, education and healthcare, particularly in California, which is costing California taxpayers about $5 billion per year. Plus overloading our prisons with illegal alien criminals to a point where the federal court ordered nearly 10,000 prisoners released early to prey on California citizens.

Wise-up, California voters, and put a stop to the political insanity. Our security, our economy, our future and the future of our children are at stake.

New York Times
June 20, 2013

Obama's national insecurity

President Obama's track record on national security has been a dangerous policy backing off. And clearly, the terrorists and our other enemies know it, as evidenced by Obama's support of American-style liberal democracy in the revolutionary "Arab Spring," which was obviously compromised by Islamic extremists, consuming North Africa and the Middle East, including our vital ally, Turkey.

Indeed, al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood are alive and well, in a constant state of growth and power. Plus, regardless of our losses, Obama has ensured that Iraq and Afghanistan will certainly come back to bite America, when Iraq is taken over by Iran, and Afghanistan is returned to the al-Qaeda-friendly Taliban.

Coupled with President Obama's unilateral reduction of our nuclear deterrent power, while failing to deter China, North Korea, Russia, Pakistan and Iran from nuclear proliferation -- and failing to secure our borders -- his lack of national security performance is unconscionable.

Surely, with President Obama at the helm, helping Syrian rebels is just another exercise in futility, while we are in a deepening state of national insecurity.

Los Angles Times
June 18, 2013

California's Democrat-voter-and-fed-assisted economic suicide

California's AB-32 cap-and-tax revenues - which are supposed to fund green energy programs -- will be diverted by Gov. Brown and the Democrat Legislature to increase Welfare and Medicaid funding by $500 million this year, and the diversions will increase to between $ 2 billion and $15 billion by 2015.

It doesn't seem to matter that the Democrat legislature's recently passed $96.3 billion state budget does nothing to address California's enormous debt. Or that embracing the fraud of Obamacare will raise insurance rates for all Californians, increase the cost of living and decrease employment.

Adding insult to injury, and new federal mandates for increased ethanol in gasoline will raise gas prices, destroy auto and diesel engines, and increase air pollution with insidious toxins. Plus, the increase of corn-ethanol will raise food prices significantly.

Sadly, with Democrat-voter-and-fed-assisted economic suicide in the works, California will surely go into a long political tailspin, nose-dive and crash.

The Wall Street Journal
June 15, 2013

RE: Dabbling in Syria - editorial

As the WSJ editorial aptly put it, President Obama is indeed "Dabbling in Syria." And he is losing the war against terrorism.

President Obama's decision to provide arms and support to Syrian rebels is simply a distraction from administration scandals -- in the IRS, Dept. of Justice, and Dept. of State -- and will certainly be an exercise in futility.

Particularly, in light of Iran and Russia's support of the Syrian regime, and Obama's rebel support of regime turnovers in Egypt, Libya and throughout North Africa and the Middle East, giving al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic militants blanket power.

Indeed, the terrorist threats to our national security have substantially increased, benchmarked by the malfeasance in Benghazi costing the lives of our ambassador and three other Americans.

Surely, history has taught us that it's better to deal with dictatorship regimes we know, than the world-domination Islamists who won't.

Los Angeles Times
May 27, 2013

Re: Fracking: How Risky? - editorial
Re: Brown prison policy repeal sought

California calamity

It comes as no surprise that the Los Angeles Times and others are suggesting delays in fracking 15 billion barrels of oil from the Central Valley's 1,750 square mile Monterey Shale formation between Modesto and Bakersfield, which goes along with extreme environmentalists intentions to always file lawsuits against additional oil and natural gas production from California's ample resources. Indeed, it doesn't seem to matter that fracking has proven to be safe, or that it would create tens of thousands of jobs and reduce California gas prices.

Surely, Californians will increasingly suffer from the calamity being brought on from unreasonable environmentalists and conservationists who have decreased water supplies from the Sacramento Delta to Central Valley farms, Southern California populations, and raised the cost of living with tyrannical regulations.

Indeed, coupled with the enormous cost of the teachers' unions and California miseducation, the open door policy for illegal immigrants to suck our public welfare, education and health care dry, Governor Brown's prison re-alignment policy endangering the lives of the people, AB 32's negative impact on our economy, and the corrosive Democrat cartel's control of government in Sacramento, the outlook for California's survival is bleak at best.

Certainly worse, from voter-assisted economic suicide, the high speed rail boondoggle, and runway debt.

The Washington Post
May 25, 2013

President Obama's chilling effect

From the time presidential candidate Barack Obama campaigned on fundamentally transforming America, his presidential actions, diversions, distractions and deceptions tantamount to outright lies paved the way to accomplishing his liberal agenda -- beginning with ramming his national health care legislation through a complicit Democrat Congress.

Indeed, from then on it was steady government and regulatory growth, spending and insurmountable debt by leaps and bounds -- all supported by the liberal state media, who got President Obama elected and led him into a second term, but not before he lost the House of Representatives to Republicans backed by the spontaneously formed Tea Party in opposition to the president's health careless laws, spending and insurmountable debt.

No thanks to the liberal press and years of liberal indoctrination of students by the education establishment, most of America is clueless about President Obama and his administration's insidious machinations undermining the Constitution, and the deep freeze chilling effect he has on his opposition -- as evidenced by the IRS targeting the Tea Party, conservative groups and individuals -- and the Justice Department targeting Associated Press and Fox News reporters.

Of course, as usual, President Obama feigned outrage at the exposures, fired the IRS Commissioner, and ordered his Attorney General Eric Holder to review policies and investigate, even though Holder had signed the order to investigate FOX's Chief Washington Correspondent, James Rosen as a co-conspirator on a national security leak. Surely, Holder investigating "Fast and Furious" Holder and his blatant abuse of power is a redundant gesture.

Alas, lest we forget, it is President Obama's dictatorial regulations, legislative tyrannies, government growth and his gang of liberal Democrats that are limiting our free speech and liberties -- ruining our economy and our culture, not to mention risking our national security by toying with terrorism -- when it is much smaller limited constitutional government that we need to survive.

Wall Street Journal
May 17, 2013

Re: The IRS scandal started at the top
Re: Nina Olson for IRS Commissioner

President Obama responsible for IRS targets

It's becoming painfully clear that President Obama's fingerprints are all over the IRS tyrannies against the Tea Party, conservative groups and individuals. Indeed, the president's demonization of the Tea Party and conservative groups set the tone for his IRS and captains of political corruption to target and silence them.

In early 2010, President Obama gave marching orders to Democrat activists to attack Tea Party and conservative groups, and for congressional Democrats to pressure the IRS to target them. Of course, the SEIU attacked and Democrat Senators, Chuck Shumer, Al Franken and others complied by pushing the IRS to take action.

Certainly, the 2012 presidential election put the IRS targeting in high gear against Obama's opponent, Mitt Romney's supporters, including wealthy Idaho businessman and long time Republican supporter and donor, Frank VanderSloot, who was demonized and audited three times in four months.

President Obama's IRS hatchet man, acting Commissioner, Steve Miller contemptuously testified before a congressional House Committee, side-stepping questions and confirming nothing but feigned ignorance and Sarah Hall Ingram's position as executive in charge of the tax-exempt division, which in 2010 began targeting the Tea Party, conservative groups, evangelical and pro-Israel groups.

Unfortunately, Ingram -- who received unconscionable bonuses for her dirty work -- was recently promoted to serve as director of the IRS Obamacare program office, which will rain down tax tyrannies forcing compliance with Mr. Obama's ideological crown jewel, which will further damage or reverse economic recovery.

Surely, vast tax reform is needed, which should begin with the appointment of IRS National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson -- the ombudsman for the public inside the IRS -- as IRS Commissioner, instead of President Obama's inside man, Daniel Werfel, current White House Budget Office manager.

WSJ editorial recommending Olson is correct. Alas, the problem could be resolved entirely by the passage of the Fair (consumption) Tax, which would eliminate the IRS.

Los Angeles Times
May 16, 2013

Fire services fail in use of DC 10 air tankers

10 Tanker Air Carrier moving its two DC 10 fire fighting tankers from the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville to Wyoming -- to suit its new federal contract -- would be a great loss to Southern California fire suppression, if the tankers had been used by Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service properly.

Surely, if the DC 10 tankers had been used to make their massive water drops when the enormous Camarillo fire and the current Frasier Park fire first started, the fires would have been extinguished -- end of story. Indeed, if they were used on the Oak Hills fire before it crested the Southwest area of the Cajon Pass, the fire would not have spread any further.

Certainly, the U.S. Forest Service has a dismal record in fire fighting throughout the country, and certainly in California. If they had called in the DC 10 tankers on the fire that devastated the San Bernardino National Forest Lake Arrowhead area, and the Station Fire in the Angeles National Forest, the losses would have been minimal.

Clearly, if state and national fire services used DC 10 air tankers and Canadian Super Scoopers the way they should -- instead of going on the cheap -- the overall cost of wildfires would be greatly reduced. Many calls for local fire personnel and equipment to assist, would be unnecessary, and it not take away from their local availability to the people they serve.

Public service nonfeasance, needlessly costing lives and property is simply unconscionable.

Wall Street Journal
May 13, 2013

Re: GOP demands apology - front page
Re: Benghazi hearings

President Obama's mounting articles of impeachment

It's already obvious that the 9/11 anniversary Benghazi, Libya terrorist attack costing the lives of our ambassador and three security personnel was the result of intentional malfeasance by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton.

Worse, the deceitful cover-up is tantamount to giving aid and comfort to our Islamic jihadist terrorist enemy to further a re-election campaign and to protect Obama and Clinton at any cost.

Even worse, the ongoing Teflon provided by the ideology-driven liberal media to President Obama and presumptive 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton -- and the demonization of all opposition -- is an unconscionable abdication of public responsibility by the press.

It was bad enough that the President Obama's campaign promises supporting the passage of Obamacare were a pack of lies concealing the devastating costs and cuts in America's healthcare coverage -- in addition to the wasteful, useless spending of his enormous stimulus packages, economy-busting regulations, national debt expansion.

Now comes reports that as early as the 2010 passage of Obamacare, and during the re-election campaign, administrative tyranny was launched by President Obama's IRS against the Tea Party and other conservative opposition's tax exemption status -- in addition to the merciless demonizing of all opposition of any description. Indeed, even the New York Times criticized the administration's abusive IRS tactics against the Tea Party in a March 2012 editorial.

Subsequently, the president's sequester idea developed into selective pain from government cuts in FAA air traffic controllers and all manner of other unnecessary cuts designed to adversely affect the public -- placing blame on Republicans -- all intended to reclaim Democrat control of the House of Representatives in 2014.

Certainly, President Obama has made it painfully and abundantly clear that he has no problem defying Congress, ignoring the constraints of the Constitution, and the will of the people to do or get what he wants -- un-American as it may be.

Clearly, President Obama's costly ideology-driven executive orders, and administrative edicts and regulations amounting to tyrannical administrative abuse of power and cover-ups, along with patterns of lies and deceit, dereliction of duty against terrorism, border security -- and his failings in national and domestic security -- are stacking up as prospective articles of impeachment.

Lest we forget, it was House Republicans who moved ahead with hearings on the Watergate cover-up and articles of impeachment against former Republican president Nixon's abuse of power resulting in his resignation. Which begs the question: Where are the Democrats in the mounting evidence against President Obama and his captains of corruption?.

The problem is: President Obama will likely never be impeached and convicted because congressional Democrats and the liberal press are unlikely to let it happen -- and America will undoubtedly suffer the consequences.

Wall Street Journal
April 26, 2013

Obama administration endangers our security

President Obama and his Attorney General Holder are making it painfully clear that they have no problem risking our national security by cutting off the FBI questioning of Boston bomber, Dzhokhar Trarnaev with a U.S Attorney, a federal magistrate, and an appointed federal defense attorney advising the terrorist of his Miranda rights -- which he immediately exercised.

Worse, it doesn't seem to matter that Dzhokhar is a radical Islamic jihadist traitor waging war against America -- who along with his deceased brother Tamerian -- planned to bomb Time Square in New York, or that what the Obama administration did, increased threats to our national and domestic security.

In other words, President Obama, AG Eric Holder, his U.S. Attorney, and the federal magistrate blatantly abdicated their sworn duty to defend our public safety against all enemies, foreign and domestic, leaving them with the blood of Boston on their hands. That, along with failures against Islamic Fort Hood and Benghazi terrorism amounts to unconscionable aid and comfort to our enemies -- tantamount to impeachable treason.

Sacramento Bee
April 18, 2013

Governor Brown and the Sacramento Democrat cartel

Governor Brown's deceit in selling-out voters with the Proposition 30 tax-con and high speed rail boondoggle can only be eclipsed by the Democrat supermajority cartel in the Legislature -- poised to dilute Proposition 13, the voter-initiative process, pass destructive laws and raise taxes.

For too long, California Democrats have set the good and bad examples for other states with good voter-initiatives and Proposition 13's tax restraints, and the bad open-door policies for welfare recipients and illegal aliens to feed upon housing, education and health care benefits, costing taxpayers $5 billion per year.

Coupled with enormous corporate and personal taxation to support growing government, the powerful teachers' union, the miseducation of our students -- AB 32 and the global warming environmental costs, and the steady flow of regulations raising the cost of living -- there is no doubt that California's economy is crashing from business flight and unemployment.

Adding injury to the intimidation of the state's failed criminal justice system, AB 109's prison re-alignment is dumping felony inmates on county jails to serve their time, causing early releases of dangerous criminals and aliens, who threaten our business, neighborhoods and our personal safety.

Question is: how long will it take for naïve voters to suffer enough pain to realize they have been taken for a fool's ride, and that dumping legislation-crazed Democrats is the only solution for California's recovery. Surely, the same goes for our federal government and the recovery of America.

Los Angeles Times
April 14, 2013

President Obama: Political poison ivy

President Obama's socialist agenda-driven performance during his first term and three months into his second term is clear and convincing evidence that he is not only a dictatorial zealot -- recklessly pushing national health care, costly green energy and environmental regulations, self-destructive spending, negative economic policy, and unsustainable debt -- he is an incompetent-in-chief with his failures in foreign policy, terrorism, and our national and domestic security.

Surely, the Obama administration is not taking Putin's Russian gangster and anti-American activities seriously, or their blatant support for terrorist regimes, or their energy deals with China increasing the economic threat to America. Coupled with continually diminishing our constitutional rights, protections and freedoms -- make the president an ambivalent danger to our country and our people.

President Obama's sellout to the UN, and his casual lack of purpose -- when confronted by al-Qaeda forces in North Africa and the Middle-East, Iran's nuclear threats against Israel and America, and his gross failures in Libya and Egypt -- is simply unconscionable. Worse, the immediate nuclear threats from North Korea's insane leader against South Korea, Japan and America highlights our inexcusable lack of ICBM defense, is cause for deep concerns.

One thing is certain. The Spring cherry blossom event in Washington cannot conceal the political poison Ivy creeping from the White House to the Capitol, throughout government and the nation -- stinging America wherever it hurts the most. Indeed, reversals of Democrat-driven damage may not come soon enough in 2014 and 2016.

Washington Post
April 11, 2013

President has no budget plan

President Obama's budget plan, along with his targeted sequester, can only be described as unconscionable deceptions, intimidation and petty political extortion at the expense of the economy and the middle class.

Indeed, President Obama has no "budget" plan. Budgets require a positive outcome for income and expenditures. Instead, the president is acting like an irresponsible child with a no-limit taxpayers' credit card.

Washington Times
February 2, 2013

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.

USA TODAY
January 28, 2013

60 Minutes/Obama anoint Hillary for president

After anointing Obama twice for president, 60 Minutes' fawning interview with Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and President Obama -- arranged by the president as an obvious endorsement -- led the media's way to anointing Hillary and Bill Clinton president for 2016.

Indeed, the manner in which the dominant national media gushed over Clinton's stellar performance -- and feigned emotion -- in the congressional hearings over the mishandling of the Benghazi, Libya terrorist assassinations of four Americans was an early indicator.

Clearly, the liberal media are bound and determined to elect the first woman president following the first black president to make their place in history, even if it costs the life of America.

Los Angeles Times
January 27, 2013

Re: State 'did the impossible,' Brown says - front page

California doing the impossible is an impossible dream

Governor Brown's State of the State speech projecting that, "California did the impossible" in emerging from a financial crisis is an impossible dream yet to be realized, even with Proposition 30's and AB 32's projected tax revenues.

Surely, promoting an overhaul of education funding, building the high speed rail and aggressively expanding healthcare to the needy, while ignoring the enormous voter-approved accumulated debt, illustrates economic delusion.

Indeed, when Governor Brown goes to the Governor's conference in Washington touting his California plans as a model for the nation, he will discover that President Obama has already been there, done that, and seeking more damages.

Certainly, the liberal lemmings who facilitated Governor Brown and President Obama's self-destructive transformations will painfully realize the second coming of a worse recession resulting from hardcore government malfeasance. Problem is, they're taking the rest of us down with them.

Wall Street Journal
January 26, 2013

Re: SEC nominee signals shift

Obama's personal SEC cop

Considering President Obama's record of nominees and particularly questionable appointments, it seems quite evident that his nomination of tough former U.S. Attorney, Mary Jo White to head the SEC, is another move to deepen the expansion of his personal power on Wall Street and American business.

Particularly when White would be the first prosecutor to run the SEC, along with her extensive connections in representing major banking players such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and defending Bank of America's former CEO, Ken Lewis against securities fraud.

Needles to say, it's disturbing for the enforcement of bad new finance laws, and deeply troubling for our economy and future.

USA TODAY
January 24, 2013

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
January 23, 2013

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
January 22, 1013

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
January 22, 2013

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
January 21, 2013

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
January 19, 2013

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
January 14, 2013

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.

New York Times
January 8, 2013

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.

Wall Street Journal
December 31, 2012

Twisted political blame game

How is it that our government has turned into an unaccountable, hideous behemoth cloaked in the abdicated public responsibility of elected Washington suits, tyrannical laws and bureaucratic malfeasance in less than a century?

The answer is simple, but convoluted, in the history of the liberal progressive movement that began by perpetually blind-siding the American people with the government growth of the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson -- extended by FDR and LBJ -- stalled by Ronald Reagan -- then picked up by Bill Clinton and intensified by Barack Obama.

Worse, the socialist infection would not have been possible without the active complicity of the press, the entertainment industry, academia and the courts undermining the Constitution, exacerbated by the empire-building and entitlement society of the Democrat Party using the Boomer generation's counter-culture revolution that launched the drug culture, education indoctrination, and the roaring 1980's era of power, greed and excess.

Indeed, the Republican Party's resistance was continuously compromised by becoming the twisted political blame game whipping post for Democrats' diversionary tactics, which is currently at its height for a housing and finance collapse and deep recession that was directly caused by the unaffordable housing pursuits of presidents Carter and Clinton, not Wall Street.

Lastly, President Obama and congressional Democrats amplified misinformation to the masses, nationalized health care, finance and energy, raised the national debt from $10 trillion to over $16 trillion -- most of which was wasted -- set up Americans for enormous tax increases to blame on Republicans, and created 6,000 new regulations in the last four months.

Sadly, the self-inflicted road to 'fiscal cliff,' ruin and the economic abyss is paved with the intentional failures of perverted intentions. Alas, highlighted by the political crimes of California government, it will soon become painfully clear that only voters can stop the progressive/regressive 'forward' lie and reverse course to smaller government, freedom, security and prosperity.

Los Angeles Times
December 29, 2012

Re: Fiscal talks get more upbeat - Front Page

President Obama's legacy in 'forward' motion backward

In the few weeks leading to President Obama's inauguration to a second term, he is using the 'fiscal cliff' crisis to make the Democrat-controlled Senate extort a brief relief from the Republican-controlled House that will give him some cover to bestow on the middle class and to satisfy his base in his inaugural address.

What is most disturbing though, is the obvious behind President Obama's motives to finish his legacy -- of capitalizing on his win in 2008 with a Republican-collapsed economy and a Democrat Congress to pass sweeping health care and finance legislation -- with an FDR-initiated, LBJ-extended government growth bang.

Worse, to the biased press and entertainment industry, it doesn't seem to matter that Democrats caused the 2008 housing and financial crash and put time limits on the Bush tax cuts, Or that the last thing we needed was wasted Democrat stimulus spending -- costly national health care and attendant tax increases -- over-reaching finance and environmental regulations, 'skyrocketing energy costs' and insurmountable debt.

Indeed, it will soon become painfully clear that falsely blaming Republicans is an exercise in futility. And that President Obama's media-endorsed, progressive 'forward' legacy will be based upon implosive backward actions of punishing taxation and regulation, big government's largess of redistributing wealth, loss of freedoms, crushing the economy, failed foreign policy and dangerously reduced national security.

Washington Post
December 28, 2012

'Fiscal Cliff' is Democrats' abyss

The middle class, small business owners, corporations, and all taxpayers ought to know that Democrats -- including the news media, academic establishment, and entertainment industry elite -- have an inherent ideological drive for government empire-building, tyrannical regulations, and raising punishing taxes and debt to redistribute wealth, to pay for extensive entitlement programs, public education indoctrination, extreme environmental pursuits and undue foreign relations.

Indeed, if it were not for Democrats' aversion to tax cuts and reasonable taxation -- even though it has proven to increase jobs, prosperity and revenue -- there would have been no expiration dates for the Bush tax cuts and we would not be facing the so-called 'fiscal cliff.'

Surely, the Democrat creed for this government-caused fiscal crisis will hold fast to the creation of their health care, finance, taxing and debt abyss -- to be blamed on Republicans -- when it is their decades of demonizing the opposition and crass elitist irresponsibility at the root of it.

And certainly, there is no better way in that shallow-mindedness to accomplish their insidious goal of one-party union-style socialist rule, than to keep tax and spending reform at bay, cause the debt and taxes to rise at Republican expense, and drive us into a deeper and longer second recession.

Voters ought to know when they are betrayed. Unfortunately, most are intentionally misinformed and they don't. Hopefully, more independent voters, fiscal pain and the 2014 elections will bring about the needed change. "Forward" simply doesn't cut it when it's backward.

Los Angeles Times
December 26, 2012

Not so merry Christmas and unhappy new year: The tax man cometh

Considering President Obama's and the Democrat Congress' fury of unstimulus spending, health careless and finance suppression laws in the first two-years of the president's first term -- plus the rush of executive edicts, regulations, enormous deficits, mounting debt and the 'fiscal cliff' -- something has become painfully clear for Mr. Obama's second term:

This has not been a very merry Christmas. And alas, the tax, regulation, spending and deeper second recession man cometh, which means it certainly won't be a happy new year for years to come.

Indeed, considering the fact that not since President Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty and "Great Society" illusion -- that set the government growth, tax, spend and dependency class was set in motion -- has a president and Democrat Congress done so much present and future damage to America, our prosperity, our freedoms, and our future.

Not to mention Presidents Carter and Clinton's inescapable push for unaffordable housing that caused the housing and financial crash of 2008, and President Obama's foreign policy and national security failures.

USA TODAY
December 21, 2012

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
December 20, 2012

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.

USA TODAY
December 15, 2012

Re: Online balloting could attract millions to the polls
USA TODAY - Dec. 14

Online registration and voting is long overdue

Considering the advances in computer technology, there is no reason why voters should not have secure voting networks in every state facilitating voter registration and voting in all local, state and federal elections.

indeed, the true will of the people is seldom expressed, particularly when only about half of eligible voters are registered, and about half of registered voters vote, making most elections decided by about 25 percent of voters.

In addition to registration and voting, the voting networks should provide communications between voters and their elected representatives wherein voters are truthfully informed and able to express their views on issues to their representatives.

More democracy makes for more voter participation and better government. It's as simple as that.

USA TODAY
December 12, 2012

President Obama's regressive progressive agenda

President Obama -- commander-in-chief of America's Democrat Party left-wing army -- embodies a history of regressive liberal progressives responsible for circumventing and undermining the Constitution; a regressive agenda encompassing unbridled government growth, academic indoctrination, moral relativism, social aggression, political terrorism, selective intolerance and hate speech; the demonization of Republican Party, suppression of conservative speech, the war against wealth, Christianity and Christmas; leading to the establishment of a one party socialist authoritarian state.

That's not what America was ever meant to be. That, my fellow Americans is tantamount to the calculated, insidious and treasonous overthrow of our Constitutional Republic -- with the abuse of power, deceitful legislation, destructive over-regulation and punishing taxation by trick and device -- collapsing free enterprise, Capitalism, individualism and personal freedoms with a nationalized economy and a society void of liberty, dissent, self-reliance, independent thinking, and original thought. America was established to be honestly free from tyranny, not free from the truth.

Los Angeles Times
December 9, 2012

Re: The beloved budget buster - editorial
Los Angeles Times - December 9, 2012

"The beloved budget buster" editorial about Medicare in the Los Angeles Times lacks responsible public oversight by the press, which has been a long time significant problem exacerbating the unintended consequences for the failures of good intentions in creating government programs that inevitably grow into massive, costly bureaucratic monsters with uncontrollable appetites.

Indeed, the same goes for Medicaid, Social Security and affordable housing, all of which have thrown private industry into financial turmoil and confusion, ever-increasing costs, taxation and insurmountable debt.

Unfortunately, liberal government's progressive solution for simple problems has been to take them out of the hands of private enterprise -- as with FDR's Social Security, LBJ's Medicare -- then from the states with Medicaid, plus President Carter and President Clinton's affordable housing and financial crash, and top it off with President Obama's Affordable Health Care Act, and the Dodd-Frank financial fiasco laws, all of which spell doom for America's economy.

And where are the press, academia and unions when we really need them? Turning out young self-destructive liberals and cheerleading government on to bigger and better freedom-crushing government growth.

Los Angeles Times
December 5, 2012

Re: Deal brings end to L.A., Long Beach Ports strike

Unions hurting the economy

California is certainly maintaining its lead adversely affecting business, jobs, the cost of living and the economy as extortionist unions continue their selfish interest assaults against free enterprise.

Indeed, when an 800-member longshore and warehouse clerical unit can shutdown the Los Angeles and Long Beach Ports backed by 10,000 regional union members -- costing California and the nation's economy $1 billion a day for 9 days, affecting 3 million jobs -- something is really wrong here.

It's bad enough that teacher unions and other public employee unions are sucking the life out of government budgets with nothing in return but intimidation, failed education, and the waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars.

But when our future, our children's future, the cost of living, free enterprise, jobs and the economy are at stake, serious consideration should be given to limiting, and/or eliminating, the unreasonable power and undue influence of unions.

Sacramento Bee
December 3, 2012

Re: Don't follow Grover Norquist of the cliff, as Republicans did in California - editorial

California Democrats are way ahead in the race to the fiscal cliff. Grover Norquist and Republicans had nothing to do with it.

Naïve and indoctrinated voters have given California liberal Democrats a supermajority in both houses of the legislature which -- coupled with the passage of Proposition 30 and the defeat of propositions 32 and 39 -- sets the stage for voter-assisted economic suicide.

Indeed, if it were not for a tyrannical history tax mongering, wag-the-dog teacher union power and extremist environmental regulatory chaos, California might have a chance at recovery.

Alas, the time to govern simply passed into a heap of government growth, high taxes, and insurmountable debt. Though highly doubtful, lawmakers only hope to turn back from the fiscal cliff would be to undo most, if not all, of what they wrought on our fool's golden state.

San Francisco Chronicle
November 25, 2012

Federal and state solar energy extremes cost counties and ratepayers

Between President Obama and California Governor Brown's extreme obsession with solar energy, there is a vacuum of costs to be borne by Southern California Mojave Desert Inyo, Riverside and San Bernardino counties and electricity ratepayers.

Indeed, two of the world's largest solar energy projects are located in San Bernardino County. The $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar plant next to the Nevada border has agreed to pay the county $377,000 per year, but that will hardly cover county costs and the loss of recreation and private development revenues.

Worse, contrary to the usual lengthy environmental delays, state and federal approvals for the solar plants were almost immediate. President Obama's grand push for solar energy and a regulation nation, coupled with AB 32 and Governor Brown's vow to "crush" opponents of solar projects, will make it painfully clear to San Bernardino County and ratepayers that, in President Obama's words, "electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket."

Unfortunately, liberal insanity runs far and wide among environmental extremists in Washington and particularly California. Now that California is under one-party liberal Democrat rule, Governor Brown and company will undoubtedly take more of a lead in driving Californians and America down the road to dependency and insolvency by overwhelming taxpayers and free enterprise.

Big government means taxing, spending, insurmountable debt and loss of freedoms. There is no other formula for socialism. Alas, 2014 is the next chance for voters to turn it around, that is, if it's not already too late.

Los Angeles Times
November 22, 2012

Thanksgiving-busting unions

It's bad enough that unreasonable union-demands are largely responsible for the high cost of goods and services, American business outsourcing jobs, going out of business -- such as Hostess bakeries -- and local/state governments facing bankruptcy.

But when union protestors, lead by the purple-shirted SEIU, show their true colors by intentionally disrupting and delaying Thanksgiving travelers at the Los Angeles International Airport because of non-union airport employees, it is simply unconscionable.

Indeed, coupled with the implementation of business and economy-busting Obamacare, selfish union leaders will soon find themselves and their members facing a second, deeper recession, the loss of many more jobs, and remorse for supporting President Obama in voter-assisted economic suicide.

Wall Street Journal
November 21, 2012

There is no cease fire for Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran

The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas was negotiated simply because Hamas was running out of rockets and lost the air war. Indeed, Islamic fanatics don't negotiate real cease fires or peace. Their insidious plans to eliminate Israel are temporarily deterred when they lose, only until they can re-arm and continue the madness.

Surely, it should come as no surprise for Hezbollah to take up the rocket attacks from Lebanon, until Iran provides Hamas with more weapons through Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. For Iran, an alternating two-front attack on Israel would allow them to continue the pursuit of nuclear weapons to finish the job.

Surely, Israel would not allow Iran to get that far.

Los Angeles Times
November 20, 2012

Re: Israel's failed strategy

What failed strategy? it's Iran/Hamas vs. Israel

Israel did a lot for peace by giving up Gaza to the Palestinians as their state -- even to the point of Israel forcibly removing its own citizens from Gaza -- which of course meant nothing to the Iran-backed and armed terrorist Hamas government that came to power.

Iran needs to buy time to develop their nuclear weapons, so they had their puppet Hamas attack Israel with rockets, keeping Israel busy defending itself to the point of an invasion -- lessening the chance of Israel taking out Iran nuclear weapon facilities for a while.

However, it should come as no surprise if Iran's Hezbollah in Lebanon attacks Israel, doubling the defense battle fronts for Israel to keep them busy for even longer. Indeed, it's all so transparently deadly, the vile arrogance of terrorist states.

Sadly, America's bleeding heart liberals and fools in the media, of course, take the side of Palestinian death and suffering without the least consideration that extreme Islamists have no value for life -- only the afterlife -- while Israel values their life as free, sacred and precious.

Alas, the question is, where to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton really stand on this explosive issue of national defense and world security? We will soon see where America's leadership, or lack thereof, is coming from and where we are going. Thus far, it doesn't look good.

One thing is certain. Iran's fanatic Islamic state is obsessed with scorching Israel's earth and snuffing it out of existence, by any ruthless means necessary. That kind of mindless tragedy will take peace-loving, freedom-seeking Iranians with it. What's the point? Islamic world domination at any cost.

Wall Street journal
November 19, 2012

Re: Why Obamacare is still no sure thing

Obamacare - Fiscal cliff - tax reform

Those with the notion that the war over Obamacare is over and it's time for resisters to get with the program is disturbingly tantamount to reaffirming the president's irreversible national healthcare edict. Granted, the health care act is law, but President Obama is not king of America, and the law can be repealed.

If we are to avoid a second, much deeper recession, the Bush tax cuts must be carefully modified and made permanent, the tax code must be simplified, and the costly health care law must be set aside. Otherwise, the double-trouble of a ruthless recession, and insurmountable debt will certainly raise the cost of living and increase unemployment. That is unacceptable.

Instead of savaging Mitt Romney for losing the election, Republicans must keep their eyes on the ball: Reducing the size, scope and power of government and restoring power to the states and to the people is the solution. That effort begins now and with the 2014 election. Indeed, our Constitution demands it.

Los Angeles Times

November 17, 2012

President Obama fails in foreign and domestic policy

President Obama is proving beyond a reasonable doubt that his candyman re-election merely stepped up his reckless ideology-driven policies of manipulation, deception, diversion and distraction that continue to betray his duties and responsibilities to the American people.

Certainly, Obama/Clinton hands-off foreign policy has resulted in continued upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa, the expansion of al-Qaeda and other extreme Islamists pushing takeovers in Egypt and Libya, the assassination of our Ambassador and three Americans by al-Qaeda terrorists in Benghazi, civil war in Syria, and war erupting between Gaza Hamas and Israel -- all stimulated and supported by Iran -- while their nuclear weapon program goes on unabated.

Indeed, it's bad enough that President Obama's actions and inactions have increased the threat to our national security, exacerbated by his new flexibility in dealing with Putin and Russia. But when our severely damaged economic security is further threatened by another four years of the president's domestic policy of federal-regulatory empire building, taxing, spending and insurmountable debt, the inescapable conclusion is tantamount to full social, political and economic collapse.

Blaming Republicans for self-inflicted chaos by Democrats only goes so far, when it is the liberals and Obama lemmings who are pushing us to the fiscal cliff. If we are to survive, Republicans must hold the first line of defense and work tirelessly toward recovery, reducing the government bootprint, and returning America to the self-reliant road to freedom, security and prosperity.

Washington Times
November 16, 2012

Re: King: Petraeus says 'terrorists' behind Benghazi attack

Obama's Benghazigate

President Obama's plausible denial over the Benghazi attack cover-up is simply implausible. Particularly, when former CIA Director, Gen. Petraeus said in a closed congressional hearing that his report indicated it was a terrorist attack, and that al-Qaeda was involved.

However, when the talking points were returned to Petraeus, the terms terrorist and al-Qaeda had been removed. Then, of course, UN Ambassador Rice personally carried the false video message -- which had to have come from the president -- to the media.

The insidious nature of Benghazigate is surely being developed from President Obama covering his manslaughter malfeasance with administration surrogates, Clinton, Rice, Petraeus and his own diversionary statements at the United Nations.

Indeed, feigning outrage at Sen. McCain and being offended by Gov. Romney will not relieve him of direct responsibility and dereliction of duty.

Worse, President Obama's grievous inattention to the Iran nuclear threat, the unraveling of the Middle East, the growth of al-Qaeda, and the opportunistic, escalating Gaza-Hamas attacks on Israel portends serious threats to our national security and our economy.

USA TODAY
November 13, 2012

President Obama's other shoes dropping

Since President Obama's re-election, his other shoes are dropping in multiples: CIA Director General Patraeus resigned on a sex scandal and Afghanistan Commander General Allen being caught-up in it, raising even more questions about the deadly Benghazi terrorist attack.

The stock market continues to fall and large companies are closing shops and announcing layoffs because of the fiscal cliff, and pending tax increases -- including implementation of the health careless laws -- which will damage small business and the middle class, not save us.

Federal tyranny shifts into high gear with President Obama rolling out over 6,000 regulations and more at a steady pace -- while military arms, equipment and nuclear missile defense are being reduced including our national security.

Indeed, President Obama's re-election makes us the un-United States of fools, endorsing social, political and economic suicide.

New York Times
November 10, 2012

President Obama stole the election

President Obama stole the 2012 presidential election with national health care, using taxpayer government funds to buy votes with an unprecedented increases of voters on extended unemployment benefits, welfare recipients, subsidized housing, food stamps and those on social Security disability.

Add demonization of the wealthy, using his opponent Governor Romney; waged class, racial, gender and union/corporate warfare; executive ordered amnesty for illegal immigrants; romanced environmentalists with EPA regulations; and recklessly wasted stimulus funds administered by the Departments of Energy and Education.

Then add 4 years of perpetual campaigning -- while abdicating his responsibilities to govern and defend our national security -- and intentionally distracting, diverting, deceiving and betraying the public trust until he was re-elected.

Now, with the continued assistance of the liberal media, President Obama is wasting no time to pursue his ideological agenda with a vengeance to secure a legacy at any cost, with impunity.

Los Angeles Times November 9, 2012

Re: Blue reign in Sacramento

California's double-trouble

California's liberal political class in Sacramento's legislature attainting a one-party-rule supermajority in the 2012 elections is clear and convincing evidence that the liberal voting class is dead-set on committing voter-assisted social, political and economic suicide.

Indeed, the passage of Governor Brown's Proposition 30 tax increases, Proposition 39's anti-business measure, and the defeat of Proposition 32 union controls adds insult to the injuries of taxpayers, property and business owners, and the soon-to-be unemployed.

Coupled with California's welfare state mentality -- the open-door invitation to illegal aliens and criminals, and the sure-to-intensify environmental extremist tax and regulatory tyrannies -- the state's liberal lemmings are accelerating the run to the fiscal cliff, pushing the rest of us in front of them.

Certainly, with the re-election of President Obama and more Senate Democrats leading America to insolvency, California is in double-trouble, with only the Republican House to slow the fall. Hopefully, the people's last chance for survival will be realized in the 2014 elections.

Los Angeles Times
November 8, 2012

No so happy Thanksgiving

Clearly, the 2008 election and 2012 re-election of Democrat President Obama and his manipulative regressive/progressive agenda -- opposed by the of-and-on compromising conservatism of Republicans -- shines a glaring light on the reason why America has been in steady in decline.

Indeed, after nearly a century of the two-party system of political factions -- and creeping socialism infecting our traditional conservative culture -- our nation has turned into a superficial entitlement society of selfish interests, social aggression, political terrorism and extremes.

Surely, the government-caused unaffordable housing, financial and employment crash, government growth, taxes and insurmountable debt is making it painfully clear that the -- nowhere-to-be-found in the Constitution -- two-party system is counter-productive to our liberty, security, freedom and prosperity.

Therefore, a novel idea for a solution might be found in the establishment of nonpartisan direct representative democracy by means of secure voting networks, wherein truthfully informed voters elect well-compensated professional government managers -- subject to annual confirmation -- instead of professional politicians. And the voters would decide all matters of taxation and public policy -- of course implemented by the 28th Amendment to the Constitution.

Alas, without fundamental change, we can certainly expect not so happy Thanksgivings, not so merry Christmas's, unhappy New Years and substantial losses of jobs, freedom and prosperity.

Wall Street Journal
November 7, 2012

DOW plunges over 300 points

Clearly, the selfish interests of voters who gave President Obama a second term are oblivious to his blind pursuit of power, unworkable green energy, the self-corrupting empire-building of government growth, waste, fraud and abuse, and his drive for regulation, taxation, spending and insurmountable debt.

Indeed, the stock market plunging over 300 points the day after President Obama's re-election -- in fear of the fiscal cliff -- is clear and convincing evidence that the president's government dependence-driven ideology is moving FORWARD to breaking America's social, political and economic back.

Who cares? Responsible hard working Americans do. We want America's promise from our founding principles. Freedom from tyranny. The indoctrinated and government dependants don't. They believe Santa Claus is spreading the wealth for another term. 2014, however, is the year of reckoning.

New York Times
November 7, 2012

U.S. Fools and California Fools' Gold-diggers

President Obama was re-elected, making voters the United States of Fools looking at large tax increases, more regulations, more job losses, more debt, higher cost of living and less national security.

Not to be outdone, California voters passed Propositions 30's teachers union tax for miseducation, and Proposition 39's business tax, making voters California Fools' Gold-diggers of destructive taxation, increased cost of living and the loss of business and jobs.

Adding insult to injury, Los Angeles County voters put Prop. 30 over the top, and with the passage of Proposition 36 three-strike limitations -- coupled with Gov. Brown's prison re-alignment -- we will face even more criminals dumped-out on our streets to prey upon us.

Sadly, what we have here, is foolish voter-assisted social, political and economic suicide.

Los Angeles Times
November 4, 2012

Clinton and Obama alert!

Former president Bill Clinton -- using his false credentials of budget balancing and surpluses -- is hard a work on the final days of the campaign with President Obama. In fact, Clinton merely signed off on the Republican Congress Contract with America.

Lest we forget, it was Clinton and subsequent Democrats in Congress who caused the housing and financial crash in the blind pursuit of unaffordable housing , not President Bush. Unfortunately, the irresponsible liberal press gave, and is still giving Clinton a pass.

And they are shamelessly doing the same for President Obama's lack of performance. Surely, a president Romney and a Republican Congress can and will renew the contract with America and set the nation on the road to recovery and prosperity.

The Washington Post
November 3, 2012

Last days before the election

In these last days before the election most voters know the economy is bad because they or people they know are feeling the pain and suffering.

The choice is either President Obama pushing the people down the road to serfdom, or Governor Romney leading the people up the road to prosperity.

If voters make the wrong decision they will have needlessly participated in voter-assisted social, political and economic suicide.

Orange County Register
November 2, 2012

What if President Obama is re-elected?

If President Obama is re-elected after his abysmal record, those who voted him into a second term should say to themselves, "fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me." More importantly, they should also be ashamed of what they have done to their fellow citizens, our country and our future.

Indeed, if Governor Romney is elected president and Republicans gain control of the Senate, there will be hope for the future.

Alas, we can only survive if America is set on a road to real recovery by reducing the size, scope and power of government to the founding principles of freedom, justice, national defense, currency, and foreign policy. All other government power and responsibility should rest with the states and the people.

That requires true free enterprise and free markets including the elimination of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and all other federal departments and agencies. Free, competitive enterprise and personal responsibility can easily provide the best of education, jobs, health care and retirement at a fraction of the cost.

My votes are for freedom.

Los Angeles Times
October 27, 2012

California needs another tax revolt

Governor Brown is on a mission of extortion to increase sales and income taxes on California taxpayers or face a slash of education funds if his tax Proposition 30 does not pass. Never mind that those taxes could be used for other government machinations instead of education.

Then there is tax Proposition 38, which if passed would impose $10 billion in taxes to bring California up from its ranking of 47th in student spending. Never mind that more spending on California's miseducation money pit would do little to nothing to raise the education record of failure.

Coupled with AB 32's cap and carbon tax regulations that will raise the cost of living, the costly 33 percent green energy regulation that will drastically raise the cost of electricity, California's costly gasoline blends, and the endless business regulations that drive more business out of the state -- Proposition 39 wants to make it worse.

As if that were bad enough, Governor Brown's fraudulent high speed fiasco puts him in competition with President Obama in raising the debt with tens of billions of more dollars in bond debt for something entirely unnecessary.

Indeed, the Golden State has turned to fool's gold under the weight of tax tyranny, environmental extremism and over-regulation. It's clearly time for Prop. 13-style tax revolts and Gov. Davis-style recalls for voters who want to survive, save our state from itself, and to live free and prosper.

Alas, we can't do that with the likes of Governor Brown and a Democrat Legislature at the helm of the Titanic ship of state.

Wall Street Journal
October 27, 2012

Re: When Americans saw the real Obama
by Peggy Noonan
WSJ, October 27, 2012

Peggy Noonan's Obama analysis of Americans seeing President Obama as "full of himself" in the debates "and they didn't like what they saw," hit the mark. But wait, there's more, and it's dangerous.

Supported by the liberal news media, President Obama is blowing campaign smoke in the face of the American people to cover up his life-costing failure in Benghazi, Libya on 9/11, just as he did with the Fast and Furious debacle costing the life of a border agent. Indeed, Osama bin Laden may be dead, but al-Qaeda is alive and growing throughout the region and elsewhere.

Worse, chaos in the Middle East and an unpredictable North Korea stoking fires raises the threat level everywhere.

Coupled with Iran rapidly developing nuclear weapons with near impunity, the president unilaterally reducing our nuclear weapons and nuclear missile defenses here and around the world, and the unimpaired growth of the Taliban in nuclear Pakistan -- plus reducing our military strength and our weakened economy -- our national security is much more vulnerable.

President Obama must take a break in his celebrity campaign tour and hold a press conference. Americans need the truth, and we need it now.

Daily Press/San Bernardino Sun
October 26, 2012

Dennis Bender for Apple Valley School Board

Our family moved to Apple Valley in 1977. I was a sheriff's sergeant at the time and we chose Apple Valley because of the scenic semi-rural environment, a safe place to live, and above all, the reputation of the schools for our children.

Indeed, education was and is very important to us in every way. My wife and I assisted our children in their education. She was good at English, spelling and writing. I was good at math and science, which benefited them with their homework.

Teachers, of course, were the most important element of their education. We learned one important thing regarding teachers while helping our children with their homework. Kids talk about their teachers, but only when it's something very bad, or very good.

Dennis Bender was their Apple Valley High School U.S. History teacher, and everything they said about him was very good. They learned our nation's history from him because he knew it and made it interesting.

Dick Sauers was another teacher they said very good things about. Dick was our neighbor and is currently on the school board. Dennis and Dick had a positive impact on our children's' education.

Since then we have come to know Dennis Bender personally, and we are well aware of his history of accomplishments throughout our community in so many ways, including his term on the school board. Therefore, we earnestly support his re-election to the Apple Valley School Board, and we encourage our fellow voters to do the same.

We also support Scott Weldy for a position on the board. We know him as a businessman and former member of the Mojave Water Agency Board, and his father, John Weldy who was also a neighbor and involved in the development of Apple Valley and our water resources.

Daily Press
October 22, 2012

Vote NO on auto insurance Proposition 33

According to Consumer Watchdog, Mercury Insurance Chairman, billionaire George Joseph financed Proposition 33, not to help people to change insurance companies and maintain their good driving record discounts, or to help military veterans, but to enable Mercury Insurance to raise rates on newly insured drivers.

And according to Sunday's Los Angeles Times column by Mike Hiltzik, Joseph finally admitted it. Joseph's real agenda is to poach customers from other insurance companies and to gut Proposition 103.

Indeed, Mercury already has a checkered record of insurance deceit. Using a voter ballot based upon false advertising to deceptively raise profits at the people's expense is insidious and contemptible. Mercury's license to sell insurance in California should be revoked. Vote NO on Proposition 33.

Daily Press
October 21, 2012

President Obama's first term proves he should get no second

Let us recount the reasons: Costly takeover of healthcare; $900 billion stimulus that produced nothing but more government jobs; dumping $96 billion into the failed education money pit; takeover of student loans now in excess of $1 trillion.

Bad investments in crony green energy capitalism; government intrusion in the auto manufacturing industry; excessive finance regulations; excessive environmental energy and carbon tax regulations of industry.

Adding $6 trillion to the national debt; 4 straight $1 trillion dollar budget deficits; enormous tax increases due on January 1, 2013; no reduction in unemployment rates.

An unyielding record of governing by ideology-driven machinations, reckless spending, deception, distraction, distortion, and managing by crisis and serial political perjury.

And a stand-back foreign policy; toying with terrorism; dangerous unilateral reductions in nuclear weapons and military strength in the face of a nuclear Iran.

Los Angeles Times
October 20, 2012

Re: Scout files name alleged abusers
Front Page - Los Angeles Times
October 19, 2012

As a Bronze Palm Eagle Scout, a long time off-and-on Scout adult leader, and retired from a 41-year career in law enforcement and the criminal justice system -- who credits the Scouting program with helping to build my knowledge, citizenship, character and integrity -- I am deeply outraged by the relentless attacks by the liberal news media against the Boy Scouts of America.

Indeed, the Aug. 5, 2012 in-depth Front Page Los Angeles Times investigation into the failures of BSA barrier against sexual predators from 1970 to 1991 was simply another attack by the liberal news media against the Boy Scouts organization's stance against gay adult leaders, under the guise condemning sexual predators.

What the biased investigations fail to say is that the radical cultural/sexual revolution of the 60s', 70s' and 80's resulted in gay sexual predators invading Catholic seminaries seeking the endless pool of altar boy victims. Obviously, the Boy Scouts was also targeted -- neither of which organizations were prepared for the onslaught. The real target of radical activists and the liberal news media, of course, is the very existence of Scouting and organized religion.

Even worse, is the shamefully deafening silence from the gay community's failure to condemn gay pedophiles in the Catholic Church, schools, the Boy Scouts or anywhere.

Sacramento Bee
October 19, 2012

Re: Keep Northern California water in the North
Letter, by Burt Wilson
Sacramento Bee, Sept. 7, 2012

Re: Southern California sucks water from wildlife refuges
Letter, by Burt Wilson
Sacramento Bee, October 17, 2012

Shutting off water to Southern California water would ruin state

As a former San Bernardino County grand jury member, I investigated the endangered Southern California water supply from the California Water Project. I responded to Mr. Wilson's Sept. 7th letter without results. I am again responding to Mr. Wilson's Sept. 7th letter and his Oct. 17th letter. Hopefully, The Sacramento Bee is objective and concerned enough about California's economic survival to publish it.

Burt Wilson's demand to cut off water to Southern California and keep it all in the North is as shallow-minded and destructive as the radical conservationists who got part of his wish with an activist federal judge who cut off 30 percent of California Water project supplies to save the tiny Delta Smelt.

First of all, the California Water Project was and is funded by 25 million Southern California water users under contracts, which were unconstitutionally violated by the federal judge.

Secondly, if the California Water Project was shut down, Southern California -- which contains the vast majority of the population and agriculture -- would become a giant ghost town and the state would be destitute. Be careful what you wish for, Mr. Wilson. California is already crumbling under the irresponsible weight of liberal government.

Los Angeles Times
October 17, 2012

Vote YES on Propositions 31, 32, 35 and 40 - Vote NO on all the others

As an independent California voter casting my absentee ballot, I urge my fellow voters to vote YES on Propositions 31, 32, 35 and 40 -- and to vote NO on all the others. Why?

Alas, the GOOD, the BAD and the UGLY of our state has a long history leading to the UGLY of California crashing. As they say in the three rules of real estate, it's location, location, location, which has been California's foundation of having everything in terms of the GOOD place to live. Unfortunately, the BAD years of the liberal-creep of social, political, economic and environmental extremists ruined nearly everything for nearly everyone but the liberal elite, big government, selfish interests, tax predators and welfare parasites.

Fortunately, our California Constitution Article II, Section 1 gives voters the power of initiative, referendum and recall to wit: "All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their protection, security and benefit, and they have the right to alter or reform it when the public good may require." Indeed, with California crashing, the public GOOD certainly requires it.

However, ballot initiatives have been used and abused by selfish and moneyed interests to jerk around the majority simply because the initiative process is too expensive for ordinary voters to utilize without a rare and massive spontaneous response to the need for government reform and alteration, such as was done with the 1978 Proposition 13 tax reform initiative.

Propositions 31, 32, 35 and 40 are all backed by survival interests of struggling California business and struggling people -- against Proposition abusers' selfish interests and the tax and spend selfish interests of big government and government employee unions.

If we are to survive and make California GOOD again, we must pass a ballot initiative to create secure voting networks over the Internet to conduct elections, cast our ballots, collect voter signatures for ballot initiatives, and to make our elected representatives and government officials directly responsible to the voters at all times. With voting networks, we can take California back for ourselves, our children and future generations.

The Wall Street Journal
October 12, 2012

Re: Sharp jabs dominate VP debate

Ryan won the debate against Biden's Cheshire Cat side-show

Vice president Joe Biden was rude, arrogant and condescending, like the Cheshire Cat in a tree, talking down to a lowly congressman and scolding the moderator -- while digging a deeper hole in the Libya debacle.

Rep. Paul Ryan showed himself as a talented young stallion ready to take the VP triple crown and step into the presidency if necessary. Ryan was the debate domestic and foreign policy realist with the facts, against the keeper of the gaffs.

Indeed, Biden is a cranky old partisan race horse beyond going out to pasture. He is certainly not presidential material and should be retired on November 6th along with his incompetent boss.

Ryan won the debate. Al Qaeda is alive.

The New York Post
October 11, 2012

"Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaeda is alive"

President Obama lied about the al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist attack on our embassy in Libya before he had to tell the truth, but only because the truth was out. Indeed, his mishandling of the Libya matter and unnecessary loss of American lives was malfeasance, as was the "Fast and Furious" matter.

Unfortunately, it seems the Obama administration is not only dishonest, but clueless about the misuse of plausible denial.

However, playing dangerous political games with our national security is simply unacceptable, as was Vice President Joe Biden's statement, "Bin Laden is dead. GM is alive." Washington Post columnist, Charles Krauthammer said it best when he countered, "Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaeda is alive."

The Washington Times
October 11, 2012

Re: Obama's truth deficit
by Emily Miller

Obama lies and the liberal media swears to it

Emily Miller's take on President Obama's truth deficit in on target.

Curiously, the president's debate defeat resulted in the Democrat left and Team Obama accusing Governor Romney of resorting to lies to win the debate. How convenient for serial liars from the left taking on a mantra of lies such as established by Al Gore's convenient lies about global warming.

Indeed, President Obama is no stranger to circumventing Congress and the Constitution by administering edicts and executive orders to get what he wants. So branding Governor Romney a liar is like Obama's monarchial enforcement of sedition, which is simply insidious.

Alas, it's blatantly obvious that Democrats demonize truth-tellers to attain or remain in power -- the liberal media swears to it -- and they lie simply because they "can't handle the truth."

Instead, let the truth liberate us from overbearing government on November 6th, so we can get back to truth, justice, freedom, prosperity, and the American way.

Los Angeles Times
October 9, 2012

Re: Senator Feinstein on gas prixe fixing

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's call for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the spike in gas prices cause by "malicious trading schemes and illegal short squeeze" is nothing more than a repeat performance to deflect criticism of Democrat-controlled government and in defense of her re-election.

Indeed, Governor Brown allowing refineries to go to the Winter-blend of gasoline before October 31st was little more than an empty political gesture that will have little if any temporary effect because of limited supplies.

California's high gas prices come as no surprise because the state has the highest gas tax and emission regulations in the nation. California has the most stringent, costly special Summer formulation for gasoline in the nation.

There are are too few refineries in California, and no new refineries have been allowed. California environmentalists have restricted any new oil and gas exploration or production, and the state has the highest taxes and royalties on oil and gas production in the nation. Coupled with EPA regulations, that is why California's gas prices are the highest in the nation.

Worse, President Obama is exacting the same limitations on oil exploration and production on federal lands, taxing carbon emissions, and pushing costly green energy, which is manifested by his EPA chief, Lisa Jackson who says California is her model for the nation.

If it were not for high taxes, over-regulation, economy-crushing environmentalists, government employee and teacher unions, miseducation, lemming-Democrat voters and the malfeasance in Sacramento, there might be hope for California's future. However, when Democrats are just two seats away from a supermajority in the State Senate, hope is all but lost, and the fiscal cliff is just ahead.

All the more reasons for voting no on education tax Propositions 30 and 38, and yes on Proposition 32 union controls.

Los Angeles Times
October 6, 2012

Jobs rabbit out of the hat

Re: Obama still seen as the leader

Pulling the jobs rabbit out of the political hat

There is nothing magic about President Obama playing political games with deceptions and tax dollar theft by trick and device creating bad laws and regulations that hurt the economy. Particularly, when unnecessary and excessive government spending, deficits and debt is for nothing more than ideology-driven re-election.

Indeed, Pulling the self-serving jobs rabbit out of the lower September unemployment political hat by revising July and August employment numbers up to offset a presidential election debate loss is simply unconscionable for the President of the United States. Millions of struggling unemployed and under-employed can attest to that.

The Orange County Register
October 5, 2012

Cooking the unemployment books for the election - same for November 2nd numbers?

So, after a defeat in the first presidential debate, President Obama's labor statistics conveniently came out with a drop in unemployment numbers from 8.1 to 7.8 percent. Indeed, we can probably expect the same to happen with the November 2nd unemployment numbers, just 4 days before the election.

Unfortunately, the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent when Obama took office, then rose above 8 percent for the remainder of his presidency, until now -- even though the real unemployment rate is about 11 percent or as high as 15 percent in actual unemployment.

Curiously, the president's debate defeat resulted in the Democrat left and Team Obama accusing Governor Romney of resorting to lies to win the debate. How convenient for serial liars from the left taking on a mantra of lies such as established by Al Gore's convenient lies about global warming.

Alas, it's blatantly obvious that Democrats demonize truth-tellers to attain or remain in power, and they lie simply because they "can't handle the truth." Let the truth liberate us from overbearing government on November 6th, so we can get back to truth, justice, freedom, prosperity, and the American way.

Los Angeles Times
October 4, 2012

First debate winner - Romney

To the liberal media's dismay, the first 2012 presidential debate in Denver was decisively won by Governor Mitt Romney as clearly evidenced by Romney's command of the stage and President Obama's fumbling.

Indeed, liberal reporters and pundits, such as NBC's Chris Matthews, went into meltdown or were taken by surprise. And team Obama was highly frustrated, which was openly manifested by Obama's chief campaign mouthpiece, David Axelrod overwhelming CNN's chief political correspondent Candy Crowley for the second time as she attempted to interview him before and after the debate.

Apparently, Axelrod thinks that by intimidating Crowley, she will brace up President Obama when she moderates the next -- town meeting-style -- debate in New York. However, Chicago-style politics may not be enough.

Surely, the 50 million viewers were convinced one way or the other, including the post debate polls giving the debate to Romney. Even so, Obama supporters complained about an over-sampling of Republicans slanting the polls, which is redundant in the face of constant over-sampling Democrats in swing state and national polls favoring Obama.

One thing seems certain. The last debate will be the most important because it will be one of the last major things on voters' minds on November 6th. If there is a meltdown in that debate, it will likely be CBS moderator, Bob Schieffer.

The Washington Examiner
October 3, 2012

Biased debate modertators

It's obvious that the news media moderators of the 2012 presidential debates are progressively slanted to the left. Jim Lehrer from PBS News is liberal. Candy Crowley from CNN is more liberal, and Bob Schieffer from CBS News is even more liberal.

I fail to see how the debate moderators are fair and balanced without at least someone like Chris Wallace from Fox News being placed in the middle. Martha Raddatz from ABC News moderating the only vice presidential debate finishes my point that they are all in the tank for Obama.

Of course, Warren Buffett's son, Howard G. Buffett's foundation is a sponsor of the debates (as was it a sponsor of the 2088 debates), and he is a member of the board of directors of the 'nonpartisan' Commission on Presidential Debates, which is running the show.

The San Francisco Chronicle
October 2, 2012

Schwarzenegger's damage to California

Former governor Schwarzenegger made a veiled attempt to bring a little conservative sanity to Sacramento, however, he buckled under to liberal wife, Maria's influence the longer he was in office.

The damage to his personal image pales in comparison to the damage that will be inflicted on California from his AB 32 global warming law, which will finish decimating California's economy.

Indeed, California crashing is inevitable, and as California goes, so goes the nation, with a lot of complicity from President Obama and congressional Democrats.

USA TODAY
October 2, 2012

Re: Ross Perot: The U.S. is headed for 'disaster'
USA TODAY Cover Story - October 1, 2012

In a rare public appearance, Ross Perot said America is headed for 'disaster' -- as if we're not painfully aware of it!

Being a true patriot notwithstanding, former presidential candidate Ross Perot's candidacy is nothing to be proud of. Indeed, I was among Republican voters who changed my status to independent voter to support Ross Perot in 1992 and ended up with voter remorse. The spontaneous outpouring of Perot supporters and volunteers spoke volumes about the changes needed in government, from taxing, spending, government growth and debt, to responsive, responsible, smaller government.

Unfortunately, Ross Perot betrayed his supporters by handing the election to Bill Clinton in anger over a personal matter with then president George H.W. Bush. In doing so, Perot set Clinton in motion on an ideological road to economic collapse with his push for unaffordable housing, which grew into a giant over-inflated blimp that burst and crashed into housing and finance, which was exacerbated by President Obama and a Democrat Congress who buried America in regulation and debt.

Alas, as it turned out, Ross Perot was not the leader for more democracy and smaller government we expected. Instead, he fancied himself as the man who would be king of America if elected, as is the current president who would be king if re-elected. Hopefully, this time, with a spontaneous Tea Party and a president Romney and VP Ryan and Republican Congress with solutions, America can get its act together in liberty, freedom and prosperity.

The Sacramento Bee
October 1, 2012

Vote YES on Prop. 32 -- Don't forget the CTA killed school vouchers

There are many reasons to vote for Proposition 32 curbing public employee and other union dues used to influence elections and elected officials in Sacramento. Another reason for those who remember the two attempts at establishing school vouchers in the state -- Proposition 174 in 1993, and Proposition 38 in 2000.

In those cases, the California Teachers Association not only killed the measures by spending $18 million against Proposition 174 and over $26 million opposing Proposition 38, union members openly intimidated signature gatherers in an attempt to keep the propositions off the ballot.

We must remember that teacher unions and all public employee unions are paid with public funds. Public funds should never be used to influence the elections or decisions made by elected officials or any other public employee.

It's like public employees being the tail wagging the public dog. Indeed, It's simply a built-in conflict against the public interest. Clearly, the selfish interests of California's costly miseducation monopoly will hold back quality education at a reasonable cost as long as voters let them.

That is also the reason for voters to reject tax propositions 30 and 38, which will add to the education tax burdens already in place. Indeed, why pay more for California miseducation that graduates students who are functionally illiterate?

Instead, voters should pass ballot initiatives establishing vouchers, repeal Proposition 98 which guarantees education half the state budget, and eventually privatize education establishing competition that will guarantee the best education at half the cost or less.

The New York Post
September 29, 2012

President Obama's big lie

President Obama's deceptive campaign mantra about Romney taking us back to what got us into this economic mess, meaning Bush, must not go unchallenged.

It was President Clinton, using Carter's Community Reinvestment Act, who got us into this economic mess by pushing unaffordable housing on banks and mortgage lenders, not President Bush.

That was and is still the root of it. And the news media should be talking about it instead of betraying the American people by letting Obama float the big lie, while Clinton floats around in the limelight of the political good guy with impunity.

The Wall Streeet Journal
September 27, 2012

Re: Netanyau asks for "red line" on Iran

Obama, Netanyahu and the Clintons

President Obama's UN speech was little more than lip service with nothing to ameliorate the reality of his ho-hum foreign policy attitude toward the violent events against America in the Middle East, North Africa, and spilling over to other countries around the world.

Moreover, Obama did nothing to warm his cold shoulder toward Israel, or to reassure us about Iran rattling its missiles with threats against Israel and America. This is particularly disturbing while the president is reducing our military strength and disarming our nuclear weapon capabilities at home and in defense of our allies.

In his UN speech, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told it like it is with Israel, Iran and Islamic aggression in the Middle East, replete with informative history and details justifying the urgency of his "red line" stance against a nuclear Iran.

President Obama's negative attitude toward Netanyahu is obviously related to Bill and Hillary Clinton's opposition to Netanyahu resulting in his failure to be re-elected prime minister in 1999.

Coupled with former president Bill Clinton's failure to get Osama bin Laden when offered up by Sudan -- resulting in the 9/11 attack on America -- President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton being AWOL on Middle East foreign policy is understandable, but unacceptable to our national security.

Los Angeles Times
September 26, 2012

President Obama's ho-hum foreign policy

President Obama's UN speech was merely lip service which did little or nothing to alleviate the reality of his ho-hum foreign policy attitude toward the violent events against America in the Middle East, North Africa, and spilling over to other countries around the world.

Moreover, he did nothing to warm his cold shoulder toward Israel, or to reassure us about Iran rattling its missiles with threats against Israel and America. This is particularly disturbing while the president is reducing our military strength and disarming our nuclear weapon capabilities at home and in defense of our allies.

Indeed, the lands of Islam are simply too unsettled and volatile to ignore the increased risk to our national security and our economy.

USA TODAY
September 24, 2012

Reasons not to re-elect President Obama

Before voters mark their ballots for the 2012 presidential elections, serious reasons against voting to re-elect President Obama should be considered:

President Obama's performance or lack thereof by ignoring the root cause of the economic meltdown as being the Clinton administration's affordable housing push, exacerbated by House and Senate Democrat finance committees.

Signing his economy-crushing health care laws and over-regulating finance laws passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress. Then Signing his $800 billion stimulus bill with little to no results. Increasing the national debt from $10 trillion to over $16 trillion, and adding $3 billion per day.

Going on an EPA executive order binge to kill abundant coal energy in favor of high cost wind and solar energy -- and strangling domestic oil and gas resources -- raising the cost of living. Failing his foreign policy and national security responsibilities and raising the risk from terrorism.

Waging class warfare, manipulating job numbers and biased poll numbers, while distracting and deceiving the American people on a daily basis, and governing by crisis. Voters simply cannot afford keeping a malfeasant President in perpetual campaign mode -- or a Democrat-controlled Senate -- if we are to survive these dire economic and dangerous times -- steeped in uncertainty.

Washington Times
September 22, 2012

Re: Uncertainty and unemployment - editorial

Obama's perpetual campaign for uncertainty

President Obama's social and political life has been in perpetual campaign mode since becoming a community organizer with scant time devoted to governing. Indeed, his superficial involvement in education was overcome by socialist connections, and Chicago-style politics which launched his meteoric campaign rise to the top.

Surely, his well-choreographed speeches dominated his persona of hope and change to a presidency devoted to costly, ideology-driven changes resulting in over-reaching government, reckless spending and diminishing hope, leaving future generations enslaved by a high cost of living, taxes, debt and steeped in uncertainty.

Alas, this most important of elections will be difficult for Republicans to win because too many American voters have been lost in a fog induced by the betrayal of the media, education and entertainment industry propaganda arms of the left, nit-picking Mitt Romney's capitalism and ameliorating President Obama's failures.

Why else would the liberal media celebrate the September 17th anniversary of the feckless Occupy Wall Street movement, while ignoring our September 17th Constitution Day? Clearly, the only thing that can make the difference will undoubtedly be the Fair and Balanced truth of Fox News, conservative media and truthfully informed American patriots.

USA TODAY
September 18, 2012

What happened to letters to the editor?

As a long time USA TODAY subscriber with a number of published letters to the editor, I am deeply concerned about the new look of USA TODAY, our only national newspaper.

First of all, the type is smaller and more difficult to read. Second -- and most disturbing even though "Your Say" comprises a full page -- is that the letters to the editor section dwindled to two, then one regular letter to the editor within the first three issues, replaced by Face Book postings and nearly anonymous Tweets on issues solicited by USA TODAY.

I realize that print newspaper subscriptions are waning in favor of new computer technology, Internet, I-Pads and cell phones, and I have appreciated using email to submit my letters. But it's simply sad to see thoughtful, well written opinions on important issues fade away, replaced by brief responses.

Alas, I worry about the future of print newspapers, and the satisfaction of reading your own opinion on matters affecting your fellow citizens. I subscribe to USA TODAY, the Wall Street Journal, my County and local newspapers to keep informed. And I am fortunate to have many of my letters published a variety of newspapers and news magazines since 1994, memorialized in three volumes of published books, Letters to the Editor: From the Trenches of Democracy. Volume 4 will be published after the 2012 elections.

Daily Press
September 18, 2012

Re: Propositions: Populism writ large

Propositions 30 and 38, California tax increases for miseducation

Governor Brown's Proposition 30 and Molly Munger's Proposition 38 want voters to approve tax increases for the miseducation monopoly. Surely, it's bad enough that California is already the third highest in taxes -- behind New York and New Jersey -- and ranks 47th and 48th of 50 states in math and reading skills, graduating students who are functionally illiterate.

But to ask economically beleaguered voters to pay more for failing education to feed the selfish interests of teacher unions is adding insult to injury. Particularly, when the salaries, benefits and retirement costs are among the highest in the country.

Alas, the liberal Democrat monopoly in the executive and legislature have a stranglehold on business, taxpayers and schools, the grip of which can only be broken by ballot initiatives to significantly reduce regulations and taxes, to outlaw teacher unions and other public employee unions, to repeal Proposition 98's grip on half of the budget, and to privatize public education.

Lastly, we need to pass ballot initiatives to reduce the over-reaching powers of the state -- with a population of 12 percent of country and 33 percent of the welfare recipients -- to support and educate illegal aliens and the undeserving at taxpayer expense, and to usurp the powers of local government.

California Constitution Article II, Section 1 gives voters the power of initiative, referendum and recall to wit: "All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their protection, security and benefit, and they have the right to alter or reform it when the public good may require." Indeed, with California crashing, the public good certainly requires it.

Los Angeles Times
September 15, 2012

Re: Romney's opportunism - editorial

President Obama's fitness to govern in question

Governor Romney's criticism of President Obama being soft on militant radical Islamists was appropriate for a presidential candidate, not opportunistic. As evidenced by President Obama's ambivalent policies leaving American Embassies in the Middle East more vulnerable to attack by militant Islamic radicals renewing their hatred of America on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, particularly, when Marines guarding embassies were not allowed to have live ammunition.

Clearly, President Obama's lack of interest in the evolution of Middle Eastern country revolutions turning into Islamic law states being governed by radical organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood raises disturbing questions about his resolve in protecting America's national security. And certainly, his equivocations about Iran's nuclear threat against Israel, America and anyone who opposes them raises even more disturbing questions.

Coupled with recklessly reducing our nuclear weapons and the military, the president's inability to resolve our economic crisis -- exacerbated by his determination to raising the cost of fuel and energy by crushing coal energy and our domestic oil resources instead of promoting them -- and his expansion of regulations, and federal power usurping more power from the states, President Obama's fitness to govern has been seriously diminished.

USA TODAY
September 12, 2012

Re: Today's debate: Education

Chicago's striking teachers flunk the sympathy test, indeed. Selfish teacher unions who wag the public dog are contemptible.

It's rare, if ever, for anyone to wag Chicago's political dog, but the teachers' union has taken on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's education reform with a vengeance -- striking 29, 000 teachers, leaving 350,000 students out of school.

Indeed, students don't seem to matter to the selfish interests of teacher unions who are demanding a 29% pay raise over two years, turned down an offer of 16% over four years, and refused to have members performance evaluated. It doesn't matter that the schools, teachers and students are performing poorly, with a graduation rate of only 55% even though graduates are functionally illiterate.

Wagging the public dog is also the case in California, where teacher unions are backing Governor Jerry Brown's Proposition 30, which blackmails voters into passing $8.5 billion in tax increases, or take an automatic $6 billion cut in K-12 education. Then there is Proposition 38, which raises taxes for education by $10 billion a year for 12 years.

California's failed education system doesn't matter to Governor Brown or selfish teacher unions who would tax the middle class and job creators even more regardless of California's economy, crumbling under the weight of big government and the miseducation of students. Alas, unlike Chicago, at least California voters make the decision, albeit under duress.

Los Angeles Times
September 10, 2012

Re: 'Parent trigger' campaign divides families at troubled Adelanto elementary school - Teresa Watanabe

There is much more than concern about dividing families at the troubled Adelanto Desert Trails Elementary School. The 'Parent-trigger' law for transforming the school into a charter school for six years of 70 percent of sixth-graders not being proficient in English or math reflects a long history of California's failing schools, and ample reason that most, of not all, California K-12 public schools should be parent-triggered into charter schools.

As a former community college instructor, I was appalled by the lack of students' English and math skills as early as the 1970's, which was the reason my wife and I assisted our three children with their K-12 schooling, and the reason why most students still graduating from California high schools are functionally illiterate.

Indeed, during Jerry Brown's first term as governor, he approved the unionization of California teachers. That, along with costly top-heavy school district administrations, Proposition 98 guaranteeing the lion's share of the state budget to schools -- and (with few exceptions) former/retired teacher-heavy local school board members -- are the primary reasons the selfish interests of the rich and politically powerful teachers union use campaign funding, bully tactics and school bond measures to wag the dog of public schools. Lest we forget, teacher unions fight all school choice and vouchers by any means necessary.

Of course, Adelanto's school board's open defiance of a court order to transform the school into a charter school smacks of teacher union dirty tricks and the school board's abuse of power. Coupled with the overall failure of public schools in California and general failure throughout the country is why home schooling has been on the rise for years. Surely, parents -- not the miseducation establishment, or the federal Department of Education -- should be in charge of their children's' education. Our children and grandchildren's future -- and the country's future -- depend on excellence in education.

Sacramento Bee
September 9, 2012

Re: Keep Northern California water in the North
Letter, by Burt Wilson
Sacramento Bee, Sept. 7, 2012

Shutting off water to Southern California water would ruin state

Burt Wilson's demand to cut off water to Southern California and keep it all in the North is as shallow-minded and destructive as the radical conservationists who got part of his wish with an activist federal judge who cut off 30 percent of California Water project supplies to save the tiny Delta Smelt. First of all, the California Water Project was and is funded by 25 million Southern California water users under contracts, which were unconstitutionally violated by the federal judge. Secondly, if the California Water Project was shut down, Southern California -- which contains the vast majority of the population and agriculture -- would become a giant ghost town and the state would be destitute. Be careful what you wish for. California is already crumbling under the liberal weight of irresponsible government.

Los Angeles Times
September 9, 2012

Re: Conventions without compromise
by Doyle McManus
Opinion - Sept. 9, 2012

The choice is clear

Regardless of the Republican and Democrat conventions, it is painfully clear that jobs, the economy, debt and taxes will be the deciding factors in the 2012 election. Of course there can be no compromise when each side refuses to do so. Republicans say Democrats are the party of YES on taxing and spending. Democrats say Republicans are the party of NO on raising taxes and spending.

Mr. McManus pointed out that former NY governor Mario Cuomo said, "In any campaign, at least three things will happen that you don't expect. How candidates react to those unexpected events will determine how the election turns out." It's less than two months before the November 6th election, which makes it doubtful that many, if any unexpected events will occur.

One thing, however, is certain. When the jobs reports continue sliding as they have -- with the real unemployment rate at 11.2 percent -- and only 63.5 percent of the available workforce are participating, the choice is clear for employers and the majority of voters. To elect a president and those to Congress who will invigorate the economic and jobs environment by getting government out of the way.

Washington Post
September 7, 2012

Obama vs. Romney

President Obama needs to be reminded of truth-telling, when falsely accusing Romney and Ryan of lying. Indeed, a chaotic convention and Mr. Obama's limp acceptance speech made it painfully clear that he is the great deceiver, intentionally dismissing or ignoring facts, figures and failures to continue and expand the devastating costs of his presidency into a second term, regardless of the consequences -- at the expense of the American people -- by raising taxes and adding trillions more to the $16 trillion ticking debt-bomb.

It's not difficult to imagine how far gone Democrats' delusions and the misinformed illusions are to believe President Obama's "right thing to do" when it's the 'left thing to do,' moving his government power agenda "Forward."

The hard truths coming out of the conventions are that President Obama is determined to lead America down the 'road to serfdom,' while Governor Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan are wisely determined to undo what the president and Democrats have wrought upon the country -- exacerbating the recession with costly health care laws, over-regulation damaging business, energy and the middle class, careless spending and debt -- by making tough decisions and carrying out well constructed recovery plans.

Wall Street Journal
September 5, 2012

Re: Of Bill and Barack - editorial

Clinton deserves no accolades

Bill Clinton's speech nominating President Obama deserves no accolades. Truth be told, which the liberal media has intentionally fail to do. It was Clinton -- using Carter's affordable housing CRA to intimidate banks, mortgage lenders, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make home loans to those who could not afford them -- who is responsible for housing and financial meltdown, and the recession, exacerbated by President Obama.

Not President Bush, who tried to stop the madness, but was stopped by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. The economic meltdown was Clinton, Frank and Dodd's fault. Indeed, it was bad enough that Clinton shamed and disgraced the White House, and was impeached for it. If there is any justice, Clinton should go down in history as the President who crashed the economy. Certainly, his retirement benefits and protections should be terminated.

However, when it comes to giant political egos, Clinton's speech and previous actions -- coupled with Hillary's performance as Secretary of State -- makes one thing seemingly inevitable. If Obama is not re-elected, Hillary and Bill Clinton will run for president in 2016, most likely battling Obama in a replay of 2008. If they both lose, they will be back at it in 2020. Alas, it would be best for the country if they simply fade away.

Los Angeles Times
September 3, 2012

U.S. Forest Service fails in fire fighting
Williams Fire: U.S. Forest Service fails

Before the fast-moving Angeles National Forest San Gabriel Canyon Williams Fire spread from 75, to 700 acres, the U.S. Forest Service could have called in the DC-10 Super tanker from the nearby airport in Victorville, capable of dropping 11,600 gallons of water, and put the fire out. But they didn't and before the end of the day, the fire spread to 3600 acres in steep, inaccessible wild land. It was not until the next afternoon when they called in the big tanker.

Indeed, the Forest Service has a long history of incompetence in fighting forest fires, highlighted by the Station Fire -- largest in Los Angeles County history, at a loss of many homes and several lives -- not to mention the 91,000 acre San Bernardino National Forest 'Old Fire' that burned 993 homes and took 6 lives. The main reason for losing control of all these fires, here and around the country is because the U.S. Forest Service failed to call in Heavy aircraft water tankers, and/or Super Scooper aircraft, which a Rand Corp. study recommended, and was dismissed by the Forest Service Chief.

The State of California is also at fault by cancelling a contract for the DC 10 Super Tanker two years ago, and in 2011, President Obama grounded half of the government's air tankers, then sitting idle at a California airport, after which the Forest Service cancelled the contract leaving the federal government with 11 tankers under contract, down from 40 air tankers used by the forest service a decade ago. Clearly, if the Forest Service managed fires properly, they would increase contracts for Super Tankers and contract for Super Scoopers for immediate call to fires, saving lives, property and billions of dollars.

Back to the Williams Fire, when I was an L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy assigned to then Road/Fire Camp 14 in the San Gabriel Canyon East Fork in 1961, I provided security for inmate fire crews fighting fires. Those mountains are treacherous during fires, which had sadly cost the lives of an entire juvenile fire crew from a fire that burned down a steep canyon, suddenly exploded and shot up the other side to the ridge, consuming the fire crew. Hopefully, that won't happen to any hand crews in the Williams Fire.

Daily Press
September 2, 2012

Re: Why November is so critical - editorial

The Democrat Convention and President Obama's liberal lemmings

As President Obama heads to the Democrat Convention, he is warning voters that Governor Romney, Rep. Paul Ryan and the Republicans want to take America back to the old days of black and white television. Obviously, Mr. Obama is intentionally oblivious to the old days when America meant everything to the people, who prospered and thrived in freedom after winning World War II, and Republicans were responsible for passing the Civil Rights Act.

Unfortunately, the old days of the 1950's and 1960's were also the days of the baby boomer generation cultural revolution, in which most boomers rejected the greatest generation of their parents, compromised the Democrat Party, and set America on a path of undermining our morals, our laws, the Constitution, public education, distorting free enterprise with carpetbagger capitalism, began the unabated government growth and power, and turned the nation into a welfare/entitlement state finalized by President Obama and a Democrat-controlled Congress.

Before re-electing President Obama, voters should be warned. He is not the president of hope and change. He is the lemming-in-chief leading his liberal lemmings and deceived voters to the social/economic cliff's edge, where he will stop, encourage his dependent followers to take the leap of faith, and if re-elected -- after the final economic crash -- he will shamelessly slip into the lap of retirement and security for the rest of his life at taxpayers' expense -- regardless of the damage he leaves behind.

USA TODAY
September 1, 2012

Re: Romney's acceptance speech tries to fill in the gaps -editorial

Romney's and Ryan's speeches and supporting speeches at the Republican Convention clearly demonstrated that Governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan are the most qualified candidates for president and vice president, replete with "We can do better" and "We can do this" leadership, experience, integrity and character.

Many of those who spoke at the event could make up much of a president Romney's governing team. Among them are Condoleezza Rice as national security advisor or a second round as secretary of State; Governor Chris Christie as attorney general; Sen. Marc Rubio as the director of Homeland Security; Governor Susana Martinez as secretary of Energy, Governor Scott Walker as Labor secretary, Newt Gingrich as HHS director, and Jeb Bush as Education secretary.

Plus, Governor Romney should add a 6th most important point to his plan for the recovery of the United States: Return all powers usurped from the states or the people back to the states or the people as required by the 9th and 10th Amendments. Then the federal government could be downsized by returning all federal lands to the states, eliminating the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture the EPA, HUD and others.

USA TODAY
August 21, 2012

Republican Platform Committee on the right track

On Monday, August 20, 2012, I happened to be watching C-Span during a meeting of the Republican Platform Committee while they were discussing the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture in terms of the lack of national forest management and the issue of forest fires. It was determined that the platform would include the harvesting of trees to thin national forest lands, lessening the damage of forest fires, and adding to the logging and lumber economy.

More importantly, one of the committee members suggested that the platform should include a return of all federal lands to the states, except for military bases, as was the intent of the Founders and the Constitution. I strongly support that suggestion, which would allow the states and private enterprise to benefit from the lands, natural resources and economic development -- exactly what the states need -- particularly in these dire economic times.

-- With the exception of my state of California, which is under ultra-liberal Democrat rule, and would make the lands off limits to humans -- other than tree huggers -- and economic growth of any kind.

Regardless, as an independent voter and supporter of the Romney/Ryan ticket, along with regaining control of the Senate, I encourage Mitt Romney review President Obama's executive orders and administrative regulations of the departments of the Interior, Agriculture, and primarily the EPA to release the strangleholds on oil resources, refineries, and vital coal energy to help move us away from Obama's economic cliff.

Washington Post
August 18, 2012

My wife and I are enrolled in Kaiser's Senior Advantage Medicare care plan, which should serve as a model for Medicare Advantage, and Medicare in general. Indeed, we are well aware that the centerpiece of President Obama's 2008 election campaign for universal health care was to end Medicare Advantage, which is what he will do with the Affordable Care Act rammed through the Democrat-controlled Congress from behind closed doors with no debate..

President Obama is lying about Paul Ryan's Medicare reform plan to scare seniors who will not be affected by the Ryan plan, including those of us enrolled in Medicare Advantage. In fact seniors will be seriously affected by Obama who is taking $716 billion from Medicare by reducing Medicare payments and gutting Medicare Advantage for 11 million seniors to fund his "Unaffordable" Care Act -- which will cost taxpayers $trillions.

Worse, the "Unaffordable Careless" Act establishes a 15-member "Star Chamber" board, which will decide who receives health care and who does not -- all of which was endorsed by the AARP who betrayed their members. That's why seniors are turning to Romney/Ryan to repeal Obamacare, return the $716 billion to shore-up Medicare, protect healthcare for those 55 and older, along with solutions for the future of health care for those under 55.

Sacramento Bee
August 8, 2012

Re: California's 'wall of debt' has risen even higher
by Dan Walters
August 7, 2012

Governor Brown's weasel politics

After taking office from Governor Schwarzenegger, Governor Brown picked up the former governor's weasel borrowing and spending, declaring that reducing the "wall of debt" would be his top priority. However, as seasoned California Democrats always do, he began weaseling his way around debt retirement by scaling back spending cuts, tunneling under cities and counties, popping up to snatch their funding, and cutting targeted areas to scare voters into passing his tax increase initiative to save education and public safety.

Meanwhile, the weasel is increasing borrowing from special funds, and diverting money from debt retirement to spending -- not to mention pushing through $billions in unnecessary high speed rail bond debt. Indeed, Brown can't talk about bringing down the wall of debt, when he builds it higher, releases more criminal predators on the public and heaps others on beleaguered counties.

The bottom line is, Governor Brown is mimicking the weasel-in-chief, President Obama in economy-busting taxation, spending and enormous debt. Clearly, the blatant abuse of centralized state and federal power will only worsen unless voters take charge to reduce the overall size, scope and power of government, starting with the failed state and federal education monopoly, the EPA, most regulatory agency predators, and the vultures picking at the carcass of our economy.

Wall Street Journal
August 7, 2012

Re: A New Climate-Change Consensus
by Fred Krupp
WSJ August 7, 2012

Fred Krupp's feeble attempt to soften the debate over human-caused climate change -- formerly known as global warming -- with the false perception of a simple liberal-conservative consensus for climate solutions, by tweaking historical climate facts and weather cycles, rather than the usual junk science and hysterical conjecture to further a dangerous, costly agenda.

Certainly, the current drought and heat waves damages crops, raises the cost of food and air conditioning, but the assertions fail to recognize the real costs and why. Corn is the best example of wasting a vital crop on useless corn ethanol. Air conditioning and all energy demands are far more costly when environmental zealots crush the use and expansion of cheap coal energy in favor of costly and unreliable green energy.

Southern Californians have not forgotten that Fred Krupp's Environmental Defense fund is the same radical organization that cut vital water delivery from Northern to Southern California by 30 percent based on their lawsuit and an activist federal judge's ruling to protect the tiny Delta Smelt fish. Indeed, it didn't matter that it was an unconstitutional intrusion on the California Water Project built, maintained and paid for by water users by means of water contractors.

Worse, it is unconscionable that government-backed environmental scare tactics are used to indoctrinate public school students beginning with elementary grades, and increased throughout the overall miseducation of our children and grandchildren. Alas, when the liberal news media betrays their readers, viewers and listeners with unobjective, unquestioning acceptance of an environmental agenda that is falsely driving our economy to ruin, it's unconscionable, and a sad day for American freedom.

Los Angeles Times
August 5, 2012

Re: Boy Scouts' abuse 'barrier' often porous
Los Angeles times - Front Page
August 5, 2012

As a Bronze Palm Eagle Scout, a long time off-and-on Scout adult leader, and retired from a 41-year career in law enforcement and the criminal justice system -- who credits the Scouting program with more than just helping to build my knowledge, citizenship, character and integrity -- I am deeply concerned about the relentless attacks by the liberal news media against the Boy Scouts of America.

Indeed, the in-depth Front Page Los Angeles Times investigation into the failures of BSA barrier against sexual predators from 1970 to 1991 is simply another attack by the liberal news media against the Boy Scouts organization's stance against gay adult leaders, under the guise condemning sexual predators.

What the biased investigation fails to say is that the radical cultural/sexual revolution of the 60s', 70s' and 80's resulted in gay sexual predators invading Catholic seminaries seeking the endless pool of altar boy victims. Obviously, the Boy Scouts was also targeted -- neither of which organizations were prepared for the onslaught. The real target of radical activists and the liberal news media, of course, is the very existence of Scouting and organized religion.

Daily Press
July 29, 2012

Re: Brian Ross' brain cramp
by Jonah Goldberg

As a supporter of the Tea Party's efforts to reduce the size, scope and abuse of government power, and to limit government as intended by the Constitution, I agree with Jonah Goldberg's commentary and his analysis of the blatant bias of the so-called mainstream media in favor of President Obama and the Democrat Party, and against Republicans, conservatives and the Tea Party. Particularly ABC's prime investigative reporter Brian Ross' unqualified accusation that Aurora shooter, James Holmes was a member of the Colorado Tea Party.

Indeed, Democrats and the left-stream media are quick to falsely smear, demonize and condemn the Tea Party as dangerous, racist, and murderous fascists, which is being acted out in "The West Wing" creator, Aaron Sorkin's HBO series, "Newsroom." I have watched the appalling "Newsroom" series which is set in supposed 2010 real time depicting a rabidly liberal television news team and anchor, Jeff Daniels blasting the Koch brothers PAC-backed Tea Party as terrorists.

Of course this fantasy newsroom is a wish program for HBO, Hollywood and the rest of the left in reaction to Democrats 2010 loss of the House, and Tea Party-backed Republican gains in the Senate, along with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's defeat of the recall efforts against him initiated by aggressive state and national unions and their army of thugs.

Surely, the spontaneous Tea Party movement is a peaceful but firm American reaction to the government-caused housing and financial crash, and against President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress' power grab of national health care, finance and industry -- against free enterprise and state's rights -- exacerbated reckless spending and insurmountable public debt. A President Romney and a Republican Congress will undo the wrongs, set things right, and put us on the road to social, political and economic recovery.

Wall Street Journal
July 28, 2012

Re: The 1.5% Presidency - editorial

President Obama's 1.5% growth presidency has failed on the economy indeed, plus his feigned attempts at romancing the middle class is a lie. Hundreds of thousands of small businesses have already gone under at a loss of millions of jobs.

Nearly everything he has done has been against the middle class, including his stimulus failures, health care laws, finance and industry intrusions, crushing domestic energy resources, insurmountable debt, and his campaign to raise taxes on middle class business job creators.

Indeed, President Obama's view that government is the only solution to our social, political and economic problems -- while ignoring the fact that government intrusion in housing finance caused the housing and financial crisis -- is a direct assault on free enterprise, our freedoms and our future.

If voters are conned into believing Mr. Obama's diversions, deceptions and false promises and he is re-elected -- along with leaving Democrats in charge of the Senate -- government growth and increased power already set in motion by the president circumventing the Constitution with executive orders will increase, collapse the middle class and drive us into economic chaos toward a deep depression.

Orange County Register
July 26, 2012

Gay - Chick-Fil-A controversy:

Gay activists demonstrated in front of the Chick-Fil-A grand opening in Laguna Hills California, driving customers away and calling for a boycott. That was a violation of California Penal Code Section 602-J, interfering with a business, a criminal misdemeanor. I arrested many morons for interfering with a business during my law enforcement days. Private enterprise and their customers must be protected.

Orange County Register
July 25, 2012

Anaheim gangs

Both people shot by the police in Anaheim were gang members. Two-thirds of the protestors were gang member rioters from out of town -- the same kind of gangsters who kill rival gang members and innocent bystanders. As a retired law enforcement officer, I for one say, the police are our first line of defense and deserve the backing of the communities they serve and protect. We simply cannot stand for this kind of terrorism.

Washington Times
July 23, 2012

Holmes as the Joker

Being a brilliant neuroscience student, the Colorado shooter, James Holmes likely transformed himself into the Batman villain, the Joker, portrayed by Heath Ledger. Then, overcome by the mass violence and vampire mentality coming out of the morally bankrupt entertainment industry, he acted out his evil fantasy.

Intentionally being caught, he was probably obsessed with becoming an infamous celebrity. Blaming guns for the tragedy is a reactionary excuse to disarm honest, law-abiding citizens rather than dealing with the unnecessary malevolence in our society.

Indeed, the tragic, senseless deaths of innocent people is the consequences of such an aberration. Particularly, when society has long been infected by the proliferation and over-analysis of psychologists and counselors.

Time Magazine
June 17, 2012

Re: We are Americans - cover story

Re: Not legal, not leaving
by Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Vargas' "We are Americans" Time Magazine cover story is certainly understandable. Particularly when the Pulitzer-Prize-winning undocumented gay journalist hailing from San Francisco since his arrival from the Philippines at the age of 12 was on an unabated liberal ride to the top of his field, which launched his activism as a permanent shield against deportation. Vargas is correct in saying Democrats are more welcoming to (illegal) immigrants, since the Party legislated provisions for their housing, food, health care and education in exchange for votes, legal or illegal. Vargas and the Democrats are indeed working for amnesty for 11.5 million immigrants. However, since U.S. citizen's have paid for their support, and suffered the infestation of criminals, gangs and drug cartels, would we be wrong in expecting tax refunds for our losses? Incidentally, only U.S. citizens have legal claim to being American.

The Wall Street Journal
June 16, 2012

Re: We believe you, Mr. President - editorial

President Obama's monarchial pitch circumventing Congress for illegal aliens because "it's the right thing to do," is feeding the voters pecksniffian Pablum, and too many seem to be swallowing it.

Lest we forget, the long term Democrat campaign inviting illegal aliens to America, with welfare, health care and education benefits for their future votes, has resulted in the proliferation of opportunists, predators, criminals, drug gangs, Russian gangsters, and all manner of foreign parasites stealing from the American honey pot, and feeding from the public trough.

What do Pablum eaters not understand about the bitter aftertaste of insidious pandering laced with social and economic political poison? President Obama campaigned on it during the 2008 election, continued the failed promises at great expense and public debt, and he keeps on chugging, voter-fraud and all.

New York Post
June 15, 2012

President Obama changing immigration rules

President Obama making up rules on illegal immigration, offering "a degree of relief" to illegals under 30 years of age, is simply a calculated campaign tactic taunting Congress to pass the "Dream Act," and send it to his desk so he can "sign it right away," to stimulate more support from Hispanic voters and future Hispanic voters.

However, the president's temporary gesture did little more than incite open demonstrations by ungrateful illegal aliens making demands with impunity -- as they have time and time again -- regardless of the enormous drain on public funds supporting their welfare, health care and education.

Contrary to President Obama's declaration, they are not, "for all intents and purposes, American citizens." Seeking the reality of the American Dream of citizenship means to play by the rules, and earn it. Being an American citizen is the greatest privilege in the civilized world. Those who diminish it are un-American.

The Washington Examiner
June 13, 2012

Re: Holder needs to come clean on Fast and Furious

Fast and furious government

Federal lawsuits by Attorney General Eric Holder against Florida and other states attempts to prevent voter fraud comes as no surprise. Particularly in light of his failure to pursue prosecution against the intimidation of voters by New Black Panther Party thugs, mishandling terrorist prosecutions, and his pursuit of suits against Arizona and other states' attempts to assist in the enforcement of illegal immigration laws.

Clearly, Attorney General Eric Holder's arrogant and defiant contempt of Congress over the Fast and Furious fiasco at congressional hearings, and in dealing with states' rights, are simply a reflection of the aggressive ideological policies of the Obama administration.

Indeed, Mr. Holder's sketchy history as a legal hit man for president Clinton and attorney general Janet Reno in the extraction of young Elian Gonzales from Florida to Communist Cuba, and securing a quid-pro-quo pardon for major oil-trader/tax evader/Clinton finance contributor Marc Rich, earned Holder his political credentials for being appointed attorney general against the interests of the American people.

Certainly, Holder's refusal to resign, coupled with President Obama's failure to remove him, smacks of the malfeasant abuse of power, nonfeasance dereliction of duty, misfeasance, and the AG underboss knowing too much to fail the godfather in the White House.

USA TODAY
June 12, 2012

Re: Families' wealth dives 39% in 3 years - front page

Announcing net worth loss adds insult to injury -- What's worse?

Announcing families' net worth loss of home equity adds insult to the injury of beleaguered homeowners struggling to survive the housing/financial collapse and commensurate loss of jobs. Worse, misdirected political blame perpetuated by the news media does nothing to help frantic people suffering from job loss and foreclosure. Indeed, Democrat finger pointers blaming banks, Wall Street, the wealthy and Republicans for what Democrats wrought upon the economy.

Truth be known, real villains of this long term tragedy are in fact the political ideology and ambitions of former President Carter's Community Reinvestment Act for affordable housing; pushed on banks and mortgage lenders by former President Clinton, lowering home buyer qualifications; government mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac gobbling up half of the nation's mortgages, and Representative Barney Frank and Senator Chris Dodd keeping the fraud alive.

Of course, the artificial housing bubble burst, as did the homeowners' inflated equity -- leaving neighborhoods blighted with foreclosed homes and increased crime. President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress made it worse with nearly a $trillion in failed stimulus, runaway government spending and power grabs, and $trillions in additional debt. Even worse, government took over all student loans ballooning to over a $trillion, and the next bubble to burst.

Alas, the only thing worse is the enormous size, scope and power of overreaching government growing by leaps and bounds, stimulated by the Obama Administration -- exacerbated by the EPA poised to hurt the economy even more, and toying with terrorism. The November elections is the time to turn it all around, lest we go down with the sinking ship of state.

Time Magazine
June 10, 2012

Re: The Decider - cover story

Steeped in uncertainty - Not Justice Kennedy

Justice Anthony Kennedy has been misinterpreted by many social, political and economic persuasions for as long as he has been an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. However, he is not steeped in uncertainty as some would suggest. Surely, one thing is certain. Justice Kennedy is a thoughtful decider commensurate with the certainty of the law, intent and meaning of our Constitution.

Therefore, it is quite certain that Justice Kennedy will decide against the Obama health careless act as a blatant abuse of federal power over 10th Amendment states' rights, the 14th Amendment and the Commerce Clause, in clear violation of the Constitution's limitations on the federal government -- which should be extended to the elimination of all Cabinet Departments other than State, Treasury, Justice and Defense -- established when the Constitution was ratified.

And clearly, Justice Kennedy and the Court should decide to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, and California's Proposition 8 ensuring Marriage is between one man and one woman. To do otherwise with all the matters above would be tantamount to recognizing Bill Maher as The Decider, undermining the meaning of America, landing Justice Kennedy on the ash-heap of what could have and should have been.

Los Angeles Times
June 9, 2012

Senator Dianne Feinstein - leaker condemning leaks

As a former law enforcement officer in Southern California, I can say that California Senator Dianne Feinstein, Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee lacks the credibility to lead the outrage against those who leaked national security secrets.

Indeed, while Feinstein was the Mayor of San Francisco, she held a press conference identifying the Southern California "Night Stalker" serial killer, Richard Ramirez, which outraged Los Angeles County Sheriff, Sherman Block, who condemned Feinstein for releasing information known only to investigators, jeopardizing the community and the apprehension of Ramirez.

In February 2009, Senator Feinstein released national security information about our drones seeking terrorist targets being launched from a base in Pakistan.

Surely, Senator Feinstein cannot be trusted with national security secrets confided to her Senate Intelligence Committee, and calls into question her fitness to hold the office of a U.S. Senator. My fellow California voters should keep this in mind.

The Daily Press
June 9, 2012

Re: Letters to the Editor
June 7, 2012

Liberal lemmings of the left

Letter writer, Rick Benefield's empty rhetoric complaining about the Daily Press's refusal to allow other (liberal) sides of important issues to be heard is a bold face lie, particularly when his, along with a well known list of liberal letter writers are frequently published in what has become a "Hatfield's & McCoy's" style feud between them and a regularly published list of conservative letter writers. The vivid case in point was Benefield's "Fair redistribution" June 7th letter published with two other liberal letters, which comprised the entire letters section.

Alas, Benefield, the usual suspects and his ilk of liberal lemmings of the left must be forgiven, for they protest too much, and know not what they do. Indeed, they are simply the product of institutionalized ignorance and indoctrination, administered by the insidious public education establishment's monopoly, which has sacrificed core academics for the sake of miseducation to promote and instill the progressive/regressive ideology, while robbing students of their education and future.

Coupled with the last dictatorial Democrat-controlled Congress shutting-out Republicans during the passage of their massive health careless legislation -- and the reactionary Dodd-Frank Finance regulations--engineered and signed by monarchial President Obama, along with his long list of EPA edicts, seizing control of the energy and industry in America, the Democrat left has become a clear and present danger to our liberty. Particularly, when President Obama has made distraction and deceit his modus operandi -- and toying with terrorism, the military, national security and national defense -- his tools of political gain.

Lest we forget, the so-called mainstream (dominant) news media hails from the left, allowing little if any dissent in the print media's letters to the editor, thus effectively shutting off opposition to the liberal religion with intolerance toward anyone who disagrees with their tenets of social, political and economic control. Together with Hollywood and the entertainment industry support, America is becoming a superficial society of social aggression, selfish interests, political hostility and extremes, replete with social pollution and toxic ideas, with massive dependency on far too much unconstitutional government power.

Unfortunately and fortunately, it has taken a serious economic crisis caused by government intrusion and control, to awaken the sleeping conservative giant of first constitutional principles, personal freedoms, self-reliance, free enterprise, and freedom of the press in the likes of conservative talk radio, fair and balanced Fox News, the Internet and other conservative/libertarian media to inform and enlighten people with the truth which -- even though history can be reconstructed, stretched and revised -- cannot be changed.

Los Angeles Times
June 9, 2012

Re: Proposition 29 and Proposition 8 letters
June 9, 2012

Irony not lost

Irony is certainly not lost on letter writers decrying the defeat of Proposition 29, and the not-yet-defeated Proposition 8. Though the final vote count may yet overcome the slight margin of No votes on Prop. 29 -- no matter how questionable that might be -- the 14th Amendment equal rights/protection arguments against Proposition 8 are ignored for smokers.

Indeed, it's not enough that smokers have become social outcasts, held up to public contempt, hatred and ridicule. Or that smokers are subjected to discriminatory, punishing taxation -- most of whom can least afford it. Or the tyranny of the majority inflamed by opportunist Rob Reiner and his tainted Proposition 10 imposing 50 cents per pack taxes on cigarettes for his personal $750 million per year slush fund for nearly everything but tobacco related health issues.

Yet gay marriage zealots' outrage against Proposition 8's tyranny of the majority continues, demanding 14th Amendment equal rights with traditional marriage, regardless of the long-held historical sanctity and definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman.

Alas, what else is new In California -- land of the liberal free illusion -- bound and determined to impose their ideology regardless of the cost, even to the extent of voter-assisted-economic suicide. They might not feel the fall, but the sudden stop with California crashing will most certainly hurt.

Washinton Post
June 8, 2012

Reduce government now

The 2012 presidential elections will cast a glaring light upon enormous campaign finance and spending. Indeed, over the years, that and our elected officials and representatives' pursuits of personal power by passing unnecessary, overcomplicated laws, rules and regulations have caused federal, state and local governments to grow so large and all inclusive, that the systemic bureaucratic expansions have become a massive and costly ineptocracy, rather than the constitutionally limited government intended by our republic of representative democracy.

Considering the overwhelming size, scope and power of government and its intrusion on our lives, livelihoods, free markets, personal freedoms and security, there must be a reduction of government departments, agencies and bureaus to the four Cabinet departments established when our Constitution was ratified: State, Treasury, Justice and Defense.

The Cabinet departments of Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, Education, Veterans Affairs, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Homeland Security should be eliminated. They were established by Congress over the years, and expanded beyond the control and oversight of the Congress -- which added far too much power to the Executive Branch.

Indeed, the elimination of these departments would restore most if not all states' rights usurped by the federal government, thus the rights of the people. All federal lands should be relinquished to the respective states, making them more able to function within their means without federal intervention and dependency. At last, there would be a large, long overdue reduction of federal income taxes and other federal taxes.

Last, but certainly not least, there must be extensive tort and legal reform to release the people, business, and the overall economy from the predatory stranglehold of the litigation industry and the insanity of the legal vulture syndrome, which will free-up the courts for only the necessary relief of the people.

USA TODAY
June 7, 2012

Re: Of recalls and redistricting
The real message from Wisconsin - editorial

Win won, lose one, win one, lose another

The Wisconsin recall election was about the selfish interests of state, county and municipal employee unions targeting elected officials who are fulfilling their duties and responsibilities to the people of Wisconsin. The people of Wisconsin won this one. Indeed, one of the worst things that happened to federal, state and local governments in America has been the unionization and collective bargaining for public employees, including teachers.

Even worse, our elected officials and representatives' pursuits of personal power have caused federal, state and local governments to grow so large and all inclusive, that the systemic bureaucratic expansions have become a massive and costly ineptocracy, rather than the constitutionally limited government intended for our republic of representative democracy.

Clearly, the founding tenets of our Constitution are that all political power is inherent in the people, that government shall be by consent of the governed, established to insure liberty, justice, security, and provide for the common defense -- and that government works for the people -- as opposed to the tenets of public employee unions wherein the people and government work for them.

Certainly, when overreaching government and workers wag the dog, our nation and our freedoms are in serious trouble. Lest we forget, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev once said to America, "We will bury you," and he got in trouble for it, then he said, "Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you." Khrushchev also said, "We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist the elected leaders in giving small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have communism."

The Daily Press
May 22, 2012

SEIU union thugs attack Assemblyman Donnelly

I have now received several political attack mailers against our Assemblyman Donnelly, paid for by Golden California Committee, sponsored by the California State Council of Service Employees International Union -- also known as SEIU union political thugs. Indeed, I resent their attacks and the deceit and misuse of the Jarvis Taxpayers Association in the mailer.

While I'm at it, I endorse Assemblyman Tim Donnelly for re-election because he is an effective representative in a sea of voracious liberals in the tyrannical California Legislature, and because if the SEIU is attacking him, he must be getting the job done. And, though he had a little trouble for having a gun in his luggage at the airport, he needs it for protection from union terrorists, and all the criminals Governor Brown is turning loose on the streets.

Surely, California needs a political shakeup from liberal to more conservative government in Sacramento, and in the counties and cities if we are to survive the extended government-caused social, political and economic crunch. Therefore, I also endorse Bob Smith for First District Supervisor, Steve Knight for the State Senate, Assemblyman Paul Cook for the U.S. House of Representatives, and Dan Hughes for the U.S. Senate.

Los Angeles Times
May 22, 2012

Re: Company wants to tap Mojave's public lands for Southland water
by Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times
May 16, 2012

Cadiz Mojave Desert private lands are private

Cadiz, Inc., owners of 34,000 acres in Cadiz area of the Mojave Desert should not only be allowed to pump the plentiful groundwater from beneath their land, they should be able to deliver the water to buyers of the delivery service. Rather than delivering water to the Metropolitan Water District, the water potential to supply 100,000 homes should be delivered to the Mojave Desert population areas, such as the Victor Valley communities of Apple Valley, Victorville, Hesperia and other desert areas of Lucerne Valley and Barstow.

The Mojave Water Agency headquartered in Apple Valley is a California Water Project contractor with the ability to handle and bank the needed Cadiz water resource. Particularly, with the environmentalist Federal Court cutback in water supplies from the California Water Project.

Contrary to popular federal belief, public lands do not belong to the federal government, which unconstitutionally usurped power from the states by keeping federal land when states were admitted to the union, and by performing land grabs under the guise of national forests, parks, monuments, preserves and reserves. Military bases and national park treasures such as Yosemite, Yellowstone and others notwithstanding, the federal government should relinquish all public lands to the states.

Indeed, former Senator Alan Cranston, and Senator Dianne Feinstein had no business sticking their noses in our Mojave Desert business, and confiscating the land as the Mojave National Preserve. And she should keep her nose out of the Cadiz private water resource.

The Washington Post
May 20, 2012

Panderer-in-Chief re-election campaign

Panderer-in-Chief, President Obama staged the gay marriage endorsement early so it would be buried by staging diversions with calculated issues, is an example of his focus on voter demographics, proposals, doing battle with Republicans in Congress, and governing by crisis complete with special effects, while toying with terrorism and cooking the books on the economy up to the election.

As it is with the latest staging of the NATO Summit in Chicago, rife with miscreant Occupy-style demonstrators, It's simply going to be phony, with underlying dirty tricks all the way to November.

Indeed, ensconced behind his bullying pulpit, President Obama's weeks and months of traveling rapid-fire side-shows are well underway, replete with activist targets, tailored appearances and worldly political sermons -- while demonizing Mitt Romney, Republicans -- and anyone or anything including phantoms that get in the way of his enormous ego and his obsession with power and socialism.

-- with a little help from his friends, such as anti-American billionaire George Soros, $15 million George Clooney Hollywood, and the $million venom of nauseating HBO Surreal Time with Bill Maher -- and his thinly-veiled-humor-hateful May 20, 2012 end of show campaign filth piece against Mitt Romney, Liberty College and religion, specifically Christianity -- with smiling guests Dan Rather, former Senator, Bill Bradley, and journalists Jeremy Scahill, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, Joel Stein and the liberal audience choir.

The Sacramento Bee
May 20, 2012

Brown's tax measure extortion

Governor Brown's $8.5 billion sales and income tax measure, backed by the extortion of $trigger cuts in education K-College if rejected by voters, is an exercise in futility to the money-pit of public miseducation. Indeed, when voters passed Proposition 98 constitutionalizing the lion's share of the California budget for education, they guaranteed mediocre to failing education, robbing students of their education and future - exacerbated by the cost of education for illegal aliens, and strangulation by the teacher's union.

Worse, even if the governor's so-called millionaire's tax passes, it will do little to resolve the $16 billion and growing deficit, and debt to education, but it will go long way to further decimate small business and the middle class, who are absolutely vital to any healthy economy. Coupled with the overwhelming tyranny of California taxes, rules, regulations, cap-and-tax AB-32, and our predatory legal system, California is crashing, and there's not much anyone but voters can do to prevent it.

Alas, it's a shame what the selfish interests of social, political and economic engineering and government malfeasance has done to our jewel of America and its population. Our only hope to survive and prosper is by voter-initiatives to drastically change and reform government pursuant to California Constitution Article II, Section 1.

The Wall Street Journal
May 16, 2012

Re: Obama's 'Vampire' Capitalists - editorial

JP Morgan Chase's $2 billion loss

JP Morgan Chase's $2 billion investment loss is chump change compared to the $800 billion stimulus loss of taxpayer money and increased debt squandered by President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress, with little or nothing to show for it but government malfeasance.

However, none of that matters when the red meat is scattered in the media-infested political waters prompting a partisan feeding frenzy for Obama supporters to attack the big bank whale and pull Mitt Romney's 'vampire' Bain Capital into the bloody water with a lengthy political ad stained with lies and deceit.

As if that were not bad enough, President Obama's panderer-in-chief campaign prances around the country telling each voter demographic what they want to hear, regardless of the truth, and manages to include a $2 million contribution pit stop hosted by Tony James, president of 'vampire' private-equity giant, the Blackstone Group.

Worse, heads rolled for JP Morgan Chase's blunder, however, few if any government heads have rolled for over 3 years of unabated $trillions in crimes against taxpayers. Indeed, the November elections will surely be time for handing President Obama and his fellow Democrat vampires in Congress their walking papers.

The Sacramento Bee
May 12. 2012

Re: Jerry Brown fires doctor in anti-tobacco tax ad
by Kevin Yamamura
Sacramento Bee - May 10, 2012

Governor Brown's firing of Dr. La Donna Porter from a state advisory panel of medical experts for her appearance in the anti-Prop. 29 television ad was clear and convincing evidence of government abuse of power, punishing her freedom of speech.

It was encouraging to read the April 30th Los Angeles Times skeptical "No on Prop. 29" editorial indicating the $735 million per year $1.00 per pack cigarette tax as poorly conceived and unaccountable. Indeed, not so different from Rob Reiner's Proposition 10 and his private $750 million per year slush fund for pet projects and everything but tobacco-related issues.

Health considerations notwithstanding, It's bad enough that beleaguered smokers have been demonized as social outcasts, held up to public hatred and ridicule, and attacked with punishing taxation for using a legal product.

But to relentlessly increase federal and state taxes, is blatant social engineering and unconstitutional tax discrimination against citizens, most of whom can least afford it -- not to mention causing the proliferation of black market cigarettes and rising use of marijuana.

Adding insult to injury, the ACLU is glaringly absent in defending smokers from tax persecution and Dr, Porter's free speech.

USA TODAY
May 5, 2012

Regulating America out of business

It's bad enough that state and local governments have infected business and society with excessive taxes and over-regulation. However, when you realize that the carrier of the communicable regulation disease is the terminal case of the federal government, which has made it painfully clear by the collapse of the economy, and the targeting of the middle class.

In response to the beleaguered economy, rather than relaxing and eliminating economy-busting regulations, President Obama's administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress increased regulations on energy, health care and the finance industry making the economy even worse, exacerbated by the phony job stimulus and insurmountable debt.

If we the American people are going to survive the tyranny of regulation and get back on the road to freedom and prosperity, we must vote to ensure the election of a president, majority in the Senate, and increased majority in the House who will reduce and limit government to what was intended by our founders and the Constitution.

Indeed, if the failure of the Obama administration, the Senate, the "crucify them" EPA, and all the destructive bureaucratic agencies regulating us into high fuel and energy prices, loss of more jobs, increased cost of living, inflation and a direct course to social and economic oblivion isn't incentive enough to kick the abusers of power out of office, the alternative will allow the liberal lemmings to drive us over the cliff into the depths of socialism and ruin.

The Wall Street Journal
May 4, 2012

Re: Jobs report will provide fodder for campaigns

The unemployment rate is false

The report of only 120,000 new jobs, dropping the unemployment rate from 8.2% to 8.1% -- while failing to report the 500,000 people who have given up on seeking employment over the past two months, makes the actual jobless rate about 11% or higher -- amounts to cooking the books in favor of President Obama's re-election.

Therefore, it should come as no surprise when the unemployment rate fraudulently drops below 8% in time for the election in November.

According the Department of Labor Statistics, there are about 155 million in the labor force, about 142 million employed, and about 89 million not in the labor force, which is a job participation rate of 63.6%, an employment population ratio of 58.4%, with 12.5 million people unemployed.

Indeed, the glaring number here is the 89 million potential workers not in the labor force, indicating the vast majority are on welfare or disabled, and supported by taxpayers.

The point is that so-called government stimulus spending with debt is an irresponsible waste of taxpayers' dollars for interest on the debt, which will soon be the largest expenditure in the budget, resulting in few temporary, and no permanent jobs.

Coupled with the huge across-the-board tax increase coming in January 2013, the health careless and tyrannical finance laws, the jobless rate will skyrocket, free enterprise will suffer, and the American people will be in severe distress.

The Washington Post
May 3, 2012

President Obama's Emerald city of OZ

President Obama's entire campaign and presidency thus far has been tantamount to playing the Wizard of OZ in his Emerald City of Washington, replete with manufactured rain, thunder, tornados and crisis, constantly manipulating the levers of government from behind the great White House curtain.

However, though he lures voters down the Yellow Brick Road, pretending to grant the wishes of people seeking social justice, in reality he rejects and ignores recommendations and solutions from commissions he established, breaking promises, recklessly spending the people's taxes, and saddles the nation and future generations with insurmountable debt.

Indeed, while the Wizard's designated nightmares ride in on the brooms of the Wicked Witch of the West, spreading division, hate and discontent against the free enterprise of capitalism -- with May Day flying monkeys of militant unions and the entitlement violence of Occupy thugs -- the false prophet of socialism basks in the sun of a presidential hero protecting the masses from terrorism and Republican barbarians at the gate.

Hopefully, the people will click their heels together, wake up, and vote to save our constitutional home of limited government, American freedom, self reliance, security and prosperity.

Los Angeles Times
April 30, 2012

Re: No on Prop. 29 editorial

It's encouraging to read that the Los Angeles times is skeptical of Proposition 29's $735 million per year $1.00 per pack cigarette tax as poorly conceived and unaccountable. Indeed, not so different from Rob Reiner's Proposition 10 and his private $750 million per year slush fund for pet projects and everything but tobacco-related issues.

Health considerations notwithstanding, It's bad enough that beleaguered smokers have been demonized as social outcasts, held up to public hatred and ridicule, and attacked with punishing taxation for using a legal product.

But to relentlessly increase federal and state taxes, is blatant social engineering and unconstitutional tax discrimination against citizens, most of whom can least afford it. Not to mention the proliferation of black market cigarettes.

Sacramento Bee
April 29, 2012

Re: California's 'Three Strikes' overhaul measure turns in signatures

Coupled with the anti-death penalty proposition, the 'Three Strikes' overhaul measure signature drive fueled by the likes of 'open society' billionaire, George Soros comes as no surprise.

As a former deputy sheriff with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department for 20 years, and a public defender investigator for 21 years, I have experienced the evolutionary corruption of the criminal and civil court systems from the Warren Supreme Court to the liberal California courts.

Indeed, the overall selfish interests of legal profession, and predatory lawyers, have undermined the civil and criminal justice system to such an extent, that it has adversely affected the people's peace, security and freedoms, and severely increased the cost of living -- particularly in California.

It's bad enough that California government, vexing lawyers and the courts have arbitrarily refused to carry out the law and execute the 720 inmates on death row, and adding insult to injury, spending $millions on death row housing and endless appeals.

But when the will of the people is summarily rejected, and their security is ignored, that is tantamount to criminal behavior. Sadly, though voters may end the death penalty, and/or take the teeth out of the 3-strikes law, it will not be because it is the will of the people. Like with the environmentalists, it will be the result of the insidious indoctrination of the unknowing.

Contrary to popular socialist and selfish moneyed interest belief, Article II, Section 1 of the California Constitution was wisely instituted for the people to be able to alter or reform government by initiative and referendum when the best interests of the people are at stake.

Los Angeles Times
April 28, 2012

Re: UC education hurt by leftism, report finds
by Larry Gordon
L.A. Times, A30, April 1, 2012

Though it has taken me nearly a month to realize that the article, "UC education hurt by leftism, report finds," was not an April Fool's joke, buried on page A30 of the L.A. Times, I'm encouraged to see that it was at least reported -- temporarily delaying the cancellation of my subscription.

I am indeed deeply concerned about how the education establishment of the left has infected not only college students for decades, the jack-boot of political correctness and indoctrination of students has metastasized to secondary education and even elementary schools.

Surely, it comes as no surprise that the Democrat Party left has maintained power in government over most of the last half century and beyond with the creation of college "indoctrination mills" as former presidential candidate Rick Santorum put it -- and was quickly excoriated by the media and liberal pundits.

As a former officer in the criminal justice system for 41 years, and a community college instructor during the 1970's, I experienced with dismay, the rapid transformation of education to political indoctrination, which my wife and I had to begin dealing with during our children's elementary and secondary education, by supplementing their education at home to ensure their core academics were attended to.

A recent PEW study confirmed our ongoing fears, reporting college students favor socialism over capitalism by disturbing numbers, particularly increased over the last two years, which comes as no surprise with President Obama's increased socialist agenda for college education. Indeed, with college loan debt surpassing a $trillion, and controlled entirely by government, something must be done to resolve the undermining of our constitutional republic.

When our overly expensive public education systems are intentionally turned into socialist factories of ignorance, warehouses of indoctrination, and classrooms of suppressed thought and speech, there is only one reason to be reckoned with. Socialism controls the masses with institutions of ignorance. And when socialism is responsible for our social, political and economic collapse, as it has throughout recorded history, it is the enemy of freedom.

If we are to recover, and prosper, America will have none of that.

The Washington Examiner
April 27, 2012

Re: Obamascam: Campaigning on taxpayer dollars
Editorial

President Obamascam, the flim flam man

As President Obama cranks up his re-election campaign there is a striking resemblance to his campaign for the presidency, replete with promises since broken, and his unrelenting acts of deceit, diversion and distraction to push his real agenda at great cost, debt and further loss of freedoms for the American people.

Worse, the core of his insidious flim flam campaign is directed at the middle class as our savior, while he plays shell games with finance, energy, defense, and jobs -- and conducting pyramid schemes on taxation and regulation that will destroy small business and reduce the middle class to a giant underclass.

President Obama's unconstitutional socialized medicine economy-buster fiasco notwithstanding, he is being derelict in his sworn duty, and abusing his position of power by misappropriating taxpayer dollars for his political machinations and extreme campaign schedule for the sole purpose of his re-election -- far more than any other president.

Surely, with over $100 million in his campaign war chest -- over ten times the amount of his opponent -- President Obama could easily pay for his entire campaign, including Air Force One, VP Biden and Air Force Two, and Secret Service costs.

And while he is out and around, the president might consider stopping by the Midwest areas of tornado devastation and offering a helping hand, or a least a word or two of encouragement. That is, if he really cares about regular hardworking people in America's heartland.

Certainly, it's time for the president -- and all elected incumbents -- to be required to stand for re-election on their records of performance in office, without any further advantage, no less than any employee seeking to remain employed, a raise in pay, or a promotion. As President Obama repeatedly says, it's a matter of fairness.

The San Bernardino Sun
April 26, 2012

Re: Norco Prison set to close

Snollygoster government

The closure of the state prison in Norco, housing 3,800 inmates will set in motion the additional early release of 300 to 400 felons added to the flood of others throughout the state, and substantially increase the populations of county jails, which in turn must release prisoners to provide bed space.

As if it were not bad enough that opening the prison and jail gates for criminals to invade our cities, towns, communities and neighborhoods, to comply with misguided court orders to reduce the number the number of state prison inmates, incompetent state government adds insult to injury to the people and taxpayers by failing to comply with their constitutional duty as instituted to provide protection and security to the people of the State of California pursuant to Article II, Section 1.

Before California began crashing under the weight of big government, unreasonable union salaries and benefits, a failed money-pit of public miseducation, extreme environmental laws, rules and regulations, and taxation crushing businesses, private property and individual incomes, and raising the cost of living, Democrat Governors and Legislatures practiced unrelenting socialist engineering, with Section 8 welfare homes and criminal group homes infecting neighborhoods, raising crime rates and unconstitutionally reducing private property values throughout the state.

Coupled with the State of California permitting and encouraging an out-of-control litigious culture of class-action lawsuits raising the cost of everything, and insane environmental and conservation lawsuits -- where the only winners are zealots and lawyers -- and the losers are private enterprise, working people, property owners, California's snollygoster government in Sacramento is collectively guilty of nonfeasance, misfeasance and malfeasance -- which should be punishable by removal from office, and in some cases, housing in the soon-to-be empty prison in Norco.

The Los Angeles Times
April 25, 2012

Governor Brown's fool's gold state

Governor Brown's miscalculation of the budget deficit comes as no surprise, particularly when he dances around California's budget crisis by announcing he will eliminate 718 state reports ranging from meaningless bureaucratic "busy work" to those having an impact on our security, such as the "Gang Violence Suppression Program."

California's economic crisis will surely deepen unless Governor Brown and the Legislature get their acts together to stop the exodus of businesses to business-friendly states, and skilled worker taxpayers to tax-friendly states. Indeed, they can begin by lowering taxes instead of raising them with stupid ballot measures, abandoning the insanties of AB-32's crushing impact on business and the cost of living, and incurring $billions in public debt for the worthless high speed rail fiasco.

Punishing smokers again with Proposition 29, as was done with Proposition 10, for a $billion here and a $billion there -- mostly impacting those who can least afford it -- to fund pet projects that have nothing to do with smoking-related health problems, is the same mentality of the $billions wasted on the stem-cell research boondoggle.

If California's economically suicidal government and misguided voters hope to keep California from crashing, they must re-direct their efforts from extreme environmental, commercial and medical litigation, predatory lawyers -- and repressive laws that raise the cost of everything -- to reducing the size, scope and power of government and the welfare state.

Surely, If California is ever going to restore itself to the Golden State, the road to socialism must be re-paved with the golden rules of freedom, fairness, self-reliance, real education and limited government. If not, the fool's gold state will slide into social, political and economic bankruptcy.

The Wall Street Journal
April 24, 2012

Re: Medicare's Obama Donation
WSJ Editorial April 24, 2012

Obama misappropriating public funds for campaign

When then Senator Obama campaigned for president, he said that medical bill bankruptcies were a large part of the economic crash, that he would reform health care, and used Medicare Advantage as a target to cut health care costs. Indeed, when he and the Democrat-controlled Congress rammed through ObamaCare, Medicare Advantage was thrown on the butcher block to be gutted.

My wife and I are enrolled in "Senior Advantage," a Medicare Advantage program with Kaiser Permanente, which is an excellent plan, very cost effective, and should be the model for all Medicare. Needles to say, we -- and I would say most of the 10 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Advantage programs -- were outraged by President Obama's irresponsible slash and burn tactics.

Apparently, President Obama got the message, held off on killing Medicare Advantage, and manipulated $8.35 billion of Medicare funds to reward the most efficient and cost effective Medicare Advantage plans as a pilot program, pacifying Medicare Advantage voters, and delaying the death of Medicare Advantage until after his re-election. Indeed, what's not illegal about that?

Our fellow Medicare Advantage voters should be informed about President Obama's devious tactics and misappropriation of public funds before the November election. And pay attention to Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed GOP Medicare Reform plan that is largely based upon Medicare Advantage. The plan that President Obama rejected as "social Darwinism."

President Obama's socialized medicine, economy-buster fiasco aside, he is abusing his position of power by wasting taxpayer's dollars on his political machinations and extreme campaign schedule for the sole purpose of his re-election -- far more than any other president. Surely, with over $100 million in his campaign war chest -- over ten times the amount of his opponent -- President Obama could easily pay for his entire campaign, including Secret Service costs.

And while he is out and around, the president might consider stopping by the Midwest areas of tornado devastation and offering a helping hand, or a least a word or two of encouragement. Unless he doesn't care about regular hardworking people in America's heartland.

Certainly, it's about time for the president -- and all elected incumbents -- to be required to stand for re-election on their records of performance in office, without any further advantage, no less than any employee seeking to remain employed, a raise in pay, or a promotion. As President Obama has repeatedly said, it's a matter of fairness.

Sacramento Bee
April 19, 2012

California crashing -- voter-assisted economic suicide

Democrats, indeed are responsible for California crashing with -- of course -- the help of clueless voter-assisted economic suicide. Beyond setting the bad national example for taxing and regulating people and business out of the state, California's delusional Democrats are responsible for the state's failed public education money-pit, and inviting freeloaders into the state to take advantage of the overly generous welfare system.

Adding insult to injury, California puts out the welcome mat for illegal aliens to burden taxpayers with more welfare, plus education and health care -- not to mention raising the cost of crime, incarceration and the gang infestation of neighborhoods.

As if Democrats' insatiable appetite for extreme environmental laws wasn't bad enough for the economy -- raising the cost of business and living -- Governor (Moonbeam) Jerry Brown is up to his old tricks deceiving voters to increase taxes, again. Clearly, with the City of Los Angeles on the verge of bankruptcy, California's reckless road to ruin seems almost certain, dragging the nation down with it to an avoidable economic implosion.

Hopefully, the 2012 elections will be the onset of the voter-government-reckoning needed for the road to recovery, prosperity and freedom -- regardless of moonbeams and Party affiliations.

Time Magazine
April 16, 2012

Re: Inside the presidents' club

Time Magazine's "Inside the presidents club" 8-page story on living past presidents is hardly the stuff of encouragement to beleaguered taxpayers in this lingering recession. Indeed, according to the FY2008 GSA Allowances for Former Presidents, we supported them to the tune of Jimmy Carter: $518,000, G.H.W. Bush: $786.000, Bill Clinton: $1,162.000, and G.W. Bush costs -- plus benefits, with annual increases and undisclosed Secret Service protection costs for life-- all for either four or eight years of work in office. When this all started, Harry Truman needed it. No one before or since has.

The Washington Post
April 15, 2012

Re: Charles Krauthammer's "Free-lunch egalitarianism"

Voter choices painfully clear

Sunday's Press Dispatch Opinion pages (April 15) in our local newspaper were replete with insightful and informative commentary and analysis on the presidential election from the editorial, "And then there were two…," the Orange County Register's " Guilt and taxes," to Jonah Goldberg's "Young voters and the audacity of hype," Michael Tanner's "President of the Twilight Zone," and Charles Krauthammer's "Free-lunch egalitarianism."

Taken together, coupled with facts disseminated by fair and balanced Fox News and press, discerning voters and the hapless uniformed are faced with being inundated by liberal fables and scary tales from President Obama's national media propaganda machine.

Indeed, beyond the distractions, nit-picking and vitriolic attacks of campaign rhetoric, the 2012 presidential elections will undoubtedly be the most important elections of our lifetimes, effecting the future of our children and our nation.

Nevertheless, it is somewhat comforting to know that regardless of voters' political persuasions, the vast majority are being socially, politically and economically affected by out-of-control government growth and the abuse of power at the hands of President Obama and Democrats in Congress -- making the choices painfully clear.

Focus on "polices and principles, rather than personalities," lowering overall taxes, disregarding "the audacity of hype," the "Buffett tax rule" and the fraud of ObamaCare. Then, either be suckered into to the false and costly protection rackets of the Chicago-style gangster politics of the Obama administration's "Twilight Zone," or vote for constitutional recovery on the roads to responsible limited government, fiscal responsibility, self-reliance, flourishing enterprise and freedom with Mitt Romney and a Republican Congress with teeth.

New York Post
April 11, 2012

Romney vs. Obama bobble-heads: The political war is on

Now that Gingrich and Santorum have suspended their campaigns, the war is on between Obama and presumptive Republican nominee, Romney. Unfortunately, President Obama and his army of Democrat bobble-heads are making pre-emptive strikes by lighting the fires of class, gender and racial warfare.

Worse, the flames are being fanned by the liberal media, academia, and African-American activists exploiting the Trayvon Martin/Zimmerman case in a concerted effort to deceive and distract from the deteriorating economy exacerbated by President Obama's destructive agenda.

Hopefully, most voters will recognize the source of their social, political and economic pain and make the choice to survive the assault of overwhelming government -- while we are still a constitutional republic.

USA TODAY
April 10, 2012

The tax man cometh: President Obama

President Obama's continued attempt to enforce his 'Buffett Rule' by raising taxes on those earning over a million dollars is merely part of his re-election campaign, even though such taxation would be mostly levied against job creators.

Indeed, coupled with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts the first of next year, the president's tax crusade will continue if he's re-elected, regardless of the negative impact on business, jobs, the people and the economy.

It's doubtful that the Senate would pass President Obama's tax proposals prior to the elections. However, the Republican House should pass a separate bill making the Bush tax cuts permanent. Voters need to know who -- beyond the president -- in the House and Senate would raise their taxes in these dire economic times.

Washington Post
April 8, 2012

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.

Sacramento Bee
April 6, 2012

President Obama's contempt of Court

President Obama's hypocritical attacks on the Supreme Court -- the third branch of government -- as an unelected activist body are only because the majority are conservative and may decide against his signature unconstitutional health care law. However, activist judges and courts are almost always liberal, and they tend to legislate from the bench.

A prime example is a federal judge in California who unconstitutionally interfered with the contracts of California Water Contractors by severely reducing the delivery of water from the California Water Project (paid for and maintained by property taxes on users) to Central California farms and 25 million people in Southern California, simply because -- at the behest of radical conservationist groups, a tiny Delta Smelt fish was perceived to be threatened.

Since then, environmentalists had Stripped Bass planted in the Delta, which devastated the Smelt. Conveniently, no public news on that.

Wall Street Journal
April 4, 2012

Re: Paul Ryan's hunger games - editorial

The House Republican budget solution is far more reasonable than left-handed Democrat compromises designed to undermine the majority. Yet it was at least voted on, which was more than was allowed by the closed-door Democrat House and Senate that rammed through the president's health care law -- then over-reaching finance regulations.

Regardless, the Democrat Senate will sit on their hands without passing a budget for three years, while they ride out the election. Meanwhile, President Obama ramps up his monarchial campaign against the Republican budget and presumptive candidate Mitt Romney with class warfare, and a pre-emptive strike against the Supreme Court deciding the constitutionality of the health care law.

If President Obama is re-elected, the Senate remains Democrat, and the House is lost, it will be because the deceitful Obama Democrat machine of state media, the entertainment industry and the miseducation establishment's decades of indoctrination of students prevailed -- sealing America's fate to socialism's spending, taxation, debt, dependency, loss of freedoms and busted.

Los Angeles Times
April 1, 2012

President Obama's polarization of a nation

As if our nation wasn't polarized enough by the Democrat left throughout the Bush administration, President Obama has made it much worse by failing to carry out his promises to reform Washington, and doing just the opposite by growing government, increasing regulations, accelerating our debt, and leading class warfare.

Indeed, President Obama's monarchial machinations are making it painfully clear that abuse of power and our Constitution are no obstacles to his relentless ideological pursuits to "fundamentally transform America," at any cost.

Recent quotes from President Obama and leading Republican contender, Mitt Romney sum up our choices in the 2012 election. Governor Romney said the Obama administration's record, "is a bust." President Obama said, "the message from the other side is, you're on your own."

The record of most Democrat administrations and majorities in Congress have been a bust of the economy from government growth and loss of freedoms. Surely, the record of the Obama administration and congressional Democrats have raised the stakes against the people to an all time high.

Limited government, fundamental defense, security and freedom are what our Constitution provides. Self-reliant voters and those who want to be, want exactly that. To be on our own, out from under the gun of government tyranny. My independent vote, and hopefully the electorate's votes will be to survive, on our own.

The Washington Examiner
March 30, 2012

Re: A second term: Obama unleashed
by Cal Thomas

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 Washington Examiner
March 29, 2012

Re: Obama seeks end to subsidies for oil companies; Congress says no
by Brian Hughes

Political campaign ploys by the president demonizing oil companies and Senate Republicans for saying no to ending oil subsidies is little more than cheap populist pandering to public injury from high gas prices.

Indeed, President Obama's feigned push to end tax breaks for oil companies, and invest in cart-before-the-horse electric cars -- regardless of the failure of the Chevy Volt -- is yet another indication that he has no concern for high gas prices. Indeed, the oil companies would pass on the tax increase to consumers just as any business would, raising gas prices even further.

Plus, summer blend requirements will increase gas prices 40 cents or more higher, which will likely push the cost over $5.00 per gallon, and which will probably continue after summer because of increased demand by China and India, and instability in the Middle East.

If the president is honestly concerned about what the people pay at the pump, and the commensurate increased cost of delivering goods and services, he could easily dispense with the stupid summer blends and ethanol. Of course, there's not much he could do to prevent Californians from being pushed over the economic cliff by hysterical environmentalists and cost of living-busting climate change laws.

Surely, people must be a bit confused as to why foreign oil costs $125 per barrel, about $18 more than U.S. crude because of China and India demand. The easy answer is our government creating perpetual oil, gas, and refinery chaos. Indeed, someone ought to tell President Obama and enviro-maniacs that we can't run electric cars or much of anything else without coal and natural gas power plants making electricity.

The New York Times
March 28, 2012

Re: In Court, sharp questions on health care law's mandate
Re: Slain teenager's parents appear on Capitol Hill

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.

USA TODAY
March 27, 2012

The truth behind the headlines

What is the truth behind what the American people are reading, hearing and seeing in the media?

A kangaroo court of black activists are accusing, trying and convicting a "white-Hispanic" man of the hate crime murder of a 17-year-old black teen.

President Obama's unconstitutional health care law is being challenged by 26 states and a national small business organization in the Supreme Court.

The housing crash, financial crisis and deepening recession was caused by over-reaching government's irresponsible push for affordable housing.

The energy and fuel crisis, job losses and cost of living increases were and are being caused by environmental zealots' litigation, EPA over-regulation, and President Obama stifling domestic oil production and coal energy.

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.

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 votes and voices known in the 2012 elections. Without a strong and free America, we and the world will collapse.

The Wall Street Journal
March 26, 2012

Re: Governor 13.3% - editorial

The WSJ editorial regarding Governor Brown is painfully correct. Indeed, California government is the advance state for President Obama's transformation of America.

Transforming America costs a social, political, economic and constitutional bundle. But that's not half of the damage already inflicted by the president's transformation plans.

President Obama's unemployment con job, coupled with costly health and financial reforms, his Occupy storm trooper's class warfare, and his intentional energy crisis define his attempts to transform America.

Indeed, throwing $200 billion down the green sink hole, pushing the failed Chevy Volt, and approving the tail end of the Keystone Pipeline are meaningless. Particularly, while stifling coal energy and domestic oil resources

Still, the president insists on wagging the public dog with high gas prices, government growth and insurmountable debt, which will surely damage the dollar, weaken the nation, and stoke the fires of inflation.

Transform America? Yes. Out of the clutches of progressive aggression. If we are to survive, President Obama's re-election is not an option. A Republican president and Congress with the determination to reduce the size, scope and power of government are the only hope to restore America as intended by the Constitution.

Hopefully, the same goes for Governor Brown and the Democrat Legislature. But I'm not holding my breath beyond 2014, the point of no return.

Los Angeles Times
March 25, 2012

Re: Health law's fate tied to mandate
by Noam N. Levey
LA Times Business

If states and citizen rights are to be protected from over-reaching federal government, the Supreme Court must surely strike down President Obama's unconstitutional health care insurance mandates.

Transforming America costs a social, political, economic and constitutional bundle. But that's not half of the damage already inflicted by the president's transformation plans.

President Obama's unemployment con job, coupled with costly health and financial reforms, his Occupy storm trooper's class warfare, and his intentional energy crisis define his attempts to transform America.

Indeed, throwing $200 billion down the green sink hole, pushing the failed Chevy Volt, and approving the tail end of the Keystone Pipeline are meaningless. Particularly, while stifling coal energy and domestic oil resources

Still, the president insists on wagging the public dog with high gas prices, government growth and insurmountable debt, which will surely damage the dollar, weaken the nation, and stoke the fires of inflation.

Transform America? Yes. Out of the clutches of progressive aggression. If we are to survive, his re-election is not an option.

The Washington Examiner
March 22, 2012

Re: Who's ignorant about energy?
by Conn Carroll

President Obama's unemployment con job, coupled with his Occupy storm trooper's class warfare, and his intentional energy crisis define his attack on America.

Indeed, throwing $200 billion down the green sink hole, and approving the tail end of the Keystone Pipeline is meaningless without the dog to complete it.

Still, the president insists on wagging the public dog with high gas prices, government growth and insurmountable debt, which will surely damage the dollar and stoke the fires of inflation. If we are to survive, his re-election is not an option.

The Wall Street Journal
Marcy 19, 2012

Re: U.S. Soldier faces charges as killings shock friends

Soldier not to blame

Considering the circumstances surrounding the decorated Army Sergeant Bales' history of unreasonable, repeated deployments and injuries in Iraq -- coupled with personal problems, then sent from the frying pan into the fire of Afghanistan -- his violent acts are understandable as not being in his right mind.

Particularly, with Afghanistan's long history of radical Islamists and their repressive, uncivilized savagery.

Afghan President Karsai made no apology for his soldiers executing our soldiers. Indeed, it was highly improper for President Obama, Commander-in-Chief, to apologize and all but condemn Sergeant Bales based upon little more than political expediency. It's clearly time to leave that hapless, hopeless place.

Los Angeles Times
March 18, 2012

Note: The L.A. Times was supposed to publish this letter, but did not

Re: "Gasoline doesn't come cheap" letters against Jonah Goldberg's "Obama's pump debacle"

Considering all four letters are against Jonah Goldberg's commentary, perhaps the L.A. Times can manage to find space for a letter in support.

Indeed, Jonah Goldberg's analysis of Obama's pump debacle aptly points out the president's push for green energy with campaign-blame-lies and taking-credit-deceit about oil and gas, which leads directly to the rise in the cost of living, and economic ruin.

President Obama's re-election campaign to end tax breaks for oil companies certainly won't lower gas prices, it will increase them. Indeed, if it were not for incessant anti-oil environmental left and President Obama's complicit limitations on domestic oil production and delivery, we would not be having this debate or these problems.

The extreme instability in Middle East oil producing countries surely casts a giant cloud over the dependability of world oil supplies, which are adversely affecting gas prices and threaten our economy and our national security. Alas, contrary to shallow minds and pumped-up popular belief, oil companies and speculators are not responsible for rising gas prices.

Clearly, it's intentional political turmoil and over-reaching government clogging the pipes to our recovery. Indeed, the time for taking care of our own business is quickly running thin, which is no time for ideological stupidity or economic suicide. Cleaning our national pipes to freedom can only be done by rooting-out President Obama and enough congressional Democrats in the November elections.

The Washington Times
March 18, 2012

Re: Obama: End tax breaks for oil companies
by David Boyer
March 17, 2012

Obama's economic suicide

President Obama's re-election campaign to end tax breaks for oil companies won't lower gas prices, it will increase them. Indeed, if it were not for incessant anti-oil environmental left and President Obama's complicit limitations on domestic oil production and delivery, we would not be having this debate or these problems.

Surely, the extreme instability in Middle East oil producing countries casts a giant cloud over the dependability world oil supplies, which are adversely affecting gas prices and threaten our economy and national security. Alas, contrary to shallow minds and pumped-up popular belief, oil companies and speculators are not responsible for rising gas prices.

Clearly, it's intentional political turmoil and over-reaching government clogging the pipes to our recovery. Indeed, the time for taking care of our own business is quickly running thin, which is no time for ideological stupidity or economic suicide. Cleaning our national pipes can only be done by rooting-out President Obama and enough Democrats in Congress to free us in the November elections.

The Washington Examiner
March 16, 2012

Obama's face on American flag

An illegal American flag with President Obama's face replacing the 50 state stars flying next to a legal American flag over the Lake County, Florida Democrat headquarters not only depicts the arrogance of the Democratic Party, it reflects their central government agenda usurping power from the states, and their contempt for our U.S. Constitution.

Worse, when asked by a veteran to take it down with an offer to replace it with a POW/MIA flag, the person in charge refused. How un-American is that?

Wall Street Journal
March 16, 2012

Re: What's behind rising gas prices?
by Daniel Yergin

Though Daniel Yergin's analysis of the cause of rising gas prices was enlightening, he failed to emphasize the causes of limited oil production in the United States. Indeed, if it were not for incessant anti-oil environmental left and President Obama's complicit limitations on domestic oil production and delivery, we would not be having this debate or these problems.

Surely, the extreme instability in Middle East oil producing countries casts a giant cloud over the dependability world oil supplies, which are adversely affecting gas prices and threaten our economy and national security. Alas, contrary to shallow minds and pumped-up popular belief, oil companies and speculators are not responsible for rising gas prices.

Clearly, it's political turmoil and over-reaching government clogging the pipes to our recovery. Indeed, the time for taking care of our own business is quickly running thin, which is no time for ideological stupidity or economic suicide.

Washington Post
March 16, 2012

Re: Enough about the 2012 presidential race -- let's talk about 2016
by Ruth Marcus
Washington Post
March 13, 2012

Second term disaster

Ruth Marcus' smug assumption that President Obama will be reelected, dismissing the Republican contenders, and looking beyond to the 2016 election as the real ideological battle, is typical of irresponsible liberals and the media-left as they delight in helping America crumble.

If voters make the mistake of electing President Obama to a second term, his first term will look like socialist child's play. Indeed, unleashed by nothing to lose, Mr. Obama will be able to take-on his sought-out history-making agenda far exceeding the damage he's already inflicted upon our freedoms, debt, health care, energy, education, the overall economy and our national security -- largely unabated.

President Obama has made it painfully clear that he will stiff-arm any opposition, including, but not limited to the Congress and the Constitution in the blind pursuit of his perceived destiny of achieving a socialist utopia. He will surely circumvent the Constitution and Congress at every opportunity -- by crisis real or imagined -- to expand the regulatory power of his administration even further, and attempt to stack the Supreme Court.

Certainly, the bleak economy of the president's first term will look good compared to the devastation a second term would wreak upon a weakened America, and our people throughout the following 4 years, and for decades and generations to come -- if we survive.

Los Angeles Times
March 15, 2012

Re: Brown takes tougher tack on wealthy
L.A. Times front page
March 15, 2012

Governor Brown buckles to teacher union pressure

It's bad enough that California is crashing on all fronts, socially, economically, educationally and politically. However, when the pilots in the Governor's office and Legislature hand over wagging the public dog to teacher union hijackers, it's simply more than the people of California can handle.

Indeed, teacher union extortion to increase Governor Brown's 'tax-the-wealthy' (small business job creators) measure not only aids and abets the state's economic suicide, it yields credibility to California's malfeasant, miseducation money-pit.

Hopefully, California voters have suffered enough from the power and greed of government to just say "NO" to any and all tax increases and the stranglehold of the failed education establishment. And say "YES" to any and all measures which remind government who they work for, and return California's gold to those who can make it the Golden State again.

Washington Post
March 11, 2012

Re: The Luck that propelled President Obama's rise
by David Maraniss

Second term disaster is bad luck for America

If voters make the mistake of electing President Obama to a second term, his first term will look like socialist child's play. Indeed, unleashed by nothing to lose, Mr. Obama will be able to take-on his sought-out history-making agenda far exceeding the damage he's already inflicted upon our freedoms, debt, health care, energy, education, the overall economy and our national security -- largely unabated.

President Obama has made it painfully clear that he will stiff-arm any opposition, including, but not limited to the Congress and the Constitution in the blind pursuit of his perceived destiny of achieving a socialist utopia. He will surely circumvent the Constitution and Congress at every opportunity -- by crisis real or imagined -- to expand the regulatory power of his administration even further, and attempt to stack the Supreme Court.

Certainly, the bleak economy of the president's first term will look good compared to the devastation a second term would wreak upon a weakened America, and our people throughout the following 4 years, and for decades and generations to come. Hopefully, President Obama's political luck will run out on election day.

Washington Post
March 6, 2012

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.

Los Angleles Times
March 3, 2012

Wag the dog California politics

California Attorney General Kamala Harris is conducting partisan manipulation of ballot summaries, which is a vivid example of 'wag the dog' politics to favor Democrat-controlled government and special interests, while preventing genuine public interest ballot measures from gathering sufficient voter signatures to qualify.

Indeed, it's bad enough that Proposition 23 delaying the implementation of economy-crushing AB 32 was defeated by manipulation and $19 million from teacher unions, and by the same means, Proposition 25 passed allowing the Legislature to pass the budget and other matters with a simple majority vote.

While Governor Brown and the Democrat legislature are attempting to limit the people's Constitutional right to alter or reform government with ballot initiatives, Harris' summaries for the Governor's sales and income tax increases blatantly favors the measures, which will undoubtedly be financially supported by selfish interests, government employee and teacher unions.

Surely the solvency of our state and the people are increasingly in peril. And it cannot be turned around, unless the ballot initiative process is strengthened by truthful nonpartisan ballot summaries, and reducing the enormous cost of qualifying ballot measures. That can easily be done by allowing the people to obtain ballot initiative signatures, and to vote, by means of a secure voting network on the Internet.

Governor Brown, Attorney General Harris and all California elected representative and officials should be reminded that they are the 'tail,' voters are the 'dog,' that we wag our own tails, and that 'wagging the dog' is malfeasance.

Re: Obama's dividend assault - editorial
& Obama proposes tax revamp - front page
WSJ Feb. 23, 2012

President Obama's reckless campaign assault on our economy

It's bad enough that the reasonable Bush tax cuts are due to expire at the end of this year because President Obama and the former Democrat-controlled Congress refused to make them permanent -- while the same Obama-led wrecking crew wasted $billions in so-called stimulus funds, added $trillions to the national debt, rammed through the economy-crushing health care laws and the abusive Dodd-Frank financial reform laws -- not to mention the squeeze on domestic energy causing gasoline and electricity prices to escalate.

Worse, the ideology-blind liberal media and convenient political amnesia have glossed-over the real causes of the housing and financial crash -- namely the Carter administration's Community Reinvestment Act, exacerbated by the Clinton administration's affordable housing threats to banks and mortgage lenders, and perpetuated by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Rep. Barney Frank, Sen. Chris Dodd, ACORN and the Obama administration.

Now, President Obama endless campaign mode continues the political shell game by proposing superficial corporate and manufacturing tax cuts, while back-shifting enormous tax increases on dividends and capital gains that would adversely affect 100 million public shareholders and mutual funds (51% of adults), plus tens of millions who own stocks through pension funds. Indeed, soaking the rich is one thing -- even though it suppresses job growth -- but drenching nearly all American households by tripling taxes is unconscionable.

Surely, the Obama campaign knows that the Republican House will reject the insanity, while Obama shifts the shell game blame as usual. But to insult the collective intelligence of the American people with political lies, diversions and deceit is insidious at the very least -- reckless machinations which will hopefully be corrected by the November elections.

Washington Post
February 21, 2012

Advice for the Republican Party

The implosion of the Republican Party began long before the Nixon administration. Indeed, the Reagan years and Speaker Gingrich's Contract with America success notwithstanding, the Republican Party establishment has compromised itself toward committing political suicide time and time again, causing Republicans to leave the party and become Independent voters.

Surely the Tea Party movement has given notice that if the Republican establishment doesn't get its act together and get behind the right candidates for president, VP, House and Senate to win the elections and firm control of Congress, the Party will have removed all doubt that it has abdicated its responsibility to the Constitution and the people -- as they did by nominating the loser, McCain.

Needless to say, if Republicans fail, Democrats will surely finish sinking our country into a sea of socialism and economic oblivion.

Re: Federal funds flow to clean-energy firms with Obama administration ties
By Carol D. Leonnig and Joe Stephens
The Washington Post, Feb. 14, 2012

The gross malfeasance of wasting $535 million taxpayer dollars on defunct solar firm Solyndra -- and more on other shaky clean energy companies notwithstanding -- news of deeply imbedded Obama campaign donors and insiders influencing the President's $80 billion clean-energy investment program comes as no surprise.

Indeed, the Washington Post investigation revealing $3.9 billion in federal grants and financing flowing to 21 companies backed by firms with connections to five Obama administration staffers and advisers is not only unconscionable quid-pro-quo politics, it is a scurrilous agenda putting unreliable and costly green energy ahead of oil, gas and coal energy resources, which have been halted and pushed back with carbon taxes.

Worse, the reckless debt-ridden actions of the Obama administration -- including three years of the President's "Pass it right away" and "I will sign it right away" edicts to Congress and his administration -- have needlessly placed our country's economy and national security at risk, while carelessly campaigning our rights away to socialist ideology. Re-election? No!

Los Angeles Times
February 12, 2012

Governor Brown's California crashing

California's crashing will certainly be accelerated by our predatory government if Governor Brown's tax initiative is pushed through; if Democrats gain a two-thirds majority in the Legislature by the gerrymandering so-called Citizens Redistricting Commission, and the will of the voters continues to be overwhelmed by the left and one-party rule.

Indeed, California government's irresponsibility and malfeasance are responsible for money-pit miseducation, health care, welfare and assisted housing; economy-crushing taxation and environmental laws and regulations; illegal immigrant invasion and crime increases; and the tyranny of over-sized, over-reaching state government.

Adding insult to injury, as Governor and former Attorney General, Jerry Brown violated his oath of office and duty by refusing to defend Proposition 8; failed to defend our border, and failed to enforce immigration laws. Coupled with the Democrat Legislature, they have sold-out California and its people to anti-freedom, anti-American socialist doctrine.

Alas, the left's political class seems to be infected with artificial intelligence and natural stupidity, creating huge complex issues perpetuated by academia, media and entertainment elite reaching down from the lofty halls of power spreading the communicable diseases of entitlement, social aggression, political chaos, personal irresponsibility, voter apathy, self-reliant weakness, historical and academic ignorance, selfish interests and extremes.

USA TODAY
February 10, 2012

Re: Mortgage deal has limitations
USA TODAY - Money

Obama's refinance, foreclosure and mortgage reduction plans are counter-economic shell games

President Obama's campaign for re-election is fraught with counter-economic mortgage plans and reckless promises. Indeed, his proposal to impose $5-biilion to $10-billion in fees on banks to pay for streamlined refinancing of 3.5 million underwater homeowners' mortgages at lower rates, would reduce banks' lending capacity by up to $100 billion.

As if that were not bad enough, homeowners would be required to have a credit score of at least 580 -- which is a bad credit rating for mortgage lending -- and would add extensive new risk to FHA-backed loans, which is how the housing bubble/burst started under the Clinton administration, and has been perpetuated during the Obama administration.

That was last week's shell game. This week the President unveiled at $25 billion settlement with the states and the nation's 5 largest banks to recover foreclosures and reduce mortgages, which in reality will become a $70 billion or more bailout for too many unqualified and irresponsible homeowners sucked in to the affordable housing mania.

The only thing the President recognized was the obvious foreclosure blight on our neighborhoods and property values -- which we homeowners who didn't do anything wrong are suffering -- simply because government intrusion turned the American dream of home ownership into a nightmare. However, saying the settlement will " begin to turn the page on an era of recklessness that left so much damage in its wake," lacks credibility.

Combined with the failure of President Obama's previous refinance program for 11 million underwater homeowner mortgages with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- and the foreclosure fiasco -- buying votes with other people's money is certainly not the answer to rehabilitating the housing industry or economic recovery. Particularly in light of heavy-handed Dodd-Frank financial regulations.

The Washington Post
February 3, 2012

Is Obama playing re-election with our lives?

It's bad enough that for the past three years, the enormous Obama administration has been wasting $billions in stimulus funds, piling up insurmountable debt, playing fast and loose with over-reaching economic regulations, playing social/economic political tricks to increases taxes, and cooking the books on housing and unemployment numbers in pursuit of the President's re-election.

However, when it is becoming increasingly and disturbingly apparent that President Obama is steering the nation on a perilous path in dealing with Middle East unrest, Israel and the nuclear threat from Iran -- which could result in attacks on our economy, our soil and our lives -- to influence the outcome of the November election, that would be an overall unconscionable and blatant abuse of power.

Which begs answers to the questions of why Iraq was abandoned, why Afghanistan will be, and why no action was taken to support the uprising of the Iranian people against the brutal Islamic regime. Clearly, these are the times for all good voters to come to the aid of our country.

Los Angeles Times
January 26, 2012

Re: State of the Union thoughts - letters

There are more thoughts than published in the L.A. Times today:

President Obama adds insult to injury in State of the Union speech

President Obama's State of the Union speech was filled with little more than deceitful rhetoric and disturbing threats, saying, "The state of our Union is getting stronger. And we’ve come too far to turn back now. As long as I’m President, I will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum. But I intend to fight obstruction with action, and I will oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place." Of course he failed to mention that years of Democrat action forcing affordable housing caused the crisis, or that Democrat single-party action to ram through mandatory health care and the Dodd-Frank finance fiasco -- behind closed doors, shutting out Republicans -- or the failed $trillion stimulus and the insurmountable debt.

Indeed, it's not surprising that President Obama's State of the Union speech kicking off his campaign for re-election is merely a continuation of the perpetual campaign he has been running since he was sworn into office, broken promises and all. Indeed, it has become painfully clear that Obama and his administration's campaign for green energy, against coal, oil development and the Keystone Pipeline presents a blatant disregard for economic recovery and our national security. And, though the President denies waging class warfare, he claims this is a make or break moment for the middle class, while proposing to double the taxes on job creators.

Adding insult to the injury of Obama demonizing congressional Republicans, The Tea Party Debt Commission -- organized by Freedom Works -- prepared a comprehensive budget proposal that cuts federal spending $9.7 trillion over 10 years, balances the budget in 4 years, shores up Social Security and Medicare without cutting benefits, shutters or privatizes dozens of agencies and programs, and eliminates 4 Departments. However, when the Commission took the budget proposal to the Senate, which hasn't passed a budget in over 1,000 days, Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer threw them out!

Surely, the President's video release previewing his speech to 10 million supporters, and his travel to five election battleground states during the three days following his speech is but a preview of his obsessive, compulsive campaign disorder that will certainly affect his already reckless and irresponsible behavior in economic policy, foreign policy, national defense, and domestic disorder. Clearly, the abrasive rub comes with a $billion campaign war chest, and the high cost of taxpayers being forced to subsidize his relentless campaign activities, most of whom oppose his re-election.

Certainly, the Bully Pulpit from the White House is more than enough for this President's campaign. Anything more is a glaring unfair advantage, and the taxpayers' loss. Indeed, the President or any incumbent running for re-election should stand on their merits and performance, or fall from the lack thereof. Here's a thought: Any elected representative or official who is not re-elected after a first term, should not collect any retirement or benefits, including the President.

Time Magazine
January 21, 2012

Re: Joe Klein's: Newt's stamp-out poverty plan
Time Magazine January 30, 2012

Joe Klein's 'Why Newt is Half-right' article agrees with Newt Gingrich's suggestion that students should work at school only because he had the idea first. However, to suggest that the housing bubble was inflated by Gingrich's deregulatory Congress, and that he could be called the "greatest subprime-mortgage politician in American history" is hogwash. Indeed, that title goes to former president Bill Clinton, who started the whole thing by intimidating banks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lower loan standards for African Americans' affordable housing. This is most certainly Clinton's economic crash, exacerbated by President Obama.

Los Angeles Times
January 20, 2012

Nit-picking Newt

The nit-picking of Newt by ABC, and the biased, shallow-minded media is obviously part of their continued campaign for President Obama. I have carefully followed Newt Gingrich's career since the Reagan years and I'm convinced he is the man for president in these trying, dangerous times. We need a great communicator with his skills and experience to bring us through it with success. Now, more than ever, is the time for all good voters to come to the aid of their country. Gingrich and a Republican Congress is the solution for restoring America.

USA TODAY
January 19, 2012

President Obama and Iran

President Obama's effort at direct talks with Iran's supreme leader is an exercise in futility simply because it is well known and understood that Islamic extremists deceitfully use such talks against their enemies, particularly the United States and Israel. Indeed, it's bad enough that the administration is maintaining a stranglehold on increasing our domestic oil resources and development, which is exacerbating our fuel costs and economic crisis.

Certainly the administration is making it even worse by bending to Iran's hostile aims on restricting oil exports to America and around the world, along with their relentless efforts to gain control over Iraq and its extensive oil supplies -- and to bring economic ruin upon our country.

The Obama administration is making it painfully clear that it will do little or nothing about the Middle East crisis including Iran, Israel, Egypt and Libya. Indeed, President Obama failed to support the Iranian peoples' uprising, which could have gone a long way in overthrowing the brutal and dangerous regime's drive to develop nuclear weapons, to destroy Israel, dominate the Middle East and its oil.

Our vital need is to move full speed ahead on domestic oil, backing Israel and neutralizing Iran -- with a President and Congress that will get it done.

San Francisco Examiner
January 18, 2012

Wrecking the ship of state

The tragic loss of life notwithstanding, the unscrupulous and reckless off-course maneuver of the captain sinking the cruise ship, Cost Concordia near the Italian island of Giglio, then abandoning his ship, is reminiscent of President Obama's reckless steering of America's ship of state of the union.

Indeed, the President and his malfeasant Democrat crew in Congress recklessly abandoned their duty to the Constitution with over-reaching government power, which exacerbated the recession, sinking the American people into unsustainable debt.

The injustice is, regardless of whether or not President Obama is re-elected, he will retire in the luxury and security afforded to former presidents by taxpayers, for life.

Washington Post
January 7, 2012

President Obama's monarchial misbehavior

President Obama's non-recess appointing Richard Cordray as the bank overlord of the new Dodd-Frank, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and of three new members of the National Labor Relations Board, are indeed illegal recess appointments, absent Senate confirmation, and unconstitutional.

Surely, President Obama meant it when he said, "I refuse to take 'no' for an answer. When Congress refuses to act and as a result hurts our economy and puts our people at risk, then I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them."

Indeed, Obama's monarchial misbehavior -- coupled with his exercise of authoritarian power with the previous Democrat-controlled Congress -- shut out all Republican opposition to impose economy-crushing mandatory health insurance, finance laws, dictatorial EPA regulations and insurmountable public debt.

Clearly, the president's campaign for a second term is based on his philosophical determination to 'fundamentally transform America' from capitalism to socialism by cooking the federal books and poking Constitution in the eye, rather than complying with his sworn duty to preserve, protect and defend our founding document.

Hopefully, American voters will relate to the damage caused by the social, political and economic abuses of presidential and congressional power enough to reject the intended consequences of the failures of good intentions, and vote for the restoration of what the United States was always meant to be. Limited government and freedom.

Los Angeles Times
December 30, 2011

Occupy protest intrudes on family Rose Parade

Phony Occupy 99 percent protesters are expected to disrupt the annual Rose Parade to protest income inequality and corporate power, which is an unconscionable space-occupying intrusion on the largest, traditional middle-America-oriented family New Year's parade event. Indeed, the Occupy movement is really about President Obama's class warfare theme, which will arrogantly rain on the Rose Parade of many who want to attend, displaced by selfish activists.

Surely, concerned and discerning voters know that naïve and indoctrinated college students and shallow-minded union activists are at the core of the Democrat Party Left, acting as unopposed Obama's primary campaign army for his re-election, and to regain Democrat power in Congress at any cost. However, if that happens, the economy will worsen, and government will consume the declining middle class.

It is well known and understood that a democracy cannot exist without a large, healthy middle class, broad freedoms -- and limited government. And that socialism thrives on more regulation, less freedom, big government and a bigger underclass of dependents. California is clearly the advanced example. Voters' decisions in the 2012 elections will certainly be the most important of our time -- between the truthfully informed and the malinformed -- a matter of survival, or not.

New York Post
December 28. 2011

Occupiers disrupt Iowa Caucuses

Occupy 99 percent protesters from at least 10 states are expected to disrupt the Iowa Republican Primary Caucuses because they are influenced by wealthy, special interests, while ignoring college debt and the home foreclosure crisis. However, the Occupy movement is really about President Obama's class warfare theme of the wealthy not paying their fare share.

Surely, concerned and discerning voters know that naïve and indoctrinated college students and union activists are at the core of the Democrat Party Left, acting as unopposed Obama's primary campaign army for his re-election, and to regain Democrat power in Congress at any cost. However, if that happens, the economy will worsen, and government will consume the declining middle class.

It is well known and understood that a democracy cannot exist without a large, healthy middle class, broad freedoms -- and limited government. And that socialism thrives on more regulation, less freedom, big government and a bigger underclass of dependents. California is clearly the advanced example. Voters' decisions in the 2012 elections will certainly be the most important of our time.

Los Angeles Times
December 23, 2011

Payroll tax cut extension fiasco

It's certainly not surprising that the Democrat-controlled Senate and Republican political chumps kicked-back the House bill to extend the payroll tax cut for one year, with a Senate bill to cut the extension for only two months. That's what Democrats and last minute spoilers do to direct blame where it doesn't belong.

Indeed, President Obama's feigned attempt to say that he wants the tax cut extended for one year, is nothing more than an election year distraction from what he really wants. The end of the Bush tax cuts in 2013, which will surely bring on further damage to the economy.

Political machinations in a presidential election year are expected. However, when it's so deceitful and reckless that it has far-reaching effects on our economy and security -- as it has over the past three years -- it is not only unconscionable, it is mass malfeasance.

Worse, when the liberal media sells its journalistic soul and objective integrity to be biased political mouthpieces and campaign supporters for the Democrat Party and President Obama, the public watchdogs are only loyal to an ideology that feeds them, which is tantamount to being un-American.

Wall Street Journal
December 22, 2011

Re: What Fannie and Freddie knew - editorial

There is much more to the WSJ editorial about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac leading private lenders into the subprime market wherein standards were lowered to reach unqualified home buyers. Indeed, Fannie's 1999 subprime alliance with Angelo Mozilo's Countrywide Home Loans was the result of former president Carter's 1977 Community Reinvestment Act.

Former president Clinton used the CRA to jump-start the housing/financial crisis on the basis of affordable housing for minorities by intimidating banks, mortgage lenders, Fannie and Freddie to lower their standards and make loans to those who could not afford them -- with HUD's Andrew Cuomo and AG Janet Reno as his enforcers.

Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd backed up Fannie and Freddie in Congress and -- along with Franklin Raines, other Fannie and Freddie CEOs, ACORN and the SEIU -- they took it from there to the crash. After which, all accusing Democrat phony-fingers pointed at Wall Street as the villain.

Certainly, Attorney General Eric Holder's lending discrimination suit against Bank of America's Countrywide unit is simply another political diversionary tactic, when the real villain is over-reaching government misfeasance.

USA TODAY
December 17, 2011

Fannie and Freddie CEOs embezzled public funds

The current SEC suits brought against former Fannie Mae CEO, Daniel Mudd, and former Freddie Mac CEO, Richard Syron will undoubtedly result in nominal civil settlements, just as the previous Fannie and Freddie culprits largely responsible for the housing and financial meltdown.

Indeed, chief among the wrongdoers who skated criminal prosecution was Fannie Mae CEO, Franklin Raines, who not only cooked the Fannie books, he was instrumental in handing the lion's share of the subprime mortgage business to former Countrywide Financial CEO, Angelo Mozilo.

Surely, the call for the prosecution of Wall Street CEOs has been muted by the deeply-seeded subprime corruption within Fannie and Freddie, which richly-lined the bank accounts of executives with $millions in illicit bonuses based on fraudulent accounting -- not to mention obtaining favored "Friends of Angelo" VIP home loans from Countrywide, including Raines, Mudd and 40 Fannie and Freddie managers.

Adding insult to the mass injury of the unaffordable housing push for affordable housing at any cost, House and Senate Finance and Banking Committee culprits, Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Christopher Dodd knowingly supported the dangerous housing bubble. Dodd received VIP home loans from Mozilo's Countrywide. Plus, Fannie and Freddie PAC's made campaign contributions to Dodd, and then Sen. Barack Obama.

The bottom line of the dirty government business involvement in the housing and financial crisis -- beyond the job losses and the crushing losses to homeowners -- is the fact that the underhanded players embezzled private and public funds with impunity. Certainly, crony capitalism and the double standards of real and political justice are unconscionable and a betrayal of the public trust.

Time Magazine
December 15, 2011

Occupy protesters attack Gingrich in Iowa

The Occupy movement has turned from protest to preventing the political speech of President Obama's opponent, Newt Gingrich. It's curious that when Merriam-Webster announced that Pragmatic (practical) was the most looked-up word on their on-line dictionary, the word Occupy is being considered as the top word by the American Dialect Society.

Even more interesting is that President Obama and his administration describe his leadership as a pragmatic philosophy. Though his leadership is the antithesis of practical, the left has a way of revising definitions to fit the ideology and agenda. Is the Occupy movement Obama's pragmatic army, pursuing social justice by means of relentless social unrest?

The Washington Examiner
December 13, 2011

Obama's stark contrast

President Obama's December 11th, 60 Minutes interview saying, "It doesn't really matter who the (Republican) nominee is gonna be. The core philosophy that they're expressing is the same. And the contrast in visions between where I want to take this country and where they say they want to take the country is gonna be stark." -- was not an epiphany. That stark contrast is socialism vs. freedom.

If it were not for the government-caused economic crash -- the spontaneous Tea Party movement reaction to Obama's regulatory vision and abuse of congressional power -- and Republicans taking back the House, we would be further down that ruinous road to socialism.

Indeed, more and more people are feeling betrayed by decades of misinformation, indoctrination and dependency on empire-building Democrats, the media-left, the miseducation establishment, the entertainment industry, bully unions, and the Occupy movement. Surely, the 2012 election will decide our future: Socialist oblivion or freedom and recovery.

Washington Post
December 10, 2011

The political campaign and finance conundrum

Campaign financing is the root of all political quid-pro-quo evil, which puts special and moneyed interests ahead of the people's interests. Lest we forget, Article II, Section 1 of the California Constitution rightly states that, "All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their protection, security and benefit, and they have the right to alter or reform it when the public good may require."

Indeed, there should be no state or federal campaign financing or legislative aisles divided by partisan D's and R's. It is self-corrupting, self-serving, and promotes the pursuit of personal power by elected representatives and officials. Surely, if there were to be a constitutional amendment, it should be an amendment establishing nonpartisan direct representative democracy by means of secure voting networks connected to voters' homes.

The amendment should require representatives to be highly qualified, well compensated nonpartisan professional government managers, rather than partisan professional politicians, subject to annual confirmation by voters to remain in office. All elections would be conducted over the voting networks, and voters would be able to communicate with each other and their representative. Voters would decide all matters of taxation and public policy. And existing constitutional rights and protections could not be removed.

With the advances in communications technology, secure voting networks could certainly be established. The amendment would take campaign finance and the worst out of politics, give us the best in representation

Los Angeles Times
December 9, 2011

Re: Bully pulpit

Obama channeling Teddy Roosevelt

President Obama obviously used Teddy Roosevelt to further his agenda. TR made that speech while running as the candidate for his Bull Moose Party, and lost. Yet, Obama channels whomever he needs to fit the moment -- Reagan, FDR, etc. -- to dazzle voters by shooting from the lip and fancy political footwork. Indeed, President Obama and his minions are undermining our Constitution with government growth and disintegrating representative democracy in America.

Lest we forget, Obama cut his progressive teeth among the Chicago political gangsters, disqualifying all of his opponents to get his seat in the state legislature. Demonizing congressional Republicans and Gingrich follows the pattern, backed by the collective news media, miseducation establishment and union soldiers. Republicans should be vigilant in what could be massive Democrat 2012 voter/registration fraud, a-la-ACORN-style, which is already showing up in Indiana.

Wall Street Journal
December 1, 2011

Re: China's superior economic model
by Andy Stern

Obama leads race to socialism

The Wall Street Journal does its readers a valuable informative service by giving substantial enemies of American freedom and democracy their say in the opinion pages. Indeed, former SEIU president (now senior fellow at Columbia University's Richman Center), Andy Stern has been a frequent visitor and advisor to the White House, confirming President Obama's leadership role as titular commander-in-chief of the SEIU and other union forces in the race toward transforming America to socialism -- at any cost.

Surely, it comes as no surprise that Mr. Stern is promoting China's unique Communist/Capitalist economic model as superior to our struggling free market economy. Particularly, in these dire economic times. That's simply what savior-socialists do -- by manipulating over-reaching government into position, pulling the rug out from under the economy, convincing the people that more government is good, and the only way to recovery and prosperity.

That is, until the other shoe drops in the form of iron boots on the throat freedom, the chest of free will, the sight of opportunity, and the pursuit of happiness. Fortunately, our unabated constitutional freedoms have a long-term upside. They tend to unmask un-Americans and adverse forces who would take those freedoms from us.

Wall Street Journal
November 30, 2011

Re: The Barney Frank Era

Barney Frank leaving the sinking ship

The Wall Street Journal editorial regarding Barney Frank nearly says it all. Indeed, It is well known and understood that Rep. Barney Frank, and Sen. Chris Dodd are the Congressional rats who were most instrumental in causing the affordable housing financial crash.

With Dodd and Frank leaving the sinking ship and retiring from Congress, Rep. Maxine Waters and Sen. Chuck Schumer stand ready to continue gnawing away at America's social, political and economic health from their positions on the Financial Services and Banking Committees.

Alas, as if they hadn't done enough damage to the economy, Dodd and Frank are leaving the people vulnerable to their destructive Finance Bill -- yet both will retire to the security of generous public-funded incomes and benefits.

Lest we forget, Former presidents Carter and Clinton are responsible for starting and escalating the insanity of the affordable housing push. Surely, the aforementioned and none of the above should enjoy their malfeasance at the expense of the people.

Los Angeles Times
November 22, 2011

Mindless Occupy movement

If the disgruntled college students who started and expanded the Occupy Wall Street movement ever come to realize they are the victims of indoctrination by the socialist college and university establishment -- to the exclusion of America's founding principles and conservative thought -- the mass deceit should really make them angry. Indeed, their anger over the constant rise in tuition ought to be directed at the cause: to fund the rise in professors' and bloated administrative salaries, benefits and tenure.

And their anger and blame directed at banks, corporations and the wealthy should be directed at the cause of the housing and financial crash: Democrats growing government and insurmountable debt. Surely, socialist deception comes at a devastating social, political and economic price, certain collapse into authoritarian government, and the loss of freedoms. When certain free speech is the only speech, it is certainly not free.

Thankfully, we are not there yet, and we have much to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day, including Americans' unique, innate ability to turn wrong around and make it right.

Washington Post
November 21, 2011

Super Committee Impasse

The impasse Super Committee, Congressional Democrats and President Obama have no intention of cutting spending or their relentless drive to raise taxes and regulate. Taxing, regulation and spending equals Democrat political and personal power. Our only hope is a 2012 Republican Congress and president with teeth -- to limit government, reduce regulations, cut taxes, and end the debt.

USA TODAY
November 19, 2011

Obama's political machine sent 'Occupy' protesters marching orders

Anyone but the indoctrinated and fools can plainly see that the Obama machine sent the first -- Occupy Wall Street student protesters from colleges to falsely represent the 99 percent. Of course they were joined by the unions and all manner of socialists to stretch the movement across the nation.

Why? To advance the president's mandates, taxation, social justice, spread the wealth and government jobs agenda for his re-election -- and to bash Fox News whenever Fox reporters show up, shouting "Fox News lies!" Now, the Occupy movement is replete with aggression, thugs, misfits, anti-Semites and racism.

Nevertheless, President Obama's political machine sent marching orders to Occupy Wall Street protesters to weaken our free market and Capitalism, and strengthen government's power over our economy, supported by Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Democrats and Congress.

Indeed, the president's silence is a tacit admission of his army's effort.

Long live the spontaneous tea party movement and the real majority of Americans devoted to taking back our country in the 2012 elections, restoring our nation and our economy.

Daily Press
November 17, 2011

Re: S.B. jails see rise in prisoners

As if California's looming $20 billion budget deficit, hostile business climate, high unemployment, mortgage foreclosures, rising college tuition, failed public education, and stupid environmental laws making it worse were not bad enough -- county jails are facing an unconscionable rise in state prisoners, and the early release of uncontrolled criminals throughout the state.

Indeed, with a head-in-the-sand governor and Democrat-controlled Legislature running a dysfunctional government -- and with their blatant complicity in the steady rise in illegal alien criminals and opportunists draining our resources and revenues on prisons, welfare, health care and education -- local government and the good citizens of California are in a clear and present danger.

Surely, it's past time for California voters to defend and protect themselves with their constitutional right to ballot initiatives, referendums and recalls under Article II, Section 1. of the California Constitution, to wit: "All political power in inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their protection, security, and benefit. and they have the right to alter or reform it when the public good may require."

However, that cannot be accomplished without first passing a ballot initiative requiring a state-wide electronic voting network connected to voters' homes for conducting elections, and collecting signatures for ballot initiatives, referendums and recall. That's why Article II was passed, and why it's the only way to remove selfish, moneyed interests from compromising Article II, the public good, and the inherent political power of the people.

Re: Facts show Fannie, Freddie led mortgage market to collapse
by Conn Carroll
The Washington Examiner - November 10, 2011

There are more names connected to the mortgage market collapse

Conn Carroll's examination of who and what is to blame for the mortgage market collapse is right on target. Indeed, the foundation for affordable housing laid by Fannie Mae CEO, Franklin Raines and Freddie Mac -- partnered with Countrywide Financial President Angelo Mozilo in 1992 -- was escalated by Congress and the Clinton Administration.

President Clinton advanced the lowering of lending standards on the basis of (unproven) "red-lining" home loans for African-Americans. Clinton instructed HUD's Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Janet Reno to force banks and mortgage lenders to lower standards for affordable housing.

Congressional finance and banking committee powerhouses, Sen. Chris Dodd (quid-pro-quo with Mozilo), Sen. Chuck Schumer, and the Rep. Barney Frank/Franklin Raines duo backed Fannie and Freddie all the way to the housing crash, the financial crash -- to unconscionable infinity and beyond.

Then they blamed it on the banks and Wall Street. Sadly, the misinformed, misdirected "Occupy" bunches are camped-out in the wrong places.

Re: 4 ways to fix our broken election system
by Alex Berezow
USA TODAY, Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Our broken election system needs a full overhaul

Alex Berezow's thoughtful commentary on how to fix our broken election system comes on an appropriate date, wherein state and local elections are being held across the nation. Indeed, Berezow's suggestions to have a national primary day, implementing a "top two" primary, eliminating the Electoral College, and eliminating gerrymandering are laudable recommendations. Particularly, when it's an effort to alleviate some of the built-in conflicts of partisanship and perpetual political campaigns.

Eliminating the Electoral College in favor of a direct election for the office of president of the United States, of course, would take a constitutional amendment, which should be done, as should a balanced budget amendment with teeth. However, considering the sad, broken state of our union in Washington, and among the several states, we need a constitutional amendment that will eliminate perpetual quid-pro-quo campaign financing, and the self-destructive factions of political party-divided aisles in Congress that George Washington, Madison and our founders warned us about.

In other words, we need a complete overhaul of what has become an over-sized, grossly dysfunctional, Constitution-violating government. That overhaul should consist of a constitutional amendment establishing a unique, nonpartisan direct-representative democracy, wherein secure electronic voting networks are established to conduct all local, state and federal elections. Rather than professional party politicians, elected representatives would be highly qualified, well-compensated nonpartisan professional government managers -- subject to annual confirmation to remain in office.

The voting networks would also serve as communications between voters, and between voters and their representatives. Voters would approve all matters of taxation and public policy, foreign and domestic. Voters would also be able to amend the constitution, repeal bad and/or unnecessary laws, rules and regulations. Details regarding a proposed 28th Amendment to the Constitution establishing a direct-representative democracy can be found on my website at: http://www.realdemocracy.com/28web.htm

Sacramento Bee
November 5, 2011

Occupy bunch deflecting blame

Far-left agitators, abuse of union power, aimless young people, and misfits have become a pointless, volatile mix. The Occupy Wall Street protests are costing cities, counties and local business $millions for police, medical, clean-up and repairs, especially in cities like Oakland. It's hurting, not helping the economy. So, what's the point? OWS demands are taxing the rich, the distribution of wealth, and the prosecution of bankers and corporate bosses for the bad economy.

Indeed, the news media are irresponsible if they fail to remind the American people that those behind the costly and destructive Occupy bunch are protesting the wrong thing, purposely deflecting blame from CCRCFDR -- the real culprits of the economic collapse: Affordable housing social justice Democrats Carter, Clinton, Reno, Cuomo, Frank, Dodd & Raines. They, and extortion accomplices, ACORN, SEIU, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the ones who should be prosecuted.

However, the Obama administration and the former Democrat-controlled Congress would, of course, disavow any knowledge of, or participation in the ideological embezzlement of public funds, or the unabated $billions in fraud, waste and abuse, or the $trillions in unconscionable spending and public debt.

Los Angeles Times
November 2, 2011

Demonizing Cain

The biased liberal media mob is doing a Clarence Thomas style political lynching against Herman Cain, similar to the long-lasting demonization of Newt Gingrich. That's what Democrats do against their most dangerous opponents. I would like to see a Gingrich/Cain Republican ticket to restore America.

Washington Post
October 29, 2011

Occupy movement compromised

The Occupy movement expanded with displaced, disgruntled, disaffected and disoriented people who are joining what began as miseducated college students -- who were taught activism and demonstrations by the academia of the left, and want taxpayer-funded free college education for all -- claiming they are the 99 percent representing the Occupy Wall Street movement protesting against the top one percent and demanding a re-distribution of wealth.

Then, the Occupy movement was compromised by the SEIU, labor and teacher unions, '60s counterculture revolutionaries, Hollywood celebrities, and radical organizations such as George Soros' MoveOn.org, to escalate the intensity of demonstrations against Capitalism spreading nation-wide.

Indeed, the anti-American far-left and MoveOn.org's motives are to overwhelm our unique constitutional republic with a welfare state, to destroy free-market Capitalism, and replace it with socialist-controlled capitalism, a government-run economy, which would result in near-poverty for nearly all the people.

Surely, the First Amendment protection of the people to peaceably assemble does not include Occupy Oakland's mobs and violence. The socialist Oakland mayor believes it does. She buckled to MoveOn's 'police state' accusations of brutality, thus betraying the police, law and order, and the people's first line of defense.

Clearly, the Occupy movement was not spontaneous. It was organized and expanded, with a vile and contemptuous contrast and condemnation of the Tea Party movement, which was and is a truly spontaneous protest, and a pure exercise of First Amendment rights to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition government for redress of grievances against over-reaching government actions.

Sadly, it doesn't seem to matter to the phony 99-percentors that the top 10 percent pay over 70 percent of taxes, that the top 20 percent are the job creators -- or that insidious SEIU and ACORN extortion -- and irresponsible government affordable housing actions taken over a span of three decades by Carter, Clinton, Cuomo, Reno, Frank, Dodd and Raines -- are largely responsible for the housing, financial and economic meltdown, and the loss of jobs and homes.

The tragedy is that the news media, our representative government, administration and society are turning a blind-eye to treasonous behavior and the enemy within. The blight of foreclosure-creep throughout our neighborhoods and communities are clear and convincing evidence of who and what are to blame: The politics of the left, and the expansion of government control -- not Capitalism, the banks, lenders or corporations.

USA TODAY
October 18, 2011

Re: For fiscal mess, more blame Washington over Wall Street
USA TODAY, front page, Tuesday

The 'Silent Majority' will decide

Though the USA TODAY/Gallup poll shows most Americans blame Washington more than Wall Street for the nation's economic mess -- the Tea Party movement notwithstanding -- most of the news media and mania-polling have yet to get the real pulse of the 'Silent Majority' of American voters.

Indeed, that majority are primarily a growing number of conservative-leaning independent voters -- leaving the ranks of disoriented party politics -- who decide most elections, and will surely turn out heavily in 2012.

What is being made painfully clear to the majority is that we are not being represented by the misdirected 'Occupy Wall Street' protest movement, who claim they are 'what democracy looks like' and that they are 'the 99 percent.'

In reality, they are not the 53 percent of us -- and the top 1 percent -- who pay the support for too much non-essential federal, state and local government -- and the 46 percent who pay no taxes.

Any doubt about the government-induced, destructive path of the nation's economy can easily be removed by looking at California crashing. What we must prevent in these dire times is, 'as California goes, so goes the nation.'

Time Magazine
October 17, 2011

Re: Middle of the road
by Joe Klein

Joe Klein's 19-day crash-course through middle-America was apparently enlightening, but even with the Time poll, it was insufficient to get the real pulse of the 'Silent Majority.' Indeed, that majority are primarily a growing number of conservative-leaning independent voters who decide most elections, and will surely turn out heavily in 2012. What is being made painfully clear to the majority is that we are not being represented by the 'Occupy Wall Street' protest movement, who claim they are 'what democracy looks like' and they are 'the 99 percent.' In reality, they are not the 53 percent of us and the top 1 percent who pay the support for too much federal, state and local government -- and the 46 percent who pay no taxes.

San Francisco Chronicle
October 11, 2011

Brown and the Democrat cartel
by Daniel B. Jeffs
Former grand jury member

Governor Brown and the California Legislature's Democrat cartel are making it painfully clear that California resident U.S. citizens must sit in the back of the bus, while being forced to pay the fares for illegal aliens' ride on the taxpayers' dime.

Indeed, it's bad enough that we must foot the bill for illegals' housing, healthcare and education. But when hopeful citizen college students are pushed down the line in favor of the illegal alien 'Dream Act' recently passed by the cartel and signed by the governor, our constitutional protections and citizen sovereignty are seriously diminished.

Nothing among the rash of bill signings could be more politically glaring in the abuse of government power than AB 622, which limits and intimidates California Grand Jury investigations with the forced presence of attorneys representing witnesses during grand jury questioning.

And nothing could be more glaring than a comparison between the Assemblyman who authored AB 622 -- in revenge for being the subject of a scathing grand jury report when he was a Sacramento County Supervisor -- and Assemblyman Tim Donnelly's filing of a referendum to repeal the "Dream Act."

Surely, there are reasons for the people to fear these abuses of authority, particularly when the governor and the cartel are trying to limit voter initiatives and the inherent constitutional power of the people. The cure, of course, would be an initiative to establish a secure internet system for gathering proposed initiative signatures, a referendum to repeal AB 622, and another initiative to expand county grand jury authority to state-level investigations.

Certainly, it's time to put an end to 'wagging the dog' politics, which opens the doors and the treasury to foreign invasion and extremists, slams the doors to citizen rights and government 'watch-dog' oversight, and threatens the social, political, economic and constitutional existence of the state and the people.

Time Magazine
October 10, 2011

Re: Special money issue

Time's Special money issue is replete with bias and a lack of objectivity in its analysis of our dire economic condition.

For example, Jeffrey Sachs' glossing-over the (government intimidation of banks and mortgage lenders for affordable housing) cause of the housing bubble and economic collapse -- and his shallow solution of, "… smart long-term public investments in education, infrastructure and human capital -- to get us out of our present mess."

Indeed, the overall theme of the money issue fails to account for the reckless, long-term rise in regulation-tax cost of living, failed government investments, dependent programs, waste, fraud and abuse that is pushing the middle class down to create a giant underclass -- undermining the economy, and extending our present mess.

New York Times
October 9, 2011

What Wall Street protestors really mean is, occupy freedom with socialism

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 60's - 70's 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.

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.

Wall Street Journal
October 5, 2011

Re: Partisan fight flares over new bank fees

Durbin's dumb amendment

The Dodd-Frank financial laws enacted by the star chamber Democrat Congress was another blatant abuse of power by those who ignore the Constitution, as they did with the healthcare mandate.

It's bad enough that our health care costs are rising as a result, along with President Obama's EPA over-regulation driving up gasoline and energy costs. But when the deficit and national debt go up, exacerbated by the Department of Energy's bad loans to solar plants, and pumping $billions more into costly green energy that won't work, the malfeasance in Congress and the Administration is essentially bad business as usual.

Adding insult to injury, Senator Durbin's dumb amendment to the Dodd bill, limiting bank transaction fees -- now raising costs for banking customers and consumers -- is surely making the economy even worse. Indeed, what part of economic dumb, dumber and dumbest does Durbin and Democrats not understand?

USA TODAY
October 5, 2011

Re: Christies is out; is GOP field set?

Christie is out. Now what?

It's time to stop the foul balls and hit a home run for a change. Nearly all the Republican candidates have some level of baggage. Don't dismiss Newt Gingrich. He is the most qualified candidate because he has been there and done that as Speaker of the House with his Contract with America. Plus, he knows history and has detailed plans to recover traditional America from its liberal/progressive government addiction. His books explain the depth of his value to the country. And his qualifications and leadership abilities far outweigh the relentless raw deal from the left, the media, and the foolish Republican establishment, which is why I left the rolls of registered Republicans and became an independent. If nothing else, Gingrich would be the best running mate in a team-effort to reduce and reform government.

Wall Street Journal
October 3, 2011

Indoctrnated students hurt America

The reckless travel of Berkeley graduate student hikers -- held hostage by Iran -- then expressing their anti-American beliefs, is a national disgrace.

Coupled with the militant "Occupy" anti-capitalism student movement spreading from Wall Street across our country, it is more clear and convincing evidence of the insidious long term socialist indoctrination of students by the vast majority of American colleges and universities since the cultural revolution of the 1960's and 70's.

Worse, the power of the National Education Association expanded to the unionization and miseducation of public education teachers, which have overwhelmed diligent and dedication teachers with social justice nonsense, politically correct, and extreme environmental curriculums -- sacrificing core academics -- and graduating functionally illiterate students.

It is simply criminal that the failed education establishment has consumed state and local budgets with costly institutions, top-heavy administrations, salaries, tenure, retirement costs, and the confiscatory taxation of property owners -- with limited to negative results, increased violence, and no apologies.

Is it any wonder then, that concerned parents are turning to private education and home schooling to save their children from schools, which once held our faith and trust, and now -- shamelessly -- our fear and disgust.

USA TODAY
September 30, 2011

Newt Gingrich for president

The GOP presidential candidate who is best for the economy is one who will get unreasonable government regulation out of it. Don't dismiss Newt Gingrich. He is the most qualified because he has been there and done that as Speaker of the House with his, 'Contract with America.'

Plus, he knows history and has detailed plans to recover traditional America from its liberal/progressive government addiction. Read his books and you will understand. His leadership abilities far outweigh the field of candidates, the relentless raw deal from the left, the media, and the foolish Republican establishment.

If the GOP wants to put an end to a history of political self-destruction at the worst possible times for the American people, the party will get its act together, put forth the best candidates, and fight for what's best for the United States and our people, with traditional, limited government.

Independent voters will decide the 2012 presidential election and the control of Congress. It won't be Barack Obama or Democrats. The right decisions will make the difference between a steady economic recovery and a protracted recession that could be our undoing.

New York Post
September 21, 2011

Is President Obama the leader of the World?

President Obama's speech to the United Nations smacked of someone who arrogantly imagines himself as the leader of the World. Is that why the new world trade center is being named the "One World Trade Center"?

Historically, the president of the United States has been considered the leader of the free world. However, members of the UN have given no indication that Obama's leadership extends to all nations. No matter, simply because the United Nations is far from united, and hardly proven to be worthwhile or worth the cost.

Endless bloviating aside, President Obama's lack of leadership amounts to talking the American people in economic circles to confuse voters, blame Republicans for his failures, and mix government machinations into his ideology of a one-world vision.

That is not leadership. It's pushing the United States down a path of social, political and econominc self-destruction, which would likely to take the World with it.

New York Times
September 9, 2011

President's American Jobs Act speech an empty gesture

I'm so frustrated about President Obama using the media and a joint session of Congress (at taxpayers' expense) to launch his 2012 re-election campaign with the promise of his American Jobs Act legislation that, "Congress must pass right away," with details to be released a week from next Monday -- that I can't understand the insanity of it beyond deceitful political theater.

The president just keeps doing the same thing, expecting a different result, when it is obvious that it has not worked, and won't work to improve the economic and jobs crisis. It's simply another empty gesture that wastes $billions more. The House of Representatives is on the right track. The Senate and the President are blocking the way out of a deepening recession.

Indeed, the nation is steeped in uncertainty caused by government. What an "American Jobs Act" should contain is legislation repealing the tax code and replacing it with a flat tax, removing all unreasonable EPA administrative laws and regulations inhibiting businesses, repealing Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank finance legislation, and opening up all America's domestic coal, oil and natural gas energy resources. That would be a good start to increase confidence, jobs and economic growth.

Clearly, the Congress and President Obama should pass it right away!

Time Magazine
September 6, 2011

Re: The power and the zealotry
By Barton Gellman
Time Magazine
September 2011

Dick Cheney's book, In My Time, is clearly and accurate historical report of his life and work in his time. Not "The power and the zealotry: Dick Cheney's remorseless memoir rewriting history," as Barton Gellman suggests. Indeed, it is the power and the zealotry of liberal/socialist historians and academics who have re-written and re-told American history from the beginning to current times. True history will remember the indoctrination, lies and distortions to bring America down -- indeed, not kindly. I lived and worked 41 years in law enforcement -- the first line of defense -- in Cheney's time. Former vice-president, Cheney will surely be remembered as a true patriot.

Time Magazine
September 6, 2011

Re: Can he step up his game?
By Michael Scherer
Time Magazine
September 2011

Michael Scherer suggests, Obama's next move: if he can't fix the economy, make sure the Republicans get the blame? Hardly, when the president's Democrat Congress economy fix has been $trillion stimulus spending to nowhere, economy crushing Obamacare, and cost-of-living-busting green energy spending, while shutting down domestic oil, and stopping coal energy. Lest we forget, the housing, financial market and jobs tanked because of Jimmy Carter's CRA, Bill Clinton's intimidation of banks for affordable housing, extended by Rep. Barney Frank, Sen. Chris Dodd, and carried out by Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines and Freddie Mac. Indeed, Democrats collapsed the economy, and President Obama has made it worse. He simply can't win the game without reducing the size, scope and power of government, and deregulating its economic stranglehold on the economy and jobs. America is the people's freedom business, not over-reaching government's.

Los Angeles Times
September 4, 2011

Stop Democrat's push to limit ballot initiatives

Governor Brown and the Democrat legislature's push to limit ballot initiatives comes as no surprise. Coupled with legislation limiting the fundamental operations of county grand juries, it is simply another government power move against the California Constitution, Article II, Section 1, and what is supposed to be the inherent power of the people to alter or reform government.

The only legislation that is needed regarding ballot initiatives is to limit selfish/special/moneyed interest initiatives by allowing the people to obtain signatures for ballot initiatives, and to vote, by means of a secured voting network on the Internet.

Big, over-reaching socialist California government is driving our state into bankruptcy with over-regulation, over-spending, punishing taxation, failed money-pit miseducation, businesses leaving the state, rising cost of living, and the loss of jobs and our liberties.

We need less tyrannical government and more self-governing democracy to recover California and survive.

Washington Post
September 3, 2011

FHFA's bogus lawsuits against banks

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) lawsuits against the Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase and 15 of the largest banks on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is nearing the last straw of government extortion and malfeasance in covering up the government-caused housing, finance and economic meltdown.

Indeed, it was former president Jimmy Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act, which was used by former president Bill Clinton to have his Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Andrew Cuomo, and then-Attorney General Janet Reno intimidate banks and mortgage lenders to lower standards for affordable housing. Of course, that was exacerbated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac knowingly purchasing, bundling and reselling the toxic mortgages to Wall Street and others.

Congressional finance and banking oversight committee leaders Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd are equally responsible for prompting Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines and Freddie Mac to perpetuate the affordable housing fraud, victimizing unqualified home buyers, which created the housing boom and bust — thus the near financial collapse, job losses and foreclosures.

Yet it continues, and as usual, this is the worst possible time for government to stir the boiling economic pot. What is it going to take for the federal government to stop jerking around banks, mortgage lenders, homeowners, businesses and the American people? A good start would be the aforementioned violators to forfeit their government-paid retirements and benefits.

Wall Street Journal
September 3, 2011

Re: U.S. sues big banks over home mortgages
WSJ September 3, 2011

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) lawsuits against the Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase and 15 of the largest banks on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is nearing the last straw of government extortion and malfeasance in covering up the government-caused housing, finance and economic meltdown.

Indeed, it was former president Jimmy Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act, which was used by former president Bill Clinton to have his Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Andrew Cuomo, and then-Attorney General Janet Reno intimidate banks and mortgage lenders to lower standards for affordable housing. Of course, that was exacerbated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac knowingly purchasing, bundling and reselling the toxic mortgages to Wall Street and others.

Congressional finance and banking oversight committee leaders Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd are equally responsible for prompting Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines and Freddie Mac to perpetuate the affordable housing fraud, victimizing unqualified home buyers, which created the housing boom and bust — thus the near financial collapse, job losses and foreclosures.

Yet it continues, and as usual, this is the worst possible time for government to stir the boiling economic pot. What is it going to take for the federal government to stop jerking around banks, mortgage lenders, homeowners, businesses and the American people? A good start would be the aforementioned violators to forfeit their government-paid retirements and benefits.

Washington Examiner
September 2, 2011

We need a cleansing of Washington

Instead of listening to those bloviating in the deepening, meaningless madness of today's petty-vile politics, voters ought to think about how to return to the pride in America of two or three generations ago -- before socialism sunk its teeth into our public education system, our government and our liberty.

There is only one way to recover our heritage: Privatize education. Reform taxation. Eliminate all anti-economic regulations. Reduce the size, scope and power of government. Revitalize Capitalism. And restore moral self reliance in the people. Tea-Party-minded Republicans and independents can do that. Democrats won't.

Indeed, the only program voters need is to engage in a social, political and economic cleansing of Washington, with a new declaration of independence, a restoration of our Constitution, our unique republic and real democracy.

USA TODAY
August 31, 2011

Obama's jobs speech should cut regulations

Transforming America is what President Obama and Democrats are all about, and it's seriously damaging the economy. Calling for a joint session of Congress to announce his jobs and economic plan should be all about undoing what government regulation has wrought upon private enterprise and the American people.

Obamacare and the $trillion stimulus program have frozen small business hiring. Indeed, the only growth in jobs were government jobs, and temporary jobs, offset by reducing private employment. Financial reform regulation has reduced lending, and banks are hoarding capital out of fear

President Obama's administrative regulatory edicts have wasted $billions on costly, unreliable green energy, while strangling oil production, exploration, and coal energy, which will raise the cost of living and deepen the recession. Transforming the economy down is the antithesis of what America needs.

Clearly, what the vast majority of people want to hear from the president is reducing spending, reducing the size, scope and power of government -- and staying out of the way of freedom and prosperity.

Sacramento Bee
August 20, 2011

Forced release of inmates threatens our safety

When the Supreme Court affirmed a 3-judge federal court-ordered the reduction of 46,000 of California's 140,000 inmates, the strongly contested 5-4 decision came with dissenting Justice Samuel A. Alito's prophetic warning, "The majority is gambling with the safety of the people of California." Apparently, 13,000 of those inmates have already been given early releases, leaving 33,000 inmates for the state to shed over the next two years.

Instead of contracting with private jail facilities, effective October 1, 2011, Governor Brown's AB-109 law will inject many of those inmates into county jail facilities, which will force local authorities to release county inmates to offset the mandated increase of state inmates. Either way, some of the early released state and county inmates will be housed in group homes.

It's bad enough that so many of our neighborhoods are terrorized by burglaries, thefts, assaults and sex crimes -- which have increased because of the recession and job losses. But when the state surreptitiously adds even more criminal group homes to residential areas, it is unconscionable. Indeed, our home values have already suffered from foreclosed vacant homes.

Adding insult to injury, more criminal group homes further diminish home values -- and worse, pose serious threats to our safety, property and privacy. Alas, it wasn't that long ago when a criminal walked away from a group home and murdered an elderly couple in their nearby home -- in our town.

Los Angeles Times
August 15, 2011

Do's and undo's for President Obama and Congress

As President Obama embarks on his economic bus tour of Midwest swing states -- rather than blaming Republicans for blocking economic recovery -- he should take a positive stand and admit the mistakes he and the previous Democrat-controlled Congress made exacerbating the recession and job losses. Indeed, there is a simple list of presidential and congressional do's and undo's to follow that would create economic recovery and jobs:

Undo's
1. Undo Obamacare.
2. Undo the Dodd-Frank finance laws.
3. Undo and scale back green energy and ethanol subsidies.
4. Undo the restrictions on oil exploration/production and coal energy.
5. Undo EPA rules enforcing carbon cap and taxation, and undo unreasonable environmental laws.
6. Undo excessive income, corporate, death and capital gains taxation, and simplify the tax code.
7. Undo excessive spending, debt, waste, fraud and abuse.

Do's
1. Reduce the size, scope and overreaching power of government affecting the states and the people.
2. Reform entitlements.
3. Secure the border.
4. Get out and stay out of the way of the original constitutional principles of freedom, liberty and healthy Capitalism.

This is the way to resolve our American dilemma of a government-caused society steeped in social, political and economic distress, anxiety and uncertainty. Lest we forget, all political power is inherent in the people of the United States limiting the power of government by our Constitution. Those who ignore the Constitution, history, and the voters, will pay the price in the 2012 elections and beyond. Limited government will allow Capitalism to work for all of us. Big government and socialism won't.

Washington Post
August 12, 2011

Sen. Mark Hatfield and a balanced budget amendment

The loss suffered by family and friends notwithstanding, Mark Hatfield's death should remind us of the most important thing he failed to accomplish. Principled though he may have been, Former Senator Mark Hatfield's final act in the Senate was an abdication of his responsibility to the American people. Indeed, moderate Republican Senator Hatfield single handedly dashed the hope of a balanced budget amendment in 1995. That balanced budget amendment failed to pass by one vote. Hatfield's "NO" vote.

Of course, that was the time when -- led by House Speaker Newt Gingrich's 'Contract with America' -- the federal budget was balanced for the first time in recent history, which handed President Clinton his re-election in 1996. However the failure of the Senate to make the contract complete with a balanced budget amendment would have a glaring impact on the future, which is now….

Uncontrolled government spending drove the nation deeply into debt, heavily exacerbated by the arrogance of power, President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress, which cost Democrats control of the House in 2010. Sadly, the Republican House passed a balanced budget amendment -- tabled by the Senate without a vote, and the national debt ceiling was raised from over $14 trillion to over $16 trillion.

Surely, the voters know what to do in 2012 to cut spending, reduce the deficit, the national debt, pass a balanced budget amendment, and survive a prolonged economic crisis. It's all about freedom, liberty and limited government. What we need is a Calvin Coolidge-style president with a common sense Congress that will reduce the size, scope and over-reaching power of government, permanently.

Wall Street Journal
August 9, 2011

It's time for an Article V Convention

The 9th Amendment states that, "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." The 10th Amendment states that, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

The people of the United States and the respective states are making it abundantly clear that federal government growth and abuse of power amounts to gross violations of the Constitution, and widespread malfeasance in Congress and the Executive branch.

Indeed, they have usurped power from the states and the people to such an extent that it is time to activate U.S. Constitution Article 5 "….on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states shall call a constitutional convention for proposing amendments…." which should include an amendment to restore power to the states and the people, and a balanced budget amendment with teeth.

According to the Friends of Article V Convention data, there have been 171 Balanced Budget/General Call for an Article V Convention by 39 different states. Two-thirds of the states equals 34 of the 50 states. All political power is supposed to be inherent in the people. A push by voters to have their state legislatures invoke existing applications or make application for a constitutional convention would be a significant effort to restore our country and our liberty.

Surely, a constitutional convention should also include giving the people the rights of initiative, referendum and recall.

Washington Post
August 3, 2011

Demonizing the Tea Party as "terrorists"?

Calling the Tea Party movement "terrorists" is grossly misplaced. Indeed, the real domestic terrorism going on in our country is our socialist government's confiscatory taxation, public education indoctrination, economy crushing regulations, and the extreme environmental movement raising the cost of living.

The spontaneous Tea Party movement is a reaction to the way most American voters feel about big, intrusive, out of control government. Demonizing the movement will only make it grow to be heard loud and clear in the 2012 elections, and beyond, until the people and the states take America back.

The applications of two-thirds of the states for a constitutional convention to propose amendments is long overdue. A balanced budget amendment with teeth should be first on the agenda.

Wall Street Journal
July 31, 2011

Architects of the debt crisis

FDR, LBJ, Carter and Clinton built the housing market time bomb, Frank, Dodd and Obama lit the fuse

Why have we not heard a peep from Rep. Barney Frank during the debt crisis? Because he and Sen. Dodd lit the fuse of a housing and financial market time bomb built by FDR and LBJ, with a trigger manufactured by Carter and Clinton.

FDR established Fannie Mae as part of the New Deal to provide a national savings and loan for a secondary mortgage market and affordable housing. Fannie Mae had a monopoly on the housing market until 1968, when LBJ privatized Fannie Mae as a GSE to take it off the federal budget, then created as second GSE, Freddie Mac in 1970.

On their way to controlling 90 percent of the nation's secondary mortgage market, they were stimulated by President Carters Community Reinvestment Act, which was used by President Clinton to intimidate Fannie, Freddie, and private lenders to lower their loan standards for affordable housing. That triggered the government-backed mortgage securities mania that followed.

The Bush administration was concerned about Fannie and Freddie's financial condition, However, Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd, said there was no need for concern, which lit the fuse to a spike in sub-prime lending, and the eventual explosion and implosion of the housing and financial markets. Now the national debt crisis is upon us, half of which is accountable to Fannie and Freddie, thus the taxpayers.

As if that wasn't bad enough, the Dodd-Frank financial regulation nightmare is about to get real nasty, which could be the straw that breaks the nation's back -- if Congress and President Obama national debt crisis contributors let it happen. The 64 trillion-dollar question is: How could the American people allow the malfeasance of Presidents and Congress pull off a giant Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme on our country and let it go unaccountable? The answer is, it's never too late.

Washington Examiner
July 29, 2011

Political horror show

President Obama's (July 29, 2011) morning debt crisis speech was little more than 'take charge' campaign rhetoric and another call for the American people to tell their elected representatives to make a deal with the 'political devil.'

Instead, we voters should use our collective wisdom to reject the 'political devil,' tell Congress to pass a balanced budget amendment, reduce government to the limitations and founding principles of the Constitution, or be voted out of office in 2012.

If there is no deal, the president will probably manipulate the 14th Amendment and raise the debt limit in his next speech to the nation to save the day. However, 'The devil made me do it,' is simply no excuse with our future at stake.

This is not political theater. It is a government malfeasance horror show that that has been playing out the abuse of power and bigger government for nearly a century. Indeed, it's time to bring down the curtain, and change the stage back to a unique constitutional republic as intended.

Washington Post
July 24, 2011

Governing by crisis

Our government has become addicted to gambling on ideological bad investments -- and confiscatory taxing and spending -- supported by tyrannical regulations, reckless borrowing and extortion. That's what crashed the economy.

Governing by crisis, fear and false promises worsened the economy. Instead of one more fix, and kicking the can down money-pit road, voters must put the political culture on the road to recovery. We simply can't afford any more relapses.

USA TODAY
July, 23, 2011

Re: Administration, GOP downplay report of deal
USA TODAY Weekend July 22-24, 2011

No balanced budget amendment, no deal

The Senate just tabled the House proposed balanced budget amendment. If sending a balanced budget amendment to the states for ratification is not part of GOP/Democrat deal, there should be no deal on the debt ceiling. The centerpiece of the Republican "Contract with America" was a balanced budget amendment, which lost in the Senate by one vote in 1995. That one NO voter was Republican Senator Mark Hatfield, who was out of office by 1996 election. Indeed, every Senator and Representative who voted against the amendment should have been voted out of office.

Over three fourths of the states have balanced budget amendments, which is what it would take to ratify a federal balanced budget amendment. In fact, nearly the required two thirds of the states have already petitioned Congress for a constitutional convention to propose amendments to the Constitution. President Obama cannot take part in congressional passing of a proposed amendment, with a veto, as it should be. The enormous national debt and economic crash is government malfeasance and a national disgrace.

Former president Bill Clinton's recent statement to circumvent Congress with his view of the 14th Amendment to raise the debt comes as no surprise. His presidency is directly responsible for causing the housing bubble and the economic meltdown. Paul Sperry's book, "The Great American Bank Robbery," tells exactly how. Why is Clinton escaping blame? Maybe because President Obama a Democrat Congress added $4 trillion to the debt, while he, Holder and HUD, Dodd and Frank are doing what Clinton did, again. Government by crisis is what Democrats do, then blame Republicans for their abuse of power. A balanced budget amendment is the only way to control it.

USA TODAY
July 7, 2011

Re: Today's topic: Crime and punishment

Unreasonable doubt gets Casey Anthony off with time-served.

Casey Anthony was found not guilty of her daughter's death because the media convicted her long before the trial. The jury did not trust the media. They had unreasonable expectations from the CSI syndrome of fantasy evidence. They raised the bar from reasonable doubt to unreasonable doubt. And they suffered from CSD (common sense deficiency ), caused by our celebrity-obsessed superficial society of selfish interests and extremes.

It is well known and understood that circumstantial evidence cases are usually stronger than eye-witness testimony, which is often questionable, but not in many jury trials. That understanding has been severely diminished by high profile cases and feeding frenzies by the media, leaving unconscionable triple standards of justice between high, middle and low-profile cases.

Anthony is a self-absorbed convicted liar who destroyed her family and got away with time-served awaiting trial. Sadly, she will undoubtedly cash-in on her infamy, while her daughter's death goes without justice being served.

Sacramento Bee
June 20, 2011

Political card tricks won't balance California's budget

The last minute budget vote in the California Legislature and immediate veto by Governor Brown are replete with insidious political card tricks.

Indeed, The Democrat-controlled Legislature played the ceremonial cutting cards, and the simple majority ace provided by Proposition 25 to pass the budget, and save themselves from a salary penalty.

Then card-shark-in-chief, Governor Brown played the veto trump card to impress the beleaguered people, and continue his pitch for voters to extend the tax increases for at least 5 years.

Sadly, if California voters continue to fall for the ruinous one-party scam disguised as state government, they need only look in the mirror to find blame for the mass malfeasance.

The Wall Street Journal
June 11, 2011

Re: Power to the People?
By John Fund
WSJ - June 11, 2011

Betrayal of the Democratic Republic

John Fund aptly described the attacks on voter ballot initiatives in Colorado and other states. However, the assault against democracy by powerful liberal groups and the political class goes much deeper in 'wag the dog' America.

Of course, the United States is a Constitutional Republic, and the republican form of government is guaranteed to the states. But when federal and state governments are undermined and controlled by an entrenched two-party system nowhere provided for in the Constitution -- and government power is increased and abused -- constitutional limitations are continually violated and our protections under the 1st and 14th Amendments are ignored.

California is undoubtedly and best and worst example of a state wherein the California Constitution says in Article II, Section 1 (voting, initiative and referendum, and recall) that, "All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their protection, security, and benefit, and they have the right to alter or reform it when the public good may require." The best ballot initiative was Proposition 13, which placed limitations on the power of government to tax, and required two-thirds majority votes by the legislature and voters to increase taxes. And the worst initiatives have been indoctrination ballot measures by selfish interest groups and the political class to weaken the initiative process, Proposition 13 and raise taxes.

In these high anxiety times of economic crisis and abuse of power by government, there are solutions to balance power in favor of the people. Enormous advances in communications technology could provide secure local, state and national voting networks wherein all elections, ballot initiatives and referendums and recalls can be conducted from the security and privacy of our personal computers.

Indeed, voting networks would go a long way in breaking the grip of the two-party system, passing a constitutional budget amendment with teeth -- reducing and reforming government with a constitutional amendment providing for national initiatives and referendums, and recalls -- and restoring our lives, liberty, prosperity, and the pursuit of happiness -- while preserving freedom and security for future generations.

The Washington Examiner
June 10, 2011

Re: Grant mischief at Obama's Employment Prevention Agency
editorial - June 10, 2011

EPA plus environmental extremist groups equals Tyranny

The EPA's insidious history of economy-punishing rules, regulations and enforcement has been dramatically escalated by the Obama administration, which is admittedly waging an environmental and energy war to transform the economy.

It's bad enough that the EPA is funding private environmental extremist groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council -- which is responsible for an activist federal court decision cutting a substantial supply of water from the California Water Project to farms and 25 million people in Southern California -- to save the tiny Delta Smelt fish.

But when the arrogant abuse of federal power transcends the Constitution, violating property rights, raising the cost of living, and threatens to crush a severely weakened economy, it amounts assaults against our lives, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to advance a scurrilous agenda. Indeed, the EPA plus environmental extremist groups, equals blatant tyranny by any definition.

Surely, it's time to put an end to the EPA, leave environmental matters to the states, and restore a substantial amount of common sense to the economy -- with the exception of the insanity of California, that is.

The Washington Post
June 7, 2011

Political gangsters in Washington suits

The Congressmen Rangel and Weiner situations and their records are simply the latest examples of irresponsible arrogance and the deeply corrupt political gangsters in Washington soldier suits.

Indeed, the Obama administration's underbosses, and captains of last Democrat Congress made it painfully clear that -- like it or not -- the American people will pay for the dishonest protection of massive government spending, entitlements, rules, regulations and taxes regardless of the economy and the debt.

The Washington Examiner
May 29, 2011

Re: Barney Frank's friends with benefits
By Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin aptly sheds yet another light on Rep. Barney Frank's motive for pushing affordable housing on banks and government mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while sitting on and chairing the House committee that regulates lenders. Indeed, Frank's counterpart in the Senate, Sen. Chris Dodd bears similar responsibility in allowing the housing market to implode by defending lack of responsibility by Congress.

Coupled with former President Bill Clinton's threats against banks and mortgage lenders by HUD Director Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Janet Reno to lower standards and finance homes for those who could not afford them -- and former Fannie Mae CEO, Franklin Raines -- and we have the prime perpetrators who caused the housing and financial crash.

What is so unconscionable about the left's abuse of power in Congress and the White House is that this recession caused by a massive collapse in housing will go much deeper and last years longer than other recessions. What is so insidious about that abuse of power are the consequences of nearly all neighborhoods being depressed by Section 8 housing, foreclosures, walk-a-ways, loss of equities, increased crime and insecurity. I can personally attest to being a victim of that.

If we are to recover from the unsustainable burdens of regulations, public spending and massive debt, we must first cut the size and scope of government to the bone. Only then can we return to the road to freedom and prosperity. It's simply up to us, the American voters.

USA TODAY
May 27, 2011

Health care debate

Medicaid, welfare, food stamps and Section 8 housing is the clear and present problem of runaway costs and irresponsible government spending. Not Medicare and Social Security. That should be settled and under control before anything -- but controlling fraud -- is done with Medicare and Social Security.

Meanwhile, government should eliminate subsidies for unreliable green energy and ethanol; eliminate the Departments of Education, Agriculture, Interior, HUD the EPA, and leave those matters to the states where they belong.

In other words, get out of the business of controlling business and our lives. We the states and the people are in the best position to do that for ourselves. Big government does nothing but exacerbate the tyranny of dependency, over-regulation and taxation.

Wall Street Journal
May 26, 2011

HBO's 'Too Big to Fail' - failed

The entertaining talent of actors notwithstanding, I knew that the heavy slant and story plot based on actual events of HBO's "Too Big to Fail" movie about the near financial collapse of 2008 would avoid, if not ignore, the truth about what caused the housing bubble to burst. Indeed, what was presented in the movie was the result of the failed housing market, not the cause.

Of course, the cause of the economic crash was government's relentless push for affordable housing -- to the extent of the Clinton administration threatening banks and mortgage lenders to lower their standards and make home loans to people who could not afford them --backed by the lowered standards of Government Sponsored Entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- which caused the banks and investment banks to bundle government-backed mortgage securities with toxic assets to maintain profits -- and ultimately become over-extended and under-capitalized.

What is so insidious about the liberal film industry is that the depiction of evil corporations -- and/or government -- against the poor and middle class is blatantly dishonest propaganda against capitalism and conservatives. And that has been going on since movies became part of our culture. I have enjoyed good stories, films and acting talent since that late 1940's when I saw my first movies. What I resent, was being fooled by one-sided liberal dishonesty.

Clearly, it's gone so far in social, political and economic terms, that there is a destructive line between the left and right. A better definition would be the line between right and wrong. Sadly, it has become much more difficult to watch a movie for the entertainment value when the informative messages and themes are meant to impart single-sided social, political and economic ideology playing on the emotional ignorance of the masses. It's simply un-American.

New York Times
May 22, 2011

Newt Gingrich is correct in opposing Paul Ryan's $500 Medicare cut, which is the same as President Obama's. Most of that cut will be from Medicare Advantage and the 10 million seniors enrolled in the managed plans. Instead of cutting it, Medicare Advantage should be the model for handling most of Medicare. There is the savings. Seniors pay reasonable premiums to healthcare management insurance companies. Kaiser Permanente's Senior Advantage Medicare program is the ideal example, and should be the model for managed care.

Los Angeles Times
May 21, 2011

What's so bad about Newt Gingrich?

On October 23, 1996, my letter below was published in the Los Angeles Times:

Newt Gingrich

What's so bad about Newt Gingrich? Should he be condemned for bringing fresh ideas and reform to the stagnant waters of Congress? Should he be ostracized for trying to balance the budget by amendment or otherwise? Should he be punished for attempting to change the failing course of Medicare, Medicaid and public education? Should he be humiliated for his congressional accomplishments, bold candor and speaking the truth with logic and reason? If special interests, shallow Democrats, gutless Republicans, biased media and naïve voters can crush doing the right thing and this man's courageous vision in government so easily, we're in much deeper trouble than we ever imagined.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

Other readers wrote:

Poor Arianna Huffington. She's the only one who is still enamored of the Gingrich "revolution," while everyone else knows that it's a counterrevolution of the meanest kind.

Tanya Winter
La Jolla, Calif.

David Horowitz's trademark earnestness reaches new comic heights. Imagine Dems "savagely demonizing" poor Newt Gingrich, the finger-pointingest politician in recent memory! I'm still chuckling. Wrong career again, Dave.

Bill Spivey
Claremont, Calif.

Note:
My, how things haven't changed (except the about-face of Arianna Huffington -- and the national debt, from $5 or 6 trillion to $14 or 15 trillion). Pointing fingers at "mean-spirited" conservatives is indeed the condescending mantra of "vicious-minded" liberals. Which proves the point that Newt Gingrich is by far the most qualified candidate for President. The man most-hated by the left because he can change Washington's social, political and economic suicide course toward the destruction of America's inherent liberty.

Washington Post
May 17, 2011

Re: Newt Gingrich: The Pinocchio Candidate
By Richard Cohen

Demonizing Gingrich

Richard Cohen's assertions against Newt Gingrich's honesty come as no surprise.

Newt Gingrich has been the most experienced and qualified Republican to be president since he was third in line as speaker of the House. What do Democrats, the liberal media and Republicans with presidential ambitions do to their strongest opponent? Demonize him.

That's what they did when they ran him out of the House in revenge for Clinton's impeachment, with the "Politics of personal destruction" mantra.

Indeed, in stage one leading to the June primaries and 2012 presidential election, the flaming arrows are directed toward his stance on health care, which is repealing Obamacare and leaving healthcare issues to the states. Gingrich has been working hard on health care solutions throughout the states since his founding of Health Care Transformation.

Lest we forget, FDR established Social Security, and Democrats turned it into a federal monster. LBJ established Medicare and Democrats turned it into a Federal monster. Then he established Medicaid and it was turned into an even bigger federal monster against the states.

If we are to survive as the land of the free, the home of the brave, and the land of opportunity, we must have Newt Gingrich as president, and a Republican Congress with teeth and a sword to slay the Democrat healthcare and welfare dragons -- all the federal monsters -- and save us from the final economic collapse coming in 2012 -- if President Obama is re-elected.

Wall Street Journal
May 15, 2011

Re: California's tax revolt -- in favor of higher rates
By Allysia Finely

Who works for who in public education?

Allysia Finely experienced firsthand, the wag-the-dog mentality of and California Teachers' Association being demonstrated across the state.

Following the example of Wisconsin's insurgent government employees taking over the Capitol building, California government teachers' union employees stormed the Sacramento Capitol building, and is protesting throughout the state demanding extended tax increases and additional taxation of the rich to support their jobs and increased benefits at any cost. This is the same union that has defeated every attempt to restore quality public education.

Indeed, state teacher unions, the National Education Association, the education establishment and the Department of Education have controlled the miseducation of our teachers and children far too long -- at enormous waste and expense. Graduating functionally illiterate students is simply an unacceptable national disgrace.

Worse, this has not been the unintended consequences of the failures of good intentions. It has been an intentional dumbing-down of teachers and students processed through factories of ignorance and liberal indoctrination. It is indeed an ideological agenda that has abdicated the constitutional duties and responsibilities of public employees.

Individual dedicated teachers are not at fault here. They are merely caught-up in paying for the selfish interests of an insidious system that is bordering on criminal injustice to sustain the monopoly of a failed education system that should be re-structured and privatized. Parents, not government, should decide the education of their children.

Los Angeles Times
May 13, 2011

Re: Senate grills oil executives over nations high gas prices

Who works for who in our constitutional republic?

The Democrat-controlled Senate inquisition panel is conducting business as usual by dragging oil executives before them to answer for high gas prices in the nation. Contrary to popular indoctrinated belief, the oil companies are not the bad guys here. Intrusive, over-regulating, intimidating, restrictive and unreasonable government-controlled energy policies are.

Indeed, if it were not for our government's abuse of power, we would not have suffered the housing crash and economic collapse, the cost of government and the cost living would be significantly lower, and we would not be encumbered by insurmountable debt.

And contrary to government's dependency-driven view of America -- even though we are being ruled by the power of taxation, massive government and tyrannical regulation -- we do not work for government. Government is bound and limited by the Constitution to work for us. Our power of the vote is in the process of reversing those roles. It's a matter of survival.

Los Angeles Times
May 12, 2011

President Obama's mocking border speech

President Obama's campaign junket addressing immigration reform with politically distorted rhetoric and condescending contempt for those who want comprehensive border security comes as no surprise. He simply isn't serious or concerned.

To secure the border first, we should assign the number of troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq to militarize borders until they are secure. There can be no advance toward changing immigration policy until the southern border is closed, and current laws are rigorously enforced.

When the federal government abdicates its responsibility by leaving over half of the border open to illegal entry, drug running and terrorists, it's simply unconscionable dereliction of duty.

USA TODAY
May 6, 2011

Re: 'We will never forget'
Friday - story on 7A

Obama basking in bin Laden bubble

Giving President Obama credit for pulling the trigger on bin Laden notwithstanding -- that is the one thing which improves his standing with the military and everlasting lasting impact of 9/11. He is now basking in the bin Laden bubble and playing it for all its political worth, hopefully, all the way to the 2012 election.

Question is, where did he stand on the war against terrorism before vowing to get bin Laden in the 2008 campaign? He used bin Laden as the lone symbol, without sustaining substance.

That's the way it is with Obama and the left. Symbolism over substance. And that's why America is in all this social, political and economic trouble.

Washington Post
May 1, 2011

Re: White House Correspondents' dinner sees less serious Obama
By Dan Zak

The man who would be king of America

President Obama's veiled attempt at self-deprecating humor while addressing the White House (state media) Correspondents' dinner confirmed his monarchial view of himself.

Indeed, Obama swept aside Donald Trump's challenge with his birth certificate -- and The Lion King birth video -- poked fun at himself with The King's Speech, played the Trump card on the Donald, and left his SNL court jester, Seth Meyers, to polish off the offender with scathing candor -- leaving his majesty untouched.

Revealing? Yes. Presidential? No.

USA TODAY
April 30, 2011

Re: Citing 'sideshow,' Obama offers full birth certificate A-1

President Obama was condescending, arrogant and dismissive of Donald Trump for challenging his place of birth, much like he is with any and all who oppose his policies. "We do not have time for this kind of silliness…. I have other things to do," makes the point.

Indeed, his contemptuous "side shows and carnival barkers" assertions undoubtedly included references to Fox News, those in the Tea Party movement, and many congressional Republicans. Hardly presidential demeanor.

The media elite and reactionary race card players in this high stakes political game are certainly not playing trump cards. Most who play the race card dishonestly are themselves blatant racists or double-dealing race-baiters.

Regardless, the unraveling economy leading up to the November 2012 elections will be so bad that Obama and the Democrats will be unable to rationalize their enormous blunders or bigger government. Republicans will surely roll-in to Congress and the White House.

The Washington Examiner
April 26, 2011

Re: Obama takes aim at oil companies

President Obama's "no silver bullet"

President Obama's latest pronouncement that there is "no silver bullet" that will resolve the gasoline price crisis -- while at the same time declaring he will eliminate $4 billion in tax breaks for oil companies, and have the attorney general investigate the escalation of gas prices -- is in reality a diversionary witch hunt.

Current case in point is the inordinate EPA delay of Shell Oil Company's efforts in developing an estimated 27 billion barrels of oil from the Arctic Ocean by withholding the necessary permits. Indeed, it didn't matter that Shell had spent five years and $4 billion on exploration plans, including $2 billion for the leases, and that the ruling forced Shell to scrap their efforts.

Considering President Obama's deal with Brazil to make loans to drill and sell us oil -- coupled with increased demand for oil from China and India, and violent Middle East insurgencies -- it is painfully clear that the administration and environmental zealots will hold fast against expanding America's oil and refinery production at any cost.

Sadly, $4.00 gasoline is likely on the rise to 5 or 6 dollars per gallon -- even 8 or 10 dollars -- at the worst possible time for struggling Americans, assaulted by taxes, fees and over-regulation -- and battered by inflation, the loss of jobs, housing and insurmountable federal debt. The question is, how long can we bite the economic bullet? The answer is, until we cast our ballots in 2012.

Time Magazine
April 25, 2011

Re: World's 100 most influential people

Unfortunately, Time Magazine's list of the World's 100 most influential people depicts the news media's bias in naming mostly liberal figures and those who justify their influence. Lacking, is the balance of ideology, political influence and unhealthy power people exhort over national populations. Particularly in America, which is predominately center-right and democracy-deficient. Indeed, the aggressive, unreasonable left are responsible for the social, political and economic mess in the United States -- thus, the World.

Los Angeles Times
April 20, 2011
(Commentary submission)

AB 622 seriously undermines California grand jury system

As a former member of two grand juries in Southern California, I am deeply concerned by Assemblyman Roger Dickinson's AB 622 -- proposed legislation that would amend Section 939.1 of, and add Sections 939.5 and 939.22 to the Penal Code, relating to grand juries - which would seriously undermine grand juries and change the way they operate.

An April 7, 2011 Sacramento Bee editorial, "Bill to undercut Civil Grand Jury is Misguided," correctly noted that "civil grand juries play a vital watchdog role over local government. They have exposed corruption, protected taxpayers and spotlighted important issues." The editorial criticized AB 622, pointing out that during Dickinson's "17 years as a Sacramento County supervisor, was on the receiving end of seething grand jury reports."

Dickinson's legislation would require sworn testimony be taken in public, and would allow those testifying under oath to have their lawyers present. In other words, sweeping changes that would reverse much of grand jury authority and the necessary closed sessions of grand jury operations.

Surely, Dickinson's assertion that grand juries are a secret "star chamber" system abusing their power is absurd. Indeed, the abuse of power more aptly describes what too many legislators and other elected officials do when gaining the personal power of public office. Power that is too often subject to conflicting selfish interests.

It is more than apparent that Dickinson's allies, including the Conference of Bar Associations, have members who would clearly benefit from representing those called before grand juries to give testimony. That conflict and other unnecessary costs of open sessions would further drain the limited budgets of grand juries.

Certainly, the people's interests are well-served by grand jury watchdogs over local government operations. Grand jury systems throughout the country have been under attack by questionable interests of elected and unelected government officials who resist public accountability -- no less than the attacks on the people's right to voter initiatives and referendums.

The legislature should not pass AB 622. Lest people in government forget, California's Constitution, Article II, Section 1 (Purpose of government) clearly states that "All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their protection, security, and benefit, and they have the right to alter or reform it when the public good may require."

Indeed, under the dire economic and budget circumstances of inept California government, now would be the appropriate time for a voter initiative to allow voter signatures to be collected over a secure internet system to qualify voter-initiated propositions for the ballot, and to vote on them. One of the first ballot initiatives should be to strengthen California's civil grand juries on behalf of the people.

The Washington Examiner
April 15, 2011

Re: Suppressed EPA Hushgate climate report returns to snag CO2 regulation
By Ron Arnold

Indeed, the suppressed EPA Hushgate climate report from senior EPA research analyst, Alan Carlin criticizing the climate change CO2 regulation hoax adds another pound of truth to counter the Green Machine extreme. Worse, California is getting a double dose of the expensive fraud.

Following his predecessor's economy-busting lead, Governor Brown has signed SBX-2 legislation requiring one-third of our electric power to come from solar, wind and other so-called renewable energy sources within 9 years.

Indeed, it's bad enough that former governor Schwarzenegger's punishing tax implementation of AB-32's global warming law will raise the cost of carbon emissions from all business sources, thus raising the cost of living for all Californians.

Raising energy costs by nearly 20 percent, costly and unreliable as solar and wind power will certainly double the combined damage that SBX-2 and AB-32 will do to rate payers, consumers, businesses and jobs.

Double dealing environmental zealots, President Obama and his strong-arm EPA will add costly insult to injury with even more punishing carbon cap-and-tax regulations. And where does our economy go from here? Down, down, down.

Alas, what do our governments have against us? Size and power, which we must limited if we are to survive.

Los Angeles Times
March 12, 2011

Re: Obama says he's leery of tapping oil reserve

President Obama's remarks at his March 11, 2011 news conference touting the increase in oil production under his watch is what "… doesn't match up with reality." The president is simply attempting to take credit for what the Bush administration managed to accomplish against decades of reduced production because of unreasonable restrictions from the environmental left.

Skirting the truth is bad enough. But playing politics as usual by making and breaking campaign promises in the face of instability among Middle East oil-producing nations, exacerbating our failing economy with rising oil and energy prices, is an unconscioable fraud against the American people -- who contrary to popular political belief, are not that naïve.

Indeed, President Obama's promises to boost domestic oil, gas and energy production is a deceptive reversal of what he is actually doing, which is delaying existing production, prohibiting new production, and pushing green energy. I'll believe the president is sincere about ensuring our national security and helping the economy, when he takes a shovel and personally breaks ground for a new coal mine, drilling in ANWR, and opens all of our resources.