The Patriot Post Brief 08-25

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The Patriot Post Brief 08-25

From The Federalist Patriot
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THE FOUNDATION: HUMAN NATURE

“The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.”  - James Madison

RE: THE LEFT

“Ideological descendants of Marx and Rousseau now lead the Democratic Party and they have turned it into a disloyal opposition to an increasingly accommodating GOP. They have molded the Party into a force working stridently and unashamedly against a Commander in Chief during wartime. They have made it a den of treachery devoted to American defeat in Iraq. They preside over an institution advised and influenced by moneyed, non-governmental groups and individuals with unquestionably anti-U.S. agendas who help make the Party a pseudo-intellectual sinkhole filled with perverse, tried-and-failed ideas repulsive to the majority of Americans. Those ideas are shaped into agendas which are then forced on the public by an activist leftwing judiciary and by a major media and arts consortium shot through with utter disrespect, indeed contempt, for traditional American values, religions and institutions. The Democratic Party has devolved into a club for the illegitimately aggrieved, the self-absorbed, the self-hating and the perpetually [angry]. It is a sanctuary where solipsistic malcontents and their disjointed causes find refuge and support. It has long ceased being an earnest gathering of broad minds where man’s timeless problems are examined against the backdrop of the Constitution and solutions to them proposed based on the actual realities of the human condition...[Barack] Obama is in step with that radical element and with that leadership.”  - Rocco DiPippo

POLITICAL FUTURES

“The problem on the Left is, now that Karl Marx has forsaken them, they have no philosophy. Thank goodness. Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance. As for our side, conservatism is a gut reaction for most of us, and a done deal for the rest. The moral philosophy of American politics can be explained briefly and clearly, and, the Constitution being written, it has been. Where is there a philosopher in Washington?”  - P.J. O’Rourke

GOVERNMENT

“Congress is spending us into a hole. We hear about the cost of earmarks and the Iraq war. But what about ‘entitlements’? That’s the government’s ironic term for programs that transfer money from people who earned it to people who didn’t. Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else’s money? To finance ‘entitlement’ programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?... What we really need is a top-to-bottom freeing of the economy, including the health-care industry, and massive cuts in government both spending and taxes. This would leave us wealthy enough to take care of ourselves, with private charity assisting those who can’t manage.”  - John Stossel

INSIGHT

“I would define a conservative, first as one who believes in the Constitution as it is written. That takes care of free speech, freedom of religion, the right to petition the government, the right to keep and bear arms and, in the words of William O. Douglas in one of his saner moments, ‘the right to be let alone. Second, a conservative believes in small, limited government at every level. Along with this he believes strongly in individual responsibility. That is, a person or a family should take care of itself and turn for help to government only when all other means have been exhausted. It also means that society, before government, has a duty to take care of its own. Government should be a resource of last resort. Third, a conservative believes taxes should be levied for the purpose of financing the limited responsibilities of government such as providing for the common defense, catching and incarcerating criminals, minting money and filling potholes. Taxes should not be levied for the purpose of redistributing wealth... One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.”  - Lyn Nofziger
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The Patriot Post Brief 08-25

From The Federalist Patriot
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THE GIPPER

“In this era of big government, we sometimes forget that many of our proudest achievements as a nation came not through government, but through private citizens, individuals whose genius and generosity flourished in this climate of freedom.”  - Ronald Reagan

THE REAGAN REVOLUTION

“The vision and legacy of the Reagan Revolution flourish on the pages of The Patriot.”  - Michael Reagan, Author and Syndicated Radio Host

IChThUS IMPRIMIS

“Revering what is true, as opposed to embracing utopian fads, is what marks the conservative disposition. It is also at the heart of the Christian disposition - which relies on a Gospel revealed to the apostles and handed down over the centuries. As the presidential campaign heats up, Christians need to see that most of the issues being debated arise from conflicting ideologies of the two parties. But we should be taken in by nobody’s ideology. Because we look to the revealed, enduring moral order, we may advocate things the world calls ‘liberal’  - like prison reform - because doing so promotes human dignity. And we may also reject those things that ideology labels ‘conservative’ that fail to recognize or uphold the moral order. So, this campaign season, as we debate with our friends and co-workers, let’s try to see beyond ideological labels. After all, political ideologies come and go. The moral order - and the Gospel - are enduring.”  - Chuck Colson

CULTURE

“When I was a boy, the purpose of American history textbooks was to teach American history. Today, the purpose of most American history texts is to make minorities and females feel good about themselves. As a result, American kids today are deprived of the opportunity to feel good about being American (not to mention deprived of historical truth). They are encouraged to feel pride about all identities - African-American, Hispanic, Asian, female, gay - other than American... Can we return to the America of my youth? No. Can we return to the best values of that time? Yes. But not if both houses of Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court move the country even further leftward. If that happens... [m]ore laws restricting ‘offensive’ speech will be enacted; litigation will increase and trial lawyers will gain more power; the American military will be less valued; trees will gradually replace the flag as our most venerated symbol; schools will teach even less as they concentrate even more on diversity, sexuality and the environment; teenage sex will be increasingly accepted; American identity will continue to be replaced by ethnic, racial, gender or ‘world citizen’ identity; and the power of the state will expand further as the power of the individual inevitably contracts. It’s hard to believe most Americans really want that.”  - Dennis Prager

LIBERTY

“It has been the objective of the Left-wing bar to fight aspects of this war in our courtrooms, where it knew it would have a decent chance at victory. So complete is the [majority of the Supreme] Court’s disregard for the Constitution and even its own precedent now that anything is possible. And what was once considered inconceivable is now compelled by the Constitution, or so five justices have ruled. I fear for my country. I really do. And AP, among others, reports [the Court’s ruling on Gitmo detainees] as a defeat for ‘the Bush administration.’ Really? I see it as a defeat for the nation.”  - Mark Levin

OPINION IN BRIEF

“If tomorrow the theory of manmade global warming were proved to be a false alarm, one might reasonably expect a collective sigh of relief from everyone. But instead there would be cries of anguish from vested interests. About the only thing that might cause global warming hysteria to end will be a prolonged period of cooling... or at least, very little warming. We have now had at least six years without warming, and no one really knows what the future will bring. And if warming does indeed end, I predict that there will be no announcement from the scientific community that they were wrong. There will simply be silence.”  - University of Alabama climate scientist Roy Spencer
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The Patriot Post Brief 08-25

From The Federalist Patriot
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SUPPORT THE 2ND AMENDMENT

Fellow Patriots,

On 30 May, I sent you a request to sign an important petition - “The Right of the People... shall not be infringed,” a citizen petition affirming the Second Amendment’s individual “right of the People to keep and bear arms.”

I urge you to sign this petition today - right now, please. We need more than 100,000 signatures in order for this petition to be given the attention it deserves from national leaders.

To sign this petition online, link to -  http://PatriotPetitions.US/second/

You can also sign this petition by sending a blank e-mail to: sign-second@PatriotPetitions.US

Please forward this invitation to Patriot family members, friends and associates.

Thank you!

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!

Mark Alexander

Publisher, PatriotPost.US

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“I think Mark Alexander’s essay, ‘You can’t outsource fatherhood,’ is right on target. Over the past 50 years, I have observed what he reports. However, I never had the stats that he gave to substantiate my thoughts. We have been married 51 years and raised six children who often thank us for the values we have provided. They tell us of the problems many of their friends have regarding their mothers and fathers and of the many number of young people affected by the lack of respect and sanctity of marriage. It will be wonderful when the cycle swings back to some good, old-fashioned Christian morals and ethics.”  - Rome, New York

“I am the Youth Assistance Program adjudicator for an Army training center, and my experience with juvenile offenders mirrors Mark Alexander’s quoted statistics. Fully 80 percent of the juveniles that come before me are in blended or single-parent families. The constancy of values, love and discipline that are the basis of a strong marriage are precisely what children need as they develop. Thank you for confirming that this is not an anomaly associated with military families.”  - Dothan, Alabama

“Mr. Alexander, your perspective was right on. Even some faithful fathers neglect to teach responsibility and fidelity, and in my view that has played a huge part of why the United States is in the predicament of today.”  - Snyder, Texas

THE LAST WORD

“Sometimes, I swear, when I see what our tax dollars get us in Congress, I feel like asking for my money back. But, other times, I find myself thinking that the laughs those clowns provide us nearly, but not quite, make up for their incompetence, hypocrisy and mendacity... Recently, I got my year’s quota of laughs when Congress decided to grill oil company executives because, I guess, the price of gas was higher than it had been in 1958. There’s nothing that rich, pampered politicians like better than putting rich, pampered business executives on the hot seat... at least until they have to go, hat in hand, to grovel for campaign contributions. I actually found myself sympathizing with the executives because they pretty much had to sit there and take it. God forbid they opened their yaps and pointed out that we’d not only have cheaper gas, but not have to toady to the Arabs, the Russians and Hugo Chavez, if these same politicians would quit caving in to the environmental fascists and allowed American oil companies to drill in Anwar, in the Dakotas and in the deep blue sea. It would also be a good idea if we finally began using nuclear power in a big way. Heck, if France can do it without turning Paris into Chernobyl, it can’t be that hard. In the meantime, thanks to these buffoons, I’m stuck paying $4.15-a-gallon for regular.”  - Burt Prelutsky

Veritas vos Liberabit - Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot’s editors and staff. (Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families - especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)