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Saddleback Substance

Posted by KsReaganite on Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:20:55 AM
My apologies to readers about not posting my perspective on the substantive issues raised at the Saddleback forum. The key difference was that of middle of the road, thoughtful judgment born of experience on one hand and ideological idealism buttressed by freshness on the other. In times of war-and we have at least two going on-it is imprudent to trust a man whose sole experience in national policymaking has been 143 days in the Senate where he has been rated the most left wing senator in the 109th Congress.

John McCain's domestic policy approaches are based on thoughtful consideration of the impact of all sorts of taxes on the American family..something of vast importance when the slightest additional tax burden on producers or consumers can launch us straight into recession. His opponent offers a well packaged old product: tax the rich. Senator Barack Obama should remember the famous words of his state's most famous son; "You cannot tax the rich to enrich the poor or tax the employer who creates the employment for the employee."

Those were the words of a small time Springfield lawyer named Abraham Lincoln.



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Styles: When Talk is King

Posted by KsReaganite on Saturday, August 16, 2008 10:57:56 PM
Even before I touch on the substantive aspect of the Saddleback Forum tonight, a key difference in style emerged between the candidates. It is a difference that is not surprising but perhaps had not been in the public eye with such glaring spotlight: Barack Obama is very post modern and lawyerly in his long drawn out conversations whereas John McCain reflects the Cliff Notes, to-the-point approach to dialogue, as befits a military man with an English-Scots heritage (remember the dour Scots Calvinists).  In that love of brevity, Senator McCain is a man with whom I can identify. I don’t like long drawn out conversations, emotional greetings and goodbyes, or even endless phone conversations (no wonder my favorite method of communication is the email). Doesn't mean McCain doesn't care or doesn't have feelings..it just means that he perhaps keeps to the Biblical precept that 'too many words are not of the Godly'.

But many Americans in this generation do worship the spoken word (even when they cannot form a proper sentence in English..never mind any other language).

We live in an era where ‘talk’ is king..there are talk shows and talkathaons, and we are told to ‘talk it out’ no matter what the issue is. Every problem, even when there isn’t one, is assumed to be fixed by a visit or two to a counselor/therapist/social worker/shrink etc. I mean we, as a society, distrust silence and solitude. Being succinct and brief is not a virtue in politics in this day and age; hence my concern for Senator McCain. I guess we won’t know the answer till the numbers come in on election night.

Tomorrow’s post, I will focus on the substantive issues raised in the Civil Forum.

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Sarah's Law

Posted by KsReaganite on Monday, August 11, 2008 8:55:24 PM
Six years ago, a 15 year old girl was raped in Southern California, became pregnant as a result, and was taken to a Planned Parenthood clinic to get an abortion by her rapist..a much older man in his thirties. She died during the abortion because the businesses that perform abortion are quick fix places that have no desire to involve family members or others who can help. Loving parents who could have helped with Sarah's medical history and reached out with comfort were never notified until the coroner called them. The rapist was never prosecuted because, thanks to the abortion industry's immense clout in the country, most states actually forbid  abortion businesses from reporting suspected statutory rape ( Yes there are letters of the law but so many loopholes that they don't mean much. Think about it, if all statutory rapes were to be reported by the likes of George Tille and his cohorts, how the heck are these hacks with medical degress going to make money?).
 
Unfortunately, Sarah's is not a unique story. Fortunately, the people of California do have an opportunity to push back against the combined political and financial might of the abortion industry, the child predators, and the lawyers who protect both. Despite continuing to be outspent five to one, pro child welfare advocates were able to qualify Sarah's Law (Proposition 4) for the ballot in the upcoming November general elections. Proposition 4 requires an abortion business to notify the parents of minors prior to conducting an abortion on a minor (with the provision of judicial bypass in special cases of at home abuse), mandates the reporting of suspected sexual abuse, and establishes a 48 hour waiting period unless otherwise warranted medically. Polls suggest that most Californians, including a plurality of Democrats, support the ballot initiative and, like most Americans everywhere, want to bring some sanity back to the outright abortion on demand regime foisted on America's children by the abortion industry and its radical extremist supporters. While it is true that Americans remain as divided as ever over the question of abortion, there is little doubt that an overwhelmingly majorty of Americans, including a plurality of self described 'pr choice' people strongly support common sense middle ground positions like getting rid of taxpayer funding for the likes of George Tiller, full disclosure to patients, and parental consent/information laws with judicial bypass.
 
Sarah's Law is commonsense protection for the children of California and the people of California have a stark choice this November. Either they can show the courage to defy Hollywood and vote for their vulnerable children or they can bend to the money and might of the the abortion industry-predator-lawyer combine. It is not about pro choice versus pro life this time. Rather, this round is between pro child versus pro predator.
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Saving Georgia

Posted by KsReaganite on Saturday, August 09, 2008 8:18:51 PM
It is a time honored practice of invaders to bide their moment till the eyes of the world are elsewhere. The wily Russians are no different. As the world turned its attention to Beijing, the Russians struck in Georgia. Now, the tiny but sturdy Republic of Georgia is battling for life and death against a nation whose history has been marked by a rapacious appetite for plunder, conquest, and rapine of its neighbors for a thousand years. Time is of essence for we know not how long the brave but far outgunned and outmanned Georgians can hold out against the might of the resurgent Putinist empire in Russia. We know that old Europe-that is England and France-are no good for anything but appeasement and meaningless communiques; we know that Germany is too mired in its apologia for the Nazi past to want to do anything. It is up to the United States then to banish forever the ghosts of the years past when we were, somewhat rightly, accused of leaving allies to suffer because of old Europe's opinion (the Shah of Iran and South Vietnam come to mind). By diplomatic means and otherwise the Russians need to know that America will not stand by idly while its democratic ally gets pummelled into submission. We will do well to remember that tiny Georgia is one of the few European countries brave enough to be an active part of the Coalition of the Willing in Iraq.
 
The Russians must be stopped cold and the only language they understand is one of purpose backed by power.
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A coincidence?

Posted by KsReaganite on Sunday, August 03, 2008 8:30:11 AM
Politicians make the laws (or lack thereof) about the functioning of a civil society like ours. John Edwards, the good 'ole boy Democrat who was just caught cheating on his cancer-stricken wife is one of them. But one thing occured to me as I went through the list of most recent high profile politicians who have been caught cheating on their wives:
 
Bob Packwood (former Republican Senator from Oregon)
Rudy Giuliani
John Edwards
Bill Clinton
Eliot Spitzer
Teddy Kennedy
Dave Patterson (new Democrat Governor of NY succeeding Spitzer)
Marc Dann (disgraced former OH Attorney General)
Paul Morrison (disgraced former KS Attorney General)
Ernie Flecther (disgraced former KY governor)
Guy Newsom (Mayor of San Francisco)
Antonio Villiraigosa (Mayor of Los Angeles)
Jesse Jackson
 
They all have two things in common: they are adulterers and they are loudly 'pro choice'. No wonder their political position is such...I mean if they get their mistresses pregnant, it is much easier to get rid of the 'evidence' and child support payments with abortion on demand (my neighbor Georgie Porgie Tiller does it for 500 bucks a pop, I am told). I guess now I finally understand why these guys feel so passionately about the issue. Hey, it is their self interest on the line, LOL.
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Repeal Should Be First Order of Business in 2009

Posted by KsReaganite on Saturday, August 02, 2008 9:09:30 PM
When the very conservative legislature of Montana and the equally liberal legislature of  Rhode Island both overwhelmingly ask Congress to do the same thing, we are on to something. When law and order conservative and former Georgia sheriff Bob Barr and ultra liberal activist Ralph Nader agree on the same issue, we should take notice. For all these institutions and individuals want Congress to repeal the so-called Real ID Act, which has imposed a heavy burden on states, made regular bureaucracies even more cumbersome, and, most important, mandated federal instrusion into the constitutionally protected domain of the states. No matter who becomes president in 2009, the first order of business should be to forever gut the abominable Orwellian-sounding Real ID Act. That law will go down in history as one of the most despicable ones pushed by this President and lapped up by spineless Congress that can only bark when the President's poll ratings are low. And no, it's not the GOP's fault alone; most liberal Democrats who want to repeal it today in Congress, were gladly co-sponsoring that bill when it came up in 2002 (those days when the president was sitting at 70 % ratings).
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Psychiatrists and Nazis

Posted by KsReaganite on Monday, July 21, 2008 8:15:13 PM
Memories of passionate outrage came flooding back, along with obvious relief, as KsReaganite heard of the arrest of the psychiatrist described by many as Hitler's mini-me in the second half od the 20th century. Former Bosnian Serb 'president' Dr. Radovan Karadicz, the man who presided over genocide, mass rapes, and medieval torture chambers in the heart of Europe at the dawn of the 21st century had had his luck of 10 years run out when he was picked up by police in Belgrade this morning. This was the man who proved, once and for all that appeasement never paid: aided by the 'neutrality' of the British and the French (who forbid any arms shipments to Karadic's largely unarmed victims) and vicissitude of a Bill Clinton who never tired of trying to impress the European sophisticates with his libertine mannerisms, Karadic's military thugs turned a once peaceful country into killing fields never seen in Europe since the Second World War. History will recall what was perhaps the noblest moment of Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole who risked the ire of his own party, constituents, and national public opinion, when the Kansas Senator stood up and said enough was enough and a sham 'neutrality' that helped slaughter innocents was not the kind of 'neutrality' he was willing to let pass. Thanks to Bob Dole's herculean efforts, Congress forbid the United States armed forces from enforcing the immoral UN arms embargo on the people of Bosnia and their legitimately elected multi-ethnic, multi-religious government. Within months, the Bosnians were able to put up resistance and ultimately salvage what was left of their beautiful country. The rest, as they say, is history.
 
And history teaches us time and again that the French and the British are too traumatized by the Second World War to do anything other than talk, sip wine, and make verbose pronouncements to which no dictator or tyrant pays any attention. The magnificence of Europe's grandeur and the vigor of its soul is now to be found in the Baltics, Ireland, and Poland. Heck, it may not be bad idea to take away the Security Council seats of Britain and France and give them to real powers like India and Brazil...ok just kidding!.
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Ryun for Congress, Kansas Second District

Posted by KsReaganite on Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:00:00 AM
One of the greater tragedies and flukes of the 2006 elections was the surprise defeat of Congressman Jim Ryun of Kansas's Second District to liberal extremist Nancy Boyda. A former Olympian and gold medalist track runner, Ryun is seeking his old seat again in a district that has a slight GOP registration edge but is also home to the city of Lawrence and University of Kansas and the second biggest-per capita-gay community in America. Tomcomplicate matters more, the liberal establishment GOP leadership in the Kansas City area is backing Ryun's primary challenger State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins who is being touted as a 'moderate' and funded as such. I know her and think Mrs. Jenkins is a wonderful state treasurer and has done a good job at that office and should continue doing the great job she is doing managing the money of the Kansas taxpayers.
 
With the possibility of a bigger liberal Democrat majority in Congress and even perhaps a radical liberal president like Barack Hussein Obama, we really don't need amateur country club Republicans in Congress who are often indistinguishable from most liberal Democrats. Jim Ryun, though wrong on No Child Left Behind (he was against it), is a businessman, an athlete, and a family man....in other words the complete person that should serve Kansas in Congress well. His record is there for all to see: lower taxes, strong national security, protection of innocent life, and business friendly policies.
 
KsReaganite has no hesitation in strongly endorsing Jim Ryun, the true Reaganite candidate, in the August 3 primary for Kansas Second Congressional district. I may also add that Mr. Ryun is one of the few male candidates who has received the endorsement of the Susan B. Anthony List PAC, an organization whose major purpose is to elect true feminists to Congress.
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Happy 4th and ...

Posted by KsReaganite on Friday, July 04, 2008 12:00:00 AM
Happy Independence Day my friends, readers, and adversaries! Let us rejoice in the anniversary of the birth of this Republic that is indeed the Last Best Hope for mankind. And let us never, never, never, forget those words captured so well in our collective certificate of birth, words that are written on the hearts of men by the hand of God who assures us that all of us are created with certain inalienable rights and amongst these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
 
I will be posting only sporadically during July as part of the month will be spent on vacation and part of it as host to some folks very dear to me (KsReaganite's family is going to be visiting him).
 
God Bless You and May He Always Bless America!!
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Retort to previous post

Posted by KsReaganite on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:37:16 PM
I have been asked, and have a received an email or two in pursuance of that query as well, if I find any arguments of the self-declared 'pro-choice' camp intellectually or morally viable. Now, the moral part, I won't address because that is based on deep beliefs anchored in faith. The intellectual part, I shall comment on because it will come as a surprise to many of my readers. There is one line of argument amongst the 'pro choice' advocates that I find very compelling and intellectually rigorous. Unfortunately, perhaps because of the need to keep appearances in a society given to appearances, few make this argument publicly. One person who did make this argument is a woman I met in college (she was in grad school at the time), who was a downright radical feminist and wore black clothes all the time as a mark of that feminism. Perhaps the only thing she and I agreed upon was that the sun comes out in the East. Today she is an administrator in one of those taxpayer funded east coast colleges and still a full fledged feminist, I am sure.
To this woman, until a a baby was actually born and severed physically from the mother, it was not a life or anything like that, but simply a blob of tissue. She did not believe that life began prior to birth. Hence, it became a matter of individual liberty for her..the freedom to do what you want with your own body since nobody's elses' life was involved there. In other words, her beliefs were anchored in an internal integrity that withstood the test of intellectual rigor. It was an argument I found chilling but very well reasoned and steadfast. And I will always respect that argument because it is very impolite, politically incorrect, and yet bold and made with seamless reason. What I find very hard to fathom, is the politically correct stance that 'I personally believe that life begins at conception but....'. But what? If it begins at conception according to you, you should be doing everything possible to extend legal protections to that life; if you don't believe it begins at conception, you should be doing everything possible to protect the personal liberty of the expectant woman.
 
Be like Martin Luther, who some believed was right and others thought was wrong. Few, if any, doubted his intellectual integrity when he calmly told the assembled earthly powers of Europe, to their faces, that 'This is what I believe, here I stand; I can do no other!"
 
Ich nicht kant anders!
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Another ethical question for liberals

Posted by KsReaganite on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 7:11:23 PM
Okay, now I have another tough question for my liberal friends, readers, and adversaries (because I know how conservatives would answer it). Here is the scenario and the question follows.
 
A late term abortion is being carried out in a hospital by a mediocre, but licensed, fellow who has a a MD degree. For whatever reason the abortion is botched and the baby is delivered and is entirely outside the mother's body.
 
At that point, should the hospital staff be required to treat the baby as a human being in dire need of life saving assistance or should they 'correct' the error of the abortion-provider and let the baby die out since that was the original purpose of the procedure anyway?
 
 
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A link worth it

Posted by KsReaganite on Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:57:11 AM

Today I am adding to my blog roll on the right side panel of this screen a link that is both substantive and symbolic. It will take you to the wonderful website of AIPAC, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, an organization dedicated to keeping strong the support of the people of the United States for Israel. Israel is the closest ally America has in the world along with Turkey and the Unitedt Kingdom. There have been times (like the Scud attacks in the First Gulf War) that Israel has sacrificed its own safety for the sake of American security. These are our friends, and AIPAC is their lobby in America.

KsReaganite has been a long time proud supporter of a democratic Israel within safe and secure borders and with a united Jerusalem as it ancient and eternal capital. For as the Psalmist said thousands of years ago, If I forget thee O Jersalem, let my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.

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Obama: The candidate endorsed by child rapists

Posted by KsReaganite on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:51:51 PM
A carefully crafted death penalty law that punishes those adults who rape (and we are not talking about statutory rape) small children envisions a punishment 'that is disproportional to the nature of the crime', so sayeth the United States Supreme Court. The 5-4 decision was joined by all the four liberal judges (the kind that Barack Obama has pledged to appoint) along with one 'moderate' and vigorously opposed by the four so-called conservative judges (the kind that John McCain has promised to seek). Well, normal, average, decent America, itf you ever needed a reason for being ultra leery of Barack Obama's judicial picks-and wanting know why it is important to have judges who RESPECT the right of legislature to protect the vulnerable-you need to reflect on this.
 
The liberal Democrats fervently believe that our liberites are served by having judges who think the death penalty in too much punishment for the rapist of a seven year old girl. And that is exactly the kind of judges you will get at every level of the federal judiciary when Barack Obama becomes president. Oh I know Obama said he 'disagreed' with the decision; what else did you expect him to say? But time and again he has said and will say that he will appoint judges like Justices John Paul Steven and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, judges who passionately believe in going light on child rapists.
 
Now, KsReaganite is almost an opponent of the death penalty and finds it very very disturbing. But for rape of a child, once it has been proven by eye witness testimony and credible due process to a jury of peers, my conscience will have no qualms in saying: fry the son of a witch if that is what the law says.
 
You want your child protected? Better vote McCain because if Mr. Obama becomes president, the rape of a seven year old girl may not be something we'd be allowed to punish too harshly.
 
By the way, you'll notice not a squeak about the decision today from Planned Parenthood and NOW; if it surpsises you, it doesn't surpsise me, because for all their glossy public relations, I have always considered those groups to be extremely anti-children. Plus they are embarassed after screaming at the top of their lungs how liberal judges were needed to protect women and children; please, the liberal judges just endorsed the rape of a seven year old girl. Shame on these pro-pedophile liberal judges and the groups who support them.
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Yearning unto death

Posted by KsReaganite on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:09:13 AM
As I watch with horro the open and deliberate attack on innocent men and women in Zimbabwe whose only crime has been to yearn for freedom from a megalomanic tyrant, it is not lost on me how largely silent the mainstream civil scoiety has been. None of that outrage for sanctions and divestment that we saw in the 1980s when the culprit was the white minority government in South Africa or the 1970s when the culprit was the much gentler-by Mugabe's standards-white minority government of Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) itself. Why is it that when blacks brutalize blacks, our consciences fall silent? Is it because in the halls of the effiminate, French wine sipping, self declared enlightened Boston Brahmins, it is considered impolite to criticize certain groups, no matter who the victim is?
 
Thousands have been murdered, hundreds raped, entire villages burnt to the ground, and scores of children abducted...all because they dared to hope for freedom in the foulest land in southern Africa. And yet, largely thanks to the deafening silence of the liberal elite in Washington, more will in the hope, perhaps forlorn, that freedom will come to them in their lifetimes.
 
While the couplet was written perhaps for a beloved individual or Spirit, the words of the Persian-Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib capture the unto-death yearning for freedom in Zimbabwe very well.
 
It was not in my fate to meet my beloved;
Had I lived but longer, this would still be my only desire.
But to live on your promise is to make my life a lie,
Would I not have died of happiness had I trusted it?

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Pawlenty, take II

Posted by KsReaganite on Saturday, June 21, 2008 6:47:46 PM
As promised in my previous post, here is further on Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty's bonafides.
 
Timothy Pawlenty is the archtype of the Reagan Democrat with which the GOP is trying to reconnect. Granted that Pawlenty is a Republican, however, his background screams 'Reagan Democrat': blue collar roots, ethnic Roman Catholic parents (though the governor, being a guy of course, followed his good wife into the Southern Baptist oriented evangelical churches), family involvement in labor unions, ardent hunter and angler. As a governor he continues to play ice hockey with his brothers on a charity team, often stops by small burger joints and pubs, and hosts a radio show. He is one of the 'guys'. That may be the reason, perhaps, that in the Republican debacle of 2006, Pawlenty was getting reelected in a very Democratic state over a very popular liberal Democrat challenger. If symbolism matters in elections, and we know it does, Tim Pawlenty is our guy. Plus, some polls suggest strongly that he may help carry Minnesota for us (No Democrat has ever won the White House without carrying Minnesota in the last sixty years).
 
This guy will firmly underline the fact that today, it is the Republican Party that is the party of the average American who works hard, loves his country, goes to church, and has a beer or two while watching NASCAR races. Tim Pawlenty's nomination will underscore what everyone but the mass media knows now: the Democratic Party is the party of over educated, snobbish, wine sipping, French film watching, Catholic hating, secular elitists who consider gun owning and church attendance as examples of the bitterness of racists.
 
And lest it come up, Governor Tim and Judge Mary Pawlenty have been married for a long time, their first and only marriage, and are blessed with two children. Mary Pawlenty, who recently resigned as district court judge to become head of a mediation service, is of course the type of woman who frightens liberal Democrats to the core. A reputed trial lawyer, who was appointed judge in her own right by former Governor Arne Carlson, Mrs. Pawlenty has never shied away from being a woman of faith and has always maintained that her family comes first and foremost in her life. Suffice to say, that in her reelection campaigns for judgeship, she received not a dime from the Womens National Lawyers Association (WNLA), Planned Parenthood, or Emily's List. This is a woman who is her own person, not beholden to anyone for success but to her Creator. She'd be an awesome Second Lady of the United States of America.
 
Let's roll!!!!
 
John McCain-Tim Pawlenty 2008
The winning ticket for real America
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