Dwayne

Now it’s up to you — your vote comes with much responsibility

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We like to bandy the idea of democracy around, promoting the value of elections and citizen involvement. But those features are not the primary intention of democracy. Instead, it is to promote deliberation, consideration which produces a broader perspective and more considered response.

Exercising the rights of our representative democracy – voting, free speech, etc. – is valuable only in as much as it produces said deliberation.

Alexis de Toqueville, whose insightful 19th century observations on American political life continue to bear fruit in contemporary analysis, noted that “liberty is an arduous apprenticeship.”

If you wish to assert your rights, you must respect the responsibilities that come with them.Electronic communications and social media only magnify the significance of these concerns.

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The Worst Media Election Since The Last One

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No matter which candidate wins Tuesday, it’s clear the media didn’t just cover this election, they shaped it. To paraphrase Dickens, it was the best of coverage and the worst of coverage. If you were President Obama, you got the best of coverage and photos of you with halos around your head. Your made-up autobiography … Read more

The End of a Scandalous and Uncivil Presidency

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This may be premature but I shall jump the gun with a big prayer and hope this Nation wakes up Wednesday morning with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan winning the election by electorates and popular votes. I am so sick and tired of watching an administration that believes it is above the law and they are untouchable.  Hopefully, reality hits this entire administration like a grand piano falling out of a fifty story building possibly breaking the fall of the piano. I would hate to see such a wonderful instrument damaged.

President Obama came into office claiming he would be a civilized unifier of the people with transparency.  This administration has been anything but all the promises made through wonderfully delivered speeches.  I must give him credit where credit is due.  He does a magnificent job reading deceiving lines off a teleprompter while smiling at the same time.   I would have never thought a community organizer could be so talented.

In the past four years we have been hit with one bombshell after another that has put this country on a great divide and a landslide deficit.  The socialists agenda of Obamacare was pushed through behind the transparent doors in the White House with a reconciliatory vote.  Of course, we know that the majority of America’s citizens were highly opposed to such an idea, but with the taxpayer’s money Obama bought the votes and shoved it through. This bill was challenged with allegations of it being unconstitutional.  Thanks to John Roberts, we know the outcome of that event.

Then we have “Fast and Furious”, a plan that I believe was originally an effort to put a national ban on firearms.  Did this one ever backfire.  Someone in the administration gave permission to The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to run guns to our beloved Drug Cartels across our southern border.  This resulted in the death of a United States Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, and more than likely an unaccountable number of many more lives.  Will we ever see the truth exposed on this cover-up?

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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 2012

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Every now and then as things develop it’s necessary to cut political connections between one group and another, and, for good cause, establish separate operations according to the laws of Nature and God.  Good manners require the initiating party explain the reasons for declaring independence.

First, some background about what we believe and how those beliefs require us to exact severance.

It is obvious that every person is created equal, including babies still preparing to enter the world. All human beings are precious, sacred, created by a loving God. This God endows each one of us with ironclad, inseparable human rights, to name a few, the right to Life, Liberty and the opportunity to work toward Happiness in this world, always understood to mean the right to own private property and to live our lives free of government domination.

Government exists to secure all Rights provided by God. Government can only do its job if it first gets permission from The People.  Government is therefore placed under the control of The People and exists to serve the interests of The People.  The traditional values of the majority of The People, dearly held for millennia, make up the foundational moral code of society, and government, if rightly securing the rights of The People, will respect that foundational code.

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