Begins at Home

America's wealthy luminaries had a confab in New York to decide how to best direct their charitable giving. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, anti-Semitic nut Ted Turner, and the Oprah were amongst the attendees. I don't care what a person does with money that they have earned. If Oprah wants to open an academy for physical and sexual abuse on Tierra del Fuego, that's her business. But what I don't like is people being able to take advantage of the tax code to "outsource" their charity. With such glaring and sadly ever growing need right here in the streets of America why should Bill and Melinda Gates receive a tax benefit to give mosquito nets to Africa. Plenty of inner city kids or needy in Appalachia could have used the help right here to escape grinding poverty and lack of jobs. Let the rich give what they want but only allow deductions for domestic contributions until all need is met here. Also philanthropic foundations have been so subverted by the left that they are now almost exclusively controlled by liberals and the capitalists who made the great fortunes to begin with to start the foundations must be rolling in their graves. These benefactors could never believe that the legacies they left would now advance a socialist or Marxist agenda. God help the country that doesn't have the sense to take care of her own first.

The Dream Car

Obama's "green" car mandate is a tad optimistic given constraints of physics and engineering. The high mileage vehicle imagined by the libs would under current circumstances by necessity be small and light and of no utility for large families. Not a big deal perhaps for Obama, the most enthusiastic abortion pusher who has ever resided in the White House, but can you imagine how many kids you can fit in a smart car (maybe one purpose-built for the circus could hold my lovely neighbors' family but I doubt they could carry their kids along with a few packages from Walmart in anything smaller than a minibus.)? The car of the future the environment as deity crowd envisions will run on water with butterflies and rainbows as the only exhaust products. Given the current ownership of US automakers and the worshipful regard among Obama's backers-this wonder vehicle will be made under the new imprint of "Messiah Motors".

Gun Free Zone

There was a fatal shooting yesterday during a high school graduation being conducted on Tennessee State University's campus. It is impossible to believe this happened with clearly posted signs declaring the campus a "gun free zone". Why someone with criminal intentions and a murderous mentality would never violate the posted regulations of a campus or a clearly delineated state or Federal law. Someone really ought to look into this.

This Is Incest

Every observer of politics knows a story where a politician has lost office in an election or forced out by term limits, only to turn around in short order to become a lobbyist, seeking to influence former colleagues. This is unsavory, and some states and governmental bodies have imposed waiting periods or other restrictions against this practice. But this is by no means the only sort of abuse. There exists all sorts of tortured ethical legislation designed to permit ex-pols (and sitting politicians for that matter) to conduct enough slippery gymnastics to slip through loopholes that seem tailor-made to facilitate a sort of graft. One glaring omission in Federal law allows politicians to be wined and dined by lobbyists as long as they don't have a sit-down meal. They can have all the appetizers that influence peddling merits. These provisions to permit continued manipulation of the process were not oversights or miscalculations, every legislative body in the country is chock full of lawyers-they used the deliberative process to design the law for their own benefit. They knew exactly what they were doing and wanted to continue to foster a climate where votes can still for all intents and purposes be bought and sold. Occasionally, a politician is brought forward to be the sacrificial lamb on an issue unpalatable to voters. This is no act of bravery as invariably they are either already term-limited or have been assured some other position if their constituents are so riled up they throw them out of office. Matt Kisber, a Democrat, was sent out to shepherd support for a state income tax in my home state, Tennessee. He did inflame the voting public with his backing of this widely unpopular measure, but lo and behold, Mr. Kisber was made the head of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development and did not have to face voter wrath by standing for office after being the hatchet man for a term-limited so-called moderate Republican Governor, Don Sundquist. All is right with the world, as politicians have no worries about job security no matter how mad they make the voter. Regardless of party affiliation, they take care of each other.

New Family Planning

Barack Hussein Obama could do Orwell or Aldous Huxley proud. He has an ambitious energy policy involving cap and trade. He has taken or is taking the automobile companies. He wants to "green" America as part of the stimulus package. This transformative approach is holistic in scope. Obama has reversed welfare reform, started by Reagan and brought to the fore by the Republican Congress under the somewhat reluctant Bill Clinton who signed on with gritted teeth. Obama favors the broad amnesty approach to immigration reform and mostly is willing to relinquish sovereignty and have more or less open borders. I have often heard and seen as in the case of one of my neighbors, that there is simply no way they can survive with a "green" vehicle. They have seven children and require a large SUV, minivan, or church-type van just to go anywhere as a family. Such practical considerations rarely enter an environmentalist politician's mind. So what is the logical outcome of subsidizing unwed pregnancy anew, rewarding illegitimacy with AFDC and ever increasing welfare benefits, and having an influx of unskilled Latin American and Mexican migrants to take menial jobs and leech the system? Extreme growth of the most dependent population-with those carrying the water for the nation ever more aggressively burdened to support the parasitic dole dwellers. The large productive families will not have to worry about transport though with the ever growing lower classes, there will be a push for something akin to China's one child policy, particularly with such a friend of the abortionist in the Oval Office as Obama. The poor could not fairly be expected to limit the scope of their birthrate without the rich having to make a similar sacrifice in the size of their families. After all Obama wants to ensure equity, fairness, and equal outcomes. Besides a large Catholic family like my neighbors could never fit into a government-mandated smart car-so the obvious solution is limit the family. Why, even Jonathan Swift would be proud.

Bequeath Them Freedom

Oh sons of sons of liberty/ The nation they died for/ Born in blood and fire on the forge of war/ For you and me/ Not land or gold or precious stone/ But for this sacred idea alone, you see/ This notion of a place where a man could breathe free/ Unleashed, granted manumission from tyranny/ No paint or statue as legacy/ But the noblest patrimony/ Of blood and rended flesh that nourishes the tree of liberty/ With no travail too great to bear/ To guard the freedom we have here/ No sacrifice too dear to make for freedom's sake/ As a great deceiver ties us in a Gordian Knot of regulation, and aid, and law to subdue us/ To take the gift that God did imbue us/ We few who still hoist "Don't Tread on Me"/ And fight still to proclaim liberty/We with the last vestige-some slandered remaining aspect of national pride/ We who do not our heroes martyred, hide/ To allow a young and foolish peacock to decide/ True patriots hold this love of country and Constitution deep inside/ Who do not rush with the masses on Obama's fool's errand ride/ We have learned Barack's apology game/ Hussein who demands as Americans we bury our heads in shame/ As if jingo were our middle name/ And racism and oppression our claims to fame/ And we will simply rejoice/ When we hear Obama's voice/ Saying we forswear force/ While real menace nations arm up, of course/ They will just be taken by the Obama charm/ And line up in sequence to disarm/ There will be no further cause for alarm/ As lions rest with the lamb/ And Iran and North Korea embrace Uncle Sam/ And we enjoy our email filling with spam/ And Christians and Jews dance with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

Nanny State Ninnies

Sugar is about to become a taboo substance. No not cocaine, but refined white sugar will be the new contraband. Of course, certain places have already imposed such intrusive, busy body measures, notably New York City under faux Republican, turned independent Mike Bloomberg. The mayor was not successful in targeting sugar but has made smoking an almost forbidden and costly act. He has forced many restaurants to post nutritional content of their food, and he has even forbidden the use of certain kinds of cooking oil in restaurant cuisine. Bloomberg really believes he is that much smarter and needs to make your decisions for you. Obama is less interested in your health or the welfare of your family. He is certainly an adherent of the elites know best philosophy, but the coming sugar tax has virtually no bearing on America's health. Make no mistake this is nothing more than a government revenue grab. This is one more way like the proposed cap and trade regulation for Obama to keep his hand in your pocket.