AUTHOR'S UNPUBLISHED LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Since March 12, 2011

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.