FLAG DAY TRIBUTE

We’re a few days late to this one. Still…

Great salute to the American Flag and what it stands for.

Doc Zero’s The Birth of Defiance

This flag was not meant to be kept within the borders of our fifty states. It is a gift of genius and courage, presented to all mankind by patriots who refused to turn away from the divine truth of equality and inalienable rights. The American flag carried that truth through a forest of muskets and bayonets, into all the shackled corners of the world, past the frozen forests of Europe and the graveyard islands of the Pacific, and to the grey dust of the Moon. It passes nightly over the communist squalor of Cuba and North Korea, the butchers of Tiananmen Square, and the high priests of the Middle Eastern death cult. Let none of them ever look upon the Moon without remembering that free men walked there first. No slave or suicide bomber will ever leave a footprint beside the one Neil Armstrong made. No servant of darkness will ever touch the flag he planted there.

Several very original thoughts to this type of piece. Read the whole thing.

Even if Flag Day was a couple of days ago.

by Mondo Frazier

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tries to paint his opponent for the U.S. Senate, Sue Angle, as a “crackpot”–for wanting to abolish the inefficient, waste factory that is the Department of Education.

Sometimes, a you read a writer who writes about what you were thinking. Mona Charen did that this weekend.

Mona Charen: Abolishing Department of Education isn’t extreme.

Newly minted Nevada senate candidate Sharron Angle is a kook. That’s what Sen. Harry Reid’s people are telling reporters. ABC, CNN, and other outlets seem to agree, noting that Mrs. Angle wants to shutter the federal Department of Education, get the U.S. out of the U.N., phase out Social Security, and eliminate the IRS.

We haven’t yet heard her explanations of these positions — many of which can be justified in the proper context. It’s certainly possible that she is a little eccentric (that prison massage program doesn’t pass the smell test). But this much is certain: It is not kooky to favor the elimination of the Department of Education. That this proposal is routinely labeled “extremist” is a reminder of the one-way ratchet that operates in government. Enshrine something in a federal agency and it becomes sacrosanct. Democrats cheerlead for federal programs because they are the party of government, and Republicans quietly go along because they’re afraid.

Education is the only field where great sums of money are allocated for completely untested ideas which are tried out for decades on students acting as guinea pigs. After the idea fails, it’s off to a new idea, another couple generations and more trillions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money.

The Department of Education just involves the Federal Government in the entire failed process.

End it and save the money.

Do it for the kids.

NOTE: That Harry Reid considers it ‘dangerous’ and a “crackpot” idea to save taxpayers’ money by abolishing the Department of Education says more about the Senate Leader than it does about his opponent, Sue Angle.

by Mondo Frazier

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Boo! Cross-referencing the current economic problems to the Great Depression is not particularly helpful to those who’ve been in charge of Congressional spending.

Another thing to worry about for those Democrat incumbents who threw over their constituents for the guy in the Oval Office.

From David Paul Kuhn’s Great Depression Ghosts Haunt Dem Prospects:

The ghost of the Great Depression has become eerily (more) relevant in recent months. The Depression was the confluence of two catastrophes: an economic bubble burst domestically while Europe faced a debt crisis. The September 2008 market crash brought us the former but not the latter. We now have the latter.

Greece’s debt crisis has spread to the more-vulnerable European economies. This debt crisis remains still an echo of what overtook Europe following the Great War. But it’s a loud echo at that. Markets closed May with their worst monthly declines since early 2009.

Kuhn draws a conclusion that should terrify (most) Democrat congressmen who’ve mindlessly backed the Obama agenda–back when the president was flying high in the polls–over their constituents.

The most likely outcome is not calamitous. But it’s not good. Financial wise men expect a “sideways market” through at least year’s end. That means ups and downs but generally, that stocks remain steadily in this down and unstable market. That scenario should also frighten this White House. No market recovery, no jobs recovery.

No significant jobs recovery by 2012, Obama looks like Jimmy Carter. With recovery, Obama looks like Ronald Reagan. There is another potential scenario as well. Obama did not, like Franklin Roosevelt, focus the full-force of his early presidency on the financial crisis. This president’s inaction would be contrasted against any double-dip recession. Should the market suffer a second crash, Obama could look like Herbert Hoover.

In 138 days, it’s the constituents who will get to speak in a way that will be unmistakably loud: the November elections.

Until then, let the Second Scoop of a Double Dip (Recession) and the Great Depression keep incumbents–and Dem incumbents–awake at night everywhere.

by Mondo Frazier
image: Creative Capital

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