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Volume I, Issue XII

The Largest Employer in Kansas City

Years ago I went to a convention of the National Institute of Restoration in Kansas City, Missouri. While I ws there I learned a few facts about the city. Who do you think the largest employer in Kansas City is? If you guessed the federal government give yourself a gold star!

The federal government!!! In the heartland of America? In the state that gave us Rush Hudson Limbaugh! Believe it! Our government workforce is HUGE and much of it is not even in Washington DC where you would expect to find it.

This was over seventeen years ago! Now if you think the federal bureaucracy has decreased in the years following my discovery think again. It is only going to get worse.

Tucked away in the 2000+ pages of 'healthcare' that was railroaded through the house last night is a provision for hiring 16,000 new IRS agents! What do more IRS agents have to do with making healtcare more affordable? They are essential if 'healtchare' involves collecting fines and increased compliance monitoring.

Here's a better idea: Reports from reliable sources say there are millions in unpaid taxes by FEDERAL EMPLOYEES! How about the existing agents leaving alone all but the most blatent private sector cases and concentrate on cleaning their own house for a year?

Statistics show that people doing the same job as someone in the private sector make 20% more working for the government. If we're intent on 'taxing the rich' here's an exellent place to start.

While I'm on the subject, if redistbution of wealth from the 'evil rich' is such a priority, how about some tort reform so those nasty old trial lawyers don't get rich off of our medical spending?

It's Time to 'Redisribute the Jobs'

Speaking of trial lawyers, with lawyers being so overrepresented in our Congress and the 2010 elections on the horizon, it's time to fire the representatives and senators who gave us no representation over the past eighteen months. Scott Brown is evidence that we can get better representation anywhere. We can look for Jefferson's ideal of citizen governance on all levels as we vote this November.

It goes without saying that Ronald Reagan's vision needs to be implemented again. Taxation and government will need to be cut in order to restore vitality to the market economy that creates real jobs and real growth... the private sector!

Ten Reasons to Fire Nancy Pelosi [click to read] from SWAC Girl.

Stupak's 'Defender of Life Award' Revoked! [click to read]. If they don't 'walk the walk' don't let them 'talk the talk!' Marjorie Dannenfelser makes a clear and needed statement about integrity here!

Supply and Demand, Congress Style [click to read] from Fishersville Mike.

A Visual Stand for Rebuilding America

Twin Tower Alliance [click to read] offers a simple but compelling vision. Visit their site and you can purchase these inspiring posters:

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Volume II, Issue IV

How Can We 'Forget About the Truck?'

"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." -- Samuel Adams, 1776 ht/SWAC Girl

"The enlightened elites want to tell you to sit down and shut up. But the way forward is to stand and fight. Throw tea parties. March on Capitol Hill. Write letters to the editor. Run for local office -- you never know where it may lead. And make your voice heard on every single election day, on every single issue. That is your birthright.

Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right." -- Governor Sarah Palin, Going Rogue, p395.

Representative government is back. It arrived in Washington in a GM with over 200,000 miles on it.


Scott Brown goes to Washington!

Brown's Truckin', Obama Shifts into Reverse [click to read]. Mark Steyn in Jewish World Review.

"No, You Can't" [click to read]. Larry Elder

Here is the 'companion' TIME Issue [click to read]. I was told that since many Conservatives don't bother to look at the 'Professional' weekly news magazine anymore, someone might miss the full impact of my 'cover commentary.'

Massachusetts Medley

Ted Kennedy's Leftward Drift and Scott Brown's Victory


September 12, 2009 Rally in Washington. The people demand to be heard.

Here are a couple of interesting articles about Massachusetts' political history by Daniel J. Flynn in City Journal. First a Look at Ted Kennedy's Leaning Leftward [click to read] and then Scott Brown's Victory [click to read] and what it means for the country as a whole.

One does well to remember that John Kennedy once cut taxes and knew he needed to stand strong in the face of Soviet missles being delivered to Cuba. Ted once was, believe it or not, a believer in morally conservative ideals:

"Kennedys and Catholicism became intertwined in Catholic Massachusetts. But all that changed dramatically with the emergence of new issues like abortion and gay rights. Prior to Roe v. Wade, Kennedy had believed that society had a “responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception,” which included “the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old.” But Kennedy’s reversal on the issue was complete, making his support of abortion rights as pronounced as his identification with the Church had been."

Though the pro-life movement has deep roots in the Church, Kennedy felt no need to acknowledge it in the wake of the Supreme Court's elevation of abortion to a 'right.'

"[He] inherited neither the America First foreign-policy views of his father nor the liberal anticommunism of JFK, but the newly dovish tendencies of brother Bobby, who, by his ill-fated 1968 presidential run, was swimming deeply in New Left currents. For the next 40 years, Ted Kennedy and much of his party remained bound to this 1960s zeitgeist."

Ted fought the Reagan reduction of tax rates too. Nationalizing healthcare was a major priority for him.

But Ted and his party were drifting steadily away from the responsibility of representing the people. The election of Barack Obama and his bold push for bigger government finally tilted the scales too far. Though he had promised to reach across the isle and create new transparency in government, the President instead pushed major changes through under cover of darkness... expensive changes that would create massive new deficits and burden an ailing economy with even more taxation. When Scott Brown came on the scene his message already had a waiting audience. The rest is history.


December 15, 2009 in Washington saw crowds protesting the tactics of the left.

The Thrill of Victory... Scott Brown!

A Conservative Bloggers Sampler...

SWAC Girl [click to read] has collected the ruminations of a lot of Conservative bloggers in the wake of the Scott Brown 'Shot heard around the world.' Has Jim Webb discovered his 'Conservative side?' -- hint: look at his voting record. Scott is packing his gear in his well-worn pickup [1.] for a trip to Washington. He intends to waste no time getting down to business representing the people who put him in office.

Most interesting is the spin that is being put out by the people who were just weeks ago ramming healthcare down our throats under cover of darkness... that this is just an extension of the dissatisfaction that put Mr. Obama in office!

I beg to differ. Scott Brown will continue to do what he promised to do... be a voice for the regular person who understands what is happening in Washington.

As to those who promised 'transparency' and 'fiscal responsibility' and then ran up more deficit in one term than Bush did in eight years... welcome to Representative Government!


Furnace Mountain in the snow.

The Era of Reagan... Continues!

Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts Weigh In

New Jersey's Chris Christie [click to read] is discussed by Steven Malanga in City Journal.

Massachusetts' Scott Brown [click to read] now makes the message pretty clear. Add this to the clear victory in Virginia of Bob McDonnell and the reports of the death of the era of Reagan are 'greatly exaggerated' to say the least. Brown and McDonnell both presented a clear alternative to bigger government and runaway taxation and deficits. Both stayed on message even when their opponents tried to muddy the discussion. They educated when others obfuscated. Then they repeated the message again. They took nothing for granted and used every opportunity to bring the voters into the discussion. On election day their tireless efforts were rewarded.

The people have entered the game and are talking intelligent policy. Will the academy recognize the strength of free markets and the weakness of government solutions. This Article in City Journal [click to read] points out how many of Europe's best free market thinkers have found a place in American Universities. Could it be that fuure leaders will be better schooled in the failure of Marxism and Keynes and embrace a more pro-market philosophy?

Sitting here in the 'Commonwealth of Opportunity' listening to results from the very blue state of Massachusetts, things in our future seem brighter than we hoped for!

Change I Can Believe In

Scott Brown's 'Shot Heard Around the World'

Fox Just Reported This [click to read].


The green pickup. Public servants should remember who they serve! [1.]

Seat Him Now! [click to read]. The people have spoken.

What Scott Brown Has Done for Us [click to read] in American Thinker.

"I bet they can hear this cheering all the way in Washington, D.C. It's just the beginning...when there's trouble (for the Dem machine) in Massachusetts, there's trouble everywhere. Rest assured they know it." -- Scott Brown