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Post by Sigurdur on Jan 27, 2023 4:50:44 GMT
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Post by gridley on Jan 27, 2023 13:02:38 GMT
www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article271638537.html“The Repeal the NFA Act will strip the ATF of its authority to criminalize lawful gun owners and will undo nearly 90 years of assault on fundamental freedoms,” Burlison said in a press release. “I’m proud to stand with and support Americans nationwide as we take this issue head-on.” I realize it has a snowball's chance in Heck of passing, but I like it!
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Post by blustnmtn on Jun 12, 2023 14:52:59 GMT
Federalism in action: www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/louisiana-sovereignty-resolution-should-be-model-entire-nation/“Thomas Jefferson wrote that the States who agreed to ratify the Constitution are “sovereign and independent” within their sphere, and that whenever the federal government acts without constitutional authority, “nullification is the rightful remedy.” Indeed, neither the Constitution nor the revolutionary experiment in liberty it secured would have been possible had there been any question about the States’ right to nullify federal acts that violate state sovereignty. It was an express condition of entering into the constitutional compact. Alexander Hamilton, who believed in a strong central government, nonetheless said in Federalist 33 that any law passed by Congress that was not enacted “pursuant to its constituted powers will be merely acts of usurpation, and will deserve to be treated as such.” ”
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Post by ratty on Jun 14, 2023 23:47:10 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 21, 2023 17:42:13 GMT
If I wanted the US to succeed, I wouldn't destroy this symbol of unity.
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 23, 2023 13:02:46 GMT
As a Southerner I have to say that "justice delayed" is still justice. An emerging historical trend that will drain capital out of the big northeast cities and redistribute it to the real American hinterland. And what happens then? Oakies replaced by Yankees? Sorry Blue. The real American New Yorkers need to stand up and take "it" back.
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Post by blustnmtn on Aug 30, 2023 19:04:13 GMT
The US needs a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on the House of Representatives and Senate:
These people do not know how to walk away with dignity and the electorate at large doesn't know what they're voting for!
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Post by gridley on Sept 16, 2023 12:25:27 GMT
www.newsweek.com/its-not-trauma-thats-fueling-veteran-suicide-its-losing-our-sense-purpose-opinion-1827037"A new study conducted by America's Warrior Partnership in collaboration with The Department of Defense (DOD) and The University of Alabama found it was worse: The rate of veteran suicide was 24 a day nationally. The VA is reporting the number as 17." "It isn't just veterans who are at risk. As of this writing, the United States is on pace to see a record number of active-duty suicides in 2023. Active suicides increased in the first quarter of 2023 to 94 from 75 the previous year." "What I've learned through years of dealing with my own issues and being a part of this community is this: It isn't combat that corrupts men's souls, but a lack of purpose." "So when you return to your civilian community and see nothing resembling community, when what you thought you fought for doesn't exist, you go from full of purpose to nihilistic in short order. You lose your entire identity when you lose your purpose, and a man without an identity is a man without hope."
I am not a veteran, but this makes sense - the problem isn't risking your life. The problem is finding out you risked your life for nothing - for a lie.
The author does, however, have a note of hope (hence why I picked this thread):
"If you are a man who's struggling, or if there is one in your life be he veteran or not, help him find his fight. We need to fight, because we know a threat to liberty anywhere is a threat to liberty everywhere. And we need to fight for each other, because we know in a way you'll never understand that none of us can do this alone."
And remind the veterans you know that they swore to support and defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign... and domestic.
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Post by gridley on Sept 26, 2023 11:50:06 GMT
thefederalist.com/2023/09/26/what-this-marxist-historian-gets-right-about-the-american-revolution/"As shocking as it may seem, there was a time when the left cared about the working class of their own countries. There also once was a time (as recent as the anti-WTO protests of the ’00s) in which the left opposed globalism, which they saw as a tool for eradicating cultures across the world and creating an environment in which wages could be driven down by immigration and global corporate expansion. There was further a time in which the left argued for free speech and open intellectual inquiry as well as high intellectual standards in K-12, college, and university education." "In the era of “woke capitalism” and “millennial leftism,” however, these sentiments have been eclipsed by a radical egalitarianism and anti-intellectualism that is focused on racial and gender issues as opposed to economic ones. Indeed, it has been argued that the left is now as divided as the right between older liberals who advocate for some democratic socialism within a color-blind and diverse society, and those on the left who advocate for tearing down the West and creating a neo-feudal, oligarchical tyranny. The older generation of liberals is (usually) grayer and wiser than the new generation of woke millennials." I've seen this idea several other places - the Liberals were bad, but could at least be engaged in conversation. The Progressives are radicals and tolerate nothing resembling compromise or even discussion (while saying that settling for 90% of what they asked for this time and giving the rest of us nothing is a "compromise"). A few years back I saw a presentation at a union conference which noted that the Dems haven't done anything major for the labor movement in decades - not even when they held the White House and majorities in both houses of Congress. The careful subtext was that the current Dem leadership saw the unions as a source of funding and nothing else - there was (and is) no need to help the unions in return. Noting that a lot of unions remain bastions of blue-collar middle class people with productive jobs it is perhaps unsurprising that the current Dem leadership is uninterested in boosting them. One other data point: Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, a longtime Dem, recently announced he's switching to the Republicans, citing the wokeness of the current Dems and the policies that come from that. I suspect this will harm his chances of re-election... but this is Texas so he might pull it off.
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Post by gridley on Dec 1, 2023 13:24:53 GMT
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Post by walnut on Dec 1, 2023 13:40:57 GMT
Should be criminal and civil. The criminal part should lead to capital punishment. The civil penalty should be a trillion dollars. Pay the bill and then step into the gas chamber.
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 1, 2023 14:54:57 GMT
Should be criminal and civil. The criminal part should lead to capital punishment. The civil penalty should be a trillion dollars. Pay the bill and then step into the gas chamber. Better that they should stare their sins in the face over their remaining years ... and make amends if they can. Many will remain unredeemable. Amongst the common thugs there will always be a Patrick Moore (Greenpeace founder) ... or a Chuck Colson (Nixon's Hatchet Man) ... or the son of a Hamas founder ... or a Saul on the highway to Damascus. Nobody can so effectively face down the sin as the redeemed sinner.
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Post by walnut on Dec 1, 2023 23:06:42 GMT
Should be criminal and civil. The criminal part should lead to capital punishment. The civil penalty should be a trillion dollars. Pay the bill and then step into the gas chamber. Better that they should stare their sins in the face over their remaining years ... and make amends if they can. Many will remain unredeemable. Amongst the common thugs there will always be a Patrick Moore (Greenpeace founder) ... or a Chuck Colson (Nixon's Hatchet Man) ... or the son of a Hamas founder ... or a Saul on the highway to Damascus. Nobody can so effectively face down the sin as the redeemed sinner.
Wise judgement as always Moboy. King Solomon wouldn't have said it better.
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 1, 2023 23:54:36 GMT
We have always been immigrants. Some think that the current wave is straining the fabric.
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Post by gridley on Dec 2, 2023 22:35:50 GMT
We have always been immigrants. Some think that the current wave is straining the fabric. The difference I see is that *generally* before, most waves of immigrants either wanted to assimilate, were forced to assimilate, or decided that assimilating was the easiest path. My g'g'great grandfather got his last name changed at Ellis Island. He decided that was an acceptable price of admission. Can you see the current "migrants" changing their last names? Or anyone in CBP even *contemplating* writing down whatever Americanized spelling was easy for them?
Said it before and I'll say it again: we NEED the ones who want to come here an assimilate to the US. The ones who are coming here for the free stuff? Nope. The ones coming here to blow stuff up? Gee let me think... NO.
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