Mises and Madison

"With respect to the two words 'general welfare,' I have always regarded them as qualified by the DETAIL of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a METAMORPHOSIS of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." -April 20, 1831 Letter from James Madison (dubbed Father of the U.S. Constitution for his role in drafting of the text; see also The Federalist Papers, published on behalf of the American system as one of limited government of by and for the people of A Free Republic)~

"MODERN CRYPTODESPOTISM, which arrogates to itself the name of liberalism, finds fault with the negativity of the concept of freedom. The censure is spurious as it refers merely to the grammatical form of the idea and does not comprehend that all civil rights can be as well defined in affirmative as in negative terms. THEY ARE NEGATIVE AS THEY ARE DESIGNED TO OBVIATE AN EVIL, NAMELY THE OMNIPOTENCE OF THE POLICE POWER [OF GOVERNMENT], AND TO PREVENT THE STATE FROM BECOMING TOTALITARIAN." -Ludwig von Mises in chapter 21, The Theory of Money and Credit~

Prov. 11:3 - If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?



Saturday, June 23, 2012

The Wide Gunwalker Difference

Question of the day:

" So, what was the purpose of Fast and Furious if the weapons were not tracked, no cooperation between US and Mexican authorities went on and no arrests were made? "



A little more background:


Fast and Furious Coverup: Obama Asserts Executive Privilege to Protect Himself
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/06/20/fast_and_furious_cover_up_obama_asserts_executive_privilege_to_protect_himself
Holder Just Us Dept: The Crimes are Worse than the Coverup
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/06/20/the_crimes_are_worse_than_the_cover_up
Holder Retracts Lie that Bush's Attorney General Knew About Gunwalking
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/06/20/holder_retracts_lie_that_bush_s_attorney_general_knew_about_gun_walking


Obama's Claim of Executive Privilege: It's Frivolous (John Hinderaker, Powerline)
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/06/obamas-claim-of-executive-privilege-its-frivolous.php

The Purpose of Fast and Furious???
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/06/20/the_purpose_of_fast_and_furious

Those Fast and Furious Documents Must Be Dynamite (Paul Mirengoff, Powerline)
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/06/those-fast-and-furious-documents-must-be-dynamite.php


I haven't been posting in a while, I know, just taking care of some things that need tending to. I will probably be blogging much less and doing less analytical posts and just sharing stuff here, on twitter, free republic, and facebook from time to time for the next few months.

Thanks for your patience and support friends!


...We need to defeat the seditious organized extremist movement behind this so-called American president and getting him out of the White House. He is not the first and he will not be the last as this has been an ongoing and worstening threat to America for several decades, going back to all those politicians and intellectuals who believe that America is "fundamentally flawed" and that replacing her with something else more malleable and ideologically politically correct by whatever means should be the goal of their work and actions.

Exposing and understanding who they are and what they are up to is just 90% of the battle.

On the bright side, the influence and pervasiveness of this institutionally corrupting and destructive movement may have reached its peak, despite and in spite of the role played by a compliant and collaborating media and education system.

The good news is that in my observation more and more people are connecting the dots and looking through the smokescreen, and peaking behind the curtain of what I call LIE-beralism which is all specious argumentation, pretense, and flat out lies in some very big cases. It has gotten more and more desparate, aggressive and blatant by the day.

America is fundamentally NOT socialist and Socialist/Communist/Marxist ideology requires and demands coercion for its existence. It lives and breathes manipulation.

Mark Levin and David Horowitz, two very influencial intellectual giants and activists in the Conservative movement, have argued that the difficulty with understanding the motive for sedition and treason as well as everything else that goes with it, is that in the name of the utopian vision and promise, almost any act is justified. Thats it, thats the bottom line.

They are a product of Marxist blame-America-first conditioning and "education" and now we are witnessing the fruits of their labors in the highest office of the land.

No, Madison Wisconsin was not the first "Occupy" and neither were the Vietnam War protests. The first hints or first leftwing "Occupy" and takeover of America's institutions in my view is hinted at in William F. Buckley Jr.'s God & Man at Yale, published around 1951 or 52. Also, C.S. Lewis makes observations in The Abolition of Man, published in the early 1940s I believe.

So what is the American Conservative movement and agenda all about? It is a rebirth of America's founding Judeo-Christian values and political philosophy. That of limited government and entrepreneurial liberal capitalist free market economy.

The difference between that and the "Liberal" left agenda and program in America and the world (I believe Prager writes about it in Still the Best Hope: why the world needs American values to triumpth) is very wide indeed.

And by their fruits ye shall know them.

UPDATE:

Wow, just found this one:

Fast and Furious: Follow the Ideology!
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/06/fast-and-furious-follow-the-ideology.php

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Bill Clinton defends Mitt Romney's "Sterling business career" against Obama..

Seems like Clinton wants to get Democrats away from Marxist and anti-free market economy rhetoric and policies.

Who knows with that Saul Alinsky follower wife of his!?

Great analysis and brief background of the situation and motivation by John Hinderaker over at PowerLine blog:

 http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/06/clinton-breaking-with-obama-on-economy.php

"By the end of the Carter administration, the Democratic Party was discredited not only in foreign policy, but as a steward of the economy. The success of the Reagan administration, following upon Carter’s failure, seemed to assure the supremacy of free market principles.

"It took Bill Clinton to restore credibility to the Democrats, and to make it safe for businessmen to be Democrats again, by moving the Democrats back toward the center on economic issues. Clinton’s partnership with Robert Rubin made the Democrats the party of finance. For a time, it seemed that Democratic centrism on economic issues was not a mirage.

"But then the financial collapse struck and Barack Obama had the presidency essentially handed to him on a platter. It quickly became clear that troglodyte Democrats had never gone away; they had just been in eclipse [laboring and lying in wait?] for a while. Now in control of both Congress and the White House, Democrats who opposed free enterprise (but cloaked their antagonism toward free markets in anti-Wall Street rhetoric) became ascendant.

"Old-fashioned economic know-nothingism came, once again, to dominate the Democratic Party. The stagnation of the last three years has been one result."

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Of Pinterest

Somehow, with all that's going on in the world (or just in mine) today, I found time to get on Pinterest! Looks interesting. .

I've posted a couple of cool pictures and videos, including short home-video clips that I wanted to share.

UPDATE: See also here

http://pinterest.com/defendit

Definitely another place where I can share my entrepreneurial spirit and educational pro-American constitution and free enterprise entrepreneurial system ideas with even more people. Gotta love this internet thing that Al Gore created LOL.

Chris




Sunday, May 13, 2012

Happy Mother's Day! Its a Beautiful Bountiful World!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MOTHERS OF THIS WORLD. I BRING GOOD NEWS FOR YOU and more evidence that Communist Socialist manipulators who hide behind "environmentalist" and "progressive" lables want people to believe that we are running out of everything so that we give up our freedom and let the government limit our wealth and our industious developments. (Thats the bad news)

The truth is we need more entrepreneurship and a better appreciation and understanding about the fundamentals of business and economics, not bigger and bigger government which encroaches on liberty and limits our capabilities while it makes promises that it cannot keep and which it is not the role of the government to be making. Human beings and their economy and spirit are very resilient and can recover very well from bad times and experiences and failures. (The good news)

In India "Warehouses are overflowing and huge quantities of wheat and rice [...] millions of tons of wheat rotting because India ran out of warehouse space to hold another bumper crop" Steven Hayward asks: "REMEMBER HOW PAUL EHRLICH WAY BACK WHEN HE SAID FOOD PRODUCTION WOULD NEVER CATCH UP WITH POPULATION GROWTH, THAT INDIA WAS DOOMED, ETC, ETC? (Lester Brown still says this every other week.)"

(From "Paul Ehrlich Was Unavailable For Comment" by Steven Hawyard http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/05/paul-ehrlich-was-unavailable-for-comment.php)
Meanwhile, America is "Swimming in Oil" which we have not been allowed to access FOR NO GOOD REASON!

"America has more fossil fuel resources than any other nation. Russia is second, Saudi Arabia is third."

Just last Thursday "a representative of the Government Accountability Office testified before [Congress] that the Green River Formation alone [...] at the intersection of the states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, and mostly underlies federal lands–CONTAINS AS MUCH OIL AS THE ENTIRE PROVEN RESERVES OF THE REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED"!!!

Will the LIE-beral Marxist control freaks "block the development of the resources that can assure America’s economic supremacy for generations?"

(From We Are Swimming in Oil by John Hinderaker http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/05/we-are-swimming-in-oil.php)

Tim Dunn and expert in the field and the CEO of Crown Quest Operating and a member of the Texas Public Policy Foundation writes:

"The Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia is probably the most prolific oil field in the world. When I worked on the field in 1979 as a young Exxon engineer fresh out of college, it produced around seven million barrels per day out of only a couple hundred wells.

"The enormous coral complex buried almost two miles under ground that contains the oil is so large it creates a hill on the surface...

"In time smaller, more difficult to produce fields get found. Since the oil industry as we know it was largely invented by Americans, the United States was developed preferentially.

"The US currently produces less than ten percent of the world’s daily oil production but STILL RUNS HALF THE WORLD'S DRILLING RIGS. Oil production peaked in the US in the early 1970’s and declined until just recently.

"In my last post I mentioned that an American’s daily need for 2200 Calories from food is equaled by only four 13 ounce bottles of oil, and each bottle would only cost about a quarter. But only a few years ago it was less than a dime per bottle. I think this Peak Oil theory is accurate when applied to the easy-to-access oil the industry focused on until recently.

"BUT ONCE THE PRICE WENT FROM TEN CENTS PER 'COKE CAN' TO TWENTY FIVE CENTS OIL ENTREPRENEURS WENT TO WORK. In Canada, they started accessing oil so heavy it won’t flow. It requires steam heating and processing before it is useful. At the higher price of twenty five cents per 'coke can' that is now profitable. Canada comes just after Saudi Arabia in oil reserves; they just aren’t the easy-to-access sort.

"I spoke with a guy developing some of these Canadian reserves. He told me they spent a hundred and fifty million dollars building a road just to get trucks and equipment to an oil field. But at the higher price for oil, entrepreneurs find a way and paying the cost of access is part of it.
"Canadian oil producers now expect production to double in the next fifteen years.

http://www.capp.ca/aboutUs/mediaCentre/NewsReleases/Pages/2011-Oil-Forecast.aspx
"Higher prices make it worthwhile to pay the additional cost to recover oil supplies that aren’t more easily accessed like the oil at the 'conventional' Ghawar Field.

"By the way, since the Obama Administration killed the Keystone Pipeline, Canada will sell their oil to Asia. http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/04/03/china-canada-oil-and-obama/

"So our Energy-crats spurned nearby oil supplies from friendly, politically stable Canada in favor of imports from… Venezuela. Want to turn over more decisions about our economy’s 'food supply' to the Energy-crats?

"We all prefer cheap prices, but the recent price increase will be a part of ensuring ample supplies of this miracle fuel, that even at the higher price of twenty five cents per 'coke can' costs less than half the price of a comparable amount of carbonated sugar water. Natural gas supplies are now seemingly endless, and if you owned a compressed natural gas car you would be driving for the gasoline equivalent of forty cents per gallon (before taxes.) But first natural gas prices went from $2 to $8.

"And in fact, something similar is happening in the US oil sector. More on that in the next Post."
(From Oil-Haters and Energy-crats by Tim Dunn, posted by Hugh Hewitt. More here http://www.hughhewitt.com/blog/g/e1ca80e6-ea62-4097-84bc-155e9b5a4bbb)

-Chris, Free Market Circle, Patriots in Action Los Angeles

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

Saturday, April 28, 2012

What we need right now

WE NEED A CAPITALIST REVOLUTION. A revolution of ideas which will empower us, encourage excellence, and build wealth. It is not about "spreading wealth" its about building wealth. Many of our so-called leaders are fostering government dependency and mediocrity rather than independence and excellence. Obama probably wishes he could understand what makes a corporation or company work in real life so instead of learning about it he is treating taxpayers money like his investment/capital/retained earnings account but its just his friends getting rich (George Soros, Warren Buffet etc) while everyone else is getting poor. Its a revolution and plunder agenda. Its not about promises, promises are for con-men and manipulative characters. PROFIT is not a dirty word, everything we do is to profit us somehow! Money is a tool but it gets lost and wasted in the hands of fools. It is the spirit of entrepreneurship, virtue and excellence which helps us reach our goals. That and long term thinking. It is the crisis and hasty action model which gets people to play into the hands of manipulators and would-be dictators to gain power and do their "work." Liberty is a cornucopia it can't be "directed" or rationed in the name of prosperity. The Karl Marx "spread the wealth" worldview/attitude and doctrine has only spread more poverty and misery. It is folly and nonsense to argue and really believe that this is STRICTLY a world of haves and have nots, because there are categories in between. This argument didn't take into account the fact that people usually move upward, more and more towards the "haves" category so the "class war" is myopic and divisive nonsense. One might even consider it a form of conditioning and brainwashing which fosters dependence and excuses. In other words: mediocrity, resentment, and negativity with all that follows along with economic ignorance and lack of appreciation for the creative forces of a free market and truly enlightened, creative, productive and educated entrepreneurial people.