Henry Lamb

Two faces of sustainability

To listen click here To ordinary people, the word sustainable is an adjective that means the activity the word describes can continue forever. For example, since biblical days, farmers practiced sustainable agriculture by leaving their fields fallow every seventh year. In early America, farmers knew that in order for agriculture to be sustainable, the same crop could not be planted in the same field year after year. Sustainable agriculture has always been practiced by successful farmers. Farmers who didn't practice sustainable agriculture inevitably failed.

White House Council takes aim on rural America

To listen click here Where, exactly, does the U.S. Constitution authorize the federal government to create “sustainable communities” in order to:

“… expand access to the capital necessary for economic growth, promote innovation, improve access to health care and education, and expand outdoor recreational activities on public lands.”

Bully pres in his bully pulpit

Rarely, if ever, has a sitting president displayed so many examples of so many qualities so unbecoming as were flagrantly displayed at his June 29 press conference. The purpose of the event was to chide Republicans into voting to raise the debt-ceiling before the August 2nd deadline. Obama said:

"The fact that we're here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign -- is a sign of leadership failure. Leadership means the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit."

What happened to freedom?

To listen click here When Constitutional scholar Barack Hussein Obama, and the assortment legal advisors that surrounds him, decided that the commerce clause authorized the federal government to force private citizens to purchase a product, freedom vanished from America.

How to waste your money – let us count the ways

To listen click here The hot topic in DC these days is cutting spending. Everybody is talking about it, but Rep. Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming is doing something about it. She has introduced a bill (HR1996) to end wasteful spending that should have been stopped years ago. The Government Litigation Savings Act will put an end to some of the ridiculous payments made to GAGs (Green Advocacy Groups) for far too many years.

Managed economy or free markets?

To listen click here America was once the envy of the world. Even the poorest people in America had far more than most of the rest of the people in the world. Throughout the first two centuries of her existence, America welcomed people from everywhere, and supported their efforts to invent, to build, to create, and to produce wealth from whatever enterprise struck their fancy. Labor unions and government regulations have put an end to that era.

Sustainable Development or Sustainable Freedom

To listen click here Sustainable development is based on a set of principles found in Our Common Future, the report of the 1987 World Commission on Environment and Development.

The Constitution is not what it used to be

To listen click here When James Madison wrote “…nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation” into the Constitution, he really meant “for public use.” Over the years, the courts redefined “public use” to mean “whatever government wants to do with your land.” The Kelo v. New London decision drove the final nail into the idea of sacred private property. Another Founder, John Adams, said:

Time to dump the U.N.

To listen click here Even the most enthusiastic Progressives have to be thoroughly disgusted with the U.N. officials who, like Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, demand a full report from the U.S. about the bin Laden operation. Other U.N. advocates are convinced that the United States has violated some international law.

Agenda 21 comes to Greenville, SC

To listen click here Greenville, South Carolina is a great city in a great state. The area across Caesar’s Head Mountain to Brevard, North Carolina is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The people in South Carolina are hard-working, down-to-earth folks who appreciate their freedom, and their private property rights.

It’s not too late to save America!

To listen click here On April 18, Standard & Poor’s issued the following notice: Because the U.S. has, relative to its 'AAA' peers, what we consider to be very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness and the path to addressing these is not clear to us, we have revised our outlook on the long-term rating to negative from stable.

Agenda 21 is in your community

To listen click here Anyone who reads Chapter 7 of Agenda 21, and then reads their local comprehensive land use plan will immediately recognize that most of the provisions of the local land use plan come directly from Agenda 21. More often than not, the elected officials who adopt these plans have never read Agenda 21, and many have never even heard of the U.N. document, signed by President George H. W. Bush in 1992.

How sacred is your property?

To listen click here The essential difference between Capitalism and Marxism is the ownership of property. In a Capitalist system, individuals own and control the use of property. In a Marxist system, property belongs to the community, and its use is controlled by government. Agenda 21, and the “sustainable development” policies it contains, are constructed on the idea that property should belong to the community and its use must be controlled by the government.

States push back against federal power

To listen click here Texas State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst has introduced a bill that could have massive implications for every state government as well as the federal government. Her bill (HB 1129) directs the State Attorney General to conduct an investigation, and report to the legislature before the end of 2012, how international treaties and agreements might affect Texas law.

Obama: transforming America

To listen click here He said he was going to do it. He explained why he was going to do it. He even said how he was going to do it. He has been doing it since the day he took office.

Confronting “Sustainability”

To listen click here Four communities have rejected “Sustainability” since the first of the year. More will surely follow. To confront sustainability in your community you should learn everything you can about it.

Where is the Constitution?

To listen click here President Obama swore an oath to “...preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” He should have sworn to obey it. Congress, alone, has the power to declare war, and to make all the laws necessary to engage in military conflict. The War Powers Act defines precisely what is required of the President before military action may commence.

Organized Labor vs. Tea Parties

To listen click here Governor Scott Walker and the Wisconsin legislature kicked a rattlesnake when they significantly reduced the power of the state’s public employee labor unions. Labor unions across the country have declared war on Republicans, even threatening death, and the Tea Parties that support them.

Gas price too high?  Thank the greens, Dems, and Clinton

To listen click here In December, 1996 Bill Clinton vetoed legislation that would have added more than a million barrels of domestic oil per day to help reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. His reasoning at the time was that ANWR could not produce oil for ten years, a laughable excuse.

Sustainable Development treaty in the making?

To listen click here Next year will be the 20th anniversary of UNCED (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development) the largest collection of environmental zealots ever assembled. For the celebration, the U.N. has again designated Rio de Janeiro to host the UNCSD (United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development).