William R. Mann

Obama’s Safety: Hate Groups Thrive Amidst Town Hall Health Care Debates - ABC News

You can see where the State Media is headed with this can't you?

Protests are now Un-American! … Huh?

An important message for Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, et al., from Thomas Hobbes[1588-1679] in his epic work, Leviathan : “They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.” Many readers of philosophy and history are perhaps more familiar with Hobbes’ description of life as a constant state of war among men, that life is: “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Indeed, the quality of life during Thomas Hobbes’ lifetime was marred by civil war, regicide, economic and religious strife. Under such circumstances one’s faith in fellow man is sorely tested if not discarded. Thomas Hobbes saw the dark side of humanity as the predominant one. He sought the construct of a Leviathan, a benevolent Christian Sovereign that would govern a safe society, a Christian Commonwealth. The arguments of Hobbes, many claim, led to the rebirth of “Enlightenment” thought about the Rights of Man, Natural Law, and the nature of government.

George Soros: ‘I’m having a good crisis…’

"What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, or yet lose or forfeit his very self?" Luke 9:25 George Soros, Hedge Fund Manager and big-time Secular Progressive, says he is making the most of this financial crisis according to the UK's "Daily Mail."

Quo Vadis America?

"How agrees the Devil and thee about thy soul, that thou soldest him on Good Friday last for a cup of Madeira and a cold capon leg?" - Shakespeare, King Henry IV Act I, Scene 1. Have we Republicans lost our way? Have we Americans lost our way? Is the Democrat Party now fully a Socialist Party? Are we all Socialists now?

Demand, Demand, Demand

Recovery is all about demand. I was taught long ago that three conditions must be met before there is true demand. If you do not meet all three, you do not have true demand

The New Messiah: Workout versus Worship

Goosey Goosey Gander where shall I wander,
 Upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber
 There I met an old man who wouldn't say his prayers,
 I took him by the left leg and threw him down the stairs. (1) Contrary to what one might think, this seemingly simple and nonsensical nursery rhyme [above] was a coded religious-political commentary about the witch hunts for non-conforming Catholic Priests during the days of Henry VIII in 16th Century England

Defending American Liberty: It’s still about Communism

At the 1964 Republican Convention, Barry Morse Goldwater said this about Liberty during a stirring speech where he accepted the Republican Nomination: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. ... Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." I remember well that the Democrat Party and Bill Moyers branded Barry Goldwater as a dangerous fanatic who would blow up the world. They made this smear throughout the 1964 Campaign, despite the facts that Goldwater was not only a distinguished Senator and a very good friend of the late JFK, but also that Barry Goldwater was a General in the US Air Force Reserve!

Closing Arguments

But though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as of that of their sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady, who in a dispute with her sister, said "I don't know how it happens, Sister, but I meet with no body but myself, that's always in the right — Il n'y a que moi qui a toujours raison." - Benjamin Franklin, 1787

So America wants Socialism, eh?

Many of you may wish to understand what it will mean to have a Liberal [Socialist] Super Majority running America. My Dad, like "Joe the Plumber" wanted, and worked hard to build on the satisfaction and freedom of being his own boss, providing for his family, and making some money. I was a draft-age teenager in Toledo, Ohio through some of LBJ's Presidency in the 1960s. I had yet to depart for West Point [USMA] following High School [in 1967]. Allow me to share a bit about that era, my impressions of what it was like for one small business family.

“Speaking of stinking fish….”

Hold on! Wait just a minute... Before Democrats get too wound up talking about mean, greedy Republicans ... and commence, yet again, their quadrennial ritual to disinter Herbert Hoover and resurrect the Great Depression ... perhaps there is time first to recall that President Bush sought reformed oversight for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae fully five years ago. [1- NYT article below]. Furthermore, Fox News' John Gibson also reminded us yesterday of the powerful connections between Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Democrats ... including guess who? ... Mr. Obama. [2- Fox News article below]

Between Barack and the Hard Spot

"Yesterday upon the stair / I met a man who wasn't there. / He wasn't there again today / I wish that man would go away." - Hugh Means (1875 – 1965)
 I pondered some interesting questions earlier this week: Is Barack Obama more of an insurgent candidate than anyone has previously thought? How could the Clinton Campaign so badly “misunderestimate” the Obama Insurgency? Was this a DNC plan to whip up excitement that went awry? How much do far Left Progressives from the George Soros circle own Obama?

OBAMA:“I will win.”

'Politico.com' reports on yet more disturbing words out of the mouth of President [Presumpt] Barrack Obama.