Rolf Yungclas

Propaganda blitz

Now that the propaganda assault on freedom-loving citizens has let up a bit, it’s time to set aside the blame game and get back to trying to cure the big-governmentitis that affects so many people of our nation. Isn't it time we re-evaluate those things that require so much money being sent to a centralized bureaucracy in Washington? 17 trillion dollars in debt and everyone back to work, the federal government is back in business finding ways to increase the national debt ever more rapidly.

Power in the wrong hands

In the last couple of weeks we have been witnessing what happens when power is placed in the hands of tyrannical-minded ideologues.

Creating a false crisis

Congress and the White House have known for a long time that the previous Continuing Resolution (CR) would run out and the growing national debt would require Congress to raise the debt ceiling. But Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, true to his role, has been the brakeman, slowing down the legislative process once again, putting the federal government in crisis mode. And the President has gone all-out to portray the Republicans, supposedly under the command of the Tea Party, leading the nation to economic collapse.

Unsustainable entitlements

The leadership of the Democrat party has long ago abandoned reason and logic in stating their case. In their political arguments they have to rely on a manufactured reality of the world, with mischaracterization and innuendo replacing sound political arguments.

It’s sanity, not anarchy

Looks like Republicans in Congress have now been relegated to a status once reserved for kidnappers and terrorists. The President has said he will not negotiate with them.

Speakin’ Out: Big government blindness

Many of those who have been elected by the people of this nation to represent them in Washington have a disease called big government blindness, and it’s time to reign in an out of control government in Washington, D.C.

Speakin’ Out:  Standing on shaky ground

As Russian and Chinese naval forces are being built up in the Mediterranean Sea, a plan by the Obama administration to carry out a military strike against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria is in the works.

Speakin’ Out: Mis-use of the military

I am now officially an anti-war activist, as long as the people leading our military are those who have opposed the military all their lives. Misunderstanding the proper place for the use of military force, they are simply posers, putting our troops in harm's way for some manufactured cause that they hope will make them look good.

Restoring federalism

“Federalism is a basic concept of American government, in which the states are not merely regional representatives of the federal government, but are granted independent powers and responsibilities.” -- definitions.uslegal.com

The deconstructionists

It's no exaggeration to say that each day new violations of the Constitution by our federal government are coming to light, what has become a defining characteristic of the current administration. While our government departs more and more from our Constitution and our heritage, nothing is being done to help stop our declining standard of living, and we are seeing lawlessness and amorality becoming the new standards.

Three jail breaks

On July 22, more than 500 inmates escaped from two different prisons in Iraq, one in Taji, north of Baghdad, and the other at Abu Ghraib prison. Then on July 28 there was a jailbreak at the Kuayfia detention center in Benghazi, Libya, with 1,200 prisoners escaping.

Washington versus us

It’s time for all of us to step back from the Democrat vs. Republican arguments and take a fresh look at how well the national government, regardless of which party is in power, serves the interests of the American people.

Speakin’ Out:  Phony scandals abound

While we have been hearing for several days of all the “phony scandals” the current administration is having to deal with, there have been no details from them as to which ones are phony. Therefore we have to assume that they are calling any scandal that involves them a phony scandal.

Speakin’ Out: Individual rights, part 2

More from Ayn Rand’s 1963 essay “Man’s Rights”:

“It was the concept of individual rights that had given birth to a free society. It was with the destruction of individual rights that the destruction of freedom had to begin.”

There were warnings before the establishment of the federal income tax in 1913 that it would become a major source of those individual rights being eroded away. And now that threat is becoming ever more clear.

Speakin’ Out

We need to beware when a government is said to be giving “rights” to its people. For a government to be bestowing rights, it is necessary for that government to be taking away someone else’s individual rights – rights given us by God.

Speakin’ Out

The concept of the American dream has largely been replaced by the piece-of-pie myth. Rather than believing that individual productivity produces benefits for us all, many are captive to what is essentially a Marxist concept - the economy is a set size, a pie to be divided up by hook or crook.

No fairy tale

There once was a kingdom, established when the people of that nation abdicated their responsibility to a ruler to whom the people entrusted complete control of the government. It was no sudden decision but came about after a period in history called the Transformation.

A jigsaw puzzle

When you start out working on a jigsaw puzzle, the scattered pieces in no way resemble the picture it is to become. But as the pieces are fitted together, certain parts of it become recognizable objects and finally, as the last pieces are being added, the whole picture begins to make sense.

Limiting government

It’s difficult for the media to be manipulated when actual events take over as the issues of the day. At those times we see what a chief administrator is made of.

Speakin’ Out; Punched in the gut

The private sector produces jobs, but you wouldn’t know that if you believe the rhetoric of President Obama. In dealing with economic recovery, he has consistently put an emphasis on make-work job programs, and creating jobs by increasing the number of government jobs.