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Mark Caserta: Liberal fear of Trump isn’t for the country
20 Jan
Mark Caserta: Free State Patriot editor
Since the election of Donald J. Trump, nearly every liberal columnist, pundit or commentator has expressed some sort of panic, fear or distress over the thought of this multimillionaire businessman becoming our next commander in chief.
Allow me to cut through the veneer of compassionate concern and tell you what I believe progressives are really afraid of.
Liberal Democrats are afraid of losing nearly every progressive step they’ve taken over the past eight years – in the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
And frankly, the liberal national media attempts to unfavorably brand the forthcoming changes by the Trump administration are welcome ones. Conservatives recognize the American people are ready for a change.
Yes, conservatives welcome a media distinction from progressives. It may be the single most valuable service they’ve provided in years! Americans have seen what eight years of progressivism can do to a nation. It’s time, once again, to employ Reagan conservatism.
Shamefully, liberals hypocritically focus on creating a narrative which engenders the alleged conservative disenfranchisement of those benefiting from progressive fundamental change, while totally disregarding the millions of people harmed by it.
Obamacare is a perfect example. Liberals are quick to misemploy the statistic of individuals who could potentially lose their insurance under the repeal and replacement of the health care law, but never factor in the thousands of families who’ve already lost their policies or have seen rates skyrocket under the pressures of an unsustainable program.
And I’m still waiting on any progressive to adequately address the multiple lies told to the American people enabling the passage of Obamacare.
The concocted jobs numbers are another example of how liberals are willing to sell the American people down the river, simply to maintain power.
Progressives know the current jobs numbers don’t include individuals who’ve given up looking for work or are severely underemployed. Yet they continue to paint a false narrative of jobs growth with meaningless government numbers, while families across the country suffer.
Lies just don’t seem to matter to liberals if they’re advancing their agenda.
This sort of false hope and dishonesty propagated by liberal Democrats is the reason Donald Trump will become president at noon today.
But when the news involves the character assassination of Donald Trump or a nominated Cabinet member, the national liberal media seems eager to err on the side of falsehood.
The recent decision by the website Buzzfeed to publish a series of dated memos alleging inappropriate sexual conduct by Donald Trump, without a shred of evidence, (as reported by multiple news agencies, including the New York Post) is a display of how far some will go to delegitimize Trump’s presidency.
And the fact that CNN also made the decision to run with this defamatory information is very telling, indeed.
So, if “making America great again” elicits fear in liberals, let not your heart be troubled.
It isn’t fear for the country, it’s fear for progressivism.
Mark Caserta is a conservative blogger, a Cabell County resident and a regular contributor to The Herald-Dispatch editorial page.
Obama Leaves U.S.A $9,335,000,000,000 Deeper in Debt
19 JanPresident Obama delivers his farewell address in Chicago, Jan. 10, 2017.
Source: Obama Leaves U.S.A $9,335,000,000,000 Deeper in Debt
With days left in office, President Obama ushers in dozens of policies. But will they stay seated? – The Washington Post
15 JanRepublicans vow to reverse the final flurry of administration activity.
Mark Caserta: Democrats’ chickens have come home to roost
13 JanMark Caserta: Free State Patriot editor
Like it or not, President Obama’s signature healthcare plan is living on borrowed time.
Obamacare will be repealed and replaced by the Trump administration, honorable members of the GOP and possibly as many as 10 Senatorial members of the Democrat Party up for re-election in 2018.
Expectedly, progressive pundits are already “building a wall” around any such Republican initiative. Some have unofficially labeled any GOP plan as “Trumpcare,” even though the official Republican plan isn’t yet on the table.
I’ve even heard House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and others attempt to pervert Trump’s campaign phrase, “Make America great again” into “Make America sick again.”
Liberals are so creative.
Frankly, the name “Obamacare” had nothing to do with the healthcare plan’s implosion. President Obama actually became quite fond of the moniker and often said so during his presidency. I believe he envisioned the name enshrined in his presidential legacy.
And so, it will, but more like an eulogy than a legacy.
Obamacare failed because it was a poorly planned initiative based on an unsustainable foundation of political deceit of the American people. And it’s preparing to go down as one of the single largest, most embarrassing failures of any presidential administration.
And remember, Democrats alone are to blame for this “repeal and replace” mandate voters have given President-elect Trump and the GOP-led 115th Congress. While the 2016 presidential election was clearly a referendum on Obama’s multiple failed policies, his healthcare plan was right at the top of the list for consideration.
And as far as “making America sick again,” Americans couldn’t be any sicker than they are now of the deception and economic foolhardiness the Obama administration employed in attempting to fundamentally change our country to align with the president’s apparent rancorous view of the United States.
For perspective, let’s “metamorphically” go where no liberal has gone before and reminisce how Democrats passed Obamacare.
During Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, he repeatedly (eight times per a 2010 New York Post column by Clemente Lisi) promised that health care negotiations “will be on C-SPAN” and “the public will be part of the conversation and will see the choices being made.”
Never happened.
In March 2010, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said of the Affordable Care Act, “But we have to pass the bill, so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy.”
In 2013, Obama gave us the “PolitiFact ‘Lie of the Year'” when he made his healthcare promise to Americans, “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.”
And maybe the “crme de la crme” denoting the progressive path of prevarication enabling passage of Obamacare happened when, in 2014, the so-called “architect” of the federal healthcare law said the “lack of transparency” and the “stupidity of the American voter” helped Congress approve Obamacare.
The disregard Democrats have shown for the American people is flabbergasting!
Allow me to borrow a familiar idiom.
“Democrat’s chickens have come home to roost.”
Mark Caserta is a conservative blogger, a Cabell County resident and a regular contributor to The Herald-Dispatch editorial page.
Doug Smith: Adams & Jefferson in “The Argument”
12 Jan
Doug Smith: Author, historian, patriot and Free State Patriot’s lead contributor
1.12.17
The Argument:
Mr. Adams, listen to this. I think this will make a good start.
(Jefferson reads)
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Whiskey, Houses, and Doctors,
(Adams interrupts)
Mr. Jefferson, Really? Are you mad? Now just what do you suppose will happen to the whiskey distillers if we make their drams a Right? Who is going to pay them for their whiskey? How much is every man entitled to? If the Government takes their whiskey and gives it out, their customers won’t buy from them anymore, and they will protest when it is taken. They will regard it as indentured servitude, indeed as chattel slavery! They won’t abide it. Not in Massachusetts! I tell you if we leave that part in we will find ourselves with another rebellion, a Whiskey Rebellion. We can’t promise to give everyone someone else’s stuff.
Jefferson “So, no whiskey, Mr. Adams?”
I think not, Jefferson. Better take that out.
Quill pen scratches. Very well, then Adams. Now then …hold these…created…ah..here we are: “Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Houses, Doctors, and…)
Oh, my dear Jefferson. Housing? We are going to promise everyone a House? Whose house? Who will build them? Or pay for them?
Well, Adams, John Hancock has plenty of wealth. I suppose he could.
Jefferson, for God’s sake how far do you suppose his silver will go to build a house for every family in the colonies? And what makes you suppose he will give up his money to pay for a house for me? He will say, Adams, you have a trade. Go out and earn it, then buy your own house! And he’d be right, too. No, no, no, my dear Jefferson, it will just never work.
Sigh. Well alright then, but we have to offer something. Mutters. Quill pen scratches. Very well, then Adams: “Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Doctors, and…”
Jefferson, Jefferson, Jefferson. How do you plan to do that? Are you going to train up some Virginia slaves to practice medicine? Because by Thunder, if they are a RIGHT then how do they charge for their services? Don’t you see man, if we make one man’s goods or services the Right of another; we must of necessity make one the Master and one the Slave? How many will agree to go to war with England and…
Glares at Adams. Elaborately scratches out Doctor. Alright then, John. Just what Rights do we suppose a man is granted by the Almighty, which we WILL fight for?
Well, now Tom, since you ask. You know there were scores of bodies on the green at Lexington last April. I think there are none who would gainsay us pledging that each man has the right to his own life and that King George’s Lobsters have no right take it from them.
Hmm. Alright Adams. So, Life? Come to that, Life is not worth so much if we can be told to come and go, pay and work, at the whim of the Sovereign. After all, if it is to be war, then let it be war, but for our Liberties.
That is good, Jefferson. Life and Liberty. Of course, we want to be able to pursue commerce as each man is able and as he desires. Smiles, then they can buy a hogshead of whiskey, to take to their house. And pay for the Doctor Warren to give them a tonic for the whiskey.
Very well then , Adams, I suppose each man will want to make his living in his own way, and live as he please. That, John, is what I call a happy life.
There! You have it Jefferson. Each man wants to find happiness in his own way, and our Creator will make him free to pursue it as he will. Of course, General Washington will have to enforce the will of the Almighty. He may, in his wisdom, endow us with these rights, but the King will not give it willingly. We must purchase these rights dearly.
Jefferson, thoughtful, scratches at the bottom of the page. Alright, John. What of this?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. __That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Obama set for pardon frenzy as he leaves office
7 JanA Rastafarian prophet, a former Taliban captive and thousands of minor drug traffickers have one thing in common: Their names have been submitted to President Barack Obama for clemency before he leaves office in two weeks. Some US presidents have used this regal power of leniency in a pointed way near
Mark Caserta: US must be steadfast in support of Israel
6 JanMark Caserta: Free State Patriot editor
1.6.17
The roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict date back centuries. And throughout history, God has faithfully demonstrated his favor and divine regard for the Israeli people and their land.
The United States must be equally steadfast in its support. For opposition to Israel, frankly, is opposition to God.
Since 1967, following Israel’s victory in what’s commonly called the Six Day War, the United States and Israel have built a special relationship, two nations sharing the same values and passion for democracy.
Surrounded by larger Middle Eastern nations who’ve openly displayed their hostility to the Jewish people, Israel has been anchored, in part, by the support of the United States. But, rest assured, as the strongest military presence in the region, Israel is very capable of protecting herself and her democratic presence.
Yet despite being comparable in size to New Jersey, nations around the world still advocate Israel giving up additional land to the contentious Arab population of Palestine.
Understand, this land was given to the Israeli people by God and is not transferable.
In fact, the Bible repeatedly refers to the territory in which Israelis live as “their land” (Ezekiel 37:21). And when speaking of the Israeli people, God calls them “my people” and integral to His divine order and plan for mankind.
Many know the biblical account in Genesis, of God’s covenant with Abraham and His promise of a son (Isaac) through whom He would make a great nation and redeem the earth. God purposely selected this land (Israel) and these people (Jews) to provide every person access to His divine blessings and plan of salvation.
“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
I have no doubt this is the primary reason America has become the most prosperous nation in the world. And from our abundance, we bless other nations. In areas such as health and human services, the fight against hunger and poverty, and aiding in recovery from natural disasters, the U.S. has been a resource for the world.
The Bible also says, “To whom much is given, much is required.” America has been given quite a lot. And I believe it’s been God’s response to how we’ve honored Israel.
Despite the progressive view on our nation’s founding, I believe America was founded on the very Judeo-Christian principles of liberty and the value of human life that were birthed from the nation of Israel.
If we refuse to honor Israel and compromise our support, we could, in relative fashion, forfeit many of God’s blessings, which in turn could impact our ability to bless other parts of the world.
We must work to rebuild the relationship of trust and respect with Israel that’s been under attack for the past eight years.
Finally, we must proceed in lockstep fashion with God and the Israeli people.
Mark Caserta is a conservative blogger, a Cabell County resident and a regular contributor to The Herald-Dispatch editorial page.
CNN’s Don Lemon on Chicago Torture Video: ‘I Don’t Think It Was Evil’ – Breitbart
5 JanCNN’s Don Lemon on Chicago Torture Video: ‘I Don’t Think It Was Evil’
Source: CNN’s Don Lemon on Chicago Torture Video: ‘I Don’t Think It Was Evil’ – Breitbart
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