High Ground Underground

The Iranian Deal – “Peace in Our Time?” Obama declared the nuclear inspection & sanctions relaxation deal with Iran a “new path ... a prelude to a comprehensive agreement.”  It’s supposed to put their nuclear weapons development on hold, and buy us time.  Which sounds eerily similar to Neville Chamberlain’s “Peace in our time” when he returned from Munich just prior to WWII.  And so, once again, this administration’s “solution” is to kick the can down the road – 6 months.  It’s a “first step” – a freeze – to dismantling.  And first steps – stage one thinking – is about as far as this administration, and the Democrats in general, seem able to go as far as any real results on anything.  All it does is relax sanctions, freeing up billions of dollars in their frozen assets, allowing them to rebuild their economy, removing political pressure to eliminate nuclear weapons production capabilities and pulling the rug out from any internal pressures for re...

Follow the Prager University link to the right to the short video clip on "The Bigger the Government..." Bigger government is bad in many ways, and the Obama administration’s trend is clearly in that direction. 16,000 new IRS agents alone just to help enforce Obamacare. Other new beaurocrats to administer that and new regulatory commissions. For the first time in history, there are now more government union (SEIU) workers than private sector/manufacturing union members in the U.S. And the Obama administration seems bent on manufacturing (e.g., thru Congressional show trials/hearings) or worsening one crisis after another – a crisis du jour -- to provide the excuse for further government growth/intervention to address the problem. As that prince of darkness, Rahm Emanuel said, “You should never let a crisis go to waste” – it’s an opportunity to do what you ordinarily couldn’t. And we have yet to reverse any government bureaucracy – they only grow. Let's examine how b...

In light of the resurgence in the entitlement, big-government mentality embodied in Obamacare, etc., it is instructive to see how far Democrats have strayed from the noble principles of their founder over 200 years ago, and leaders as recently as 50 years ago. Principles they need to return to. John F. Kennedy: “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.” Thomas Jefferson (founder of the Democrat Party) quotes: On the Nanny State: “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” On Obamacare & dietary regulations: “Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.” On redistribution of wealth & the welfare state: “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would no...