September 14, 2016

The Clinton Crapshoot

When I was in high school, the state lottery systems were just coming into existence. It is something I remember because my mathematics teacher used the announcement of the lottery as an opportunity to teach the class about probability and chance. She highlighted the overwhelming odds against winning the jackpot but ended the lesson with a disclosure that she, nonetheless, intended to purchase a lottery ticket. 

The upcoming presidential election can be viewed as a government lottery in which Hillary Clinton is promising to give us a little more money pilfered from our neighbors, a promise that will result in more of the same—more poverty, more joblessness, more misery. She wants us to gamble away our future by investing in her, offering as an incentive a few more one-dollar lottery payouts that do nothing to help those in need. It is the same ploy tried by Barack Obama when he ran for president. 

Donald Trump, on the other hand, is not trying to buy our votes with a few more dollars thrown our way. Instead, he is offering the freedom and opportunity to win the entire jackpot, a chance to play the game of success without facing a stacked deck, one weighted totally against us. He recently asked the black community, “What do you have to lose in voting for me?”—a question he posed while pointing out the pain and suffering they have experienced at the hands of the Democrat Party, the same party that once held them in physical bondage and now represses them economically.  

That very straightforward question directed at the black community is one that Trump could easily ask all of us—black, white, yellow, and red—because, after eight years of national decline, we have little to lose and everything to win.

Copyrighted © 2016 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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July 31, 2016

Enough time has passed that I can now objectively assess the Democrat Presidential Convention—or the DNC Freak Show, as I like to call it. Never before in my life have I seen such a collection of whimpering, emasculated men or screaming, unhinged women highlighted one after another over the course of four nights.  

Then, to top it off, they released onto the stage Hillary Clinton dressed like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from the Ghostbusters movie. Lumbering across the stage, she set about trampling under the colossal weight of her incompetence, dishonesty, and corruption all that Americans hold near and dear, namely the American Dream and the U.S. Constitution. 

My thoughts upon witnessing her slog toward the podium can be encapsulated in the words of Harold Ramis acting in the role of Dr. Egon Spengler when he said of Mr. Stay Puft: “I’m terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.” 

There is one thing and one thing alone capable of countering the evil embodied by Hillary Clinton in her impersonation of the demonic Mr. Stay Puft, and that countermeasure is to Make America Great Again!

Copyrighted © 2016 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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 January 15, 2016

The Natural

It seems that the older I get, the more intolerant I become of stupidity, which might explain my abhorrence to many Republicans, most Democrats, and all of the news media. The most recent example of idiocy in our country is the inability of the people to understand the meaning of the word “natural” as used by the U.S. Constitution when defining presidential qualifications: No person except a natural born citizen … shall be eligible to the Office of President …

This all relates to the phony attempt to say that Ted Cruz cannot run for president because he was born to an American citizen while in Canada. Many politicians and news media hacks are trying to confuse people on this issue, counting on the fact that most people were educated in the American education system, meaning that they are pretty much dupes when it comes to anything requiring rational thought.

However, the inference in the Constitution is not that hard to understand even from a linguistic perspective. The word natural when used in the context of a natural born citizen simply means by nature of, as in citizenship granted by nature of birth. Everyone born to a U.S. citizen is automatically a citizen regardless of the place of birth because citizenship flows from the status of the parent; the child is a citizen by nature of being born to a citizen. It is the citizenship of the parent, not a geographical location, that bestows the natural citizenship. Therefore, anyone born to a United States citizen is a citizen by nature of their birth (i.e. natural), qualifying them to run for president.

Ted Cruz has been a U.S. citizen by nature of his birth since taking his first breath, and, as such, he is a natural born citizen qualified to be president.

Copyrighted © 2016 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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 December 22, 2013

A Duck Calling in the Wilderness

There has been a lot of phony outrage—along with an equal amount lot of hate—generated by the homosexual activists and their lapdogs in the media over words spoken by Phil Robertson of the A&E series Duck Dynasty. The ironic thing is that what Phil said is true: the Bible regards homosexual acts as sinful. It always has. 

This is not something that only Phil knows. The committers of the acts and their supporters know it too. That is the real cause of their outrage: they do not like being reminded that they are acting immorally. 

There are some striking similarities in all of this to another odd character in history who criticized the deviant behavior of his day. John the Baptist appeared in the desert clothed in camel’s hair (camo-wear of that era) eating locusts and wild honey (something you might find on Phil’s table), and he used severe words to admonish sinners for their bad behavior, calling them vipers among other things. He was especially severe toward King Herod for his salacious and illicit relationship with his brother’s wife. 

Despite his unusual ways and harsh rhetoric, people loved John the Baptist, and people love and respect Phil Robertson as well. They agree with him, and they are tired of being ruled and silenced by those who promote cultural rot in our society. They are especially tired of cowardly politicians and depraved judges who force down their throats things they know to be immoral and wrong, and, by their reaction to the plight of Phil, they appear ready to speak up.  

But there is a danger in all of this. Herod had John the Baptist beheaded. The homosexuals and the media have yet to come for Phil’s head, but it is only a matter of time.

Copyrighted © 2013 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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September 24, 2013

Democrat Caliphate

There is no god but government, and Obama is its prophet! That is the mantra of the Democrat Party, and you better learn it if you wish to keep your head. The fanatics in the Democrat Party have learned much from the Islamic terrorist movement, and, like their brethren, they demand that everyone convert to the religion of liberalism or be summarily destroyed.

The terroristic tendencies of the Democrat Party were never more evident than when it declared jihad on America and plowed Obamacare into the twin towers of liberty and freedom. As the nation teetered and began to crumble, Democrats could be heard shrieking at the top of their lungs, “Government is great!” Lured on by the promise of 72 interns, they continue their suicide missions on every front.

Like Islamic jihadists, they do not tolerate criticism of their religion or the mocking of the Prophet Obama, and they have threatened annihilation on anyone who does. The media, fully aware of the danger, have elected not to offer even the slightest criticism of government for fear of what will befall them.

Fortunately, there are some brave conservatives—Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee to name two—who are not afraid to meet the Obamacare jihad head-on. They courageously expose government for the false god that it is, and they encourage others to do the same. But their actions are not without consequence. They have been assaulted mercilessly for what they have done by the fanatical extremists in the Democrat Party and their sleeper cells in the Republican Party.

Now the question is: What will you do? Will you fight the jihad to stop Obamacare and thwart the Democrat caliphate? Or will you close your eyes and solemnly chant: There is no god but government, and Obama is its prophet?

Copyrighted © 2013 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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March 25, 2013

We the People Redux

It appears that some people don’t appreciate my opinion that the country is over and kaput because the tax consumers now outnumber the tax producers.  However, that is a hard cold reality that cannot be ignored, one that is driving us toward total collapse.  To make matters worse, the tax consumers have acquired a visceral hatred of the tax producers—spurred on by Barak Obama himself—and that fact is accelerating our decline.

It is all frightfully reminiscent of 1933-1945 Germany.  If you examine the hate-filled rhetoric from that period and substitute the word “rich” for the word “Jew,” there is not much difference in what is being said now by the Democrats than what was being said then by the Nazis.  One sector of a society cannot attack and destroy another sector and expect the society to survive, especially when the sector being attacked is the one holding up and supporting the whole society.  That is happening now, and that is why we are doomed.

So what can be done?  Well, I think it is time for a do-over—a national do-over.  This country needs to go back to its beginnings, literally.  We need to revert to our original Constitution and first 12 Amendments (i.e. Bill of Rights) and start over again.  Throw out Obama, all the dopes in Congress, all the federal judges, all the other amendments, laws, departments, bureaus, regulations, taxes—all of it.  Then we start again.  But this time we do so with the hindsight of where we went wrong the first time in order not to repeat the same mistakes. 

Some people might consider my proposal to be absurd.  But is it any more absurd than targeting and destroying the very people who are creating all the jobs and paying all the bills?

Copyrighted © 2012 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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November 10, 2012

Deviants and Democrats Need Not Apply

There has been a lot of talk about how Republicans need to change their ideology in order to reach out to Democrat voters.  I recently had the opportunity to address that subject, and I will repeat it here.  First, however, it should be understood that Romney lost the popular vote because staunch conservatives stayed home in protest on Election Day, not because Republicans took the wrong stance on women and Hispanics issues.

Today’s Democrat Party, the one that reelected Obama, is comprised primarily of the following misfits and deviants: 1) bloodthirsty, predatory women who want the right to slaughter their preborn children at will; 2) Single women who want unbridled sex and government provided birth control; 3) homosexuals who want preferential treatment and acceptance of their immoral lifestyle; 4) dependent minorities who want their welfare checks, food stamps, Obama phones, etc.; 5) simple-minded union pawns who haven’t a clue and even less drive and ambition; and 6) atheists and secularists who want God removed from all aspects of government and society.

I’ve got breaking news for everyone: we don’t want these people.  They are not people who can endure and survive the economic and societal collapse that is coming, one they just ensured through their votes for Obama.  They are incapable of sustaining themselves after the collapse, and they will only be a burden on us as we set out to rebuild the nation.

In the aftermath, abortion will not save them.  Birth control will not save them.  Welfare will not save them.  Sex will not save them.  And a refusal or inability to think and act certainly will not save them.  God could save them, but I doubt He will.  All I know is that we won’t save them, and right now we don't want them or need them.    

Copyrighted © 2012 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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November 8, 2012

We Are All New Jerseans Now

New Jersey needs to learn that elections have consequences.  Ironically, they complained about the lack of hurricane assistance while they marked their ballots for Obama.  I say, let them stew in their own Obama juices.  Their suffering will soon spread throughout the country because Hurricane Obama is poised to strike a fatal blow.  In that respect, we are all New Jerseans now.

It’s true; we are a divided nation, but we don’t need to come together—too late for that.  Rather, we need to construct a wall between the two sides.  We are plunging irreversibly into the abyss because there are now too many people who do not think or do not care.  Therefore, people who do think and do care should stop trying to save the others from themselves.  Such attempts only slow down the fall; they don’t stop it. 

This was an incredible nation while it lasted, but it’s over now.  Many of us embraced a vision of it that no longer exists.  It is time to let it go—both the vision and the nation.  It’s no longer our nation; it’s their nation.  Instead of exhausting ourselves trying to make it “our nation” again, we should withdraw and allow “their nation” to fail.  Let them suffer the consequences of their own choices and decisions.

Of course, we will share their fate, but we are more capable and better prepared to endure the aftermath.  We will be the ones to create a new nation—a better nation—from the ashes after the collapse.  No need for battles or revolutions, they will destroy themselves with own ideas.   It begins with our efforts to help and protect those on our side and spurn and deprive those on the other side, and New Jersey is a good a place to start.

Copyrighted © 2012 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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 September 6, 2012

Simple Truths

He is not yet president but Mitt Romney may have already saved America, and he did so by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate.  That decision put Medicare front and center in the presidential debate. 

Medicare, one of the many ticking time bombs facing this country, is something politicians have been afraid to touch because of the lies that emanate from the mouths of Democrats whenever the subject is broached.  Paul Ryan was not afraid to address it in his recent budget proposal, but the truths he spoke were drowned out by Democrat and media lies.  But now the issue is part of a presidential debate, and Romney and Ryan can talk straight to the public about it without media distortion.  Finally, the truth will be told. 

And the truth is pretty simple and easy to understand.  Romney’s plan affects no one age 55 and over—no one.  For those folks, Medicare remains unchanged.  Those under 55 will now have a choice of plans of which Medicare will be one.  The introduction of competition among the plans will help hold down costs and make it all affordable.  Pretty simple. 

The only Democrat comeback—other than lies—is their claim that they will save Medicare until 2026.  If that is true, you better start saving your money if you plan on being 65 or older after that date because Medicare is going away and you will then be responsible for paying 100% of your medical costs.  That is a pretty simple truth too. 

As I said, Mitt Romney may have already saved America because he has forced this much needed debate and he has proposed a plan that protects freedom and choice.   And after all, isn’t freedom and choice what this country is all about?

Copyrighted © 2012 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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July 18, 2012

The joke goes like this.  So a clown gets up in front of a crowd and says, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.”  Oh, wait a minute.  That’s not a joke.  Barack Obama really said that to a group of people in Virginia.  Perhaps it is a joke—a joke on all of us.

That socialist rant by Obama could have been lifted directly from the pages of the novel,  Atlas Shrugged, in which Ayn Rand, having fled totalitarian socialism, wrote to warn us what happens if we allow ourselves to be misled by the Barack Obama-types in society, men of limited intelligence and no ability whose only purpose in life is to convince men of even less intelligence and ability to hold a gun to the heads of life’s achievers to make them surrender their genius and ability in support of the lazy and the corrupt.

In Rand’s book, the producers and achievers go on strike and society crumbles because it cannot exist without their innovation and genius.  The Barack Obamas of this world produce nothing and are not capable of producing anything.  They can’t even sustain their own lives without stealing something from someone else.  But Rand’s book ends on a positive note with the promise of a new Renaissance when the achievers will return and rebuild—but no such hope exists for us if the path of Obama is followed.

The upcoming election gives us a stark choice between the lazy and corrupt (Barack Obama) and the achiever (Mitt Romney).  The choice is stark and simple:  socialist slavery or economic freedom.  As Winston Churchill said, “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery”.

Copyrighted © 2012 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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July 1, 2012

On June 28^th Chief Justice John Roberts gave away your freedom.  He didn’t have to do it.  He wanted to do it.  Whether he was bribed, threatened, or just plain stupid really doesn’t matter now.  What matters is that he did it and the country will suffer the consequences of his irrational, dimwitted pronouncement for decades and possibly centuries to come. 

Acting as Barack Obama’s stooge, John Roberts gave the federal government unlimited power to make you take any action or purchase any product it mandates by imposing a tax on you if you fail to do as you are told.  Prior to June 28^th, the purpose of a tax was to generate revenue.  Now its purpose can be to punish and coerce you to do something you don’t want to do. 

And the sky’s the limit.  You will be taxed if you don’t buy the exact type of health care policy you are told to buy and soon you could be taxed if you don’t buy a hybrid car or install energy efficient windows or purchase and eat certain foods.  And you have John Roberts, Barack Obama, and all the Democrats currently in the House and Senate to thank for this loss of freedom.

This country came into existence over taxation issues.  The Tea Parties then and now have their roots in it.  And don’t kid yourselves; this is the type of thing that causes revolutions.  The first shot of that revolution was fired at Americans by John Roberts on June 28^th, and return fire will commence this Election Day on November 6^th.  This is not a good time in history to be a Democrat, especially a tax-raising, lying Democrat like Barack Obama and the congressmen who voted for Obamacare.  Are you listening Bob Casey?

Copyrighted © 2012 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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May 30, 2012

Kentucky Fried Crabs

My friend and his wife recently related a story about when they began dating.  They both had young children—ages four to six—and they first brought them together on a weekend trip to the Maryland shore.  The father, a former Baltimore native, expressed to the kids his love of Maryland steamed crabs and his anticipation of returning to crab country.  

They spent most of their money on a hotel room and a trip to an amusement park, so they found themselves with only about enough money for gas to get home—definitely not enough to buy steamed crabs for which the children had begun clamoring. 

Since the children had never before eaten steamed crabs and had never been to Kentucky Fried Chicken, my friends made a quick dash through KFC and picked up a bunch of chicken thighs that they presented to the children as Maryland steamed crabs.  The kids loved them, and they never forgot the trip. 

Years later when they were grown, the children were fondly reminiscing about the time they first ate steamed crabs.  Hearing this, the mother blurted out, “Those weren’t crabs!  Those were chicken thighs!  Didn’t we ever tell you?”   

Outrage gripped the now-adult children and they verbally assailed their parents for being deceitful.  One of their best memories had become one of their worst, and no family get-together from that day forward passed without one of the kids bringing up the subject of how their rotten parents had lied to them. 

So what’s the point?  It’s simply that Americans are continually being told by Obama and the media how things are getting better and how Obama deserves to be reelected when, in fact, we know at a gut level that we are just being fed a false diet of Kentucky Fried Crabs. 

Copyrighted © 2012 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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October 25, 2011

Raising Cain

They’re at it again. We are heading into an election year and the news media are gearing up to pick the presidential candidates and ultimately the new president.  It’s a no-brainer that the leftwing media will again be promoting Barack Obama.  After all, the news media at ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and NPR are just campaign outlets for the Democrat Party.  However, it is disturbing to learn that Fox News, the counter balance to the other media networks, has become the campaign arm of the Mitt Romney candidacy.  

But what about the people?  What about their preferences and desires?  Clearly they are not enthralled with Obama or Romney.  Actually, it is Herman Cain that has caught their attention.  It‘s his outsider status and business acumen along with his good natured demeanor, plainspoken manner, fresh new ideas, and true conservative ideology that has them excited.  But the peoples’ preferences have no bearing on what the news media want and who they’ve determined will become the president.  

Of course, when it comes to intellect and reason, the news media are populated with a bunch of bottom feeders and back benchers, so the general population should give no credence to what a news media outlet says or thinks about politics or a political candidate.  Where it might be okay to listen to them report an auto accident or give a weather report, their opinion about politics and candidates should be totally disregarded.  But they do wield a lot of power because they have a large megaphone. 

So what can a regular person do?  The easiest thing would be to turn off the news media and think for yourself—or at least turn down the volume when they start talking politics.  You can always turn the volume up later to hear tomorrow’s weather forecast.

Copyrighted © 2011 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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 April 8, 2011

Who is Donald Trump?

I didn’t see its original TV airing, but I managed to view it on the MSNBC website.  I’m referring to the TODAY show interview of Donald Trump by Meredith Vieira that featured something rarely seen these days—a highly successful businessman unapologetically proud of his abilities and success.  It was refreshing.  It was also very humorous. 

Meredith Vieira was totally unprepared and smacked more than once right between the eyes with unbridled truth.  I lost track of the number of times she had to mentally pick herself up off the floor.  Trump was in command of the interview, the situation, and everything around him.  Meredith was simply a casualty of his power and competence. 

She tried to make light of his presidential aspirations and it only allowed Trump the opportunity to demonstrate that he is the only one on the scene who can turn around our nation and stop our national decline.  She attempted to defend Obama but Trump sliced and diced him and his abysmal performance in office.  My high resolution computer monitor revealed Meredith’s torture in all its vividness—the tightness of the skin around her eyes, the strained smile, the bulging of the vein in her neck.  If she could have run screaming out of the room, she would have. 

Success and ability presented in such an unapologetic manner is rarely seen outside of history or literature, but in that interview Trump brought it clearly into the here and now.  His heroic demeanor seemed so appropriate here on the eve of the movie release of the prophetic Ayn Rand novel, Atlas Shrugged, that is replete with honest, heroic, and unapologetically successful characters that will soon have everyone once again asking the question Who is John Galt? 

The more important question, however, will be Who is Donald Trump? 

Copyrighted © 2011 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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April 2, 2010

The Prize

The media are at it again.  They are hyping a story in which they play a major role in the cover up.  Why would they do such a thing and risk exposing their own complicity?  It can only mean that the prize is worth the risk, and the prize is nothing less that the destruction of the Catholic Church and traditional standards of morality. 

When you read or hear the media’s relentless assaults on the Pope and the Catholic Church regarding the misconduct of a few priests, something becomes strikingly evident when the gender of the victims is revealed: male, male, male…  Do I detect a pattern here?  Missing from the accounts is the identification of any female victims. 

The print and broadcast media like to use code words like pedophilia and child sexual abuse, and they use them incessantly in the hope that you will too.  However, these code words are just a cover up for the real problem that existed at the time—homosexual priests.  Because of political correctness and the mores of the time, the church, in an effort to be tolerant, turned a blind eye and allowed into the priesthood homosexual men who then did what some homosexual men do—they attempted to recruit adolescent and teenage boys.   

The church knows the root problem and has quietly taken steps to correct it by stopping the influx of homosexual men into the priesthood and dealing with the ones already there.  Unfortunately, the church is still too concerned about political correctness—as demonstrated by its embrace of the global warming hoax—and it is afraid to be too open in how it is addressing the real underlying problem.  In the meantime, the media continue their assault and their cover up of the homosexual connection in the whole affair.

 Copyrighted © 2010 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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January 21, 2010

As an old song’s lyrics suggest, What a difference a day makes.  The complete reversal of fortunes of the Democrat Party in one day due to the revolution that occurred in Massachusetts with the election of the Republican, Scott Brown, to the U.S. Senate is akin to the French peasants rolling the guillotine into the palace courtyard of Louis XVI to make short order of all the French nobility.  

For months, the imperial Democrat aristocracy in Congress and their narcissistic king in the White House ignored the wishes of us average Americans--“peasants” in their eyes—and they did whatever they wished.  They disparaged us as “tea-baggers,” laughed at our attempts to be heard, and made deals behind closed doors designed to enrich themselves and bankrupt us.  And when they were done taking our money, they set out to destroy the only thing we had left—our health. 

But then that fateful day arrived in Massachusetts when the peasants marched into the public square, guillotine in tow, and the once great Democrat nobility headed for the exits.  Nancy Pelosi, our own Marie-Antoinette, changed her tune and began promising more moderation and an abandonment of her assault on the American healthcare system.  Even our dunce king, Obama I, is now backtracking and trying to make nicey-nice with the peasantry.  It’s strange how the cold tempered steel of the guillotine blade quickly changes attitudes and outlooks. 

Can Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and the other Democrat elitists adhere to their new centrist pledges?  It’s doubtful.  They are too filled with arrogance and a sense of privilege that they can’t help but revert to their old ways.  But we won’t have to deal with them long.  The November elections are right around the corner and the guillotine stands at the ready.  Chomp.  Chomp.

 Copyrighted © 2010 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

November 14, 2009

The White House has announced that Kalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and his four co-conspirators will be tried in a civilian court in New York City with all the legal rights and privileges granted U.S. citizens.  But what of the fifth co-conspirator?   

Admittedly, the fifth co-conspirator was a Johnny-come-lately to the whole terrorism affair, but he has proven himself a very able jihadist as he continues the mayhem that began eight years ago in those burning buildings and scorched field.  In fact, he has been so adept at jihad that he has caused the devastation of 9/11 to swell beyond the borders of New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. to touch every life and engulf every corner of our country. 

Trying these terrorists in U.S. civilian court is a travesty, and the trials will simply become a left-wing anti-American circus and a boost for Islamic terrorism worldwide.  But the biggest travesty is that the fifth co-conspirator—Barack Hussein Obama—goes scot-free and gets to continue the jihad against our great nation.

 Copyrighted © 2009 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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July 2, 2009

The Marx Brothers are at it again.  No, I’m not talking about Groucho, Chico, and Harpo.  I’m referring to their latest incarnation: Hugo, Castro, and Baracko—the leaders of Venezuela, Cuba, and the United States.  These clowns never pass up an opportunity to voice their support of socialist Marxist’s regimes, and now they are all outraged that a fellow Marxist, Manuel Zelaya, has been ousted from the presidency of Honduras and booted out of the country. 

The news media and the Marx Brothers like to refer to Zelaya as the democratically elected leader of Honduras.  What they fail to mention is that he is also the democratically ousted leader of Honduras.   

It wasn’t a coup d’etat that sent Zelaya packing; it was a courageous and legal act of patriotism on the part of the Honduran Congress and the Honduran Supreme Court that banished Zelaya in order to save their country from creeping totalitarianism.  As the duly elected representatives of the people of Honduras, the Congress, in concert with the Supreme Court, instructed the Honduran military to remove Zelaya in order to protect the country and its constitution from a would-be dictator who was attempting his own coup d’etat from within the presidency. 

It is understandable that the Marx Brothers would feel threatened by such bold action to quell a Marxist take-over in a neighboring country, especially Baracko, the despot-in-waiting, who has yet to cement as much control here as have his Marxist brothers in their own countries.  But I don’t think Baracko really has much to fear. 

Unfortunately, the United States Congress and Supreme Court are not as concerned about protecting our constitution and country as are their counterparts in Honduras.  If they were, I’d sleep a lot easier and Baracko would be the one worrying about his future.

Copyrighted © 2009 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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May 22, 2009

It’s good to know someone is still looking out for us.  Amid the adolescent chaos that is the Obama administration, it is very reassuring to finally see an adult step forward and dress down the irresponsible toddlers who have put our nation in jeopardy.  That adult is former Vice-President Dick Cheney, and it is sure good to have him back.  

Dick Cheney gave a talk the other day on national security, and his well measured words and insightful warnings still have Barack Obama scrambling for a cogent response—or rather scrambling to read a cogent response written for him by someone else.  

Obama attempted to outflank Cheney by quickly scheduling his own speech immediately before Cheney’s planned talk, but it was a hollow attempt that fell flat.  As is normally the case, Obama simply appeared like a ventriloquist’s mannequin turning his head from side to side while someone else put words into his mouth via a teleprompter.  This time, however, the words mattered—he couldn’t get by on just cool looks and American Idol charisma—and the words he spoke were vacant, shallow, and dangerous. 

Cheney, on the other hand, spoke from the heart and spoke what Americans know to be true.  He spelled out how we have been kept safe all these years because of the actions of adults like him who made our safety their number one priority.  And he went on to chastise the children now in charge of the country for their naiveté and their failure to take national security seriously.  By the end of the speech, Obama and his flunkies were “Twittering” each other hoping someone could come up with a reasoned rebuttal to Cheney.  No one could. 

It’s good to have an adult on the scene again.  We could use a few more. 

Copyrighted © 2009 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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March 11, 2009

Enough

In November 2006, an email circulated the Internet that addressed the political and economic situation in the United States at the time the Republicans were voted out of power in Congress and the Democrats were installed.  The Democrats had run on a slogan of Change and a New Direction.  Sound familiar? 

Many read and deleted the email thinking it was just Republican sour grapes.  I, however, noting the prescience of the email, saved it in order to see how things turned out.  Perhaps it’s now time to revisit and review it.   

Here is the situation the email described in November 2006.  The stock market was at an all-time high.  Unemployment was at a 25 year low and the nation had reached virtual full employment.  Oil prices were low.  Taxes were at a 20 year low.  Money was pouring into the treasury and federal revenues were at an all-time high.  The federal deficit was down 50% over the previous year.  Home valuations were up 200% over the previous 3 ½ years.  Inflation was in check and hovering at a 20 year low.  And there hadn’t been a single terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11/01.   

The email ended by asking what change the Democrats wish to institute and what new direction they wished to take the nation.  I guess we’ve learned the answer to both those questions.  As was recently revealed, it only took 12 months—by December 2007—for them to squander everything and drive the economy into a recession.  And now, working in concert with the clueless Obama in the White House, the Democrat Congress is moving at full speed to drive us into a depression.  Now that’s change we can’t believe in!   

I guess the only question left to ask Democrat and Republican voters alike is a simple one.  Had enough?

Copyrighted © 2009 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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February 20, 2009

Hope for the Dope 

Shortly after returning from Russia, a friend described for me the attitude of the Russian people regarding alcohol.  Drinking in Russia is expected and very much a part of everyday life—on and off the job.  The Russian people don’t frown upon drinking, even heavy drinking, but they have no acceptance of someone who can’t hold his liquor.  That was one of their problems with Boris Yeltsen.  They didn’t mind his being a drunk; they just didn’t want him showing it. 

In a way, the American news media have a similar perception problem with Barack Obama.  They expect dishonesty from a Democrat—who doesn’t?—but what they really don’t like to see is his display of ineptitude.  Unfortunately, that’s all they are seeing coming from the Obama White House, and it’s starting to annoy them.  I expected the ineptness based solely on his lack of qualifying experience for an executive job, but I really did not expect the level of incompetence I am seeing.  I’ve noticed that Jimmy Carter walks with a spring in his step these days knowing that there is finally a president more inept than he was. 

Although the news media can see Obama’s ineptness (even if they don’t report it), I wonder if it has broken through the consciousness of the average Obama voter.  I remember watching the inauguration and wondering how they were going to get all those people back into the asylums.  Then I was in Ft. Myers the day before Obama’s town hall meeting and it hit me—they didn’t go back to the asylums!   

Despite my knowledge of the abject ignorance of the Obama supporter, I still have hope.  Yes, I am inspired with Obama “hope” because with each blunder, misstep, and stammer, I’m hopeful that he will fail and fail miserably. 

Copyrighted © 2009 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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January 23, 2009

Home Alone

We are a nation at risk, more so now than we’ve been in seven years.  When the Bush administration left office on January 20^th, the last adult departed the Whitehouse and left us on our own.  We are now destined to be leaderless for the next four years—not a good situation for a nation at war. 

Some say, “Never fear; we have Obama!”  But that’s just what should strike fear into the heart of any sane American.  When national security problems arise, which they inevitably will, I’m sure Obama’s actions will be swift and decisive.  But I take no solace in the knowledge his actions will amount to no more than striking the terrorists with his purse.  His initial actions in office have already weakened us, and our nation’s enemies are absolutely giddy about their prospects over the next four years. 

Things are no better on the economic front where his naïve, childish ideas doom us to bleak economic times.  He has a message of hope, but my only hope is that our nation survives.  On inauguration day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average sank to a 14-year low on the speculation of Obama’s wrongheaded ideas, the worst inauguration day drop in history.  The message from Wall Street was loud and clear: Yes we can’t! 

Many claimed that Bush was too much of a cowboy, but at least a cowboy wades into the fray and is not afraid to get his hands dirty.  Now we have a metrosexual president who is more concerned about looking good and playing the “role” of president than being a wartime leader.  His well manicured hands will never get dirty.  And in the meantime, our nation’s enemies continue their work with active hands to destroy our country and our way of life.    

Copyrighted © 2009 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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 December 23, 2008

Liberal Quiz

Many people these days are bemoaning their plight or the plight of others they know.  They have surrendered to the pessimistic group-think surrounding the economy and are taking great delight in handwringing and finger pointing.  Unfortunately, their finger pointing has grossly missed the mark and needs to be turned 180°. 

Recently, someone used his two sons to make the point to me that George Bush was responsible for the failing economy.  He said that one son was being laid off for five days without pay and the other would be taking a pay cut in the upcoming year.  My response to him and any others of his mindset involves two questions.  Question 1: Did you vote for Democrats in the 2006 congressional election?  Question 2:  Did you vote for Barak Obama in the 2008 presidential election?  If the answers to those two questions are yes, then you deserve your plight and perhaps you’ll learn a lesson from it. 

Admittedly, that sounds a little harsh, but such is life.  My sympathy in these situations is reserved for those who answer no to the questions because it was the Democrat Congress that brought about the circumstances of this recession and it is Barack Obama who will use those circumstances to plunge us into a depression.  Those who voted for Democrats and Obama are the ones who threw gasoline on the fire and they deserve to get burned.  Those who did not vote for Democrats and Obama are simply victims of situations they could not prevent. 

Ironically, it is those true victims that don’t need my sympathy—and don’t want it.  They are the positive, confident, and capable ones that will use their self-reliance to pull us out of whatever mire we find ourselves as a result of Obama and his hapless followers.

Copyrighted © 2008 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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December 10, 2008

The Big One

It’s time to say goodbye to the Big Three: GM, Ford, and Chrysler.  Instead, say hello to the Big One: The Peoples Automobile Company.  That’s right.  For a sum of cash, the once great automakers are selling out their companies and selling their souls to the federal government.  Government, that can’t do anything right, will now be manufacturing our cars—cars no one wants and won’t buy. 

Although I knew it wouldn’t happen, I longed to see the Big Three executives fly into Washington on their corporate jets and march into Congress to lay down the law in cold and blunt terms.  No groveling.  No begging.  Just an honest explanation of how governmental interference in their businesses had brought them to this end—with the emphasis on the word “end.”   

With that said, I wanted them to march out and take action to immediately shut down their American operations in order to concentrate on their profitable overseas markets where they are able to make and sell cars people want and will buy—cars that cannot be sold in the United States because of irrational laws, idiotic fuel standards, and a host of other bureaucratic obstacles.   

Had my scenario played out, it wouldn’t have been long before Congress would be groveling at their feet, begging them to reopen the American plants with pledges of reduced corporate taxes, elimination of the fuel economy standards, and whatever else necessary to bring them back.  But alas, that didn’t happen.  Instead, we were subjected to the embarrassing spectacle of impotent men afraid of their own shadows rather than business leaders in charge of their own destiny. 

This spring I will be purchasing a new car, and it most certainly won’t be from one of the groveling auto executives or The Peoples Automobile Company.

Copyrighted © 2008 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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November 5, 2008

I thought I’d feel some sense of anxiety about the outcome of the presidential election, but I was oddly at peace.  My only feeling was that of amusement at the reveling of the Obama supporters.  It was the amusement of an adult observing a child dance around in triumph when school is canceled after a large snowfall because the adult knows full well that the snow day will be made up on a sunny day in June when the child won’t be so triumphant. 

The day after the election there were a lot of triumphant children dancing in the streets over Barack Obama.  He promised to seize their private pension plans, and they danced in the streets.  He promised to reduce their income through higher taxes, and they danced in the streets.  He bragged that he would leave them unemployed by bankrupting the coal industry, and they danced in the streets.  He promised to abort their children, and they danced in the streets.  He promised to leave them vulnerable by gutting the military, and they danced in the streets.  He promised them Marxism, and still they danced in the streets.

It all reminded me of one of my favorite movie lines from the film Gladiator.  In the scene, the Roman senator, Gracchus, speaks about the oppressive emperor who is lauded by the people of Rome simply because he provides them amusement and entertainment through games in the Coliseum.  Gracchus is referencing the emperor and the Roman people but he could just as easily be talking about Obama and his voters when he says: “I think he knows what Rome is.  Rome is the mob.  Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted.  Take away their freedom and still they'll roar.  He’ll bring them death—and they will love him for it.”

Copyrighted © 2008 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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October 20, 2008

It’s a known fact that Barack Obama hates Christians, sportsmen, and Pennsylvanians.  We know because of what he said to his elite Democrat friends in San Francisco in describing Pennsylvanians as bitterly clinging to guns and religion.  And now one of his major supporters, Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania, has declared western Pennsylvania a racist area.  I guess Pennsylvanians are what Obama means when he refers to “typical white people.” 

It’s not enough that Obama hates Pennsylvanians, now he’s extending his loathing across the state line into Ohio.  His target this time is not a class of people but one person in particular.  He’s decided that he wants to destroy one individual Ohioan, an average guy—a plumber—who had the audacity to ask him a question and then challenge his answer. 

The plumber is Joe Wurzelbacher who did what others in the media have refused to do.  He asked a relevant question causing Obama to reveal his deeply entrenched Marxist core.  In addition, Joe got Obama to say what he really thinks of taxpayers and admit his intention to take our money and “spread the wealth around.”  I guess we can add taxpayers to the list of Christians, sportsmen, Pennsylvanians, and plumbers as people Obama hates. 

Joe may be an average guy, but he understands what Obama’s plans mean to his hopes and dreams.  He has learned also what happens to anyone who dares challenge socialist Democrat ideology.  If Obama is so willing to destroy a plumber in Ohio and attack Christians and sportsmen in Pennsylvania, just think what he has in store for the rest of us. 

He may say he wants to spread the wealth around, but what he’s really doing is spreading the hate around—and Obama and Democrats have a lot of hate to spread.

Copyrighted © 2008 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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October 16, 2008

Church Politics

In a letter that appeared in the October 11, 2008 edition of the Pittsburgh Catholic, Bishop David A. Zubik talked about the upcoming election.  Unfortunately, he came off sounding like a typical politician—lots of fluff and no substance. 

His bottom line was this: The right to life is a foundational principle, and abortion and euthanasia cannot be viewed as merely two issues among many in determining how to vote; however, don’t let them be so foundational that they take precedence over other issues.  Huh?  That’s a dodge and obfuscation that would make even Barack Obama proud.  

An accompanying article by Sister Mary Ann Walsh, Media Relations Director for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, was even worse.  In it she outlined all the sacred “rights” that must be protected through our vote, rights I didn’t even know existed—rights to health care, jobs, income, unions, immigration, etc.  It seems she forgot about the rights to a sports car, fancy home, and flat screen TV!   

But we all know that there is only one “right” germane to this election and that is the right to life.  It is from the right to life that all the other designer “rights” flow.  And without the right to life, all societal rights, privileges, and responsibilities are moot.  A candidate who is grounded in a right to life can be trusted with other social concerns, but a candidate who has disdained the right to life—and in Barack Obama’s case even supported infanticide—is not morally grounded and cannot be trusted with any issue that affects any of us inside or outside the womb. 

Many years ago, a young man named John courageously stood up and told a king named Herod that his personal actions were immoral despite the fact that Herod was then building a new aqueduct for the city that was helping the downtrodden, improving lives, providing needed services, and employing immigrants.  John lost his head over it, but he prepared the way for the rest of us.  Now we all need to follow his lead and take a similar courageous stand for life, Bishop Zubik and Sister Walsh included. 

Copyrighted © 2008 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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September 1, 2008

The message in Barack Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver the other night was very subtle yet very clear:  Woman, get back in the kitchen and cook my dinner!   

The Obama Democrats have been very glib in their handling of the whole Hillary Clinton affair.  They “dissed” her for president, and then they turned around and “dissed” her for vice-president.  And they didn’t care what the women in their party thought about it.  Their message to Hillary supporters was unmistakable:  Woman, get back in the kitchen and cook my dinner!   

As they had done so many times in the past, Democrat women then dropped their heads and unceremoniously trudged back into the kitchen to do the bidding of Obama and his surrogates.  But something unexpected happened the very next day.   

Around noon, women around the country stuck their heads out of the kitchen just long enough to hear John McCain announce his vice-presidential pick, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska.  Now they are torn.  Do they adhere to the dictates of their Democrat masters, or do they declare their independence and support one of their own?   

Come Election Day I doubt we’ll find the women of America in the kitchen cooking dinner for Barack Obama.  Instead, we’ll find them in the election booth voting for John McCain and Sara Palin.

Copyrighted © 2008 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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July 28, 2008

The Black Dukakis

Recently, Barack Obama has begun making an issue of his race.  He is fond of saying that he doesn’t look like other presidential candidates that have come before him—a direct reference to his race.  I and others would have to disagree.  He looks an awfully lot like previous Democrat candidates.   

Some people think he is the black Jimmy Carter with Carter’s doltish liberal intellect and hatred of America.  Some think he is the black Al Gore with Gore’s deranged environmental alarmism and rambling incoherence when it comes to addressing the nation’s need to produce and develop its own oil resources.  

Still others would maintain he is the black John Kerry with Kerry’s elitist superior attitude and total disdain of average Americans.  And you could find others who would claim he is the black Walter Mondale with Mondale’s total ignorance of free market capitalism and his pledge to raise taxes on Americans. 

Of course, there are those who would adamantly maintain he is the black George McGovern with McGovern’s antiwar antics and advocacy of American military defeat, retreat, and surrender.  And there is an argument to be made that he is the black Bill Clinton with Clinton’s inability to tell the truth and need to pass off the blame to anyone but himself. 

But despite those applicable comparisons, if you were to ask me, I’d have to say that Obama is better described by the total liberal package of ignorance and incompetence that was Michael Dukakis.  And we all remember the dismal outcome of the Dukakis presidential campaign. 

Simply put, Barack Obama is the black Dukakis.     

Copyrighted © 2008 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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May 13, 2008

Liberal IQ

After a six-week convalescence, I began driving again and learned how much the price of gasoline has increased.  I love it!  Despite a 120 mile round-trip daily work commute, I get excited when the price of gas goes up because I hold out hope that it will lead to a corresponding rise in the IQ of liberal Americans. 

Logic dictates that if liberals must pay out their noses for gas, they will make an effort to learn why it costs what it does.  With that realization, they will then take steps to help lower the price.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to be working because they still recite their ignorant litany of reasons for the high gas prices:  Bush, Cheney, Big Oil, Halliburton, space aliens, etc. 

There is one cause for high gas prices and one cause alone—supply and demand.  And there is only one solution to high gas prices—America must drill and refine its own oil.  Period.  If liberals could just understand those two basic truths, their IQs would increase dramatically and we would be well on the way to lower gas prices and energy independence. 

But their IQs are not rising and so they prevent us from drilling for oil in Alaska, the Dakotas, Montana, off the continental shelves, and in the Gulf of Mexico—areas that could provide us with all the oil we need well into the future.  Instead, they sit back and line the pockets of the OPEC nations while complaining about our dependency on Arab oil and the price of gasoline in the United States. 

I’m not sure of the amount, but there is a gasoline price tag out there high enough to cause a considerable uptick in the IQ of liberals.  We may be on course to learning just what that is.

Copyrighted © 2008 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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April 15, 2008

Recycled Lies

The recent visit of Pope Benedict XVI has allowed the political left and the mainstream news media to recycle one of their favorite lies: pedophile priests in the Catholic Church.  As they did when the church scandal first broke, the left and the media continue to avoid the truth when reporting this issue. 

Pedophilia was never a problem in the Catholic Church.  That was just the term applied to it by those who could not admit the real issue to themselves or to the public.  The real problem was homosexual priests recruiting teenage boys.  Had the problem been pedophilia, young girls would have been paraded out as victims, but that wasn’t the case.  The victims were all boys in their mid to late teenage years. 

Many will not admit that fact because they see nothing wrong with homosexuality.  Ironically, they insist that homosexual scout leaders be allowed unbridled access to America’s youth, and they are quick to chastise anyone who takes steps to prevent that access.  Also, they lie to us and to themselves by reporting that homosexual men do not recruit young, impressionable teenagers.  The fact is they do recruit, and what transpired with the homosexual priests is proof of that fact. 

The real scandal in the Catholic Church was that church leaders turned a blind eye to the number of homosexual men infiltrating the priesthood.  It was these homosexual men who then made overtures to the impressionable teenage boys under their charge.  Fortunately, the church has now revamped its screening process for prospective priests and has weeded out many who should not have been ordained. 

But the political left and the news media will continue to push the pedophilia lie because they hate the Catholic Church and they don’t want to offend their friends in the homosexual community.

Copyrighted © 2008 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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February 7, 2008

Terminator

Remember the movie Terminator?  It tells the story of a time in the future when machines rise up and attempt to destroy the very humanity that created them.  Then after decades of war, and on the eve of losing the war, the machines find a way to send one of their own—a terminator—back into the past to kill the person responsible for leading the humans to victory over them.  A good story line, but it doesn’t have anything to do with reality.  Or does it? 

Here in the reality of the present day, we see the story line of Terminator taking shape and playing out in the political landscape right before our very eyes.  The political machine in the Republican Party has risen up, and it is systematically attempting to destroy the very thing that formed and created the modern-day Republican Party—conservatism.  Its weapon is a liberal terminator in the form of John McCain who, like the movie terminator, appears unstoppable using conventional weapons.  

Now he is even attempting to reach back into the past and destroy the founder of the modern-day Republican Party—Ronald Reagan.  By attempting to link himself with Reagan and claiming that they have identical values and beliefs, he hopes to undermine the philosophical underpinnings of conservatism.  But it won’t work.

In the movie, the terminator is himself terminated, and in the real world, the same fate awaits John McCain.  Come November, he will be relegated to the ash heap of history where he belongs.  Then, after his defeat in November and four years of socialist drift brought to us by incompetent Democrat leadership, a new, revitalized—and conservative—Republican Party will emerge to once again claim its rightful place as the true protector of individual freedom.

Copyrighted © 2008 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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January 27, 2008

Mr. President

He’s bright.  He’s articulate.  He’s attractive.  He’s experienced.  And he’s extremely qualified.  He’s the worst nightmare of Democrats and the news media.  He’s Mitt Romney.  And both the Democrats and the media know he will be the next president of the United States if he gets the Republican Party’s nomination.  Therefore, through lies and obfuscation, they will do whatever is necessary to prevent his nomination. 

That won’t be easy for them because of Romney’s resume.  He was an incredibly successful businessman and he was also a competent and successful governor.  Therefore, he brings to the office a broad understanding of business and government, something this country desperately needs. 

The dirty little secret is that both the Democrats and the news media know that there are only three candidates qualified to become the chief executive of the United States (i.e. Romney, Huckabee, and Guiliani), and Romney is the most qualified of the three.  The Democrat stable of candidates is completely devoid of any executive experience or qualification, and the Democrats and media know this.  That is why they are desperately trying to push McCain as the Republican nominee who is as deeply flawed and unqualified as the Democrat candidates. 

But besides being unqualified, John McCain is not a real Republican, and he will not get the nomination no matter how much the media tries to force him down our throats.  But that doesn’t mean they will give up.  They will try to boost McCain by destroying Romney, and they will call Romney every name in the book to try and damage him.  But regardless of the names they call him, there is one name they will eventually have to utter when speaking of Mitt Romney next January, and that name is Mr. President. 

Copyrighted © 2008 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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November 18, 2007

Wish List

Christmas is approaching, and it’s time to compose that wish list to send to Santa.  So what will al-Qaeda ask for this year?  I think it’s obvious: 1) America’s surrender in Iraq; 2) the pulling of American troops out of Iraq; and 3) freedom for al-Qaeda to plan attacks on the American homeland without interference from the American military and intelligence services.   

And what will Democrats ask Santa for this year?  Again, it’s fairly obvious: 1) America’s surrender in Iraq; 2) the pulling of American troops out of Iraq; and 3) freedom for al-Qaeda to plan attacks on the American homeland without interference from the American military and intelligence services.  It’s getting harder and harder to draw distinctions between the philosophies of al-Qaeda and the Democrats.  

Unfortunately, if the Democrats get their wish, it won’t be coal that America gets in its Christmas stocking this year; it will more likely be a severed head or a roadside bomb.  But don’t be frightened or disheartened because Democrats won’t get their wish.  Despite the fact they have abandoned our fighting youth by refusing to provide the military with the financial support it needs; our troops are being victorious and have almost driven al-Qaeda completely out of Iraq. 

Now we must take action to complete the victory by endeavoring to drive the Democrats completely out of Washington.  But let’s face it.  We will never truly be rid of Islamic religious extremists as we will never truly be rid of Democrat political extremists.  All we can do is keep our collective foot on their throats and never give them room to breathe.

Copyrighted © 2007 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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March 8, 2007

Web of Lies

It began as a series of individual lies told by Joseph Wilson about the president, vice-president, and Iraq .  It then became a symphony of lies that recruited even more liars: Joe Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame; Tim Russert from Meet the Press; Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald; and almost the entire American news media.  In the end, the only one who really appeared to tell the truth was Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Mr. Cheney’s chief-of-staff, and ironically, he was the one convicted of lying.  

As a part of a witch hunt, the gang of liars set their sights on Mr. Libby because he had had the audacity to expose the lies of Joseph Wilson, a beloved figure to the American Left.  They set upon him with all the lies they could muster, and they found sympathetic accomplice in the form of a special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald.   

It’s hard to imagine anyone being a bigger liar than Joe Wilson, but Fitzgerald gave him a run for his money.  Fitzgerald lied to the public prior to the Libby trial, lied to the jury during the trial, and continued lying after the trial.  Of course, the media perpetuated his lies and those of Joseph Wilson, and it continues to do so today.  And let’s not forget the judge in the trial.  He permitted the lies and used his position to block the introduction of truth into his courtroom.  

As I said before, Mr. Libby is the only one in this whole travesty who appeared to tell the truth, and unfortunately, he is the one going to jail.  If this isn’t a wake-up call to conservatives and Republicans of the need to stand up against the tyranny of left-wing ideology and the dishonesty that permeates the news media and the Democrat Party, I don’t know what is.

Copyrighted © 2007 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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November 19, 2006

Black Hearts

I went on vacation immediately after the mid-term election, and I was wearing my “Lynn Swann for Governor” hat.  Although the election is over, I like the hat and continue to wear it.  

When someone unfamiliar with our governor’s race asked if the candidate had won, I told him that Pennsylvania is a Democrat state, and unfortunately, white Democrats don’t vote for blacks.  He looked aghast at my claim and pointed out that there are elected black politicians.  In response, I offered a further explanation.

Of the few elected black officials out there, they tend to come from smaller electoral regions where the population of blacks is greater, such as congressional districts like Harlem.  In these smaller regions, black Democrats in combination with white and black Republicans can overcome the vote of white Democrats.  

June 1, 2004

The Worst Generation

They’re called the Greatest Generation, a title well deserved.  They were honorable, determined, courageous, and patriotic.  On Memorial Day, I heard one of them disdain the title and instead apply it to the very first American generation, so I guess you can add another descriptive accolade to the WWII generation: humility. 

But what about the Worst Generation—my own generation—often referred to as the Vietnam Generation?  Over the years, the worst of the Worst Generation have gravitated to the Democrat Party and the entertainment and news media, and they have come to represent the most vocal critics of the current war on terrorism.  Perhaps it’s because they view everything through the prism of Vietnam. 

They cry out for more troops in Iraq while at the same time demand a politically correct war in which our actions must be governed by the UN.  They don’t want us to be too aggressive, and don’t even think about offending anyone or embarrassing captured terrorists.  In other words, they want Iraq to be fought just like Vietnam. 

They also lack perspective and common sense.  The Greatest Generation knew that the Japanese, Germans, and Italians represented a single threat.  The Worst Generation refuses to draw a similar conclusion when faced with worldwide Islamic terrorism.  The Greatest Generation knew that the troops fighting in the Pacific and European Theaters were fighting the same war.  The Worst Generation is unable to make that connection in Afghanistan and Iraq. 

Fortunately, President Bush is the antidote to the Worst Generation.  A throwback to the Greatest Generation, he exhibits the same grit, honor, courage, and patriotism that brought us victory in WWII.  He will not succumb to the lunacy of the Worst Generation, and he definitely will not allow us to succumb to the threats of our enemy. 

Copyrighted © 2004 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

May 3, 2004

The Fallen

The only good soldier is a dead soldier.  That could be the mantra of the news media and the Democrat Party.  If you have any doubts, you only had to watch Ted Koppel’s Nightline the other night where he spent the entire program reading the names of American soldiers killed in Iraq.  Strangely absent were the names of soldiers killed in Afghanistan because highlighting those deaths would not further the defeat of George W. Bush. 

The defeat of Bush can only be accomplished through the defeat of America in its war on terrorism.  And to defeat our war on terrorism, you need lots of dead American soldiers.  Live American soldiers represent victory, and victory is not something Democrats and the liberal news media will tolerate.  Live soldiers are only to be criticized and portrayed as villains.  After all, it was John Kerry who referred to his own “band of brothers” in Vietnam as baby killers, rapists, and murderers. 

No, it’s dead soldiers you need, and lots of them.  Therefore, expect to see a body count for every single soldier lost in the line of duty—but only those lost in Iraq.  Also, expect to see their names and faces spread across all the major newspapers and on ABC, which rightfully has earned its new name as the Anti-American Broadcasting Corporation.  Defeat of America must be achieved at all costs, and to the American Left, dead American soldiers are simply acceptable collateral damage in achieving that defeat.  Nothing more.  Nothing less. 

If the war on Bush is successful and John Kerry is elected president, it may then be necessary for Ted Koppel to host a program displaying the names and faces of every American citizen because, at that point, we all become fallen soldiers in the war on terrorism. 

Copyrighted © 2004 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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March 7, 2004

Friends

Based on the rhetoric spewed out during the Democrat presidential primary, we know that George W. Bush is public enemy #1 in John Kerry’s eyes.  We also know that worldwide terrorism (personified by Osama bin Laden) is public enemy #1 in George W. Bush’s eyes.  And those two differences make me hearken back to a Middle Eastern saying I heard during the first Gulf War:  The enemy of my enemy is my friend.  

Recently, Democrats have become hysterical over the observation that both John Kerry and Osama bin Laden have similar interests in the United States presidential race.  It is not arguable that if Osama bin Laden and all the other terrorists were able to vote, they would vote against George W. Bush.  After all, he is the one trying to hunt them down and kill them.  The enemy of my enemy is my friend. 

I don’t blame the Democrat rank-and-file for being upset with these comparisons, but the truth is inescapable.  Worldwide terrorism wants George W. Bush out of office because he is the only one opposing it.  John Kerry and the Democrat leadership are not willing to oppose terrorism, and the terrorists know it.  The enemy of my enemy is my friend. 

As for the Democrat rank-and-file, they need to start honestly appraising what their party stands for today instead of reminiscing about what it stood for fifty, sixty, or seventy years ago.  Benjamin Franklin once wrote, “The Sting of a Reproach is the Truth of it.”  The truth about the shared interests of John Kerry and Osama bin Laden regarding George W. Bush may sting, but it is something the Democrats need to hear, recognize, and accept.  They also need to choose better candidates and better friends.  The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Copyrighted © 2004 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

February 7, 2004

Bad News for America

I’d first like to state that I definitely know the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.  But before I reveal that information, I would like to make a brief comment about the Democrat presidential campaign. 

Howard Dean started it.  John Kerry continues it.  And John Edwards and Wesley Clark echo it.  So what’s the message the Democrat candidates are proclaiming with such zeal and vigor?  It is hatred—pure, unabashed hatred—and that is not good news for America. 

It seems that Democrats hate everything.  They hate large and small businesses.  They hate the rich and the poor.  They hate the car you drive and the food you eat.  You name it; they hate it.  But mostly they hate George W. Bush, and that hatred spills over to a hatred of America and a good majority of the American people.   

When you have abject hatred of the commander-in-chief, you can’t help but hate the actions of the armed services and the individuals who serve there.  When you despise the president of the United States, you can help but despise the country and people he leads and protects.  Every action you take to harm or injure the president brings harm and injury to the country as a whole and the people who populate it.   

Al Qaeda and the other terrorist organizations around the world know that, and they share the Democrat hatred of President Bush and America.  That was one of the reasons for the 9/11 attacks.  Fortunately, the national Democrat Party disdains God.  If you were to throw religious fervor into the mix, you might find Democrat activists strapping on explosives before they waltz into Starbucks for their morning lattés.    

So where is Osama bin Laden hiding?  It’s quite obvious.  He’s hiding in the blackened hate-filled soul of the Democrat Party.

Copyrighted © 2004 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

October 7, 2003

Coloring the News

Rush Limbaugh stated on ESPN that the sports media are desirous of seeing a black quarterback succeed.  The reaction was not immediate, but a firestorm  eventually ensued.  In response, the sports media revealed how desirous they are of seeing a white sports commentator (i.e. Limbaugh) fail, and they demonstrated how their desires and biases really do color their reporting.  Could it be that Rush was right? 

Mitch Olszak—the editor of my local newspaper—doesn’t think so, and he said as much in his 10/6/2003 editorial.  Not only did he disagree with Rush’s observation, he jumped on the racial bandwagon and followed the other media lemmings right off the cliff.  So what are Limbaugh’s views about race? 

Rush espouses the conservative view that regards all races as equally competent in achieving success through hard work.  The levels of success are dependent only on the talents and motivations of the individuals.  The key is hard work and achievement, not the color of their skin. 

Liberals, on the other hand, espouse the philosophy that minorities are incompetent or incapable of achieving success without the assistance of whites (i.e. white liberals).  It is the philosophy from which all affirmative action programs spring.  Minorities must be coddled every step of the way by caring, understanding whites.  What could be more racist than that? 

Olszak’s hostility toward Rush Limbaugh’s conservative view of race betrays his own liberal leanings.  It would be easy for me to call for Olszak’s head for the racial insinuations in his editorial or to rally forces demanding his resignation or firing, but that would make me no better than the intolerant liberal media.  

Instead, I’ll use Olszak’s own words and point out that freedom of speech gives him the "fundamental right to express his opinions," but he can't expect people to pay to read them.  

Copyrighted © 2003 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

September 24, 2003

$87 Billion Lie

It’s a lie.  There’s no other way to describe it.  Not only that, it’s the eighty-seven billion dollar lie.  That’s the amount President Bush is requesting for military support and the rebuilding of Iraq—but that’s not the lie.  The lie is what Democrats and the news media are saying about it. 

Democrat politicians, especially the presidential contenders, in concert with the news media are trying to whip up hysteria among the public to turn them against the president and his efforts to defeat terrorism and protect our homeland.  In doing so, they are making the claim that Americans are outraged at the amount of money Mr. Bush wants to spend on the war and the efforts in Iraq.  They claim that Americans—that’s us by the way—are demanding a better accounting of how this money will be spent. 

No we aren’t.  We know that this money is going to be spent no matter what.  We also know that the money will never be returned to us if it is not spent on Iraq.  The Democrats definitely will see to that.  Democrat aversion to returning any of our tax money assures that we will never see a dime of that $87 billion.  Instead, it will be poured down some black hole of social spending or used to buy votes.  It will never be returned to the American people through tax reductions or tax refunds. 

So if this money is not going to be given back to us, it might as well be spent to protect and defend us.  After all, that’s the number one responsibility of the federal government, the one that’s enumerated in the Constitution.  And if it can keep us safe and prevent terrorists from flying more planes into our buildings, it will be money well spent.

 Copyrighted © 2003 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

  July 18, 2003

Simple Minds   

Have you ever tried to argue with a stupid person?  I mean a really stupid person.  It can be incredibly frustrating.  First you discover that the person lacks the intellect to rationally process information.  Then you are left in stunned amazement at his shallowness of thought.   

That’s the dilemma facing President Bush daily when must deal with the news media.  Let’s face it; members of the news media aren’t very bright.  No matter what Mr. Bush tells them, they cannot comprehend it.  Unfortunately, they then turn around and report as “news” their misconceptions of what he said. 

A good example of this is the media hype over a statement in the State of the Union Address about Saddam Hussein and African uranium.  The exact quote from the speech is this:  "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."  The British are standing by their intelligence report.  So despite what the news media are saying, the statement made by the president in his speech was true then and is true now.  So what’s so hard to understand? 

Why do the news media have problems understanding simple concepts?  Perhaps it’s because they’ve always lacked such understanding.  I remember these people from my schooldays.  They were the ones who couldn’t grasp what was being taught, the ones who couldn’t master long division.  To hide their failures and inadequacies, they set about disrupting the classroom—that is until we chased them off the schoolyard.  Now they’ve returned as adults and journalists.  And to hide their current intellectual failings, they’ve set about disrupting the nation much as they did the classroom. 

In days past, we simply would have chased them off the schoolyard and been rid of them.  If only it were that easy now. 

Copyrighted © 2003 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

April 25, 2003

The Name Game 

What’s in a name?  Take for instance the name Conner, a common name for boys these days.  It happens to be the name of my godson, although he spells it differently.  But it’s not my godson I want to talk about.  Instead, I want to talk about another boy, one named Conner Peterson.  You know him as the son of Laci Peterson, the woman whose body recently washed ashore in San Francisco Bay along with the body of Conner. 

In order to seek the death penalty against Conner’s father, Scott Peterson, the prosecution is charging Scott not only with the murder of his wife, Laci, but also with the murder of Conner.  This is unusual in as much as Conner was an unborn child.  He was still in his mother’s womb when the murders were committed.  What is even more unusual is that he has a name, and amazingly, his name is being repeating in the news reports. 

Pro-abortion groups are frantic over the fact that Scott Peterson might be charged with the murder of an unborn child.  They fear that this will hurt their agenda and undermine their goal of desensitizing people to the horrors of abortion.  But it’s not the criminal charges they should fear.  It’s something much more powerful yet quite subtle, and it has the potential to change the hearts and minds of people, the one thing that will eventually doom the abortion industry. 

What has done more to awaken the sensitivity of people in this case is the simple act of naming Conner.  A child has a name; a fetus does not.  You can abort a fetus, but what do you do to a child?  In this case, they’re calling it murder.  We in the pro-life movement have been calling it that for years.

Copyrighted © 2003 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

March 27, 2003

An Angel in the Whirlwind Revisited

Blame it on my Catholic education or my upbringing in general, but I really have an aversion to war.  As a result, I was shocked and awed at how easily I found myself arguing for military action in Iraq if Saddam Hussein wouldn’t disarm.  Despite my discomfort at accepting the need for military conflict, I felt I had no choice.  I tried to be quiet and not express an opinion on the issue, but that didn’t last long.  When push came to shove, I had to take a stand one way or another, and I came down decidedly on the side of military action.  Why is that?  

One thing is certain, it had a lot to do with those I saw advancing the argument against the war.  As I started paying attention and observing exactly who it was that was advocating appeasement of Saddam in order to avoid war, I came to the realization that I knew these people.  I knew them all too well.  Experience had taught me that a majority of them were all notorious sinners who had no real moral substance. 

How could someone like Ted Kennedy, who condones and promotes the slaughter of innocent children in abortion, tell me that it is wrong to use lethal force to dislodge a murderer and tyrant like Saddam Hussein?  How could an unethical liar such as Bill Clinton tell me that a war in Iraq would be unjust and violate codes of decency?  How could Madonna, the queen of perversion, lecture me on the morality of war?  How could I not severely question anything these people say or do, and how could I ever align myself with them?  Well, I couldn’t align with them.  As much as I disliked war, I knew that they couldn’t be right. 

Then the war started, and I received confirmation that my decision had been the correct one.  This wasn’t the war of a cowboy set on taking over the world or stealing Iraqi oil or avenging his father.  This is a man who is very concerned about the Iraqi people, and who is taking great steps to ensure civilian safety while he dislodges a tyrant who threatens them and the world.  This is a man who is amassing large amounts of food, water, and medicine to feed and treat the people in the Iraqi cities as he liberates them.  This is a man who is showing far more humanitarian concern for the people of Iraq than their own leader who oppresses them, murders them, and uses them as human shields to protect his troops. 

In his inaugural address back in 2001, the president referenced a letter written to Thomas Jefferson by Virginia statesman John Page after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  In his letter, Page asked the question: “Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?”  As I watch the war in Iraq proceed with amazing fury yet see the great care that is taken to protect the innocents from harm, I think back to Page’s question and the obvious answer.  Yes, an Angel does ride in the Whirlwind, and his name is George W. Bush. 

Copyrighted © 2003 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

March 23, 2003

Taking It to the Streets

Remember Dolly, the first cloned sheep?  They say she died a few weeks ago, but it appears she left behind a multitude of descendents.  You only had to cast a glance at the streets of some American cities over the past few weeks for confirmation because many of them were filled with cloned sheep attending war rallies.  Yes, I mean exactly that—‘war rallies.’ 

Prior to onset of hostilities in Iraq, the organizers of these rallies tried to disguise them as a peace rallies, but it was all a charade.  The protests and rallies had nothing to do with promoting peace and every to do with ensuring war.  President Bush made it very clear that in the Iraq phase of the war on terrorism there were only two things could have avoided war and ensured peace: 1) the voluntary total disarmament by Saddam Hussein; or 2) the voluntary abdication and self-exile by Hussein followed by the total disarmament by the new Iraqi government.  These were the peaceful alternatives to war; but, unfortunately, the sheep in the streets were too lost in their anti-American rhetoric to promote the way of peace. 

By means of their vicious verbal attacks on America and its citizens, these sheep and others like them empowered and emboldened Saddam Hussein to continue his repressive regime.  They invited him to create the weapons he would have eventually used to kill the very sheep who supported him through their rallies.  The Soviet Union had a term for people like those attending such rallies.  They called them ‘useful idiots,’ and I can’t think of a more appropriate description. 

Be they useful idiots or cloned sheep—call them what you may—they were directly responsible for causing the war in which we are engaged.  Saddam Hussein intently watched their anti-American protests in our streets, and it bolstered his belief that he could win the public relations battle and neuter the United States and the rest of the world.  But one thing he did not count on—the resolve of George W. Bush.  And now he has to contend with the resolve of the American people represented by the force of the American military. 

And what of the protestors who paraded around our streets before the war?  Well, they’re still there, displaying for the entire world their total lack of intellect and understanding.  Before the war they were merely useful idiots and cloned sheep whose misguided actions promoted war instead of peace.  Now they are much more pathetic and dangerous because now they assist the enemy and jeopardize the lives of American servicemen and women.  Now they seek to undermine our national pride and weaken our resolve.  Now they threaten our national security.  Now they represent all that is truly anti-American.

Copyrighted © 2003 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

March 4, 2003

True Colors

It doesn’t happen all that often, but once again, an individual of minority status is poised to assume a position of power in the judicial branch of the federal government.  This has the racist elements in our society energized and determined to do everything in their power to put this guy in his place.  And that place is nowhere in the hierarchy of our court system. 

This “guy” happens to be Miguel Estrada, an extremely qualified jurist who has been nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.  The “racist elements” opposed to him happen to the Democratic senators of the U.S. Senate.  Oh, I should mention that Mr. Estrada is Hispanic. 

In the Democratic worldview, minorities are fine to have around to do the menial things—like vote for Democrats—but heaven forbid they advance to any positions of power.  In the unlikely circumstance that a minority member of society should aspire to such a high position, he must be opposed and defeated by whatever means are necessary, even if it means upending the Constitution of the United States. 

That’s what the Democrats are engaged in now, defeating a Hispanic at all costs.  It’s no different than their reaction when Clarence Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court.  Another black man on the Supreme Court?  Preposterous!  Now the refrain is: A Hispanic on the U.S. Court of Appeals?  Preposterous!  Allow one in, and we’ll be overrun with them! 

But just as their vile racist attempts failed with Clarence Thomas, so will they fail with Miguel Estrada.  And the whole fiasco will only serve to once again expose the under-reported but quite prevalent racist tendencies of the Democratic Party.  When it comes to the judiciary, they just can’t help revealing their true colors.  And as is always the case with the Democratic Party, those colors include whites only.

Copyrighted © 2003 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

February 22, 2003  

Promote Peace, Not War

Remember Dolly, the first cloned sheep?  They say she died a few weeks ago, but it appears she left behind a multitude of descendents.  You only have to cast a glance at the streets of some American cities these days for confirmation because many of them are filled with cloned sheep attending war rallies.  Yes, I do mean ‘war rallies.’

The organizers of these rallies try to disguise them as a peace rallies, but it’s all a charade.  They have nothing to do with promoting peace and every to do with ensuring war.  In the Iraq phase of the war on terrorism there are only two things that will avoid war and ensure peace: 1) voluntary total disarmament by Saddam Hussein; or 2) voluntary abdication and self-exile by Hussein followed by total disarmament by the new Iraqi government.  These are the peaceful alternatives to war; but, unfortunately, the sheep in the streets are too lost in their anti-American rhetoric to promote the way of peace. 

By means of their vicious verbal attacks on America and its citizens, these sheep and others like them empower and embolden Saddam Hussein to continue his repressive regime.  They invite him to create the weapons he will eventually use to kill the very sheep who support him now.  The Soviet Union had a term for people like those attending the war rallies today.  They called them ‘useful idiots,’ and I can’t think of a more appropriate term.   

Whether they are useful idiots or cloned sheep, the protesters are doing everything in their power to promote and ensure war.  Saddam is watching.  And as long as he sees anti-American protests in our streets, he will continue on his sinister path until there is left no alternative but war.   

My advice to the protesters?   Promote peace, not war.  

Copyrighted © 2003 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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December 22, 2002  

Racists

In response to all the frenzy, hysteria, and outright lies told about racism by Democrats and the media during the Trent Lott fiasco, there are a few things need to be said.

If you support affirmative action, you’re a racist.  Affirmative action is simply discrimination where preference is given to one person over another based solely on skin color.  Give preference to blacks with no regard to ability, and you kill the incentive in them to become real achievers, thereby making them less of a threat.

If you support abortion, you’re a racist.  Blacks have been the targets of the abortion industry with very successful results.  More black children fall prey to abortion than white children, resulting in an effective black population control mechanism.

If you oppose school vouchers, you’re a racist.  Black parents clamor for school vouchers to educate their children and ransom them from the shackles of failed intercity public schools, but the goal is to keep them black and stupid so they’ll vote the way they are told.

If you support public housing, you’re a racist.  Blacks are crammed into dilapidated housing projects with no incentive to improve their lot.  Keep them not only black and stupid, but put them someplace where you can keep an eye on them and find them when you want them to vote for you.

If you oppose welfare reform, you’re a racist.  Irresponsibly heaping more welfare benefits on blacks with no incentive or requirement to work keeps them dependent on government handouts that ensure their meager existence, and it keeps them equally dependent on politicians who promise them more welfare.

If you support the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, you’re a racist.  Both men are poverty pimps who make their fortunes on the backs of unfortunate blacks.  They must keep blacks downtrodden and in poverty in order to guarantee their own wealth and notoriety.

The bottom line?  If you’re a Democrat, you’re a racist.  

 Copyrighted © 2002 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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September 11, 2002  

The Sandbox

Don’t worry. I’m not going to tell you where I was and what I was doing on the morning of September 11, 2001. What I’m going to talk about is the morning of September 11, 2002.

I awoke at 4:30 a.m. and watched some TV while I ate breakfast. Afterward, I listened to the radio while I dressed. By the time I left for work that morning, I had already grown weary of hearing where people were and what they were doing on the morning of the 9-11 attack. What truly concerns me is where we are now and what we are doing to ensure that 9-11 never happens again.

President Bush is intent on taking action against terrorism, but the Democrats in Congress don’t share his concern about our national security. It’s as if the Dems are children playing in a sandbox in the middle of an interstate highway. As the only adults on the scene, the president and his administration are desperately trying to move the sandbox out of harm’s way, but the self-centered children are crying and whining about the disruption it will cause.

And who are these self-centered children? You know the names: Tommy Daschle, Dickie Gephardt, Johnny Kerry, Joey Biden, and most of the other Democrats in Congress. Oh, and let’s not forget their playmates in the media: Danny Rather, Tommy Brokaw, Petie Jennings, Wolfie Blitzer. As they sit in their sandbox and play with their little social programs, death and destruction lurk only inches away. They were in this sandbox when they supported Saddam Hussein in 1991, and they’re still in there as they continue to support him now.

It would be easy for Bush, like Clinton, to satisfy the sandbox crowd and ignore the lessons of 9-11, but he won’t do that. Bush is the responsible adult in the room, and he will take to task these whining children as he deals effectively with Hussein, bin Laden, and the other terrorists. Afterward, we can all play safely in the sandbox and never again have to tell each other where we were on September 11^th.

Copyrighted © 2002 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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August 9, 2002

Suckers & Bloodsuckers

Assume for a moment you’re a mosquito. Now assume you have an opportunity to bite an emaciated African tribesman who possesses the ability to annihilate you, or you can feast on a fat American sucker who has totally disarmed himself. What are you going to do? Of course, you’re going to have a piece of American pie.

That’s just what the mosquitoes are doing right now, sampling our cuisine. But instead of pie, they’re chowing down on the American people, and many of our citizens are dying because of it.

Americans disarmed themselves in 1972 when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned the use of the DDT pesticide based on false information provided in Silent Spring, a 1962 book by Rachel Carson. President Kennedy was suckered by the book in 1963, and his Science Advisory Panel immediately called for legislative measures against such chemicals as DDT.

The false claims of Carson’s book were promulgated by a fringe socialist group known as the Environmental Defense Fund, and it culminated in William Ruckelshaus, EPA Director (and member of the Environmental Defense Fund), making DDT illegal in 1972 by overturning an EPA administrative law judge’s decision. He then refused to provide any explanation or justification for overturning the hearing decision. (As an administrative law judge who had a department head overturn one of my decisions without explanation or justification, I know how this can occur.)

Over a 20 year period, DDT controlled mosquito spread malaria and saved the lives of 500 million people (mostly women and children) in third world countries that used the pesticide, but Western nations, such as the United States, are trying to ban DDT worldwide because they are still being suckered by the lies contained in Carson’s book.

Enter a new player--the West Nile virus--and it’s no longer just the “other guys” in far away lands who are dying. Now we are all at risk. That in itself should dispel the lies and awaken us from our politically correct slumber. It’s time to bring back DDT and return the label “sucker” to its rightful owner, the mosquito.

Copyrighted © 2002 - Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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April 6, 2002

The Awakening

There’s a war raging in the Middle East again, and it’s spilling over into this country. I saw evidence of it last night when an American journalist on the evening news wrapped himself in anti-Jewish sentiment and set off a violent explosion of hatred and misinformation right in my living room. Fortunately, there was only one casualty. Regrettably, the casualty was the “truth.”

Israel finally has decided to take some concrete action against the cowardly, barbaric acts of the Palestinians, and as would be expected, they’re getting a lot of criticism for it.

It’s understandable they would be condemned by Egypt, Syria and Jordan. These countries have a long history of attacking Israel. They did so in the Six Day War and again in the Yom Kippur War. Both times they got their clocks cleaned, and in the process Israel acquired the lands now known as the “occupied territories.”

The term “occupied territory” is fodder for the uneducated. Those lands are actually Israeli territory, won fair and square. They are no more occupied Arab territory than Texas is occupied Mexican territory and Pennsylvania and Virginia are occupied British territories. The Israelis are defending themselves and their land, and they have every right to do so.

That’s why it is so bizarre that Israel is also being criticized by the United States. All it took was one day of carnage in September to awaken us from our slumber and put us on a non-stop course to eradicate terrorism worldwide. How is it that we get lulled back to sleep the moment we gaze into the ever-woeful eyes of the terrorist Yasser Arafat?

We need to undergo the same awakening recently experienced by the Israelis. Terrorism must always be identified and called exactly what it is. It must never be given a wink and a nod or allowed even one victory, no matter what you think of the country on which it is being inflicted.

Israel is doing the right and moral thing in waging war against terrorism. They should continue and not listening to anyone—especially the United States.

  Copyrighted © 2002 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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February 20, 2002

Free Speech and the Gallows

In nobler times, they all would be facing the gallows. I’m referring to the members of the House of Representatives who, in the dead of the night, voted to suspend our First Amendment rights.

The First Amendment to the Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech,” and that is exactly what the members of Congress did. They passed a law making it illegal for you, me, or anyone else to criticize them within two months of an election. That’s something I would expect from the Taliban, not the U. S. Congress.

According to the Shays-Meehan Bill—also known as the Campaign Reform Bill—American citizens may no longer voice their views through political ads that offer up criticism of candidates running for election to the House or Senate, at least not in the two months leading up to an election—the period of time when most people decide for whom they’ll vote.

This is an old issue that was already decided by the Supreme Court in 1976 in a decision known as Buckley v. Valeo (96 S. Ct. 612). The court ruled that “a major purpose of the amendment was to protect the free discussion of governmental affairs, including discussions of candidates. Discussion of public issues and debate on the qualifications of candidates are integral to the operation of the system of government established by the Constitution; First Amendment affords the broadest protection to such political expression.”

The court also tied the concept of free speech to modern mass media when it said that the “electorates increasing dependence on television, radio and other mass media for news and information has made those expensive modes of communication indispensable instruments of effective political speech.”

The members of Congress know that the Shays-Meehan Bill violates the Constitution, and yet they support it anyway because they do not care about you, me, or the Constitution. They view the passage of this bill simply as a benefit to themselves because it keeps you from speaking out against them.

Like I said, in nobler times, they all would be facing the gallows.

Copyrighted © 2002 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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February 8, 2002

The Enemy Within

The al Qaeda and Taliban’s favorite American politician, Democrat Senator Tom Daschle, has done it again. As Senate Majority Leader, he hijacked the economic stimulus plan and slammed it into the American economy—for the third time.

The 9-11 terrorists only succeeded in hitting two of their three intended targets, but Daschle has scored a direct hit in all three of his attempts. He has thwarted every effort by the President and the Congress to revive the economy. And, like Osama bin Laden and the terrorists, Daschle and his allies have achieved their ultimate goals: they’ve caused another downturn in the stock market, and they’ve prolonged the suffering of American citizens.

Somehow Daschle and the Democrats think they are endearing themselves to the American people by their actions, but they are gravely mistaken. Their hatred of Republicans and their resentment of business and working people are evident despite their false rhetoric. Just recently when the Congress passed a resolution extending birthday greetings to former President Ronald Reagan, four Democrat congressmen—Fortney Pete Stark, Barbara Lee, Diane Watson, and Eddie Bernise Johnson—flatly refused to vote in favor of it.

The term “mean” doesn’t even begin to describe what the Democrats in the Congress have become. Perhaps the term “desperate” more aptly describes their plight. They are trapped in their own anger and misguided ideology. They are doomed, and they know it. The mid-term elections are approaching, and they know they haven’t a prayer.

The death knell is sounding, and the Democrat reaction is to lash out, especially at the President and anyone who supports him. They intend to bring this country and its economy down with them as they plummet into the abyss along with their cohorts in the Taliban. Their fate is sealed because the die is cast, and America will succeed in routing out evil and terrorism where ever it resides, be it in the caves of Afghanistan, the deserts of Iraq, the shores of North Korea, or the halls of the U.S. House and Senate.

Copyrighted © 2002 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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December 23, 2001

Cave Dwellers

Many people expected President Bush to lash out in anger at the assault on the American people, but he didn’t. Instead, his reaction was composed yet determined as he systematically set out to collect and win over allies in his struggle to neuter an unexpected enemy of the American way of life.

And he did it. He secured a majority of like-minded leaders who support his mission, and he set out to lift up those brought low in September 11th aftermath. But just when victory seemed assured, the cowardly leader of the opposition slithered out of town. He now lies safe and hidden in, of all places, South Dakota.

Tom Daschle, Democrat Senator of South Dakota and Senate Majority Leader, has set himself up as the Mullah Omar of the United States, and he is telling the American people that he does not care about their economic plight. He’s now at home in South Dakota enjoying his holiday vacation while many Americans find themselves in dire straits due to the slow economy.

A majority in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate—the duly elected representatives of the people—came to an agreement and set out to pass an economic stimulus plan to revive the economy, but Tom Daschle does not want the economy revived, and he prevented the senate from voting on the bill. He did so because he knew there were enough votes from both parties to pass the bill.

Because of senate rules and his leadership position, Daschle can single-handedly prevent a vote on any bill and deprive the American people of the relief they desperately need. In effect, he’s holding the entire nation hostage to his own maniacal interests, and there is nothing the President, the Republicans, or the other Democrats can do about it.

Osama bin Laden used his insane followers to attack our country from the outside. Tom Daschle is using his own insanity to attack our country from the inside. Osama bin Laden prefers to live in caves. If Tom Daschle has his way, we’ll all be living in caves.

Copyrighted © 2001 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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October 21, 2001

The Lost Children of Islam

May 25, 2001

Secret Agent Man

He is being hailed as the savior of the Democratic Party, but in effect, he is their worst nightmare. I'm talking about Republican turncoat Senator James Jeffords of Vermont.

The Democrats in Congress have carved out for themselves a sweet little niche where they do nothing but sit around and use lies and deceit to criticize and try to thwart everything proposed by President Bush and the Republicans. Now, however, their easy obstructionists days are about to end thanks to Senator Jeffords. Their world is about to be turned upside down, and the ethically challenged Tom Daschle, as the new Senate majority leader, is about to learn that vacant minds, blank stares, and criticizing those doing the heavy lifting will no longer cut it.

With power comes responsibility, and the Democrats will now be expected to propose an agenda of their own. But how can they when all they stand for is higher taxes, increased regulations, more intrusive government, and kowtowing to their wacko constituent groups?

With all Americans expecting a reduced tax burden and a return of their overpaid taxes, how do the Democrats propose increasing taxes on people? With California sweating and stumbling around in the dark, how do they prohibit the building or more power plants and the use of nuclear energy? With the price of gasoline skyrocketing, how do they prohibit America from accessing and refining its own oil resources? With children unable to read and trapped in failing schools, how do they tell parents they can’t send their children to another school where they can be educated?

The Democrats are doomed because the people overwhelmingly support the American agenda proposed by President Bush. Regardless of who controls the Senate, the people will continue to support the President, and he will implement the agenda they want and desperately need. In doing so, he will expose the Democrats for the losers that they are and make look even more inept than they appear now.

Senator Jeffords did the Democrats no favor when he changed his party affiliation. He will prove to be the nail in the coffin of an already dying party. Maybe that’s been the Republican plan all along. Perhaps Hillary was right--there is a right wing conspiracy out there. If so, Jim Jeffords is our unwitting super secret double agent.

Copyrighted © 2001 – Joseph K. Waltenbaugh

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