Posted by tx on September 17, 2009 under Hidden truths, Home Page, Inspiration | 
Please watch these two videos. Pastor Steven Broden speaks at a Forth Worth event on June 11, 2009 entitled America’s Awakening. You can visit their website at the following link: http://www.americasawakening.com/ Pastor Broden talks about the Fabian Socialists who are now in control of our government, both in Congress and the Administration. He tells us what we can do to stop our nation’s descent into tyranny.
According to Jerry Bower in Forbes Magazine, 11/03/2008: “Fabian socialists believe in gradual nationalization of the economy through manipulation of the democratic process. Breaking away from the violent revolutionary socialists of their day, they thought that the only real way to effect “fundamental change” and “social justice” was through a mass movement of the working classes presided over by intellectual and cultural elites. Before TV it was stage plays, written by George Bernard Shaw and thousands of inferior “realist” playwrights dedicated to social change…the Fabian MO, relentless cultural and journalistic attacks on everything that is, and then a hard pitch for the hope of what might be.”
Posted by tx on August 13, 2009 under Home Page, Tea Party Protests |
Begins: Tuesday, August 18 2009 at 7:00 PM
Ends: Tuesday, August 18 2009 at 9:00 PM
Location: Knights of Columbus Hall
Address: 10110 Shoreview Rd Dallas, TX 75238-4414
The Dallas Tea Party has invited Dr. Clare L. Gray of the non-profit organization Physicians for Reform to discuss “Finding a New Way Forward” – a program for healthcare reform that focuses on maintaining the physician-patient relationship within a structure that benefits all Americans.
The Town Hall meeting will be a great opportunity for us to hear constructive alternatives to currently proposed national healthcare legislation that gives decision making authority to people rather than to the government. There will be information about how these alternative proposals allow inclusion of the chronically uninsured and how healthcare can be made more cost affordable to everyone.
When: Tuesday, August 18th, 7-9 pm
Where: Knights of Columbus Hall, 10110 Shoreview Rd Dallas, TX 75238-4414
This will be a great opportunity to learn more about how ObamaCare could affect your family’s health and what we can do about it! We hope to have a big turnout! Thanks for your patriotism and support of the Dallas Tea Party! See you Tuesday!
Phillip Dennis
Posted by tx on August 11, 2009 under Home Page, US Constitution |
This column originally appeared in the Washington Examiner on July 28, 2009
Gun owners are increasingly concerned with the White House’s citing of foreign law when it comes to gun rights. Look no further than the recent Senate confirmation of Professor Harold Koh to be State Department legal advisor in June. Koh, a committed transnationalist, is a passionate opponent of gun ownership.
Koh, recently the dean of Yale Law School, was confirmed as State Department Legal Advisor with 35 votes against him. He now becomes the top U.S. authority on international law, and the top advisor to the president and secretary of state about America’s obligations and treaty commitments with the United Nations and other countries.
Harold Koh is also one of the most far-left legal advocates anywhere in this country, on issues ranging from affirmative action to same-sex marriage to the reach of the federal government into people’s lives. While many on the Left believe that foreign law should be considered by American courts in interpreting the Constitution, as a true transnationalist, Koh believes that U.S. courts should directly cite foreign law to decide cases, and that foreign policy actions such as war-making are illegal without express U.N. approval.
There is no issue on which Koh is further from the mainstream, however, than the right to keep and bear arms. He openly advocates a global gun-control regime, run by the international community and based on foreign law, that would ban all handguns and subject all other firearms to draconian restrictions.
The Koh nomination is only one of three nominations thus far to push an extreme anti-gun agenda using foreign law.
Here’s a little history: Senate Democrats’ sustained opposition to John Bolton’s nomination as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. originated from his service as the undersecretary of state for arms control early in the Bush administration. Some aggressively pushed at the time for an international treaty banning handguns and severely restricting all private firearm ownership worldwide.
Bolton spoke at the U.N., declaring that the United States would never join a treaty that violated the Second Amendment rights of American citizens. That treaty never died, however. Anti-gun forces at the U.N. continue to push for adoption of this global gun ban treaty and for the U.S. to join it.
That’s why it’s important that Obama’s nominee as undersecretary of state for arms control is Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), who was also confirmed on June 25. Tauscher is a fierce opponent of gun rights who holds an “F” rating by the National Rifle Association. Tauscher is the Obama administration’s point person on these pending gun ban treaties, advised by Koh.
The third nominee is Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. In addition to Judge Sotomayor’s support of using international law in U.S. courts, her longtime opposition to gun rights became a central issue in her confirmation battle.
Legal experts are all aware that Harold Koh is himself on the short list for the Supreme Court. Now that he holds this prestigious position, he could next be nominated for the D.C. Circuit federal appeals court.
After a year of service on the bench, then-Judge Koh, with his scholarly credentials, would be an ideal pick for President Obama to make the first Asian-American nominated to the High Court, where he would then be the most liberal justice in U.S. history.
Thus Harold Koh’s nomination becomes part of a broader pattern, where adherents of foreign law and extreme gun control intersect both at the U.N. and the Supreme Court. Supporters of American sovereignty and the Second Amendment had better join forces quickly, because this part of President Obama’s agenda is moving faster than many believed possible.
Posted by tx on July 4, 2009 under New American Revolution, Principles and Values |
On this fourth of July, America’s Independence Day, let us all remember those who gave so much that we might live in freedom.
Today is also the birthday of one of our least known Presidents — Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States. History often dismisses him, preferring the activism of Woodrow Wilson or Franklin Roosevelt. Yet Calvin Coolidge reflected in the way in which he governed our nation, the goals and attitudes of the Founding Fathers.
An article by Julia Shaw for the Heritage Foundation describes Coolidge as: “An experienced public servant, Coolidge served as a city councilman, city solicitor, mayor of Northampton, state senator, lieutenant governor, and governor of Massachusetts before joining presidential candidate Warren G. Harding’s quest to return the country to “normalcy.” Calvin Coolidge took the presidential oath in the early morning on August 3, 1923, following Harding’s death. Under Coolidge, normalcy would not simply mean the absence of a world war; it would mean a return to the principles of America’s Founding.”
Ms. Shaw continues: “There are many half-truths about Coolidge. His official White House biography characterizes him as almost blindly preserving the past in the face of changed circumstances, “determined to preserve old moral and economic precepts amid the material prosperity Americans were enjoying. He refused to use the Federal economic power to check the growing boom or ameliorate the depressed condition of agriculture and certain industries,” and he “pledged to maintain the status quo.”
Coolidge wrote on July 5, 1926: “About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have givenus a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.”
We are each called to a New American Revolution to return our nation to its founding values and principles. To secure our freedom, we must limit our government to its Constitutional bounds. On this sacred day of our nation’s founding, I pray that God will give us all the strength to follow our hearts.
May God bless America!
Posted by tx on June 28, 2009 under Home Page, Inspiration, US Constitution |
I was reading a blog this morning, strangely enough, about a Steve Martin movie. He is not my favorite comedian, in fact he is an actor whom I avoid, even if his movie is the only one playing. The post I was reading was about the movie, “The Jerk” in which the character that Steve Martin portrays, thinks that he is a black man. The author of the post is Jeremy Boreing for Big Hollywood. He writes: “The film revolves around the life of a pale-skinned, white-haired man who firmly believes he is something he is not, despite all evidence to the contrary…..This is, perhaps, one of the most interesting things about human beings: Our unique capacity for deception. Not the deception of others. Most animals are capable of that sort of deceit. No, it is the ability of man to deceive himself that is so remarkable, and not just the ability, but the proclivity to do it.” As the author continued in his post, he began to speak about human nature and eventually about our nation.
When I read and study the Constitution and the Founding Fathers who created this amazing document, I wonder about who these men were. How was it that they were so wise? How were they able to anticipate what would happen in the future and prepare for it? How did they know so much about human nature? How is it that they did not deceive themselves about what they were creating?
The answer to my questions about our Founding Fathers, I believe, lies in their educations. The Founding Fathers read and studied all the important books of Western Civilization. Many of them were self taught, not relying on a professor at an Ivy League college to tell them what to think. They had all led lives of purpose, and many, hard physical labor. They were the sons or grandsons or great-grandsons of immigrants who first settled this land. They were students of history who had seen and experienced forms of government which were either tyrannical or inept. The Founding Fathers were open to new ideas, but not slaves to them, recognizing those which would work from those which would not. They were observers of human nature, understanding much of the how and why of human behavior which they gained from personal experience. They did not wile away their time being entertained and numbed by mindless movies and television shows, but used their brains to think — as men are required by Nature and God to do. When problems arose in their personal lives, they solved them, not waiting or asking for government to solve the problems for them. The Founding Fathers had personal faults, as we all do. But these extraordinary men blamed no one for their failings; they merely dusted themselves off and began again, repeating those steps over and over until they were successful.
Jeremy Boreing writes in the conclusion of his post: “Our Founding Fathers were unique in that they knew their limitations. They didn’t subscribe to the lie that they and all of the rest of mankind were good, but rather took a firm look at the reality of their limitations and sought to create a form of government that considered and could respond to their flaws. It is a form of government that constrains man’s ambition, puts checks on his power over others, but that removes the constraints on man’s potential for growth and self-improvement, and self-betterment both philosophical and financial. It is a form of government that, as has been often said, unlocks the human potential in unimaginable ways, and creates an environment where one man pursuing his own interests can create waves that cause all of the ships on the ocean to rise with him. We ignore their wisdom and self-honesty, and our true nature, at our own risk, for self-governance and self-betterment are not possible for people who do not know themselves truly.” From “lessons from the movies….”.
Did the Founding Fathers realize how great was their accomplishment? They could not fully imagine the immense energy that such a system of government could unleash in its citizens, though they had faith that it would free men to accomplish much. Our Founding Fathers did know that monarchy, dictatorship and even democracy as practiced in ancient Greece were not the answer to the questions which they asked and the problems they were trying to overcome. The Founding Fathers took an amazing and unbelievable leap into the darkness and created the most powerful, most wealthy, most generous and most free nation the world has ever known.
Now, that freedom and that nation these wise men created is under attack from forces within it — the forces of ignorance and greed and laziness and the lust for personal power. The citizens of this nation are the only ones who can correct the evils that have been allowed to grow unchecked within the government and within ourselves. Fixing ourselves begins with the recognition that we are the cause of our problems and only we can fix them – not some one else, not some government agency — us!
Fixing our government will be more difficult. To begin this process, we must find candidates for public office who believe in the Constitution, who subscribe to the principles and values in which our Founders believed, candidates who recognize that unchecked government is a prescription for tyranny. 912candidates is here to help with that task. Join us, won’t you? We must save this remarkable country for our children and all those who come after us. It is a debt, properly owed by us, for all that we have been given.
May God bless America, and may He give each one of us the courage, the strength and the will to repair what has been broken — before it is too late.
Posted by tx on June 6, 2009 under Inspiration |
I am an American citizen. I have listened and watched with dismay as the President of the United States has traveled throughout the world, apologizing for what he perceives as my nation‘s mistakes. I am writing to you so that you will know that not every American citizen agrees with the current leader of our country about our country‘s history.
Barack Hussein Obama, the Democrat nominee, was elected President of the United States on November 4, 2008. Of those voting in the 2008 election 69,492,376 individuals voted for the current President. John McCain, the Republican nominee, received 59,946,378 votes. There were other candidates who also ran for the office, but the number of total votes cast for them was significantly smaller.
What do these numbers mean? They mean that a significant number of people in the United States did not agree with candidate Obama’s proposals and therefore, did not vote for him. Of those who did vote for candidate Obama, many did not agree with everything he was proposing. Individuals cast their vote for many reasons; some reasons have nothing to do with the political party platform of the candidate or with the ideas and programs being advanced by the candidate.
Of those individuals who voted for candidate Obama, there are many who are now disturbed with the President’s policy of apologizing for America‘s past actions. I did not vote for candidate Obama, because he had no apparent leadership experience. I believed then, and still believe, that candidate Obama’s ideas and ideals were not in the best interests of my country.
More than two thousand years ago, a man, whom many worship as the Son of God, stated “Let him who is without sin among you, cast the first stone”. I remind you of this statement, because in this world’s history, no nation has been shown to be perfect. No nation is entirely blameless in its relations to other nations. No nation can hold itself up as a perfect example of nationhood. This is an imperfect world full of imperfect people and imperfect nations, and it is likely to remain so.
My country has not been without errors in judgment in its 200 plus years of existence. However, my nation, contrary to our President’s assertions, is not responsible for the ills of the world. My government’s choices have not always been proved correct over time, but neither have the choices of other governments been proven correct. My country is not the cause of all the problems in the world and more often than not has provided the best solution to those problems.
Two centuries ago, a group of intelligent and God fearing men and women gave birth to our nation – the United States of America. These men and women had a vision of a place on earth where men and women could live free from oppressive governments and peoples, where men and women could choose their path in life and succeed or fail depending on their ambitions and talents, where men and women could worship their Creator as their consciences demanded.
What these intelligent and God fearing men and women created was a nation which became the most prosperous country the world has ever known. It is a nation where the people have always been generous, even with those who are their professed enemies. It is a nation where people have been willing to fight and die for the rights and the lives of others. It is a nation where people have continued to worship their Creator according to the dictates of their consciences.
There are many well documented reports where the United States of America has stepped forward to help others in times of need. There are many instances where Americans have given hope, food and living materials to those who hate us and wish to destroy us. The freedom and security of many nations has been bought with American treasure and American blood.
Is America a perfect nation? Of course not, no nation is perfect.
Is America responsible for the world’s ills? No.
Is America evil? Absolutely not.
Will America and Americans make mistakes in the future? Yes.
Will individuals still seek to come to the United States by the millions for the opportunity and freedom which we offer? Yes.
Will others, including some of our own leaders, continue to disparage our nation and its lofty principles to serve their own power or appease their own conscience? Unfortunately, yes.
Who am I, you may wonder, to speak out against the words of a man elected to our nation‘s highest office? I am an ordinary American mom living in a small town in the heartland of America. I cherish the freedom given to me by our founding documents to speak my thoughts. I am a descendant of Sicilian immigrants who came to America because there was no work and no food in their homeland, a descendant of French, Irish, Dutch and English immigrants, who risked all to come to this great land for religious and economic freedom. Like many American citizens, I am the product of a multitude of differing cultures which have joined together into one amazing nation – the United States of America. I am proud of my heritage. I am proud of my country and its citizens. I am proud of the goodness that my country has bestowed on me and on the world.
No one, not even an elected President, will ever convince me that the United States of America is not exceptional, that the United States of America is not the greatest and most blessed country the world has ever known.
May God bless you all, and may God continue to bless America!
Posted by tx on June 2, 2009 under Home Page, Principles and Values |
The Mission of our organization is to find candidates for public office who are willing to sign our contract pledging their obedience to the 9 principles and 12 values which has made the United States a great nation. A list of these principles and values can be found by following the link on the title bar. Let us spend some time today thinking about just one of them — Principle #4.
Principle 4 states – The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
What does this mean? From where did this principle come? It is important to remember that the religious culture of the Founding Fathers was a Judeo-Christian one. While some of the Founding Fathers may have preferred to be called Humanists or Deists and often disliked organized religion (Jefferson and Franklin), and some may not have attended local church services, the prevailing religious culture of their time was Christian. Christianity has its roots in Judaism. Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution reflect the religious culture of the Founding Fathers.
The family is the most basic structure of society. It is in the family that the values of the culture are passed on, saved and renewed. Judeo-Christian culture places great power and value in the family, believing that the family was instituted by God. God created the first man and first woman and gave the man and woman the power to “be fruitful and multiply”. God also gave instructions that the man was to “cleave to his wife and the wife to her husband.” It was these ideas which were important at the time the founding documents were written. To the Judeo-Christian culture of today, these ideas are still important.
At a 9/12 meeting I attended a question was brought up about how this principle might be seen by someone of an Islamic religious culture. Would this principle acknowledge that a father has the right to kill or maim his child if the child committed an act the father considered was a dishonor to the family? The answer to the question is “no“. Our founding documents state that all men (all human beings) have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. No one, including no one in authority in a family, has a right to take a life, regardless of the religious culture of the family.
The 9/12 group determined after the discussion that our founding documents are “like an umbrella” under which these principles and values are protected. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, …”
While the family should be the ultimate authority in most matters, that authority can be overturned by the government when the lives of the family members are in danger. The primary function of government is to protect the society and its members.
How would you explain this principle should someone ask you to discuss it? Do you agree with what the principle states? Would you reword this principle to reflect your own values?
Posted by tx on May 19, 2009 under Home Page |
Our national organizer, Jacob Roecker, wrote this today.
“The Declaration of Independence argues that an illegal rebellion is in fact a legal one. The way it does this is by stating that each human soul has rights given them by GOD, not a king. These rights, being issued by God, trump any earthly law or standard for government. Our founding fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor in order to sign that document. One reason was because that was what it took to have it be successful. Another reason is because if you declare that someone has their rights from God, and you choose to represent their sacred, God-given, rights it requires your sacred honor.
Sacred honor is something beyond the reproach of any earthy form of government. It is between an individual, their conscience, and their God. They are free to define their God according to their own abilities. Their relationship with the supreme being is something personal, and when taken seriously this should be a humbling thing to ask for when committing to these principles and values. Only God can take away your honor, and it seems to me he does this through our individual choices, not on his whims. “
I had an email conversation earlier today about the second of our nine principles which reflects a belief in God. The writer stated that the Constitution does not require a belief in God. That is true, however, a study of the framers of the Constitution would reveal that they believed in a higher power (God) who gave man “inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as defined by them in the Declaration of Independence.
Benjamin Franklin, one of the framers of the Constitution, wrote in his letters and speeches to the Constitutional Convention that he believed that without a moral and ethical background, i.e., religious belief, it would be impossible to maintain our republic. The framers believed that only a moral and ethical person would protect the Constitutional principles and refrain from subverting the government to the individual’s private aims.
The religious beliefs at the time of the Constitutional Convention were Judeo-Christian ones and were based on the Christian Bible. History records that many of the original 13 colonies were founded on religious principles. Several colonies, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Maryland in particular, were founded for a religious group’s freedom to worship God in their particular way.
As to the writer’s further assertion that the Founding Fathers wanted a “clean separation of church and state”, this has been misinterpreted for quite some time. Benjamin Franklin and others believed that some religious instruction should be given in schools in order to build a moral and ethical citizenry. This was stated in at least one of Benjamin Franklin’s letters. The Founders, however, did not want an official state church as existed in England at the time of the American Revolution. The separation of church and state clause was directly related to an “official state church”.
Jacob Roecker goes on to say: ” I would like to caveat that without God, and the rights he has given us as individuals, the rebellion against King George was illegal. The rebellion was only legal if God exists, and we recognize that our rights come from Him. The next time someone argues to take God out of what we’re doing, our schools, or off of our money be sure and tell them that if we remove our acknowledgement of his existence, then we remove our right to be a sovereign nation. “
What do you think? How does religion and religious freedom combine with our United States Constitution? What is the proper relationship between government and religion? Is religous instruction necessary, as Franklin stated, to build a moral and ethical citizenry? From where do morals and ethics come?
Posted by tx on May 10, 2009 under Home Page |
Happy Mother’s Day to all American mothers from 912candidates.org. You are the backbone of this country. It is the task of mothers to bear and raise children, educate the children and then give them away to whatever American task is set before them. Mothers must be individuals of great heart and great courage if they are to do their work well. Thank you all American moms, and may God bless you for the love and the work which you do.
I wanted to talk about the gifts we have been given in the United States, and there are many of them. Just look around you and see the land and the people and be amazed at the beauty which is here in our country. But there is something even more fundamental which we seldom consider. I spoke about this subject on the Patriot Hearts network the other night. I wanted to repeat it here, because it is so important.
We are a gifted people. No one in the world would deny that; in fact, they envy us for our lives and the goodness which surrounds us. Those not born in this country fail to understand what we truly possess here in the America; they only see the riches which we have here.
Each one of us born in the greatest country of the world – the United States of America – is given two gifts at birth. The first gift comes from God and is the gift of life. The second gift is the gift of freedom. God empowered and encouraged our Founding Fathers to build a government which would provide us with this second gift – the gift of freedom.
Each of these two gifts comes with a responsibility. For our life — we have the responsibility to protect and defend it, to make of our lives a life of goodness, to make our lives valuable and meaningful to ourselves, our families, our community and our country. Fulfilling this responsibility is a difficult task, but each of us has been given the power within to accomplish this task.
The gift of freedom entails an even larger responsibility. For we must deliver this gift — freedom – to all those who come after us. The gift of freedom which we give should be just as valuable and beautiful, wrapped just as pretty, as when the gift was given to us. If we do this – deliver the gift of freedom to our descendants in this way – then we will have honored all those men and women who gave of their blood, their sweat and their tears to provide us with this rare gift – our freedom. And we will have honored our God who had His Hand in forming our wonderful country.
What are we doing to give thanks for our gifts? What are we doing to pass on this gift of freedom? Join us at 912candidates.org. Together we can accomplish this most difficult of missions – passing on this beautiful gift of freedom to all those generations which follow us. We are Americans. No enemy can stand in the way of our truth for God is with us!
May God continue to bless America!
