Star Parker: A Shining Star for “…One Nation Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All”

I am not sure which excerpt from Star Parker’s Nov 21 blog post, “The Declaration of Independence defining our principles” was more poignant and inspiring.

Initially, I felt sure it was Parker’s question to readers: “Is it not sad that most basic violations of individual liberty are not intuitively obvious to so many citizens and members of Congress?”

Yeah, I thought after reading this, we are a fabulously rich nation whose intuition for freedom and understanding of what it means to be truly free appear to have violently short circuited somewhere along the line.

But then, I kept reading Parker’s blog and found this insightful tidbit: “Perhaps what the ongoing saga of American history is about is the struggle to understand and apply our operating manual -- our Constitution --in a manner consistent with the principles of our nation’s founding.”

We are a nation subversively compromised by an anti-Americanism creep through the core institutions that fundamentally rely on the dogma of the U.S. Constitution and The Declaration of Independence to survive: family, education, and economy.

I agree with Parker’s conclusion that there’s a massive disconnect between our Constitutional “operating manual” and founding principles. I also contend that we need look no further than our education institutions to place a certain level of blame.

I just hope as a country and society inherently steeped in freedom that we are able to blend these two exceptional guiding epistles before it’s too late for our children’s and grandchildren’s sake.

While 2012 and America’s future is somewhat uncertain, what I can tell you for certain is Star Parker, and her knack for being intuitively right on the mark, makes her this week’s EUG Cool Conservative.

Horowitz & Newt On OWS Protestors: Back to Back Totally Awesome Smackdowns

It makes my heart sing when someone with the stature and knowledge of David Horowitz, founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and editor of FrontPage Magazine, has the courage to come right out and tell it like it is: “They are idiots!” The OWS protestors are idiots, no joke. However, it’s a very sad protest and on several levels.

Watch the David Horowitz video if you need a little more convincing.


To make matters worse, these protestors appear to have no idea how played they are —since birth—by the very same liberal ilk Horowitz used to be part of years ago and knows so well.

As the angry in New York and nationwide continue to chant on behalf of far-left, progressives such as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the POTUS, all of whom ironically belong to the 1 percent, and are rapidly driving the U.S. Constitution into the ground, the President continues to travel around the world campaigning. Let’s face it…he continues to avoid the ire of the American people and Congressional foes from the very tangible destruction he has brought on this nation.

In my opinion, it’s the unabashed hypocrisy of OWS that is the most daunting right now. It’s never been so open and so in our faces. The virulent outburst by media and entertainers such as Jimmy Fallon and the cowardly, musical smack down of Michele Bachmann’s entrance on his show last night are just more of the same liberal desperation and the bubbling up of a nation in serious distress without a leader who truly wants to solve the problems for all Americans.

No, Obama has not made things better. He’s made them exponentially worse and the facts, numbers and the Occupiers smacking down policeman and those willing to put in a hard day’s work exist today to prove it.

I think Newt said it best this week, telling Occupy Wall Street, “go get a job after you take a bath.” Newt further broke it down for those in a PC stuper by adding Thomas Jefferson’s and John Smith’s warning to American settlers that they could not eat if they did not work. This, Newt emphasized, embedded a “deep sense of responsibility” in the American psyche.

In contrast, Newt argued that the Occupy movement was grounded in entitlement stating, “…all the Occupy movement starts with [is] the premise that we all owe them everything.”

We don’t.

As I prepare food for Thanksgiving and look forward to dining with friends this Thursday, I continue to be thankful for the men like Newt and Horowitz (and the many women) who dare to speak the truth.

When Is Enough, Enough?!

I find myself scratching my head in disgust over some of the most insanely inane acts of random stupidity. Or…are these acts calculated, political power moves? If the latter, these moves are even more horrendous in my book of life plays.

I have come to realize politics aren’t meant for the light-hearted or over-sensitive. I’m reminded over and over by political heavy hitters to “get legs” and man-up or rather woman-up.

I vacillate between the idea “hey, it’s just politics…” and “why do politics have to be this way?!” on almost a daily basis. What would it be like if we told the truth and dealt with the consequences as they came and the all mighty dollar or favor weren’t factors?

Can we even imagine what it would be like? Would it be boring…or maybe not? Either way, it’s a scenario that I find interesting to dream about.

Okay, I digress. I’m a relatively tough person having worked all my life, run a business for over 16 years and dealt with the good, bad and ugly clients (for the record: mostly good for any client out there reading this blog!).

I admit I haven’t fought in war or served in the military but I do come from a long line of tough cultural stock in that I am Armenian and one whose grandparents witnessed their immediate families slaughtered right before their eyes, yet survived to immigrate to the United States (legally too I might add!).

Not a pretty story of the past but a part of my life’s fabric and a huge influence on who I am and how I process ideas and events to this day.

Now with that backstory, I take you to my original point in writing this blog post in the first place. When Is Enough, Enough? When is a “thank you” okay instead of a gift? When is paying for a service enough without having to grease the provider with a massive tip (justified or not)? When is a sentiment like a thank you or get well card kept just that, a sentiment and not recast into political folly?

I was watching TV the day Gabby Gifford was shot in Tucson and her staffer was killed. Gabby is an incredible story of survival and comeback, her staffer a sad and tragic story of loss.

However, her astronaut husband Mark Kelly (who BTW left on a mission while she was still fighting for her life) ripped on Boehner for only sending a get well card and not visiting while in Houston. Maybe a biggey to Kelly, but I think this cheapens Kelly’s timely book launch, his name and his character.

Hey, Mark might be a great guy, but using the Team Gifford Kelly book tour to slam a person for not sending a big enough gift or saying “Get Well” loud enough is in my opinion simply ungracious and downright wrong.

What, not enough? 

Today’s Focus: Pursuit of A Good Laugh In the Face of Lunacy

It’s official! Occupy Salt Lake City is over, momentarily anyway. It appears Salt Lake City Chief of Police Burbank finally found the intelligence to move the protestors out of Pioneer Park due to the discovery of a dead protestor in one of the tents. Very sad.

When will the sorely misguided and souls of Occupy Wall Street figure out they should be moving their tents to the White House?!

In the meantime, I just figured I’d continue to search out and share the hilarity in this overtly hypocritical and unsightly movement, which only in America it could occur openly because of the incredible Constitution and the First Amendment, which protect Americans' right to free speech and other inalienable rights.

Have fun with the always funny Steve Crowder take on #OccupyRacism!!!

More Federal Spending Mismanagement on the Backs of US Taxpayers, NO THANK YOU GOP!

This quote pulled directly from a Fox story is frightening:

“And in the middle of a week chock-full of dire warnings about the direction of the committee and the consequences of failure, House Speaker John Boehner conceded that a final deal could include revenue increases, though ‘there clearly is a limit.” Oh, those eyes!

While I understand we are in a mess as a nation and compromise is required in most instances, I am also cognizant that the idea of tax hikes on all Americans when additional spending cuts and the reduction and / or elimination of redundant and corrupt Federal agencies isn’t fully considered by the current administration is absolutely wrong for both parties. And especially wrong for those in the GOP party like Boehner who allegedly adhere to conservative party principles.

U.S. taxpayers have been footing the bill for messed up banks tied to government cronyism since 2008, and I believe most are over it. A great example is Prop 103 in Colorado which went down in flames! Yeah for voters in Colorado!

The over $700 billion in government stimulus that we so desperately needed to keep unemployment from exceeding 8% didn’t work. And, adding more fuel to the fire, Obama is pushing GOP to now pass through another asinine “Jobs Bill” to further expand the public sector.

All Americans should be wary! This is no overarching economic stimulus plan. This is just more government spending and public sector growth dressed up in sheep’s clothing.

According to a USA Today story on the federal pay scale published just two years ago, federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession’s first 18 months — and that’s before overtime pay and bonuses were counted. Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector (i.e., where the real stimulus and economic growth comes from). Fast forward two years, and I think the looming recession has now cost us closer to 10 million jobs…ouch!

With so many currently out of work and rank #OWS protestors filling and defiling parks nationwide, it’s time for GOP to get on the offensive and let Americans know what the long-term consequences truly are if Obama is allowed to pass more bogus social justice stimulus legislation.

What most folks don’t get is that the GOP’s blocking of the third jobs bill matters. And, it isn’t about pandering to the 1% as Obama’s BFF SEIU would have you believe. It’s time GOP leadership let Americans know why there is more to this ideological battle than meets the eye and reenergize and set the Republican brand right as Peggy Noonan so eloquently shared in her recent Wall Street Journal column, Happy Days Aren’t Here Again.

Oh and hurry it up GOP (yeah you Establishment GOP and Tea Party conservatives) because I can already see the 2012 light at the end of the tunnel!

Occupy Wall Street: America's Most Ignorant

Watch recent GBTV exposé on Occupy Wall Street protestors while biting your tongue!