Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Monday, August 4, 2014
Sunday, August 3, 2014
Israel has the same rights as the USA
Do Americans have a right to oppose
unjust authority? Given our history, this right goes without saying. You see,
our country was founded by men resisting the unjust rule of Great Britain. More
precisely, in one of history’s most famous recitations of the Right of
Resistance, the American Declaration of Independence itself says:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.
McKinney Offers Election Year Gimmicks!
During this Sunday's "Capitol Report" on Fox 61,
Sean Wooden, Hartford City Council President, warned the viewers to be careful
of such election year promises as Senator McKinney's promise to eliminate the
income tax for people earning less than $75,000. Councilman Wooden
questioned that if Senator McKinney has such a plan that could actually pass in
the legislature, then after being his party's leader in the Senate for all
these years, why then hasn't McKinney eliminated the income tax a long time
ago? It has nothing to do with the Democratic Governor, because Mr.
McKinney was the Senate Minority Leader under the past Republican Governor, so
if it were such a great plan, he sure could have passed it then, couldn't
he?
This is one of the rare times that this editor agrees with
Mr. Wooden, however, it appears that Mr. McKinney's promise to at least
partially abolish the income tax is little more than smoke and mirrors,
otherwise, why did he not do this years ago?
Let us not forget another candidate for Governor who was
elected on the promise of no income tax. To quote Lowell P. Weicker Jr's
campaign promise: "An income tax would be like pouring gasoline on
the fires of recession." Let us not forget that after being elected
on the promises of no income tax, and a promise not to balance the budget on
the backs of state employees, right after he was elected, Mr. Weicker told us
that he wasn't governor long before he realized that the only way to balance
our budget was with an income tax, and then he also brought us record numbers of
layoffs of state employees--2 promises that simply disappeared right after he
was elected.
So when considering another wild campaign promise like the promise to eliminate the income tax on those earning less than $75,0000 while promising to continue to tax those evil rich people and balance the budget on their wealthy backs: let us remember that those who don't learn from history are destined to repeat it!
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Saturday, August 2, 2014
Is this a right invitation by President Obama?
Let’s hope President Barack
Obama, who’s hosting his first ever US-Africa Leaders Summit Aug. 4-6 in
Washington is right about there being no threat of spreading Ebola by bringing
African leaders into the U.S. during the worst Ebola outbreak in history.
Friday, August 1, 2014
Depends on what the definition of "Kiss" is?
In my first State of the Union address, I promised to “end welfare as we know it,” to make welfare a second chance, not a way of life, exactly the change most welfare recipients wanted it to be.
William Jefferson Clinton
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