Smoky Mountains Sunrise

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Middle School Student Responds to the Question of Whether Obama Loves America

A politically active  7th grade student in Georgia, C.J. Pearson, has recorded a Youtube video and released it in answer to the controversial question: ‘President Obama: Do You Really Love America?”  If only most Americans could see our national crisis as clearly as this young man.




The Basilica of St. Sabina - "Attende, Domine, et miserere"



Saturday, February 21, 2015

Daniel Hannan: How Big Should the State Be?



When the times require another Margaret Thatcher, Daniel Hannan will be that leader.  In this BBC discussion, he addresses the appropriate size and scope of government.

Friday, February 20, 2015

Pat Buchanan: Will the GOP Capitulate Again?


By Patrick J. Buchanan

“Free trade results in giving our money, our manufactures, and our markets to other nations,” warned the Republican Senator from Ohio and future President William McKinley in 1892.

“Thank God I am not a free-trader,” echoed the rising Empire State Republican and future President Theodore Roosevelt.

Those were the voices of a Republican Party that believed in prospering America first.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Thatcher Aide: America Would Be Better Off If Britain Left EU

 
The Heritage Foundation's Nile Gardiner speaks at David Campbell Bannerman's alternatives to EU conference on February 18th 2015.

By Andre Walker

The Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator, Nile Gardiner has called for the British public to ignore both Downing Street and the White House by backing the UKs departure from the EU.
 
The former aide to Margaret Thatcher made the call in a video to be shown at today’s conference on Brexit held in London. Gardiner explains the need to unite the English speaking world, and for America to “stand with the British people”.

Today’s conference is being hosted by David Campbell-Bannerman MEP and includes speakers from a range of political parties.




Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Daniel Hannan MEP: Cameron’s Coming EU Renegotiation Will Alter Nothing

If David Cameron wins the next election, he will secure 100 per cent of his negotiating objectives vis-à-vis the EU. How can I be sure? Because those negotiating objectives have been drawn up in such a way as to make their acceptance certain.

I can think of no other issue where there is such a disconnect between what politicians have said on the record and what reporters and columnists suppose them to have said. David Cameron set out his seven conditions for remaining in the EU in this article last year. Later that day, Nick Clegg popped up to declare that he wholeheartedly endorsed them: after all, said Cleggie, they wouldn’t require a new treaty, so nothing fundamental would change. The following day, Ken Clarke gave his approval on the same grounds.

If Isis Could Kill Us All, They Would

A pro-ISIS demonstration in Mosul (PA)

From The Catholic Herald (UK)
By Father Alexander Lucie-Smith

The murdered Copts are victims of a theological and intellectual caricature that we must wake up to

I am very sad about the murder of twenty-one Christians in Libya at the hands of ISIS; but not just sad. I am also angry. I am angry because no one in authority really seems to have woken up to the situation we are in. There is nothing random about ISIS; the horrors wreaked by ISIS are not the work of a few isolated individuals, but rather something that we should expect given what we ought to know about the ISIS ideology.