Comments for Of Thee I Sing 1776 http://www.oftheeising1776.com Ideas and commentary with allegiance to neither the left nor the right, but only to this sweet land of liberty. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:15:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on Feeding the Deficit: The Ultimate Obesity by Tom Autry http://www.oftheeising1776.com/feeding-the-deficit-the-ultimate-obesity/comment-page-1#comment-382 Tom Autry Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:15:30 +0000 http://www.oftheeising1776.com/?p=515#comment-382 Is buying gold or copper the only way one can avoid ruin? The Dems have raped social security so how does one regain the huge investment made over one's working career? Perhaps one should turn his dollar holdings into hard currency and bury it in a mason jar. Its a mess, but I'll bet someone will come out on top. I wonder who? Is buying gold or copper the only way one can avoid ruin? The Dems have raped social security so how does one regain the huge investment made over one’s working career? Perhaps one should turn his dollar holdings into hard currency and bury it in a mason jar.

Its a mess, but I’ll bet someone will come out on top. I wonder who?

]]> Comment on Feeding the Deficit: The Ultimate Obesity by Fred Mayer http://www.oftheeising1776.com/feeding-the-deficit-the-ultimate-obesity/comment-page-1#comment-381 Fred Mayer Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:56:42 +0000 http://www.oftheeising1776.com/?p=515#comment-381 There is no doubt that your comments are correct. How does one stop a run away train ? There is no doubt that your comments are correct.
How does one stop a run away train ?

]]> Comment on The Intelligent Use of Power: American Security in the 21st Century by Hal Gershowitz http://www.oftheeising1776.com/the-intelligent-use-of-power-american-security-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1#comment-379 Hal Gershowitz Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:00:58 +0000 http://www.oftheeising1776.com/?p=501#comment-379 HelenLewis makes a reasonable point and certainly one well worth contemplating as does Henry Kissinger whom we quoted and Winston Churchill and all manner of public figures, historians and philosophers whom we did not quote. It was, after all, George Santayana who said, "Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it." Woodrow Wilson, who we did briefly discuss in our essay was pretty well educated too, but his naivete informed positions he took along with other leaders of the victorious allies that clearly set the stage for World War Two. While we pointed to areas of concern with respect to the President's foreign policy initiatives during his first year in office, we also credited him with taking what we feel are encouraging steps in pursuing America's best interests. But John Kennedy, we feel, had it right. No one should be confused about the length we will go to protect the country, its people or the liberty we hold dear. HelenLewis makes a reasonable point and certainly one well worth contemplating as does Henry Kissinger whom we quoted and Winston Churchill and all manner of public figures, historians and philosophers whom we did not quote. It was, after all, George Santayana who said, “Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.” Woodrow Wilson, who we did briefly discuss in our essay was pretty well educated too, but his naivete informed positions he took along with other leaders of the victorious allies that clearly set the stage for World War Two. While we pointed to areas of concern with respect to the President’s foreign policy initiatives during his first year in office, we also credited him with taking what we feel are encouraging steps in pursuing America’s best interests. But John Kennedy, we feel, had it right. No one should be confused about the length we will go to protect the country, its people or the liberty we hold dear.

]]> Comment on The Intelligent Use of Power: American Security in the 21st Century by HELENLEWIS http://www.oftheeising1776.com/the-intelligent-use-of-power-american-security-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1#comment-378 HELENLEWIS Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:17:00 +0000 http://www.oftheeising1776.com/?p=501#comment-378 'ALTHOUGH VERY WELL WRITTEN IT SEEMS TO ME YOU ARE DEALING WITH TWO SEPARATE LINES OF COMMENTARY. THE HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A BACKGROUND TO CRITICIZE OUR SEATED PRESIDENT. AS OUR MOST EDUCATED PRESIDENT HE KNOWS BETTER THAN BUSH AND CHENEY AND EVEN REAGAN THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE THAT GOT US TO THIS POINT. YOU MAY OF COURSE, CRITIZE HIS GOVERNANCE --THAT IS YOUR WONT. BUT EXPLAINING HISTORY TO LAUNCH A CRITIQUE OF OBAMA SEEMED A BIT OFF TO ME. WHAT HE'S DOING RIGHT NOW IS WHAT YOUR QUESTIONING AND UNFORTUNATELY EVERYTHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY IS UP FOR GRABS!!!!!! AND OUR HISTORY DOESN'T HAVE ANY BLUEPRINT. ‘ALTHOUGH VERY WELL WRITTEN IT SEEMS TO ME YOU ARE DEALING WITH TWO SEPARATE LINES OF COMMENTARY. THE HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY DOESN’T HAVE TO BE A BACKGROUND TO CRITICIZE OUR SEATED PRESIDENT. AS OUR MOST EDUCATED PRESIDENT HE KNOWS BETTER THAN BUSH AND CHENEY AND EVEN REAGAN THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE THAT GOT US TO THIS POINT. YOU MAY OF COURSE, CRITIZE HIS GOVERNANCE –THAT IS YOUR WONT. BUT EXPLAINING HISTORY TO LAUNCH A CRITIQUE OF OBAMA SEEMED A BIT OFF TO ME. WHAT HE’S DOING RIGHT NOW IS WHAT YOUR QUESTIONING AND UNFORTUNATELY EVERYTHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY IS UP FOR GRABS!!!!!!
AND OUR HISTORY DOESN’T HAVE ANY BLUEPRINT.

]]> Comment on The Intelligent Use of Power: American Security in the 21st Century by Bill_H http://www.oftheeising1776.com/the-intelligent-use-of-power-american-security-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1#comment-377 Bill_H Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:01:25 +0000 http://www.oftheeising1776.com/?p=501#comment-377 You could do a separate essay on trade, and how it was used as an extension of American foreign policy to keep our allies strong in the face of our cold war enemies. And, how that policy has outlived its usefullness in the face of global competition. And, how the success of unbalanced trade for our "trading partners" has led to the rapid economic decline of this country and the just as rapid rise of China & India. Trade reform is a key component to an American economic revival. You could do a separate essay on trade, and how it was used as an extension of American foreign policy to keep our allies strong in the face of our cold war enemies. And, how that policy has outlived its usefullness in the face of global competition. And, how the success of unbalanced trade for our “trading partners” has led to the rapid economic decline of this country and the just as rapid rise of China & India. Trade reform is a key component to an American economic revival.

]]> Comment on Democratic Party Policies: Regressive not Progressive by Bill_H http://www.oftheeising1776.com/democratic-party-policies-regressive-not-progressive/comment-page-1#comment-373 Bill_H Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:29:25 +0000 http://www.oftheeising1776.com/?p=489#comment-373 A foreign ideology first occupied our major universities, and over time our mainstream media, then the legislative & the executive branches of our national government and it is now beginning to seep into the judicial branch. It is an ideology that was adopted and propagated in the revolutionary 60's by the ignorant, it is out to destroy American exceptionalism and left unchecked it will eventually subsume the individual freedoms of the many to the needs of the state under the control of a few. It is an ideology that is killing this country in a death by a thousand cuts across our society, spanning decades and it needs to be pulled out by its roots so that the American people can rediscover what its means to be a free thinking individual living in a free society. We have a chioice and that choice requires that each and every American take responsiblity for themselves and reject what the statists have to offer, and that is slavery to the state and hence to the few. The choice is ours, but time is running out. A foreign ideology first occupied our major universities, and over time our mainstream media, then the legislative & the executive branches of our national government and it is now beginning to seep into the judicial branch. It is an ideology that was adopted and propagated in the revolutionary 60’s by the ignorant, it is out to destroy American exceptionalism and left unchecked it will eventually subsume the individual freedoms of the many to the needs of the state under the control of a few. It is an ideology that is killing this country in a death by a thousand cuts across our society, spanning decades and it needs to be pulled out by its roots so that the American people can rediscover what its means to be a free thinking individual living in a free society. We have a chioice and that choice requires that each and every American take responsiblity for themselves and reject what the statists have to offer, and that is slavery to the state and hence to the few. The choice is ours, but time is running out.

]]> Comment on The State of the Union Address: “…Meat to Distract the Watchdog of the Mind” by Bill_H http://www.oftheeising1776.com/the-state-of-the-union-was-he-speaking-about-america/comment-page-1#comment-372 Bill_H Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:16:46 +0000 http://www.oftheeising1776.com/?p=469#comment-372 In hindsight, Obama absorbed a lot while attending Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years with its teachings of Marxist inspired Black Liberation Theology, and you can bet its previous anti-American pastor must be very proud right now of the deconstruction the Obama administration has already accomplished in such a short time. ALL OF THE BLAME for this administrative fiasco belongs squarely on the shoulders of our ideologically compromised MSM. They (and only they) are to blame for failing to guard the halls of American government from such Marxist buffoonery. In hindsight, Obama absorbed a lot while attending Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years with its teachings of Marxist inspired Black Liberation Theology, and you can bet its previous anti-American pastor must be very proud right now of the deconstruction the Obama administration has already accomplished in such a short time. ALL OF THE BLAME for this administrative fiasco belongs squarely on the shoulders of our ideologically compromised MSM. They (and only they) are to blame for failing to guard the halls of American government from such Marxist buffoonery.

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]]> Comment on Terrorism, Security and the Resurgence of a Deadly Tenet of Radical Islam… Jihad by Hal Gershowitz http://www.oftheeising1776.com/terrorism-security-and-the-resurgence-of-a-deadly-tenet-of-radical-islam-jihad/comment-page-1#comment-217 Hal Gershowitz Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:48:45 +0000 http://www.oftheeising1776.com/?p=400#comment-217 Dr. Kaback's comments are well taken and we agree that a war philosophy on our part, "in the usual sense" will not end the threat. The "enlightenment," and the individual liberty and freedom on which it is based and which we hold dear, has never really taken hold in most of the Islamic world. Until it does (if ever) America should leave no stone unturned in its primary mission of protecting Americans by isolating or destroying those fanatics whose mission in life is to destroy us. Dr. Kaback’s comments are well taken and we agree that a war philosophy on our part, “in the usual sense” will not end the threat. The “enlightenment,” and the individual liberty and freedom on which it is based and which we hold dear, has never really taken hold in most of the Islamic world. Until it does (if ever) America should leave no stone unturned in its primary mission of protecting Americans by isolating or destroying those fanatics whose mission in life is to destroy us.

]]> Comment on Terrorism, Security and the Resurgence of a Deadly Tenet of Radical Islam… Jihad by mkaback http://www.oftheeising1776.com/terrorism-security-and-the-resurgence-of-a-deadly-tenet-of-radical-islam-jihad/comment-page-1#comment-215 mkaback Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:43:02 +0000 http://www.oftheeising1776.com/?p=400#comment-215 Gentlemen, With a world population of 1.5 billion Moslems, and with what is estimated (conservatively) to be a radical fundamentalist fraction of that number of one to two percent, OR 15 TO 30 MILLION RADICALS!!, we have quite a problem to deal with. Incidentally, their demographics alone will be an ever increasing problem, both in numbers and in geography, and our actions may serve to increase that radical (jihadist) fraction over time. "Root them out and destroy them", enhance our worldwide surveillance, constant vigilance, all of the above. Until the so-called " peace loving" majority of Moslem leadership and their constituents step up and stop the radical jihadists themselves from within, I see no end to this "war". This is a "war" of philosophy and there are those, in the radical Moslem world, who believe that time is their greatest ally. They grow while we diminish, their numbers (radicals) are clearly growing in spite of, if not because of, all efforts of the West to date. Their martyrdom philosophy is a great weapon in the vast numbers of schools where radical Q'oran is taught. I am not sure that a "war" philosophy on our part, in the ususal sense, will help us to prevail. How do we get Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc.etc.etc. to take the lead in destroying this PHILOSOPHY? That may be the major tool if this "war" is ever to be won.... Gentlemen, With a world population of 1.5 billion Moslems, and with what is estimated (conservatively) to be a radical fundamentalist fraction of that number of one to two percent, OR 15 TO 30 MILLION RADICALS!!, we have quite a problem to deal with. Incidentally, their demographics alone will be an ever increasing problem, both in numbers and in geography, and our actions may serve to increase that radical (jihadist) fraction over time.
“Root them out and destroy them”, enhance our worldwide surveillance, constant vigilance, all of the above. Until the so-called ” peace loving” majority of Moslem leadership and their constituents step up and stop the radical jihadists themselves from within, I see no end to this “war”. This is a “war” of philosophy and there are those, in the radical Moslem world, who believe that time is their greatest ally. They grow while we diminish, their numbers (radicals) are clearly growing in spite of, if not because of, all efforts of the West to date. Their martyrdom philosophy is a great weapon in the vast numbers of schools where radical Q’oran is taught. I am not sure that a “war” philosophy on our part, in the ususal sense, will help us to prevail. How do we get Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc.etc.etc. to take the lead in destroying this PHILOSOPHY? That may be the major tool if this “war” is ever to be won….

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