Pursuing Truth - Defending Liberty since 1844

Pursuing Truth - Defending Liberty since 1844!  So says the letter head of Hillsdale College.  This small Liberal Arts College s located in Hillsdale Michigan and they are set apart from other such schools by, among others, the fact that they do not accept handouts from the U.S. Treasury.  They have always preferred to teach without interference from any government department.  They seek support from those who believe that the founding fathers got it right when they wrote our Constitution and that is what is taught to those who attend its classes.
Hillsdale publishes a monthly letter called "Imprimis" free to all who request a copy.  They maintain the Kirby Center in Washington, DC to educate Members of Congress, their staffs, students, and citizens on the Constitution and America's founding principles. 
Hillsdale launched its "2014 Project to Restore Liberty."  They want to place 1 million pocket sized copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in the hands of your friends and elected politicians. 
They intend to make Hillsdale's educational programs on the Constitution available to millions of Americans via the Internet.
They will expand the programs and impact of Hillsdale College's Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship' which is located on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Another goal is to "Increase exponentially the number of FREE subscribers to Imprimis --- their flagship digest of liberty.
To maintain Hillsdale as one of the top liberal arts colleges in America while refusing all taxpayer subsidies --- even in the form of grants and loans.  Those are their goals deserving of your support.  Go to www.hillsdalefor liberty.com/scroll2014 for more on Hillsdale. 

"Let's give up on the Constitution"

When Parents send their offspring out into the world of academia they do so with the hope that they will learn a valuable set of facts and figures and knowledge that they can turn into cash through an honorable job.  Today that hope is dashed when that student, as so often happens, ends up with a degree that has no value.  He cannot sell the "knowledge" he has learned.  There is no market for what he/she knows.  And now the debt is staggering.

Part of the reason may be what some of the Universities are passing off as teaching.  For instance: Professor Michael Seidman teaches Constitutional Law at Georgetown University.  This is what he says about our Constitution.  "As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken.  But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution with all of its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions."  This taken from the professor's article in the New York Times entitled, "Let's give up on the Constitution."

Dr. Seidman thinks that the President and Congress should not be restricted by a document written  225 years ago, calling our charter obsolete.  I along with millions of other Americans disagree!
     Medicineman

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender veterans memorial?

Yes, you read that correctly.  The final design for such a memorial has been finalized.  I respect the contribution these folks made to our war effort.  Many of them served with honor and some lost their lives in the effort.  And, they were treated just like all the rest of those who served with honor and who lost their lives in the effort.
Now we are seeing great expenditure of time and money to make their contribution, somehow, more valuable than all the other millions who fought and died.  Why do they want to be treated just like every one else (so they say) while at the same time declaring that they are deserving of more attention and praise for what they have done?  And they represent less than 2% of the population although they would like you believe a much higher figure.
I will admit that I am of the old school.  My war was the Korean "Police Action" and forces were mostly made up of draftees.  Did I know anyone who was gay?  I was a Corpsman so did I know any lesbian nurses?  Did any of my barracks mates go on Liberty in heels?  Was there a woman inside any of the swab-jockeys I ran with?  The answer to all these questions was......how would I know?  It was not an issue.  But today the goal of this crowd seems to be one of advertisement.  Make sure that the media is full of news of Gay celebrations, parades and open display of the naked body that would land most of us in jail, etc.
Now back to the issue at hand.  Why another memorial?  Are they not happy to be included in the Nam Memorial, the Korean greater than life Squad Memorial, Iwo Jima, WWII, Nurses, and on and on?
Those who are in charge have lost their collective minds!
Medicineman

WHOSE SECRET SERVICE?

Recently an item in a published paper mentioned Secret Service agents following Bill Clinton around and trying to conceal some of his "social" events.  I paused for a moment and pondered that item for a time??????? 
Slick Willy has not been our president, let's see, for almost 15 years and the tax payer is still paying for his protection?  I wonder why?
Then, I thought, if that is the case, are we also paying for that SS protection for both Bush's and Carter too?  What a waste of manpower and money.  My mother was a devoted Democrat all her life and in 1984, at the age of 81, voted for Ronald Reagan.  Her reason?  "We cannot afford another ex-president".  A wise and frugal woman my mother.
In spite of what she said, who can believe the Clintons left the White House broke.  Both had book advances to tide them over until they could get on the speaking circuit.  So if they need protection I believe that they should buy it for themselves and stop sucking on the public tit!
Having said that for the Clintons I will be non-partisan and apply the same rule to all former presidents.  For my way of thinking they can, if they feel threatened, buy security themselves.  After all the people pay them a very substantial pension from which they can find the funds for a body guard.  And, though I don't see why, each of them commands a very good fee for saying a few words in a public setting about almost any subject. 
My final thought on the subject; each might think about a trip to Gun-Site and come away with the expertise and ability to protect themselves!

PUBLIC SERVANTS....REEEEEALLY?

As I reflect on my years it strikes me that until I was 16 years old I could remember only one president, being too young to have known Hoover it was Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Harry S. Truman was sworn in as president after the death of FDR in April, 1945.  Harry won his own race in 1948 and served until 1953.

The reason I bring this up is to point out how differently we treated ex-presidents then.  Herbert Hoover left office in 1932 and carried his own bags to the train, went home and went to work.  Harry left office and he and Bess returned to there home in Springfield, MO to the home they had lived in sense marriage.  The only home they had.  Then they packed the Chevy and toured the country.  No Secret Service, no special aides.  Just he and Bess having a good relaxing time.  Harry refused all offers of a seat on the Board of Directors with the retort, "You don't want me.  You want the Oval Office and it is not for sale."  Or similar words.  It was only a few years later that Congress voted  him a small pension.

But now the game has changed, and changed dramatically.  The tax payer and voter, you and I,  pensions
everyone who is sent to Washington often enough.  And we fix it so the retiring Exec. is well fixed and never has to lower himself to actually WORK.  Those who stay in the halls of congress year after year, whether they do anything or not, work their way up the ladder to better offices, important committee assignments and if they arrive at the pinnacle, a limo and driver.  The icing on the cake, of course, is the lucrative pension. 

You say: I am envious and jealous. Not true.  But I will admit to anger.  Here is why.  When those great men put this system of government together they wanted it to be, "By the people and for the people."  Servants of the people, those elected to office, were expected to serve then go home to their regular duties.  The pay was such that it  paid expenses and little more.  It was never intended to be a full time job compensated by whatever they ,the servants, decided they were worth.

After all these years of observing our decision making process and the results thereof, I have become, perhaps, the complete cynic.  I do not like to be there.  It is not my comfort spot knowing that I do not trust those who are  looking out for me!   I hope for change, not for me and my wife but for our Great Grands now growing up.  Time is short and change will not be easy.  START NOW!