Liberty Reborn

When the founding fathers repeatedly referred to God through various flowery and reverent terms in the Declaration of Independence, there was a reason for it. The reason is that they believed in God as men of deep Judeo-Christian faith. When George Washington prayed at Valley Forge he did not do so just because he thought that it might have been a novel idea. No, there was a deeper reason for it. That reason was his Christian faith.

Years ago, if you wanted to buy something you paid in coins minted from, or at least backed by, precious metals. United States currency, for example, was backed by gold held by the government – hence the term “gold standard”. You’re dollar was backed by a dollars worth of gold which in theory you should have been able to get by simply turning in your dollar.

With members of the ultra-left Middlebury Institute sitting down with members of the League of the South, who are devoted to more limited government, and the two discussing plans for leaving the United States, the topic of secession has once again become just slightly more popular dinner conversation than how much lint Aunt Carla found in her belly button last night. Both groups, despite their divergence on almost everything else political, want to be able to leave the United States peacefully.

The 2008 GOP presidential nominees seem to be not inspiring much support among conservatives. Oh sure, among the center-right Republicans candidates like Mitt “Damn I Look Good” Romney, Rudy “I’m The Anti-pro-anti-abortion Candidate” Giuliani and John “Say Good-bye To Your First Amendment” McCain look great. But for the conservatives? We basically grimace every time we look at the crowd of hopefuls.

Liberals know what they want to do and they know where they want to take the rest of us. The problem is that they just don’t have any idea exactly how what they want to do is useful in getting us there. This puts me in mind of one of the more hilarious episodes of South Park where Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny along with Tweek discover the ever industrious “Underpants Gnomes”.

During our own struggle for independence from the British crown, we Americans sought out help. Eventually we enlisted the French who were admittedly hesitant to aid the upstart colonists against England. They knew they faced retribution should the revolution go badly. But the facts of the matter are that France did help us and they did help us win our fight for liberty.

America voted for change. That was the resounding theme from Democrats this week after they seized control of both the House and Senate from a Republican Party that had embraced the philosophy of “compassionate conservatism” which is nothing more than a veil for the principles of big government social spending and liberalism as the solution to the problems of Americans. The truth of the matter however is that America did not vote for change. They merely voted to speed up the process of taxing the rich to redistribute the wealth to the less productive and any number of other economic and social principles and policies that are failing all over the world.