Archive for January, 2012
Democratic Lawyers Move Over
By: J. Randolph Evans
In Georgia, Republican lawyers have always been a small and inconsequential lot. One hundred and fifty years of Democratic rule meant that as a practical matter their opinions were not worth much.
The fate of Republican lawyers started to change some as Republican Presidents came along with Presidential appointments to the federal bench and U.S. Attorneys’ offices. Even then, their influence was pretty weak because the Georgia bar remained dominated by Democratic lawyers. Indeed, a powerful few Democratic lawyers were actually household names enjoying the spoils of Democratic control.
Is America being Romanized today?
Observations©
By Donald S. Conkey
Today, as America struggles to return to those principles of freedom that made it a beacon of hope to the world, I see disturbing similarities between today’s America and ancient Rome that causes me to ask: “Is America being Romanized?” Why would I even ponder just a question? Because all students of history, especially of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire realizes that a once powerful nation of free people turned to an Emperor, became an immoral people, rejected the laws of nature that Cicero said Rome, like America, was founded upon, and then self destructed, ending up on the trash heap of history. And I don’t want to see that happen to America!
Your Freedom Is Slipping Away
Just The Numbers, Mam
By: Les Dunaway
This past week, the 18th Annual Index of Economic Freedom was published. It shows that our country has slipped to 10th in this critical ranking. The 15th Index published in January of 2009 ranked the US at 6th. So, in the three years since, we’ve dropped 4 places.
If you haven’t been following this Index, I suggest you watch the short video at the top right and for more depth, read the explanation at the lower right of its front page. The sound bite description is There is a close correlation between economic freedom and the health of a country’s economy. A reverse version of the same idea is the comment made by an East German around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall: We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.
2012 – Still Wide Open – A Week Later
By: J. Randolph Evans
Democrats (and the mainstream media) have taken some glee from the ongoing contentious contest for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination. Indeed, they sound like Republicans last time celebrating the extended 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination battle between then Senator Hillary Clinton (the presumptive nominee who wasn’t) and Senator Barack Obama (the eventual nominee and now President). Democratic insiders and institutional party operatives remained convinced that Senator Clinton would win all the way until the day she didn’t.
This ‘vetting’ process is part of winning the nomination, and it should be. If candidates can’t take the heat, the best time to find out is before they are the chef in the kitchen. Every weakness has to be exposed and every test thrown at them.
America’s Bill of Rights ratified 220 years ago today
Observations©
By Donald S. Conkey
Today, with the Spirit of Christmas amongst us, and while Christians prepare to celebrate the birth of the Christ child, God’s greatest gift to all mankind, let us celebrate another gift of God, America’s precious Bill of Rights. They were ratified 220 years ago today. This Christmas season, as we ponder the birth of Christ; let us also ponder his gift of freedom to America, its Bill of Rights. They are listed below. Ponder them.
