Liberals Don’t Know What Patriotism Means
December 1, 2008 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Conservatives, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Education, Founders, Government, Corruption, Media Bias, Military, News, Patriotism, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
Some think it a canard that liberals aren’t patriotic. In some ways, it is a canard, but only just. Some liberals really do imagine themselves patriotic. But in what ever way liberals imagine they feel for their country, it doesn’t seem that patriotism is really what they feel. At least not in the way that patriotism is properly defined. There has been a spate of stories in the media since Obama’s election that serve to illustrate why liberals seem incapable of being patriotic.
But, first, what is patriotism?
After the War of 1812 one of our most celebrated sea captains, Stephen Decatur (America’s first post Revolutionary War military hero) once gave a toast at Norfolk to his fellow seamen that is the most perfect illustration of true patriotism. As he lifted his glass, Decatur said,
“Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.”
Great Web Movie on Threat of Radical Islam
November 24, 2008 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Islam, Islamofascism, Media Bias, Military, News, Publius Contributor, Religion, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
Obama: Fear and the Security Force
November 22, 2008 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Flight 93, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Media Bias, Military, News, President, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Selwyn Duke, Society/Culture | No Comments
By Selwyn Duke
In all my life I have never seen such intense emotion surrounding a leader as that evoked by Barack Obama. Even Ronald Reagan, the Gipper himself, didn’t enjoy the kind of prostration of the will offered to the president-elect by hordes of followers. Yet, while people the world over are imbued with “hope” and chant Obama’s slogan “Yes, we can!” — for instance, the French are using their translation of it, “Oui, nous pouvons!” — some of the intense emotion is of a very different species.
It is fear.
In all my life I have never seen an American politician who could make so many Americans’ blood run cold. Some may mention the left’s feelings regarding Reagan or President Bush, but there is no equivalency. For all of leftists’ bluster and melodrama, they weren’t afraid of those men as much as they, well, just hated them. Sure, leftist ideologues said those two Republicans were scary, but the same people also said that each one was both dumb and Machiavellian. Hatred is an emotion, and emotion isn’t logical; it just conjures up whatever feels right at the moment.
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Happy Veteran’s Day, 2008
November 11, 2008 | Filed Under Military, Patriotism, Publius Contributor, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment
Happy 233rd Birthday U.S. Marines
November 10, 2008 | Filed Under History, Military, Patriotism, Publius Contributor, Security/Safety, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
MY President or Just THE President
November 6, 2008 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Family, Founders, Ken Marrero, Military, Patriotism, Society/Culture, Taxes | 2 Comments
-By Ken Marrero
Tuesday night, Barack Obama spoke to a waiting country and a wondering world. Found in his words are a myriad reasons to reject what he stands for. The election is over and Obama is President. Some say the healing must now begin and we must unite behind Barack. Obama himself appealed “…to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn — I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.”
I say, Obama will be the President; but he will never be my President. Obama wants what he is unwilling to give. To get the job, Obama divided us. Now on the job, he yearns for unity’s strength. But leopards don’t change their spots. As he ran, so will he govern. I will not be a party to that.
Obama’s speech text is here. The video is here. Please read it before reading my comments.
When Obama “wonders if the dream of our founders is alive”, I remember what those Founders wrote. They were “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Obama believes some men are more equal than others. When advocating for nonexisent rights or for granting more rights to some than to me, he will be the President, but not my President.
Dem Candidate Refuses to Remove Name of Fallen Soldier from Campaign Website
October 30, 2008 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Media Bias, Military, News, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments
-By Warner Todd Huston
A Democrat candidate for the Senate in Oklahoma has thus far refused to remove from his campaign website the name of a fallen U.S. soldier despite the fact that the soldier’s Mother and family have repeatedly asked that Rice remove their son’s name.
Candidate Andrew Rice hosts on his site advertising for his campaign a page that lists a number of soldiers from Oklahoma that have died in service to our country. On that page appears the name of Spec. Micheal E. Phillips of Ardmore, Oklahoma.
Jenn Sierra of Green Country Values alerted me to the fact that Specialist Phillips’ family has repeatedly asked Democrat candidate Rice to remove their son’s name from his site, but so far he refuses to do so.