Posts Tagged ‘big government’
Technology: America’s Check on Government Power
Special thanks to Austin James for bringing this to my attention, and Raz Shafer for contributing key material. Regarding this piece from the Huffington Post: We see here the fight that grassroots constitutionalists are up against, and the new medium that it is expanding to. There has been a fair amount of talk in political…
Read MoreThe Bigotry of Charles Blow
Since the advent of the conservative resurgence I have attended a number of TEA Party events, interacted with tens of thousands of TEA Partiers, trained over a fifteen-hundred with American Majority and spoken at several rallies and protests. One behavior I have never observed at these events or exhibited by the patriots around me is…
Read MoreAfter The Tea Party: What Now?
Today is Tax Day. This morning (…as I scrambled to finish my taxes and griped and moaned about the ungodly amounts of money that were taken from me by various parts of the government…) I reflected on how the TEA Party movement came about and where it should go from here. From Rick Santelli’s first…
Read MoreDo You TEA Party in Texas?
The April 15th Tax Day deadline is upon us once again… A time where the nation’s collective blood pressure and stress level rises, and we take part (somewhat reluctantly) in our other civic duty. Recently, however, April 15th has also become a day on which the rallying cry for limited government and fiscal responsibility is…
Read MoreTea Parties and Taking Back our Nation
It’s nearly tea party time again and lately I’ve been thinking about all the changes that the tea party movement has seen in the past year of its existence. There’s one moment that particularly stands out in my mind. My hometown of Salina, KS held a tea party on a grassy hill on April 15th where…
Read MoreThe End of the Beginning
In two weeks the Tax Day TEA Parties will celebrate their one-year anniversary. As we prepare to celebrate that day and how far our conservative insurgency has come, I believe it’s critical to remember where we are in this struggle. In the past year we have won major victories and experienced stinging defeats. We have…
Read MoreA Center/Right Call to Action: Lessons Learned from a 100 Year War
On March 25th in Iowa City, Iowa, President Obama said the following: “On Tuesday, after a year of debate and a century of trying, after so many of you shared your stories and your heartaches and your hopes, that promise was finally fulfilled. And today, health insurance reform is the law of the land.” In…
Read MoreHealth Care and Getting Engaged Locally
I grew up wanting to be a doctor just like my dad. My science scores soon put that dream to rest and I chose politics as a second calling, but for about five years, I worked at his office. My dad has practiced for 25 years in a Kansas town of about 600 with no…
Read MoreElections Have Consequences
As American Majority continues to support the conservative movement by helping build a much needed farm team of commonsense candidates for local and state office and training local activists in the arts of effective political advocacy, our effort can be succinctly stated: “American Majority teaches conservatives to win.” Winning is important. In a culture where…
Read MoreSummit Speakers Announced
While it has been a very trying past few days, we at American Majority are hopeful. We see the courage and resolve coming from the grassroots and know that America’s finest days are still ahead. We have the numbers, we have the passion, what we need is the training. That is why we put together…
Read MoreAlea Iacta Est
We have learned all too well that Americans’ regard for lessons in history goes back as far as yesterday’s lunch. Nevertheless, we stand watch on the precipice in hopes that this great republic will not go the way of the last one. And in that spirit we ready ourselves with a sobering recollection of those immortalized words…
Read MoreThoughts on our American Inheritance
When I was growing up, my grandma always displayed a refrigerator magnet that read “I’m spending my children’s inheritance.” I’m a big fan of inheriting things. In fact, my husband and I kept our last names when we married specifically to pass down to future children the inheritance of our respective family legacies. One can…
Read MoreWho’s Looking Out For Your Healthcare Freedom?
For those who are seriously concerned about government intrusion into our health care, the latest question on many minds is “What do we do if this thing passes?” As the battle rages in Congress over passage of health care reform legislation, many state and local leaders are looking ahead at ways for states to…
Read MoreSunshine in the Sooner State
A good friend of mine recently quipped, “We have to hold government accountable. But if we don’t know what they’re doing in the government, how can we hold them accountable?”
Read MoreTaxation Despite Representation
There are only a few movies I really, really enjoy watching. Among them is Amistad. After all, I’m a history buff (particularly of antiquity and of the American founding era) as well as a political junky. So it comes as no surprise that I see all sorts of political metaphors on the silver screen. And…
Read MoreThe “Webster” Talks Online Activism
Ralph Benko, Washington Examiner Op-Ed Contributor and author of the book The Websters’ Dictionary: How to Use the Web to Transform the World, talked about his efforts to increase on-line activism with conservatives. He makes some very interesting points about changing Rule 20 and returning representation to the states. What do you think? Is this…
Read MoreWithout a Tax Revolt We Are Lost
We will never control our government until we control the federal tax system. It is corrupted and unfair and feeds unchecked government growth with our money. It has made the federal government far more powerful than what was supposed to be its equal—our state governments. The income tax hides the cost of the government from…
Read MoreThe Father of the Tea Party
The Left is oft-quick to regurgitate revolution-era platitudes to justify their own revolution against the very institutions which the Revolution was fought to protect. Whilst the real meaning of it all escapes them still.
Read MoreWe Must Win Locally
We like to say “all politics is local” and “national change truly begins at the local level”. If this is true and if we as conservatives deign to make a national impact to change the current course of this country, we must acknowledge that it is imperative to win locally. I can’t emphasize enough that…
Read MoreSector Showdown: Private Vs. Public
The D.C. area is an interesting place to live indeed. Recently, we received over 30” of snow. The record snow fall has crippled much of the federal government, including the post office. So it was no surprise Monday when the federal government announced it would remain closed all day. Now imagine my surprise when I…
Read MoreClose the Floodgates
The Heritage Foundation today has a good good piece on the attempt for a second stimulus and the extreme growth of government taking place. Rather than recreate a similar article, I thought I would share some highlights: Anticipating this bleak job news, the President announced in his State of the Union address last week: “That is why…
Read MoreRaz & Reba’s Excellent Adventure
Tea Parties Vs. OFA
Organizing for America was advertised as the nucleus of the progressive wave supposedly sweeping America. OFA was to have the capacity to organize, motivate, and deploy liberal drones throughout the country. They would utilize the passion stirred up from the 2008 presidential election, mobilizing campaign volunteers into policy advocates. Yet, everything we have seen is…
Read MoreBig Media + Big Gov = Big Love
It has become increasingly clear to most Americans that the mainstream media is courting the current White House with the intensity of a 17-year-old boy. As I flip through the major networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC, it becomes painfully clear that there is an agenda they want to see pushed. When the president…
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