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June 12, 2015 · 10:50 pm

Securing our blessings of Liberty

G. Murphy Donovan, with frank honesty, wrote a piece in The American Thinker, “The All-volunteer Military: Too Much From Too Few”, about our all-volunteer force, our detached self-absorbed citizenry and corrupted power-brokers in America, sure to give you pause for some reflection on the duty of being a good citizen in our floundering Republic. He writes:

“If every citizen benefits from national security, shouldn’t all beneficiaries have some skin in the game?

The all-volunteer army has created a chasm between the combat veteran and the population served. That chasm gets broader with every reckless military intervention or deployment. If national defense is a subset of national security, then every citizen, every family, and every institution that enjoys the benefits of safety and democracy should share the risks and costs.”
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/06/the_allvolunteer_military_too_much_from_too_few.html#ixzz3crmdunwb
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“We need to have a discussion in America”, the popular buzz phrase from politicos, those agenda-drivers in academia, and mouthpieces in the media, hinting that those calling for the discussion will be the ones defining the parameters and censoring any discussion they allow to be aired in the public square, dooms any hope that words like “civic duty” and “what you owe your country” will ever be allowed to be uttered.

In our present bipolar polity, the political left learned to quite effectively mask their absolute loathing of our military, carried forward from the Vietnam era, and adopted the insincere, “thank-you for your service” throwaway line, while they advocate policies aimed at neutering our military might and transforming it into a Peace Corps with hired guns. The political right devolved into a advocacy for special moneyed interests and a spoonful of sugar remedy, masking noxious foreign policy nostrums and magic potion strategic cures for exotic ailments they little understand.

GMD offers some excellent links within his articles, so be sure and check those out too.

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June 11, 2015 · 11:32 pm

WATCH: Obama Supporters Sign Petition to Nuke Russia | Truth Revolt

WATCH: Obama Supporters Sign Petition to Nuke Russia | Truth Revolt.

Just when you think you’ve seen it all with brain-dead idiots, along comes Mark Dice with this video where he approaches our fellow citizenry (zombies, perhaps) with this fake petition for advocating for President Obama to nuke Russia and almost every person he approaches signs the petition with no questions asked. This video gives new meaning to the Democrats preference for “low-information voters”. It’s probably meant to be humorous, but I was appalled at the ignorance and the complete lack of any sort of response like, “Are you out of your freakin’ mind ?- a “preemptive nuclear strike” to “send a message”??? – Holy shit, these hoards of zombies are the reason our government is run by liars. criminals and subversives who have no respect for The Constitution. This video shocked me truthfully.

Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme

Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme.

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June 9, 2015 · 2:29 pm

Dissecting Political Correctness

Dissecting Political Correctness.

A 2o13 Stella Morabito article in The Witherspoon Institute’s Public Discourse section. The article is filled with many interesting links to check out for additional information.

Losing your mind to the mob

Stella Morabito at The Federalist penned, “How To Escape The Age Of Mass Delusion“, which explains clearly how the political left in America operates in not merely nudging public opinion, but in creating mob hysteria and using mob force to compel their agenda from the accepted majority public opinion into law. If you’re one of the few independent thinkers left in America, sitting there scratching your head wondering how fringe ideas only a few years ago are now rock solid majority opinions today, well, this excellent article details the social psychology and history behind the transformation. Ms. Morabito writes:

“There is indeed a war on the private mind, as Kevin Williamson explained in a recent National Review column. Unfortunately, too many Americans have been sleeping through most of its propaganda battles, and for a very long time. When it comes to understanding the inner workings of social psychology and political correctness, we seem to be at a loss.

Meanwhile, the power elites who now control the media, academia, and Hollywood seem to understand social psychology well enough to exploit it on a massive scale. They have engaged in psychological warfare against the private mind by inducing “collective belief formation.” There’s really nothing new here. Conditioning and nudging the masses into groupthink is a very old trick of all wannabe dictators. The bloody twentieth century is filled to the gills with examples.

Yet it feels like we’ve awakened to an ambush. A lot of Americans watched in shock while cultish mobs suddenly attacked the RFRA that Pence initially defended. But the groundwork for mass hysteria like this was stealthily laid for decades, and the minefields sown.”

Ms. Morabito’s article includes numerous excellent links to additional reading on propaganda, mind control, political correctness and a wide array of hot button topics. A quick check of her bio includes work as an intelligence analyst on Russian and Soviet politics, including communist media and propaganda. Rather than drone on about her article, please take a few minutes and read it yourself and then start clicking on the links within her article.

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June 7, 2015 · 3:38 pm

Winning my heart and mind

Even though I like to think of myself as not a rush to judgment type of person and a recurring theme in my posts has been, “Get to know people, not about people”, which almost always comes from sources other than the people in question.”, this past week I read General Stanley McChrystal’s new book, “Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World”, beginning with some negative preconceived notions about General McChyrstal. The Rolling Stones article, “The Runaway General” years ago left me with a vastly different impression of him as a leader than I hold now after reading his truly fascinating and brilliant book. He’s well on his way to winning my heart and mind and that’s no exaggeration!

I began reading his new book, expecting the usual, boring leadership prescriptions and a whole lot of detailed daring war stories to stir patriotic fervor, but instead General McChrystal offers some of the most brilliant, innovative, bold, and I might even say, radical, ideas ever put forth by an American general. Every chapter left me rethinking some of my cherished beliefs and considering new ways of approaching old problems. This book puts me in mind of sitting down and pondering Malcolm Gladwell’s books, where even if you don’t accept all of his conclusions, just exploring his fascinating ideas, forcing you to look at things differently, leaves you better off than when you started.

So far on amazon.com the book has a 5 star rating and I’d give it 6 stars if I could. In fact, I liked it so much, that I’m going to order his previous book, “My Share of the Task: A Memoir”, which I skipped over last year, because of opinions I formed from news reporting years ago.

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June 7, 2015 · 2:52 pm

‘Hillary is such a hack’: The Clinton campaign is now the self-proclaimed ‘champion’ of fast food workers

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June 7, 2015 · 1:10 pm

I Still Blame the Communists | The Weekly Standard

I Still Blame the Communists | The Weekly Standard.

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June 6, 2015 · 2:18 pm

A vastly different landscape

Thanks to JK for this link from the In From the Cold blog:

“If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words…”

Of course, another repercussion of the Obama administration’s abdication of a leadership role in the region is that the Saudis and Jordanians have turned to Putin and the Chinese for support.

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June 5, 2015 · 7:12 am

Inside the Ring: Muslim Brotherhood has Obama’s secret support – Washington Times

Inside the Ring: Muslim Brotherhood has Obama’s secret support – Washington Times.

The link above goes to a June 3, 2015 Bill Gertz article in the Washington Times.

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