Not a new topic for Newt Gingrich

Pamela Geller in a posting from her blog, http://t.co/9J4zNA9, stated:

Does it strike anyone else that this next presidential election feels less like an election and more like two opposing countries fighting for victory? Obama's idea of America is positively un-american (collectivist, socialist, transnational). The Republican mavericks (no, not the RINOs) are channeling our founding fathers, fighting for individual rights, less government, and our unalienable rights endowed by our Creator.
The battle is for America, exceptional, sovereign and free, vs. America, unexceptional, transnational, Statist.
This isn't so much an election but a fight for America. The Individual vs the State -- it's a non-violent civil war.


Newt Gingrich explains why:

The Founders of this great nation envisioned an economic system comprising a wide variety of energetic private interests, all pursuing their own enlightened self-interests under a carefully constructed system of federalism. The government they created was charged with creating a legal and policy environment that would allow the American economy and civil society to flourish. That government was not authorized to become the producer and director of the great drama that is America. And yet the Progressive movement, strongly influenced by the purported “efficiency” of nineteenth-century Prussian “planning,” and later of Soviet “planning,” has embraced a top-down director’s role for the government over the lives of the American people.

One of the two great political parties in the United States has essentially abandoned its responsibility to represent the private sector. It is now focused almost entirely on the demands of the public sector—state and federal government employees, their unions, and to the extent the Democrats listen to the private sector at all, the crony capitalists who profit from influencing government.

The political power of this party depends on increasing the percentage of the population that depends on Big Government and that votes to keep it in power. It is now imperative that the American people, who value and honor the legacy of freedom they have received from the Founders, step forward and restore the traditional American commitment to work and independence—or settle for a life of dependency on Hayek’s road to serfdom.

~ excerpts from Newt Gingrich "A Nation like no Other"

Gingrich: I'm not giving up

Gingrich: I'm not giving up: "MARIETTA - In a wide-ranging interview with the Journal's editorial board on Thursday, presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich spoke of why his campaign had trouble launching, how he intends to overcome..."

Pictures of Newt @ Townhall rally yesterday.

Thoughts from my walk

Every day my dog walks me through the neighborhood which gives me time & opportunity to reflect and to think about my writing as well as getting to practice using my stern words- No! Stop! Come back! Don't pee on that!

Today I was thinking of yesterdays segment on Fox about 1994 and how it compares to today.  Great segment, featured Newt Gingrich quite a bit since he was the author of the entire revolution then.  Upon reflection, when those events are remembered or even viewed for the first time, it looks very much like the Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

Hillary and Bill Clinton were the Obama's of their time (all Socialists, just different faces).  If Bill had the blank check that Obama had, then, what is happening today would have happened then.

But Newt Gingrich stopped it in its tracks.  He wrote the bills, he recruited the Congressional candidates, he then passed everything he said he would within the first 100 days.  No one else can claim anything like that, not even close to that.

This time we have not had a Newt Gingrich to stop those who choose to Change us for the worse.  Thankfully something almost as powerful has arisen and that is the modern day Tea Party.  Just think how powerful they would be together though.  The original Revolutionary (1994) with the present day Revolutionaries would do to the Socialists as the Originals did to the British.

History shows, its been done before, it can be done again.

Volunteering for Newt 2012 at the HQ

As many might have noticed, I have been posting quite a few excerpts from Newt's new book "A Nation like no Other". 

What resonates with me in this book, is that this is the type of message that brought us to America and made us want to be Americans.  It is a message that was taught to us in school but haven't heard since leaving childhood, except briefly again with Reagan & then in the Contract with America authored by Newt Gingrich.  It is that America that I want to see again which is why I decided to volunteer for Newt Gingrich.

Yesterday was a kickoff for Newt's campaign to reach out to Iowa voters in order to listen to their thoughts and concerns about the upcoming election.  Not a call for money.  Nor to convince them how to vote.  Just genuine concern for their issues, if they've been spoken about or haven't and what they personally think.

A small group of +35 people consisting of a high school student, some employed & some unemployed, small business owners, moms & wifes, as well as lifelong staffers and family members. 

Some came from across town and some from as far away as North Carolina.  All were volunteers, most all first timers.  Yet when I spoke to each, the common themes I heard were how this guy, Newt, is the smartest man in the room wherever he goes and that is what we need for America today.  That he had done it before and can do it again.

I would add for me personally that his Historical & Philosophical perspectives, which he bases his solutions upon, are unmatched by any of his declared or undeclared rivals.  Especially so versus our Community Event planner who is always on holiday.

The energy in the room was unlike any I've felt before.  Even before Newt arrived.  Similar to a religious meeting,  yet in quite a different way but just as strong.  Almost like being at a championship college basketball or football game.  People were pumped, they were happy to be there, they were ready to work with Newt.

The phone calling was non-stop.  I did not see anyone take a break until Newt arrived.  Everyone was on a phone having a great time speaking with people in Iowa.  Quite a few lively discussions but always positive.  No, not everyone supported Newt but all were impressed that his volunteers were calling to listen to them and their issues.

When Newt did arrive, the room went silent.  Unfortunately I had a lively person on the phone and could not break away but I did see him take calls personally.  I did get to hear his speech to us which further cemented in our minds why we were working with him and not for him.  So unlike the soundbites and popular references that you hear from his rivals.

Afterwards people hit the phones again, inbetween bites of pizza.  The room continued to buzz along with lively conversations all around.  Camera's were walking around as well, interviewing each and every one of us.  And in the end, we all got a one on one with Newt and our pictures taken with him.  Truly, a great day had by all.

More Historical Perspectives from Newt

James Madison argued that “democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”2 According to John Adams, “[D]emocracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide,
~ "A Nation like no Other" by Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich has Historical Perspectives

The Founders recognized that citizens of a free republic would have to accept extraordinary responsibilities. In European monarchies, the people were subjects who owed loyalty and obedience to their superiors, while the Court and the aristocrats were duty bound, at least in theory, to guard the best interests of commoners and of society as a whole. A republic, by contrast, required that each man, serving as his own sovereign, act not only in his own best interest but also in the interest of his fellow countrymen.

~ "A Nation like no Other" by Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich schooling Liberals

Radical secularists often seek to undermine the moral legitimacy of America’s religious heritage by pointing to occasions in our history when we Americans have failed to live up to our own ideals—whether in the case of slavery, the denial of civil rights, or other instances in which our historic commitment to liberty for all was radically compromised by other political agendas and pursuits. But in each of these instances, it was our very commitment to moral and religious principle, to an authority and law higher than our own, that impelled us to self-correct and to use our greatest mistakes as the greatest opportunities to reassert the dignity of every human being and the cause of human freedom ~ "A Nation like no Other" Newt Gingrich

Thought for the Day

A civilization without memory ceases to be civilized. A civilization without history ceases to have identity. Without identity there is no purpose; without purpose civilization will wither ~ Michael Kammen

Founding Fathers thoughts on Democracy

James Madison argued that “democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” According to John Adams, “[D]emocracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
~excerpt from Newt Gingrich's  "A Nation like no other"

More insights from Newt Gingrich

The Declaration of Independence was not radical in thought but in action. It took bold steps to enshrine these sacred principles as the basis of a new country. With the Declaration, America set itself apart, an exception from the ways of the other nations of the world, and embarked on a radically new course in history, in pursuit of neither wealth, nor power, nor racial or ethnic purity, but an idea: God-given liberty for all.
~Newt Gingrich

Good insight by Newt Gingrich

Now consider this: did any of our foes engage in war to secure equality and individual rights? They might declare the superiority of their race or social class, or demand that all must submit to their religion. But never did one of our foes fight for the simple, self-evident truth that all men are created equal.
~ Newt Gingrich

Thoughts on the Oslo Shooter

There is absolutely nothing even remotely resembling Christianity in the acts committed by the Oslo shooter.  To believe otherwise is to believe so out of utterly blind hatred or complete, total ignorance of Christianity.  No American Conservative or Classical Liberal or Christian would act this way.  These belief systems are not in name only, they are a way of Life.

Throughout history, even the most insane murders (Fascists, Marxists, French Revolution) have shown  that they know how to wipe out the ones they hate.  To say that the Oslo shooter was anti-Islam is one thing but to have us believe that he committed those atrocities because of that hatred by murdering children completely unconnected to Islam is absurd.

Another form of absurdity will be that the domesticated people of Norway will accept whatever they're told and move in the wrong direction.  Just as it was predicted they would thus enlisting this dupe to do their dirty work.  Score one for the Facists & Marxists & Jihadists along with their playbook that the West keeps ignoring. 

I grieve for Norway's losses as much as I grieve for Norway's future which will be the way of Europe as well.

More parts of the Radical & Real American Dream

If all men are created equal, then all human beings are equally flawed and equally susceptible to the appeal of power and to the inherent temptation to dictate how others should live their lives. Thus, the best government is a limited one; one that restricts the rule of man by instituting the rule of law, which applies to everyone from presidents to parking lot attendants ~ Newt Gingrich

Part of the Radical & Real American Dream

Instead of looking to entrenched clergy to define religious doctrine, early Americans studied the Bible themselves to learn spiritual truth first-hand. To defend this tradition, they needed a political system that protected the right to discover truth, to openly exchange ideas, and to dissent. This is the foundation of freedom of conscience, which protects believers and non-believers alike ~ Newt Gingrich

Something to Think about

It is hard to fight with one's heart's desire. Whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of soul.' 'It is not good for men to get all that they wish to get.' One may say that Heraclitus values power obtained through self-mastery, and despises the passions that distract men from their central ambitions ~ Bertrand Russell

Politics in Ancient Greece, now those were the days!

In most Greek cities, and especially in those of Sicily, there was a constant conflict between democracy and tyranny; the leaders of whichever party was at the moment defeated were executed or exiled ~ Bertrand Russell


Sometimes the old ways are the best ways!

3 Excerpts on a Struggle unchanged throughout History

Excerpt from Russell's views with my {thoughts} thrown in:

He tells (as Plato also does) how Socrates was continually occupied with the problem of getting competent men into positions of power ~ Russell

{This then led to these accusations which then led to his death sentence}

Socrates is an evil-doer and a curious person, searching into things under the earth and above the heaven; and making the worse appear the better cause, and teaching all this to others ~ The filed complaint

{making the worse appear the better is a specialty of Socialists, yet they get to live, but I digress}

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows ~ Socrates

{and the Rulers were saved - hooray!}



Note: for the simple or weak minded, I am not advocating life or death in any of these writings.

Excerpts of Madness

Modern philosophy, however, has retained, for the most part, an individualistic and subjective tendency. This is very marked in Descartes, who builds up all knowledge from the certainty of his own existence, and accepts clearness and distinctness (both subjective) as criteria of truth.

Rousseau and the romantic movement extended subjectivity from theory of knowledge to ethics and politics, and ended, logically, in complete anarchism such as that of Bakunin. This extreme of subjectivism is a form of madness.

The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skilfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness.  (highlight added by me)

~ Bertrand Russell

Excerpts from the same chapter from the previous posting on the comparison of Science & Religion (old world style).  They are cut/paste, spelling errors are his or his editors.  :-D


Unfortunately, later in his life, he too fell for the madness.

Commentary of the Day

The modern world, at present, seems to be moving towards a solution like that of antiquity: a social order imposed by force, representing the will of the powerful rather than the hopes of common men. The problem of a durable and satisfactory social order can only be solved by combining the solidity of the Roman Empire with the idealism of St Augustine's City of God. To achieve this a new philosophy will be needed ~ Bertrand Russell

This is the conclusion from a chapter dealing with Science (Modern) vs Religion (Medieval) although the Modern is defined not in today's standards but from its beginnings, if I remember correctly, which is 16th or 17th century.

Thought of the Day

"The close connection between virtue and knowledge is characteristic of Socrates and Plato. To some degree, it exists in all Greek thought, as opposed to that of Christianity. In Christian ethics, a pure heart is the essential, and is at least as likely to be found among the ignorant as among the learned. This difference between Greek and Christian ethics has persisted down to the present."  ~ Bertrand Russell