I have always been registered to vote as an 'independent'. I was slightly right of center (according to both party’s platforms) but not so much that I considered myself a Republican. When deciding who to vote for, I consider not only campaign promises, but past voting record, lifestyle, etc. I am concerned about the environment so some years I voted for more Democrats; I am also pro-life so other years I voted for more Republicans. I have also voted for third-party candidates. For those reasons, I did not need to reveal anything about my own political beliefs on this website.
However, several years ago, things started changing. I don’t think my political beliefs changed so much as there was a shift in the party’s platforms. At first it was good, as the Republican party moved a little to the left there was opportunity to compromise on some issues. But then, around 2005 or so, the Democratic party platform started moving to the left. At first it was just little things but eventually many of their policies were clearly socialist. I have close family members who served in WWI, WWII, and other wars so know how bad communism and socialism are.
Still, I wasn't too alarmed because the Democrats I know didn’t agree with the extreme candidates and policies so I thought things would settle back. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize how much power the extreme left would get – from quietly changing the curriculum in many schools to buying much of the main-stream media and social media networks. That has allowed them give millions of people a totally false view of the past as well as suppress and censor any facts that don't help them get what they want. (I am 74 so I know a lot of the things they say about the past are lies!) So, if you consider yourself a liberal, you will not like this page.

This includes Patriotism, Politics, Voting and Main-Stream Media.
Also see Fourth of July (includes things about the Flag), Military, Guns, Law Enforcement, Peace, Political Humor, Living Through a Pandemic, and 9-11.

Patriotism

Quotes about Patriotism

• All the Constitution guarantees is the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it yourself. (Benjamin Franklin)
• America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense...human rights invented America. (Jimmy Carter)
• America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. (Arnold Joseph Toynbee)
• And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. (John Kennedy)
• And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down as when a lordly cedar, green with boughs, goes down with a great shout upon the hills, and leaves a lonesome place against the sky. (Edward Markham about Abraham Lincoln. The quote was used in a eulogy to John Kennedy)
• Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: "No man should have so much." The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: "All men should have as much." (Phelps Adams)
• Democracy, in one word...is...cooperation. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
• Democracy means not "I am equal to you"...but, "You are equal to me." (James Russell Lowell)
• For the first time in a long while there was a palpable, shared sense that this was indeed our country, and that it was a country worth fighting for. (William John Bennett - reaction to Sept. 11)
• A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. (Adlai Stevenson)
• Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. (Ronald Reagan)
• Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. (Albert Camus)
• The greatness of a country may be measured by the number of people trying to get in versus the number of people trying to get out.
• I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. (Thomas Jefferson)
• I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. (James A.Baldwin)
• If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. (Hamilton Fish)
• If you are to stand up for your government you must be able to stand up to your government. (Harold Caccia)
• If you want to see professional athletes that respect our country and flag . . . watch a rodeo.
• I’m so old I remember when loving your country, respecting the flag, and obeying the law were considered good character traits.
• I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. (Alexander Woollcott)
• Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. (Sinclair Lewis)
• It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. (Thomas Paine)
• Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. (Richard Cardinal Cushing)
• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of Liberty. (President John F. Kennedy)
• A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. (George William Curtis)
• The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30% of the people in the world. (Robert Orben)
• Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. (James Bryce)
• Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right. (Carl Schurz)
• Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. (Adlai Stevenson)
• Patriotism is the veneration of real estate above principles. (George Jean Nathan)
• A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. (James Freeman Clarke)
• Responsibility is the price of freedom. (Elbert Hubbard)
• There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream. (Archibald MacLeish)
• They have a right to censure, that have a heart to help.
• True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
• The ultimate test of leadership is not the polls you take, but the risks you take. (Gerald Ford)
• We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. (Bill Maher)
• We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world--or to make it the last.
• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (The Declaration of Independence)
• What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. (Carlos Fuentes)
• With ever civil liberty there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. (Ed Haines)

Theodore Roosevelt on Patriotism

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country.

Franklin Roosevelt on Patriotism

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Poems

See Independent's Day, Last Call, The Red, (White,) and Blue and other poems by Del 'Abe' Jones.

Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants

In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American . . . There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag . . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language . . . and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people. (1907)

I am an American

(D. Ault)

I owe you no apologies nor will I accept
those apologies made for me by others.

If you dislike me -- you dislike me not for what I
am but for what you are not. By my own sweat,
I have created a lifestyle which I desire for all men.

To the world I have shared my wealth and given my
blood, not because of obligation -- but by my own
free will. I have fed the hungry of the world. Many
bit my hand; I used the other hand.

I defeated my enemies in battle, then pulled them
up from the ashes of defeat. Once strong, they
again attacked; I turned the other cheek. Though
I am strong, I have never used my strength to rule
others. But do not misjudge me, I will not allow the
fear of my own strength to become my weakness.

If you wish to rise, I will give you a helping hand.
But by the grace of God, and I'll first be damned,
If I'll let you drag me down so that we may be equal.

High treason

(José Emilio Pacheco)

I do not love my country. Its abstract splendor
is beyond my grasp.
But (although it sounds bad) I would give my life
for ten places in it, for certain people,
seaports, pinewoods, fortresses,
a run-down city, gray, grotesque,
various figures from its history,
mountains
(and three or four rivers).

A Patriot

How old is a patriot?
Just as old as you.
If in all things you will be
Brave and fair and true.

Who can be a patriot?
Any child can try
For Truth and Strength and Self-control
Make heroes by and by.

Lesson Learned

(Leonard Pitts, Jr., 12 September 2001)

What lesson did you hope to teach us by your coward's attack on our World Trade Center, our Pentagon, us? What was it you hoped we would learn? Whatever it was, please know that you failed. Did you want us to respect your cause? You just damned your cause. Did you want to make us fear? You just steeled our resolve. Did you want to tear us apart? You just brought us together . . . So I ask again: What was it you hoped to teach us? It occurs to me that maybe you just wanted us to know the depths of your hatred. If that's the case, consider the message received. And take this message in exchange: You don't know my people. You don't know what we're capable of. You don't know what you just started. But you're about to learn.

What Does Columbine Say About Us?

Bob Lonsberry wrote a wonderful column shortly after the shooting in Columbine in 1999. He pointed out all the wonderful, heroic things that were done by ordinary people at the time of the tragedy. The point of the column was that if we blame ourselves and society for the shooting we also have to take the credit for the good things that were done.

Thomas Jefferson

(Steven and Rosemary Benet)

Thomas Jefferson
What do you say
Under the gravestone
Hidden away?

"I was a giver,
I was a molder,
I was a builder,
With a strong shoulder."

Six feet and over
Large-boned and ruddy,
The eyes gray-hazel
But bright with study.

The big hands clever
With pen and fiddle
And ready, ever
For any riddle.

From buying empires
To planting 'taters,
From Declarations
To trick dumb-waiters.

"I liked the people,
The sweat and crowd of them,
Trusted them always
And spoke aloud of them.

"I liked all learning
And wished to share it
Abroad like pollen
For all who had merit.

"I liked fine houses
With Greek pilasters
And built them surely
My touch a master's.

"I liked queer gadgets
And secret shelves,
And helping nations
To rule themselves.

"Jealous of others?
Not always candid?
But huge of vision
And open-handed.

"A wild-goose chaser?
Now and again,
Build Monticello,
You little men!

"Design my plow, sirs,
They use it still,
Or found my college
At Charlottesville.

"And still go questing
New things and thinkers,
And keep us busy
As twenty tinkers.

"While always guarding
The people's freedom . . .
You need more hands, sir?
I didn't need 'em.

"They call you rascal?
They called me worse.
You'd do grand things, sir,
But lack the purse?

"I got no riches.
I died a debtor.
I died free-hearted
And that was better.

"For life was freakish
But life was fervent,
And I was always
Life's willing servant.

"Life's too weighty?
Too long a haul, sir?
I lived past eighty.
I liked it all, sir."

ABC's of Patriotism

A - Always Ready, American, America the Beautiful, Army, Air Force, airborne, armistice, admiral, Annapolis, artillery, at ease, attention, armor, allegiance, amber waves of grain, apple pie, Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas
B - brave, best, beret, barracks, brigade, battle, bars, braid, bold, beautiful, bill of rights, baseball, Brooklyn Bridge, brotherhood, Boy Scouts
C - Coast Guard, courage, carrier, constitution, captain, corporal, colonel, cavalry, carrier, camouflage, commander, corps, can do, Congress, Columbus, California, Colorado, Connecticut
D - dawn's early light, destroyer, duty, destroyer, defend, democracy, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dixie, due process
E - eagle, enlist, equality, ensign, enduring, ethical, elections, economy, enforce
F - freedom, Fourth of July, fireworks, flag, fighter, Fort Benning, free speech, Florida
G - ground zero, glory, grateful, guard, gallantly gleaming, general, gunnery, grand old flag, God Bless America, Green Berets, Georgia, Grand Canyon, government, Gettysburg, Girl Scouts, governor
H - helicopter, home, hero, helmet, honors, hum-v, happiness, homeland security, human rights, house of representatives
I - independence, infantry, indivisible, insignia, integrity, inspection, inauguration, inventive, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, inspirational
J - jet, justice, JAG, judicial system, jury
K - kit, Kilroy, khaki, k-rations, kindness, kinship, keeper of peace, Kansas, Kentucky
L - land of the free, let freedom ring, liberty, loyal, loyalty, lieutenant, laws, Louisiana
M - military, marines, Memorial Day, major, midshipman, march, MRE, mountains majesty, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Mount Rushmore, medal of honor
N - Navy, NCO, nautical, National Guard, Normandy, nations, noble, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota
O - operations, One Nation, Old Glory, orders, office, Olympics, opportunity, Ohio, Oklahoma
P - paratrooper, parachute, patriot, president, pentagon, private, protect, pride, Pledge of Allegiance, platoon, patrol, parade, Pearl Harbor, proud, prosperity, peace, Philadelphia, Picturesque, Politics, Pennsylvania, Pilgrims, Purple Heart
Q - Quantico, quality of life, quiet dignity
R - rebel, ranger, rank, reveille, rifle, reserves, rations, rights, republic, red, white & blue, respect, representation, Rhode Island
S - soldier, seals, sailor, ship, stars & stripes, sergeant, salute, SAC, squad, submarine, stripes, stars, salute, September 11, security, Seabees, special forces, Star Spangled Banner, sea to shining sea, spacious skies, supreme court, Senate, South Carolina, South Dakota, statue of Liberty
T - troops, terrorism, territory, tour, tradition, taps, tank, tranquility, Thanksgiving, thankful, Tennessee, Texas
U - uniform, United States, unity, Utah, union, U.S.A., united, under God, Uncle Sam
V - victory, veteran, valor, victorious, vigilant, Vermont, volunteers, voting
W - weapons, West Point, WAC, We the People, world leaders, White House, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Wyoming, Wisconsin, wild west, World Trade Center
X - x-cellence, x-ceptional, eXtraordinary, X-pansive (characterized by richness, abundance, or magnificence)
Y - Yankee, Yankee Doodle
Z - zealous, zero tolerance, amaZing

Also use state names, presidents names, etc.

Politics

Quotes about Politics

• According to the left: Disney children’s movies are racist; math is racist; immigration enforcement is racist; statues of Abraham Lincoln are racist; meritocracy is racist. But, believing that white people need to be taught to be less white is fine. If only this were a parody! (The Conservative Read)
• The American Republic will endure until the day congress discovers that it can bride the public with the public’s money. (Alexis de Tocoueville)
• Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire)
• All the Constitution guarantees is the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it yourself. (Benjamin Franklin)
• America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. (Arnold Joseph Toynbee)
• Apparently you don’t have to practice tolerance, if you preach it! (This is referring to the hypocrisy of liberal politicians and the liberal media in 2020 who talk endlessly about acceptance but won’t accept anyone who doesn’t agree with them.)
• Apathy is the first step to anarchy.
• Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry. (Charles Osgood)
• The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. (Sir Winston Churchill)
• Black Privilege is when you fake a hate crime, file a false police report, blame white Trump supporters and walk away free. (about Jussie Smollett)
• Break the laws to enter college, you’re expelled and your parents go to jail. Break the law to enter the country and you get free college.
• Democrats are saying no one, even the president, is above the law. So how come they think illegal aliens are?
• Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. (Werner Finck)
• Education is not just memorizing that Hitler killed six million Jews. Nor is it just understanding how millions of ordinary Germans were convinced it was required. Education is learning how to spot the signs of history repeating itself.
• Father: What’s the magic word to get what you want?
  Child: I’m offended.
• Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. (Benjamin Franklin)
• The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. (Ayn Rand)
• Has anyone else noticed that Trump supporters have huge patriotic motorcycle and boat rallies while Biden supporters are rioting and burning down cities.
• Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity when some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today? (Thomas Sowell)
• Having a wall doesn't mean "keep out", it means "use the door and come in legally".
• Here is an idea . . . a reality show where socialist college students are sent to a country that closely resembles their desired political system and left to survive for a few months. (Jim Scoutten)
• History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, then even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It is not yours to erase. It belongs to all of us.
• How much should the descendants of the 360,000 Union soldiers, who lost their lives fighting to free the slaves, pay to the descendants of the slaves they freed?
• I expect to see a game show in the futures where the host will say something like "Sorry Carl, your answer was actually correct, but Dale shouted his answer louder so he gets the point. And a bonus point goes to Sara because she was offended by your answer."
• I refuse to believe that a people who were strong enough to survive and overcome the horrors of slavery and the violent bigotry of Jim Crow are not too weak to obtain a free ID to protect the integrity of their vote. (Mark Keith Robinson)
• I wish offended people would react like fainting goats and quietly tip over. (Krystal Waters)
• I’ve seen the Wizard of Oz and I think someone needs to throw water on Nancy Pelosi.
• If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
• If you are to stand up for your government you must be able to stand up to your government. (Harold Caccia)
• If the government has enough money to send to foreign countries, then the government is taking too much money from taxpayers.
• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. (Bishop Desmond Tutu)
• If you have 17 FBI 'mistakes' and every one of those mistakes favor the party in power against the candidate (Donald Trump), those weren’t mistakes.
• If your employer has given you President’s Day off and Trump is not your president, you much report to work on Monday.
• If your students know your political affiliation you have failed as a teacher. Teachers are there to help students think for themselves not think like you.
• Imagine breaking into another country and being angry that their detention centers weren’t up to your standards.
• In 1944, 18-year-olds stormed the beach of Normandy into almost certain death. In 2020, 18-year-olds need a safe place because words hurt their feelings.
• It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. (Voltaire)
• It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. (Thomas Paine)
• Just because you are offended doesn’t mean you are right.
• Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. (Richard Cardinal Cushing)
• A liberal’s paradise would be a place where everybody had guaranteed employment, free healthcare, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only law enforcement has guns. And believe it or not, such a place already exists. It’s called prison. (Sheriff Joe Arpaio, AZ)
• A "Make America Great Again" hat doesn’t stand for racism or hatred but it seems to bring it out in liberals.
• Making good people helpless does not make bad people harmless.
• Many a person seems to think it isn't enough for the government to guarantee him the pursuit of happiness. He insists it also run interference for him.
• The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars;
  the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. (H. L. Mencken)
• Michael Bloomberg owns two helicopters, three planes, six boats, eleven houses, forty-two cars and says YOU should take the bus to help fight climate change.
• Mother to child: If you don’t stop lying you could grow up to be a fact-checker for Facebook.
• A nationwide manhunt for those who stormed the US Capitol is a good thing. But why no nationwide manhunt for the people who burned and looted Seattle and Portland for over 150 days? Why no manhunt for the people who burn down federal buildings? Why no manhunt for people who threw Molotov cocktails and chemical irritants at police officers? Why no manhunt for people who looted and burned private businesses? Why no manhunt for people who brutally attacked elderly people merely for trying to defend their livelihood? (Elizabeth L. Connor)
• No matter how bad your life is, it's still not as bad as a person who sits around worrying about the gender of a plastic potato. (Wayne Taylor) Note: This was written after the makers of Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head decided it was sexist so in the future, they would make a potato head with no gender. They were ridiculed for their decision and reversed it a short time later.
• October 2020: Dear Facebook spy agency, you literally track everything I buy or search online . . . please stop pretending you don’t know if I am registered to vote. (This was posted because for months Facbook posted a reminder about registering to vote every time you logged in.)
• Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. (Harry S. Truman)
• One of the reasons we play the national anthem before the game is to remind us that even though we're rooting for different sports teams, we are united as a country. That is a wonderful message that we should not allow to be distorted by anyone. (Dr. Ben Carson)
• Only in America can you find a kid wearing $150 tennis shoes, drinking a $5 cup of coffee, typing on his $1000 cell phone complaining on social media that he is oppressed and that capitalism has failed him. (George Dorunda)
• Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right. (Carl Schurz)
• Our government...teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. (Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis)
• Patriotism is the veneration of real estate above principles. (George Jean Nathan)
• A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
• A person who is not a liberal at sixteen has no heart,
  A person who is not a conservative at sixty has no head.
• The politically correct New York Times couldn’t bring themselves to use the words 'Islamic terrorists’ or even just 'terrorists’ so this is what they tweeted in 2020 on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks "18 years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center." I guess they thought no one would notice, but many did and they quickly removed the tweet.
• President Trump called for protests that would be peaceful and patriotic . . . and got labeled a national security threat. While Democrats raised funds for groups attacking our police, burned our cities, and destroying our businesses . . . and they were celebrated as 'justice warriors’. (Representative Matt Gaetz)
• Punishment is now unfashionable...because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. (Thomas Szasz)
• Racism is not dead, but it is on life support – kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists’. (Thomas Sowell)
• The real conspiracy theorists believe the government cares about the, the media would never mislead or lie to them and the pharmaceutical industry that makes billions off sickness wants to cure them.
• The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. (Hubert H. Humphrey)
• So the 'intelligent’ college graduate that couldn’t afford his degree, want the guy that couldn’t afford college to pay for his college debt.
• Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage. (Winston Churchill)
• Someone asked me the other day "How do you know which side are the good guys?" I told her it’s usually the side that doesn’t support burning buildings, erasing history, attacking the police, race baiting, taking away your rights and silencing free speech.
• Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights. (Kahlil Gibran)
• They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. (John F. Kennedy)
• To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. (Voltaire)
• Trump did not bring division. Division brought Trump. If you don’t see that, you are part of the problem.
• Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.
• The ultimate test of leadership is not the polls you take, but the risks you take. (Gerald Ford)
• Undocumented isn’t a race, it’s a criminal. So don’t call me a racist because I have a problem with twenty-million criminals at large in America.
• The USA ended slavery, ended race-based civil rights violations, elected a black president twice, and made our highest paid athletes, musicians, celebrities and cultural ambassadors black Americans. If we’re a 'racist’ nation we suck at it. (Steven Crowder)
• We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm. Some have yachts, some canoes, and some are drowning. Just be kind and help whoever you can.
• We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. (Bill Maher)
• What the Left fears more than anything are white people and black people coming together and loving their country. This is why they are doing absolutely everything in their power to inspire a race war. Class and racial warfare are essential to their party platform. (Candace Owens)
• When you say "cancel student debt", you’re saying a minority of people who had the advantage of obtaining a degree should have their debt paid off by hardworking taxpayers, two-thirds of whom don’t have a degree themselves, or already paid off their own student debt. This is immoral. (Dan Crenshaw)
• White privilege: The ability to suffer life’s universal indignities without blaming another ethnic group.
• Why are armed citizens standing guard over their property called 'vigilantes’ but rioting anarchists called 'peaceful protestors’?
• Wouldn’t it be great if all the socialists in America went to live in socialist countries?
• What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. (Carlos Fuentes)
• You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. (Abraham Lincoln)
• You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. (Lyndon B. Johnson)
• You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power--he's free again. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

If you have ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on . . .

If a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a Democrat doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a Republican is a vegetarian, she doesn't eat meat.
If a Democrat is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned or regulated for everyone.

If a Republican is homosexual, he leads his life.
If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
If a Democrat is down and out, she wonders who is going to take care of her.

If a Republican doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
if a Democrat doesn't like a talk show host, he demands that he/she be taken off the air.

If a Republican has no religious belief, he doesn't go to church.
If a Democrat has no religious belief, he wants any mention of God and religion silenced.

If a Republican needs health care, he shops for it, or finds a job that provides it.
If a Democrat needs health care, she demands that the rest of us provide it.

Common Sense Vs Cancellation

If you don’t like a book, don’t read it;
If you don’t like a song, change the station;
if you don’t like a show, don’t watch it;
if you don’t like a sport, don’t go to the game;
if you don’t like a toy, don’t buy it;
if you don’t like a restaurant, don’t eat there;
if you don’t like a store, don’t shop there;
if you don’t like a speaker, don’t listen to them.
Make the choice that suits you and let everyone else do the same.

People need to consider the absurdity of what they say:

"America hates immigrants!" said Ilhan Omar, a Somalian refugee elected to the US Congress.
"America is systemically racist against black people!" said Barack Obama, a black man elected president of the US, twice.
"There’s no opportunity for minorities in America!" said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Hispanic bartender elected to the US Congress.

The Two Faces of Nancy Pelosi

Jeff Sessions lied under oath. Anything less than resignation or removal from office is unacceptable. (Nancy Pelosi 3-2-17)
It is impossible to read Attorney General Sessions’ firing as anything other than another blatant attempt by Donald Trump to undermine and end Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation. (11-7-18)

No Choice

Liberal: I am pro-choice.
Me: Can I choose my own health care?
Liberal: No.
Me: Can I choose how I defend my family and possessions?
Liberal: No.
Me: What can I choose?
Liberal: An abortion and a same-sex marriage.
Me: What if I don’t agree with your opinions?
Liberal: Stop oppressing me, you racist, sexist bigot!

To all the liberals who called Trump Hitler:

Trump never censored free speech. You did.
Trump never used the media to silence political opposition. You did.
Trump never threatened to take the people’s guns. You did.
Trump never threatened to put people who disagreed with him politically into "reeducation camps". You did.
You might want to take a good long look in the mirror.

Tolerance and Non-violence?

Madonna (Democrat): "Let's blow up the white house!"
Peter Fonda (Democrat): "Lock 10-year-old Barren Trump in a cage with child molesters."
Johnny Depp (Democrat): "We need another John Wilks Booth!"
Tom Arnold (Democrat): "I fantasize about standing over Donald Trump Jr.'s dead body!"
Kathy Griffith (Democrat): *Holds up a bloody, decapitated head that looks like Donald Trump*
Snoop Dog: (Democrat): *Shoots a likeness of Trump in a music video, has Donald Trump in a body bag on his album cover*
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential hopeful): "I'd like to take Trump behind a barn to beat him."
Corey Booker (Democratic presidential hopeful): "I dream of punching Trump in the face."
Maxine Waters (Sitting Democratic congresswoman) "Harass Trump's staff and supporters in public and refuse to serve them."
But according to the left-wing media/DNC talking points, it's Trump with the hateful rhetoric... all in the name of tolerance . . . but they’re all about peace and coming together, right?

Who’s Racist

"I’m proud to be black." said a black man.
"I’m proud to be Asian." said an Asian man.
"I’m proud to be white." said a racist.
This is how the media and the Democratic party have twisted the thinking in American for political advantage. Being proud of being white is no more racist than being proud to be black, Asian, etc. The Democratic party is just trying to own you through a guilt trip. Remain free. Reject this insanity.

The NFL's Free Expression History

The NFL says that the reason players get to take a knee during the National Anthem and openly support BLM is that they have always supported free speech and expression for their players; but here are some fun facts about the hypocrites over at the NFL.

In 2012 the NFL had an issue with Tim Tebow kneeling for each game to pray, they also had an issue with Tebow wearing John 3:16 as part of his blackout to avoid glare and made him take it off.

In 2013 the NFL fined Brandon Marshall for wearing green cleats to raise awareness for people with mental health disorders.

In 2014 Robert Griffin III (RG3) entered a post-game press conference wearing a shirt that said: "Know Jesus Know Peace" but was forced to turn it inside out by an NFL uniform inspector before speaking at the podium.

In 2015 DeAngelo Williams was fined for wearing "Find the Cure" eye black for breast cancer awareness.

In 2015 William Gay was fined for wearing purple cleats to raise awareness for domestic violence. (not that the NFL has a domestic violence problem . . .)

In 2016 the NFL prevented the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a decal on their helmet in honor of 5 Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty.

In 2016 the NFL threatened to fine players who wanted to wear cleats to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11.

So tell me again how the NFL supports free speech and expression?

Voting

Quotes about Voting

• A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. (Bill Vaughan)
• Anybody not willing to accept the results of an election is a danger to democracy. (said by Hillary Clinton before the 2016 election when all the main-stream media polls said she would win.)
• Don't vote, it only encourages them.
• Don’t you just love people who tell you to accept the results, when they just spent four years refusing to accept the results? (about the many Democrats who spent four years saying "not my president" about Trump and then expecting people to accept Biden without question).
• A few weeks before the 2020 presidential election, over 300 million lottery tickets were sold in four days. Within hours of the drawing, lottery officials knew how many winning tickets were sold and where the winning tickets were sold, down to the specific store locations. Four days after voting was closed in the election, some voting officials didn't know who many people voted, who they voted for or what the accurate results were. The US election system is obviously broken on purpose.
• The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. (Art Spander)
• If we quit voting, will they all go away?
• If you are okay with Facebook and Twitter fact checking posts, then you should have no problem with the United States of America fact checking votes.
• The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. (John F. Kennedy)
• Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• One anonymous whistle-blower was OK to impeach the president but hundreds of sworn affidavits on election fraud not worth investigating?
• Only in America will we stop a football game, drag out measuring chains and look at a play 15 times from 6 different angles to make sure we make the right call, but won't verify the integrity of an election of the highest office in our nation! (Allen Poindexter)
• To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. (Louis L'Amour)
• Republicans don’t want to make it hard to vote. We want to make it hard to cheat. (The Silent Majority)
• The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. (Lyndon B. Johnson)
• Voter ID laws are not racist. The racists are liberals who think only white people are capable of getting a voter ID.

Vote ID

Activities where requiring a photo ID is apparently not racist: buying alcohol and cigarettes, opening a bank account, applying for food stamps, applying for welfare, applying for medicaid/social security, applying for unemployment or a job, renting or buying a house, applying for a mortgage, driving/buying/renting a car, getting on an airplane, getting married, purchasing a gun, adopting a pet, renting a hotel room, applying for a hunting or fishing license, buying a cell phone, gambling at a casino, picking up a prescription, donating blood, getting a credit card, purchasing certain cold medicines, and many others
Activities where liberals think requiring a photo ID is racist: voting

Politics and People

(Warren Thrasher)

Some of the most incredible people I know voted for Donald Trump, and some of the most incredible people I know voted for Hillary Clinton. The people that I know that voted for Trump are not racist, misogynistic, or hateful, and the people that voted for Hillary Clinton are not hateful and intolerable. If you are someone who woke up this morning and is going to start seeing people as who they voted for, and not as the person you have always known them to be, then you are what is wrong with America. I will never think any less of any person who has different views than me, because some of the most beautiful, inspirational people I know will disagree with what I believe all day long, but at the end of the day they are still that beautiful inspirational person I have always known them as. Don't think less of people because some of their beliefs don't align with yours, and don't lose quality people in your life because you choose hate over love.

The Power of One Vote

• In 1645, one vote gave Oliver Cromwell control of England.
• In 1649, one vote caused King Charles I of England to be executed. The vote was 67 against and 68 for his execution.
• In 1714, one vote placed King George I on the throne of England and restored the monarchy.
• In 1800, Thomas Jefferson was elected our third president by a one vote margin in the house of Representatives after a tie in the electoral college.
• In 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected our sixth president by a one vote margin in the house of Representatives after none of the four Presidential candidates received an electoral majority.
• In 1845, Texas was admitted to the union as a state by one vote -- that of Edward A. Hannigan from Indiana.
• In 1846, a one vote margin in the U.S. Senate approved President Polk's request for a Declaration of War against Mexico.
• In 1850, California was admitted to the union by a margin of one vote.
• In 1859, Oregon was admitted to the union by a margin of one vote.
• In 1867, The Alaska Purchase was ratified by just one vote.
• In 1868, one vote in the U.S. Senate saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment.
• In 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes was elected president by a one vote margin in the house of Representatives after none of the four Presidential candidates received an electoral majority.
• In 1889, by a one vote margin, Washington was admitted to statehood with the union.
• In 1890, by a one vote margin, Idaho became a state.
• In 1923, one vote gave Adolph Hitler leadership of the Nazi Party.
• In 1941, the Selective Service Act (the draft) was saved by a one vote margin -- just weeks before Pearl Harbor was attacked.
• In 1948, Lyndon Johnson became a U.S. Senator by a one vote margin.
• In 1962, the governors of Maine, Rhode Island, and North Dakota were all elected by a margin of one vote per precinct.

Times Change!

2017 - Hillary Clinton: Russian election meddling!
2018 – Nancy Pelosi: Russian election meddling!
2019 – Adam Schiff: Russian election meddling!
2020 – Joe Biden: Our elections are safe and secure!

Democrats in 2015: Everyone must accept the results of the election.
Democrats the day after the 2016 elections: We do not accept the results of the election.
Democrats in 2017: Everyone must accept the findings of the Mueller report.
Democrats in 2019: We do not accept the findings of the Mueller report.

Songs about Elections

• Campaigner - Neil Young (1977)
• Day for Decision - Johnny Sea (1966)
• Election Day - Arcadia (1985)
• If Voting Changed Anything (They'd Make it Illegal) - Jello Biafra (1994)
• Please, Mr. President - Paula Webb (1975)
• To Washington - John Mellencamp (2003)

Main-Stream Media

Quotes about the Main-Stream Media

• Husband: This darn newspaper is half the size it used to be!
  Wife: Of course, it is, they used to print both sides of a story.
• I would trust a sibling telling me the electric fence is turned off before I trust anything in the news today. (Seanne House)
• If liars’ pants really did catch on fire, watching the news would be a lot more fun.
• In 2018, during the first congressional election after Trump became president, Republicans gained 3 seats in the senate but lost 27 seats in the house. The main-stream media said several times that the loss was due to Trump being a bad president. They never mentioned that in 1994 Clinton lost 53 house seats and 9 in the senate, and that in 2010 Obama lost 63 house seats and 6 in the senate.
• It's not that the majority are silent. It’s that the media are silent about the majority.
• Let me get this straight, we have legit Fact Checkers that know all the facts? Why not set up a channel on TV and report just the facts? We could call it the News.
• The media rushed to judgment to vilify Nick Sandmann (who was later found to have done nothing wrong). The media rushed to judgment to defend Jussie Smollett (who did something very wrong). So tell me again about white privilege.
• The news used to tell us what happened and we had to decide how we felt about it. Now the news tells us how to feel about something and we have to decide it if really happened.
• Newscaster: We’ll be back with more news as soon as we make up some.
• Young Americans will have trouble believing this but there was a man named Walter Cronkite who would read the news on television every weeknight. He didn’t seem to have an agenda, or try to make anybody look bad or good. He would just read the news, and the, get this . . . we would all just make up our own minds about what we thought. He didn’t interview smarmy opinionated talking heads, he just read the news, matter-of-factly, and then he would sign off and shut up. I’m not making this up!

Word Choice Matters

When the media writes about crimes against girls and women, they need to eliminate these words so they don’t demean the victims even further:
Underage woman – There is no such thing. An underage woman is a child.
Child prostitute – Children cannot consent. They are rape victims, sexual assault victims, or survivors.
Sex with minors, underage women, etc. – It’s rape so call it that.
Non-consensual sex – This is a polite word for rape and rapists don’t deserve politeness.