Why Mark Levin Hates Glenn Beck

This second video from the Southern Avenger screams at the neo-cons fools…especially to all the knuckleheads in Ohio jumping on the Kasich bandwagon.

Edmund Burke

“Those who have been intoxicated with power… can
never willingly abandon it.”

Edmund Burke

The Cult of President

I came across this cartoon from fellow Ohio Freedom Alliance member PeaceChicken.  Certainly the same could be said for those that blindly followed Bush down this road of imperialism, and those that looked the other way when Clinton lied under oath.

If this country spent more time focusing our efforts on our own communities and electing men and women to local and state positions our communities would be much richer in vitality, freedom and liberty; rather than putting all of our hopes and dreams into men, and maybe one day a woman, who by the power originally dispensed in the Constitution, would have so little influence in our lives. But over time we have given our power to a few, and we keep looking for the select “elite” Washingtonians to run our lives, while in reality they are ruining this country along with our lives.

Forget Obama, forget Bush, and I dear say forget the silly parties, start focusing on our families and communities because that is where the real spirit of these United States lies.

College Hides Child Porn Sculpture

This very vile piece of news was reported today on the weblog Interested-Participant:

(Huron, Ohio) The National Coalition Against Censorship has condemned the removal of a sculpture from a college’s art gallery based on free speech concerns. College administrators called the sculpture “inappropriate.”

Nevertheless, one group thinks that an image of a child performing a sex act is protected speech. I suggest that the Supreme Court would rule against them in this case.

The sculpture by Edinboro, Pa., artist James Parlin was taken last week from an exhibit at Bowling Green State University’s Firelands campus.

It was placed in a closet at the school in Huron in northern Ohio because officials said it showed a female middle school student on her knees performing oral sex on a male teacher. [my bold]

Okay, readers, this is an example of the moral and cultural degradation of society. The best that the BGSU administration could say is that a sculpture of a girl giving a male teacher a knobber is that it’s “inappropriate.”

Contrary to the BGSU assertion, I’ll contend that the sculpture is pornographic. Not only that but it pornographically displays the image of a child which, it could be argued, is criminal. Calling it inappropriate is wrong. It’s much more than inappropriate.

Sadly our colleges and universities do not reflect our societal norms any longer (as a Catholic, we are witnessing the same with Notre Dame’s invitation of the abortion President). There is no doubt in any civil libertarian understanding that once children become part of any equation all constitutional protections are off. Bowling Green should be shamed; and I hope the alumni will step up to the plate and take appropriate actions because we know the administration won’t.

How Big-conservatism Fails

There is an article that appeared in the 14 December 2008 edition of the Washington Times titled “How big-conservatism fails” got my attention today. The basis of the article is the ever re-occurring theme of late that so-called conservatives like George Bush and Bill Kristol erred by adopting the ideal of big centralized government.

Through the mist of utter BS we need to realize a fact straight away; you are not a “Conservative,” a big “C” Conservative if you support the ideal of big government.

One of the enduring tenets that Conservatives sustain is the belief in the principle of subsidiarity. The principle holds that nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization that can be done as a well by a smaller and simpler organization. These smaller groups include local communities, private organizations, labor unions, churches, and the family.

While the principle was first articulated through the Catholic Church by Pope Leo XIII in the encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891) and re-applied in modern terms by Pope John Paul II in Centesimus Annus (1991), it was however realized and practiced first in the United States. Subsidiarity is the fundamental concept of the founding of American political thought.(1)

Russell Kirk advocated the principle of subsidiarity through much of his writing. We can see this clearly in two of his principles of conservatism, “to uphold voluntary community, quite as they oppose involuntary collectivism,” and “the conservative perceives the need for prudent restraints upon power and upon human passions.”

Alexis de Tocqueville also warned against the all-powerful state , opposed to what Bush and Kristol now trumphant:

“For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?”

No, I adamantly disagree with anyone that advocates that a one can be both a Conservative and an advocate of big centralized government. Can one be a socialist and advocate freedom of choice and small government?

There in lies the truth about those in the Republican Party and news media that have embraced, sponsored and advanced big government, they are not Conservative. They may seek to “conserve” big government intrusion in our lives, in that they are small “c” conservative, but they are not of the tradition of Conservativism. They are charlatans, liars, but not Conservative.
1. Lawrence P. Grayson, Subsidiarity and American Democracy.