Bump's Stump

Whoa! I WITHDREW THIS GRAPHIC  because I found it was not even close to being accurate. Sorry if it miss-led you....... The  Obama Administration, specifically Harry Reid, pulled another dirty "behind the back" political deal yesterday. For over a hundred years house votes required 60% approval. Not any more. . . Reid changed the rule. Now majority rules. When Republicans wanted to appoint a new member of the Supreme Court, they also tried to change this rule. The Democrats fought it tooth and nail. They told everyone that if the rule was changed to 51% the entire government would self-distruct.  Interesting. Now that we have Ultra-Liberal Democrats in control - they have changed their mind. Now it's okay?  Yesterday sneaky Harry Reid greased the rule through when no body was looking. It's the only way Mr. Obama's Ultra- Liberal Judge appointments  can pass through the Congress.   The sad problems is that the new rule applies to Supreme Court

In my neighborhood many residents put out a flag today.  They flew on poles, trees, and anywhere else that was suitable. My friends remembered, at least on this day, that soldiers died to protect our way of life. The flag reminds us that wars are terrible, terrible scourge and most people now condemn war. It's no longer thought to be a reasonable way to resolve differences. History has detyermined that war a natural extension of diplomacy, but it's not "natural" at all. It's is the result of failed philosophies and religions. "The American flag does not fly alone in the wind,   I t flies  with the memory of each soldier's last breath." Let's not be so quick to "accept" that warfare is the ONLY way for a government to protect it's citizens and advance it's interests.  Let's find a better way to resolve problems. Memorial day is set aside to remind us of the human cost of war. We should ever remember the allied dead an

Thomas Sowell has written: "The real danger to us all is when government not only exercises the powers that we have voted to give it, but exercises additional powers that we have never voted to give it."  When Obama Administration's Attorney General started to keep track of phone calls going to Fox News Channel  reporter James Rosen (and his  parents), and to other reporters or networks that dared to criticize the Obama Adsministration, it directly opposed the Constitution. It was illegal, and they damn well knew it.   When the Internal Revenue Service started demanding to know specifically who was donating to conservative organizations that had applied for tax exempt status, it clearly expected to intimidate those donors and others who oppose the Obama Administration's political agenda. Someone once said;  "A government that is powerful enough to protect it's citizens against it's enemies is also powerful enough to become an enemy itself"