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William J. Dell –
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

Well did Thomas Paine say, “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”

After Alexis de Tocqueville, a French Jurist, visited America in 1831, he wrote, “I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there; in her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there.  Not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.  America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

This great nation was founded by those fleeing religious persecution from the tyrannical governments of Europe. Religious liberty was of so great importance to them and our Founding Fathers that they ensured our right to religious freedom as item one in our Bill of Rights. The First Amendment of our Constitution states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; . . .” [Emphasis added.]

On 29 January, from the pulpits of every Catholic Parish in the United States, a letter was read (more…)

By William J. Dell
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

Article I. Section 8. of our Constitution has a clause which has become known as the “Commerce Clause.” This clause states that the Congress shall have power – “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.” [Emphasis added.] The effect of this clause is a grant of power to the federal government by We the People to regulate inter-state commerce between or “among the several States” but NOT intra-state commerce since intra-state commerce is contained within the boundary of a single State. This coupled with the Tenth Amendment which states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people” has been a powerful check on the federal government’s intrusion into We the People’s private and personal business affairs.

An understanding of the Commerce Clause is very important for We the People. This is particularly true in the case of healthcare. The Affordable Health Care for America Act (ObamaCare) is presently before the Supreme Court. Many believe, including twenty-six States Attorney Generals, that ObamaCare violates the Commerce Clause as it requires individual citizens to purchase health insurance. This writer agrees with the States Attorney Generals’ position as explained in the following.

Regulation of insurance has always been a States Right. Each of the several States have their own (more…)

MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY

Some belated parental advice to protesters.

Marybeth Hicks
Columnist
The Washington Times
Oct 18, 2011

Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, “Who parented these people?”

As a culture columnist, I’ve commented on the social and political ramifications of the “movement” — now known as “OWS” — whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: “Everything for everybody.”

Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it’s clear there are people with serious designs on “transformational” change in America who are using the protesters like bedsprings in a brothel.

Yet it’s not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question, but rather the fact that I’m the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters’ moms clearly have not passed along.

Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters’ mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn’t, so I will: (more…)

A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the night.

As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. (Stay with this…..and pay attention)

The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Co-op.

The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her “services” on credit.

The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel Owner. (Almost done…keep reading)

The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole town now thinks that they are out of debt and there is a false atmosphere of optimism and glee.

And that, my friends, is how a “stimulus package” works!

Barack Obama and the Infantilization of America.

By JAMES TARANTO

Here’s ABC News, reporting on the speech the president gave in Fog City: “At a million-dollar San Francisco fundraiser today, President Obama warned his recession-battered supporters that if he loses the 2012 election it could herald a new, painful era of self-reliance in America.”

Oh no! Horror of horrors! Obama is the only thing standing between us and having to rely on ourselves! And do you know what they call people who rely on themselves?

Adults.

On October 18, 2011 I posted the following article on Military Healthcare entitled Honoring Those Who Served.

http://www.freedom-fightersforum.org/will%e2%80%99s-opines/forum-2011/honoring-those-who-served/

David Alexander of Reuters had this to say:

U.S. military retirees fret about healthcare feesBy David Alexander

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/02/us-usa-defense-healthcare-idUSTRE7A10K120111102?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=76

FORT WORTH, Texas | Wed Nov 2, 2011

FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – When Wayne Johnson flew missions in Vietnam in the 1960s, one of the allures of a military career was the pledge that those who risked their lives for the United States would be repaid with healthcare in old age.

Now, as the 65-year-old retired Air Force major nears an age when he may need to bank on that promise, support is building in Washington for changes that could make it more costly for military retirees and their dependents to receive healthcare. It is a move Johnson finds worrying. (more…)

It’s up to the Supreme Court now…..

This will knock your socks off! Is this what we/you want?

This is 10 and 1/2 minutes long.

PLEASE take the time to watch this eye opening video on the healthcare bill, then contact your representatives!!

Does anyone wonder why the Supreme Court MUST repeal the Obama Healthcare plan? THIS IS SHOCKING!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=HcBaSP31Be8&vg=medium

By William J. Dell
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

Genocide in the 20^th Century was perpetrated by 49 “governmental” leaders in 41 different countries as noted by Piero Scaruffi. Of these, eleven were responsible for more than 1,000,000 deaths and another seventeen for more than 100,000 but less than 1,000,000 deaths. The totals of the deaths of these 28 genocides alone reach nearly 62 million!

In terms of historical eras, in the pre World War II era, we find Leopold II of Belgium responsible for the deaths of eight million Congo citizens, Ismail Enver of Turkey responsible for the deaths of 1.2 million, and Jozef Stalin of Russia responsible for a mind-boggling 23 million deaths. Most of us are familiar with the Holocaust during World War II wherein Adolf Hitler of Germany killed six million Jews but he was also responsible for the deaths of an additional five to seven million depending on the source. During this same period Hideki Tojo of Japan killed five million persons. The post World War II era has been no less bloody. There are the genocides of North Korea with 1.6 million deaths, Biafra with one million deaths, Ethiopia with 1.5 million deaths, and the Cambodian “killing fields” of Pol Pot with 1.7 million deaths.

The following treatise, although long, is written to help the average American to understand the crime of Genocide as it may be applied to our nation and the world.

Judgment at Nuremberg(1961) is an Academy Award winning fictional film account of the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials, written by Abby Mann and directed by Stanley Kramer. Originally written for television, Judgment at Nuremberg centers around a military tribunal in which four judges of the German Ministry of Justice are accused of crimes against humanity (more…)

By William J. Dell
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

Like all other Viet Nam Era and World War II Veterans, I was promised when I signed on the dotted line both what was written into the contract and what was promised in the oft-stated “oral contract” by recruiters and superiors during my service. Foremost in this was the many verbal assurances that we, as Veterans, and our spouses would have free medical for life. A benefit which has already been cut by Medicare B payments and co-pays for services and prescription drugs received when we become 65 and must join TRICARE for Life.

I found in my email inbox today from Military.com (you can sign up at http://feeds.feedburner.com/militaryadvantage for the emails) a very disturbing article that Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has sent a letter to the Budget Super-Committee stating that he is OK with placing “cuts” in our military benefits on the table.

What is he thinking? Has he forgotten the trials and tribulations of those who wore and are wearing the uniform in defense of our Constitutional Republic? Has he forgotten his own service and the years in the Hanoi Hilton? Has he forgotten the promises (more…)

By William J. Dell
Amore Dei, Familiae, Patriae ducit !

It is reported that in 1789 Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” The question then becomes how to make taxes equitable and fair to ALL citizens who are part of any particular government and who consume a variety of government services?

Those of a socialist persuasion have always felt that a progressive tax was the only way to level the playing field between “have” and “have nots.” Those of a “free enterprise” bent have always favored equal tax systems. Today we see these views in force in the “debate” over how to pay down the debt our nation has accumulated. Democrats want to “increase revenues” which really means to raise taxes while Republicans what to slash spending with “no new taxes.”

There is some agreement between these two parties that the current “tax code” needs reforming to (more…)