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

There thunders from Mount Sinai God’s injunction, “Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” To this Paul, the Apostle, added: “Which is the first commandment with promise.” Are We the People, as individuals and as a nation, still seeking the “promise?” Or does it no longer matter? Do we, as Americans, even care that our Constitutional Republic survives so that we might “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity?”

During the Seventeenth Century, many of our ancestors fled the oppression of Europe to come to the New World in search of religious freedom. In 1776 our forefathers were highly resolved to establish a land of Liberty and did so by pledging their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. During our Civil War, many of our ancestors gave the “last full measure of devotion” so that our nation might have “a new birth of freedom.” Always there have been patriots among our ancestors willing to lay down their lives that others, here and abroad, might continue to live with freedom and liberty.

IN FLANDERS FIELDS
John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe!
To you from failing hands, we throw
The torch – be yours to hold it high!
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.

In just over a month our nation will celebrate its 235^th birthday. Through the many decades since Lexington and Concord, (more…)

By Ed Schriber
Col. USMC (Ret.)

Let’s be clear “Let’s be clear on this: OBAMA did NOT kill Bin Laden. An American sailor, who Obama just a few weeks ago was debating on whether or not to PAY, did. In fact, if you remember a little less than two years ago, his administration actually charged and attempted to court marshall 3 Navy Seals from Seal Team Six, when a terrorist suspect they captured, complained they had punched him during the take down and bloodied his nose. His administration further commented how brutal they were. The left were calling them Nazi’s and Baby Killers.. Now all of a sudden the very brave men they vilified, are now heros when they make his administration look good in the eyes of the public. Obama just happened to be the one in office when the CIA finally found the b…… and our sailors took him out. Essentially, Obama only gave an answer. Yes or No, to him being taken out. This is NOT an Obama victory, but an AMERICAN victory!! Forward on IF YOU AGREE!!”

“Semper Fi”

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

Throughout history there have been, from time to time, a series of laws known as sumptuary laws. These laws were enacted usually by nations with a dominant religious group to identify minority religious groups. These laws generally required, or compelled, the wearing of badges, hats, bells, belts, etc. as a means of identification on the outer garments of those in the minority. Sumptuary laws were intended to shame the wearer and were often associated with antisemitism.

The yellow badge, a Star of David with Jude emblazoned upon it, was revived by the German Nazis during Hitler’s reign of terror and effort at world domination to identify the Jews. From the invasion of Poland in September 1939 through the domination of Bohemia and Moravia in September 1941, different methods of identification were in use but after September 1941, the yellow badge became universal throughout the Third Reich for all Jews over the age of six.

There is a popular legend that states that king Christian X of Denmark when faced with Danish Jews being ordered to wear the yellow badge that he appeared wearing the badge himself on his morning ride. In the book titled Queen in Denmark the Danish Queen Margarete II says about the legend: “It is a beautiful and symbolic story, but it is not true. The myth about the King wearing the star of David I can imagine that this could have originated from a typical remark by a Copenhagen errand boy on his bicycle: ‘If they try to enforce the yellow star here, the King will be the first to wear it!’ To me, the truth is an even greater honor for our country than the myth.”

During the past two years, the Obama administration has, through very public acts, alienated our only true ally in the middle east, Israel. Just this past week our President once again kicked Israel (more…)

By John Bernard
www.letthemfight/blogspot.com

It is a universal truth that some are won over by love and others through fear. Those without a natural malice toward others are naturally drawn by acts of love and charity. Those who harbor ill-will and whose natural tendency it is to harm others, typically require a solid dose of fear to encourage change in their inclinations toward others.

It is wise to keep this in mind as we peruse the deluge of reporting and Monday morning quarterbacking of the unfolding events following the demise of Osama Bin Laden. The only truly wise thing I have heard from the typical news agencies and prognosticators in the past two weeks has come from an unlikely source. During Mike Huckabee’s show Sunday night, Ted Nugent was asked if he thought the removal of Osama Bin Laden from the roles of the living would have a significant affect on the war/unwar. His answer was definitive and without hesitation; No. Score one for common sense and understanding!

It’s too bad our illustrious leadership in the alabaster halls (more…)

by Rich Carroll

Conspiracy theories make for interesting novels when the storyline is not so absurd that it can grasp our attention. ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ and ‘Seven Days in May’ are examples of plausible chains of events that captures the reader’s imagination at best-seller level. ‘What if’ has always been the solid grist of fiction. Get yourself something cool to drink, find a relaxing position, but before you continue, visualize the television photos of two jet airliners smashing into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and remind yourself this cowardly act of Muslim terror was planned for eight years.

How long did it take Islam and their oil money to find a candidate for President of the United States ? As long as it took them to place a Senator from Illinois and Minnesota ? The same amount of time to create a large Muslim enclave in Detroit ? The time it took them to build over 2,000 mosques in America ? The same amount of time required to place radical wahabbist clerics in our military and prisons as ‘chaplains’?

Find a candidate who can get away with lying (more…)

By John Bernard

Today, Matt Lauer did us proud. He asked the question that the Media has thus far not dared to ask; is there anything to these incidences involving Afghan National Soldiers and Police turning their weapons on their American and ISAF Trainer/Handlers? Until today, the standard answer has been that these were individual acts of murder perpetrated by deranged, angry men, acting, if you will out of personal discontent. Any suggestion that these were connected in any way was not only regarded as incorrect, but bordering on racial slur.

Baseless denunciation aside, characterizing the 21 plus similar acts that have occurred over the past 1.5 years which has yielded 42 American deaths, as individual is a sign of stupidity. The running total since December of this past year alone stands at 25. When you add to this the most recent ‘jailbreak’ in Khandahar by 500 Taliban fighters - and supporters, the real question should be how is it that General Petraeus and his fellow supporters of the current strategy can continue to support what is clearly a failed strategy?

The prevailing wisdom that produced the strategy is that (more…)

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

Cassius Dio was a Roman Consul and historian. He reportedly said that Nero, the Roman Emperor, played the lyre and sang as the city of Rome burned. Although this cannot be empirically established the sentiment is clear, Nero had contempt for the citizens of Rome not unlike the contempt of Barak Obama for the citizens of the United States.

It should be noted however that the Oval Office has not been alone in its contempt for We the People. In large measure the Congress has also been duplicitous in their responsibility of providing a “Check and Balance” upon the Executive Branch and providing constitutional protections for We the People. Additionally, the Supreme Court has entered upon the fray through Judicial activism by ignoring the spirit and intent placed within our founding documents by our founding fathers. Truly our federal government is broken! We the People must united if we are to preserve our Constitutional Republic “and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

The history of the present President of the United States, Barak H. Obama, (more…)

By John Bernard

Circumstances in the Middle East, North Africa and general Mediterranean Region are heating up as we are watching a grand realignment take place before our eyes. As our Secretary of State, the President and others clamor to be the first to support the Egyptian protestors move toward a democracy, one has to ask if the first vote they cast will be the one driving them into a different form of slavery? If the Muslim Brotherhood is behind it, as they say they are and if Iran sees ‘democracy’ there as ‘good’, exactly what will this ‘democracy’ look like…one need only look inside Iran to figure that one out!

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Semper Fidelis,

John Bernard

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

As I ponder the challenge and choice that is urgently before each of us as we enter a New Year as citizens, concerning our government; national, state and local; it would be well for each of us to understand that time is running out and that: “The line has been drawn in the sand!” Each of us, as a citizen, and as free man or woman, are at this time once again called upon to respond to the clarion call of Joshua of old, who said:

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve;… but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. [Joshua 24:15, emphasis added]

And let every citizen realize and understand that THEY MUST CHOOSE! In this fight there can be NO NEUTRALITY! Either you stand with our Founding Fathers and the patriots of 1776 on the side of our Divinely inspired Constitutional Republic OR (more…)

John Bernard
www.letthemfight.blogspot.com

Every once in a while, I am questioned about my stand on one element of this ongoing debate or another and the question is almost always couched in such a way as to bring discredit to this particular viewpoint. I find that interesting in general because I am not thin skinned and because this argument is not difficult to follow. Because it is not difficult to follow, it forces people to consider their true nature and their true allegiances.

I have always maintained that my sole concern is for our Warriors. This is not some misguided plea to protect Warriors from the dangers of warfare, it is in fact an attempt to protect them from the negligence and agenda of those in our own government. So when I receive the occasional hand wringing diatribe that so often allies the hand wringer with the enemies of this nation and our Warriors, I feel compelled to ‘chew butt’.

What follows is an answer I gave to one such person who is morally conflicted about the handling of prisoners at Gitmo. Of course she has no particular moral conflict (more…)