Thursday, June 18, 2009
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The Voice of Independence
This blog is wholly my responsibility. If I cite or copy a link to an article otherwise copyright protected but disemminated on the internet I will attribute accordingly. The content will be a combination of my reflections and a redux of sources I tend to investigate in pursuit of the truth. I hope this blog inspires people to get active in their local political scene no matter what party.
I consider myself a conservative. I believe in limited government, the sanctity of life and marriage, lower taxes, real borders, english as the official language, world class schools, and the American Dream. I'm a republican. I campaign for endorsed republicans. I'm Campaign Manager for my nephew who is a second term MN House member. I serve as a member of the Executive Committee of the Wright County Republican BPOU.
In a litigious world one might ask why anyone in their right mind would bother to write regularly in the blogosphere. It's the same reason I started a political newspaper July 4, 2005 under the same title: The Wright County Republican. No one pays me for this blog. The expense of the newspaper always outweighs the income. Among other pursuits, I volunteer with Minnesota Majority, a non-partisan, non-profit issue advocacy group focused on traditional values in public policy. I also volunteer time and content for GlobalClimateScam.com.
News is either reported or it is not. Generations past were able to rely on newspapers and broadcast media to exercise objectivity across a whole spectrum of activities in our world, and report on them accordingly. I became frustrated with the established media in Minnesota because I felt they too often opted not to report items of interest to conservatives. The news media attachment to political correctness has served to disconnect them from their duty to cover the news as opposed to creating and managing the news.
Somehow the truth gets watered down in much of what we call journalism today. I would like to change that. Hence, I write.
I don't claim to have all the answers. But I sincerely believe that good writing can cause us all to make up our minds for ourselves. The collision of ideas is key to the preservation of our freedoms. I welcome criticism.
Drew Emmer,
Publisher
4 comments:
I'm having a tough time seeing how this person was ever a Democrat. I can certainly understand the disappointment with the Republicans
I read it. It's very good. It doesn't solve the problem, of course, because elections are still won by one party or another, for better or for worse. Incumbents still enjoy a large advantage in name recognition and fundraising, and liberals enjoy a huge advantage in media coverage, whether they tell the truth or the Big Lie, it doesn't matter. And the vast bulk of us sit out here fat, dumb, happy and clueless about the whole thing.
Even those who ARE "engaged" in the process aren't always fully informed. Consider the ease with which Penn and Teller got an environmental gathering to overwhelmingly petition for having the government limit the dangerous chemical "dihydrogen oxide" in drinking water.
J. Ewing
Outstanding!
This writing just about covers all the bases. The writer is spot on...
We are now in uncharted waters in this country - and to some extent, in the world in which we now find ourselves also.
To understand how she could have ever been a Democrat is easy for me. One would only have to be old enough - and aware enough - to remember the days, and political climate of the 1960's JFK era.
The political paradyme shift in this country since that time - not unlike the movement of the earth's tectonic plates over time - has been remarkably extreme in its movement, and to the "left" - for the Democrat Party, and for the Republican Party as well.
In my opinion, the Jack Kennedy of that era in this country, might not even be able to acquire the endorcement of the Republican Party of today. Said differently, JFK would be labeled as far too conservative and common sense based for the political atmosphere of today.
And rightly so, Barack Obama and his crew would have been acknowledged as true Marxists, back then - and rejected soundly as un-American, and Saul Alinsky style outcasts. Then, they would have been opposed by an overwhelming majority of the people of this nation, and rejected as Commmunists.
Then, the label of "progressive" and "czar" was looked upon by most Americans then with justifyable disdain, and a collective thought process to oppose, and not to embrace.
Today, they are referenced with a utopian fantasy-land reverence - and the "progressives" amongst us are now promoted and sold as "the enlightened ones"... ...even as "a sort of god"...right Mr. Obama?
Remember... "Ask not what your country can do for you...Ask what you can do for your country"?
I do... I remember that time very well indeed.
But, that was then, and this s now. ...And the memory of that period in this country has - unfortunately - faded with time, and buried in history book lessons no longer taught in our present day goverment schools.
I pray that it is not too late...
For all of his human flaws, I do miss Jack.
ermorrow
...A Jack Kennedy democrat.
PS...
The following statement has been repeated many times throughout history. However, it is worth repeating again...
In fact, it is the very same sort of people involved in trying to do - what they always try to do. Times may change, but human nature does not.
It is our very freedom at stake here folks.
Please pay attention...
It is, "One Nation Under God", and NOT one nation under the dictator.
Blessings!
ermorrow
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