“…end wars…”. Gee, and I thought the whole idea was to WIN wars.  Anything else is just “first loser” and in a two-way battle, just loser.  Americans were known for WINing wars, not just giving up which is exactly what Obama is doing.  We beat both Japan and Germany militarily – and then stayed for decades until the “end” WAS the “end”.

“…end wars…”.  That is what President Obama said today in relationship to the Afghanistan theater of war.  Essentially, he is doing what Nixon did in 1968:  “I pledge to you that we shall have an honorable end to the war in Vietnam.”  Yeah, that worked out EVAH so well for the South Vietnamese, Cambodians,  and Laotians, eh?  Buttery smooth words, a bit of smoke and mirrors, and then we all understood what honorable meant: we retreat, we give up and two million people lost their lives.

“…end wars…”.  General Giap knew what the winning prescription was: break the will of the American people to wage war.  He knew that North Vietnam could never do that on its own (even with Russian and Chinese help) so he did it with an information / PR war.  He (along with Putin comrades) instigated the peace movement, agitated the college aged, got the protests going, influenced the media – and PRESTO! 

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Tactics vs policy – a meme that has been floating around this primary season as various politicos and talking heads try to rationalize the difference between the Establishment and the TEA Party wings of the Republican Party.  It is their attempt to try to soften or blur what is a rather sharp edge between the two.  After all, now that the primaries are over (in some states), we hear the upper echelon of the Party already trying to do the smooch up of the grass roots and play that old Beatles song “(“Come together – RIGHT NOW!“, emphasis on the last two) over and over and over again.  Exhibit one here for a NH example (with more coming).  We all have to be UNITED!  We all have to be TOGETHER!  We all have to STAND together!  United we are stronger!  We must be an ARMY!  How Collectivist is that?  I dunno if I’m in a Right side organization or a union meeting.

Ben Domenech has a newsletter (note to self: get signed up!) that talks about that it is NOT TACTICS that separates the Establishment from the base – funny, but with a sharp knife to it.   First up, the Establishment:

 “Let’s do immigration reform, we should be honest about addressing climate change, (pick your entitlement) mend it don’t end it, let’s find state level solutions to make (Obamacare’s) Medicaid (expansion) work for working families, let’s show we love the poor by giving them something (but don’t worry not your something), let’s not be so lockstep on gun violence, premium support, capital gains, let’s protect our critical Pentagon budget, let’s invest in our future with Common Core, you know TARP made sense at the time, let’s build needed infrastructure we can be proud of, compassion, even Ronald Reagan…”

Now the TEA Party: 

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After SandyHook, California added 11 new anti-gun bills into state law. California, the land of rich liberals who have a lock on power, gets an A- for Gun Control from the Brady Campaign.  Not sure how they rate on knives or BMW’s but guess what they get an F in?

It’s understandable that the grief-stricken father of one of the victims would lash out, in this case at the NRA. But the hard fact here is that California — a state that is run from top to bottom by liberal Democrats — did exactly what gun control advocates asked. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Elliot Rodger shooting illustrates exactly the point of gun law critics. It isn’t the gun, it’s the person. In fact, three of the victims were not shot — they were stabbed to death.

Elliot Rodger was mentally ill. His own family had alerted authorities that they were concerned about their son.

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California was recently given an “F” by the Treatment Advocacy Center for the abysmal state of its mental commitment laws.

Rodger did not ‘Slip under the radar.’  The disarm yourselves–the”government will protect you” system–failed again.

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Letting you brush your teeth, plant a shrub, or mow your lawn without a regulator over your shoulder. Deciding what your child should eat for lunch.  Paying a few cents less per gallon for gas. Allowing you to own chickens. Un-scrambling the Kudzu of the bureaucracy.  Letting you have and use a rain barrel.  That you might be able to buy and pay for your own health insurance.  Taking responsibility for your own children’s education!  And reminding everyone that the government is paid for by taking money from people like you and I who work very hard to earn it and that it is easier to keep an eye on how it is spent when that money stays closer to your towns and cities.  Yes, all of these ‘extremist ‘aka-Kitchen Table” ideas’ are being stuffed into the heads of every-day citizens by liberty minded people who dare to think that you can take  a step without the state spying o your every move, guiding your path and pace, and picking your pocket to pay for the privilege of having your life micr0managed by idiots elected ‘experts’ and their cadre of government officers.

This, we are told, cannot be allowed to continue, and any effort to suggest it, let alone edit the rols of government to loosen your bonds in deemed subversive by the professional left.

To them, that “Liberty menace” is real, because it stands in the way of bigger budgets and larger governmen; and the Democrats at GraniteState Progress and the ‘OUR State Project’ (or is that OUR Out of State funded) Project, are here to defend us from them.

Join Now! (Yes, another recruitment poster was in order–on the jump).

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The Democrats promised that if you disarm, the government will protect you, but they lied.  Six more people are dead and thirteen injured (in Santa Barbra), all of whom either believed the government’s lie, or were prohibited from arming themselves as a matter of policy.  They followed the rules, and in return they were injured or killed.  They were disarmed and left to the will of criminals until someone who was allowed to carry a gun could be found and summoned to defend them.

In Chicago, where the biggest liars seem to come from, dozens die every week because they were promised that if they disarm, the government will protect them.  But in fact, the only places where people are least likely to die at the hands of criminals are the places where the people refuse to trust the government’s lie about the government protecting them.

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