Let’s be clear – it seems that for Progressives, politics drives their very being, and they pursue avidly.  It fills their souls so much that they can’t begin to grok that when conservatives talk about religious values, progressives think that use of personal religion conscience is only a dodge from agreeing with something in the political realm.  They truly do not understand or accept that that conservatives really do refer to “religious values” being outside the political – they don’t care in their striving to have The State be the be all and end all of life.   EVERYTHING is political for Progressive – and they refuse to see otherwise or accept that for a lot of people, politics holds little value at all as their “managing principle”.

And so when Sally Kohn wrote this screed she called “When Religion and Liberty Collide” in the Daily Beast, several things came to mind as I read it.  However, to set the stage, what is the let’s stage for this fisking. The latest news is not so hot for Obamacare (and Zandra Rice-Hawkin’s claim that people just LOVE Obamacare) – Rasmussen:

• 38%  – believe businesses should be required by law to provide health insurance that covers all government-approved contraceptives for women without co-payments or other charges to the patient.
• 51%  – employers should not be required to provide health insurance with this type of coverage.
• 11% are not sure.

I would be one of the…

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Progressives have been clubbing health care in America like a baby Seal for decades and ObamaCare appears to have delivered the death blow they’ve been looking for.  (And Medicaid expansion isn’t just a “kick em while they are down” side-show attraction.  It’s a train wreck as well.)

But healthcare isn’t the only thing they are trying to ruin.

The “ObamaCare-it to death” template of destruction is the tool of choice for every item on the Democrat agenda and they’ve been using it for years.

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Yeah, and the NY Times keeps claiming that they are to be believed because of the “layers of fact checkers & editors” they have – we’ve seen how that’s worked out, huh?  Well, tell me, how is this real math problem going to make our kids better prepared to complete against others?

  See #15, here.  From the Daily Caller:

What, exactly, is the content of this Common Core that’s going to make American kids so much smarter? So far it appears to be a slew of worksheets and tests involving various, incomprehensible arrays of squares and circles.

There are also traditional word problems. Twitchy has found a word problem that may be the most egregiously awful math problem the Common Core has produced yet. 

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• Born – 1937 (now 76 years of age)
• ROTC, Army career 1956 – 1991 (35 years)
• Chair, Joint Chief of Staff – 1989 – 1993
• National Security Advisor – 1987 through 1989
• Secretary of State – 2001 through 2005

Pretty much his entire career, Colin Powell (former Army General, US Secretary of State) has worked for the US Government. At multiple times during his career, he has sworn an oath to protect and uphold the US Constitution.  Over at Big Government, we hear of his support for the US Government to act in a “post- Constitutional” manner (or if you prefer, “extra-Constitutional”:

…“I think universal health care is one of the things we should really be focused on, and I hope that will happen,” Powell reportedly said last week. “Whether it’s Obamacare, or son of Obamacare, I don’t care. As long as we get it done.”

…The retired four-star general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he thought, “Every country I’ve visited, every developed country, they have universal health care. They don’t understand why the United States of America, which uses more health care than just about anybody else, still (has) 40 million people not properly insured.”

That is because, Mr. Powell, there is that pesky 10th Amendment in OUR Constitution that

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I was out with TMEW doing errands this afternoon and was listening to Rush as he started his show – and he started to talk about Nelson Mandala and his reaction to his imprisonment in South Africa for 27 years.  He was just SO in awe of a profundity from Mandala that he kept marveling at it:

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”

His theme then shifted a bit in observing how the White House was using the death of Nelson Mandala to boost Obama.  He then started to intersperse the above with previous statements that Obama has said – the contrast was startling for someone who has been called The Lightbringer:

Nelson Mandala, President of South Africa –  Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Barack Obama, President of the USA – If they bring a knife into the fight, we bring a gun

Nelson Mandala, President of South Africa –  Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Barack Obama, President of the USA – It’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person

Nelson Mandala, President of South Africa –  Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

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“We will pry your gun from your cold, dead, fingers. That is because I am willing to wait until you die, hopefully of natural causes. Guns, except for the three approved categories, cannot be inherited. When you die your weapons must be turned into the local police department, which will then destroy them.”—LTC Robert L. Bateman (USA retired)

Update to this article: 12/8/13

I received an email of clarification from one of our readers. Ray writes,

Bateman On Guns – It’s Time We Talk About Guns – Esquire

 Retired from the Army, Bateman is president and founder of Alliance Defense Marketing Associates LLC, a “global premier risk management” firm that does work for the DHS.

Bateman writes in Esquire, 

My entire adult life has been dedicated to the deliberate management of violence. There are no two ways around that fact. My job, at the end of the day, is about killing. I orchestrate violence.

This is how Bateman prefaces his, “in-your-face-styled,” lunatic rant to take guns away from the American populace.

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This week our guests are author, comedian, contributor to the Boston Herald, and Conservative talk show host, Michael Graham. The chairman of CNHT, Ed Naile joins us for a NH vote fraud update, Skip Murphy calls in to talk Republican politics, and candidate for US Senate Karen Testerman drops in to talk about issues and her opponent Senator Jeanne Shaheen.

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Note: Edited to repair broken audio links on 4-6-2016

Segment by segment synopsis on the jump…

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Let him punch you in YOUR collective noses so that you just might actually start picking on the right folks – like Ray Buckley and his pack of Left Wing  Socialists (emphasis mine, reformatted):

As some idiot wrote in Rules for Radical Conservatives:

So there you are, lying flat on your back on the canvas and wondering whether the referee got the number of that truck. For decades, we’ve pummeled you and pounded you, if not quite into submission than pretty close to it. We’ve robbed you of your tongue, of your fighting spirit; we’ve hamstrung you with lawyers and political correctness. We’ve made you doubt the worth of everything you once held dear – now there was a practical application of “Critical Theory” if there ever was one! – including your culture, your history and, well, you. We’ve practically criminalized everything about you, including your thoughts, and it’s just a matter of time before we get those too . . .

You stand there and let us whale away on you, imputing every sort of ignobility to you, your culture, your belief system, your faith tradition, and your families unto the generations. By our lights, since we despise you so roundly and so thoroughly, any weapon to hand is useful, and so we club you to death with your own good manners, telling you all the while that to fight back would be wrong, would be deconstructionist, would be advocating at least symbolic violence and hate-mongering, would be trying to force your opinion on us.

And so you take it, when what you should do is punch us right in the face.

They’ve been shoving you around like school yard bullies, destroying and turning everything of  traditional American values and traditions totally upside down.  For over 100 years, they’ve been weakening that which has held us together, our social contract – the US Constitution.  And now, the Progressive-in-Cief has been laughing at you. Congress has become his right arm, the Press his PR department.  That’s right, keep your eyes on the goal and stay on the attack. Oh, oops!

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