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Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of "The Speech"

"A Time for Choosing"; (October 27, 1964)
Ronald Wilson Reagan

 

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October 30, 2009
Hearing Ronald Reagan's speeches again it's hard to believe what is now facing us from Washington. Are Americans really where the mainstream media hopes we are?
October 11, 2009
Gold is at an all time high and going higher but Obama is urging us to sell something far more precious at a rock bottom price.
October 8, 2009
Should I stay or should I go? Race, religion or national origin don't matter, it's what you believe.
September 12, 2009
Statist solutions to healthcare abound on both sides of the aisle these days. We all know about ObamaCare so the Republican Leadership Council, formerly known as It's My Party Too has an ObamaLite plan on the table. As usual the moderate Republican group sails in the same direction, just at fewer knots.

How about a few ideas that don't deliver your doctor's proctoscope into government hands. The last thing you want to hear from Nancy Pelosi should be "Bottoms Up"!


September 9, 2009
Foolish trades. The Cyclops, a giant with a single eye in the center of his forehead, is one of the fascinating characters in Greek mythology. One story has it that when he originally had two eyes he met a blind witch who could see the future. The witch talked him into a trade in which he would give her one of his eyes so that she would no longer be blind and in exchange she would share her ability to see the future with the Cyclops. But the witch cheated the Cyclops, giving him only the ability to see the time and place of his own death.

Stories with a lesson about foolish trades have been around for thousands of years. Judging by the trade Obama is offering us today, cheap affordable healthcare in exchange for our freedoms, as a species we haven't learned much in those thousands of years.

Here is hoping all our Republican representatives stand firm against his government takeover of healthcare.


July 13, 2009
Two thoughts on the health care crisis
July 10, 2009

National Review Online provides a 5-part video series on the recession, who caused it, what's being done about it and how that compares with what happened in the 1930's. Spend half an hour getting a real education from Dr. Thomas Sowell, you'll be glad you did. Then write your congressman and your senator.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5


July 9, 2009

Arizona Secretary of State, Ken Bennett describes the annual budget of the State of Arizona in an excellent video produced by his office. The blocks are full and half sized tissue boxes, the full ones each symbolizing about one billion dollars, the half-sized boxes each representing about five hundred million dollars. (500 million is half a billion in case you're a recent graduate.)

[Bennett Video] The three stacks on the left account for tax dollars from all sources that go to education. They add up to 16 billion dollars. All the rest add up to 16.5 billion dollars. You can click the picture to get a larger image if you want to see the categories. The point is, nearly half of all your state tax dollars get spent on education.

The total State budget is roughly 32.5 billion dollars. That's how much they would spend if they had it. The recession has caused collections to fall about 4 billion short. That's about 12.3 percent if they could cut everything equally across the board.

The current recession has provided many of us with a significant decline in our net worth. Your house is probably down between 20 to 50 percent. Your 401-K is probably down 20 to 40 percent even after the recent March run up in the stock market. You may be one of those lucky ones who are still working but maybe you just took a 10 percent cut in pay, that is if you were lucky. Or maybe you're out of a job entirely.

The point is, the education folks don't want to feel your pain. They don't want to feel any pain at all. In fact, they want you to feel their pain along with your own. "There'll be Hell to pay if you cut a penny from education." So that means cut the other half of government 25 percent or raise taxes on the rest of us.

You'll be hearing a lot from the Education lobby in the coming months about why you should vote to make yourself pay more taxes "for the children". Just ask them to answer you this: "If you can always find ways to spend more money, why can't you step back and see if you can't find a few ways, to spend less money, and do it responsibly, for a little while.

Yes, we know it's not really that simple. But it could be a lot simpler than it is if your Arizona educators would get in the boat and pull with the rest of us.

Meanwhile, click here and see what New York City is getting for all the billions they spend on education.


July 7, 2009
Will the last Republican "gentleman" to take off the white gloves just shut up and lie down. It's too late, you're already dead.
...stop thinking of the Democratic Party as merely a political party... David Kahane of National Review Online tells it like it is in I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin.

July 6, 2009

[Under Construction] Had it up to here with those Eastern Intellectual Elites? They should have a degree for what they do, like PHD only maybe it should be EBACS (Educated Beyond All Common Sense). It's time we got back to work here, annoying those so-called Liberals who seem to be doing their best to undermine the principles and the freedoms restored to the human race by those giants who founded our great country.

So, this site is back. Its continuing mission; to disseminate information useful to Conservatives interested and active in taking back their country. Some of the information pertinent to the ongoing functions of District 11 formerly kept on this site will be removed, some of it to be taken up by the new official LD-11 site when it comes on line. Other features will be maintained and some will be added as time and imagination permit.


July 6, 2009
You know that what's happening in DC at a frenetic pace will destroy your wealth, deny your freedom, kill your spirit and limit the aspirations of your future generations, yet you can't believe it's really happening. That's what they're counting on. They want to get it done before you wake up. They want to do things that will be difficult or impossible to undo when you do wake up as they know you will, eventually.

The last time we went this crazy we got the Great Society. It will take generations to undo the damage perpetrated by Lyndon Johnson but at least the work was begun by Ronald Reagan. Now he's gone and they're at it again, "progressing" toward the socialist utopia that the Russians suffered under 75 years of totalitarian government.

You want to speak up but what they're doing is so far off the map you can't think of the words. Fortunately there are some who see what's happening and can write about it from a perspective of history and experience. There is a lot of good writing out there and we'll be linking to it. Right now, you could do a lot worse than peruse the writings of Thomas Sowell. You won't find anyone more grounded in common sense, more literate or erudite in economics and history. The truly marvelous thing about him is that he explains this stuff so anyone can understand it.

So start here with his June 23 essay; Republicans in the Wilderness and then go back to his page on TownHall.com and enjoy at least one essay a day until you've covered them all. Do that and before long you'll know more truth about history, economics, politics and common sense than 99 percent of the "intelligentsia" that populate the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.




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A Source for Arizona's Conservatives, this site is intended to provide information and tools necessary to become and stay informed.

On this site, we try to consolidate up to date information useful to those who would resist the encroachment on liberty, family and culture that is everywhere evident in growing government power, increasing bureaucratic regulation and a return to confiscatory taxation.

We are traditional Reagan Republicans. That means that we strongly disagree with what the "smart money" says that the way for the Republicans to win elections is to appeal to a wider range of voters, including minorities, by abandoning the Ronald Reagan kinds of positions and supporting more of the kinds of positions that Democrats use to get elected...

Ronald Reagan won two elections in a landslide by being Ronald Reagan-- and, most important of all-- explaining to a broad electorate how what he advocated would be best for them and for the country. Newt Gingrich likewise led a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives by explaining how the Republican agenda would benefit a wide range of people.

Neither of them won by pretending to be Democrats. It is the mushy "moderates"-- the "kinder and gentler" Bush 41, Bob Dole and John McCain-- who lost disastrously, even in two cases to Democrats who were initially very little known, but who knew how to talk.

(Italicized text taken from Thomas Sowell's June 23, 2009 essay, Republicans in the Wilderness)

 

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