To Preserve, Protect and Defend....Would President Trump Reinstate the US Constitution Or Become Our First King?

 

Donald Trump has often been accused of not being specific enough when discussing his proposed plans to “Make America Great Again”.  But while the media focuses on whose feelings he has hurt or which racial group he has offended, Trump has published three very impressive position papers, one on immigration policy, another on the Second Amendment and a third on tax reform. Together they look like the plans of a true constitutional conservative. But is that really Donald Trump? Does he really even want to be President Of  The United States, and if he gets the job will he uphold the Constitution or will he uphold Donald Trump?

 

 I think that these questions are exceedingly important considering the constitutional tipping point that we currently face in this country. I believe that the 2016 presidential election will be one of the most important in this country’s history. I also believe that Donald Trump is a real and viable candidate for the presidency and is indeed qualified to do the job.  But as I watch his never ending self-promotion and constant chest thumping I grow concerned as to whether a Trump presidency would help this nation re-assert its constitutional roots or continue the executive branch’s current rise to royalty.

 

In August Mr. Trump published an immigration policy plan that was very specific and very strong in its assertion that immigration laws should protect and serve the interests of American citizens, not those trying to get into the country illegally. The plan was comprehensive, well written, and embraced by many as a program that would really work and work quickly.

 

Trump released another policy paper in September detailing his stand on the Second Amendment. It advocated gun ownership, state reciprocity of concealed carry permits, and an end to government gun and magazine bans. This is the second very specific plan that Trump has put forth, and the second plan that supports the view of a true constitutional conservative.

Most recently he has generated a tax plan that reduces income tax from 7 brackets to 4, cuts the business tax rate to 15%, abolishes inheritance taxes and cuts capital gains. Constitutional conservative Mark Levin called it “a hell of a plan”.

 

How do such detailed and intellectual outlines come from Donald Trump? Known for his bombastic speeches, his showmanship, and his huge ego, Trump is often portrayed as a boorish buffoon and not an intellectual. ‘The Donald’ should not be expected to compose detailed positions on domestic policy. Should he?

 

Let us not forget that Mr. Trump is also an accomplished executive. He sits atop a hugely successful real estate empire and literally wrote ‘The Art of the Deal’ (which he claims sold more copies than any other business book in history). He is not just an executive, he is an executive of considerable success and power and one that should not be trifled with. Just ask him.

 

Detractors will point out that Trump had help with his immigration plan. He did not actually compose the plan by himself. Good executives, however do not need to know everything or do everything themselves. Instead they know how to find the best talents available and use them as advisors or managers who get the job done. This is an extremely important and valuable talent in a leader and at least in part defines the difference between the Carter and Reagan presidencies. Donald Trump does indeed have this executive quality. 

 

To create his immigration plan, Trump engaged the help of Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama who is an expert on immigration and chairman of the Senate subcommittee on same. I do not know if he had someone’s help writing his tax plan or his policy paper on the Second Amendment. If he got help there it could have been from Charlton Heston’s ghost. It is that good, and I could vote for Donald Trump if he really stands by what he wrote. Add to that his ability to cut through the oppressive mire of political correctness, his refusal to back down to the bullying left wing media and wow, suddenly his speeches need to be made from a stadium. …. Let there be no mistake, Donald Trump is for real.

 

The problem is that our country is at a tipping point, teetering between liberty and tyranny. The US constitution and it’s separation of powers have been dismantled and the executive branch of the federal government is gobbling up power like a python in the Florida Everglades. President Obama’s use of the EPA, DOJ, DOE, TSA, FEC, FTC, OSHA, NLRB,  along with his famed pen and phone are quickly transforming the office of president into the office of King, and by 2017’s inauguration there will be in place all of the pieces to build the throne onto which our next leader could ascend.

 

If our next president is truly a constitutional conservative, he or she will dismantle this throne and put the balance of power back where the founders intended it – in the hands of the people. The temptation, however, to become King will be stronger than it has been for any president since George Washington, who was actually offered the job. George Washington was a man of great character who put the concepts laid out in our constitution ahead of any personal glory or gain. Can that same statement be made of Donald Trump?

 

As much as I enjoy watching Donald Trump chew up the arrogant icons in media, culture and politics, his underlying character and intent concern me. Maybe if he presents a plan to abolish rule making by executive agencies, stop run away executive orders and make laws come from Congress again I will be convinced to support him. In the mean time I will sit back and enjoy the show, it has been a really fun ride so far. But I remain cautious. POTUS has become an incredibly powerful office. It is ripe for a King and Donald Trump looks really good in a crown. It shows off his hair.

 

Buddy Walker

The True Crime Of The Confederate Flag                                                                                                                             

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Ever since the Confederate Flag walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and shot and killed nine people it has been under tremendous scrutiny.

 

Within days of the shooting the state of California banned the flag’s display and sale on state property and South Carolina removed it from their capitol. Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia all stopped the display of Confederate Flag license plates, and Alabama ordered that four Confederate flags be removed from a monument on their capitol grounds. Facebook announced that its ban on any posts containing The Confederate Flag that would go into effect the week after Independence Day. Walmart, Amazon, Sears, and eBay all stopped selling The Confederate Flag. Then they stopped selling merchandise that displayed contained, mentioned or slightly resembled The Confederate Flag.

 

None of this is surprising considering the horrible nature of the crime that The Confederate Flag has committed, and by week’s end many more would exact their just and much deserved punishments upon it.

 

The same Confederate Flag that committed the horrific murders in Charleston, South Carolina was painted on the roof of an orange Dodge Charger in the 1970’s TV show "Dukes of Hazzard" and for that reason TV Land pulled reruns of the show and Warner Bros. stopped making and selling "Dukes of Hazzard" merchandise. Golfer Bubba Watson who owns the show’s original car the “General Lee”, announced that he will repaint the car’s roof to remove the offending symbol.  NASCAR announced its plans to limit The Confederate Flag’s presence at its tracks (best of luck with that one) and Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, has taken down its Confederate Flags under a directive by the National Park Service. Gettysburg National Park also removed Confederate Flag items from its bookstore. This makes a great deal of sense because the last place we need to see The Confederate Flag is in a book about the Civil War.

 

During this same historic week North Charleston police Sgt. Shannon Dildine was fired for posting a picture of himself wearing Confederate Flag boxer shorts on his Facebook page. His termination letter said the photo undermined the officer’s “ability to improve trust and instill confidence when working with our citizens.” Chuck Netzhammer walked into a Walmart bakery in Slidell, Louisiana and ordered a cake with an image of The Confederate Flag and the words, "Heritage Not Hate" on it.  His request was denied. As you know, cakes are now a leading barometer of the political and social climate in this country.

 

Yes, the Confederate Flag has been getting more bad press than Donald Trump hosting a Cinco DeMaio pageant, and I think its treatment demonstrates a true need for us to reflect on who we really are as individuals, as a culture, and as citizens living in a nation of laws. What does our response to this tragedy say about our principles and our collective character? Where do we go from here? I have some ideas.

 

First, this is another glaring example of the need for sweeping changes in our gun control regulations. How does the Confederate Flag legally purchase a 45-caliber Glock handgun in the first place? Did they DO a background check?  I know, some of you are still saying guns don’t kill people, flags with guns kill people, but I think that the problem here is obvious and needs to be addressed.

 

Next, we need a drastic rewrite of our history. If the National Park Service sees the need to pull down the flags that flew over Fort Sumter and stop the sale of certain books at Gettysburg, well what more do we need.  Just remove The Confederate Flag from history. How hard can it be? In just one week we have removed it from most of our culture. There is already a detailed design of how to do this in George Orwell's 1984. In the book Winston Smith spends his days at Ministry of Truth "rectifying" historical records to conform to Big Brother's most recent pronouncements. I’m sure that our President would have no problem using his pen one more time to create a Ministry of Truth for us, and our new and improved history will fit right into federal Common Core education standards.

 

Further, in light of our legal system’s embrace of hate crime legislation, a jury will need consider what motive the Confederate Flag had in committing this crime. What was it thinking?  What was it standing for at the time?

 

It has been said that the Confederate Flag stands for many things to many different people. Some say that the flag stands for slavery, others say it stands for southern heritage, there are those from the north as well as south that say it stands for state’s rights. I think we can be sure of one thing here. If the Confederate Flag is truly tied to state’s rights they need not consider the death penalty.  The flag will be dying of natural causes very soon anyway. This should help the jury during the penalty phase of the trial.

 

Seeing what is happening to The Confederate Flag should have a great influence on keeping other flags on the straight and narrow. If there is any debate left on what the Confederate Flag stands for it should be pretty obvious. It stands as an example to other flags that they better not get out of line. I heard a rumor recently that the state flag of Colorado has a drug problem. Don’t say anything..

 

Over the last several weeks The American Flag has been taking a beating in this country as well. It has been burned and stomped on in the streets and public squares across our nation by people telling us that black lives matter and gay pride matters and others that are just really pissed off but have not assigned themselves to a popular cause yet. I am not sure what horrible crime the American Flag has committed. I know over the years it has been accused of many. I think back before prohibition it robbed a liquor store or two. Anyway, I am sure it deserves the punishment that it is now receiving.

 

Perhaps it’s time that we went out and got a new flag. One with less baggage. Maybe the flag of Greece. I hear that we could get a pretty good deal on it about now.

 

 

Buddy Walker

www.buddysays.net

 

Special thanks to Phil Valentine for leading me to this concept. Thanks Phil hope to meet you someday.

 

 

 

 

 

Life In The Land Of Lies

While reading the news last week you may have come to the conclusion as I did that everyone in this country is lying. A more important revelation is that most of these lies are coming from people in positions of leadership and power. My mother has often told me that “there is nothing new under the sun” but I am getting a sick feeling that we are progressing far beyond a few lying politicians. The extent to which everything we are being told is nearly devoid of the truth is to me frightening and becoming downright dangerous.

Am I wrong to be so scared? Here is a review of some highlights from just last week.

 

The week started with Brian Williams taking flak for not taking flak when some Iraq veterans exposed his dramatic 2003 war story as a lie. Williams had claimed for years that the military helicopter he occupied was forced to land while taking RPG fire. This was not true, and once it was reported the flood gates containing a myriad of William’s factual inaccuracies was opened.  By weeks end it was clear that the NBC News anchor was more than someone who creatively embellished a story. He appeared to have a seemingly pathological habit of putting himself into the news events on which he reported. These included stories from hurricane Katrina, the Brandenburg Gate, the Pope, Seal Team Six and one or more puppies that he rescued from a burning building.

 

What is of greater concern here is the credibility of NBC. The last shoe to drop before they suspended Williams was a report that the network had known of his credibility issues for years and ignored them. This is not the first time that the temerity of NBC news has been questioned. In 1993 they were caught placing incendiary devices in Chevrolet trucks to prove they had an exploding problem, and in 2012 they were caught inserting themselves into the Trayvon Martin case by selectively editing George Zimmerman's taped 911 call. They also employ Al Sharpton.

 

 “The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever” was the title of a story The UK Daily Telegraph published the same week.  The story documents the extent to which official temperature records were systematically “adjusted” to show the earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.  This story comes just a week after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration claimed 2014 was the warmest year on record, a widely disputed allegation that made headlines worldwide almost instantly. Apparently the taxpayer-funded agency employed fudge factors and dubious temperature estimates rather than objective global data.  The “undisputed scientific fact” of  global-warming that has been beaten into our heads for the past 30 years by educators,  politicians, entertainers, government agencies, movies, commercials, green businesses, the UN  and whatever it is Al Gore has become is quite possibly neither science or fact and could be, dare I say it, a great big fat lie.

 

The credibility of the administration’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also made the news when the CEO of Gallup, Jim Clifton, wrote an opinion piece on the organization’s web site stating that the number of full time jobs in this country as a percent of the adult population “is the worst it’s been in 30 years” and called the government’s 5.6 percent unemployment figure “The Big Lie” in the article’s headline. These unemployment numbers are published by the BLS every month and have been touted since the Great Depression as an important economic indicator.  Of late they are being heralded by both the media and the administration as proof that the US economy is doing just dandy even though most of us living in it have very good personal reasons to believe that it is not. Mr. Clifton is not the first to suggest that these numbers may somehow have become skewed to support current economic policy and may be in the words of George W. Bush “misunderestimated”.

 

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler has acknowledged that the commission decided to avoid congressional input for its new “Net Neutrality” program while adopting Franklin Roosevelt’s 1934 Communications Act to regulate the Internet. To hide this decision from those who care about free speech, markets, and commerce, Wheeler “embargoed” the release of any specifics. The President has touted the plan as a way to make the internet “an even playing field”.  Last Thursday Ajit Pai, a Republican FCC commissioner inferred that the 332-page document is really a scheme by the federal government to extract billions in new taxes and enforce content regulation contingent with the progressive left’s idea of fairness. The FCC’s actions include lies, cover ups, and a blatant act of disregard for the Constitution, but if tyranny exists on an even playing field then I guess its ok.

 

Midweek came revelations from a book written by former presidential adviser David Axelrod claiming that President Obama lied about his support for gay marriage before his election in 2008. Axelrod defended the President’s “evolution” on gay marriage as a matter of political expediency thus proving that the “most transparent administration ever” was off on the wrong foot before Mr. Obama ever took office. Media indignation on this reported lie was at best tepid. One can only assume this is due to the current and widely publicized narrative that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) rights are without doubt among the most important topics of our time. So it’s ok to lie a little.

 

The President confronted another of our country’s crucial issues during last week’s Grammy Awards presentation when he inserted himself into the festivities with a PSA to bring awareness to rape and domestic violence against women. This is especially poignant considering Kayla Mueller’s recent death at the hands of ISIS. This is beyond a lie. It is an absolute insult to the American people to tell us that we should focus on the ‘abuses’ against women committed by Our culture, Our laws, Our own people while true evil is abusing, enslaving, raping, prostituting, torturing, and killing women all over the rest of the world. Our President has no trouble discussing changing "our culture for the better by ending violence against women and girls" or for that matter the “terrible deeds” performed during the Crusades but he seems unable to string together the words "Islamic Terrorist".

 

The Grammy’s also brought us more evidence of what a colossal ass-hat Kanye West is as he rushed the stage to once again insult another artist. You may remember Kanye from the fundraiser for the victims of Hurricane Katrina when he ditched his lines to proclaim that "George Bush doesn't care about black people". Mr. West did not mention New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin who let hundreds of busses go under water and hundreds of thousands of people go un-evacuated. The former mayor is now doing a 10 year stint in federal prison for corruption charges but hey, he meant well, everyone knows that Bush was the real problem. I bring this story up because George Bush has been gone for 7 years and yet the racism in this country apparently continues. With the first black president and first black attorney general it is interesting to see that it’s not George Bush but the nation’s police departments who now “don’t care about black people”.  Instead of putting an end to any perceived race problems we had under the Bush administration, the Obama administration has continued to instigate, foster, and support a narrative of racism in this country, particularly with law enforcement.  It is at best a blatant misrepresentation of the truth. It is extremely dangerous and it’s starting to get people killed.

 

Hillary Clinton has been strangely unobserved of late which is making some curious considering all of the 2016 presidential posturing that’s going on. This prompted RNC chairman Reince Priebus late last week to send a letter to the DNC asking their chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz if the Democratic Party has “suspended” Hillary Clinton in the same way NBC News suspended Brian Williams. You see there is a striking similarity between William’s Iraq helicopter lie and a whopper that Mrs. Clinton told in 2008 about having to do a corkscrew landing while taking sniper fire on a trip to Bosnia as First Lady. She further embellished the story explaining that once on the ground they were told to run for it.  None of this was true and she later recanted saying that she “misspoke” due to “sleep deprivation”.

 

Human nature tells us that someone who is exaggerating on such a large scale for self-aggrandizement is quite capable of doing so for other reasons, and when as Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton made a conscious decision to repeatedly blame the sacking of our Benghazi consulate on a little known internet video called “Innocence of Muslims” she was promoting a serious and dangerous lie. And it is a lie that she may have taken part in fabricating. But, as she said to Congress, “at this point what difference does it make?” Is she right?  If we continue to accept the lies fed to us every day by the people that we elected (or those appointed by the people we elected) to run this country then are we not just getting what we deserve?

 

Last week ended with a story about the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and their plans to regulate the internet. It seems they cannot let the Federal Communication Commission have all of the fun. The FEC is calling for burdensome new rules on Internet-based campaigning that would in effect allow them to control content on ‘political based’ web sites from The Drudge Report to Jib Jab. In the words of FEC Chair Ann M. Ravel. “A reexamination of the commission’s approach to the internet and other emerging technologies is long overdue.” 

 

Ann Ravel’s statement may not be a lie, but the foreboding conclusions one can derive from it create a chilling portent of a grave new direction for this country, one where the very definition of the truth is removed from the citizenry and placed firmly in the hands of the federal government. Anyone else thinking of Orwell’s Big Brother?  Be afraid, be very, very afraid…..

Buddy Walker

What have we become?

Last week four US citizens were kidnapped on the high seas, held hostage, and then murdered buy Somali pirates.
Pirates!?

In response to this atrocity our Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged “international partners to provide material, financial and logistical support to an African peacekeeping mission in Somalia”. The last I checked the Somali pirates were holding 30 ships and more than 660 hostages. I’ll bet those folks are really fired up about a ‘peacekeeping mission’.

Excuse my rather boorish and simplistic view of the world but instead of  a ‘peacekeeping mission’ why have we not been watching stuff blow up? Please don’t tell me that Somalia has no organized government and that we have no place to focus our aggression. I’m pretty sure that we know where these ‘pirates’ are hanging out and I see no problem in quickly making that particular place look nothing like it did a week ago.
Pirates!?

In 1801 then president Thomas Jefferson put together a naval force to go half way around the world to Tripoli for the sole purpose of stopping the Barbary Pirates. These pirates had been stealing ships and cargo, as well as kidnapping and murdering U.S. citizens. He did not ask the other nations of the world to support a ‘peacekeeping mission’, he sent a naval force to where the ‘pirating’ was occurring and stopped it. I’d be willing to bet some blood was shed before they got the message, but they did stop and the issue was resolved. Except for one thing… the group formed to go and stop it stuck around. They became known as the U.S. Marine Corps.

That’s right, the same U.S. Marine Corps that has been protecting America and making it proud for 200 years was initiated to stop pirates. Is it possible that the world in the 21st century has become too complicated to have the Marines fix this current problem? Are the Marines still around? Are they available to help us? Oh, I know where they are. They are all stuffed into some university lecture hall learning how to be sensitive to homosexual service men and women.

Now just so you know,  I care not a flying ferret about the sexual preference of any member of the armed forces. What I do feel strongly about is that our military be properly trained to fight and win wars. Not to deal with the identity politics of the persons with whom they are fighting.

Concerning our secretary of state. Do you remember last year when James Carville uttered this jem: "If Hillary gave Obama one of her balls, they'd both have two". If Mrs. Clinton is sporting the pair of danglers that James Carville gives her credit for then why am I not looking at a section of the African coast through the slowly clearing smoke of a bunker buster? Oh, I know why. Hillary is busy attending a sensitivity course for women with testicles and the men who love them.

Thomas Jefferson would be so proud.

Buddy Walker