By P.H. Rolen

The world is moving on. I realized this morning when I browsed through the Associated Press that truth is almost completely indiscernible in today’s world. “Jobless Claims Drop Unexpectedly” the headline rang out. The funny thing is that today marks the third time in five weeks that I have read nearly the same article. The first week that I read it jobless claims were touted as improving at 545,000. Today, jobless claims “Dropped unexpectedly” to…… 545,000. I seem to remember my third grade math teacher explicitly saying that a decline is a number less than the one previous. I really want to believe that I am wrong; that I am just not grasping the totality of economic nuances. I really want to believe that our independent news media is just that, independent, and that we the people have not devolved so much as to fall for the operation of a quasi ministry of truth. Regardless of what I would like to believe, I can’t escape the cognitive dissonance any longer. Here is the cold truth of America’s national reality.
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by P.H. Rolen

President Obama’s administration is quickly evolving from bad to worse. Even without addressing the obvious policy flaws of the healthcare reform debacle (i.e elderly care degeneration, perfervid taxation, and fiscal irresponsibility in a time of economic collapse) the president’s modus operandi is becoming increasingly clear. The pieces fit together very nicely. From Mr. Obama’s two decade long participation in an ardently anti-American radicalized church, to his associations with leftists, confessed terrorists, communists, and thugs; from policies that punish success and redistribute wealth, to knee jerk assumptions of racial profiling and social disparity, the portrait that is beginning to emerge of our President is somewhat startling. Heralded pollster and columnist Michael Barone opined in his most recent article that while the President does indeed have personal aura his legislative abilities are severely lacking. Barone is spot on and for one primary reason. Most left-leaning Americans tend to intellectualize their liberal progressivism; it’s a conscious choice that is chiefly geared toward combating perceived social disparity by bringing the disparaged into the fold. They are empathetic, not programmatic and see the benefits of the current system.
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by P.H. Rolen

Let me pose a scenario you all of you. Please imagine this scenario in your normal lives. Suppose you and your significant other had just mortgaged all that you owned on an investment that you thought had the potential to secure your family for the foreseeable future. The debt was exorbitant; larger than anyone you knew or heard of. The scary part was that for the last few months your family’s income had been falling; things were getting really tight. To top it all off prices at the store kept constantly going up. Now also imagine that the family car began to show a bit of wear and tear; new breaks here, a belt there, and new water pump to boot. You and your significant others livelihood depended on that transportation so you decided that something had to be done about the auto problem.
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by P.H. Rolen

For those of you who haven’t been watching the American Empire disintegrate in front of our very eyes, here’s the latest news flash. The great State of Minnesota, the same state that once elected a former World Wrestling Federation wrestler as the state’s governor, after a long and arduous recount process has declared former Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken the new senator elect from the land of Lutefisk and lots of lakes. Franken, a former radio host on the now defunct liberal radio network Air America, joins a budding cast of classic degenerates in the world’s most prolifically ineffectual deliberative body. Idiot Al, is known for his classless and tawdry roles in comedic satires in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s; most notably his extensive SNL skit appearances.

One role in the 1983 comedy classic Trading Places, Franken stars as mentally lacking, drunken, Amtrak baggage handler who entices an exorbitantly sized, caged gorilla into a sexual relationship with a bound man in a gorilla suit. In another classic on-screen performance, Senator Franken, as the socially challenged Stuart Smalley, tries to use his therapy training to rebuild his dysfunctional family. In what might be a bit of Hollywood serendipity Smalley declares to the world that he can achieve anything because he’s good enough, smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like him; atta boy Al, they sure do.
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by P.H. Rolen

The battles won in the civil rights era were perhaps some of the most far reaching equality measures achieved in an epoch. Aside from the ostracism of open cultural racism, subgroups from across many demographics were empowered to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness after generations of oppression. Jim Crow was crushed and the American society rejected institutional discrimination of nearly every form. 40 years after the heyday of the civil rights movement America’s two top presidential contenders last year were a woman and a black man; once unthinkable. Our school children now grow up in fully integrated schools and many never give the notion of race, much less racial discrimination, a second thought. America has become a beacon for the melting pot culture and every ethnicity and demographic group on the planet has equal opportunity to prosper in our great nation.
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by P.H. Rolen

Can I ask an honest question without arousing incredulity? What the hell is going on? I mean really! Every week I propose that we all have a serious discussion about the unprecedented nature of our current national policy. And, every week instead of a serious discussion I get the same old pedantic groveling over the new President giving him a chance. As I said in my column last week, I don’t care about the new president or the historic nature of his new presidency. Presidents come and go; it’s their policies that endure after they are gone.
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By P.H. Rolen

George Washington, the father of our nation once opined that “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Founding Father Samuel Adams expounded in his writing “The utopian schemes of leveling (the redistribution of wealth) and a community of goods are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. [These ideas] are arbitrary, despotic, and in our government, unconstitutional.” And James Madison, founding father and fourth President of the United States solemnly warned that “There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations…This ought to be wisely guarded against.”
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by P.H. Rolen

Abraham Lincoln once observed that “If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.” Old honest Abe may as well have been writing about contemporary politics because this week members of the Texas State Government vehemently agreed.
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