Reasoning ‘Kenyan Born’

PJ Media

Janine Turner

Reason is the fundamental element to keeping a republic viable. If the people lose their ability to reason, or their desire to reason, republicanism becomes obsolete. History has proven this over and over again.

Hence the reason John Adams said, “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.” Hence the challenge Benjamin Franklin gave Americans by stating they had given us a republic — if we could keep it.

The question today is if Americans really want to keep republicanism. Republicanism requires vigilance and passion, civic responsibility and reason.

Republicanism cannot be maintained by “letting other people do it.”

A good example is the story of the quarreling brothers. As the story goes, two young brothers were fighting over a peanut butter sandwich. Their mother stepped in and said, “Now boys, think about what Jesus would do. He would give his sandwich to the other.” The boys thought about this for a moment and then the older brother said to his sibling, “Ok, you be Jesus!”

Letting other people do all the work while enjoying the fruits of the labor is represented in many ways other than “spreading the wealth around.” Often in our republic people want to “spread the civic work away” – from them. Many people do not want to “get involved” in the responsibility of maintaining our republic.

This may manifest in an avid passion to destroy republicanism because they believe that flatlining life and lives is the answer, or it may manifest in the opposite way, which is seemingly innocent but just as destructive — by being politically correct.

The ideology of flatlining and the submission to political correctness both defy reason and reason is fundamental. The irony is that the left, with its desire to flatline life, and the right, with its desire to be quietly conservative and politically correct, are colliding in a ruin of republicanism.

Case in point — the question of where President Obama was born. This question is permeating the web in a radical way with the emergence of Obama’s former author bio, which states he was “born in Kenya.” This bio was a part of Obama’s persona until he began to run for president in 2007.

 

Holder Moves to Squash Philadelphia Schools Beard Code on Behalf of Islam

Moonbattery

The Philadelphia school system is trying to promote an atmosphere of professionalism by limiting the lengths of beards among employees. But even if Phil Robertson or Billy Gibbons were thinking of moving to Philly to pursue a new career in education, there would be no reason to despair. Eric Holder has come to the rescue — for reasons that anyone familiar with the priorities of his old law firm might have predicted. Via Philly.com:

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the School District of Philadelphia, claiming a rule regulating the length of employees’ beards constitutes religious discrimination.

According to the suit filed Wednesday, the district in October 2010 instituted a new grooming policy preventing school police officers and security guards from having beards longer than a quarter of an inch.

School police officer Siddiq Abu-Bakr maintained an untrimmed beard for the 27 years he worked at the district, the suit states. Abu-Bakr is a member of the Islamic faith, which he says requires that he not cut his beard.

Laws that favored groups like Muslims don’t like are regarded as “discrimination.”

In contrast, it is not considered discrimination by the Obama Regime when ObamaCare forces nuns to finance abortion-inducing drugs. Killing babies is a frivolous matter, whereas the length of your beard is of profound moral import, as demonstrated by the total absence of any male Muslims anywhere who don’t have beards down to their knees.

Good thing Muslims are too busy blowing things up to play baseball. No way would the Feds let the New York Yankees keep their grooming code.

Not that there was ever any doubt where Obama, Holder, et al. are coming from when it comes to American versus Islamic culture, but do they really need to be so obvious about it? It is a humiliating reminder that we are ruled by our enemies.

Once again we see that the population is not on board with the Regime’s agenda. Check out these polling results, even in a paper from liberal Philadelphia:

The New Face of Obama’s Military

Freedom Outpost

This ain’t your grandfather’s military. It’s not your father’s or even your older brother or sister’s military. Today’s military, Obama’s troops, look nothing like the military we have come to know, love and respect, and I feel for so bad for our troops.

Obama’s new military has become a politically correct social experiment. And those that don’t buy into the “changes” are purged.

Over the past five years of Obama’s reign, he has overseen the ouster, according to sources at WND, of approximately 200 generals, flag and senior officers.

Many retired officers and war heroes have characterized Obama’s actions as an all-out attack on our Armed Forces.

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How long will we allow this War on America to continue?

Is Muslim Brotherhood in America

Family Security Matters

The Muslim  Brotherhood (MB) was founded in Egypt in 1928 and is considered a terrorist  organization by many countries, including Islamic countries. Its stated goal  is  to instill the Qur’an as the sole religion and political body in the life of  every individual and country worldwide.

According to Richard Clarke,  former Chief counterterrorism advisor on the U.S. National Security Council  under Presidents Clinton and Bush, “The Muslim Brotherhood has provided the  ideological underpinning for almost all the modern Sunni Islamic terrorist  groups such as Al Qaeda, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. In fact the Brotherhood plays  an active role in promoting terrorism against the U.S.”

The Muslim  Brotherhood founder, Hassan al-Banna[i], stated “the  nature of Islam is to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all  nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.”