Mark you calenders everyone. Glenn Beck has set the stage for August 28, 2010 to meet at the feet of the Lincoln Memorial for the 100-year plan. This is set for August so you can bring your family.…
Added by Jeff Replogle at 9:28pm on November 24, 2009
Year Leap**** (lent out)
Liberal Fascism *** (Jonah Goldberg - lent out)
The Federalist Papers ** (currently reading)
The World is Curved (David Smick - next on the read list)
Rise to Rebellion ** (Jeff Shaara)
The Forgotten Man ** (Amity Shlaes)
The American Revolution ** (Bruce Lancaster)
The Glorious Cause ** (Jeff Shaara)
The Christmas Sweater ********* (Glenn Beck - lent out)
Let me know if you're interested in any of these.…
nterview, he has clearly missed his mark by interviewing the president of a group that intends to restore legitimate, Constitutional government. However, since he did write about our organization and related matters, I am compelled to comment.
Mr. Wellock writes, "First, the 9-12 Project connected to recent movements that I don't like. Such as the Beck origins. When the only people who I know watch "Glenn Beck" are watching "Glenn Beck," someone is usually high or soon going to be."
First, Mr. Wellock really should choose his friends more carefully. But putting these choices aside, I must suggest that, while he is free to feel as he wishes about Beck, he should be more cautious painting others with the same brush. True, many of our members met for the first time thanks to Beck's suggestion. But Mr. Trippett, like each member of our group, is an individual, and as such, wrestles with the facts of the matters that concern our organization and reaches his conclusions independently. For most members, Beck serves as a source of useful information. Mr. Wellock should try Beck's show some time. He might be surprised at what he learns once he has checked Beck's claims.
Mr. Wellock opined, "Also, I don't understand the insistence on considering our Founding Fathers guys who knew everything, forever. They were not infallible."
Of course the founders were fallible. The point that Mr. Wellock seems to have missed is how they came to choose their words in drafting the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The founders did not act on emotion, they did not seek a consensus of opinion, they did not turn to mysticism, and they did not rely on second-hand philosophies acquired at random. Instead, they looked to Aristotle for reason and logic and to John Locke for an absolute and objective understanding of man's rights. The founders worked within reality, with facts and reason, not whim and wishes. The consequence was the codification of man's preexisting rights, the rights nature requires for man to live.
I gather from his comments regarding his parents, that this was not the environment in which he grew up. While this is an unfortunately common experience today, his childhood experiences hardly form a reasonable foundation for criticism of our nation's founders and their accomplishments.
Mr. Wellock says that he feels pretty free. Ignorance, as they say, is bliss, and I suspect that he can neither define freedom nor rights. Thus, not knowing what freedom and rights are in an objective sense - that is, being ignorant - he is able to "feel" free.
Feeling free is an emotional experience, but emotions are not necessarily mirrors of reality, but rather an immediate, automatic responses to our perceptions of the world around us shaped by our philosophy, values, and history. Emotions serve as quick guides to our experiences, but If one's philosophy is faulty, then the emotional responses will be faulty as well. Thus, as Mr. Wellock seems to lack the philosophical foundation necessary to understand the very rights with which he was born, I suspect his emotional sense of freedom is a faulty signal originating with an incomplete or faulty philosophy.
I have been harsh with Mr. Wellock here. When one assumes the role of journalist as he has, one must accept the responsibility of writing the truth - the whole truth. Mr. Wellock should ask and answer who, what, when, where, and why, especially why. Why does this group seek to restore justice and the rule of law? Are these 9-12 groups really autonomous? Why would compulsory health insurance be wrong? Why did folks equate our president with Hitler in the signs you noted?
It is the journalist's responsibility to ask and answer such questions, and answer not with opinion, but with facts. Mr. Wellock failed to do this in his article, and by this means he has done a disservice to his readers. He has published his own false philosophy through commission and omission, and placed other minds risk of absorbing it.…
Added by Greg Fasolt at 8:39pm on February 10, 2010
tality that could lead to someone trying to kill Obama.
It was completely overthetop, even for Leftist nuts like those guys. I hope Glenn has something to say about it today and responds with a challenge to debate.
Maher, to his credit, is always willing to openly debate. Olbermann is a typical liberal coward who has NEVER openly debated a conservative on his show, and rarely appears outside his little safe haven of MSOBAMA.…