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THE TED OFFENSIVE: Fedzillacreep Lerner

2013-06-05T15:56:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent labels IRS bureaucrat 'The Great Satan at the gate'

Fedzillacreep. It’s a verb, it’s a noun, and there is no better word to define Lois Lerner and her devious, criminal violations and those of her fellow RICO scammers at the IRS.

If there were a Fedzillacreep Hall of Shame in Washington, D.C., Ms. Lerner would be The Great Satan at the gate.

Due to her snake-like shenanigans at the IRS that resulted in conservative and patriotic nonprofit groups being delayed for tax-exempt approval, Fedzillacreep Lerner has taken a leave of absence from the IRS instead of doing the right thing: spill the beans on everything she knows and then resign in disgrace for using her taxpayer-funded position to punish Americans.

If tarring and feathering were still legal, Fedzillacreep Lerner would get it.

Instead, when presented with the opportunity to do the right thing, this Fedzillacreep took a roundabout Fifth Amendment maneuver to keep from incriminating herself and her bosses, who, when the truth finally does come out, probably ordered the hit on conservative and patriotic organizations.

Not so fascinatingly, Ms. Lerner was, and may still be, a member of the animal scam tax-exempt organization Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).

HSUS is far from your local Humane Society animal shelter that actually does good for the stray dogs and cats it takes in. HSUS is a bizzaro animal-rights organization that reportedly raked in almost $150 million in 2012.

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HSUS is a tax-exempt scam organization whose sole purpose is to generate millions and millions of dollars. It is reported that HSUS spends less than 1 percent on the care of animals. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the epitome of a sham and scam organization.

Back in May, 2010, Congressman Luetkemeyer wrote a letter to Fedzillacreep Lerner asking her to investigate HSUS’s tax-exempt status as a nonprofit organization. Fedzillacreep Lerner did not reply for a couple of years because, truth be told, she was protecting HSUS’s status as a tax-exempt organization.

Regardless of political stripes, all congressmen who still give a damn about truth should pressure the IRS to immediately revoke the tax-exempt status of HSUS.

Same goes for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). PETA is another scam animal-rights tax-exempt organization that does not care about animals, but rather promoting their anti-human ideology and generating cash. Instead of caring for animals, in 2012 PETA killed almost 90 percent of the dogs and cats it took in to “save.”

Where was the oversight of Fedzillacreep Lerner? Where were the watchdogs?

Once the fog of obfuscation, lies and deceit is blown away, the truth will come out, and we will most likely find that Fedzillacreep Lerner was merely a puppet whose strings were being manipulated by other Fedzillacreeps in positions way above her.

But the ugly and despicable reality is that our gun-running attorney general will not appoint an independent counsel with subpoena power to investigate the IRS, Benghazi, Fast and Furious or any of the other scandals that are now coming home to roost on what is turning out to be the most scandalized administration in American history.

Transparency, Mr. Obama? I think not.

[Source: WND.com]

THE TED OFFENSIVE: Bring back Woodward and Bernstein

2013-05-30T10:41:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent calls for return of 'pit-bull media' to smoke out Benghazi truth

If most of America’s media were firefighters, they would all be burned to death for refusing to aggressively fight the roaring blaze in front of them.

Instead, the media have willfully and intentionally ignored the conflagration known as Benghazi.

Hardcore investigative journalism like the 40 year-ago media pit-bull tag-team of Woodward and Bernstein that ultimately brought down Tricky Dicky appears to be dead.

Eight months later, the American public still does not know who knew what or when, or who specifically was told what and when, what their decisions were and the timetable that led to four Americans being killed and our mission burned as a direct result of glaring dereliction of duty. Four dead Americans for no good reason whatsoever. Make that five, including Brian Terry.

What we do know is that the Obama administration trotted out Susan Rice to spin a web of lies about the motivation for the attack. Were it not for talk radio and Fox News, we probably would not even know this.

Ms. Rice is a liar, and everyone knows it. What we do not know is who created and approved her web of liar talking points. With our ambassador and three other Americans dead at the hands of a gang of voodoo Muslim terrorists, we deserve to know this.

President Nixon said during the Watergate boondoggle: The American public has a right to know if their president is a crook.

Mr. Nixon was right and ultimately paid a heavy price for trying to cover the tracks of those who worked for him.

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This is not at all to imply that President Obama is a crook if we find out he merely endorsed Ms. Rice’s lies for presidential election purposes. That would just show a lack of character and integrity, kinda like an ACORN Chicago community scam artist.

However, if President Obama was involved in any way with the decision to deny proper security or fail to authorize the rescue of our ambassador and the other Americans, then it is a whole new crooked ball game.

To add insult to injury, it is now being reported that President Obama has the complete faith and confidence in Ms. Rice to be his national security adviser. Does the president know no shame?

His reported consideration of Ms. Rice to become his national security adviser is as big of a not so funny joke as it was when then-Sen. Obama selected Sen. “Fire both barrels of that shotgun into the air” Joe Biden to be his running mate in 2008.

Are there any Woodward and Bernsteins remaining, or should we start a grass-roots campaign to bring them out of their newspaper retirement to get after the Benghazi nightmare and see where the trail leads?

Thankfully, there are a few congressman and senators who still believe in uncovering the truth however ugly and embarrassing it may turn out to be. But it will take dogged persistence of an investigative journalist(s) to lift up every stone before the truth finally sees the light of day.

I am just a not-so-humble, Motown guitarslammer, and even I know that where there is smoke there is usually fire.

Investigating the obvious smoke signals still emanating from Benghazi will hopefully uncover the professional journalistic embers of someone in the media who is not afraid to lose his White House press corps badge.

Regretfully, our once proud pit-bull media has now turned into a pathetic lapdog mouthpiece for the Obama administration.

It is no wonder few Americans trust our politicians or our media. They are now in bed together.

Your country and your profession desperately need you, Mr. Woodward and Mr. Bernstein.

[Source: WND.com]

THE TED OFFENSIVE: My rock solid advice for grads

2013-05-16T09:44:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent offers no-whine keys to a successful career

A huge Nuge congratulation is in order to all the 2013 college and high school graduates across the land. You should be very proud of yourselves for a job well done.

More important than well deserved congratulations is my Uncle Ted Rock Solid proven advice to the millions of young people ready to charge forth into their new independent lives.

You will not get the following advice from your parents, professors, or government wonks. This advice comes from a lifetime of incredible sweat, sacrifice and indefatigable dogged determination to be the best musician and person thatI can. I still practice my guitar each day with a fiery passion.

Know that your handsome diploma means little to the producers out here. What matters to us most is a projection of positive, sincere buoyancy, tireless work ethic and a gung-ho commitment to be the absolute best that you can be. Unless you have these characteristics, we don’t want or need you. Keep your toothbrush at mommy and daddy’s house. You’re not going anywhere.

No one owes you. You are not entitled to anything except an opportunity, a chance to succeed. What you do with opportunity is up to you.

Everything comes from effort. You will only get what you put into it. Success comes to those who get up an hour earlier and stay an hour later and do a better job with fewer or no sick days.

Identify your professional brass ring and then get after it like a hungry animal. Push yourself to the point of exhaustion. And then push yourself harder.

Achieving success will require tremendous sacrifice. The question you need to ask yourself is: How bad do I want it?

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You will be required to constantly prove your worth. Successful companies jettison the bottom ten percent of their work force every year. Average performance will not cut it. I have never hired an average bass player to be in my band or an average anybody.

Competition is fierce in the white water rapids of the marketplace no matter what profession you choose. Surpassing the competition brings happiness and success.

If someone pays you a dollar, give them 10 dollars in effort. Following this simple credo will ensure you are never without employment.

Don’t whine and complain. No one respects or likes those who bitch. The producers are looking for people who identify problems and then get after fixing them with dogged persistence.

There are no guarantees. None. Read that again.

Life is going to knock you down. When it does, get back up. When you are going through hell, do not stop and take pictures.

Luck is luck. Never count on it. Believe in yourself and your God-given talents. Constantly practice maximizing those talents. Hone them to a razor sharp edge and never give up.

No kid has ever had a goal to grow up and be a paper-pushing bureaucrat. Do what motivates you.

Do not chase money. Money will find you if you are the best at what you do.

Associate with other incredibly talented and smart a– kickers. They are the ones who will make a difference and become successful. Whatever you do, stay away from dopers, drunks, whiners, losers, occupiers, lumps, naysayers, procrastinators and mouth-breathers. They are on the road to nowhere or worse.

On your way to the top, lend a hand to the guy behind you who deserves it and pull him up with you.

Find a hobby outside of work to recharge your batteries. Nothing beats the great outdoors. It will cleanse the soul.

Get after life with a vengeance. Sometimes you give the world the best you got, and you get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you got anyway.

[Source: WND.com]

THE TED OFFENSIVE: The 5-year Nuge immigration plan

2013-05-14T12:33:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent explains his process whereby only 'hump-busters' become citizens

If we get just one thing right regarding the immigration confusion, let’s demand common sense from our professional political clowns who could and would write a 300-page instruction manual on how to tie your shoes.

Everything worthwhile comes from maximum effort. All legal immigrants who are willing to bust their hump and prove they want to be a glowing, positive asset to America, like always, are welcome. Everyone else should be forced to vamoose back to Mexico, especially the crazy people who want America to become as rotten as the place they escaped. We don’t need any more bloodsuckers.

In America, nothing worth having comes easy or cheap. We should erect tough hurdles and tests in front of all immigrants to deter those not willing to try hard. Those who are willing to apply Herculean effort to become a productive American should have a welcome mat put out in front of them, losers not so much. We already have way more than we can handle.

The Nuge Immigration Plan (NIP) takes five years for even illegal immigrants to become Americans. Until then, they should be treated like indentured servants, meaning that they have to earn their citizenship.

The NIP is not an amnesty program. Amnesty is for left-wing mollycoddlers, losers, bureaucrats and hippies. Occupy that.

We need a real full-length, undefeatable border fence built. All illegal men in America should be required to work on building the fence, to be completed in one year. We would pay them minimum wage, provide food and shelter, and provide them English and American history classes at night. Everyone wins.

Illegal aliens trying to become an American are not eligible for any state or federal crack welfare during the five-year Nuge immigration probationary period. None. When the going gets tough, the tough Wango ze Tango.

A child of an illegal immigrant who is a member of a gang will result in the entire family being sent back to Mexico. This will result in the family being permanently barred from ever applying for citizenship in America. There are no appeals. We need strong families, not strong gangs.

Any man or woman who is a known member of a street rat gang will be tossed out of the country and is not eligible to return. If he or she is caught re-entering America, we will apply Sheriff Joe Arpaio justice.

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Because learning English in order to be an asset to your fellow Americans is the first common-sense rung on the American Dream ladder, all illegal immigrants must be fluent in the English language at the end of my five-year plan and pass a U.S. Constitution and history exam, including what a scoundrel Santa Anna was.

Any felony conviction during the five-year immigration probationary period just bought the person a one-way ticket back to his home nation – you remember, the hell hole you desperately wanted to get the hell out of. He or she will be permanently barred from ever coming back to America. We do not need any more criminal thugs.

The anchor baby scam should be immediately rescinded. You don’t need to be a constitutional expert like our president to know that the original intent of the 14th Amendment was not to provide citizenship to illegal women or their babies who are born on American soil.

Our massively ignorant, politically correct, terminally boondoggled juggernaut of a federal government should immediately cease printing any signs or literature in Spanish or any other language.

The most racist thing our government does is to print literature in Spanish, thereby encouraging people not to learn English and deny themselves all the American Dream has to offer.

Illegal Mexicans in America on the NIP pathway to citizenship should be proud of their Mexican heritage. They should be more proud to be an American and teach their children that Mexico is the old country they wanted out of. America is the new country they pledge allegiance to, because it is better. Much better.

There is an old Mexican saying that goes: Never ask God to give you anything; ask Him to put you where things are.

America is where things are, and the American Dream is worth sacrificing and busting your hump for. How bad do you want it?

[Source: WND.com]

THE TED OFFENSIVE: NRA freedom fest a huge success

2013-05-08T10:48:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent reviews convention targeting 'vile corruption and power abusers'

I raced off stage in Tampa after throttling my 6511th high energy rockout, mopped up as much dripping sweat as I could, changed into dry clothes, grabbed a Gatorade and a sack of food, hung onto my gorgeous wife, Shemane, and headed to the airport lickity split.

We landed in Houston an hour and half later, met by a commando in a black SUV, and hauled a– to the hotel across from the jam packed Sam Brown Convention Center.

Greeted by smiling, friendly families, cops, military heroes and wonderful Texans galore, we settled in for the night and prepared for what we surely knew would be a grand day of ultimate freedom celebration with great Americans from all 50 states.

Early Sunday morning, just like the last 20 or so years in a row for us, we gingerly walked into a record-setting attendance of more than 80,000 NRA member families, united to stand up and fight for our sacred God-given individual Second Amendment guaranteed right to keep and bear arms.

The positive energy is always a glorious force to reckon with at these NRA events, but this year, in the face of the most blatant, unambiguous attack ever on our rights, the mood was more upbeat and determined than I have ever seen before.

When the president of the United States has the audacity to dare claim that NRA members and law-abiding gun owning families in America don’t care about saving innocent lives because we didn’t fall for his counterproductive background check scam, one need’s to look no further for inspiration to stop the vicious lies and push back hard against such indecency.

The place was fired up. Each and every seminar, event, banquet and speech set attendance records, and the line for my charity fundraising autograph session wound around the entire arena and out the doors.

Shaking hands for hours with the friendliest, most generous people you could ever imagine, I signed books, photos, guns, bows, bullets, arrows, hats, shirts, skulls, guitars, artwork, antlers, knives, magazines, little boys’ and girls’ school books and homework, and even a couple of prosthetic limbs.

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Every man, woman, child, cop, teacher, military hero, young, old, black, white, big and small shook my hand firmly and sincerely thanked me for fighting the good fight for freedom and liberty, and for crushing the freedom-hating gun grabbers like I’ve been doing for more than 50 years.

People raved about the great motivational and inspirational speeches by Glenn Beck, Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Chris Cox, Wayne LaPierre, Oliver North and so many other super patriots.

Custom homes were given cost free to many wounded heroes of the U.S. military by the always generous donations of NRA members through the Military Warriors Support Foundation and Operation Finally Home charities.

Gobs and gobs of money was raised for more military charities and children’s charities that are never mentioned in the dishonest, unprofessional media.

I wrapped up the wonderful day with a Freedom Is Not Free speech and presentation, and thanked my fellow NRA BloodBrothers for their Herculean efforts to stop the vile corruption and power abusers who are dedicated to force Americans into unarmed helplessness.

Mayor Bloomburg is on record. Gov. Cuomo is on record. Gov. Brown is on record. Barack Obama is on record. The gun running attorney general is on record. Dianne Feinstein is on record. Dick Durbin is on record. Maxine Waters is on record. And many more freedom-hating, NRA-hating, gun-hating America haters are on record to register and confiscate our firearms.

They will continue to lie otherwise, but their evil agenda is well-known.

And the NRA members are on record that we will not let it happen.

We are on record that we will stand up and fight to the very end.

The NRA members are on record that we want real crime-fighting laws and policies. We are on record that we want crazy, life-threatening people locked up and off our streets and away from our kids. We are on record that we want existing laws against violent criminals enforced. We are on record that we don’t ever want violent offenders let out of their cages. We are on record that we want child molesters locked up forever, not registered in our neighborhoods where they repeat their vile crimes 100 percent of the time.

We are on record that we will never give up our God given individual right to self-defense or be told how many bullets we are allowed to defend ourselves and families with.

We are on record that politicians can’t charge us for professional security details then turn around and tell us we can’t protect ourselves and families with the same firepower they are protected by.

We are on record, again; don’t tread on me!

God bless the NRA, and God bless America. See you next year in Indianapolis.

[Source: WND.com]

THE TED OFFENSIVE: The Saul Alinsky plot to vilify guns

2013-05-08T10:45:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent rips tactics of 'social engineering indoctrination camps'

Like the brainwashing jihad running amok among government goons and most of America’s media, our social engineering indoctrination camps (formerly known as the public school system) clearly have it in for guns.

This is not surprising since these camps are controlled by the National Education Association, which is the largest contributor to the bigger/more-control government-approved party (formerly known as the Democratic Party).

Members of the bigger/more-control government-approved party believe guns are evil things. They believe the GOP is operating a sinister covert plan to funnel guns into inner cities so that minorities can blow holes in each other and thereby eliminate the voting base of the bigger/more-control government-approved party.

Hardly a day goes by without some kid being expelled from an NEA-controlled social engineering indoctrination camp for wearing a pro-gun T-shirt or simply drawing a picture of a gun.

While liberals proclaim they are the vanguards of free speech and tolerance, that protection only applies to their leftist, dope-inspired agenda that destroys everything it touches.

The purpose of kicking little Billy out of school for drawing a picture of a gun or wearing a pro-gun T-shirt or eating a locked and loaded pop-tart is to simply vilify guns, or in the words of Eric “Fast & Furious” Holder, to “brainwash” Americans against the Second Amendment. Achtung, baby!

However, like every other brain-dead liberal idea that backfires, kicking little Billy out of school provides him even more time to play video games, many of which are violent. You don’t need to be a school psychologist to know that little Billy plays computer and video games much more often than he cracks open a leftist, historical revisionist school book.

Our social engineering indoctrination camps are intentionally sending the message to kids and parents alike that guns are evil. Commie community organizer Saul Alinsky would be proud. It takes a very special person to dedicate his book to the devil, which must be why Hillary “No security for you” Clinton was so enamored with old Saul.

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Of course, if a kid showed up wearing a shirt with a picture of the president’s mug on it and the words “Like President Obama, I support abortion,” that would be just fine as that message fits the “fundamental transformation” agenda even though abortion, not guns, is what’s eliminating the inner-city population. The facts, however interesting, are irrelevant when they get in the way of a leftist agenda.

Alinksy-inspired radicals are not interested in facts, only to advance their anti-freedom, anti-American agenda of destroying the Second Amendment.

They once again re-kick-started their agenda by championing the banning of so-called assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

They did this because they believe these weapons and magazines could be easily demonized in the wake of numerous gun free zone slaughters. This tactic meets Commie Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals No. 12: pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

But eliminating so-called assault weapons and high-capacity magazines or passing universal background checks was not the real goal. It’s merely the start of a methodical, long-term plan to, in the words of Dianne “I’ve got my .38 right here” Feinstein, “eliminate all guns,” except hers of course.

Part of achieving the ultimate goal of disarming America is to vilify guns at every opportunity. Constantly drumming the message home that guns are evil to little Billy and Susie who attend social engineering indoctrination camps is part of the plan.

If Billy and Susie were taught the truth about guns, the leftist plan to destroy the Second Amendment unravels and swirls down the drain like body parts of the murdered babies of the Philadelphia Angel of Death.

Guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens stop crime at least 2 million times each year. NEA-controlled social engineering indoctrination camps produce way too many kids who are dumber than a Texas fence post.

[Source: WND.com]

THE TED OFFENSIVE: How to Battle the Fedzillacrats

2013-04-26T13:04:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent's not willing to accept turning U.S. into 'a turd world country'

So goes the old adage that if you place a frog in a pot of cold water and slowly turn up the heat, the frog, too stupid to feel the increasing danger, will sit in the pot and be boiled to death without jumping out to save itself.

Sadly, the same holds true for America. Too many Americans are ignorant frogs, and Uncle Sham and his band of Fedzillacrats are slowly turning up the heat to a boiling point.

Our list of failures is long and ugly, but we have arrived at the boiling point, and here we are – borrowing and spending trillions of dollars we don’t have, graduating kids who can’t read, scrambling to restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens because of what some bug-eyed lunatic did and punishing the producers while rewarding society’s slugs.

Everywhere I go, I’m stopped every single day by concerned Americans who want to express their dismay, shock, heartbreak and disappointment at the condition of America. While I lend a damaged rock ‘n’ roll ear to them, I remind them that unless they are working double overtime to reverse the kamikaze course we are on, they are part of the problem, not the solution.

Enslaving America to a life of addiction to government cheese and generational poverty while stripping them of their work ethic and pride is largely a Democratic ploy, but the Republican Party has also been guilty of turning up the heat, bringing the water to a boil.

Tough times call for tough people willing to make even tougher decisions.

America cannot sustain paying out $300,000 dollars in Medicare to recipients who, on average, have paid in only $100,000, if that. That is a roadmap for bankruptcy. Things must change.

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The Social Security Trust Fund has been raped and pillaged by greedy Fedzillacrats from both political parties, who, if there was true justice, would be tarred and feathered and run out of the District of Clowns (D.C.).

Because the fund has been robbed for decades, Social Security is now on the path to financial insolvency. It, too, must change, or it will roll over like a bloated beached whale and further stink up the place.

The GOP must fight harder and smarter to defund Obamacare. Like every other government program, it will cost much more than what we were told. The result of Obamacare will be fewer doctors and health-care providers, and the best health-care system in the world will be destroyed.

The GOP must also push like mad to once again make America the shining city on the hill for business, entrepreneurs and free enterprise. I recommend reducing the business tax rate down to 10 percent for the next 10 years. Doing this will be like pouring gas on the economic hot coals ready to burst into a roaring fire of job growth and prosperity.

Ninety-nine weeks of unemployment is social and economic suicide. I say you get nine weeks of unemployment. If you need assistance after that, contact a church. Hunger is a great motivator.

There are roughly 4,500 words in the original U.S. Constitution. I’m still waiting for a strong-minded, independent congressman to propose legislation that any new bill cannot be longer than 4,500 words. The first guy or lady to propose this will be a national hero.

I say we burn the existing U.S. tax code, which is the single biggest, most bombastic and ambiguous document in the history of the world, and replace it with a flat tax.

These are just a few common-sense ideas that require immediate attention and action if we are to get out of the dangerous pot of increased boiling water. Going broke and turning America into a turd world country is not an option I’m willing to accept.

[Source: WND.com]

THE TED OFFENSIVE: Time to Stretch Neck of Jihadist Punk

2013-04-26T13:02:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent demands swift justice for 'voodoo whack-job'

If the bombing, killings and maiming of Bostonians by the two voodoo whack-job jihadists in Boston isn’t maddening enough, the next tsunami of insults should drive any American addicted to common sense crazy.

The jihadist punk in custody is obviously guilty of committing murder, terrorist acts and a whole book of other crimes, but he won’t be brought to justice.

Justice is supposed to be swift. At least that’s how our Founding Fathers thought it should be.

Imagine if this jihadist punk had basically committed the same crimes 150 years ago. He would have been swinging from an oak tree in Boston Common no longer than 60 days from the date of his arrest. That would be justice.

But that won’t happen to this guilty voodoo vermin. If he’s ever executed, it will be many years from now after our so-called justice system goes through its strange eternal, time-wasting, court-and-lawyer maneuvers from hell. The ugly truth is that by the time this voodoo punk is executed, America will probably have had to deal with any number of other bombings and killings by other voodoo nuts.

He probably won’t go to trial for more than a year due to court-sanctioned delays. Once he’s found guilty, he will be afforded any number of appeals that will take more years, possibly more than a decade. The young voodoo nut has got a long life in front of him, thanks to America’s screwed-up justice system.

A perfect example of justice delayed is terminal voodoo mass murderer Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 soldiers and wounded 32 others at Fort Hood in 2009. Allahu Akbar, my ass.

This voodoo punk’s trial is finally set to begin on May 29 of this year – almost four long years after he shouted “Allahu Akbar” and began his voodoo-inspired rampage in yet another gun-free zone.

This four-year dastardly delay to bring this guilty punk to justice is damnable. What’s equally damnable is that our Defense Department categorizes his slaughter rampage as “workplace violence,” rather the overtly obvious act of voodoo terrorism that everyone knows it was. Workplace violence? Talk about spitting on the graves of our dead heroes.

Hasan is a voodoo terrorist who should have been the feature attraction at a neck-stretching party on the grounds of Fort Hood years ago. I would have supplied the rope, the lumber for the gallows and gladly pulled the hatch on this soulless rabid dog.

There is no excuse for constant delays and years of appeals when there is overwhelming and obvious guilt.

This isn’t justice – it’s a joke.

Justice occurred in 1865 when the all the conspirators who assisted John Wilkes Booth in assassinating President Lincoln had their necks stretched less than three months after Booth killed President Lincoln.

Had our modern system of justice been in play in 1865, Booth’s conspirators would have died in prison of old age instead of having their necks properly stretched.

There is nothing swift or just about our justice system. Turtles are speed demons compared to American jurisprudence, which has been hijacked by soulless lawyers and is being terrorized by years and years of intentionally engineered costly delays.

By the time the Boston voodoo punk’s trials, appeals and maneuvering are all exhausted and he’s finally sent to voodoo land, this legal charade will have cost the American taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. More unnecessary insults.

My dream of real justice would be a July 4 celebration of stringing this son-of-a-b-tch up in the Boston Common and letting the crows pick on his rotting flesh.

There will be no swift justice for the Boston voodoo punk. He’s got a long life ahead of him. How pathetic.

[Source: WND.com]

THE TED OFFENSIVE: The Philly Angel of Death

2013-04-26T13:00:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent on Kermit Gosnell: 'A snip of his spinal column would be in order'

One should be careful to dare draw parallels or analogies to Nazis, as the Nazis raised the evil bar to unspeakable heights in terms of human savagery and genocide.

However, every so often a story so savage, so cold, so sickening and so brutal comes along that the only comparison is to the Nazis who butchered 6 million Jews.

We haven’t heard much about this sickening story because the major media don’t want you to. This brutal, vicious and heartbreaking story doesn’t fit their agenda; in fact, is directly counter to their agenda.

The story is that a demonic mass-murdering machine is on trial in Philadelphia. He’s not your typical psychotic killer like the bug-eyed deranged mad men who slaughtered innocent Americans in a theater, on a shopping center parking lot and at a grade school. He is, however, equally as sick, twisted and evil.

The killing machine is a psycho who performed abortions and is now on trial for murder because he murdered babies born alive and then “snipped” their heads off.

This killer has a name, but he should be known as the Angel of Death after the infamous Nazi Josef Mengele who performed “experiments” on live humans and then killed them.

This Philly Angel of Death is charged with at least eight murders of live, helpless infants. He could face the death penalty and should if convicted. A snip of his spinal column would be in order.

What the Philly Angel of Death did will turn the stomachs of all Americans who have an ounce of compassion. But it hasn’t turned the stomachs of the major media who have a pro-abortion bias.

This is arguably the murder trial of the century, yet the nation’s major media have turned a blind eye to it because it doesn’t fit their pro-abortion/pro-women’s rights scam/agenda.

The major media know that if they covered the story honestly and reported on the savagery of the Angel of Death, it would cause many Americans to reel in shock and horror and become pro-life. The story is that vile, repugnant and disgusting. Google it.

But let’s hypothetically view the Philly Angel of Death through another lens.

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Hypothetically, let’s say the Angel of Death used a so-called assault weapon and blew the heads off of a dozen or so newborn babies at his abortion clinic.

This would be the biggest story since 9/11. Major network reporters would be camped out in front of the courthouse 24/7 to cover the trial. It would be the media event of the century.

The major media would work double-overtime to try and convince Americans that restricting guns is the way forward to keep America safe from savage psychotics.

Talking heads and politicians would yammer incessantly that more gun control laws and restrictions need to be passed in order to save helpless little babies, that the availability of guns is largely to blame for violence in America.

Our staunchly pro-abortion president who voted for these “late term abortions” would call for “Say It Ain’t So” Joe Biden to lead another thinly veiled anti-violence commission that is really aimed at restricting the rights of law-abiding Americans to own guns.

All this would be because the major media hate guns and support abortion, regardless that the Angel of Death is literally on trial for murdering newborn babies.

Reasonable Americans know the major media lean hard left. This is why fewer and fewer Americans get their news from the once all-powerful Big Three. No one watches them or trusts them any more. The school of Dan Rather liberal-spin journalism is dead.

Look up the story of Philadelphia abortion murderer. Read it and then ask yourself: Why isn’t this the No. 1 story in America?

The reason is entrenched bias by the major media who are obsessed with providing cover for their hero president. Like their hero, they hate guns and support abortion. Shame on them. Shame on them all.

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THE TED OFFENSIVE: Boston Massacre II

2013-04-26T12:56:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent explains why 'liberal logic is evil's best friend'

As I write this, the cops don’t appear to have any solid leads or suspects in the Boston Massacre II.

The president pledged to bring the individuals or organizations responsible for this massacre to justice. Good for him. But I don’t believe him.

The president also promised to do the same for the terrorists who killed four of our citizens and torched our mission in Libya. So far, nothing. He should have provided proper security that was requested time and time again to have prevented the attack. Go figure.

Though no Libyan terrorists have been apprehended, the president continues to argued that punishing law-abiding Americans will somehow magically protect Americans from murderous bug-eyed psychotics. The very concept is terminally flawed: that liberal dog don’t hunt.

Regardless the flavor of psychosis, the terror America faces is planned and executed by evil, soulless lunatics. Whether its religious voodoo nutjobs or young men with loose screws or strung out on doctor-prescribed pharmaceuticals, the enemies we face are a potpourri of over-the-rainbow kooks, flakes, crackpots, screwballs, cranks and evil nuts who could stand facing a sandstorm and not bat an eye.

Sane people don’t shoot up schools, movie theaters, or shopping malls, fly planes into buildings – or put bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Only crazy, evil people with severely loose screws arrive at those whacky conclusions.

Reports are the cops screened the finish line area looking for bombs and weirdos prior to the race. There appeared to be plenty of cops in the immediate area when the bombs went off.

The lesson here is that while the good guys of the thin blue line do what they can, a crackpot intent on blowing up Americans has a reasonably good chance of setting off bombs without getting caught.

Wringing your hands and hoping you’re not in the frag pattern of the next bomb is not a meaningful strategy unless you are a frightened liberal who needs a conservative to protect you.

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There are things we can do to make America safe.

Using the president’s logic of punishing the law-abiding for the acts of the deranged, should the psycho who bombed the Boston Marathon be found to be from a Middle Eastern country, we should immediately cancel all student visas and work permits for people from the Middle East. As my buddy Toby Keith sings, “put a boot in their ass,” and send them all home on the next available flight.

Arm yourself. Now while arming yourself is not a deterrent to psychotic religious wormbrains building bombs in their basement, it is a deterrent to the paroled punks who are looking for their next victim.

Keep things in perspective. You are much more likely to be a victim of a paroled thug than being blown up by a religious voodoo kook. Blowing holes in paroled punks is a great crime-control strategy and a proven deterrent that reduces the overall violent crime rate. Dead bad guys don’t repeat crimes. Never forget, the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy. I recommend ticker-tape parades for people who dust bad guys.

So long as liberals champion keeping nuts out of nuthouses, there is little we can do to keep lunatics from gaining access to guns, gas, knives, blowtorches or bomb-filled Buicks and committing mayhem.

We should arm a few teachers to protect our kids. Our shopping malls should follow billionaire Warren Buffet’s lead in allowing shoppers with concealed carry permits into his Nebraska Furniture Mart in Omaha.

Common sense will protect us. Liberal logic is evil’s best friend.

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THE TED OFFENSIVE: A tomahawk chop to political correctness

2013-04-17T21:41:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent asserts changing team names won't help his 'Indian BloodBrothers'

Every so often some numbskull beats the politically correct war drum protesting the names of sports teams.

The terminally disconnected claim the names of the some teams and their mascots are insensitive, even offensive, to Native Americans. Classic names like the Washington Redskins, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Chiefs, Chicago Blackhawks.

My advice: Don’t swing at their politically correct spitballs.

If there are Native Americans whose feathers are ruffled over the names of sports teams, I submit that they are sorely focused on all the wrong things.

But that’s what too many Americans do – waste time and energy focusing on things that matter about as much as a giant ball of string.

There are many other issues that should demand our attention instead of talking about how insensitive the “Tomahawk Chop” is to Native Americans.

If we want to focus on the plight of Native Americans, call me crazy horse, but maybe we should start by addressing issues that truly matter most and would actually save Indian’s lives.

The high school dropout rates for American Indians is the highest in the nation.

How about focusing on the disastrous unemployment rate of American Indians, which is near 15 percent?

Suicide rates of American Indian males are twice that of other American males.

Alcoholism rates among American Indians are double that of other ethic groups.

The infant mortality rates among Native Americans are the highest in the nation. No one reports on that.

Abject poverty is the norm on reservations.

These brutally ugly and heartbreaking conditions are the real modern trail of tears, but what’s really disgusting is that a Motown guitar player has to shine a light on the tragedy.

According to the politically correct numbskulls, focusing on the supposedly insensitive names of sports teams somehow matters, and changing the names of the teams will somehow miraculously improve the lot of American Indians.

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They are wrong as usual.

There are wafting smoke signals of real distress coming from the American Indian community that are being ignored. These are the life and death issues that actually matter, not pushing a brain-dead agenda to get sports teams to change their names.

Political correctness doesn’t fix anything. The cult of denial that is political correctness masks what matters most, which is why I refer to it as a social cancer that should be eradicated.

Because of my clean and sober, hands-on conservation bowhunting lifestyle and song “The Great White Buffalo,” Native American tribes have invited me to teach their young people how to reconnect with the land and teach them how to bow hunt the mighty American bison. It was in their midst that I learned firsthand about the terrible problems facing my Indian BloodBrothers.

We have a choice: actually doing good by focusing on real issues, or just feeling good by lobbying to get the names of sports teams changed.

Those of you who focus on feel-good issues aren’t helping one bit. More often than not, genuine quality-of-life upgrade comes from facing the painful demons and putting forth honest effort to rectify entrenched mistakes.

“Above the canyon walls, strong eyes did glow. It was the leader of the land, the Great White Buffalo! So listen everybody to what I got to say. There’s hope for tomorrow if we wake up today!”

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THE TED OFFENSIVE: An open letter to Jim Carrey

2013-04-17T21:38:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent whacks actor for 'cheap, soulless and cowardly shot' against hero

Welcome to the party, Mr. Carrey.

You’ve got every right to lampoon whomever you want, including one of mankind’s greatest and most courageous civil rights hero-warriors of all times, the deceased Charlton Heston.

However, when you dip your toe into the raging whitewater rapids of the culture war, be prepared for the consequences.

Irreverent humor provides me enormous quality of life, and as a big fan of Lenny Bruce, Sam Kinison and Richard Pryor (especially when he was on fire), my outrage comedy meter is red-lined on a daily basis for all the right reasons. But poking fun at a deceased man who lived an honorable life in order to express your pathetic anti-gun ignorance was a cheap, soulless and cowardly shot.

The facts, however interesting, appear to be lost on you, Michael Moore, Piers Morgan and others gagged by the curse of denial when it comes to the self-evident truth of the Second Amendment.

The misidentified “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines you despise and want to ban are rarely used in crimes. More people choke on Cheerios.

According to the FBI, in 2011 there were roughly 12,600 murders in America. All rifles, including so-called assault weapons, accounted for 360 murders. Four times as many people were stabbed to death than were killed with rifles. Clearly you and your ilk are not being honest about wanting to save lives.

You may have noticed by living in the Los Angeles area that the thugs who are killing each other on L.A.’s streets do not use so-called assault weapons.

Banning certain firearms may make you feel good, but it will do nothing to reduce the violence on America’s streets or save any lives.

There’s a huge chasm between feeling good and actually doing good, and it never includes comedic schtick.

Reducing violence is a complex problem, but advocating limiting the freedoms of law-abiding citizens is clearly the wrong first move.

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I’m routinely asked why I need a so-called assault weapon. That’s easy: I want a dozen or so and don’t believe I need to justify my pursuit of a constitutionally guaranteed freedom to anyone.

These utilitarian weapons are incredibly fun to shoot, standard competition arms, an excellent choice for self-defense and are superb big game hunting and varmint control instruments.

While so-called assault weapons may look like military guns, they are not military assault rifles. This rudimentary fact has been intentionally confused or ignored by people who want to ban these weapons.

Millions of Americans like me own the very weapons and high-capacity magazines you despise. Our guns and high-capacity magazines will never hurt anyone.

That’s what makes gun owners and the NRA very suspicious of gun-grabbers like you and the president’s team. We know your focus is wrong and punishes millions of law-abiding Americans who have done nothing wrong. There’s nothing funny about that.

To believe that somehow banning a type of gun will make Americans safer from psychotics hell-bent on mass murder is bizzaro logic that does not pass the common-sense test.

The warning signs couldn’t have been any bolder regarding the psychotic punk who killed those attending the movie in Colorado, the psycho who killed those kids and their teachers in Connecticut, or the bug-eyed psychotic who killed the people at Congresswoman Giffords’ event in Arizona.

We willfully chose to ignore these blatant warning signs and do nothing about them, except to ultimately blame the NRA.

Ignoring such glaring warning signs is analogous to seeing a coiled rattlesnake and choosing to step on it in hopes that it won’t bite. And then when it does strike, people such as yourself blame the boots you are wearing.

If you want to make America safer from these obvious psychotics, we need to get them off the streets and into secured facilities.

Additionally, we need to slam shut the revolving door of our so-called criminal justice system that daily releases recidivistic violent thugs on America’s streets.

Just a thought, but Mr. Obama and his Department of Justice might want to consider once again prosecuting federal gun crimes, the rate of which are substantially down in this administration.

These measures would actually accomplish something and wouldn’t punish law-abiding citizens or make them victims.

The facts are in: Gun control in America, just like in Canada and elsewhere,is an abject failure as a crime-control measure. We have over 20,000 local, state and national gun control laws in America. To think that passing another couple of laws or restrictions is going to somehow prevent another massacre and make America safe is pure folly.

The NRA, of which I’m a proud lifer and Board of Director member, stands for freedom and will stand in the way of anti-freedom gun-grabbers who want to feel good but won’t accomplish anything to make America safer.

As ugly and demeaning as it was, I wholeheartedly support your First Amendment right to spew your anti-gun views and use the deceased Mr. Heston as your prop.

I also support the Second Amendment freedoms that millions of Americans enjoy. I have and will continue to vigorously support this constitutionally guaranteed freedom.

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THE TED OFFENSIVE: Cops, caseworkers terrorize New Jersey family

2013-04-02T15:22:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent invites rifle-loving boy to his ranch for shooting bonanza

To know the culture war is raging and that gun rights are the tip of the spear, you need to look no further than what happened to the Moore family who live in Carneys Point, N.J.

Shawn Moore, the father of a good son doing good things, posted an online picture of his smiling and proud boy holding his new rifle. The rifle was the son’s birthday present, the kind of present given to millions of good kids by millions of good parents across America for time immemorial.

The innocent picture of the smiling young boy brought out New Jersey Department of Children and Family caseworkers and the local cops, who reportedly were dressed in black raid gear and wearing body armor.

Reportedly, the dangerously disconnected unprofessionals from the New Jersey Department of Children and Family threatened to take the Moore children from the home for no good reason whatsoever.

Reports are the local cops wanted to search the family home but that Shawn Moore put his attorney on the phone, who told the cops that if they wanted to search the home they would have to first go and get a search warrant. As if the cops didn’t know this already.

The family attorney was spot-on in telling the cops to get a search warrant and for saying that this could have all been avoided with a simple phone call.

It breaks my law-enforcement heart to know that this young boy may now have a frightening and negative image of cops and other authorities for this over-reaction and unnecessarily unprofessional conduct. I can’t blame the lad if he does. What he and his family experienced was scary, ugly, wrong and heavy handed.

How do you explain to the Moore boy that what happened to him was wrong, that the authorities were blatantly abusing power, that there is nothing wrong with the picture and what his father did when his experience tells him otherwise?

What happened to the Moore family is not the America I know and love – the land of the free and home of the brave. What happened reminds me of the actions of some secret police goonsquad in a commie-infested, Third-World cesspool of a country where people are trampled upon by the authorities with reckless abandon.

Someone should be fired for doing this to this young boy and his family, but I bet no one will. That’s not how the out-of-control bureaucracy engine is tuned in these corrupt, troubling times. There is zero accountability among bureaucrat punks who are drunk on power.

If the individual in charge of the New Jersey Department of Children and Family has an ounce of integrity, he or she will offer their resignation. Same goes for the chief of police.

The city cops and the New Jersey Department of Children and Family should publicly apologize to the family, beg them for forgiveness and inform the public of the changes they have made to their procedures so that other families won’t experience the terror that the Moore family felt.

There is no justification for what happened –- not the massacre at Sandy Hook or the slaughter in Aurora. The only excuse for raiding a family home because of a picture of a smiling young boy holding his new rifle is because some bureaucrats are stoned on abuse of power and the insanity of nonsensical hyper fear of guns. Case closed.

It is my hope that someday the entire Moore family could come to the Nugent ranch for a day of firearms fun under the freedom-drenched Texas sun. The young Moore boy and his family could celebrate the time-honored, quality shooting sport that ultimately teaches the “aim small, miss small” marksmanship discipline that tens of millions of American families enjoy week in and week out in every state in the nation. We will spend the day together blazing away with a variety of weapons, hunting varmints, checking traps, eating venison barbecue and going on four wheel drive excursions where no man has gone before.

Note to the soulless bureaucrats: We are going to take plenty of pictures and post them all over the Internet because this is how good, law-abiding American families spend our time. And the Texas authorities will smile with approval, because they do the same good, proper, legal things.

[Source: WND.com]

THE TED OFFENSIVE: Woo-hoo! State OK's teachers with guns

2013-03-25T14:15:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent applauds South Dakota law that defies 'leftist goons'

If you are addicted to common sense and logic, South Dakota should bring a smile to your face.

These sensible Americans just passed a law allowing teachers to carry weapons in school as a means to protect their students from terminal psychos hell-bent on committing mass murder.

This is good and further proof that all is not lost.

Allowing teachers to chose to carry a concealed weapon is the right way to go. While the NRA and common-sense Americans support putting armed guards in schools, for those districts who can’t afford an armed guard, allowing teachers to carry a concealed weapon is sound and wise policy.

The hand-wringing lefties are already protesting South Dakota’s law. They are claiming arming teachers will lead to accidental shootings and will make schools more dangerous.

As usual, they are wrong and hypocrites of the first degree. The D.C. school where the president’s daughters attend reportedly has 11 armed guards. Hey, if it’s good enough for the president’s kids, why isn’t it good enough for all schools?

Utah has permitted teachers to carry personal artillery for over a decade with not a single accidental shooting.

Hell, I’ve had unlimited access to unlimited firepower my entire 64 years and have been a rock-solid asset to my fellow man forever.

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We heard the same hyper paranoid argument from the anti-gun crowd when states began passing concealed-carry laws. They and their left-leaning supporters in the media claimed this would lead to more violence, that there would be shoot-outs at stoplights, in shopping centers, blah blah blah. Of course, none of this has come to pass, and there are literally millions of Americans with concealed-carry permits. Like my good friend John Lott proved, “More guns equal less crime.” Duh.

The left has lied for decades about guns because they hate guns, despise the Second Amendment and blame the NRA families for crime and violence in our cities.

Truth is, it is the socialist stooges who are responsible for violence. It is their policies that prevent good guys from arming and protecting themselves and creates the big lie of “gun free” slaughter zones.

It isn’t just anti-gun leftist policies that have enabled thugs to breed and prosper. The violence on America’s streets is the result of a number of other leftist big-government policies that have worked to destroy families and entire communities by discouraging accountability and rewarding dangerous behavior.

That’s the turbo destructo modus operandi of the socialists: Intentionally destroy something and then claim the solution to fix it is always more government, more laws, more control and less freedom.

South Dakota is blessed not to have many of these socialist nutjobs running around and trying to ruin it like they have done in virtually every big city in America where gangland random violence is the status quo.

The question is: Do you want to protect school children or not?

South Dakota voted yes by allowing teachers to carry weapons. Had the left got their way, South Dakota kids would have been put at risk to a horrible Sandy Hook tragedy.

Indeed, South Dakota teachers who choose to carry should routinely practice with their weapons to ensure they are proficient with their guns. School districts should provide funds for teachers to purchase ammunition so they can routinely practice and train adequately.

I’ve got my own line of high-performance ammunition and gladly offer to provide ammunition for South Dakota school teachers’ training at reduced cost.

Good people want to protect our children. Leftist stooges want to create conditions for evil to flourish. They don’t care one bit about protecting kids.

Never trust leftist goons. They will put you and your children at risk to advance their socialist, anti-freedom agenda.

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THE TED OFFENSIVE: A liar for national security adviser?

2013-03-25T14:13:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent says America deserves better than Obama's Benghazi storyteller

The Catholic cardinals selected a new pope this week. If the cardinals had followed the playbook of the Obama administration, they would have chosen Beelzebub as the next pope.

Rumor has it the president is considering Susan Rice as the next national security adviser. She may be slightly more qualified for this position than Curly from the Three Stooges, but I wouldn’t bet on it. At least Curly wasn’t a dishonest puppet of the scammer in chief.

The only thing most Americans know about Ms. Rice is that she, obviously under orders, intentionally lied to the American public regarding what drove the voodoo extremists to attack our mission in Benghazi, Libya, and kill four Americans including our ambassador.

The truth is that Ms. Rice blatantly lied to the American people for a week or so after the attack, which occurred on the anniversary of 9/11. Ms. Rice claimed that the attack was the result of an anti-Muslim video. Sure, and the president really does believe in the Second Amendment – and I’m a gay pirate playing harp in a country band.

Ms. Rice served on President Clinton’s national anti-security team in 1994. What happened back then is worse than lying to the American public about Benghazi.

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After turning tail and running away from Somalia instead of leveling that cesspool, the Clinton national anti-security team recommended we not intervene and stop the Rwanda genocide, which led to more than 800,000 men, women and children being hacked to death by machete in yet another gun-free zone slaughter of innocents.

The real bizzaro anti-logic missteps do not fall saquarely on Ms. Rice but rather on our president who selects people for important positions who are imminently unqualified. I give you “Say It Ain’t So, Joe” Biden who sits atop the mountain of incompetence and wears a glowing crown of buffoonery.

For whatever reason, President Obama has a knack for picking public servants who wouldn’t be qualified to sell peanuts at Yankee Stadium. Maybe these bozos make the president feel smart when he’s surrounded by such ignorant left-wing kooks.

America deserves better than a liar like Susan Rice. The president should keep her where she belongs at the international den of liars, tyrants, killers, thieves, commies, voodoo nuts, socialists and other human debris who infest the United Nations.

Decisions have consequences. Because we chose poorly last November, we not only get liars forced upon us, but our nation is also represented by tax cheats, gun runners, anti-freedom zealots, apologists and a bevy of other socialist bozos that we will have to humorously tolerate for the next four years.

Meanwhile, our lapdog media who are curled up around the feet of the president wouldn’t dare ask Ms. Rice who told her to lie to the American people about Benghazi. They wouldn’t think to ask her about her involvement in the decision to allow 800,000 people to be hacked to death in Rwanda.

The media are full of Obama bootlickers and cowards who wouldn’t dare get out of line like Bob Woodward courageously did, then get threatened for merely doing his job and reporting the truth. Mr. Woodward claims the White House basically told him to either shut up and toe the line or have his media credentials permanently sequestered. Welcome to the First Amendment Warrior club, Bob.

For the president to even consider Susan Rice as national security adviser shows contempt for the American people and the security of America.

Thanks to patriotic Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, Fox News and a few other real patriots, the stink of Benghazi isn’t going away. Sooner or later someone is going to have to tell the truth. How about them apples, Ms. Rice?

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THE TED OFFENSIVE: No bailout for Motown

2013-03-13T11:08:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent disagrees with GOP guv pushing state help for bankrupt Detroit

My beloved Motor City is bleeding to death.

The facts are that Detroit is a financial wreck, an unmitigated disaster, a sheer cataclysmic catastrophe – you pick. No doubt all of the above.

Good Gov. Rick Snyder has decided to step in and see what he can do to save Detroit. He is appointing an Emergency Financial Manager in an attempt to solve Motown’s self-imposed financial hemorrhaging.

The Democratic Party that has controlled Detroit for decades is obviously opposed to Gov. Synder’s approach.

“Today, Governor Snyder has decided to unilaterally take over control of the City of Detroit from its democratically elected leaders. This is nothing but a hostile takeover,” said Lon Johnson, Michigan Democratic Party chairman.

As expected, Organized Labor also has a problem with Gov. Synder’s approach. Their leadership basically said the same thing as Lon Johnson.

I’m siding with Lon Johnson and Organized Labor. Let local government solve Detroit’s problems. Government always works best at the local level.

Motown’s citizens duly elected their city’s leadership. Now is the time to let them lead Detroit without state or federal meddling.

The last thing Detroit or any other American city on the brink of financial disaster needs is financial meddling, including a bailout, from the state or federal government.

What the city fathers of Detroit need to do is hunker down and solve the city’s own financial hemorrhaging.

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While I fully support Motown’s elected representatives’ decision to solve their own problems, what we must not support is Detroit’s leadership to continue begging, tattered hat in hand, for a financial bailout from the state or federal government.

Not all of Detroit’s elected wisdom supports that line of independent thinking. You may recall Detroit City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson when she stated that because Detroit citizens overwhelming supported the president in the last election that the federal government should step in and bail out Detroit with a little quid pro quo.

I don’t think so. Enough with the artificial welfare scam already.

There will be loud voices on both sides of the political spectrum that say we can’t let Detroit fail – that it’s too big, too important to fail.

They would be wrong. Unlike President Obama, I don’t believe anything should be too big or too important to fail. If Motown’s elected leaders can’t fix Detroit, then it should wither on the vine and die to serve as an example how not to run a city.

If the mighty Motown is to survive, its leadership is going to have to get mighty frugal and creative. Without more steep cuts across the board that will dramatically impact unionized city employees, it won’t end well for Detroit. The city will bleed to death and die, as it should.

The Detroit city fathers and sisters and Organized Labor are right, and Gov. Synder is wrong. Let Detroit solve its own problems – sink or swim. Either way, Detroit will serve as an example how not to run a city, or a country for that matter. This ought to be interesting.

That the epicenter of productivity, work ethic, neighborliness, goodwill and decency that was my wonderful birth city, until liberal Democrats engineered its embarrassing demise, a virtual shining city on the beautiful Detroit River and Great Lakes, could have fallen so far is a teaching moment if anyone is paying attention. Reverse course or perish. MotorCity Madhouse indeed.

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THE TED OFFENSIVE: Chicago solution: More cages for gangstas

2013-03-06T10:31:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent advocates tough sentencing, guns in the hands of law-abiding

Ever the community organizer, President Obama was recently back home in Chicago promoting his gun-ban proposals.

The president also spoke about the need for stronger families and lamented that his father flew the coop when Mr. Obama was just 2 years old.

No doubt, the issue of how to reduce violence is a complicated one. Liberals believe that taking guns away is a foundational platform for reducing violence and making America’s communities safe and strong.

Anti-gunners are wrong, and Chicago is proof. The Windy City requires gun owners to be fingerprinted, pass a background check and a training class, and pay a hefty tax that is often times higher than the price of the gun.

Since 1972, in order to purchase any gun, any bullet, even BBs and pellets for air rifles, Illinois’ residents must grovel for a Firearms Owners ID card. I believe this “infringing” law is akin to regulations in Cuba. Go figure.

Arguably, if stiff gun-control measures worked, Chicago should be one of the nation’s most peaceful and serene cities. But it’s not.

Chicago is one of the nation’s, the world’s, most violent cities. In 2012, Chicago gangstas killed over 500 other Chicago gangstas and, horrifically, a number of innocent bystanders as well. Quite apparently, Windy City gangstas aren’t following Chicago’s gun laws – or any laws for that matter – which are some of the most restrictive in the country.

So, if very restrictive gun laws aren’t working, let’s approach the problem of curbing violence in other ways.

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Let’s start by permanently removing the thugs off the streets by passing a law that if a person uses a gun in the commission of a crime that the person will be put in a cage for the remainder of his life.

Yes, that will require more cages and more cages will be expensive. The question is: Would you rather pay for more cages or have your city be a war zone?

Let’s cut to the chase. The violent gangstas are damaged beyond repair. They cannot be rehabilitated. They don’t respect your life or their own lives. They have been programmed to a life of violence. Putting them in a cage for the remainder of their lives is the best solution, short of being eliminated by their next gun-toting victim.

While we are building more cages for the gangstas to fill, let’s reduce the gun restrictions so that law-abiding folks can arm themselves to protect themselves and their loved ones.

President Obama doesn’t support law-abiding citizens having the right to pack a gun. In a statement he gave to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in 2008, he said, “I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.”

As is always the case, the statistics and facts prove the president wrong. Folks with concealed carry permits are the nation’s most law-abiding citizens. Very few concealed carry permits are ever revoked.

Knowing this, let’s reverse course and arm the good guys in Chicago and other inner-city war zone towns like Detroit and Baltimore. Studies have shown that where there are good guys with guns, crime subsides.

I agree with the president that families with a father and mother are ultimately the key to reducing violence. I suspect many of the Chicago gangstas wouldn’t know their father if he walked up to them and introduced himself.

Repairing the damage the president’s own party has heaped on black Americans is the greatest of challenges and the key to ultimately reducing violence.

You don’t need to be a sociologist to know that the social welfare programs advocated and funded by the Democratic Party for the past 50 years have caused more destruction and devastation to black American families and communities than guns. The Democratic Party, not the NRA, is the root cause of the violence in our inner cities. The Democrats have brainwashed the sheeple to believe that there is an excuse for everything and everyone else is to blame. That is the recipe for cultural suicide.

The Democratic Party is not likely to reverse course and risk losing the black vote. And it’s also guaranteed that all the gun restrictions and infringements the Democrats support will never reduce the violence on Chicago’s streets.

Let’s reverse course. We’ve tried the Democrats’ solution, and it’s an unmitigated disaster.

It’s time to implement the tried and true reality that an armed society is a polite society, as long as the gangstas are removed.

[Source: WND.com]

THE TED OFFENSIVE: I honor blacks – the Dems destroy them

2013-02-22T15:49:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent points out irony of Obama policies' ill effect on community

It’s been said that history is written by the winners. It that’s true, black Americans won’t be doing any writing as it pertains to this era in America.

With February being Black History Month, historians looking back at this timeframe studying black Americans will judge it as a complete and total disaster. And they won’t blame President Bush.

Barack Obama, the guy who received roughly 93 percent of black American votes, is the clear and present engineer of the destruction of black America.

It’s not all the president’s fault, but the economic and social policies he endorses are destroying what is left of a once proud and strong black America.

As a MotorCity Motown guy whose gravity-defying career pivots on my intense adulation for my black musical heroes, it pains me deeply to witness this self-inflicted destructo derby. The destruction of blacks has been engineered by President Obama’s party for at least the last 50 years. The New Deal was a raw deal, and The Great Society experiment didn’t turn out to be so great after all. It has been an unmitigated disaster for black Americans.

Today, the unemployment rate for adult black Americans is twice that of white Americans. Teenage black unemployment is at a staggering 40 percent.

The high school drop out rate for black Americans in some inner cities is above 50 percent. Only 66 percent of black youth graduate from high school – the lowest in the country.

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Black-on-black crime is epidemic. Our inner cities are cesspools of gangland violence. Cities such as Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis and so many others see young black men gunned down by other young black men on a nightly basis. Interestingly, these “gun free zone” cities have been controlled by Democratic mayors for years, often decades.

All too often black children are now raised in single-parent households with no father in their lives. Almost 75 percent of black kids are now raised in a single-parent household. What a pity, what a shame.

With all this unbelievable negative information, what is more unbelievable is that black Americans continue to support Democratic politicians who have raped and plundered black America forever.

It was a damnable lie when Vice President Biden stated at a campaign rally attended by many black Americans last fall that if the country elected Republicans they would “put y’all back in chains.” What a disgrace and clown Vice President Biden is. He’s a national embarrassment.

The truth is that the Democratic Party has been the engineer of the destruction of black Americans, and everyone knows it except the very people who need to know it the most – black Americans.

The turbo-destruction will continue for black Americans until they realize that dirty Democrat politicians are their true enemy, not their salvation. Fortunately, some are beginning to embrace this self-evident truth.

The truth will set those black Americans free who want to be free, who want to be the best they can be, who want to leave their grandchildren a better, stronger America.

Indeed, the tapestry of black America is rich and vibrant. I don’t celebrate Black History Month. I celebrate it every day, as my very black-inspired musical dreams could not have been successful were it not for black Americans.

My fire-breathing musical career was literally launched by black musical thundergods such as Bo Diddly, Little Richard, James Brown, Wilson Picket, Sam & Dave, Albert King, BB King, Freddie King, the mighty Funk Brothers, and the epitome of Rock ‘n’ Roll Gods, the master, Chuck Berry. The music these gentlemen created gave birth to my music and all great, moving, soulful music. We owe it all to them.

Regrettably, the study of modern-day black history by future historians will not be bright or rich. I predict the fundamental blame for this will be laid at the feet of the Democratic Party.

There is no doubt that my 2013 tour will be the best of my life. With world-class virtuosos paying tribute to our black heroes nightly, it is only fitting that this year’s tour is aptly titled, “Ted Nugent Black Power 2013.” Say it loud: my music is black and I’m proud!

[Source: WND.com]

THE TED OFFENSIVE: The Redcoats are here – but not to worry

2013-02-20T15:33:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent notes AR-15s are now 'as scarce as facts on a Piers Morgan show'

At the tender age of 64.3 years of age, clean and sober for all 64.3 years, my glowing quality of life comes from honing my spiritual radar to maximum efficiency through gung-ho discipline and addiction to the inebriating characteristics of a higher level of awareness. I kill dinner with self-propelled sharp sticks; there is no Plan B for this guitar player.

My spirit cup runneth over more voluminously than ever before, wrapping up the most joyful, ferocious rock ‘n’ roll tour of my life, as I celebrate the most venison-infested hunting season ever. I cannot help being a force to reckon with. I am so “we the people” I can’t help myself.

And I’m not so lovingly referred to as Mr. Deadend Brickwall, Door Slamming Czar because I acquiesce, retreat, whimper or surrender. Like my brother the American bison, I face and embrace the howling cultural and political storms of the day.

On a personal level I like the terminally liberal, limey, Redcoat sheep Piers Morgan. I’ve been on his CNN program talking about guns, ammo, freedom and hunting – things I live, that he knows zero about.

In order to raise his CNN bottom-of-the-barrel television ratings, Piers, like Obama, has been attempting to use the Newtown massacre to raise his pathetic non-ratings by resorting to a nightly attack on the Second Amendment, the NRA and so-called “assault weapons.”

Newsflash for he the sheeple Redcoat Piers: No so-called assault weapon was used in the grisly murders of the children and teachers in Newton, Conn. NBC has reported the butcher used four handguns, and though we can all agree that anything reported by the networks and so much of the media should be disbelieved out of hand, even if the Bushmaster modern sporting rifle were used in the demonic slaughter of innocents, semi-automatics are not “assault weapons.” Period.

Piers’ primary problem is that he’s from England, a withering, spineless nation of ever eroding sheep that does not respect the right to life, liberty or pursuit of happiness and the natural instinct/right to protect those rights with a gun.

What Piers hasn’t told his audience and will not tell his audience, but I was able to drive home to his audience, is that gun-related crime dramatically increased in not-so-great Britain after England banned the private ownership of guns in 1997. Horrifically, it has been the innocent victims of savage crimes that have been incarcerated for clear and simple acts of self-defense while the violent repeat perpetrators go free. Same is true in Australia.

Piers proclaims he respects our Second Amendment, but his nightly hysterical diatribe regarding so-called assault weapons and high-capacity magazines gives pause to America’s gun owners and those interested in objectivity and the facts. The facts, however interesting, are lost on Piers. Until I show up.

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Piers doesn’t like so-called assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. He and other freedom-bashers believe America would be safer without these guns and magazines. The facts speak otherwise.

Rifles, of which so-called assault weapons are a subset, were used in less than 3 percent of murders in 2011, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports. According to the FBI, many more people were stabbed or beaten to death than were killed with rifles. Clearly, the FBI’s facts show that banning so-called assault weapons will not make America any safer. Let’s see if Piers has enough journalistic integrity to admit this most basic of truths.

Secondly, the AR-15 is not classified as an assault weapon. Though it may look like a military weapon, it functions much differently than a military assault weapon. The AR-15 has more in common with a common .22 semi-automatic squirrel rifle than a military assault weapon. Being from England, Piers wouldn’t understand that. The brainwashing there was complete long ago.

The very question “Why do you need an assault weapon?” is fundamentally flawed, as are the majority of loony liberal questions/statements about guns, but I will answer anyway.

As a free man, I never thought my freedom was based upon some blowhard’s or bureaucrat’s needs-assessment. I “want” a semi-automatic rifle that can shoot 30 bullets without reloading and a Corvette that goes from 0 to 60 mph in under four seconds and an old Ford Bronco that will climb up your face if the need arises.

AR-15s and other semi-automatic rifles are fun, accurate, dependable and well-built. They are wonderful varmint guns and will cut a recidivist, paroled maggot or methhead in half. I don’t have a coyote problem on my ranch. Coyotes and other varmints have a Ted problem thanks to my bevy of assorted AR-15 style fun guns, Gibson guitars and so many other fine American-made weapons.

As a free man whose forefathers tossed out King George by killing his soulless henchmen, I highly distrust and despise any person or government who would ban a gun based purely on its looks or because it can hold more than seven bullets. Americans should not trust a government that does not trust them with a basic semi-automatic rifle.

The beauty of President Obama’s violence task force headed up by VP Biden and Piers’ nightly hollow antics is that Americans are now better armed than any society in the history of mankind. That’s what freedom addicts do. When our government even hints that they are going to ban something, Americans rush out and cause the sales of that product to skyrocket. AR-15s and other mis-identified “assault weapons” are virtually sold out. They are as scarce as facts on a Piers Morgan show.

The toll of freedom is responsibility. There are no more responsible Americans than those Americans who own guns. Americans would be wise to remember that 99.999 percent of all guns, including so-called “assault weapons,” will never be used in the commission of a crime or misused in any way, shape or form.

Stick with the facts and freedom, America. It isn’t guns that are truly under attack by Piers Morgan and others. It’s our freedom and common sense that Piers Morgan ultimately despises.

Celebrate freedom and common sense by purchasing more guns and ammo, and give away NRA memberships to everyone you know. Then let’s help Piers’ embarrassing ratings disaster by tuning in now and then to enjoy the melt down go from bad to worse. Now that’s entertainment.

[Source: WND.com]

THE TED OFFENSIVE: Republican murdering U.S. citizens

2013-02-12T18:56:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent proves 'liberals are two-faced hypocrites'

Imagine for a moment if the tables were turned and a Republican president had issued an order that permitted the killing of American citizens with drones.

The country would go gonzo.

Liberals would be screaming at the tops of their lungs about the president’s intentional violation of due process and civil rights.

Liberals would be demanding the president be charged with conspiracy to commit murder.

Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted. They would organize protest marches in front of the White House, where they would burn effigies of the president.

The Huffington Post would run headlines such as: ”President wants to kill Americans” or “The butcher-in-chief.”

Red-faced with anger, Michael Moore would devour another dozen or so donuts, feign personal hygiene and then start his movie camera.

Sens. Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer would sling all kinds of slurs and disparaging remarks at the president and claim he is usurping his authority. They would encourage Americans to revolt.

The “99-percenter” crowd of intentionally unemployed Americans would move into Lafayette Park across the street from the White House, where they would pitch their tents and refrigerator boxes, ingest massive amounts of mind-altering chemicals and then try to storm the gates of the White House.

Scores of Hollywood actors would scramble to be on television to proclaim they are leaving the country until the president is charged with murder and forced to resign.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg would ban all images of the president in New York City and encourage New Yorkers to fly the American flag upside-down as a distress symbol.

Piers Morgan would be so angry that he would encourage Americans to buy AR-15s and revolt.

CNN would be running 24/7 coverage with panels of guests condemning the president and with live reports from the White House. Wolf Blitzer would be howling at the moon.

The residents of East St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago and other cities would burn their own neighborhoods in protest.

Left-wing musicians would organize a massive pay-per-view concert to protest the president. The musicians would call the president a murderer from the stage. A big banner behind the stage would have a picture of the president and Adolf Hitler with the words, “Can you spot the difference?”

The heads of the ACLU would spin completely around and then spontaneously combust.

Vice President Joe Biden would say something so outrageously stupid that even CNN wouldn’t air it.

Bill Maher would piously stand on his comedy stage and say, ”I told you that you couldn’t trust a Republican, and now they are going to kill us all.”

MSNBC’s rating would increase to more than 60 viewers!

Jimmy Carter would encourage military members to desert, and then he would fly off to the Middle East where he would meet with Hamas leaders and apologize for America.

The National Education Association would go on strike and claim it was doing it to benefit the children.

Representatives from NARAL, the pro-abortion group, would say had they known the Republican president was going to issue such an order, they would have wished their parents had aborted them.

But what has been the left’s response to President Obama’s decree to kill Americans who are suspected of being or associating with terrorists? Nothing. The big goose egg.

The reason for their condemnable silence is that President Obama is Democrat, a big-government liberal like themselves. Need any more proof that liberals are two-faced hypocrites?

Liberalism is hypocritical poison, and it’s on full parade for all the world to see.

[Source: WND.com]

THE TED OFFENSIVE: Let me be free

2013-02-12T18:50:00Z

Exclusive: Ted Nugent has clear message for those who want 'their boots on our necks'

Let me be perfectly clear: It isn’t any of your damn business what you think I need, what you don’t want me to have and what you think is good for me.

I’m a free man who can think for himself. I don’t need a bureaucrat to manage my life or legislate my freedoms away under the ruse of security or their twisted theory of an improved quality of life. I don’t visit Washington, D.C., because I’m allergic to soulless, terminally disconnected bureaucratic paper-pushing punks on parade.

For one free man to attempt to tell another free man what legal products he should or should not be able to own is the most gross and irresponsible bastardization of freedom I can imagine. But then again, I’m not a helpless, feckless, spineless, bloodsucking sheep waiting for direction.

Newsflash for the anti-freedom idiot brigades: You aren’t free if you want to handcuff the freedoms of others. What you are is a mindless sheep, an easily led lemming who can’t spell the word freedom much less define it.

What Sen. Feinstein, VP Biden or President Obama want is more control over Americans. These socialists and Marxists don’t care about mass murder. What they want is more control, their boots on our necks.

Liberals seek control by trying to convince us that central-planning bureaucrats know what is best for us. They don’t have any faith in individuals making decisions in their best interest. In fact, they try to convince us that without Fedzilla we would be helpless, too stupid and unprepared to care for ourselves.

Saul Alinsky, renowned commie, author of the 12 Rules for Radicals, Hillary Clinton’s mentor and hero and clearly one of the president’s guiding ideologues, would be proud of President Obama for using Rule 10 and 12 in promoting a ban on so-called assault weapons.

Radical Rule No. 10: If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive. What the president and his ilk have done is use the mass slaughters (the negative) to attempt to push through a ban on these weapons (which is a positive in liberals’ eyes).

More important than Rule No. 10 is Rule No. 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Using the Newtown slaughter as a backdrop, liberal gun banners such as the president know that constantly using the term assault weapon and showing pictures of so-called assault weapon looking carbines and modern sporting rifles will eventually convince some easily led, low-information Americans to believe that these non-assault weapon are actually assault weapons and are used to slaughter Americans routinely.

The truth, however, is much different. So-called assault weapons are rarely used in drive-by shootings by punks on parole on Chicago streets or by known mentally ill people.

What this is simply about is banning guns. And it won’t stop with so-called assault weapons.

Gun banners will go after handguns next. Liberal propaganda ministers will beat the drum that handguns are more evil than so-called assault weapons, that handguns are only good for killing other human beings.

Banning guns is the means to an end. The end is control, not freedom. They know that they can do whatever they so choose to a disarmed America.

Don’t believe what President Obama says about shooting skeet “all the time” at Camp David or that Vice President Biden believes you have the right to own a handgun or shotgun. At their core, these two socialists want more power and control. They don’t give a damn about your freedoms or your ability to defend yourself and your loved ones.

Personal hygiene-challenged Michael Moore should reshoot the movie “Planet of the Apes, 2013″ and release it as a documentary, which would be his very first documentary. All he would have to do is push the record button and video the daily outrage of abuse of power and runaway fraud, deceit and corruption running amok in American politics today.

[Source: WND.com]

NUGENT: Bakers’ union ding-dong move endangers 18,000 jobs

2012-11-28T19:13:00Z

Labor thugs make economic hard times worse

In yet another never-ending series of terminal ding-dong moves, members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union went on strike and drove Hostess out of business, providing one more stinking example of how labor unions can no longer have their cake and it eat it, too.

More than 18,000 people will lose their jobs as a result of the bakers’ union going on strike and driving Hostess out of business unless a deal is reached through last-minute mediation.

Call me Motor-City-Madman-crazy, but in this Obama-inspired kamikaze economy, wouldn’t it be better to have a good job even with reduced benefits than to have no job? Are you kidding me?

In the words of President Obama, what we have here is a teachable moment: Labor unions are bad for business.

With just these four short opening paragraphs, the allergic-to-logic, empty Twinkie heads of anti-capitalism liberals are surely spinning ‘round and ‘round. They will ignorantly shriek that big business is greedy and needs more government regulation, that businesses have all kinds of obligations to their employees, that labor unions are still needed and that liberals know what is best for the economy.

They would be wrong again, as I’m sure many of the 18,000 Hostess employees would now agree.

Economic lesson No. 1: The reason business is in business is to make as much money as possible. Businesses are not social welfare experiments whose primary responsibility is to provide jobs and meet the demands of ever-shrinking labor unions.

Unemployed long enough, even liberals with noggins full of economic balderdash put there by comedians Jon Stewart and Bill Maher, and liberal college instructors who have never owned or managed a business will begin to understand that anti-business, pro-union liberalism doesn’t pay the rent. Ding-dong that.

There is good news. In the private sector, labor unions are quickly becoming extinct. Only about 7 percent of private-sector employees belong to labor unions in the private sector.

Were Mr. Obama honest with the American public, he would say labor unions are no longer needed, that labor unions are often the reasons large businesses fail, that labor union fantasy-driven, anti-business demands have been the reason many businesses have left America, that pro-union states are suffering much more than right-to-work states, and that 18,000 people would have secure jobs now had they listened to Hostess management.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for our pro-labor union president to make these statements. He knows that stacks and stacks of labor union cash has been the bread and butter of the Democratic National Committee. Even though he claims that creating jobs is his No. 1 priority, Mr. Obama won’t dare speak the truth about labor unions who drive businesses like Hostess into the dumpster.

The evidence is clear: Labor unions have a history of destroying companies and jobs, and have done much to kill the economies of states like Michigan, Ohio and Illinois — all states that supported Mr. Obama.

Conversely, right-to-work states are doing much better economically than those states handicapped by labor unions. Interestingly, the overwhelming number of these states voted for Mitt Romney over Mr. Obama.

We live in economically teachable times for those who want to learn instead of clinging to a self-destructive past that should be long gone.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Want a job? Vote for Romney

2012-10-17T10:23:00Z

Team Obama can’t help you

It boils down to this: If you want to grow the economy and get a job, vote for Mitt Romney. If you want more anti-business policies and counterproductive government welfare, vote for President Obama.

The difference between the candidates is as distinct as the difference between me and anti-hunting and animal-scam goofballs such as Wayne Pacelle. I’m precious; Wayne Pacelle is the Potentate of Bizzaro.

The business community — the engine that creates jobs — is solidly lined up behind Mr. Romney.

In an interview with CNSNews.com, Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas business tycoon, stated that he’s afraid of the president. “I have no idea what goofy idea, what crazy, anti-business program this administration will come up with next. I have no idea,” he said. He went on to say that every business guy in the country is frightened by the way the president thinks.

There isn’t a single poll of small or large businesses that finds the president leading Mr. Romney. Not one.

Poll after poll of Americans finds that we trust Mr. Romney over the president on handling the economy. Just a hunch, but maybe that’s because Mr. Romney has decades of business experience compared to the president’s zero private-sector experience.

What this election is all about is jobs and the economy. While other things are important, jobs matter most, as it should be.

Too many Americans remain unemployed and underemployed. Instead of improving the economy over the past four years as he promised, the president and his clueless policies instead have torpedoed the economy and made things much worse for everyone.

If a grade were given to the president on improving the economy and creating jobs, he would get an F.

Instead of cutting taxes for business owners, which would spur the economy forward, the president wants to raise taxes on business owners. You don’t need to be Steve Wynn or Steve Forbes to know that punishing producers is a comfortably dumb move.

Making dumb economic moves is the hallmark of this president and his team, who have zero free-market experience, including the secretary of labor. Again, just a hunch, but wouldn’t it be a wise move for the secretary of labor to have some private-sector labor experience? You can’t be my bass player if you can’t play bass.

Bottom line is that the business community doesn’t believe or trust Mr. Obama.

The bottom line for Americans looking for a job is that if the business community doesn’t trust the president, Americans looking for a good-paying job shouldn’t trust him, either.

If the singular most important issue is jobs in this election, then the choice is clear. You will cast your vote for Mr. Romney, and he will win in a landslide.

If you vote for the president because you hope he will improve the economy, my advice to you is that hope isn’t a job-creating strategy. Americans would be wise to follow their heads, not their misplaced, hope-filled hearts, when entering the voting booth.

A vote for Mr. Obama is a vote to prolong America’s economic woes for another four years. America can’t afford that.

Never give your car keys to a drunk, and never trust a socialist to run a free-market economy.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Discovering ‘Ted Nugent’s Gun Country’

2012-10-10T10:42:00Z

Bull’s-eye bonanza now in your living room

The jury is not still out on whether or not young Ted was uppity beyond compare. My youthful energy level was measured in ballistic Richter-scale increments. The term “whirling dervish” was invented in an attempt to explain my indefatigable life’s velocity. I didn’t have ADD (attention deficit disorder) — I had GSFS, known in the Nugent household as gonzo sniper focus syndrome. Aim small, miss small was not a casual consideration, but a driving force in our quality-of-life obsession through a learned, disciplined higher level of awareness that is derived from gung-ho trigger time.

Can you say “bull’s-eye”?

Video games and smartphone electronics would not have competed then and cannot now with the joys of marksmanship fun in all its forms. My father, Warren Henry Nugent, was a hero-warrior drill sergeant in the U.S. Army cavalry during World War II, and he brought that maniacal disciplinarian charge home with him without missing a beat, straight into his parenting regimen. Dad didn’t tolerate any fooling around, especially with firearms.

Thank you, dad.

Every human being ever born is programmed to be fascinated by projectile management: rocks, marbles, spears, arrows, fastballs, Hail Mary 100-yard touchdown passes, grenades, Fat Man, Little Boy and ultimately, the hand-eye, trigger-finger, breath and sight control, spirit-harnessing perfection of superaccurate bullet placement.

There are only two kinds of people in this world: those of us who celebrate the thrills of marksmanship and those wishing they could.

Based on our driveway of spent brass, I would challenge any family alive to a shootout with my shoot-‘em-up tribe of gun nuts.

In a world strangled by the curse of politically correct denial, dopey liberals in media and academia have brainwashed a strange subspecies of beings into accepting and embracing the pathetic condition of being unarmed and helpless. The slaughter rages on in gun-free zones around the world. Shame.

Here’s a lifesaving alert to the dependent masses: Unarmed and helpless is unarmed and helpless. The evil guys running amok here, there and everywhere appreciate you very much, for they are assured in your gun-free zones that you are incapable of doing a darned thing when they decide to eat you alive, beat you to death, rape, rob, assault, torture and do with you as they wish, for you, my poor pathetic sheep, have chosen to be unarmed and helpless. To bow before evil is as soulless as soulless gets. No thank you.

Those of us who dearly appreciate the precious gift of life follow our powerful instincts for self-preservation and have made it a priority to be ready to defend ourselves. Those on the lunatic fringe can squawk and moan all they want; the rest of us need no interpretation of “keep and bear.”

“Keep” means it’s mine, and you can’t have it, and “bear” means one thing and one thing only: I have one or two on me, and they’re loaded. Drive safely.

So when Discovery Channel asked if we would like to produce a TV show titled “Ted Nugent’s Gun Country,” I said it is already in progress, so just bring the cameras and push the record button.

Our new show airs Wednesday at 10 p.m., and it simply celebrates and promotes the self-evident truth that 99.99 percent of American gun-owning families use our guns on a regular basis for all the right reasons. The same 99.99 percent of Americans with guns will never use our guns in a crime or for any negative misuse whatsoever.

We train, we plink, we shoot, we compete, we hunt, we have unlimited fun perfecting the use of these wonderful tools for the most pragmatic, utilitarian functions. We shoot billions and billions of rounds of ammo each year, and we own more firepower today than any society in the history of planet Earth.

For the brainwashed cult of denial drooling in the shadow of a gun-hating media and White House: With all this unprecedented increase in guns and ammo in American citizens’ hands, the use of guns in crime is at an all-time low.

It’s not just “Ted Nugent’s Gun Country,” it’s hardworking, hard-playing America’s gun country, and we could not be prouder of it. Tune in to the Discovery Channel for, like our award-winning “Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild” on the Outdoor Channel, you’ll witness how real Americans enjoy the great outdoors and peace through superior firepower.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Mitt Romney was right about the 47 percent

2012-10-03T13:32:00Z

Americans are too dependent on Fedzilla

Mitt Romney hit the bull’s-eye with his comments regarding the 47 percent of Americans who do not have any skin in the game as it pertains to paying federal income tax. Facts are facts.

Mr. Romney is not backing down. Good. The truth is the truth and it’s long past time someone said it.

As I’ve written before, for at least the past 50 years the Democratic Party has intentionally engineered a class of political “victims” who have been bamboozled into being dependent on the federal government for their subsistence, including food, housing and now health care. They get this without paying any federal income taxes, and that’s wrong. Something for nothing is always a scam. This is how you buy votes, plain and simple.

Alternatively, the majority of federal income taxes are paid by the top wage earners, the very group of individuals the Democrats and President Obama constantly demonize and want to punish by raising their taxes even higher.

This is what’s called “fair” in this bizzarro world. Those who pay nothing can continue to pay nothing, and those who pay all will pay more.

If you truly seek “fair,” then everyone should have some federal income tax skin in the game.

More than likely, the Democrats will fight this proposal, as their political platform is based on taking from one group of people (taxpayers) and giving to another who pay no federal income tax (Democratic supporters).

The Democratic Party exists because it promotes the creation of dependence on Fedzilla. They have intentionally created the real political victims, many of whom have been victimized by the Democrats for decades.

Through the creation of the Nanny State, the Democrats have destroyed lives, families and entire communities, and convinced some Americans that they can’t achieve anything without Fedzilla’s help. They have their own soulless Declaration of Dependence. That’s downright pathetic.

While creating this voting bloc of handcrafted victims, the Democrats have also waged an artful campaign to paint Republicans as a group of arrogant, greedy rich people.

Some Democrats like Vice President Joseph R. Biden take their venom-filled lies about the GOP even a step lower. It was “Say It Ain’t So” Joe who recently stated that electing Republicans would put black people “back in chains.” He’s a race-baiting yarn-spinner. He should be made to wear a dunce hat and stand in the corner for the remainder of the campaign.

Through the years, the GOP response has been anemic — pathetic, actually. They have been unable or unwilling to go on a bold offensive of championing independence, rugged individualism and the free market out of some strange concern about alienating the victims the Democratic Party has created. For too long the GOP went along to get along. That was a bad move rising.

It’s time to hit back.

Regardless of income, all Americans should pay some federal income taxes. While the successful will continue to do most of the heavy lifting, every American should have to fork over something to Uncle Sam.

No able-bodied American should get anything for free while doing nothing to earn it. Put a rake, shovel, paint brush or broom in their hands. That will instill some pride back in their lives that the Democrats have worked double-time to make extinct.

Americans should be told over and over that less government is best government and that the president’s plan is to continue to shovel slop down the throat of Fedzilla, thereby making it even more unresponsive, more bloated, more expensive, less effective and more controlling.

Americans should be reminded that the free market, opportunity and hard work are what have made America strong and prosperous, and that voting for Democrats is analogous to driving a nail into your knee and then complaining that it hurts to walk.

Americans should be told over and over again that since Mr. Obama was elected, more than 15 million additional Americans have started receiving food stamps, the price of gas has more than doubled, the national debt has ballooned by $5 trillion, unemployment has remained above 8 percent for the past 43 months, millions of Americans have given up looking for work and Obamacare will cost trillions more. Hammer this home, GOP, and do it in the key battleground states.

What Fedzilla has done to individuals and businesses is not a victimless crime. It’s killing America.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: No protest for Democrats’ confab

2012-09-06T16:50:00Z

Big government is sabotaging future for today’s youth

Today’s young Americans have nothing in common with the counterculture generation of young Americans who marched, protested and brawled with Chicago’s finest at the Democratic National Convention in 1968. I have to admit, I didn’t know whom to cheer for in that melee.

Some of today’s young people fancy themselves as big, bad activists, but their aim is off, way off. What do you expect from young, subservient socialists who have been taught that capitalism is a repressive, racist economic system?

Like their president, today’s youthful protesters are angry with success. They blame big business and successful people, such as Mitt Romney and other pillars of the American dream, for the sad state of the economy. Like their socialist hero, Barack Obama, these young radicals want to “spread the wealth around.”

These intellectually shallow socialists think that by stripping the wealthy of their hard-earned wealth, somehow, maybe magically, fairness will spread across the land, more free stuff will appear, and the Age of Aquarius finally will be ushered in on a peaceful wave of socialism.

What dopes. These unsophisticated lambs are being led to the slaughter — not by the “nasty and greedy” Wall Street bankers but by their hero, President Obama, and his gang of Cloward-Piven America-haters.

The conditions were perfect for a real political protest storm to erupt at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., but the protesters have been conned. They refused to see the real political foe this week in Charlotte. If today’s young protesters had taken the blinders off for just a few seconds, they would have seen there were plenty of reasons to protest at the Democratic convention.

Without causing too many intellectual gears to spin, “Say It Ain’t So” Joe Biden is ample reason enough to protest. While this guy is a loose (albeit empty) cannon and provides a source of entertainment, he’s a heartbeat away from the presidency. He’s the best the Democratic Party has for second in command? Whether one is a Democrat or a Republican, that’s a scary thought.

In a blinding acknowledgment of the obvious, the pathetic state of the economy is not the fault of big business or rich people but clearly a result of too much government meddling in the economy, too much borrowing and spending, a refusal to be accountable and way too much debt.

Economists predict today’s generation of young people will be the first generation of Americans who will not have it as good as their parents. That’s pathetic and un-American. There should have been tens of thousands of young people outside the Democratic convention protesting the party of big government, which believes in selling the futures of our young people.

Our wayward young socialists should be reminded that businessmen will create opportunities for today’s young people to get jobs. Those opportunities will become fewer and fewer if Mr. Obama is re-elected. Voting for Mr. Obama is analogous to putting on a pair of concrete overshoes and telling everyone you are going swimming.

A palatable fog of despair hangs over America. Everyone knows someone who has been laid off or downsized from his job. Gas prices have doubled, food prices are up, good jobs are too few, nearly 47 million Americans are on food stamps, and America’s kamikaze death spiral into the economic abyss remains largely unchecked. This is what Mr. Obama has achieved. If you want more of this destruction, the Obama-Biden ticket would like your vote.

If you want to turn the corner and return America to its former prominence, then Romney-Ryan is the obvious choice.

The real protest will occur on Nov. 6. The results of the election will set a very telling course for the Good Ship America.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: McNugent rule: Automatic death penalty

2012-09-03T16:11:00Z

Justice requires satisfaction for murders

What a psychotic piece of subhuman debris did on Jan. 11, 2011, outside a Tucson Safeway store where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was holding a “meet and greet” with constituents was an unfathomable act of barbarism.

The result of his barbarism: Six people were shot fatally and 13 more wounded.

While that was an ugly, brutal and senseless crime committed by an obviously mentally deranged psychotic monster, sadly, another barbaric act was to follow at the hands of our legal system, which is vastly different from a justice system.

The obviously guilty mass murderer has pleaded guilty and has been spared the death penalty. Yet the death penalty is exactly what he deserves. For his crimes, he will spend the rest of his life in prison while six innocent Americans are dead and 13 more are struggling to recover from their wounds.

Sparing the killer’s life is not justice, it’s legalized barbarism. Allowing him to live out his days in prison is our convoluted legal system allowing Lady Justice to be mugged again and again.

Of course the killer is mentally deranged. You don’t need to be an overpaid prison psychologist to determine that. No sane person would commit such unspeakable acts of senseless violence.

But if a killer is deemed to be psychotic, he is held to a different standard by our legal system than a killer who is deemed not to be crazy. That’s a legal system that is certifiably nuts.

Psychotic or not, the Tucson killer deserves to die for his crimes in the most expeditious manner possible. Anything less compounds the barbarism that existed in the Tucson Safeway parking lot or a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., where 12 were killed.

Locking up the terminal whack-job shooters in prison for the remainder of their lives will cost taxpayers many millions of wasted dollars when all that is required is a 25-cent bullet to the back of their deranged heads.

But the do-gooders among us say we shouldn’t do that, that the state shouldn’t sanction “murder,” especially of those who are deemed to be mentally incompetent. Do-gooders are more dangerous than a sow grizzly with cubs or a coiled rattlesnake, as do-gooders champion and sanction legalized barbarism.

Those of us addicted to common sense know that the upside-down, backward and terminally stupid policies of do-gooders compound problems instead of fixing them.

The McNaughton rule, which basically states that terminal whack jobs can’t be held responsible for their crimes, is the ultimate definition of nuts. It should be replaced with the McNugent rule, which states that regardless of your mental state, if you slaughter innocent people, expect a bullet to the back of the head, most preferably at the scene of the crime.

So long as the American justice system is held hostage by mindless do-gooders who wish to enforce their toxic, brain-dead legalized barbarism on the rest of us, our only recourse is to be vigilant and ready to protect ourselves and our loved ones from these psychotic monsters. Shoot them.

Punks deserve to pay for their crimes with their lives instead of living out their lives and attending group therapy sessions on the taxpayers’ dime and further burdening the society they already have hurt deeply.

While jettisoning the Tucson killer or the Joker off the planet will not deter other psychos from attempting mass murder, what it will do is to ensure justice is carried out instead of being denied by idiots and a legal system that has gone over-the-rainbow nuts.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Task One this Labor Day: Defeat Obama

2012-08-31T16:08:00Z

Fedzillacrats bad for economy

Ask yourself this question: Are you better off since Barack Obama was elected president or not? For too many Americans, the answer is painfully obvious.

Regardless of his continuing efforts to blame President George W. Bush for our anemic and sluggish economy, the current economic catastropheis owned lock, stock and barrel by President Obama. It’s long past time for our president to man up and take responsibility for the economic train wreck he has engineered.

America hasn’t seen such a dismal economy since the Great Depression. Poll after poll puts the bull’s-eye blame on Mr. Obama for the mess.

Mr. Obama’s kamikaze borrow-and-spend policies, his addiction to job-killing regulations and his Marxist desire to punish producers with higher taxes have created the perfect job-killing storm. That plan is working out well for the president if you examine his real agenda.

The president and his masterful smoke-and-mirrors team scramble maniacally to spin the Saul Alinsky, Cloward-Piven narrative of how the economy is improving, unemployment is coming down and big-government policies actually work. It’s a pack of lies by a pack of liars. There is no recovery.

The $800-plus billion “stimulus” was supposed to keep unemployment below 8 percent. Instead, we’ve had 42 months straight of unemployment above 8 percent. We got ripped off royally, yet the president had the audacity to proffer the suggestion of another gigantic borrow-and-spend stimulus that would do nothing but further strangle the economy and sink us deeper in debt.

Regardless of how the president tries to spin it, the real unemployment and underemployment figures are probably closer to 20 percent. One thing is for sure: Re-electing our rookie president and his team of Fedzillacrats and ivory-towered, America-hating academics in November will continue this swan dive into the economic abyss.

The rudderless and sinking economy is the result of Fedzillacrats from both parties trying to tinker with something they don’t understand. These clueless simpletons have forced heaping stacks of absurd laws and reams of mindless regulations onto the backs of businesses and then wondered why the economy is stagnant.

What Fedzilla should do is to get out of the way of the free market as much as possible, but power-hungry bureaucrats rarely let that happen. These are the same clueless clowns who, if given the chance, would go down into the pits of a NASCAR race and tell the pit crew how to tune engines based on pompous presumptuousness. No thanks, clowns. Have you met my monkey wrench?

Fedzillacrats should be forced to sign a pledge that they will spend 100 days studying the impact on the economy for every piece of proposed legislation. The Chamber of Commerce, Club for Growth, Americans for Prosperity, Americans for Tax Reform, and Steve Forbes should be consulted before any changes.

The U.S. tax code needs to be tossed into a giant wood chipper. Then toss in every anti-business regulation, starting first with Obamacare. This will jump-start the economy.

The criminally anti-American death tax and counterproductive capital gains tax need to be eliminated. Instead of having the highest corporate tax rate in the world, we need to have the lowest. That would eliminate unemployment.

Here’s a bold idea: Instead of putting a guy and his crew in the White House who have zero experience owning or running a business, let’s shift gears and elect a man and his team who actually have owned businesses, managed them for thriving success and understand in detail how the free market works.

If you want a job, the way forward is to put the president and his destructive gang on the unemployment line in November.

Then we can have a happy Labor Day next year.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Crimes against Gibson guitars

2012-08-22T15:24:00Z

Uncle Sam is Uncle Sham

My all-American sonic-bombast weapon of choice for 50 years has been those world-class pieces of musical art, the mighty Gibson guitar. I own a stunning arsenal of them. It wouldn’t surprise me if some Fedzillastooge from Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s Department of Gunrunning Injustice will try to tell us American guitarslayers that we can only buy one fully automatic Gibson guitar a month.

Gibson guitars reportedly ran afoul of Uncle Sham’s Lacey Act, which is one of the most overreaching, bizzaro, contemptuous laws in the history of the United States.

Armed federal agents raided two Gibson guitar plants looking for allegedly illegally obtained wood from Madagascar and India. The Lacey Act permits the feds to prosecute U.S. companies who the feds believe have violated another country’s wood laws.

Essentially, it boils down to this: Gibson and other companies can legally import ebony wood from Madagascar if the wood has been “finished.” According to the Lacey Act, if the wood is imported in raw form from Madagascar or India, that is a violation.

Got that? Word has it that the same mind freaks who engineered the U.S. tax code also authored the Lacey Act. Oh, and they penned the best of the Grateful Dead songs, too.

It can’t get anymore bizzaro than this unless Fedzilla drops LSD and starts writing and passing some Cass Sunstein-inspired human-animal marriage laws.

Gibson settled with Fedzilla in order to keep from spending millions to defend itself against Uncle Sham who can borrow unlimited resources from China to harass American companies and individuals.

By anyone’s standards of fairness, what Mr. Holder’s gang of federal prosecutors did to Gibson was naked harassment that cost Gibson millions of dollars in lost production.

The feds have the unlimited power, resources and volumes of arcane laws, regulations and requirements to go after any company or individual they so choose, including prosecuting American companies the feds believe have violated another country’s timber laws.

This mindless abuse of Gibson by the heavy hand of the out-of-control federal government is a perfect reason why millions of Americans believe the corrupt, abusive power of Fedzilla needs to be reined in.

Meanwhile, it has just been reported that Fedzilla is not expected to file charges against former executives such as prominent Democrat John Corzine at the now defunct MF Global, where a billion dollars of investor cash just disappeared. Surprise, surprise.

The feds spent who knows how many millions of our tax dollars prosecuting retired baseball pitcher Roger Clemens for some erroneous and dumb reason such as throwing spitballs at Congress. Mr. Clemens beat the feds.

Even rarer than unfinished Madagascar ebony is when Uncle Sham goes after one of its own because of obvious and intentional fraud, waste and abuse of our hard-earned tax dollars.

While America’s finances are sliding into oblivion, the General Services Administration spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on junkets to places like Las Vegas. Yet hardly any federal employees are ever prosecuted or even fired.

Fedzilla has a license to steal and does so routinely. Our federal government makes Bernie Madoff look like a two-bit, petty criminal.

You could read for days on the Internet example after example of the fraud, waste and abuse of our tax dollars at the hands of Fedzillacrats gone mad.

Once President Romney is elected, I want him to put a commission together to identify dumb laws that serve no purpose other than to harass American citizens and businesses, and then to eliminate these laws and all the knuckle-dragging bureaucrats associated with them. I recommend this commission start with the Lacey Act. My arsenal of Gibson guitars would howl in delight.

Support American jobs and businesses. Buy a Gibson guitar and throttle some good old American R&B love songs of defiance.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: All aboard for the Romney-Ryan Express

2012-08-22T15:21:00Z

Republican veep pick just the ticket

As excited as I am over Mitt Romney selecting Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, I’m over come with giddiness that Mr. Romney’s first important decision has shown his conservative mettle.

Whew!

For those conservatives who whine that Mr. Romney is not conservative enough, his selection of Mr. Ryan was a conservative grand slam. If his selection of Mr. Ryan is any indication of things to come, happy days are here again for conservative politics.

There are numerous messages being sent by Mr. Romney’s selection of fellow bowhunter Mr. Ryan.

The first and foremost message is that Mr. Romney recognizes that America has to get its financial house in order. No one understands how to defuse the gigantic debt bomb America is livingwith better than Mr. Ryan.

Our embarrassing $16 trillion debt and annual trillion-dollar kamikaze deficit spending by the Obama administration together are possibly the greatest threat America has ever faced. If we fail to tackle this insane self-inflicted problem, America as we knew it goes the way of the dodo bird.

Mr. Ryan understands America is at a financial tipping point with one foot over the edge. He hasn’t sat back and ignored the problem; he actually has done something about it. As the House Budget Committee chairman, he issued his brilliant “The Path to Prosperity” budget “blueprint.”

Much rough-and-tumble political hoopla will be made about Mr. Ryan’s plan over the next 90 days. Democrats recoil in horror at the proposition of accountability. Clearly, it is liberals’ kryptonite.

The Democrats’ lying political attack machine will put out nasty, false ads claiming Mr. Ryan’s plan will toss the elderly out in the street. Straight out of the anti-American Saul Alinsky playbook, the Democrats will scramble maniacally to do whatever they can to scare the elderly into believing Mr. Ryan is the Social Security and Medicare Antichrist.

Don’t believe any of it. The foundation of the Democratic Party is based on lies.

The truth is that left-wing politics have been an economic calamity and the cause of destroyed lives, businesses and entire communities. The Democrats think the federal government knows what is best for Americans. They couldn’t be more wrong, and the evidence is irrefutable.

The Ryan plan is exactly what America needs to begin the long and difficult journey to getour financial house in order. Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan know Greece-like economic doom is not an option. At least not for people who care.

In stark contrast to the Ryan plan, President Obama’s plan is even more suicidal borrowing, more life-destroying spending, more unsustainable debt, proving unequivocally that our president and his team of Fedzillacrats and Ivy League academics are in way over their heads. Surprise, surprise.

The second message being sent by Mr. Romney in selecting Mr. Ryan is directed at the GOP members of the House and Senate.

Entrenched in the D.C. swamp, GOP members have jumped the conservative political ship by ignoring or compromising their conservative principles over the past couple of decades. This was a tremendously bad move.

The result of compromising their conservative principles has been an unprecedented growth in the size and power of the federal government.

Fedzilla, as I accurately refer to it, has turned into a grossly expensive blob of inefficiency and unaccountability on the watch of the GOP members. Those days are over. Get on board with the Romney-Ryan Express or get flattened.

Elections have consequences. No presidential election in my lifetime has been more important than this one. We either continue to chart Mr. Obama’s course for Greece-like economic doom or we chart the Romney-Ryan course for financial stability and economic prosperity.

Mr. Ryan was a brilliant choice by Mr. Romney. Let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work restoring America.

The Romney-Ryan ticket rocks!

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: America is on a financial suicide watch

2012-08-15T10:57:00Z

Distractions from debt problem a travesty

Someone should have to answer for the financial high crimes and misdemeanors that are bankrupting our nation and financially raping the futures of our children and grandchildren.

If a corporate officer did to the shareholders of a company what Barack Obama and his gang of soulless Fedzillacrats have done to the American public, he would be charged with any number of financial crimes and sent to prison.

Our federal government has mismanaged the financial affairs of our nation worse than Ken Lay and the other crooks did to the fake energy company, Enron.

It’s not an accounting scam. The ledger doesn’t lie. The numbers are easy to read and the numbers aren’t pretty. America has been steered way, way over our heads. Terrorists aren’t the biggest threat to our national security. Fedzilla’s irresponsible spending and our mounting national debt are.

Instead of talking about the debt beast that is drowning America, the national narrative is focused on what Dan Cathy, president and founder of Chick-fil-A, has said about marriage. What fools we are. We are being fleeced, led to the economic slaughterhouse like mindless sheep distracted by the dumbest of dumb.

America owes its creditors roughly $16 trillion, which is the entire size of our annual economy. And the debt keeps on rising as evidenced by the National Debt Clock, which should be renamed the National Economic Death Clock.

We are now borrowing 43 cents for every dollar we spend. We are spending roughly $1 trillion more than we take in every year.

In just over three years since taking the oath of office, the national debt has climbed from roughly $10 trillion to $15 trillion on Mr. Obama’s watch. The White House is now officially the American cuckoo’s nest.

America will pay $450 billion this year in interest alone on the national debt. According to the Congressional Budget Office, we will make $5 trillion in interest payments on the debt over the next decade. Just the interest payment alone could bury us.

Right now the share of the national debt of every person in America — all 310 million of us — is roughly $50,000 and rising.

Will anyone try to tell the American public how this is not a cataclysmic economic threat to the nation?

The pus-filled, infected ugly truth is that we aren’t going broke. We are broke and teetering on the edge of economic collapse. We have more in common with Greece than most of us believe. In fact, our situation may be worse than Greece, which is the quintessential definition of modern economic doom.

According to economists, the current generation of young people will be the first generation of Americans who will not have it as good as their parents. More than half of college graduates are moving back in with their parents. Hope and change, my foot.

Few of our politicians are willing to even discuss the drastic cuts in spending that would be required just to begin to put America back on the right path. Our politicians would rather ignore the problem and be re-elected by an ever-increasing population of America- hating bloodsuckers than to be statesmen and tell America what needs to be done right now: drastic cuts in borrowing and spending, a total revamping of the tax code and passing a balanced budget.

America is in deep, deep financial trouble and there is no indication that Mr. Obama and his Democrat Party are willing to take prudent measures to slow down and reverse this economic kamikaze course of action.

The very first thing we need to do is to remove the president and the Fedzillacrats from office who want to continue charting an economic suicide course that is sending us off an economic cliff.

Just like those Americans who came before us, we have an obligation to future generations of Americans to leave this nation in better shape than when we took the reins. To shirk this responsibility is to spit on the graves of our Founding Fathers and in the face of our children and grandchildren.

Are we American enough to do the right thing?

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Whacky Harry Reid talks trash about Romney

2012-08-06T17:58:00Z

Nevadan tries a desperate distraction

You have to know that times are desperate in the Obama campaign when Sen. Harry Reid is trotted out to contend that Mitt Romney didn’t pay taxes for a decade.

Never one to let facts get in the way, the Democratic Senate majority leader offered no damning public statement regarding his views on Mr. Obama’s tax cheat czar Timothy Geithner a few years ago or good old leftist buddy Tom Daschle’s failure to pay his taxes. Then there is my favorite, Rep. Charles Rangel of “what me worry, who me, what taxes?” fame.

Where has Mr. Reid been on the subject of dozens of staff members of the Obama administration who are delinquent in paying almost $1 million in taxes? What say you about this, you old watchdog, Mr. Reid?

Denial czar Mr. Reid has a solid record of making buffoonish comments, this goofy blurt being just the latest.

The senator has not released the name of the person who supposedly told him that Mr. Romney has not paid his taxes. This is a typical left-wing, Saul Alinsky playbook ploy: denigrate, besmirch, lie, deceive, then try to slip away under the cover of darkness.

With less than 100 days to go before the election for the soul of America, the left is desperate. Desperate campaigns do desperate things scrambling desperately in a feeble attempt to gain anything resembling traction, including having a punch-drunk senator make another erroneous claim.

But nothing is sticking, except the president’s and his party’s kamikaze performance at trying to centrally plan the economy from the White House. The result: a cataclysmic economic train wreck engineered by President Obama and his team of Ivy League wonks with zero experience in how the private sector works.

This administration is a complete and total disaster unless you are a Fedzillacrat who believes that $5 trillion in new debt and a tsunamilike growth in the federal government is a wonderful thing. If this administration were a medical doctor, he would shatter our knees with a tire iron while trying to convince us that he was actually trying to teach us to walk.

The real news is that the first good bailout has begun: The president’s insiders have begun to bail on him as they recognize he’s the captain of a rapidly sinking political ship.

Even Cass Sunstein, the president’s animal rights freak of a regulatory czar, after putting the free-enterprise system in a regulatory stranglehold, has resigned. He’s returning to — you guessed it — academia, where he will sit ensconced in one of Harvard University’s ivory towers where he can pontificate about the need to grant constitutional rights to rocks and trees. What species is this guy?

Others in the Obama administration will soon follow Mr. Sunstein’s lead and begin to bail on the president. It appears that even freaks can take only so much insanity.

But the president will not go down without a political fight. He and Mr. Reid will dream up other crazy schemes and make outrageous and erroneous statements about Mr. Romney and his plan to put America back on the path to prosperity. They might even turn loose “Say It Ain’t So” Joe Biden on the campaign trail to wail aimlessly about his crazy world of make-believe.

The Obama team will continue to embarrassingly play the hateful race card, the vile class-warfare card, and every other divide-and-conquer card they can think of. Now that they have backed themselves into a corner with their failed policies and agenda, they will resort to yet more desperate political ploys.

The Obama camp cannot run on its dismal, failed record. The only political move they have left is to try and turn the American public’s attention away from their dismal record and to demean Mr. Romney in any way they can. Smoke, mirrors, lying, cheating and trumped-up character assassinations are the Chicago way.

Let’s be smarter than four years ago when we got exactly what we deserved — a die-hard leftist amateur community organizer with no productive experience except being a political street hustler.

Possibly, no man has ever inhabited the White House with less experience at anything — private sector or public — than Mr. Obama. The truth stings, Harry Reid.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Grover Norquist — Beltway’s Clint Eastwood

2012-07-26T15:06:00Z

Tax-killer dares big spenders to make his day

The Dirty Harry of tax and government reform is Grover Norquist.

Dirty Harry Norquist, president of Americans For Tax Reform (atr.org), has never seen a tax increase he supports, which should immediately put him at the head of the line for a Presidential Medal of Freedom once Mitt Romney is elected. If there was a Hall of Fame of Common Sense, a huge statue of Grover Norquist would at be the front door.

Dirty Harry Norquist and crew released their “2012 Cost of Government Day” report, which would be more aptly titled “2012 Fedzilla Slopfest Report.”

ATR’s report states that the ordinary American has to work until July 15 to pay for the cost of local, state and federal government, which means that government beast known as Fedzilla consumes more than 50 cents of every dollar we earn and then borrows and spends hundreds of billions more each year that we don’t have.

Fedzilla is growing fatter, less accountable and less transparent by gorging itself on our tax dollars. Instead of tightening Fedzilla’s fiscal belt, government bureaucrats just buy him bigger belts and suspenders, and he gets fatter and smellier each day. The only good pig is a dead pig.

Regrettably, there are way too many intellectually stunted Americans who support this gluttonous and irresponsible spending curse. They are called socialists. Socialists believe in Keynesian economics, which supports government control and meddling in our economy. It’s akin to Jerry Sandusky managing a little boys’ football team. Another, more accurate name for Keynesian economics is Kamikaze economics.

In an effort to control spending, Dirty Harry Norquist has got GOP politicians in a tax stranglehold by requesting each of them sign a pledge to never vote to raise taxes. That rocks. I recommend they also be requested to sign a pledge to slash spending at every opportunity.

With Dirty Harry Norquist’s quote as its guiding light — “My goal is to cut government in half in 25 years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub” — ATR developed tax and government reforms that will allow us to keep more of our money, ignite the economy, and put Fedzilla on a diet that would render the pig small enough to fit into a little dog’s traveling kennel.

ATR believes in a flat tax, eliminating taxes on capital gains and dividends, killing the death tax, and expanding tax-free savings accounts. That’s real power to the taxpaying people.

Common-sense tax reforms drive liberal loons even loonier, as liberals rarely see a tax they don’t support, including increasing taxes on the so-called “wealthy,” which really means in liberal doublespeak almost everyone.

ATR knows our continued levels of deficit spending and lack of entitlement reform is practicing the suicidal economic principle of Kamikaze economics, which is why the group believes our government should give fiscal sanity a try.

The bottom line is that we are taxed too much because government is involved in too many things in which it has no constitutional authority, no expertise and no limits on how many of our tax dollars it consumes.

Thankfully, Dirty Harry Norquist was listening when Ronald Maximus Reagan said, “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”

Paying for government until July 15 each year is an anti-American travesty.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Turncoat Roberts

2012-07-05T18:29:00Z

Chief justice’s surprise ruling means limited government is dead

Yogi Berra said that when you come to a fork in the road, take it. When supposed-conservative Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. came to a judicial conservative-liberal fork in the road, he veered left.

With Chief Justice Roberts‘ vote to save Obamacare, I was reminded of what my dad told me more than 50 years ago: Never trust a man who wears a black robe. He might be naked under there.

Unlike other conservatives, I don’t care if his vote to save Obamacare turns into a cash cow for the Mitt Romney’s presidential political machine and galvanizes the GOP. There are some things more important than politics and elections. Striking down un-American, Constitution-violating Obamacare is one of them.

Had Chief Justice Roberts voted along with Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Antonin Scalia like everyone expected, Obamacare would have been struck down by the Supreme Court. That would have put even more wind in the sails of the Romney campaign.

The bottom line is that Chief Justice Roberts‘ traitor vote will ensure more monumental spending and wasted taxes and put almost 15 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) under one of the world’s most bureaucratic, ineffective, incompetent and grossly expensive systems ever devised by man: our out-of- control federal government.

Chief Justice Roberts squandered the opportunity to restore judicial, financial and legislative sanity to a government that by any sane person’s standards is insane and addicted to centralized federal control of our lives.

Because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment in contempt, I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War. Our Founding Fathers’ concept of limited government is dead.

Because of the chief justice’s vote, Fedzilla just burped and is now prepared to gobble up even more of our tax dollars, more of our GDP and limit even more opportunity in the private sector.

Chief Justice Roberts‘ opinion was that Obamacare was a tax, not a mandate under the Commerce Clause to purchase a product, and that Congress can levy any tax it wants.

As I recall, the president and the government’s very own attorney who argued the case before the Supreme Court said that Obamacare was not a tax. Fascinating, Mr. Chief Justice, that you legislated from the bench that Obamacare is a tax.

Following the chief justice’s logic, our professional political punks in Washington can mandate any tax-penalty they choose. For example, if you don’t buy an Obama-approved green energy automobile, our Fedzillacrats could tax us for refusing to do so. That’s the essence of this ruling.

Obamacare will now join Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as another unaffordable, unsustainable, runaway, unaccountable social program.

Our entitlement programs have bankrupted America. We have dug a financial crater so deep that many doubt we can ever climb out. With his vote, Chief Justice Roberts didn’t give Fedzilla an even bigger shovel, he gave Fedzilla an earth mover with which to dig bigger financial holes.

Quite possibly, with his vote, Chief Justice Roberts just engineered the ultimate demise of this great experiment in self- government. If you think we are skating on financial thin ice now, just wait until 2014 when the full financial tsunami of Obamacare comes crashing down.

The president should have Chief Justice Roberts over for dinner, give him a ride on Air Force One and apologize for not voting for him during his confirmation hearings. It’s the least the community-organizer- in-chief can do for the turncoat chief justice who saved the president’s socialist health care program.

Limited government is dead. The smothering era of socialism is here.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Happy Independence DNA

2012-07-03T18:31:00Z

Real Americans never surrender

In a sea of soulless, sheeplike dependency, it’s easy to spot the fiercely independent people who continue to declare our independence. We are the producers, the people who make the country work. We are business owners and hardworking employees. We are fiercely American; we believe in self-reliance and rugged individualism.

Fiercely independent Americans don’t want the best for themselves but want more opportunity and more freedom for our grandchildren. That’s our American dream - always has been.

Fiercely independent Americans are shocked and saddened by how far our beloved country has slid into socialism. We know, as our forefathers knew, that the bigger the government, the less individual freedom and opportunity there will be.

Fiercely independent people are not anti-government, just highly suspicious of a federal government that seemingly knows no bounds and has little, if any, respect for the 10th Amendment. We have a healthy distrust of any program or agency that originates out of Washington.

Defiance is in the DNA of fiercely independent Americans. We defy the notion that the wealth we create through our hard work, sweat and risk can or should be spread around for others. We find that concept to be abhorrent - anti-freedom and anti-American.

Fiercely independent Americans expect no charity but are the first in line to give generously when charity is needed. We are givers, not takers. We can always be counted on to offer a hand up to those who want to help themselves. We don’t give handouts, as we know that destroys self-reliance.

On this Independence Day, when Americans gather around family and friends for barbecues and fireworks, it would be wise to spend a few minutes to talk about independence vs. dependence.

In between the laughter, fun and fireworks, fiercely independent Americans will read aloud the Declaration of Independence. We will discuss the bravery and commitment of those original freedom-loving Americans who mutually pledged to each other their lives, fortunes and sacred honor in order to give birth to America.

We will tell our children and grandchildren that the “shot heard around the world” brought forth an era of freedom, independence and self-government.

Fiercely independent Americans teach their children and grandchildren that freedom is never free, that protecting freedom requires constant vigilance and individual participation. They teach them to be activists, to stand up and raise their healthy voices. We tell them voting isn’t all that is required.

On this 2012 Independence Day, when we celebrate our Declaration of Independence from King George III 236 years ago, America has some soul searching to do regarding freedom and independence.

As we continue to slide further into the big-government abyss that our Founding Fathers warned us about, we must either reverse course and embrace the ideals of freedom and limited government our founders envisioned, or we choose big government, unsustainable debt and ultimately, tyranny.

Fiercely independent Americans remember, embody and are bolstered by the famous words of Capt. John Paul Jones of the American Navy in 1779. With his ship, the Bonhomme Richard, badly damaged, on fire and slowly sinking, Jones was asked to surrender by the captain of a British warship. Jones replied, “I have not yet begun to fight!”

That’s the spirit of fiercely independent Americans. Never give in. Never surrender.

Happy Independence Day, America. Celebrate it like you mean it.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Celebrate when good conquers evil

2012-06-29T17:56:00Z

Stories of guns saving lives should be spread from coast to coast

There is so much good news that goes largely unreported that it makes me want to scream. As I write this, just a couple of days ago, a 14-year-old boy in Phoenix who was watching his three siblings at home shot a punk who busted through a door and pointed a gun at the young man.

This is an incredibly wonderful news story that should be the lead story on the evening network news. It should be the front-page story in the New York Times. The Sunday morning talking heads should talk about it.

But it won’t be covered by the media. Outside of the Phoenix area and this opinion piece in The Washington Times, this wonderful good-news story will not be heard or read. What a shame.

The real shame is that similar incredibly good news events happen every day countless times across America and get virtually no ink or airtime. Evil conquers good in the media: When Americans use guns to stamp out evil, news reports are virtually nonexistent.

But today I’m screaming with joy. A young man saved himself and his three young siblings by using his father’s gun to blow a hole in the maggot, who probably is a paroled punk with an arrest record 3 feet long.

This young man should be honored with a ticker-tape parade in Phoenix and granted immunity for life from Arizona state taxes. I’m calling Sheriff Joe Arpaio to request that “America’s sheriff” make this young man an honorary member of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department.

I would love nothing more than to shake the young man’s hand and thank him for making America a better place to live, work and play. This young man is a hero of mine. As a National Rifle Association board member, I will ensure he is given a lifetime membership in the NRA.

No one knows the evil intent of the street rat who broke down the door. It makes a person’s blood run cold thinking what this subhuman would have done to the boy and his young siblings had the teenager not blasted the guy first.

Good conquered evil this time. A smile is welded on my face for the actions of this young man. Because of this good-news story, I will play my guitars a little louder and with increased spirit whilst I write a good-over-evil love song.

It is easy to focus on the negative, and there is much to be negative about in America, but let us not forget that there also is an incredible amount of goodness happening in the U.S.

We should honor the actions of this young man by training an army of other young people how to use guns so, God forbid, if they are ever in a similar situation to this Phoenix teenager, they, too, will blow holes in maggots.

You want a safe, prosperous America? The first thing we need to do is remove evil instead of releasing it time and time again to prey on law-abiding Americans.

Liberals are dead wrong about guns. Schools are dead wrong to teach young people that guns are evil. Thank God Eric H. “Fast and Furious” Holder Jr. hasn’t succeeded in brainwashing America’s youth about guns.

There is a young man in Phoenix who saved his life and the lives of his young siblings with a gun. There is nothing evil about that - only goodness.

Smile, America. Good conquered evil in spite of the liberal anti-freedom agenda.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Still stoned on liberty

2012-06-21T15:58:00Z

Take a hit of freedom on Election Day

The one thing you will never have to remind me of is how fortunate and blessed I am, or I should say, how fortunate all of us are to live in the greatest nation the world has ever witnessed.

The reason America is the greatest nation to have ever existed is that our country was born out of a love of freedom. The “shot heard ‘round the world” was a veritable blast to announce there was a better way than kings and queens. It was freedom.

The ongoing violence in Syria and elsewhere is a bloody reminder that much of the world is still abominable, but that America is a whole lot less abominable because we are free.

If America has a singular purpose on the world’s stage it is to serve as a reminder that freedom is the antidote to tyranny, repression and genocide. Old Glory isn’t just our flag, but is the whole world’s symbol of freedom.

Too many of the world’s nations are controlled by dictators, despots, tyrants, commies, socialists and other anti-human monsters who maintain their death grip on the unfortunate people who live under their jackboots.

America has its problems, but there are many of us who are committed to fixing them by returning to what made America great: freedom.

Regretfully, there are Americans who actually want to maintain President Obama’s socialist course that will lead to our ultimate destruction, just as it has for every other country that embraced this form of government control. Socialism restricts. Freedom rocks. It’s “we the people,” not we the sheeple.

The president recently alluded to conservatives believing that government was bad, while the free market was good. He was largely correct.

But his flippant comment is also wrong. Conservatives don’t detest the federal government - conservatives detest too much federal government; meaning that we believe what our Founding Fathers believed: Limited government is best.

Our Founders recognized that an all-encompassing, centralized government was the wrong approach, one that would limit freedom, which is why they penned our Constitution to limit the role of the federal government.

Thomas Jefferson wrote more than 200 years ago that “Most bad government has grown out of too much government.” Besides socialist stooges, sheep and bloodsuckers, who can possibly find fault with Jefferson’s brilliant assessment?

Boil it down to its core, and the upcoming election is simple: Do you want more freedom or less freedom? It isn’t any more complicated than that.

On one hand, the president wants to continue growing the federal government, continue borrowing and spending at record levels, and he wants to advance a socialist agenda. This is a recipe for disaster.

On the other hand, Mitt Romney thinks we have too much government that smothers the economy, smothers freedom and smothers opportunity. This is a recipe to begin digging us out of the tremendously deep financial hole that both Democrats and Republicans have dug over the past 50 years.

More freedom is always the answer. Freedom is an intoxicating drug, and I freebase it on a daily basis. Papa’s got a brand new bag. Get some of it, and rock like an American.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Attracting the Latino vote

2012-06-13T15:59:00Z

GOP should support legal immigration

Due to ever-shifting demographics, Americans of Latin descent are being courted by both the Republican and Democratic parties. The party that wins their support will be in the political driver’s seat come November. The Democrats currently own that seat.

In the 2008 presidential election, the Obama-Biden team won the Latino vote by more than a 2-to-1 margin over McCain-Palin.

President Obama currently has a commanding lead over former Gov. Mitt Romney in Latino support. There is little doubt the president will spend millions of dollars trying to ensure that support does not erode before the November election, especially in Arizona, Colorado and Nevada.

The first order of business for Mr. Romney should be to let Latinos know that the GOP wants all people to succeed to the very best of their abilities, unencumbered by the heavy and draconian foot of Fedzillacrats who believe they know what is best for people.

Mr. Romney should relentlessly hammer away at Mr. Obama’s dismal record of creating jobs and improving the American economy.

The unemployment rate among Latinos stands at 11 percent, which is much higher than the national average. Mr. Romney must continue to remind Latinos that improving the economy is key to improving their livelihood. He should tell them that Mr. Obama’s economic policies are a complete disaster and that the president has failed them miserably.

Mr. Romney should continue to press for education reform, and remind Latino voters that education is vital to success. He should illustrate the importance that Americans of Asia-Pacific descent place on education and how fast their children move into the middle class. It doesn’t have to be an Asian thing.

He should praise Latinos for their strong work ethic and remind them that this work ethic coupled with an education is an unstoppable combination that will catapult them into the middle class and beyond.

Mr. Romney should also hammer away at the welfare state that Democrats have largely created and continue to support. He should tell Latinos the welfare state is fiscally unsustainable and creates dependence instead of independence. Mr. Romney has little to lose by illustrating how Fedzilla has wreaked untold havoc on black America.

Immigration is a topic central to Latinos. Mr. Romney has to address this and illustrate the differences between his immigration policies and the president’s policies of ignoring or selectively enforcing U.S. laws.

The governor should clearly state how the GOP supports and strongly encourages legal immigration but does not support amnesty or creating a system whereby illegal immigration is encouraged and rewarded. He should remind Latinos and other prospective immigrants that he supports an express-immigration policy through which America wants to attract the best and brightest immigrants from around the world. Legally.

Mr. Romney should continue to remind Latinos that the GOP is not anti-immigration or racist as the Democrats have said and will continue to blather. Rather, the GOP supports legal immigration just like many other nations who often have much stricter immigration policies than the United States, including Mexico.

The key to attracting Latino voters is to appeal to their sense of independence and to inform them the GOP believes in the power of the individual, not Fedzilla whose track record is one of dependence and destruction.

There is a reason America still offers the greatest quality of life in the world and how the GOP wants to continue and enhance the system by which this has always been made possible. Not to be confused with the Democrat model of another Euro train wreck.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Ready to roll over the O Team

2012-06-11T15:57:00Z

Obama and his media enablers need to answer for economic catastrophe

I recently had a nice conversation with my friend, ultra-left-wing comedian Bill Maher. He wants me back on his television program to explain why I am so angry with the Obama administration’s policies.

I will accommodate Bill’s request ASAP because I have always had a hoot on his program, not to mention that I have crushed old Billy and all his liberal guests’ fantasyland ideologies flatter than a road-killed Texas armadillo all 16 times I appeared on his old show “Politically Incorrect.” My 2012 Great White Buffalo summer-slam rock ‘n’ roll jihad, however, prevents me from appearing on Bill’s very successful HBO program at this time.

Be that as it may, for Bill and other lefties, the following is the foundation for my disgust with Mr. Obama’s policies.

His over-the-top left-wing agenda has led to the rebirth and dramatic upkick of the dreaded and totally unnecessary, self-inflicted Misery Index. The underemployment rate is near 20 percent. Arguably, the president’s economy is the worst since the Great Depression. I know many of us are greatly depressed by it.

Gas prices have also doubled since the president took office. Green energy has been a tax-torching bust. In 2008, Mr. Obama stated his green energy policy would create 5 million jobs. Instead, his green energy lie has cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of wasted dollars and created virtually zero jobs.

Mr. Obama’s maniacal orgy of borrowing and spending is unprecedented and is bankrupting the country. By the way, where did the $831 billion failed stimulus go and who got it? The president stated it would keep the unemployment rate below 8 percent and create millions of jobs. Not even close.

While not all the responsibility for this economic train wreck rests solely on this president’s shoulders, the national debt surpassed 100 percent of our gross national product on his watch and stands at 16 trillion smackers. Seven trillion of this debt is due to Mr. Obama’s berserk, unaccountable spending spree. Given four more years to drive our economy off the cliff, the national debt will probably surpass $20 trillion by most estimates. Welfare advocates Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven taught you well, Mr. President.

The president promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Deficit spending during the president’s tenure has gone way up, not down. Promises, promises, promises.

Obamacare is an unprecedented and illegal government takeover of a significant part of the U.S. economy that will not improve health care or lower the costs. In fact, the opposite is already proving to be true.

The president is a radically racial polarizing person. As I recall, he was supposed to be the great uniter when instead he has been the worst racial divider ever in the White House.

The president has repeatedly apologized for America on the international stage instead of promoting our wonderful culture, values, generosity, and unique freedoms and amazing quality of life. No president should ever apologize for the greatest nation in the history of the world.

Mr. Obama has appointed a number of extreme liberal kooks as czars. Additionally, I can’t find anyone on his Cabinet who has any private-sector experience, including his secretary of labor. They are all either professional bureaucrats or lawyers or both.

I don’t believe in government redistribution of citizen’s earnings. Like Mao, the president does, as he told Joe the Plumber. I believe in wealth creation through individual hard work and sacrifice, and that government should simply stay out of the way of job-creating, entrepreneurial free-market addicts. The president believes just the opposite. His class warfare tactics are anti-free market, anti-success and anti-American.

In summation, the president believes more government control and expansion is the way forward. He promotes socialism. I’m a rugged, independent American who is addicted to more freedom and believes less government is always the best government.

My buddy Bill Maher donated a million bucks to help re-elect his commie buddy Mr. Obama. I’m going to do all I can to clean out the federal government of the anti-America gang that is destroying this great country.

Mitt Romney is the way forward. Let’s rock.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: God bless America’s warriors

2012-05-25T18:54:00Z

Teach your children freedom isn’t free

Freedom isn’t free. Never has been, never will be. Very special warriors have provided freedom at supreme sacrifice since time immemorial. Good people will never forget, and we celebrate Memorial Day with a hard-charging spirit in appreciation for hard-charging warriors.

With his lifeblood pouring out of him from a mortal RPG wound to center mass, Pvt. 1st Class Todd Balding from Texas was, on the surface, but a bundle of red gauze and bandages, a jumble of tubes and numerous electronic apparatus beeping away. He was surrounded by a dedicated team of U.S. military medical experts at the Landstuhl hospital in Germany doing everything in their power to save the young American’s life.

Toby Keith and I literally stood in the young hero’s blood and said a very solemn prayer. Moments later, Pvt. 1st Class Todd Balding died. He was 21 years-old. He died fighting for freedom. That was one of many defining moments that struck me deep inside during my USO tour in 2004, and a defining moment in my life.

Toby and I were humbled beyond words to be allowed to join a presentation guard of warriors on the tarmac of the Iraq air base as we saluted a procession of flag-draped coffins being loaded onto a massive C-130 aircraft. Like our tears, the coffins just kept coming - and coming and coming and coming.

When I received the call, I immediately sent out an all-points bulletin to my management, staff and family to clear my schedule of all events. Within an hour, I had arranged a private plane, guitars and various electronic sound equipment. I had been requested to perform the national anthem and my song “Fred Bear” by Navy SEAL hero Chris Campbell in his will. How could I not honor his request. Regrettably, Chris Campbell’s dying request was thwarted by a politically correct bureaucrat, we believe by his commander in chief. On the night of his public memorial, all alone, I played the songs anyway in his honor in my home.

When I’m asked to play our national anthem I don’t just hit the notes and rush through the song so a game can be played or an event consummated. I play the song so it moves me. I play it the way Chris Campbell and all those amazing warriors in all those flag-draped coffins would want me to. I play it every night onstage when touring across the land to honor all those wonderful American warriors who paid the ultimate sacrifice so that you and I can live free and pursue our American dreams. On this Memorial Day, teach your children that freedom isn’t free.

Find the Memorial Day service at the Tomb of Unknowns on television and watch it with your children. Tell your children that many heroes have paid for their freedom with their lives. Remember U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Eric MacRae, who left behind a wife and children. Say a prayer for his family. Say a prayer for all the fallen warriors and the families they left behind.

There is no national holiday more revered in the Nugent household than Memorial Day. We live to celebrate Memorial Day every day. We will forever know that the ultimate sacrifices of these brave warriors have kept us free and the world a better, safer place. We know the American warrior has liberated more people from tyranny and evil in the history of the world than all other militaries and governments combined.

Tonight, I will play a blistering version of our national anthem as my family gathers to remember. I will play it like never before and dedicate it to Navy SEAL Chris Campbell and all those who gave all. May God eternally bless the American warriors who gave all. Happy Memorial Day, America. Never forget.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Six rules to gain American Dream

2012-05-17T18:50:00Z

Advice from the mountaintop for those starting at the bottom

Tens of thousands of young people will soon toss their graduation caps into the air and begin their pursuit of their own unique American Dream. That’s cause for grand celebration.

Though I’m not a college graduate, I did graduate from the School of Hard Rock and Knocks and Common Sense some 50 years ago. With my trusty Gibson Byrdland guitar and a wall of amplifiers, I hit the road and received a Magnum-Cum-Very Loud Degree in logic, work ethic, pragmatism and pure animal tenacity.

As your not-so-humble Motor City Madman, I’d like to offer a few words to these new college graduates - words that no tenured professor ensconced in an ivory tower could possibly have taught.

Rule No. 1: Success has nothing to do with money. Nothing. Success is the unrelenting, dogged persistence to be the absolute best you can be at your chosen profession. Good is never good enough. Money always comes looking for the very best. Burn that into your psyche.

Rule No. 2:There are no guarantees and there never have been. The only guarantee is the gratification that comes from relentless effort, hard work and sacrifice, and even that is difficult to lasso in this tight job market. May I recommend following the U.S. Marine Corps mantra that has served all successful Americans forever: Improvise, adapt and overcome.

In this world of instant gratification, be prepared to be shocked that success is not easy, cheap or quickly. The opposite is true. The road to success is a very steep uphill path strewn with stride-breaking obstacles, and it always has been. Only mountain climbers climb mountains.

Rule No. 3:Scaling the mountain of success will exact a heavy toll on you, just as it should. If becoming the best was easy, everyone would do it. Instead, only a few become the very best. Equality is for sheep and Mao fans.

In order to become the absolute best, you will have to work much harder than your peers, which means getting up an hour earlier and going to bed an hour later. Sacrifice on so many levels will be incredibly difficult, but sacrifice will turn out to be the most important attribute to your success. Those who sacrifice the most, succeed the most. Know that.

Rule No. 4:The world is full of cheats, liars, lazy bloodsuckers and people who cut corners. If their house gets in your way, burn it down. Surround yourself with people of good will, character, intelligence and integrity who are also on a path to be the very best. Success breeds success.

Rule No. 5: You will make plenty of mistakes along the way. Mistakes are learning opportunities. Learn from your mistakes and then commit to becoming more persistent, more relentless, more committed and more focused.

Rule No. 6: While you scale your mountain of success, lend a hand to the person behind you and pull them up with you. Atlas doesn’t shrug in my book. Atlas commends, constructively criticizes, encourages and challenges those following him. Be an Atlas.

Learning to play the guitar as a youngster back in Detroit was the absolute hardest thing I have ever done in my life. I practiced nonstop because I wanted to master the instrument and become a musician, not to be a rock and roll star. Forty million pieces of music sold and 6,500 concerts later, I still practice the guitar every day and am again in the middle of the greatest musical fun tour of my life. Never, ever give up.

Go back and read Rule No. 1. Godspeed and good luck.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: California nightmare

2012-05-15T18:49:00Z

Bankrupt state serves as a warning to the rest of America

Will the last American left in California please turn out the lights? And don’t let the door slam you in the behind. California isn’t going broke. It’s already broke and is $16 billion in the hole. With businesses leaving the state in record numbers because of punitive taxes and bizarre overregulation, the only way forward is to either raise taxes or severely cut benefits. Raising taxes is the mantra of liberals, and California is awash with liberal politicians.

In addition to business-killing taxes and regulations, California has the third-highest state income tax in the nation, the nation’s highest sales tax and the highest gas taxes in America.

Get this: Roughly half of California’s income taxes are paid by just 1 percent of California’s residents. It’s no wonder the most productive people are leaving the state each year as more bloodsuckers move in.

If that isn’t bad enough, California has one of the nation’s highest unemployment rates; its health care system is on the verge of collapse, with dozens of hospitals closing over the past decade; crime is rampant in California’s cities; its public employees are paid staggering amounts of money compared to ordinary Californians; and massive numbers of illegal aliens continue to invade the state.

This isn’t California dreamin’ but rather an American nightmare.

It’s a blinding statement of the obvious, but California’s financial nightmare (and the nation’s) is a terminal addiction to bloated and expensive government completely out of control, with zero accountability.

You don’t need to be an economist to understand that less government equals more prosperity. The fundamental problem we face is that too many Americans do not understand this most basic economic truism, or worse, simply refuse to accept it.

It doesn’t work that way (or can’t work that way for long) and that’s why California and our federal government are financial train wrecks.

The way out of this mess would be painful. Massive cuts would be required, services slashed, and agencies gutted and eliminated.

There is no dispute there will be pain. The question is: When will we deal with it, now or later?

For many Americans, the answer is painfully obvious: Let someone else deal with it further down the road. Put it on the shoulders of future generations.

That is the wrong answer. The longer we postpone the pain, the more painful and ugly it will be. Just look at Greece, Spain and France.

The responsible answer is to deal with it now.

We can’t tax our way out of this mess. We can’t continue to borrow our way out. We can’t regulate our way out. We are not going to grow our way out. The only way out is to dramatically reduce government spending and to quit strangling the free market with burdensome regulations.

Liberalism has failed around the world, and it has failed here, too. Big government has been a big bust. Yet, for liberals, the solution is even bigger government.

Economist Milton Friedman had it right: “So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear, that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.”

More government hasn’t been, isn’t and won’t ever be the answer. That’s California dreamin’.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Ignorance of labyrinthine laws is no excuse

2012-04-26T18:45:00Z

Nonsensical hunting rules do nothing to aid conservation

Not a day goes by when an American outdoorsman doesn’t confide in me that because of the increasingly complex, illogical hunting and fishing regulations across the nation, it would not surprise him if he had unintentionally violated a game law at some point. Other outdoorsmen routinely express their frustration about regulations that serve no purpose and cannot possibly be explained in terms of wildlife management.

America increasingly is drowning in just such strange, goofy regulations and requirements. As logic crusader John Stossel recently exposed, our federal government releases roughly 80,000 pages of new regulations each year - confusing, ambiguous, weird, illogical regulations that serve no meaningful purpose other than to attempt feebly to justify bureaucracies already off the rails. It’s way past bizarre.

The “you don’t need to read it, you just need to sign it” health care bill argued before the Supreme Court was more than 2,700 pages of extraordinarily complex rules and regulations. Sarcastically, Supreme CourtJustice Antonin Scalia stated that having to read the bill was a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s cruel-and-unusual-punishment clause.

Regrettably, state hunting regulations also have been ravaged by the overregulation beast. In Alaska, the hunting regulation book is 128 pages long. The Alaska trapping regulation is 48 pages.

Alaska is not alone. Numerous other states have seen incredible expansion of their hunting regulations over the past few decades. In Texas, the summary of hunting and fishing regulations is 85 pages. The hunting regulations in California are roughly 140 pages long.

Even with an increasing mountain of often confusing and complex hunting and fishing regulations, sportsmen have a legal and ethical obligation to know and abide by them, no matter how goofy they may be. I have said this for decades and will continue to do so as we fight to make the regulations sensible.

I have hunted in Alaska for almost 40 years. It is a spectacular, beautiful place that offers incredible big- and small-game hunting cherished by sporters from around the globe.

In 2009, I returned again with my sons to Alaska to hunt black bear. I was unaware that the specific region where I hunted had a new and unprecedented requirement that a bear-hunting tag was considered to be “filled” even with a nonlethal hit on the animal. For 60 years, every tag regulation in every state and Canadian province has declared that you tag the animal upon taking possession of the animal.

The first arrow I shot on that hunt was an obviously nonlethal shot in which the arrow glanced off the animal’s rib, as seen clearly on stop-action video. The bear leapt, stopped, looked around and slowly ambled off, confused but unhurt by the disruption. After a diligent effort by my son and me, we were convinced that this bear was alive and well. We then continued our hunt and ultimately killed a beautiful black bear.

I filmed the entire hunt, including the first, nonlethal arrow, and put it on my television program “Spirit of the Wild” on the Outdoor Channel for tens of millions of viewers to witness. Airing the hunt on television proves beyond all doubt that I had no willful intention to violate any hunting regulation.

Was I negligent in not knowing the Alaska bear-hunting rule for the specific region I hunted that year? Absolutely. For my negligence, I have been charged with a violation, and I pleaded guilty. To the best of my knowledge, I am the only person ever charged with violating this new, unheard-of law. Lifetime Alaska hunters, guides, outfitters and even the resident judge at my hearing were unaware of such an unprecedented regulation.

While I disagree with Alaska’s requirement that a tag is considered to be “filled” even on a nonlethal hit, that was the requirement at the time of my hunt. Had I known of that requirement, I would not have hunted that region because I fundamentally disagree with the regulation, and I certainly would not have hunted another bear.

I have promoted the grand, honorable hunting lifestyle all of my life and will continue to do so. Hunting, fishing and trapping are the epitome of true conservation.

What I also pledge to American outdoorsmen is to work to repeal onerous, unscientific, counterproductive rules and regulations that make no sense, such as those in the seven states where hunting is banned on Sunday, making 50 percent of the season illegal for the average hunting families in those states. Idiotic laws such as these are a hindrance to real conservation and the critical need to recruit new hunters. Arbitrary laws serve no scientific purpose that benefits the management of wildlife value.

The outdoor lifestyle cannot be preserved for future generations of sportsmen by constructing such a labyrinth of confusing, unscientific and oftentimes counterproductive regulations and rules. Reversing this trend is my focus.

While I have never intentionally violated a hunting regulation, ignorance of the law is no excuse, and I am truly sorry and have paid dearly. There is even less of an excuse for ignorant laws.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: War on poverty is over - we lost

2012-04-23T18:43:00Z

Nearly 50 years and $15 trillion later, the poor are still poor

Here’s a painful yet inescapable statement of the obvious to people with common sense and a lick of reality: Poor people are poor because they make poor decisions. That’s the root cause of poverty.

Now, with the Obama money-burning orgy in full swing, America herself is financially poor because, according to the Cato Institute, American taxpayers have been conned into spending $15 trillion since 1965 on President Lyndon Johnson’s brownie-point “war to eliminate poverty.”

The results have been pathetically poor. The percentage of poor people in 1965 was roughly the same percentage of poor people in America today, but a staggering $15 trillion has been wasted.

Since 1965, we have fought the war on poverty with all the wrong generals, all the wrong tactics and all the wrong weapons. And it’s costing us $1 trillion a year to continue to lose this war.

What our $15 trillion has bought us is institutional and generational poverty. Reward bad decisions and bad decisions increase. Ya think?

Like all conservatives, I want to and I do help poor Americans. I don’t wish to condemn them to a life of poverty, which is one of the driving political platforms of the Democratic Party.

If our goal is to win the war on poverty, it’s time we changed tactics. Instead of setting another trillion dollars on fire this year, I recommend we slam the financial door shut on pouring more hard-earned money after more bad money with guaranteed despicable results.

Here’s another blazing statement of the obvious: Poor people will quit being poor when our government quits enabling, bribing, training and rewarding them to be poor. Write that down.

People can and will do amazing things when Fedzilla removes its heavy bureaucratic boot off of their throats.

It’s really quite simple. The road from poverty to the middle class is paved with good decisions, willpower, a kick-butt work ethic and an alarm clock. That’s the recipe for wealth and glorious independence.

The very first thing that needs to be done to eliminate poverty is to stop punishing the producers and expand economic freedom. You don’t need to be an economist or a greasy guitar player to understand that punishing the wealthy ultimately hurts poor Americans. The Obama administration’s plan: Tax the wealthy even more and increase the incentive for the poor to remain poor. Are you kidding me?

Economic freedom means freedom from burdensome government regulations and policies that strangle the life out of small businesses and the free market. This administration is addicted to more anti-business regulations and more control, which ultimately exacerbates poverty. Who could not possibly know this?

We’ve got to quit stabbing ourselves in the eye with an ice pick and then complain we can’t see.

While we desperately need to eliminate the vast controls over economic freedom on the wealthy, we also need to eliminate the government poverty programs that enable and encourage people to be poor instead of encouraging them to be free, independent, self-reliant people.

Government causes poverty because it enables poor people to continue to make poor decisions. If we want to win the war on poverty, we’ve first got to win the war against Fedzilla, which intentionally causes poverty and causes American taxpayers to set fire to a trillion dollars a year.

Fedzilla does all the wrong things right. It’s time to reverse course and demand our government do all the right things right.

All good things start with more freedom. We will only eliminate poverty when we embrace more freedom.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: St. Louis NRA party rocked

2012-04-19T18:41:00Z

I’m not backing down from telling the truth

If all of America were just like the great families at the National Rifle Association’s 141st annual members meeting in St. Louis last weekend, our country would be flawless. Surrounded by my family, friends, patriots, law enforcement and military heroes, veterans who have sacrificed dearly for freedom and the U.S. Constitution, the good will and positive energy in the air was cleansing, to say the least. We set another attendance record for the NRA and for St. Louis. It was downright perfect.

I spent all three days doing fundraisers for children’s and military charities, fondling much hardware, meeting legions of good folks at the Ted Nugent Ammo exhibit, and shaking hands with great Americans, Canadians, Brits and freedom-loving people from around the globe.

As always, I also conducted numerous media interviews providing unlimited self-evident truth and the inexhaustible evidence supporting the beauty of keeping and bearing arms for defense of self, family and liberty. Unarmed helplessness is for sheep and the French. Such an embarrassing, irresponsible, crime-inducing condition is inexcusable.

On Sunday, April 15, my killer Motor City soul brother, Derek St. Holmes, joined me onstage for an impromptu celebration of Motown classics and my fire-breathing soundtrack of defiance and God-given, constitutionally guaranteed individual rights. Much enthusiastic foot stomping and dancing erupted like it was the Fourth of July.

Introduced lovingly by the great Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbot, I took the stage, humbled yet proud that such a gathering of fine people would unite to hear the old guitar player raise hell for a better America.

My speech, just like every year at the NRA convention, was about the unlimited greatness of this sacred experiment in self-government, thanking the heroes of the U.S. military and law enforcement for their incredible sacrifices while waging war against the enemies of freedom, wherever they may slither.

But beyond all that is good, the real duty of “we the people” is to watch out for and fight against the bad and the ugly brought about by people of power who have historically abused it.

I named names. I called out Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. for his Fast and Furious scandal and other offenses. I railed against President Obama for engineering the dismantling of the once-greatest economy in the world. I reminded everyone how Hillary Rodham Clinton sides with the evil criminals of the United Nations instead of her own great nation. I reminded good Americans that it isn’t the enemies’ fault for sneaking into the White House and abusing power, but rather we the people for allowing them to take corruption to a horrible new level.

I begged everyone to register and vote, because warriors give up their lives so that we can. I spotlighted cockroaches and rallied those who care to stomp ‘em out at the voting booth in November, as is my duty as an American.

By no stretch of the imagination did I ever threaten anyone’s life, or hint of violence or mayhem. Metaphors needn’t be explained to educated people.

I passionately rallied the American civilian troops to stand up for what is right and demand that the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights be once again the measure of all laws and policies in America.

Then in their ever-desperate scramble to divert attention from the crimes of their communist leaders, the Saul Alinsky “Rules for Radicals” left-wing media and terminally liberal Democrats circled their battlewagons of deceit and hate and unleashed their tsunami of lies about me and everything I said.

To me, my family and thinking America, the dysfunctional left-wing hate hysteria was laughable. I became the No. 1 global tweet entity, while every newspaper and America-hating television and radio gang literally tripped over themselves in a feeble attempt to out-lie each other.

I personally have never been prouder. If my daily activities and simple statements of truth and logic can cause such bizarre overreaction by so many, I need no more evidence that I am on the right track. When doing God’s work, the devils go bonzo. So be it.

I stand by my statements. The line is drawn in the American sand. I stand with patriots who love this country. We wake up early every day to put our hearts and souls into being assets for America, our fellow Americans, the people of the world and the good earth.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Economic kamikaze

2012-04-16T18:39:00Z

Obama risks all by sticking to his guns while nation nose-dives

With an election on the horizon, President Obama and his administration are employing age-old political diversionary tactics to keep the American public from focusing on the dismal condition of our economy. Call in a four-alarm fire on the south side while they rob the bank on the north side. Al Capone lives.

With the economic train wreck they have engineered, it’s hard to blame Mr. Obama for his misdirection scramble.

Obama and company’s runaway political spin, sleight-of-hand tricks and smoke-and-mirrors games will only work for so long. Con men who sell snake oil are eventually exposed.

The truth will ultimately take center stage. When it does, the Obama administration’s economic flimflam jig will be up.

Mr. Obama owns the lingering recession lock, stock and barrel. He can try to blame everybody but the Wizard of Oz, bob and weave, dodge, lie, obfuscate and deflect that reality, but he will win or lose the election based on the economy.

Mr. Obama and his proxies are telling the American public that unemployment is decreasing. Serious people know that’s a sham, pure political snake oil.

The truth is that if the unemployed, those who have given up looking for work, and the underemployed are added together, that number is probably over 20 percent, not the 8.2 percent unemployment rate touted by the Obama administration.

Say what he will in deceptive rants about staving off economic collapse, the truth is that the president’s $800 billion stimulus didn’t stimulate anything except the debt and an increased hue and cry from the bloodsuckers who like being in the liability column of America. Add to that economic suicide ruse the Solyndra scandal and various assorted crony crimes by this administration, and the fundamental transformation via the Cloward-Piven playbook is clearly on the fast track.

There has been little, if any, growth in the private sector during Mr. Obama’s tenure. Small businesses, the engine of our economy, want nothing to do with Mr. Obama’s suicidal vision as evidenced by the fact they are not growing or hiring. Who can blame them?

One in 7 Americans are now on food stamps. This depressing number does not bode well for Mr. Obama.

With more than 20 percent of Americans drowning in economic hard times, many of them have had to foreclose on their homes. One quarter of all mortgages are at risk of foreclosure. Those who lose a job and then lose a home are not a political base any president would want.

Filling up your tank with $3.90-a-gallon gas is painful and ugly. Some are forecasting the price at the pump will rise to $5 or more this summer. Americans would do well to remember the price at the pump has more than doubled since the “the cost of energy will necessarily skyrocket under my policies” president was elected.

There is no economic recovery, Americans are not better off, incomes have not risen. The whole world can see how America’s economy is stuck in the mud. Happy days aren’t even close to being here again.

Even though he inherited a shaky economy, from Day One of his administration the president has run toward the wrong economic end zone and exacerbated our economic problems.

Instead of focusing on sound and proven policies that grow the economy, his economic platform has strangled economic growth.

The president is either clueless about how to get the economy moving again or he believes America will be better off with a European socialist form of government. Saul Alinsky is at the helm.

If the Titanic were sinking today and the president was on board, he would grab a leaky bucket to bail water and claim his bailout policy is saving the ship from sinking.

The world will see in November whether there are more rugged individual producers or more uncaring bloodsuckers in the last, best place. America would do well to stick with New Hampshire’s slogan: “Live free or die.”

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Allen West is a battle-tested patriot with star power

2012-04-12T18:35:00Z

Allen West is a battle-tested patriot with star power

When names are kicked around as to who would make a good running mate for former Gov. Mitt Romney, I can think of many great Americans for the job. Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, John Thune, Paul Ryan, Mike Rogers, Rand Paul, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Darrell Issa, Louie Gomert and others come to mind.

But Sen. Marco Rubio from Florida is justifiably at or near the top of the list. Mr. Rubio would be a wise selection. He’s a conservative who is bright and speaks his mind with a bold conviction that warms the hearts of fellow conservatives drunk on tea. Every so often, someone comes along and inspires us, gives us real hope, tells us the truth and lays out a clear vision for the future.

These patriots are not concerned with the next election, but are concerned with the good of the nation for future generations of Americans. They know the real American dream is about leaving the nation in better shape than it was when they arrived.

These statesmen don’t seek to reshape America into something our Founders never intended, but believe in restoring those unique limited government principles that made America the envy of the world or as Ronald Reagan said, “a shining city on a hill.”

They know the real greatness of America rests with individuals, not power-hungry bureaucrats who seek to control us instead of upholding the U.S. Constitution that liberates us.

I endorse Mr. Romney for president because I believe he is the right man at the right time with the right experience and with the right vision to begin pointing this wonderful experiment in self-government in a renewed, positive direction that rewards the producers instead of punishing them.

Mr. Romney is going to need help, and like the good Mr. Rubio, Rep. Allen West is another conservative shining star from Florida.

While a vice-presidential selection is Mr. Romney’s call, he would be wise to give Mr. West a strong look.

Whether Mr. West wants the job of vice president remains to be seen, but there is no debating that he has the conservative credentials, the vision and the wisdom to be second in command and someday, to be the commander in chief. He’s that great an American.

Mr. West is a bold, unapologetic, intelligent American with a clear vision for the country that is the opposite of the Obama administration’s wrongheaded, European-style vision.

A vice-presidential running mate does not typically make a difference in a presidential race, but Mr. West would obliterate that historical political paradigm. He’s a game-changer.

A Romney-West ticket would be a veritable juggernaut that would illuminate the vast chasms that separate them from the undynamic duo of President Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden.

While I deeply respect Mr. Rubio and believe he would make a strong running mate, I equally believe Mr. West would do us all proud as the next vice president of the United States. He is a leader, a patriot, a battle-tested veteran and is no doubt a shining star for the GOP and America.

Mitt Romney would be very wise to select Allen West to be his running mate.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: GOP storm brewing

2012-03-20T16:05:00Z

Party faithful readying to rain on Obama’s re-election bid

Oftentimes, a 500-mile auto race is decided in the last couple of miles, sometimes the last lap. The first 495 miles are a survival-of-the-fittest endurance test of mechanical genius, unbelievable driver skill and concentration, masterful pit crew logistics that are measured in seconds, and luck - lots of luck.

The last five miles is when all the stops are pulled out, the pedal mashed to the metal, cars and drivers pushed to the edge of their breaking points. Car owners, crew chiefs and pit crews can do nothing but watch, cringe, cheer and hope at this point.

In the GOP presidential race, Mitt Romney is currently ahead of Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul by a couple of hundred delegates.

Some mathematically argue that Mitt Romney, who I endorse, cannot be caught at this point, that his delegate lead is insurmountable.

Mathematically insurmountable lead or not, the race goes on with contenders such as Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Paul with few delegates and even less gas in the tank.

Mr. Santorum is doing his best to make it a photo finish, turning the GOP convention into a brokered convention where the nominee will be selected in a delegate donnybrook.

Pundits are trying to convince the GOP faithful that this long race is weakening the GOP, that the party will not coalesce in time to launch a united campaign against President Obama. Don’t buy that spin.

It was just a couple of years ago Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and then-Sen. Barack Obama had locked political horns. Their race was heated, passionate and contentious. It wasn’t until June of 2008 before Mrs. Clinton cried “no mas” and ceded the nomination to Mr. Obama.

Hillary supporters instantly united behind Mr. Obama. That’s what political parties do: Unite behind their candidate.

The GOP will also unite. The party will not self-destruct as many on the left are hoping. That won’t happen.

The GOP knows this is a critical election, possibly the most important election in more than a century, the most critical, I believe, in my lifetime. Conservative voters won’t stay home because they don’t like the GOP candidate.

Rank-and-file Republicans and independents in restaurants, gas stations, gun stores, etc., are champing at the political bit to vote for anyone to ensure Mr. Obama is tossed out of office. Their strong distrust of the president has got the GOP and conservative base fired up and ready to unite like never before.

In addition to anxiously awaiting to vote for the GOP candidate for president, Republicans are also tremendously excited about the opportunity to take over the Senate and keep the House, making it a clean GOP sweep.

The GOP faithful know the outcome of the election will chart a course for the country: a long, slow return to fiscal sanity and limited federal government or an all-out press for a European form of socialism that, by the way, has failed and is failing all across Europe and everywhere else it has been tried.

There is a GOP storm brewing on the horizon and it’s not a storm to rip the GOP base apart, but rather a gathering of the Republican faithful to unite and change the course of the country.

In the meantime, let the GOP race for president continue. That’s what primaries are for. At the end of the race, know that the party will unite into a strong, committed team with a singular goal: elect their candidate.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: ‘I endorse Mitt Romney’

2012-03-05T16:59:00Z

Governor best choice for White House

After much soul-searching and due diligent research, I endorse Gov. Mitt Romney to be the GOP nominee for president because I believe he is the best man to chart a course for renewed American prosperity.

I respect, admire and applaud all four candidates, but endorse Mitt.

Good government always begins with good people. Mr. Romney is a good man, a self-made man, an independent man, a smart man. My kind of guy, a real all-American Motor City Madman sans ponytail.

We live in brutal economic times. Tough times require tough people willing to make even tougher decisions. I support only tough, creative, smart and bold people, and Mr. Romney is just the man America needs right now for these turbulent times and even tougher times in front of us.

Too many Americans are unemployed and underemployed. Putting America back to work and restoring America’s economy is job No. 1. Mr. Romney has the hands-on private-sector experience that is critical to understanding how to ignite our economy and put Americans back to work. President Obama has no private-sector experience, and we have a stagnant, sinking economy to prove it.

Mr. Romney knows that one of the key economic anchors drowning our economy is that we have too much government that consumes too much of our gross domestic product. He knows the path to prosperity is not lined with more government, more bureaucracy, more borrowing and spending, more mountains of unsustainable debt, and more fiscal insanity such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which, amazingly, are still making bad loans.

He understands the way forward is not more of the same disastrous policies and tremendously expensive programs that have pushed America to the brink of economic collapse. Under a Romney presidency, America will chart a much different course that begins with much less spending, lower taxes and more accountability.

Mr. Romney understands how the voluminous stacks of burdensome federal government regulations are suffocating the free market. Bureaucratic, anti-job regulations will become extinct immediately when Mr. Romney becomes President Romney. The days of irresponsible, costly, unaccountable government will soon be a thing of the past.

Restoring basic fiscal sanity in a system that is addicted to irresponsible spending begins with banning earmarks across the board. Mr. Romney will work to get the president line-item veto power and work to get a balanced-budget amendment.

Businesses once again will feel secure in investing and expanding their operations with a pro-business Romney administration. If you want a job and a brighter future, Mr. Romney is clearly the best choice to occupy the White House.

While becoming energy-independent is difficult and will take time, President Romney will begin this journey by implementing a pragmatic energy policy that includes nuclear power, the Keystone XL pipeline, more offshore drilling, and other real energy innovation and research and development.

As a tried-and-true conservationist, I know a President Romney will place the interests of the hunting and fishing community first and foremost over the current animal rights terrorists infesting our government agencies. There will be zero pandering or tolerance of radical, leftist, clown-brigade environmentalists in a Romney White House.

Mr. Romney is strong on national defense. Though a peaceful man, he knows that lasting peace is ultimately achieved through a position of strength. There will be no timetables for withdrawing our warriors from the battlefield - only timetables for victory, which will be established by our warriors.

There will be no apologizing for America to the international community by a President Romney, only praise for our freedom, our warriors, our culture and our values. America once again will be respected on the international stage with President Romney at the helm.

During my heart-to-heart talk with the good governor, I became convinced that he better understands the inescapable truism of a God-given individual right to keep and bear arms. No reinterpretation necessary.

There are stark and clear differences between Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama. This is good. Mr. Romney believes the engine of America is the free market while Mr. Obama believes in punishing the producers of the free market and growing an even larger federal government and legions of soulless dependents.

Mr. Romney is clearly the best man for the job at hand. To restate President Reagan’s campaign theme of 1984, it will once again be morning in America with Mitt Romney in the White House.

Let’s rock, America.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: ‘Progressives’ are regressive

2012-02-29T16:47:00Z

Leftists’ gloom-and-doom agenda is no way to party

Just as the homosexual community has co-opted the word “gay,” various leftists, socialists and Marxists have co-opted the word “progressive.” Words mean things. If you read the definition of “progressive,” conservatives and the Tea Party are the real progressive force in America, as we are the ones advocating substantive upgrade, improvement and reforms in the stinky, status-quo swamps of Washington.

The leftists and all of their various incarnations have co-opted the word “progressive” to try to convince Americans they are agents of political improvements when exactly the opposite is true. Leftists are agents of not only the status quo, but a truly backward mindset. They are the ones who advocatethe proven horrors of bigger government, more dangerous borrowing, more irresponsible spending, less accountability, more cronyism, more dependency and foggier transparency.

Real progress can only be made by turning away from these ultradestructive policies and agendas that serve to punish the most productive among us, while at the same time stomping on poor Americans and telling them that a steel-toed boot on their throat is actually good for them. Amazingly, many Americans actually believe a boot on their throat is good for them. These marionettes of the dependency puppet master are very wrong.

Real progress will not come easy or fast. Over the last couple of decades, America has dug a deep and wide financial crater thanks to members of both political parties. Instead of advocating policies for climbing out of this hole, during his three-year tenure, President Obama has repeatedly asked for a bigger shovel to dig the hole even deeper. That behavior is regressive, not progressive.

As President Reagan would surely have said, Mr. Obama and his left-wing cohorts are not the solution, they are the problem.

Alternatively, the real progressives, the Tea Party, advocate a more fiscally responsible federal government and a government that stays in its constitutional lane that was very carefully spelled out by our Founding Fathers. The Founders knew exactly what they meant when they wrote the 10th Amendment. What they could not have fathomed was how little respect for the 10th Amendment future politicians would give this critical rule.

America needs to turn in the opposite direction from which it has been moving for decades. Bigger government has not done much of anything, except to bury us in a pile of insane debt and create a class of dependent, unhappy, slavelike Americans.

The Tea Party and conservatives know less government is best government. We know a fundamental transformation from the leftists who advocate even bigger government will save America, not enslave it and doom it to a third-class nation.

Real progressives want Americans to be much more independent, reliant and strong. This is the kind of progress and freedom that rocks at maximum volume, which is just what the freedom doctor ordered.

Leftists have nothing except a track record of destruction and dependency. If you want more of the same, the Democratic Party is for you. If you support it, know it is the political party of status quo, doom and despair. I would not call that a party.

If you want real change, real transformation and real progress, support those brave and bold Americans running for office at the local, county, state and national level. They are the true progressives as they advocate much less government and much more freedom.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Burning cash with gas

2012-02-24T15:54:00Z

Oil makes the world go ‘round, or kaput

Gather around, boys and girls, for another quick lesson in real-world Nugenomics 101. Not “if” but “when”gas prices soar to four bucks a gallon this summer, the impact to our economy will be thunderous.

With the national average price for a gallon of gas already at $3.65 a gallon, our anemic economy already is being battered. Prices for food are already high and going higher. No tax on the poor - right, President Obama?

America’s economy is intrinsically aligned with fuel prices because the lifeblood of our economy is oil. Four-dollar-a-gallon gas will not just sting at the pump but also will put the squeeze on every American for milk and cookies at the grocery store and every product we purchase because they are all delivered to stores by truck.

For the millions of Americans who jostle for position during rush hour each day, higher gas prices mean fewer dollars to invest or spend on other things, such as going on a summer fishing trip.

As gas prices continue to rise, consumer debt probably also will rise as American families, already strapped for cash, will use credit cards to pay for the increased fuel costs.

Ultimately, higher gas prices put the squeeze on all things related to the economy, including job creation.

Interestingly, demand for gas in America is down. Typically, when demand for something such as gas is down, prices fall. But not now. Prices at the pump continue to rise.

Whatever you do, do not blame Big Oil for the price at the pump, as Bill O'Reilly mistakenly does. The oil companies have nothing to do with setting the price of gas. Gas prices are set by oil price futures, which are the prices fuel investors think oil will cost in the future.

There are other things in play besides oil futures that are causing the price to rise. Demand for oil around the world is going up as other nations are using more of it. The higher the demand, the higher the price.

Another reason oil prices are high is the deterioration in the value of the U.S. dollar. Our dollar is the denomination used around the world for oil. Because of our gluttonous borrowing and spending in Washington and the berserk level of our national debt, the value of the once-mighty dollar has plummeted on the international market in recent years. A declining dollar causes oil prices to rise. Getting our fiscal house in order would do much to restore confidence in the dollar’s value and cause oil prices to fall.

Remember this: The stock market hates volatility. With Israel threatening to demolish Iran’s nuclear facilities in the near future before Iran can make good on its threat to incinerate the Jewish state, oil speculators are nervous and obviously think that bombing Iran will create massive international volatility. This is causing speculators to “bet” that oil production and the transportation of oil out of the Middle East will be reduced, thereby causing oil futures prices to rise today.

At four bucks a gallon or even higher, the economy will enter a severe stall. At this price, Americans will further tighten their belts on driving and spending, thereby driving demand for gas even lower than what it already is. But tightening our belts and reducing spending will slam the brakes on our economy, which is, at best, only in first gear.

Class dismissed.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Trading freedom for free stuff

2012-02-16T17:11:00Z

America without its dream is destined for suffocation

The Internet is full of health-related studies and articles. Most of them provide similar, age-old wisdom: Eat right, exercise and don’t smoke. There are no guarantees, but following this timeless advice generally leads to a longer, healthier life.

All of us have heard this and read it countless times, yet there remains a segment of the American public who would rather shovel junk into their mouths and sit on the couch than follow a healthy lifestyle. When these Americans become ill, they want others to pay for their health care, which is a key reason why America is broke and in debt.

We live in a La-La Land entitlement society where poor choices are condoned and rewarded and individual responsibility and accountability are largely ignored by the bloodsuckers who want the rich to “pay their fair share.” Unbelievable.

What is not as easy to find on the Internet is rock-solid wisdom on how to keep America healthy, wealthy and wise. But it is out there if you search for it.

Start with reading quotes by Thomas Jefferson, arguably the smartest person to ever take up residency in the White House. Jefferson had a healthy distrust of the very type of bloated, ineffective and now broke federal government we have embraced over the past 50 years when he wrote, “Most bad government has grown out of too much government.” Thanks to President Obama, we are living in the era of the biggest federal government in our nation’s history.

Jefferson must have been able to see far into the future when he wrote, “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” Reckless, dangerous, stupid European-style entitlement spending is now sucking the life out of the American dream, and the guilty have a president.

President Reagan wisely stated, “Government isn’t the solution; it’s the problem.”

Limited-government freedom dreamers also will find solace in the famous and wise words of the Rev. William Boetcker, who famously wrote almost 100 years ago: “You cannot bring prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further brotherhood of men by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”

Mr. Obama and his legions of bloodsucking supporters surely find Boetcker’s wise words a threat to their continued goal of expanding government at all levels and creating more dependency rather than independence.

Conservatives are not opposed to government. What conservatives are opposed to is an arrogant, oppressive, out-of-control, anti-Constitution federal government that seeks to impose its suffocating, heavy-handed will upon Americans.

Less government is best government. Jefferson and Boetcker knew that. The question for Americans this fall is this: Do more know this than don’t know this? America will get what we ask for, and with the dumbing-down of America at an all-time extreme, we should be very, very scared.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Whitney Houston’s squandered gift

2012-02-13T16:37:00Z

Songstress’ lost talent should serve as a warning to America’s youth

Another great talent has been silenced, probably because of abusing dope or booze and the criminal, irresponsible lifestyle that goes with that insane behavior. What a waste.

Whitney Houston possessed the most powerful, incredible, soaring and moving voice I have ever heard, and I have heard and revered them all. Her rendition of our national anthem at the Super Bowl 21 years ago was so powerful that it defies description. It is without question the most soulful, emotional, inspiring rendition I have ever heard.

Miss Houston’s God-given and incredible gifts won her numerous Grammy Awards and the respect and awe of every person who ever witnessed her beauty and talent. She sold more than 170 million records and made millions and millions of dollars. But in the end, none of that really matters. What matters is that another human being is gone much too soon.

If we truly care, we should not remember Miss Houston for her incredible talent. Instead, we should use her death as an opportunity to tell our children that her death spiral is yet another glaring example that dope and booze are killers. That is nothing to celebrate.

We should use Miss Houston’s death as a teaching moment: Live a responsible lifestyle; make intelligent decisions; hang out only with good, decent, law-abiding people; and by all means, steer clear of dope and booze and people still foolish enough to abuse them. I would like to think that is what she, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and many others would want us to say to our young people.

In the 50 years I have been in the entertainment industry, I have seen too many incredible talents like Miss Houston choose death rather than respect life. Indulging the fake, deadly highs of dope and booze is not a party or worthy of celebration.

Entertainers who die as a result of ingesting poison are just the very tip of the toxic dope iceberg. I meet with cops on almost a daily basis, and their stories are much the same: Dope and booze are destroying lives, families and entire communities all across America. It is a scourge, a curse.

As it pertains to life and death, we should keep our priorities in check. If you want to celebrate and remember people who have passed much too soon and who really matter, I recommend you visit Arlington National Cemetery, where you can walk among rows and rows of true heroes. Watch the guards march in silent reverence at the Tomb of the Unknowns. They matter. They are forever worthy of our remembrance. They made the ultimate sacrifice for worthy causes: freedom and the American way.

The families of our deceased warriors of the U.S. military whom I meet during my concert and hunting tours across America shake me to my core. Their soft, painful and proud voices are much more powerful than Whitney Houston’s soaring voice. I treasure and remember their voices, not the incredible talent that she wasted.

One plus one will forever equal two. The duo of dope and booze is the toxic express lane off the planet. We would be wise to teach that to our young people at every opportunity.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: The Great Keystone XL Pipeline Massacre

2012-02-03T17:20:00Z

Move was dead giveaway of Obama’s left-wing agenda

President Obama’s decision to put a bullet in the back of the head of the Keystone XL pipeline is all the proof you need to know that his modus operandi is to sidle up to environmental green-energy crackpots instead of creating thousands of American jobs and honestly pursuing energy independence for America.

What the Great Keystone XL Pipeline Presidential Massacre of 2012 affirms is the president’s out-of-touch energy policy: Oil is bad. The sun and wind are good. This policy, of course, is dumb and dumber.

After whacking the pipeline, Mr. Obama would have us believe that more time and more environmental studies need to be conducted. What a convenient political move, what a convenient lie.

The pipeline already has been studied for three years. The president elected to whack the pipeline even after his very own Obama-controlled Fedzilla energy and environmental agencies reported to him that the pipeline would have “no serious impact to the environment” and recommended to get it on.

This assessment and recommendation caused the global-warming and other environmental crackpots to go nuts. That surely got the president’s attention. He knew then that he had to whack the pipeline if he hoped to keep the left-wing crackpot voters, the very base of the Democrat Party, down on the Democratic farm.

Even some labor unions that are stalwart supporters of the Democratic Party support building the state-of-the-art Keystone pipeline. Believing the labor unions will never abandon him, he spit in their faces and will do his best to blame the Keystone massacre on greedy oil companies, conniving Republicans and George W. Bush, a former oilman, president and favorite Obama doormat.

While tossing Big Labor under the Obama bus, he also whacked Republicans, who thought they had cut a deal with the president in December: a two-month payroll extension in exchange for the Keystone pipeline.

Meanwhile, the president’s lapdog media willingly looked the other way while the president killed the pipeline and thereby killed energy and jobs for America. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

And move along is exactly what just might happen with the Keystone pipeline. Don’t be surprised if the pipeline is built from Canada to the West Coast, where the Chinese will buy all the oil the Canadians can pump through it. The Chinese literally have to be laughing at the naive ideologue ensconced in the White House. They have to be hoping the American public is dumb enough to re-elect the president who prefers to help America’s enemies instead of America.

To those of you unemployed and underemployed who still cling to that “hope and change” malarkey, what this decision proves is that the president does not really care about creating jobs. What he cares about is advancing an ideology of expansive government and dependence. His ideology and policies do not create jobs - they kill them.

Whacking the pipeline was another decision born of his left-wing radical training on the streets of Chicago. For example, when presented with the findings of his very own National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, he promptly ignored those findings and refused to do anything the commission recommended to get our fiscal house in order. The president essentially whacked it, too. Richard Cloward, Francis Fox Piven and Saul Alinsky would be proud.

Our president is a left-wing ideologue. He learned his lessons well from America-hating commie Alinsky. I am convinced they are one and the same.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Tale of the GOP tape

2012-01-30T17:16:00Z

It’s Newt or Mitt - take your pick

Here is how I see the GOP primary race shaping up: This is by no means an endorsement of any of the four GOP candidates. I am impressed with each of them for a variety of reasons and adamantly believe that any one of them would be monstrously superior to President Obama, who has charted a course for the destruction of America as we know it.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has excellent oratory skills and would give Mr. Obama fits in a debate. Mr. Gingrich is also a deep thinker who has proposed and continues to advance ideas that are not heard of or widely endorsed in the swamps of Washington. This is all very good. Newt and his ideas are exactly what the capital needs if we are going to turn America around. Newt is a polarizing figure who many moderate Americans and even some conservatives may be hesitant to support. There is, however, time to turn that perception around but it will be hard since many feel that Newt’s die has already been cast.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has an impressive record in the private sector, something none of the other GOP candidates or the president can match. This alone makes him attractive to those of us who realize the engine of America is indeed the private sector, not Fedzilla. In addition to serving as a GOP governor in a heavily democratic state, he ran the Olympics and is not a Washington insider. The governor could also give the president fits as he would draw deep contrasts between the private sector and the president’s addiction to expansive government. Mr. Romney’s problem is that some conservatives do not believe he has been a tried-and-true conservative. He also seems to lack fire and often appears stiff and scripted.

Rick Santorum was elected to the House and the Senate in the heavily democratic state of Pennsylvania by beating Democrats. That rocks. He is a principled social and fiscal conservative with a resume that sings to many Americans who are suspicious of Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Romney. Mr. Santorum also has ideas that run counter to Mr. Obama’s addiction to big government. The senator’s problem is that he has little name recognition among the GOP or other Americans, is running a distant third in the GOP race, and will not get the GOP nomination.

Rep. Ron Paul is wonderfully addicted to freedom and liberty, believes Fedzilla has swollen to an unsustainable and unconstitutional size, is a strong advocate of the 10th Amendment and returning power to the states, and is the only candidate that routinely speaks about the national debt and other fiscal matters. That gets my attention. Mr. Paul appears to have the most passionate base of any of the four. Many Americans, however, are suspicious of his international policies and disagree with his stance on the legalization of dope. Hell would freeze over before he would win the GOP nomination.

It’s down to either Newt or Mitt. Both are good men. What GOP primary voters need to decide is which one of these good men has the best chance of beating Mr. Obama in November. Due to the circumstances America finds itself in, defeating Mr. Obama is the first order of business. And then the really hard work begins.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Romney shouldn’t release tax returns

2012-01-23T16:32:00Z

We should praise success, not pick it apart

By the time you read this, Mitt Romney may have released his tax returns. Let’s hope not. So long as Mr. Romney or any other prospective or elected public official has not made his money illegally, no person’s financial status is any of my business or yours.

There is no law mandating Mr. Romney or anyone else to release his tax returns. What we do know is that Mr. Romney took no salary when he was governor of Massachusetts or when he saved and ran the Olympics. He and his wife probably have donated millions of dollars to charity. Good for them.

It would be fascinating to know if Mr. Romney, if elected president, would accept a salary or not.

The real reason Mr. Romney is being pressured to release his tax returns is because his fellow GOP presidential candidates, his hateful critics and crazy Demoncrats live to wage class warfare against him for being successful. This is so very wrong. We should respect a person’s financial privacy and celebrate any American who succeeds.

If Mr. Romney wants to tell America how much money he is worth, how much he has donated to charities or his church, how much he paid in taxes last year or in previous years, that’s his choice.

There is this toxic, anti-American idea that has surfaced that financial success is something that should be questioned, maligned and condemned and is somehow malicious. This is dangerous and dumb. The Occupy idiots who condemn and blame Wall Street for America’s stagnant economy are simpletons. Let’s hope these morons just keep getting stoned and forget to vote in November.

Americans should want a successful person to be president. We should want someone who understands how the free market truly works. We should reward and praise success, not try to find ways to condemn it or cast aspersions on successful people.

Indeed, we have a right to know certain things about a candidate who wants to be president and the most powerful and influential person in the world. We should want to know his core political ideologies and beliefs, the specifics of how he will lead and shape America domestically and internationally and how he proposes to make America an economic powerhouse that once again encourages success. These are the things that matter most.

It would be refreshing to hear Mr. Romney or any other candidate state: “I made my money legally. How much money I made, have and donate is none of your business. What I can tell you is that if elected president, I will do the job for free. I also will work my hardest to ensure that any barriers that prohibit you from achieving your dreams will be terminated with extreme prejudice on my first day in office.”

Let’s make sure we don’t condemn success but, instead, praise it. Let’s focus on things that matter most, not whether a candidate releases his tax return.

Successful people create jobs and grow the economy, not life-long Fedzillacrats and community organizers. Weld that into your frontal lobe.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Fast and Furious stinks

2012-01-19T15:26:00Z

Gun-smuggling scheme another reason to distrust government
By Ted Nugent

The United States of America has turned into bizarro land. Think of this: Our very own Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), under the direct guidance of the attorney general of the United States - America’s top cop, mind you - not only allowed, but encouraged American gun dealers to sell about 2,000 guns to known punks involved in the drug trade in order to trace the guns to Mexican drug cartels. If you think that’s unbelievably nuts, get a load of this: The suspected goons who bought the guns were not even placed under law enforcement surveillance.

This is analogous to the Drug Enforcement Administration knowingly allowing international dope pushers to sell heroin on American streets without placing the dope dealers under surveillance in hopes that somehow, some way, the dope pushers would enable the DEA to trace the heroin back to some dirty, cave-dwelling Afghan opium poppy farmer so we could then poison the farmer’s poppy fields. Wait a minute, let’s not give this crackpot administration any more loony ideas.

In all of its bureaucratic buffoonery, the ATF lost control of the weapons. Of course it did, as there were no electronic tracing components on the guns. Our less-than-esteemed attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., to whom the ATF reports, claimed not to know a thing about this brain-dead operation.

What kind of inebriated idiot would hatch an evil scheme such as this and then believe that, somehow, the guns could be traced to Mexican drug cartels without an electronic tracing component? This isn’t some low-ranking bureaucratic village idiot but a high-ranking government bureaucratic idiot who is paid by U.S. taxpayers.

It’s not as if the drug cartels needed any more guns. An estimated 35,000 Mexicans have been slaughtered in recent years in drug-related violence. What could an additional 2,000 guns provide the already heavily armed drug cartels, which get all the fully automatic machine guns they could possibly want from their own military and Central American gunrunners? Are you kidding me?

We should be given the names of the bureaucratic idiots at ATF who hatched this criminal idea and the bureaucratic punks who authorized it. They shouldn’t just be fired. They should be prosecuted and put in a cage with other gunrunning thugs. That’s what this was: a U.S. government-sanctioned gun-smuggling scheme.

Meanwhile, because the bureaucratic punks in Washington who hatched and approved this terminally brain-dead gunrunning idea have not been charged with a crime, all across America, law-abiding citizens must comply with onerous gun restrictions that make them victims. Great. Punish the good guys. That seems to be standard operating procedure in Barack Obama’s and Eric Holder’s America.

More guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens ultimately ensures more dead bad guys - not more guns in the hands of violent dope dealers. I want an attorney general who declares open season on the recidivistic, violent punks who victimize law-abiding Americans.

Americans addicted to common sense have always had a healthy disdain for government bureaucrats addicted to power. Our instinctual distrust for government is further fueled by Mr. Holder’s ATF Operation Fast and Furious. At its core it was stupid, sinister, evil and criminal.

The only thing fast and furious that ought to happen is a full-on murder investigation by the FBI of the government goons who hatched, authorized and now are covering up this brain-dead, criminal scheme, which ended up costing the life of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Fast and Furious stinks. It smells just like Watergate did, only worse.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Bain Capital isn’t the problem

2012-01-18T15:22:00Z

The delusion that government creates jobs is
By Ted Nugent

The first thing we need to fix is the lexicon. I have heard both President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney lay claim to how many jobs they created during their tenures in public office.

Here we go, boys and girls - Business 101 from the Motor City Madman. Pay attention. Class is now in session.

While public servants, neither of these guys created a single job in the private sector. Not one. Businesses hire people. Public servants do not. All they did or can do as public servants is assist by nurturing favorable conditions in which investors open their checkbooks, entrepreneurs take risks and businesses increase production. Or they can wreck the economy with wrongheaded policies.

At some horrible, dark moment in American history, governments at all levels start believing in and getting away with thinking their “business” is to spend taxpayer dollars. Actual businesses are in business to make money. That’s a big difference. Everyone, nod your head in agreement, as this will be a fundamental and reoccurring truism as the campaign season heats up.

In the rough-and-tumble world of business, people get fired for any number of reasons. They get laid off when business is not good. Businesses go out of business. Businesses buy other businesses and sell off their assets. People buy stocks in companies they believe are soundly managed and will turn a profit. If you don’t like this system, move to Cuba and occupy it.

The private sector is not some social-welfare experiment to see how many people it can hire. Businesses hire the number of people they need who possess the right skills, knowledge and business acumen. Bottom line: Businesses hire people who can help make the business more profitable. Profit makes the world go ‘round. Profit is a beautiful thing and the foundation of the greatest quality of life known to mankind. It is called the American dream. Write that down.

As it pertains to Mr. Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, we don’t know how many people he hired or fired. What we do know is that he was in the business arena where the profit-and-loss dust was swirling, and he understands how the free market works. President Obama has never been in this arena. He has no firsthand knowledge of how the private sector operates. It’s called “cluelessness.” Mr. Obama is simply a government wonk - another hapless and ineffective bureaucrat.

Mr. Obama has never personally created a single private-sector job that I can find. He has never had to hire or fire an individual, stand in front of a shareholders meeting and take the heat, or comply with the dizzying array of government regulations that strangle the private sector. Bottom line: He couldn’t sell a blanket to a naked man in a blizzard.

What he has done is increase and extend the misery of those who are unemployed and underemployed. His policies have caused the free market to pull in its horns and wait out him and his anti-entrepreneurial cronies. His belief that government knows best is the primary reason the economy has been sluggish in pulling itself out of the recession.

But the media is out for Mr. Romney. They loathe free-market capitalists like him. They will do whatever they can to paint Mr. Romney to look like a free-market pirate, a corporate raider who does not care about people.

What our deaf, dumb and blind lapdog media will avoid at all costs is how the president’s policies have caused untold millions of people to be on unemployment or give up looking for work. That’s after burning through hundreds of billions of a taxpayer-funded stimulus. The destruction Mr. Obama has caused to the economy makes Jon Corzine, the Enron gang and other private-sector crooks look like the guardian-angel saviors of the free market.

When the truth comes out, and if Mr. Romney becomes the GOP nominee, the reality of which candidate has caused the most damage to jobs and the economy will be a no-brainer.

Fedzilla is the problem, not Mr. Romney, Bain Capital or the free market. Class dismissed.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: God bless BP

2012-01-18T15:20:00Z

Oil company has made amends for Gulf oil spill
By Ted Nugent

Not so long ago, BP was the goat of big business in the eyes of many people for the disastrous April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Conservationists such as myself who also recognize that big business, including big oil, is what fuels our economy, have had our radar finely tuned to the efforts and progress of healing the Gulf’s environment and economy since the spill.

The results have been nothing short of amazing in such a short amount of time since the disaster. The Gulf’s economy has rebounded dramatically, and it appears the environment is well on its way to a healthy recovery. We owe a huge debt of gratitude for the herculean efforts of BP for this.

BP has spent well in excess of $20 billion cleaning up the Gulf and compensating its residents for the damage of the spill. BP undoubtedly will spend billions more in the coming years. The corporation’s stewardship and successful efforts to restore the Gulf make one of the greatest stories not being told.

In less than two years from the spill, the seafood from the Gulf is safe to eat, the majority of beaches are pristine, tourism is on the rebound, wildlife is flourishing, health hazards have been reduced dramatically, and small businesses are recovering.

This is not to imply that everything is perfect in the Gulf. It isn’t. Much more work needs to be done. What it does imply is that in less than two years after one of the greatest man-made environmental calamities, tremendous strides forward, spearheaded by BP, have proved quite effective at reducing the ugly stain of the spill.

The lessons learned from the oil spill are being implemented to prevent future oil spills. But we must remember that drilling for energy, the lifeblood of our economy and quality of life overall, is always a risky business that is complicated and made even more risky when oil companies drill in deep water.

As Americans, we want our energy prices to be as affordable as possible. No one wants gas prices at the pump to rise, as we know this leads to higher prices for a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread. We also want our air, water and soil to be clean. There’s the conundrum, the Catch 22. We want to have our cake and eat it, too. We would do well to remember this each time we fill up or turn on a light switch.

The future of automobile transportation may be with alternative energy, such as battery power or hydrogen fuel cells, but efficient applications of those energy technologies are decades away, realistically. Until then, the roughly 250 million cars on the road in America will be reliant on oil, and that requires risky drilling, processing and transporting.

Big business, especially big oil, rarely gets a public acknowledgment of thanks or nod of approval for its corporate stewardship, conservation efforts and vision. BP deserves our thanks for what it has done in the Gulf so far and what it already has pledged to do in the future.

Thanks, BP. Keep up the good work. The Gulf needs you. America needs you.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Diversity perversity

2012-01-11T16:47:00Z

Behind multicultural push is effort to degrade American culture
By Ted Nugent

Diversity is America’s greatest strength, according to the left and its socialist, Marxist, commie cohorts and co-conspirators running rampant across the country.

If you listen carefully to these America-hating, social-engineering liberals, virtually all behavior, conduct, morals and beliefs make America stronger.

This, of course, is toxic, brain-dead logic that leaves ordinary Americans shaking and scratching their heads in confusion and disgust. We recognize bull dung when we hear, see and smell it, and we have no desire whatsoever to embrace it.

The left’s definition of diversity does not make America stronger. It is weakening and destroying America. Let’s be bold and honest: The left’s version of diversity is repugnant.

Hey, I’m your biggest supporter if you want to swan-dive naked into a pool of goat urine. What I will never support is trying to make it mandatory for everyone to do it.

Those Americans who stand up to the left’s diversity mantra are pilloried and labeled as pernicious, vile, intolerant, racist, backward Bubbas.

The left is forcing its version of diversity throughout our society and culture. According to the left and its acolytes, we are supposed to respect people who refuse to respect Old Glory or learn English, look for a job or put forth the effort to do an honest day’s work. We are supposed to respect all cultures, values, laws and religions - even when they have proved throughout history to be dangerous and diametrically opposed to our American way of life, customs, laws and traditions.

It will be a cold day in hell before I embrace voodoolike religions and unclean stone-age cultures that retard progress instead of advancing it.

The real issue is that by forcing diversity and multicultural nonsense in our workplaces, schools and government agencies on people who still cherish common sense and traditional American values, we’re ripping the nation apart.

Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. reverts to covering up his ineptitude by trying to disguise it with the race card, the ultimate act of racism. Mr. Holder doesn’t have the dignity or respect for his position to resign. He’s a national embarrassment.

I respect diverse people who respect and cherish basic American customs, traditions, goodwill and values. I have no respect for left-wingers who employ intimidation to make multiculturalism or diversity mandatory as the law of the land.

The diversity punks believe in racial set-asides and preferences. You won’t ever solve discrimination by engaging in reverse discrimination. Maybe a racist like Jesse Jackson or Mr. Holder believes in reverse discrimination, but ordinary Americans do not. We are much too focused and intelligent to buy into such Jabberwocky.

Real diversity, real change, real progress is accomplished by promoting and embracing Western culture, values and traditions, which is what made America great and created the greatest quality of life ever. Weakening this proven methodology under the artful guise of diversity, multiculturalism and political correctness is every bit as insidious a threat to America as are voodoo-inspired terrorist punks.

Diversity is an intentional left-wing disaster and destructive platform. The result of the left’s efforts to force this cultural rot on America is that there is more cultural rot, more social and racial division and less economic activity.

The politically correct punks who are trying to force their brain-dead ideology on America are intolerant and destructive. When you hear someone promoting diversity, consider that person an anti-American stooge. Such punks have a sinister agenda that is anti-American, anti-free-market and anti-freedom.

The left’s version of diversity is social, cultural, economic and ethnic rot. Believe it.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Pay lawmakers what they’re worth: 10 bucks

2012-01-09T16:46:00Z

Let’s see who’s really interested in ‘public service’
By Ted Nugent

In the inescapable, common-sense world to which producers of America are hopelessly addicted and in which they proudly reside, compensation is determined by dreams, work ethic, skill, knowledge, ability, expertise, level of effort and, last but not least, results. Put that in your merciless pay pipe and suck on it till you drop, Occupiers.

Employees who lack these most basic of work characteristics are tossed out on their lame rears in short order, as it should be; that is, unless you are a member of Congress, where dismal performance is richly rewarded.

Congress routinely earns around a 10 percent approval rating by the American public, which is being generous. Zero approval would be more appropriate once you begin to understand how our professional political punks have wrecked America through gross ignorance or with willful, fraudulent intent, just to get re-elected.

Because the re-election system is rigged with stacks of lobbying cash and taxpayer cash in favor of the incumbent, the overwhelming majority of congressmen are regretfully re-elected. It often takes a scandal to remove a pesky congress-critter, and even then there is no guarantee. I give you Barney Frank and Charlie Rangel as shining examples. Jail, not the halls of Congress, is where these two scoundrels should have taken up residency.

Anyone who has been in Congress for more than 10 years has torpedoed America through their pathetic substandard performance. Granted, the destruction of America began many years before, but instead of drawing a line in the sand and showing true leadership and fiscal responsibility, Congress continued to pass the buck - literally.

Financial irresponsibility, shenanigans and buffoonery is the hallmark of Congress. America will soon be $20 trillion in debt, and Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are living on borrowed money and are essentially broke. And we actually pay these people $175,000 a year to drive America off a cliff. Are you kidding me?

Constitutionally, we are required to pay congressmen something, but the Constitution doesn’t say how much. Insanely, Congress itself determines how much ilts members get paid. The mob could take lessons from Congress.

The Tea Party should start a movement to pay congressmen what they are worth. I propose $10 a year. We would then see how many of our professional politicians still want to “serve the public.” Ask your congressman at the next town hall meeting if he thinks he’s worth $175,000 a year and if he would accept 10 bucks a year to do the job. Watch him squirm.

Since the majority of congressmen are millionaires, and many are multi-multimillionaires, slashing their $175,000 a year salary to 10 smackers per annum won’t bust their savings and investment portfolios.

In practical terms, a $10 yearly salary would do a couple of things. First and foremost, it would be reflective of the performance they have achieved while running the country. If they were employees of a private-sector firm, they would have all been fired. Secondly, a $10 salary should weed out some of the professional politicians who enrich themselves because of their position. Getting rich on the public teat by “serving the public” is not what the Founders had in mind. Lastly, 10 bucks a year may cause congressmen to get the public’s business done as soon as possible, so that they could return to their real jobs, as our Founders envisioned.

Think in these terms: There isn’t one small-business owner in America who would pay someone $175,000 - or any other amount, for that matter - to destroy their business. So why should taxpayers have to pay congressmen this kind of money to wreck America?

The less time Congress spends in the swamp of Washington, the better off America will be. Texas Gov. Rick Perry has it right. We need a part-time Congress. Paying congressmen 10 bucks a year should help ensure that. Until they prove otherwise, 10 bucks is all they’re worth. And that’s being generous.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: In the new year, we must be bold

2012-01-09T16:44:00Z

The future of our kids and our country is on the line
By Ted Nugent

As I do every year, I’m going to make 2012 a bold, wonderful year. Let all Americans who care commit to being like the majestic American bison that turns and faces the howling storm.

Instead of kicking the can down the road, as soulless political wimps have done forever, forcing future generations of Americans ultimately to face and pay for our irresponsibility, let’s do something bold about it instead of squawking, blaming, complaining and procrastinating. Let’s be the new greatest generation.The new year clearly will be a pivotal one politically for America, a veritable tipping point. Whom we elect in 2012 will either set us on a course to begin to fill in the economic hole we have dug or allow our politicians to continue to demand a bigger shovel and a deeper hole. All elections are important, but many of us are convinced that the 2012 election is one of the most if not the most critical election in our history.

With our embarrassing debt surpassing our annual gross domestic product, we need to be bold and brutally honest with ourselves about how to reverse this economic kamikaze swan dive. Less Fedzilla borrowing and spending is always better. Continued runaway spending is a recipe for economic disaster. I say runaway spending runs into a brick wall of fiscal responsibility. Tilt. Party over.

We need to be bold about entitlement spending. While our professional politicians have been reticent to address entitlement spending out of fear the AARP will have them fired, we must encourage them to be bold anyway. Failing to fundamentally restructure the entitlement system will doom the livelihood of future generations of Americans and ultimately turn America into an economic dust bowl.

Preparing our young people today to compete in tomorrow’s world requires us to be bold and address what works in education and jettison what does not. Let’s keep all options on the table, including privatization, charter schools, online education, year-round schooling, vouchers, neighborhood schools, home-schooling, etc. Let’s put Michelle Rhee, former D.C. schools chancellor, in charge and tell her to fix it. I’ll send her one of my many crowbars of logic because I had another bumper crop in 2011.

What we can’t allow is for our tax dollars to continue to be stripped from us and thrown at a public education system that is outrageously expensive, archaic, bureaucratic, inefficient and dysfunctional. I say “Flunk you” to the National Education Association and to parents who don’t care. Fundamentally restructuring our tax system and tax code are two priorities the American public has been requesting - no, demanding - for years but that have been ignored by our politicians. Everyone knows our tax code is a tangled, bureaucratic mess of rules and requirements that leaves even the Internal Revenue Service baffled. We need a bold, open and honest debate about all taxes, including property, income, sales, business and hidden taxes, and a tax code that can be understood easily. Taxes are a necessary evil, but what is not a necessary evil is a tax code that is the largest, most confusing book in the history of mankind. Let’s shred it and start over.

How about passing a law that says no law can be longer than our Constitution, which is roughly 5,000 words? That would be bold. No more congressional buffoonery creating confusing laws that contain hundreds of thousands of words that require an army of legal sharks to interpret. We also should demand that for every new law passed, 10 laws need to be rescinded. How about it GOP?

Bold is beautiful. Let’s get it on in 2012. I am. Are you?

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Christmas spirit found in cash-filled wallet

2012-01-09T16:42:00Z

Ex-con’s honesty gives his kids true gift of the season
By Ted Nugent

With Christmas less than a week away, the hustle and bustle of preparing for this national holiday can cause one to lose sight of the meaning of Christmas.

And then along comes a story that reminds us of what Christmas is really all about.

You need look no further for the real spirit of Christmas than Alex Ortiz, an ex-con in my hometown of Detroit, who is struggling to get by.

Alex Ortiz embraces the Christmas spirit of giving. What he did was to do the right thing, to give back.

Barely out of jail a week, Mr. Ortiz found a wallet stuffed with $1,000 in cash and credit cards. Instead of taking the cash, Mr. Ortiz contacted the owner and gave the wallet back.

This is the true meaning of Christmas. A man of very limited means with eight kids to provide for did the right thing and gave the wallet back.

His children should be extraordinarily proud of their dad. Although presents in the Ortiz household may be rather limited on Christmas morning, what their dad gave them is something that has no price tag. It is invaluable, priceless: honesty.

Given his limited means, it would have almost been understandable had Mr. Ortiz kept the cash. That money could have been used for food and possibly, a present for each of his eight kids. Instead, he chose the right path. He said that is what God wanted him to do.

Jeff Schulmeister, another fellow Detroiter with the true spirit of Christmas glowing brightly in his heart, saw the story on the news and gave Mr. Ortiz $1,000 for doing the right thing. Reports are that the television station is being deluged with calls and emails from viewers who also want to donate funds to Mr. Ortiz.

What Mr. Ortiz did, then what Mr. Schulmeister did and others are doing is proof positive that the Christmas spirit is alive and well in America. Even in Detroit.

This wonderful little story is the story of redemption, doing the right thing, neighbors helping neighbors. This is the spirit of Christmas.

The Christmas spirit is not receiving, but rather giving. What these two gentlemen have done is remind us of that. Dig deep, America, and give until it hurts. Do it for Mr. Ortiz and Mr. Schulmeister. Do it because it is the right thing to do.

The spirit of Christmas remains bright, vibrant and alive thanks to Mr. Ortiz and Mr. Schulmeister.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Ortiz and Mr. Schulmeister. May the Good Lord bless both of you for showing us the true spirit of Christmas.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Corzine the Corrupt

2011-12-21T16:23:00Z

White-collar fraudster deserves hard time in the slammer
By Ted Nugent

Where there is billowing, suffocating smoke, there generally is fire. The dark smoke of corruption is billowing around former Democratic senator, New Jersey governor, Goldman Sachs bigwig and MF Global Chairman and CEO Jon Corzine. A pall of suspicion has followed Corzine the Corrupt’s career like flies at a summer barbecue.

As CEO of the now defunct MF Global, Corzine was at the controls of the investment firm when it made risky investments that ultimately led to MF Global going belly-up and losing all the investors’ money.

Corzine is not alone. There are plenty of examples of slick, lying, cheating, crooked or idiotic CEOs and other corporate officers steering their companies off a financial cliff and into bankruptcy or insolvency and ripping off investors while enriching themselves. The Enron gang comes to mind.

The Securities and Exchange Commission just recently filed suit against six former corporate officers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for lying to investors about the size of their subprime loans. Meanwhile, those corrupt white-collar gangsters were paid millions.

Corzine the Corrupt didn’t miss a beat. Losing investor cash because of risky ventures is one thing, but not being able to account for $1.2 billion is quite another.

That essentially is what has happened at MF Global. Corzine said under oath, before the Senate Agriculture Committee of all places, that he doesn’t know what happened to the money that can’t be accounted for.

Remember, Corzine was the captain of that ship. As CEO, he was ultimately responsible for managing the finances of the company. During his brief reign at MF Global, he drove the 228-year-old firm off a cliff in just 19 months. Bottom line: Corzine is either a punk crook or one of the world’s all-time most incompetent CEOs.

He was surrounded by other company officers, including legal counsel, a chief operating officer and a chief financial officer. With these officers and other corporate staff members responsible for assisting him, Mr. Corzine knows that $1 billion does not just disappear into the vapor.

You don’t have to be a Wall Street investment whiz-bang to recognize that there are sufficient ugly and dark smoke signals of corruption here to file criminal charges against the Corzine gang that oversaw the plundering of MF Global.

We throw bank robbers in the slammer for years, and most of them only get away with a few thousand dollars before being arrested. They get hard time. We should treat white-collar robbers no differently. No minimum-security, country-club prisons for them. Hard time in a maximum-security prison is just what the justice doctor ordered.

Corzine the Corrupt deserves his day in court. If there is any justice left in America, this fraudster and his former confederates at MF Global should be convicted of fraud, theft and other charges. Throw the punks in the slammer for a couple of decades. Maybe they could stamp out license plates alongside Bernie Madoff.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Poor parental choices make poor children

2011-12-21T16:22:00Z

Personal initiative is best way to beat childhood poverty
By Ted Nugent

The truth can be very ugly, rather discomforting and downright painful, but it remains the truth, whether you like it or admit it or not. The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that the number of American children living in poverty is on the rise, with almost one-third of American children living in what the bureau defines as poverty. Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: This is not the fault of the kids.

The fault is with the parents or, often, the lack thereof.

The majority of people who are poor in America are poor because they knowingly have made poor decisions. That may be ugly and uncomfortable to the soulless, politically correct masters of denial, but it’s the truth nonetheless.

Being poor is largely a choice, a daily, if not hourly, decision. If you decide to drop out of school, fail to learn a skill, have no work ethic or get divorced, a life of poverty is often the consequence. The children of parents who choose a life of poverty quite often pay a horrible price, and so does all of America.

Poverty rates among college graduates, those who learn a trade or skill and parents who stay married are much lower than the rates among those who choose opposite paths. As author William J. Bennett pointed out a number of years ago in his book “The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators,” children of single parents are much more likely to be involved in crime and premarital sex, to drop out of school and to get involved with drugs. Ugly and uncomfortable as that may be, it’s the truth.

The question is: What to do about lowering the poverty rate?

First, we need a government that respects the free market and private sector instead of spitting on them. The more our government embraces the private sector, the more opportunity there is available for people who choose it. That will be good for kids.

Second, we need to punish poor decisions instead of rewarding them. We cannot continue to offer a safety blanket to those Americans who make poor choices. The fewer social welfare programs, the better. This, too, may be ugly and uncomfortable, but we must make hard choices that force people into making smart, responsible decisions.

Third, we must encourage churches and civic organizations to step up and do what is necessary to help children living in poverty. Instead of building larger, more ornate churches, I say we encourage churches to take on a much larger role in their communities. The same goes for civic organizations. They need to step up in a big way.

Fourth, our schools need to be dramatically restructured. I advocate that our kids go to school year-round from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. We need to make it easier to fire poor teachers and reward good ones and bust up the National Education Association.

Fifth, if you can’t afford to have kids, quit having them and expecting the taxpayers to pay for them. Men and women with no visible means of support other than the taxpayer dime shouldn’t be having children. That may sound ugly and controlling, but it’s much uglier to expect the taxpayer to pay for mindless baby-making machines, which guarantees the cycle of poverty.

As country crooner Lynn Anderson sang 40 or so years ago, I never promised you a rose garden.

Never reward poor choices unless you want more of them. That’s so simple, it’s stupid.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Captain Trainwreck’s White House whitewash

2011-12-14T15:49:00Z

Statistical illusions can’t fix nation’s economic crackup
By Ted Nugent

The current Occupiers of the White House will claim the slight dip in the unemployment rate from 9 percent to 8.6 percent is proof the economy is beginning to lumber out of the recession they imposed on it. Don’t believe the spin. The economy continues to sink. Once the employment data is analyzed and the economic truth comes out, it will be seen that one of the probable reasons for the dip in the unemployment rate is that 315,000 more Americans have quit looking for work, making them persona non grata when it comes to being counted in employment statistics.

Denial runs deep in our corrupt, power-abusing government, does it not?

In addition to those 315,000 Americans who are statistically null and void, there are 14 million who are out of work. The proportion of Americans unemployed or underemployed has reached 18 percent, meaning the employment picture remains ominous.

Meanwhile, the debt continues to escalate, with Fedzilla borrowing $170 million every single hour.

Slice it any way you want, but what this adds up to is an employment and economic train wreck. And things are going to get much worse with Captain Trainwreck Obama at the controls.

Is a complete and total meltdown on the horizon? That depends, but it appears so, unless America dramatically reverses course politically, economically, socially and culturally.

America’s current economic model is analogous to Captain Smith of the Titanic being told the ship will, not might, hit an iceberg, but ordering the Titanic full speed ahead anyway. Shuffling the deck chairs won’t stop the coming collision.

Instead of adopting the findings of the debt commission that President Obama himself commissioned and that would have reduced the impact of Fedzilla by trillions of dollars, Mr. Obama played politics and ignored the commission’s critical recommendations. His lack of leadership on the debt was appalling.

During the supercommittee debate, the president’s lack of leadership was once again on parade for all the world to see. The president is aloof and removed on issues that seek to reduce Fedzilla’s gluttonous footprint, but he has been fully engaged on issues that expand Fedzilla’s footprint, like working tirelessly to create Obamacare and put America on a path for trillions more in debt.

There is no doubt Mr. Obama inherited a weak economy when he was elected. However, instead of fixing the economy as a foundational platform, the president went the opposite way and made things worse, much worse. The president’s view: iceberg dead ahead. Full speed ahead.

What the GOP candidate should do is to state that he will charter a commission of private-sector titans (no Washington bureaucrats) to develop recommendations on how to get the economy moving for the long term and how to streamline and shrink Fedzilla by 25 percent over the next four years. Go big, GOP.

The economy is the seminal political issue for 2012. You either support massive reforms or continue racing full speed ahead into the dark, looming mass in front of America.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: All-American Thanksgiving Day

2011-11-30T10:16:00Z

Forget Black Friday; remember to count your blessings today
By Ted Nugent

On this Thanksgiving, when all of us have so many reasons to be thankful, pausing to give thanks is more and more an afterthought in America.

Let’s be clear: “Black Friday” is an amazing, soulful Steely Dan song, not the day after Thanksgiving to stand in line at 4 a.m., waiting for a store to open.

Black Friday, the first day of the Christmas shopping season, is what many Americans are really thankful for. More attention is given to Black Friday than to Thanksgiving Day itself.

Not at the Nugent household. No mention of Black Friday or Christmas is permitted on Thanksgiving at the Nugent household. We spend Thanksgiving Day pausing to give thanks for the numerous blessings bestowed upon our family and our nation.

I will take my sons and grandson hunting at the crack of dawn on Thanksgiving Day, celebrating the pureness of the spirit of the wild from which we derive our life’s sustenance. We will sit in a hunting blind together and wait for the mighty white-tailed deer. With a little luck, my arrow will fly true and my grandson will witness sustainable yield - real-world cause and effect the way God intended.

The centerpiece of our Thanksgiving dinner will be a wild turkey that I killed. Pure, organic, wild thunderbird nutrition. The tastiest, healthiest meat on the planet. We don’t play politically correct catch-and-release games at our house. I kill my own Thanksgiving turkey. Anyone who has a problem with that dwells in the land of the mentally lost.

We don’t watch NFL football on television on Thanksgiving, though we may toss around a football in the yard, and we most definitely will shoot our bows and handguns while we go for a family walk up the lane and talk about what we are most thankful for.

As the Thanksgiving Day afternoon begins to wane, your humble Motor City Madman will sneak to my favorite oak tree in the swamp, where I will sit quietly 20 feet off the ground, armed with my bow and arrows. An overabundance of deer requires the herd be reduced. I can fix that. I give genuine thanks for the bounty of the land.

Thanksgiving is not a speed-bump holiday for Christmas. I understand the need for merchants to make money, but I don’t understand the mentality of people who basically skip the essence of Thanksgiving in order to kick off the Christmas shopping season.

Times are tough for many Americans and our nation. Regardless, all of us can find reasons to give thanks.

Stop and give thanks on Thanksgiving, America. Black Friday can wait.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: No more child-abuse excuses

2011-11-23T15:16:00Z

Problem not solved until those who knew and did nothing go to jail
By Ted Nugent

We don’t really care anymore? Oh, sure, some of us are shocked to the core about the child-sex-abuse scandal at Penn State University. Some of us are genuinely angry and wonder aloud on talk-radio stations how this could happen again.

For me, it’s easy to understand how this could happen again: We don’t really care about protecting children from sexual predators even though we claim that safeguarding our children is our No. 1 responsibility and concern. We talk a good game, but we don’t really give a damn.

My opinion may anger you, but don’t forget that it wasn’t too long ago that a massive child-sex-abuse scandal plagued the Catholic Church. Have you noticed how that ugly story has quietly gone away, having been forgotten already by the press and America? We moved along. What a shame. What a crime.

If we cared, truly cared, any and all priests and other church officials who for decades swept this vile abuse under the rug would be in prison, as they are all complicit and should have been charged with numerous felonies.

The same goes for the Penn State coaches and school officials who supposedly were told of the scandal there but did not contact the police. If we truly cared, we would demand that they all face criminal charges and lengthy prison sentences.

If we truly cared, we would demand that pedophiles never be released from prison, as we know that they have the highest recidivism rate of any criminal. By letting them out of prison, we are virtually guaranteeing that they will victimize other innocent children. And we claim we care?

What we have created on our watch is a soulless legal system, not a justice system. A system based on justice would not permit a convicted pedophile ever to experience freedom again. Though I have no statistics to support this, I believe the average American even would support the death penalty for pedophiles.

Too many of us as parents don’t even care enough to attend our child’s parent-teacher conference or check our children’s homework. Moreover, too many of our children are dropping out of high school, thereby condemning themselves to lives of poverty. And we as a society and as parents claim we care about kids? No we don’t. Not really.

The Penn State child-sex-abuse story will slip quickly from the 24-hour news cycle and our national consciousness. Some other shocking and disgusting story will replace it in a couple of days and captivate our attention for a fleeting moment or two. Nothing meaningful will be done.

We no longer fix problems in America. Instead, we shuffle about under the illusion of doing something while the problem continues to fester and grow. As I write this, who knows how many recidivistic pedophiles are abusing kids? Those predatory monsters should be behind bars or executed.

I won’t be convinced that we as a society are even beginning to care about kids until every Penn State official who knew about this horrible and despicable crime but did not report it to the police is charged with a crime, convicted and locked up. However, my money says there will be no justice, only hand-wringing, tearful apologies and pleas for forgiveness from university officials. After all, we must win football games.

Fixing problems requires bold leadership and relentless commitment. I’m not convinced that is part of the American psyche anymore. America has become a culture of excuse makers, not problem solvers.

No, we don’t really care about children. What we truly care about is our favorite sports team’s record, our favorite show on television and being entertained. Admit it.

Penn State clearly cared more about the college football program, money and image than it did about protecting children. Admit that, too.

How many more child-abuse scandals have to occur before we take serious action and actually do something about the problem and fix it?

Meanwhile, Lady Justice is being raped along with our kids right there before the bench. And we claim we care. What America has are excuse-making hypocrites who don’t really care. Admit it.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Nobody needs Michael Moore’s hypocritical advice

2011-10-20T14:14:00Z

Wall Street protesters learning to display a nose for nonsense
By Ted Nugent

Idiots are easily manipulated. They are useful pawns, and that’s about it. Consider the stooges of the fledgling movement “Occupy Wall Street.” These useful idiots are clamoring for social justice, as if they don’t have enough of that already.

From what I can tell, the softheaded numskulls of Occupy Wall Street want investment bankers to give up their wealth, as in “spread the wealth around.” They are blaming Wall Street for the sad state of our economic malaise and for all the other problems of the world.

Poster boy for the morbidly obese and natural leader of the hygiene-challenged, uber-lefty America-haters, Michael Moore spoke out in favor of Occupy Wall Street. What he didn’t tell the crowd of useful idiots and what they are too stupid to grasp is that he is one of the wealthy individuals whom he and they supposedly despise. I would gladly pay for a first-class, one-way ticket for Mr. Moore to the socialist or Marxist country of his choosing if he promises to stay there.

Occupy Wall Street is nothing more than anti-American socialism on parade.

Yes, people, especially young people, have a right to be angry, and the smart ones are focusing their anger on President Obama, Rep. Barney Frank, former Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, and other anti-free-market socialists. They are the ones who have wrecked the economy.

The president is losing the support of educated young people in droves. Now that reality has set in and they can’t find good jobs, are struggling to pay back student loans and have moved back into their parents’ basements, the enthusiasm for “hope and change” fantasy has taken a well-deserved hit.

Of course, the uninspired, uneducated, unskilled and stoned have been conditioned for generations to expect something for nothing. They will always be in the tank of the left-wing movement - and they will always be unmotivated and poor and will continue to blame others for their condition. Instead of busting their humps working two or three jobs, they have time to protest on Wall Street. Fascinating.

Our economy hit the skids in large part because of Democrats’ refusal to provide fundamental oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Toss in massive government borrowing and spending, untold new anti-free-market regulations, and you get a sputtering economy. Duh.

And this is the fault of Wall Street bankers, many of whom also have lost good jobs? Only a useful idiot could arrive at that conclusion. The way out of this economic quicksand is to reverse course by tossing out the socialists and Marxists and electing people who understand what it takes to make an economy vibrant and strong.

America has embraced big government for decades. Embracing Fedzilla’s anti-free-market principles has been and will continue to be a job killer. It is the uneducated and unskilled who are feeling the most pain.

Smart people quietly chuckle at the antics of goons like Michael Moore and Roseanne Barr. Smart people know that Mr. Moore and Miss Barr represent a fringe movement of people who are poor because they have made a lifetime of poor choices. Expecting others to remedy that by surrendering their wealth is a fool’s game. It’s also anti-American and downright anti-human.

Occupy Wall Street is empty-headed. Stinky hippies, generational slaves to Fedzilla and the transparent entitled are the problem, not the solution.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Iran’s voodoo extremists trump our enviro-nuts

2011-10-12T13:24:00Z

Muslim death threats surpass West’s anti-oil mantra for zealotry
By Ted Nugent

In yet further proof that Iran is a country of insecure and intolerant voodoo extremists, as I wrote this, this there was a possibility a Christian pastor would be executed because he would not recant his Christian faith and embrace Islam in the land of Allah freaks.

Convert to Islam or die is the mantra of many of the world’s Muslims. It’s anti-human.

That’s right. In 2011, you can be executed in Iran for professing a faith other than Islam, the so-called “religion of peace.” It may be a religion of peace, but the religious voodoo whack jobs who embrace the faith are an oppressive, cruel and violent lot. Their faith is so weak that they execute and persecute others who are not Muslims.

Having a law that allows for the execution of people of other faiths is but one of the reasons why the unstable extremists in charge in Iran or other voodoo countries should not be allowed to get their hands on nuclear weapons. I stand with Israel.

The United Nations probably won’t even issue a proclamation condemning Iran for having a death penalty for practicing a different faith. Should Iran execute Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, the United Nations will barely issue a whimper. The U.N. is infested with evil, soulless, brain-dead voodoo freaks. The fact that we have anything to do with the U.N. is disgusting and anti-American.

The United Nations pays lip service to basic human rights at best. They are worthless, probably because voodoo extremists and human rights violators are given credence by the United Nations.

The persecution of Christians in Muslim-dominated countries is a story not given enough ink by our left-wing lapdog media. Even Christian churches and Christian leaders have failed miserably at identifying and condemning the persecution of their fellow Christians in Muslim countries. Political correctness has muzzled too many Christians.

A quick search of the Internet reveals hundreds of instances of Muslims terrorizing and killing Christians and destroying their churches. And we are supposed to believe that Islam is the religion of peace. I think not. Go to jihadwatch.com and read about Islam, the religion of persecution, death and destruction.

The world should be outraged over what is transpiring in Iran and, for that matter, in other Middle Eastern countries where it is impossible to tell the difference between their religion and their politics, where people of a different faith are terrorized, where kangaroo court systems will not stand for real justice. These subhuman countries deserve the world’s ridicule and scorn.

Whether or not Iran executes, locks up or throws pastor Nadarkhani out of Iran is not the point. The point is that Iran and other Middle Eastern countries legally sanction executing and terrorizing others of different faiths. It just goes to show you how little mankind really has evolved in some parts of the world.

It also sends a signal that America needs to get off Middle Eastern oil as soon as possible. Doing business with the devil is not good business. We should open up access to the vast oil fields off of our coasts, which have been restricted by the bureaucratic and idiotic hand of Fedzilla.

Green energy ain’t cuttin’ it. Tilting at windmills is for idiots. Like it or not, America still runs on oil. I’m all for clean energy, such as nuclear, but I’m also a realist who understands that it is brain-dead to be doing business with voodoo extremists when we have access to so much oil and so many other energy resources that we could be mining but aren’t because of our own environmental extremists.

Draw a bold line in the sand, then watch how many Americans scramble to stand with the voodoo criminals of the world.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Morgan Freeman reads from the wrong script

2011-09-29T16:25:00Z

Actor charging Tea Party with racism is out of character
By Ted Nugent

The ugliest form of racism is accusing others of racism when there is none. Throwing around the terms “racist” and “racism” has been a tactic of the left for decades. Surely we can all agree that Martin Luther King Jr. would not endorse such an ugly tactic, as he wanted us to judge each other on the content of our character rather than our skin color.

While falsely accusing others of racism for years, the left has ratcheted up its vitriolic and false claims now that President Obama is in office.

The actor Morgan Freeman, who obviously leans way to the left, is the most recent, egregious example of someone willing to claim racism where there is none.

In a disjointed rant on CNN’s Piers Morgan’s program, Mr. Freeman accused the Tea Party members of racism because of their opposition to Mr. Obama.

The real racist is not the Tea Party but the Oscar-winning actor.

Racists often are not well informed or choose to be intellectually isolated because of deep-seated prejudice and hate. Had Mr. Freeman removed his racist blinders and analyzed the Tea Party closely and honestly, he would have found an organization ideologically opposed to Mr. Obama’s policies and not his skin color.

He wouldn’t even have had to do that. A quick review of the GOP contenders for president would have enabled him to see that Herman Cain, a black contender, enjoys substantial support by the very Tea Party that Mr. Freeman claims is racist. Mr. Cain just recently won a straw poll in Florida.

Had Mr. Freeman chosen to analyze the plight of black Americans under Mr. Obama’s tenure, he would have found a dismal and bleak state of affairs. The unemployment rate of black Americans has skyrocketed to almost 17 percent during Mr. Obama’s short tenure. Maybe Mr. Freeman would contend that is George W. Bush’s fault or blame the Tea Party for a sinister, racist plan to destroy black America. He would be dead wrong again.

Because of high unemployment rates, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri Democrat and member of the Congressional Black Caucus, recently stated that caucus members would “probably be marching on the White House” if President Obama were not the president. One has to wonder if Mr. Freeman read that.

Regarding the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Allen B. West, Florida Republican, is also a member of the Tea Party and enjoys wide appeal because of his limited-government policies. Of the Tea Party members to whom I have spoken, many hope Mr. West will one day run for president.

If Mr. Freeman could further remove his racist blinders and study the historical condition of black America, he would find the black community was vibrant and strong 60 years ago. This is not the case today. Instead of leaping to ugly and unfounded charges of racism, Mr. Freeman should ask some fundamental questions about what has happened to black America and who is responsible for the destruction.

The real architects of the destruction of black America are Democratic Party members who have lied to and manipulated black Americans into believing that the federal government is the answer to improving their condition when, in reality, it is the destroyer of black America. One has to wonder if Mr. Freeman could admit this obvious conclusion.

America faces a steep uphill challenge. The Tea Party thinks the way ahead for all Americans is a reduced federal government that employs fiscal sanity. This is not a racist political ideology but rather an ideology that champions turning away from the expansive growth of government that has occurred in the past 50 years. Staying on the current course will lead to the destruction of America.

How about it, Mr. Freeman? We are all getting rather bored with the knee-jerk-fits-all racist accusations. Surely you can do better than that. You are a great actor. Find a better script.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Happy National Hunting and Fishing Day

2011-09-29T16:23:00Z

Wilderness is clean, well-stocked, thanks to outdoor recreation community
By Ted Nugent

It is sad to admit that hardly anyone knows what the acronyms SCI, DU, NSSF, NWTF and RMEF stand for or what those organizations do. That’s not your fault but rather the hunting community’s dismal failure to conduct fundamental public relations. As public relations go, the hunting community couldn’t sell a blanket to a naked man in a blizzard.

The accomplishments of SCI (Safari Club International), DU (Ducks Unlimited), RMEF (Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation) and many other hunting/conservation organizations are extraordinary. But because of their failure at relating to the public, the average American will never know of their incredible wildlife and environmental conservation accomplishments, which literally are envied around the world.

Saturday was the 39th annual celebration of National Hunting and Fishing Day. President Nixon established this important day back in 1972 as a day to recognize American sportsmen for our herculean conservation efforts.

If you were unaware of this day, don’t feel bad, because the vast majority of American hunters and fishermen also are unaware of it. Of the few who are, fewer still will write a letter to their local newspaper, post information about it on an Internet blog or celebrate it in any way, shape or form.

The national television news media, newspapers and informational websites will not mention National Hunting and Fishing Day. This is because they, too, are unaware of it. Again, this is because of the hunting-and-fishing community’s abject failure to conduct Public Relations 101.

Across America, numerous local and national hunting and fishing clubs provide, at their own expense, wonderful education outreach programs in which knowledgeable instructors introduce young people to fishing and hunting in a safe, professional environment. There is no coverage of these events by the media. For that matter, our own outdoor writers and periodicals do a pathetic job of covering these events.

Through our various licenses, permits, stamps and fees, hunters and fishermen provide the vast majority of the funds for state wildlife departments. These funds are not used exclusively for hunters and fishermen but are also used to provide hiking trails, upgrade and manage habitat for non-game species, etc. Were it not for the direct dollars provided by hunters and fishermen, there would be no state wildlife agencies and, therefore, no value for the glorious success of wildlife management.

Not only do our licenses and habitat stamps provide the majority of funds for state wildlife agencies, but the Pittman-Robertson Act provides for a special tax on all ammunition, rifles, handguns and archery equipment. More than $2 billion in federal excise taxes has been collected, which is used predominately for wildlife restoration programs. Again, don’t feel bad if you didn’t know this. Neither do many sportsmen.

While virtually everyone knows there is a Congressional Black Caucus on Capitol Hill, hardly anyone knows there is a Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus composed of more than 300 members of Congress. Their stated mission is to promote and protect the rights of hunters and anglers. The American public rarely, if ever, hears a peep out of them, even though there are numerous unscientifically based game laws and restrictions that need to be rescinded.

The outdoor community has failed at conducting basic marketing and public relations. We have not told the American public that streams are cleaner, public fishing lakes are numerous, and millions of acres of habitat have been purchased by private hunting organizations. This is one of the greatest conservation stories never told.

The American public doesn’t know there are more deer, elk, turkey, ducks, songbirds, birds of prey, doves and black bears than when the Mayflower landed. This fundamental knowledge should be passed on to every kid in grade school. Hands-on, value-based conservation is the only conservation that works.

National Hunting and Fishing Day should be a day celebrated every year by all Americans. In order to celebrate something, however, you need to know that it exists. The outdoor community has failed miserably at informing you of this good-news story. What a shame.

So join the Nugent family and many others and spread the good word as we celebrate clean air, soil and water and a proud heritage of healthy, thriving wildlife - thanks to the hunters, anglers and trappers of America. Happy National Hunting and Fishing Day, America. And happy hunting season 2011.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, only worse

2011-09-29T16:22:00Z

Young Americans won’t get a penny for retirement unless system changes
By Ted Nugent

My good Gov. Rick Perry is spot-on, again. Social Security has much more in common with a criminal enterprise known as a Ponzi scheme than not. As I stated in “Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto,” this scam is anti-social and insecure.

The Democratic fear-mongering machine is on a full-tilt boogie to scare the elderly into believing that Mr. Perry wants to throw them out in the street. Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth, but no one with an ounce of brains has ever thought truth was a core value of the Democratic Party or its media. Dishonest scare tactics and modern-day economic slavery are the hallmarks of the Democratic Party.

When elected president, Mr. Perry won’t order the Treasury Department to stop mailing out Social Security checks to the elderly. What he is going to do is revamp the program so that future generations of Americans aren’t subjected to the same Ponzi-scheme-like fraud that has been forced on retirees.

Social Security is like a Ponzi scheme in that it relies on the money provided by those of us still working to pay the benefits of those who are retired. It is a classic illegal pyramid scam. When the pool of Social Security recipients becomes as large as the group providing the benefits, the Ponzi scheme comes crashing down. And that’s basically where we are.

Furthermore, there is no Social Security “trust fund.” Our politicians have plundered and pillaged the money that was supposed to be used for Social Security. To put it simply, they stole the cash and used it to pay for other things. If a business operated in such a way, the owners would be put behind bars for any number of crimes.

We shouldn’t concern ourselves with how to shore up Social Security but rather how we can wean ourselves off of it.

I’ve been shouting for years that Social Security is a giant scam for young people. Any of you under the age of 45 who are planning for Social Security to be part of your retirement had better readjust your plans.

A hunting buddy of mine proposes the following plan to ultimately eliminate the Social Security congressional slush fund:

Anyone over the age of 45 will receive Social Security. Anyone under the age of 45 will not receive a Social Security check upon retirement. However, those younger than 45 will still be required to pay into Social Security to cover the benefits of those who are 45 or older. What they will get in return is that all of the money they accrue through investing in their 401(k), etc. programs will be tax-free when they retire.

Adopting this simple idea would slowly phase out the Social Security slush fund and incentivize younger Americans to save for their retirement. Do I smell a declaration of independence and personal accountability?

The problem, of course, with such a simple idea is that it will strip power (cash) away from Congress and put that power (cash) back in the hands of the people who earned it. Our elected officials won’t go down without a fight for our money. Let’s fight the thieves.

Ponzi schemes are operated by bandits like Bernie Madoff. Madoff was a rookie flimflam artist compared to the Washington bandits who are daily sending us further into a financial abyss. Let’s stop this hell-bound financial train wreck and reverse course.

Rick Perry is right. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. If we keep pumping cash into this scam, we are guaranteeing that our children and grandchildren will inherit a much weaker America. Ol’ Ponzi would be pleased, but to do so would be un-American of us.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: ‘American Con Job Act’

2011-09-21T21:43:00Z

President’s stimulus do-over is credibility-free
By Ted Nugent

The president is out and out campaigning for re-election while promoting his latest half-baked half-trillion-dollar “American Con Job Act,” which he says will generate jobs and jump-start the sluggish economy, which continues to slide south.

When I sat down to write this, there was no bill for Americans to read and digest. In my America, the president would have had the bill to present to Congress when he spoke to its members last week. What happened to all that transparency, Mr. President?

So now we are supposed to believe that another $500 billion plan will get the economy moving. Didn’t the president already push through a $1 trillion stimulus bill that was supposed to do the same thing?

This sad chapter in America is going down as the “Are you kidding me?” era. Are you kidding me?

The actual result of the trillion-dollar stimulus bill was the exact opposite of what the president said would happen. Unemployment rose, the stock market plunged, home values plummeted, and 2 million more homes are in foreclosure.

Are you kidding me?

What the president and his band of liberal anti-business cohorts don’t understand is that real-world business demand, not artificial Fedzilla scams, are what drive business. Throwing stacks of taxpayer dollars at the problem only increases our addiction to borrowing and spending and puts America further in debt. Stacks of taxpayer dollars do little to drive business demand. In fact, piling on $1.5 trillion in new debt has smothered the economy and caused long-term problems.

A few tax breaks here and there on the margins are not going to cause businesses to hire. What ultimately will inspire businesses to hire is Fedzilla stepping out of the way and quitting its practice of rewarding people to not work. Genuine leadership would end the scourge of do-nothing government jobs, and real businesses would heat up the economy.

But that’s anathema to liberals like the president, as he believes the engine of growth and change is directly linked to an ever-expanding, micro-managing Big Mama federal government. This, of course, is the definition of idiocy to anyone with any private-sector experience.

The president claims to have launched an initiative to cut Fedzilla red-tape regulations. The result of this initiative will be zilch. In fact, the illogical, counterproductive regulations that stifle growth in the free market are on the rise under the Obama administration.

So now the president is running around the country trying to drum up support for another, relabeled half-trillion-dollar stimulus package that we are supposed to believe will finally get the economy moving again. “Once bitten, twice shy” is my motto. But once it has been proved that votes can be bought, the president will continue to promise the impossible for those foolish enough to believe him.

What happens when this half-trillion-dollar fantasy doesn’t work? Will the president push for another half-trillion? At what point do we finally turn away from big-government blowhards and embrace those proven private-sector ideas that created the greatest quality of life in the history of the world? These are fundamental questions Americans need to be asking and debating. But when the president’s manipulated constituency is made up of so many dumbed-down sheep, I can see how an entrenched power abuser can become addictive to his herd.

You have to hand it to Mitt Romney for publishing his 160-page jobs plan, which contains much more substance for Americans to chew on and debate than anything Mr. Obama has put forth. Like his plan or not, Mr. Romney is putting it on the line. That’s to be respected.

Politics, like the economy, is ultimately about the fundamentals. The 2012 race is shaping up perfectly to illustrate the stark, fundamental contrast between a president who believes Fedzilla is the engine that moves America forward and a GOP candidate who believes the free market is the engine that creates jobs and grows the economy.

Are you kidding me?

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Ten years of gratitude

2011-09-15T15:06:00Z

Americans must stand with our military until the long war is won

On this anniversary of Sept. 11, I am not remembering so much as I am looking forward.

Like Dec. 7, Sept. 11 will be forever seared into our national consciousness. Everyone will forever remember exactly where he was when the voodoo terrorists attacked America and killed almost 3,000 of our countrymen on that September day. It is a day that will live in infamy.

I remember and thank the brave warriors of the U.S. military and their families who have sacrificed so much over these past 10 years to keep America safe. They know that the cost of freedom can be terribly high, heartbreakingly painful and personal. I am humbled to be in their presence.

If we learn anything from that horrible day, it is that there are evil, maniacal subhuman maggots in the world who have no respect for life. They are filled with evil voodoo bloodlust, hate and rage. They believe killing in all forms, including beheadings, brings great joy to their God. Evil is sick is evil.

The list of religious-inspired hate crimes these vermin have unleashed on the world over the past 40 years is proof that these demonic cultists are on a global jihad to crush freedom and implement their psychotic, dogma on the world.

We simply must not let them.

Moving forward, America must continue to identify and eradicate these terrorist vermin. We must never surrender to complacency or apathy as we did before Sept. 11, as they are the weakest link in our chain of security. We must remain vigilant and on the offense. Where two or more of these terror cultists gather, they should expect us to drill a hole in their foreheads.

Like one of my heroes, I also have a dream. I dream of a day when these vermin and their mad-cow religious beliefs are removed from the face of the earth or so marginalized that they and their caveman voodoo beliefs ultimately follow the flight path of the dodo bird. We must continue to kill them at every opportunity. Death and war are all they understand. We must give those to them nonstop by unleashing hell upon them at all times.

Though I have little faith in the public school system to do much of anything right, it should be required to show the film of the planes hitting the towers, people leaping to their deaths from the twin towers, the Pentagon on fire and other video from that day. Ignoring this truth is ignoring reality and has perpetuated the scourge of denial that facilitated our tendency take it time and time again.

Looking to the future - we must study history. The history of the world is a study of a world at war. Global peace is the rare exception, not the rule. Knowing that, our politicians must be very cautious about reducing our military’s ability to kill the enemies of freedom by cutting its budget to further placate the insane federal government’s gluttonous addiction to wanton spending. Fund the military and slash the budgets of all other agencies, departments and programs.

Should we fail to study our history and remain vigilant, we will be emboldening terrorist vermin to plan and implement another attack similar to Sept. 11. That is a risk we cannot afford.

Americans must commit to this struggle for the long term. It will take years, possibly decades, to win the war on terror. That is our future, our reality. It is the most fundamental lesson of Sept. 11.

America either kicks butt as if we mean it, or we will continue to get ours kicked.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Rise of the goons

2011-08-17T18:39:00Z

Thank a liberal for creating a legion of rioting dependents
By Ted Nugent

Did you really expect anything different? From London to Philadelphia to Milwaukee, goons are rioting in the streets. And guess what? I don’t believe it is the fundamental fault of the goon squads that they’re rioting, although there’s no excuse for beating people and destroying property.

Societies, especially America’s, have created a shattered social system in which lawlessness and irresponsibility are excused by boneheaded liberals because they don’t think government has provided enough for these supposedly disadvantaged and downtrodden people.

The shiftless, looting goons and their liberal allies think rich people should be taxed more, and more economic advantages must be provided to largely uneducated, unskilled, lazy, incompetent goons. Eat the rich, my foot.

The problem, of course, is the exact opposite. For decades, government has provided too many programs, too many checks, too many safety nets, too many handouts and too many taxpayer-provided gimmes. The goons literally expect a handout instead of a hand up.

Now that governments have become broke because of any number of grossly expensive and tremendously inefficient social-welfare experiments gone awry, once-vibrant economies such as the United States are slowing down thanks to the self-imposed heavy hand of debt, tax systems that punish producers, and borrowing and spending gone mad.

Jobs have evaporated even for skilled, talented and motivated Americans. There are no jobs for goons unless you think robbing, plundering and peddling dope are resume builders.

So now the goons are taking to the streets and creating mayhem in the name of social justice and whatnot.

If the goons had an ounce of brains among them, they would come to the conclusion that the reason they are dumb, unskilled mouth-breathers unprepared for the future is because of bloated, runaway government, not because there has been too little of it or that the rich do not pay enough in taxes.

These idiots are useful political pawns for the very political punks who have manipulated these morons into believing that Uncle Sham is their sugar daddy instead of what Uncle Sham really is - a political-street-corner dope-pusher, a community organizer who has gotten them strung out on the most powerful drug of all: dependency.

Extinct among these goons is any sense of what once made America great. Gone are the independent, strong-willed, pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps people who thought the basic role of the federal government was simply to protect them from invasion by another country.

Now we are a nation of wussies and stupid goons who have suckled on the teat of Aunt Sugar Momma for so long that many Americans know nothing different. When the teat runs dry, gangland rioting follows. Kicking the habit of dependency is an obviously painful process.

Americans need to ask their politicians one simple, fundamental question: What is the role of government?

Those political punks who give some glib answer about providing for the good of the people have given rise to the rioting goon squads. Vote every one of these modern-day slave masters out of office.

Support and vote for politicians who champion much less government and much more personal responsibility. It is those politicians who ultimately will liberate people instead of stringing them out on the dope of soulless dependency.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Hiroshima’s lesson remembered

2011-08-17T18:37:00Z

Ending war with overwhelming force is quickest path to peace
By Ted Nugent

This month marks the anniversary of the last time the United States unequivocally won a war.

Sixty-years ago on Saturday and Tuesday, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were flattened with atomic bombs, causing the Japanese to surrender and bringing an end to World War II.

Ugly as the atomic bombs may seem through the politically correct lens of today, in 1945, when President Truman ordered them dropped on those cities, the weapons broke Japan’s will to fight.

There is no doubt in my mind that dropping the atomic bombs was the right thing to do. The massive explosions saved both American and Japanese lives. Those of you historical second-guessers who condemn Truman’s decision to destroy those cities would have done what in August 1945?

Had Truman not ordered them deployed and instead commanded our military to invade Japan, it is estimated that upward of 1 million U.S. casualties would have been the result. Millions of Japanese would have been killed or wounded in an assault on Japan. Only a psychopath would advocate such a senseless slaughter.

Argue the moral imperatives of flattening Hiroshima and Nagasaki if you must, but it can’t be argued that flattening those cities didn’t save lives on both sides of the war. Saving lives is good, and sometimes saving lives involves killing people.

American Civil War Gen. William T. Sherman said, “War is hell.” President Truman knew this as well but also knew that unleashing the power of the atomic bombs would bring an end to World War II.

While no rational person supports nuclear war - or any war, for that matter, what I do support is when we commit U.S. troops to halt evil only when we have a plan to crush our enemies and bring the survivors to the peace table in the shortest amount of time.

We face new enemies today, many of whom belong to voodoo terror cells that will use any weapon or means to kill as many Americans as possible. Let us pray that we have a plan to kill every one of these voodoo maggots before they kill another American.

The history of mankind is one of warfare, not peace. You don’t have to like that, but you do have to admit it. Knowing that it is true, it is fundamentally devious to weaken our military as is proposed in the new Con Job Debt Reduction Agreement.

We need more smart bombs, more predator drones, more advanced intelligence equipment and assets, more special-operations teams and more improved tactics, more ammo, better night-vision equipment, more human-intelligence capabilities, more stealth and a never-ending commitment to kill the enemies of freedom and America under whatever rock they may try to hide. Kill ‘em all as quickly as possible. That’s the most effective deterrent there is. Petting or negotiating with rabid dogs is never wise. Shoot them in the head at least twice. Ammo is cheap.

America is a peaceful nation. However, America must always maintain U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis’ philosophy: “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” Perfect. If there were a Hall of Fame for butt-kickers, Gen. Mattis would be in it.

War is hell. What surely is an even worse hell is losing a war.

God bless the warriors of the U.S. military and their families. They deserve victory, and as we celebrate the greatest victory ever, let us hope we still know how to accomplish it.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: A titanic fiscal mistake

2011-08-17T18:35:00Z

Staying the borrow-and-spend course will sink U.S. economy
By Ted Nugent

When the captain of the Titanic was warned repeatedly of icebergs ahead, he nonetheless made the decision not to slow down or stop the ship for the night. He was, after all, the captain of a ship that “God himself could not sink.”

With the passage of the debt-raising agreement, it makes a guy wonder if the Fedzillacrats in Washington believe they are in charge of a country and an economy that even their boneheaded economic policies cannot sink.

They are wrong.

The dollars allocated toward reducing the debt are “a drop in the bucket, or even a spit in the ocean,” said Maya Mac-Guineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, in an interview with Fox News.

The winner in this anti-common-sense “agreement” was President Obama. He got what he wanted and played House Speaker John A. Boehner and other Republicans like cheap fiddles. This wasn’t an agreement as much as it was bait, leading the Boehner gang to a political slaughter.

It is a deceitful, ugly lie to call a $2.5 trillion reduction in spending a step in the right direction when we will be borrowing $10 trillion to $11 trillion over the same period. According to my math, that’s putting us $8 trillion more in the hole. Only bureaucrats allergic to accountability could buy into such soulless, lying denial.

Once again, we have been ripped off, scammed and fleeced by those Bernie Madoff wannabes in Washington. You would have had to have been deaf, dumb and blind not to see this scam coming - heavy on the dumb.

But the real fleecing is yet to come.

There will be no spending reduction of $2.5 trillion, no real savings, no downsizing of government. If you believe there will be, I would like to sell you the Washington Monument or the U.S. Capitol. The Fedzillacrats will find a way to skirt around the spending reductions. They have learned to operate with impunity.

What will happen is that our debt will continue to skyrocket, putting our future as a nation on a titanic collision course with icebergs of financial insolvency.

Moody’s and others are warning us of our impending doom by threatening to reduce the nation’s credit rating even with the promise of $2.5 trillion in spending reductions. Much, much more needed to be done.

The producers and other Americans addicted to financial accountability realize it is kamikaze economics to continue to borrow and spend more than $100 billion each month more than you take in.

When the lookouts on the Titanic finally saw the massive, dark shape of the iceberg dead ahead in the ship’s path, it was too late for the Titanic to maneuver around it.

The financial lookouts are warning us that we are headed for Greece-like doom with our berserk addiction to borrowing and spending. Higher interest rates and inflation are coming first.

It would have been impressive if our professional politicians had agreed to a plan that cut spending by $10 trillion and just borrowed $2.5 trillion over the next 10 years. But that would have taken political guts that they don’t have.

I pray to God that voting Americans are taking notes and will make the guilty thieves walk the plank in 2012.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: NEA - master of disaster

2011-08-04T09:26:00Z

Teacher cheating scandal is symptom of public schools’ failure

If the disturbing documentary “Waiting for Superman” didn’t convince you that a massive overhaul of the public education system is necessary, maybe the massive cheating scandal erupting in the Atlanta public school system will.

First off, there is no argument that public education in America is a complete and total disaster. Our children routinely score at the bottom of the barrel in math, science and geography, while more than 50 percent of other children drop out of high school in some districts.

It’s not that our children are dumb, but rather that they are tossed into a dumb, antiquated system that is controlled by one of the largest and most powerful unions in the nation, the National Education Association (NEA).

Instead of using their bully pulpit to demand educational upgrades across the board, the NEA works hard to ensure that teachers get tenure, more sick days, pensions supported by taxpayers and more and more benefits. The NEA couldn’t give a damn about children, and the test scores prove it. Shame on the NEA.

Regardless the reasons for the cheating, almost 200 teachers and administrators in the Atlanta public school system cheated by inflating the test scores of children taking the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test. The cheaters probably were all NEA members. They should all be fired immediately and have their teaching certificates burned.

Of course, Democrats will rally to the NEA’s aid, as the teachers union is their largest cash contributor. If the National Rifle Association (NRA), a powerful pro-gun organization, though not a union, was found to be complicit in a gun-running operation for Mexican drug cartels instead of the brain-dead dimwits at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, you can bet President Obama would rain down fire on the NRA and demand their demise.

But there are no such powerful or condemning words from the president or any other Democrat who benefits from NEA dollars. Their silence tells you where their allegiance is, and it’s not to ensure our children get a solid education.

It’s more of the same Liberalism 101 curse.

The systematic cheating scandal in Atlanta will be swept under the rug by Democrats and the NEA. You won’t hear a word about it in the next couple weeks. In fact, the story is already old news, even though it’s more hurtful than President Nixon’s Watergate scandal.

If we truly cared about providing our children with a quality, world-class, proper education as we once did, we would start by busting up the NEA and then completely dismantling the public-education system, which, like the U.S. Postal Service and the penny, has outlived its usefulness.

Instead of having our tax dollars confiscated and funneled to a union-controlled system that produces unclean, slovenly, fat dunces and dropouts, educating our children should be left up to the free market. Parents could then decide which school their child would attend. Bad schools would close, and good ones would prosper. Perfect.

Under the current system, bad teachers, bad administrators and bad schools continue producing children who are largely illiterate and unable to compete in an ever-changing, technical and global marketplace. Something must change, and it must change now.

Let’s use the Atlanta cheating scandal as the impetus to bust up the NEA. No organization, system or union that impacts the public should be rewarded for consistently producing dismal results.

Our children deserve better, and parents should demand better.

Hey dropout, pull up your pants.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: You have the right to remain stupid

2011-07-22T11:14:00Z

Fedzillacrats are oblivious to self-evident truths

You have the right to remain stupid, and what you say and do can and will be used against you in the court of public opinion. Unfortunately, the court of public opinion is expanding into a stupid-is-as-stupid-does joke. And it has a president and gang of thieves in the United States government to represent it.

So goes the sheeping of America. Welcome to Euro II.

With the level of dishonesty, fraud, abuse of power, corruption, rampant irresponsibility, downright criminal behavior and vehement refusal to be accountable, our government has clearly lost its collective mind - and its soul.

The brain-dead, zombielike nonsense blurting out of Democrats’ pie holes is mind-boggling as they feebly attempt to rationalize raising the debt ceiling, scrambling mindlessly to explain how increased runaway, criminal spending on gluttonous, wasteful, superfluous stuff is a good thing.

“Honey, we’re in debt up to our asses. Let’s go shopping and increase our gluttonous indulgences. Yeah, that’s the ticket.”

Is there a Dr. Phil or an Oprah to counsel psychotic bureaucrats? Somebody has to put a halt to this insanity as quickly as possible. We the people of the Tea Party are trying with all our might but there must be somebody in government that can stop this. Somebody?

The separation of legislative, executive and judicial branches of government has turned into one big gang of complicit goons, scratching each other’s backs and scheming to increase their own dishonest assault on we the people. Oh, how they have forgotten their oath to the U.S. Constitution. Oh, woe are they.

A nasty, unclean gaggle of Americans read the nonstop reports of mass graves in Mexico, the mountains of dead bodies, the unending exhuming of slaughtered innocents and decapitated citizens and public officials at the hands of evil drug cartels, then nonchalantly purchase another load of the mind- and life-destroying dope that these subhuman heathens peddle. You have to be on dope in order to fail to admit how your illegal or “medical” marijuana consumption creates wanton death and mayhem in your own communities and country. Thanks for nothing, idiots.

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and their complicit gang of America-hating snake-oil salesmen represent the most clear and present economic raping and pillaging in our country’s history. Instead of ending the tragedy, the perpetrators are given bonuses and hired by our already-criminal-infested government. And they call it “creating jobs.” Mao Zedong and Al Capone would be proud.

In the American West, where inhabitants have been raising hell for 20-plus years about how grizzly bears pose a serious and constant threat to people’s lives and livelihoods, inept, ignorant bureaucrats enforce dangerous policy by calling these overpopulated bears an endangered species. A hiker gets killed by a grizzly again and these geniuses respond by reminding people to whistle and bang on pots and pans.

In the middle of a war on terror, invaders infiltrate our southern border with impunity and instead of living up to their oath to protect America, soulless Fedzillacrats erect signs on American soil not warning the invaders to leave but rather warning American citizens to stay out of the invaded territory. Meanwhile, the feds sue Arizona for enforcing American laws.

Charlie Rangel, Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle and God knows how many other criminal tax cheats get caught red-handed, and none of them are brought to anything resembling justice. Are you kidding me?

Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and current Mayor Rahm Emanuel, along with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, forbid their subjects to protect themselves but charge their subjects higher taxes to pay for their own heavily armed security detail.

Texas rightly decides to execute a convicted murderer-rapist of an innocent little girl and the president and secretary of state side with the murderous, rotten-to-the-core United Nations goons instead of with their own country. Are you kidding me?

I end up in a state-of-the-art emergency room at a Canadian hospital with a serious blood-gushing dog bite and wait 6 1/2 hours to see a doctor. In Waco, Texas, I wait less than a minute. Our fearless community-organizer-in-chief wants to fundamentally transform American health care into Canadian health care - unless, of course, you qualify for a crony-payoff waiver of this diabolical scam shoved down the throats of we the people. Are you kidding me?

Food stampers increase their fraud and criminal abuse of an already-failed welfare slavery system, and our numbnut politicians let President Obama increase it fourfold. Are you kidding me?

Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven write the ultimate America-hating guideline on how to bring down the greatest quality of life in the history of mankind, and the Obama administration puts their ideas on the fast track in broad daylight, yet no one stops him. Are you kidding me?

Unions continue to demand more compensation for less productivity or quality control. The list of jobs Americans are not willing to do gets longer by the day as soylent-green foreigners continue to kick our butts because they don’t allow such a list. Are you kidding me?

With another glaring, smoke-and-mirrors defiance of the pledge to government transparency, the No. 1 cop in America, aided and abetted by the vehemently anti-gun president, knowingly breaks the law and his oath to the Constitution by running illegally begotten guns to Mexican murderers, then tries to blame legitimate American gun dealers. Nothing like a good backfire to spotlight the cockroaches.

I could go on, but I’m getting sick to my stomach, as are an increasing number of American citizens sickened by the flagrant criminality of our government. I would like to go on record that the U.S. government is now more offensive and in violation of self-evident truths and God-given individual rights and liberties than the British government was in 1775.

Make note, bureaucrats. We have had enough, are completely fed up with the insanity and we officially put you on notice: You’re fired. When we go to the polls in 2012, we are committed to give most of you a good dose of what unemployment feels like. And from now on, you will have to create your own jobs because governments - especially a bloated, criminally abusive government like we have in America today - is unforgivable, unsustainable and will not be tolerated any longer.

I would highly recommend you all seek treatment for your allergies to logic, truth, good will, decency, accountability and the American Way. If you don’t get help soon, God only knows what will become of you.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: The American battle cry today

2011-07-13T13:45:00Z

SAVING THE BILL OF RIGHTS: EXPOSING THE LEFT’S CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

By Frank Miniter

Reviewed by Ted Nugent

I’m addicted to freedom. My band, my crew, my family, my hunting buddies, all my friends, neighbors and fellow hardworking, hard-playing Americans solidly in the asset column will simply have it no other way. There is an American way, and we live it.

Everyone with a working brain and a soul knows that this sacred, unprecedented American experiment in self-government demands constant, warriorlike vigilance against the evil that lives to destroy it. Being surrounded by such evil in our own government is both a heartbreaking threat and a vile curse but to be expected with the embarrassment of apathy running amok.

The courageous army of defiant freedom fighters at Concord Bridge who gave all to crush the evil king and all his soulless sheep shed blood for freedom, and now more than ever, such warrior spirit is necessary to hold back this never-ending tide of evil from enslaving free men again.

Frank Miniter, executive field editor of the National Rifle Association’s American Hunter and American Rifleman, nails it in his must-read book “Saving the Bill of Rights: Exposing the Left’s Campaign to Destroy American Exceptionalism.” For it is written in this sacred document the irrefutable logic of self-evident truth that guided our Founding Fathers to defy the putrid concept of status-quo murderous kings, emperors, dictators, despots and slave drivers of every stripe throughout history. This freedom vigilance continues today against these evil forces that persist, both from afar and within the borders of the United States.

All freedom-loving Americans and, most importantly, all young Americans should read this book, give it to everyone they know, memorize it and shout it from the rooftops so as to stave off the embarrassing decay of the American way at the hands of freedom haters among us.

From the bloodsucking unions to the gangbanger punks of the United Nations, the American Civil Liberties Union, the demonic voodoo Muslim terrorists, the Mao Zedong fan club in the White House, the Che Guevara-loving leftist media and straight into the not-so-hallowed chambers of a court system gone mad, it challenges the imagination to try to fathom how suicidal and downright stupid our fellow men can be.

Sadly, they are indeed that stupid and would gladly toss out individual liberty for a historically proven false sense of security, ending up with neither.

“Saving the Bill of Rights” is not just the title of a great book. It should be the battle cry of America.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: United Nations gun grabbers at it again

2011-07-07T15:35:00Z

Banning guns is the first step of a tyrant

The despots, thugs, scoundrels, punks and various crooks at the United Nations have it all wrong again. Imagine that. Though the details have yet to be released, the U.N. wants to try to force strict small-arms control on the world under the pretense (lie) that such restrictions will make it tougher for terrorists and other assorted subhuman scum to get their hands on guns.

How is that working in Mexico, boys and girls?

If the U.N. had a clue or truly cared about preventing terrorists and other human garbage from wreaking havoc, it would admit to the facts and propose making it easier for law-abiding citizens to get their hands on guns so that they would have the means to cause said human vermin to assume room temperature.

But instead of promoting freedom and the right to self-defense, the U.N. punks want to force unarmed helplessness on people across the planet by advocating an international agreement on guns.

Let’s cut to the chase. The reason the U.N. may pass such an agreement is because many of the nations that belong to the U.N. either directly or indirectly support terrorism and are viciously opposed to liberty and freedom.

At its core, the U.N. is not about promoting freedom and liberating people by killing bad guys. It is about controlling people by limiting their ability to defend themselves against tyranny and slavery imposed by evil and maniacal regimes.

Tens of millions of people have been slaughtered by notorious gun grabbers. Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and other notorious mass-murderer control nuts all banned guns, and millions upon millions of innocent, helpless people died because they had no ability to defend themselves and their families. And now the U.N. seemingly supports more of the same.

America has witnessed carnage after senseless carnage at shopping malls, schools, restaurants and other gun-free zones. Again, when people do not have the right to defend themselves, they are slaughtered in such killing fields.

Professor John Lott’s research on guns and crime concluded that more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens equal less crime. Apparently the socialist stooges and terminal voodoo freaks at the U.N. didn’t read it. Perhaps some of the soulless voodoo punks at the U.N. can’t read. Based on their personal hygiene shortcomings, it wouldn’t surprise me.

Even if the freedom-hating U.N. passes such an anti-common-sense agreement, our Senate would have to ratify it before the U.S. would be forced to adopt this U.N. idiocy that would guarantee more innocent people were slaughtered.

Freedom addicts need to be concerned, however, because our president, secretary of state, attorney general and numerous left-wing politicians support gun control, as they too believe people need to be controlled instead of liberated.

Eliminate evil people, and good people live. Enable evil people to control people, and good people are slaughtered. It’s so simple it’s stupid.

Paraphrasing the words of the late freedom addict and American hero Charlton Heston, a U.N. stooge or anyone else can have my gun when they remove my cold dead fingers from around it. Know it.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Donating to Obama feeds Fedzilla

2011-07-07T15:34:00Z

Gas prices have doubled, groceries cost more, and that’s just the beginning

Internet sleuth Matt Drudge has a hyperlink on his website, drudgereport.com, to a story about President Obama raffling off dinner with him for a $5 donation to his re-election campaign.

There will be some mindless, bloodsucking liberal zombies who will donate five greenbacks in hopes of winning dinner with Mr. Obama, but that pool surely is shrinking. In this economy, even liberal moonbats ought to find a better way to spend five bucks than to take a chance on winning dinner with their favorite Marxist.

For instance, since Mr. Obama moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., gas prices have doubled. Food prices are “necessarily skyrocketing.” So is unemployment. Faith that the president knows what he is doing as it pertains to the economy is in a nose dive.

Only private-sector capitalists understood that Mr. Obama’s “hope and change” message during his presidential campaign was a masterful stroke of deception that would lead to an economic catastrophe. Nothing Mr. Obama said during the campaign or during his presidency has sent tingles up our legs. Instead, we hung our heads in shame, knowing that Mr. Obama’s political values and economic policies would wreck America.

Donating five bucks or any other amount to Mr. Obama’s campaign is giving money to a campaign that will continue to put people out of work, drive down home values, cause retirement funds to slide south and increase the burden for future generations of Americans with trillions of dollars in debt.

Who would do this? Who could be so politically ignorant and terminally naive as to vote against his own self-interest as well as to damage America by giving five bucks to Mr. Obama, who, if he wins in 2012, will have four more years to move his socialist agenda forward while driving America into the traffic jam of the Greek economic freeway?

Economic train wrecks are caused by politicians who either intentionally implement kamikaze economic policies to gain more power or believe Fedzilla should have even more control over our lives, or a combination of the two. Either way, an economic train wreck is sure to occur. And so it has.

And the economic malaise will continue so long as naive liberals and avowed socialists believe that stabbing themselves in the eye will somehow lead to better eyesight.

What liberals need to do is keep their five bucks. Put it in the gas tank or spend it at the grocery store. You may not be able to buy as much as you did before Mr. Obama was elected, but your five bucks would best be used by your spending it in your own self-interest rather than giving it to a guy who will use it against you.

Economic prosperity will occur once again when Americans realize that Fedzilla and those who feed it are the problem, not the solution. I’ve got five bucks that says so.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Independence Day revival

2011-07-07T15:31:00Z

Imperious politicians need reminding that today’s patriots are watching

Thomas Jefferson would be shocked and appalled if he could see what America has done to this grand experiment since he drafted the Declaration of Independence. On Independence Day 2011, Mr. Jefferson would not be celebrating our independence but rather encouraging Americans to revolt once again.

America has compromised the Founding Fathers’ dreams of a limited federal government for a centralized federal government that is bloated, grossly ineffective, putridly expansive, irresponsible, tremendously expensive and soullessly bureaucratic.

Our federal government is more burdensome, costly and controlling than the British government of King George 235 years ago, the very beast that our Founding Fathers took up arms against and fired a freedom shot that was heard around the world.

The Founders recognized the costly quagmire of an all-powerful and centralized federal government. Mr. Jefferson, who arguably was the smartest man ever to have taken up residence in the White House, wrote, “My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”

Our Founders wrote our Constitution to limit the powers of the federal government. That hasn’t stopped our professional politicians from violating the Constitution and doing what they want when they want and to whom they want from their gilded mahogany thrones in Washington. They have zero respect for the Constitution. They pay lip service to it when it serves their political need.

On our embarrassing, apathetic watch, we have allowed our republic to be financially raped, pillaged and plundered by our King George-like professional politicians, who buy our votes with our tax dollars by creating vast federal handout programs, departments and agencies that Uncle Sugar Daddy was never intended or designed to create or manage. The result: America is tens and tens of trillions of dollars in debt.

Statesmen such as Mr. Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington and others would not have condoned this grotesque financial irresponsibility emanating out of the toxic swamp of Washington. Again quoting Mr. Jefferson, “It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.”

Those patriots, Tea Party members and other concerned Americans who speak about financial responsibility, champion limited government and promote the ideals of our Founding Fathers are often maligned, lampooned and condemned as intellectual lightweights, radicals and even racists by various cowards.

The Tea Partyers have it right. They understand that our republic can only be saved by advocating the very principles, vision and ideals of those men and women who risked their lives, sacred honor and fortunes to give birth to America.

Tea Partyers, members of various other patriotic organizations and other rank-and-file concerned Americans should take solace in the words of John Adams when he wrote about the American Revolution in 1818, “This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.”

On this Independence Day, sit down with your children, loved ones, friends, neighbors and co-workers and read the Declaration of Independence and discuss it. Get them to commit to a new uprising in which our King George politicians are dethroned and run out of Washington. Be a patriot and save America.

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another …

Happy Independence Day. God bless America.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Millennials sleep as their future crumbles

2011-07-04T15:34:00Z

Today’s youth snooze while government steals their fortune and lives

The 1968 riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago remain vivid in my mind, as do so many marches and demonstrations by young people of that era, primarily protesting the Vietnam War and demanding civil rights for all.

Young Americans were politically naive in 1960 but at least willing to be engaged. Although I remember the various protests and marches, I was either squirrel hunting or putting a sharp edge on my sonic guitar-slaying skills, having not awakened to my “we the people” duties quite yet. Regrettably, I knew nothing about politics and, sadly, little of our nation’s history.

Now, being somewhat of a novice history nut and having lived through the howling political, musical and countercultural winds of the 1960s, I can view these various events and activities through a clear lens that was never clouded with the purple haze of dope. Yes, I can remember the 1960s, and I was there.

All of this makes me think about today’s generation of young people - especially college-age Americans.

While I personally condemn violence of any kind, I am stunned that they are not participating more in the Tea Party, even rioting in the streets, clashing with the cops, conducting sit-ins at their colleges, interrupting political events and so on. Instead, the young people of this generation appear to be sound asleep, lethargic and seemingly unaware of how badly their generation is being royally abused by the deep-seated corruption and abuse of power in the government. They appear to be terminally stoned on apathy.

More than likely, this generation of young Americans will be the first in our nation’s history not to enjoy a standard of living greater than their parents’. This alone should be cause for a massive mob of angry young people marching on Washington.

The monumental debt we are leaving this generation is grossly immoral, irresponsible and un-American. And the debt continues to rise. I doubt most young Americans are aware that this financial burden will strangle economic opportunities for them. Because of the sheer size of the debt, maybe young Americans can’t comprehend that their individual share of the national debt is more than $500,000 when all of it is factored into the equation. Who could realistically fault them for protesting this insane debt tsunami?

Many young college graduates are moving back in with their parents because of limited job opportunities. That should send a clear warning to them that all is not well - not well at all. They would be wise to spend some time researching why this is so.

This generation of young people probably cannot remember a time when America was not at war. As much as I believe the voodoo enemies of America need to be vanquished from the planet, the endless protracted wars we are embroiled in are tremendously expensive in both blood and treasure. If we are going to commit our brave warriors to the battlefield, we should implement total war and break the will of the enemy and all who harbor enemy actors. We have the weapons, warriors and technology to wreck everything. Do it or stay home. Where are the massive Internet flash-mob protests by young Americans against these protracted wars?

Except for the superior human beings who volunteer for U.S. military service, I am not impressed with this generation. They are being led to their own slaughter and are blindly following along instead of fighting for their own survival. Text or twitter that, Millennials.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Supreme Court puts the innocent to death

2011-07-04T15:32:00Z

What do you think will happen when 30,000 prisoners go free?

Here’s something for your supremely stupid files. Our vaunted Supreme Court recently ruled that California must reduce the number of prisoners in state prisons because of overcrowding. Our Supreme Court thinks overcrowding in prisons is cruel and unusual punishment.

Never mind that essentially ordering the release of more than 30,000 monsters will create more victims of crime, destroy more families and cause our streets and neighborhoods to be less safe.

Of course the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) applauded the court’s decision, as the group remains more concerned with protecting the “rights” of criminals than protecting law-abiding, taxpaying citizens who surely will become victims if California’s plan to reduce overcrowding does not meet Fedzilla standards.

California is submitting a plan to reduce prison overcrowding while doing its best not to release any of these violent punks. My advice is for someone at the California Department of Cages to contact Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix and ask him how to build a barbed-wire fence, put up tents, purchase pink skivvies in bulk and make bologna sandwiches. California prison overpopulation problem solved.

We live in the land of the bizzaro, where common sense is no longer common. Think of this: A violent ape is convicted of a felony and sent to prison, which is supposed to be uncomfortable punishment, and then the Supreme Court steps in and mandates his release because the prison is overcrowded. And we are supposed to respect this?

How’s this: Who cares if prisons are overcrowded? Would you rather have overcrowded prisons or more violent apes on our streets to prey upon you? Only a deranged person, a violent punk, the ACLU and now our Supreme Court would side with releasing prisoners over the safety of the public.

Clear-thinking Americans who are supremely addicted to logic want these punks off the streets and in cages, where they belong, with the violent apes who already have committed any number of crimes. It doesn’t matter to me if we cage them in something just slightly bigger than a shoe box.

We need to make prison painful, ugly and supremely uncomfortable. We need to make it so that anyone who has spent any time in the slammer never wants to return. That’s real rehabilitation.

The real definition of cruel and unusual punishment is ordering the release of tens of thousands of criminals, knowing full well that once that is done, there will be more murders, rapes, violent assaults, robberies and numerous other crimes against the innocent residents of the Golden State and all over America.

It is fanatical barbarism for the Supreme Court to dare make such a rule, knowing that its decision will create more victims. I have no respect for a Supreme Court that obviously has more respect for violent thugs and punks than hardworking, law-abiding Americans.

It’s not worth the price of creating even one victim of crime to relieve overcrowding in prisons by prematurely releasing 30,000 or so apes.

Build as many prison tent cities out in the desert as we need and let the violent apes fill them up. Make it uncomfortable. Make them serve every day of their sentences. Make them pay the price for the crimes they commit.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Obama couldn’t run a lemonade stand

2011-06-22T13:24:00Z

Big-government solution to economic woes always backfires

The Obama administration has mindlessly flooded the country with hundreds and hundreds of billions of federal tax dollars. The government gurus claim the reason for opening the federal-money floodgates was to jump-start the sluggish economy, which was strangled to begin with by Fedzilla’s housing policies - or lack thereof.

Just as you would not pour gas on a fire in hopes of putting it out, infusing more than a trillion taxpayer dollars into the economy has not and will not work to put the economy on the path to prosperity. An artificial economy cannot be repaired with more artificiality. Who doesn’t know this?

President Obama’s economic and social engineering has been a flop, a disaster. The economy continues to sputter, gag and hemorrhage; unemployment and underemployment are getting worse, not better; housing prices continue to plummet; the dollar’s value is shrinking; and our debt is suffocating any hopes of a long-term economic recovery. Keep the Titanic on course, captain.

Dumping more than a trillion dollars into the market and claiming to want to stimulate the nation’s economy is analogous to intentionally allowing the Missouri River to flood towns and cities because the streets need cleaning.

Either the Obama administration does not know its history or it intentionally wants to kill off the nation’s private sector. It might be a little of both.

The Obama regime may be the least qualified when it comes to understanding how a free market operates, how jobs are created and how profits are made. I have yet to uncover any high-ranking Obama appointee with any free-market experience, including the secretary for the Department of Labor, which should be renamed under the Obama regime as the Department of Labor Unions.

The bottom line is that we have entrusted our economy to a group of people who would not know how to operate a child’s lemonade stand. What an inexcusable, tragic mistake.

We faced a similar economic problem back in the early 1980s. After soundly defeating President Carter, Ronald Reagan, a fan of the free market, took the opposite approach of what Mr. Obama is doing to turn the economy around.

What happened because of President Reagan’s approach of lowering taxes, reducing federal regulations and favoring the private sector over Fedzilla? Almost 40 million private-sector jobs were created and America experienced a 25-year economic boom.

What America needs is a vibrant, growing and strong economy that benefits everyone, especially the shrinking middle class. This will not happen with a guy in charge who believes Fedzilla knows best. It does not.

There has been no net increase in jobs created as a result of swamping the economy with federal dollars, and there will be none. When the free-market history books are written, this will be the central theme of surrendering the economy to central planners in Washington who have zero private-sector experience.

The Obama regime has given America a crystal-clear message that liberalism in big government is an economic wrecking ball. What America desperately needs is a much leaner, less bureaucratic federal government - the very kind of federal government our framers had in mind when they started this experiment in self-government more than 230 years ago.

Got the message, GOP? Can you deliver it?

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Run, Rick, run

2011-06-08T10:59:00Z

Tough times call for tough Texas candidates

Good friend and Texas Gov. Rick Perry should remember that now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

Now is that time, Rick. Run for president.

Indeed, the other GOP candidates are good men and women. Many thoughtful Americans have confidence that each of them would set a new, critically needed, much improved and responsible direction for America - the opposite of President Obama’s course.

Though it’s still very early in the campaign season, no one in the field of candidates is electrifying GOP voters. There is little buzz or excitement.

Candidate Perry would provide campaign electricity. In the words of the Gipper, it would be morning in America once again with Rick Perry running for president.

Rick is a true conservative, and a powerful and popular one. He has never lost an election and remains the only person to have won the Texas governorship three times in landslide elections.

He is appropriately critical of the federal government’s expanding control and reckless spending and thinks much of the power Washington politicians and power brokers wield should be returned to the states. Rick is a strong supporter of the 10th Amendment. Borrowing again from the Gipper, he inherently knows the federal government is not the solution to our problems; it is the problem.

With Rick at the helm, Texas is business-friendly, resulting in a booming economy compared with most other states. Texas has created more jobs over the past couple of years than any other state. If you want a job, come to Texas.

There would be stark differences between Rick and Mr. Obama.

Like other true conservatives, Rick does not support the economy-killing and energy-strangling “cap-and-trade” sham that Mr. Obama advocates. He thinks America should be energy-independent and that we have ample energy resources if we are allowed to mine them instead of restricting access to them.

He does not support Obamacare, knowing that more federal control over our health care will lead ultimately to higher deficits, fewer doctors and fewer options. Socialized medicine has failed around the world, and it will fail here, too.

Rick knows that we must get our financial house in order and that it is immoral to borrow and spend the tax dollars of Americans who have not yet been born. He knows that continuing down this kamikaze borrowing and spending path, along which both political parties have gleefully galloped, will destroy the nation.

America has reached a tipping point. We cannot continue to ignore deep, festering financial wounds incurred as a result of an addiction to federal spending. Too many Americans look to the federal government for answers to problems that the Washington bureaucracy has either created or exacerbated. Rick looks to the states, to local governments and to you to solve these problems. That is not hollow hope-and-change rhetoric but real power to the people.

Tough times call for tough people willing to make tough choices. That’s you, Rick.

Run for president, Rick. Now is your time to come to the aid of your country.

My governor shoots coyotes. What does yours do?

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Kudos for the bin Laden kill

2011-05-11T11:50:00Z

One cockroach down, lots more to go

A celebration is in order now that our superhuman special ops warriors expertly drilled a hole through international terrorist Osama bin Laden’s twisted-brain housing unit. All the military, intelligence and political figures who were involved in planning the death of this scumbag deserve our thanks and admiration. Free rock ‘n’ roll and venison barbecue for life from the Nugent tribe.

However, the celebration should be short-lived. There are more terror cockroaches to be hunted down and exterminated with extreme prejudice as soon as possible.

While President Obama’s comments to the American people regarding whacking bin Laden were quite good, he missed the mark by not sending a clear message to the other international terror maggots that no matter where they go and where they hide, the United States will hunt them down and kill them all no matter how long it takes. He should have made it clear that it is the American way.

Bin Laden was a terror figurehead, but he was hardly in control of the decentralized international terrorist cells and lone jihadist wolves who are busy planning more death and destruction in the name of Allah.

We must use all the tools and techniques at our disposal to obtain information from these captured flea-infested maggots. Reports are that aggressive interrogations helped get key information about bin Laden’s courier, which ultimately led to killing bin Laden. It should not matter to Americans which aggressive techniques our intelligence officers use to collect information that could save American lives. What matters is the information.

It also should not matter to Americans how and when we whack these jihadists. All that must be known is that official U.S. policy is to hunt down these devils and grind them into dust. Many of us also enjoy reading and hearing about various military and intelligence tactics used to track, monitor and kill jihadists and assorted other human debris. When it comes to good over evil, I am a tactics junkie.

We do not need civilian trials or military tribunals for these subhuman goat ticks. What we need to do is capture them and use whatever means necessary to extract information out of them and then keep them in cages like the rabid dogs they are until America declares victory in the war on terror. The other option is to exterminate them immediately and all who harbor them. It makes little difference to me.

We would be wise to remember President George W. Bush’s words when he said exterminating these religious nut jobs would take many years. We are in the human-cockroach extermination business for the long haul.

Let’s remember now more than ever that there are voodoo-intoxicated people in this world who hate America and all things good and will do whatever they can to kill as many Americans as possible. Knowing that, the smart move is to whack them first.

Now that bin Laden is swimming with the fishes, let’s make drilling some holes in terror cockroach Ayman Al-Zawahri’s head next. While we focus on finding and exterminating him, let’s kill as many other cockroaches as we can.

I am already done celebrating the death of bin Laden. I am much more excited about how many other jihadist cockroaches we exterminate before the sun goes down tomorrow.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: America needs Fox News

2011-04-27T11:07:00Z

Lapdog traditional press simply won’t do its job

You can bet that if George Bush were president, the media would be out for blood. You would have to be deaf, dumb and blind to not notice that gas is four smackers a gallon, real unemployment is still above 10 percent, America is trillions in debt with no end to annual trillion-dollar deficits in sight, we are still in two wars and itching for another one in Libya, China is poised to eclipse our economy in just a couple of years, and 25 percent of our kids do not graduate from high school.

President Obama is not blamed for any of this by his lapdog media. Giving Mr. Obama a pass on these and other issues is proof positive the president is the media darling.

It wouldn’t be the same if Mr. Bush were president. In fact, as you will recall, the media relentlessly hammered Mr. Bush on the housing collapse, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, etc. The media hated Mr. Bush, and he was hardly a hard-core conservative.

The media despise anything that smells of conservatism. Such is the reasoning they have insinuated the Tea Party is full of ignorant racists, conservatives don’t care about the elderly and that energy companies rape the environment for profit. The list goes on and on.

All of this hypocrisy and liberal slant to reporting have led to the majority of Americans not trusting the media to report objective facts. Media spin has replaced truth.

Even with all the media spin designed to prop up our rookie president, his poll numbers continue to slide south. The American people know a sham when they see one.

Interestingly, along with the president’s, the media’s poll numbers also continue to slide to the south. Corollary or coincidence?

It’s laughable how the Obama lapdog media are already discussing that the GOP has no front-runner in the 2012 presidential race even though the election is more than 18 months away. The purpose of this spin, of course, is to try to convince Americans that the GOP is rudderless and that the country will be better off with Mr. Obama for four more years.

There is no blaring trumpet from the media that Mr. Obama may possibly be in way over his head, that electing him in 2008 with such a thin resume was a mistake and that the damage his socialist policies could do to the nation over the next four years could be catastrophic and irreversible.

The real damage is what the media have done to themselves. Described as the Fourth Estate to put a blazing spotlight on our government, our news media have compromised their role and, therefore, their credibility. Media without credibility are useless and irrelevant.

Hardly anyone watches the national nightly news, and subscribers to big-time liberal newspapers are shrinking dramatically. Granted, the new digital media have made a tremendous impact on how Americans get and consume their news, but a liberal bias has not done the media any favors. The truth is, the nightly news and the liberal rags are going the way of the dodo bird.

Make no mistake, President Obama is getting a pass from the media because most of those in the dominant media are hard-core liberals. Most Americans are not.

The American public is not nearly as naive or easily manipulated as what the liberal reporters in the newsroom believe. Thanks to the new media and cable news giant Fox News, there is now competition for viewers and readers, and the believability factor at Fox is kicking major butt. The spin does indeed stop here, and I like it.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Punishing the producers

2011-04-27T11:05:00Z

Obama’s class-warfare strategy will only make the deficit larger

The hypocrisy of the president is the only transparent thing I have seen come out of the Obama administration.

President Obama has been campaigning and giving speeches declaring how rich people need to shoulder more of the tax burden. What the president doesn’t say is that rich people already pay the lion’s share of the federal tax burden and that almost 50 percent of Americans (mostly Obama voters) pay no federal income tax. If the president truly believes in his tax-the-rich scheme, he should try something new and lead from the front and lean forward in the saddle by writing a big, whopping personal check to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) above and beyond what he paid in federal income tax. Leading from the front, however, is not one of the president’s strongest characteristics.

Writing a large check to the IRS would take strength of conviction, which the president and the rest of his rich liberal buddies apparently don’t have. If the president, Michael Moore, Warren Buffett and liberal moonbats believe that rich people get off lightly on their taxes, all they need to do is write the IRS a big, personal check and then encourage all their rich liberal friends to do the same. Simple enough. The IRS will gladly accept their checks, especially considering that America is borrowing and spending well over a trillion dollars a year that we don’t have.

The president obviously believes that rich people have gotten wealthy through unscrupulous or questionable means and therefore, should be made to spread the wealth around more by paying more in taxes. This is insulting to every American who has created a certain amount of wealth through hard work, creativity, sacrifice, risk and pays really high taxes for which Fedzilla refuses to be held accountable.

Our president is oblivious to the fundamentals of business. He wouldn’t know how to handle a business risk if it knocked on the door of 1600 Pennsylvania and introduced itself.

The president knows nothing about what it takes to start and operate a successful business, yet he has the presidential audacity to spit in the face of the very people who create and provide jobs for Americans and who already pay more than 90 percent of all federal income taxes.

My gut says the president doesn’t really care about growing the private sector and improving the economy. His goal is to expand the entitlement class because he knows the most effective way to con people into voting for him and the Democratic Party is to buy their votes with the tax dollars provided by the hard work of others. That’s standard operating political procedure for the Democrats.

Mr. Obama is playing a class-warfare con game while at the same time damaging the very economy he claims to care about so much. Can anybody possibly claim to not see this?

Punishing the producers by taking more of their wealth and giving it to others who have done nothing to earn it is anti-American, historically counterproductive and by all accounts, brain-dead. Additionally, punishing the producers will cause the economy to continue its swan dive into the street.

With the exception of Marxists and socialists, no one I have ever met believes that surrendering more of our wealth to Fedzilla is sound economic policy. Economic fundamental No. 1: Never throw good money after bad.

Come on, Mr. President. Put your money where your mouth is and write a hefty check to the IRS. Show some real leadership for once.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Can’t buy me love

2011-04-27T10:51:00Z

Votes of America’s wallet-watchers aren’t for sale

As a free market addict who believes capitalism is the most pow- erful force for quality of life ever devised by man, I be- lieve the price of a product or service is generally set by what the market will bear.

However, when it comes to the incessant political campaigns on the national level, the amount of cash required is staggering. Our politicians spend as much time and money campaigning as they do trying to convince us that they are working hard on our behalf.

Reports say that President Obama’s campaign for re-election may raise and spend $1 billion. He won’t be alone. The GOP nominee will likely raise the same amount of cash. And I thought $4-a-gallon gas is outrageous.

It won’t be long before you start to see what a billion dollars buys. The tsunami of political television and radio commercials will soon begin to flood the airwaves. The amount of political junk mail that will pack our mailboxes may even be enough to postpone the economic collapse of the U.S. Postal Service for another year.

And not a single dime spent on crafty political advertisements will convince me to vote against my political gut instincts and values.

I’ll vote for the gal or guy who says Washington is much too large, spends way too much money, taxes far too much and unfairly, who advocates for a balanced budget, has owned or worked for a successful company (not including law firms), and who believes health care and retirement is an individual’s responsibility.

The billions that will be spent on the upcoming political campaign are not targeted at me. The money will be spent trying to convince so-called moderates to cast their vote a certain way.

Ironically, even the billions spent on campaigns will, in the end, not matter nearly as much as the money in the wallets of the voters.

Americans vote with their wallets. If their wallets are flush with cash, they generally stick with the same political horse. If their wallets are lean, the incumbent is in big political trouble.

And that is the millstone around President Obama’s neck. Out on the campaign trail, his golden tongue may wax eloquently that the economic malaise of high unemployment and even higher underemployment is the fault of President Bush, but that is a tired, out-of-tune ditty.

Young people rallied around Mr. Obama’s message of “hope and change” in 2008. With a large percentage of college graduates returning home to live with their parents because there are no good jobs to be had, the idealism they had in 2008 will succumb to harsh economic realities. This too spells trouble for the president.

The GOP candidate faces a split party - stalwart Republicans and Tea Party activists. The nominee’s job will be to unite the party while at the same time, spending hundreds of millions courting moderates and telling them happy days will soon be here again.

There is a powerful undercurrent of economic reality that Americans feel. Everyone knows someone who has been laid off, can’t find a job or who is underemployed.

Even a billion dollars will not be able to convince Americans otherwise. Their wallets speak loud and clear.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: NBA’s gay gag order

2011-04-20T15:54:00Z

League tells Kobe to put a sock in it

Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant was socked with a $100,000 fine by the NBA last week for calling a referee what the NBA thinks is a derogatory, ugly and vile name.

To be exact, Mr. Bryant committed this egregious verbal foul because he used a word demeaning to homosexuals, the most protected class of people in America.

Gay rights groups applaud the decision of the NBA, which must make all the homosexual basketball fans feel peachy and special. Who knows, maybe the NBA will use Mr. Bryant’s $100,000 to buy courtside seats for gay basketball fans. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Show some gay pride, NBA.

Those among us who work tirelessly to shut down (and shout down, if the need arises) speech they disagree with must also be absolutely gay with pride and satisfaction over this fine.

Mr. Bryant can obviously afford to pay the fine, but that’s not the point.

The principle is what matters. Those of us addicted to common sense and logic think that fining Mr. Bryant $100,000 for calling a referee a name is much more ugly, vile and demeaning than anything Mr. Bryant uttered or could possibly have uttered. The politically correct brain-dead can’t seem to remember the ending for “Sticks and Stones.”

Think of it: $100,000 for calling someone a name. A simple apology from Mr. Bryant to the referee obviously wasn’t good enough for the NBA.

I doubt Mr. Bryant would have been fined 10 cents had he referred to the referee as a useless Christ on a crucifix soaking in a vat of urine.

No, the real reason Mr. Bryant was fined was because he used an anti-gay term to describe the referee. One has to wonder how much the NBA would have fined Mr. Bryant if, before the game, he had told the referee he “looked quite gay” that night.

Maybe the NBA will start fining their fans who scream what the NBA considers to be offensive words at players, referees and opposing fans. The NBA should publish a list of terms that the league finds offensive so the fans will know what is and isn’t out-of-bounds speech, gestures and attire.

If the NBA had any true gay convictions, the NBA should host a Homosexual Night. During halftime, the homosexuals could come down on the court, hold hands and prance around the court to music by the Village People. The NBA could then give each homosexual a pink basketball as a symbol of solidarity.

Like other professional athletes, numerous NBA players have done all kinds of things on and off the court that do not cast a positive light on themselves or the NBA, but they have not been fined $100,000 by the league.

Homosexuals are a protected class in America. If you think what happened to Mr. Bryant was a travesty, just wait until you see what homosexuals in the military do when they claim they have been mistreated because of their sexual orientation.

Speech can be ugly and demeaning, but no ugly name-calling is worth a $100,000 fine.

Wouldn’t it be refreshing if Mr. Bryant threatened to resign from the NBA over this? The amount of money the NBA would lose without Kobe Bryant helping to pack the stands would be staggering compared with the politically correct $100,000 fine levied on him.

Mr. Bryant threatening to quit wouldn’t make the NBA very gay. I got 20 bucks that says the NBA would toss homosexuals under the bus and fold like a cheap suit to keep Mr. Bryant in the NBA.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Glowing with green energy

2011-04-06T14:42:00Z

Japan’s woes aside, nuclear power alone can free us from Mideast dependence
By Ted Nugent

The anti-American green goony squad squawks endlessly about the need to ween ourselves from oil after last year’s spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Due to the disaster in Japan, we are hearing more of the same from leftists about nuclear energy.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the anti-energy leftist crowd in America will soon be yammering that what America needs to do is to ban all forms of energy that produce heat, including matches.

Green energy is energy-less. Embracing so-called green energy is an energy death sentence for America.

Amazingly, a component of this administration’s energy policy is to ban Thomas Edison’s light bulb and force Americans to use “environmentally friendly” compact fluorescent light bulbs by 2014, all of which are made by communist China and pose serious health and environmental threats due to their mercury content.

The bold energy reality is that we can’t turn our backs on either oil or nuclear energy. What we need is much more of both. And right here in North America, we have an abundance of both.

Nuclear power is the way ahead. Even with the ugly and unprecedented disaster in Japan, statistically, it remains the cleanest, safest and most efficient energy source known to man.

We have 104 nuclear power plants producing 20 percent of our energy demands. All the green energy sources combined provide no more than 5 percent of America’s energy demands.

The smart move is to build many more nuclear energy power plants if we want clean, dependable and efficient energy.

America has enough oil and natural gas right off our coasts to power America for at least a couple of generations. Banning the extraction of this energy condemns us to continued slavery to OPEC.

We don’t need to ween ourselves off oil. What we need to do is purge ourselves of Mideast oil that is controlled by robe-wearing, voodoo-entranced OPEC mobsters.

Drill here and drill now and eliminate the OPEC mob.

What America lacks is a bold energy policy and vision that will make America energy-independent. Instead, we have bureaucrats stumbling over each other with their stacks of bureaucratic regulations and requirements for what kind of light bulbs American can use. Unbelievable. And you thought “The Planet of the Apes” was just a movie.

President Jimmy Carter established the Department of Energy more than 30 years ago and America is more dependent on foreign oil than ever. We haven’t built a new nuclear power plant or oil refinery in more than 30 years. This is completely unacceptable and very un-American. We are strangling ourselves and then complaining we can’t get enough air - so very liberal of us.

Once again, the Middle East is sending America a message and the message is that that region is unpredictable and downright goofy. The political unrest in the Mideast will surely cause oil prices to soar even beyond where they are today. The sooner America severs our addiction to their oil, the better off we will be. Independence is good. Dependence is bad.

The question we need to ask ourselves is this: Are we creative, bold entrepreneurs who can solve our own problems with our own resources and solutions or have we turned into a pack of whimpering, dependent punk slaves?

Just as our defiant forefathers poured English tea into the Boston Harbor, we should tell the current ruling class of bureaucrats they can stick their curly light bulbs where the sun doesn’t shine. I got your green energy right here.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Obamacare is crony-care

2011-03-30T10:30:00Z

Vocal reform supporters are now demanding waivers
By Ted Nugent

The biggest problem President Obama has is a serious lack of trust among the American people.

From energy mismanagement to refusal to be fiscally accountable to blatant job-destroying policies, the president has gone off in a gung-ho leftist direction that leaves many Americans shaking their heads in confusion. A recent poll found that more than 60 percent of Americans believe the country is heading off a cliff.

The president’s trust meter will take another hit now that more and more Americans are finding out he’s giving out waivers to his Fedzillacare law. The president has handed out exemptions to more than 1,000 unions, companies and organizations and five states.

Any way you slice or spin it, this is pure Chicago-style political payback, blatant Al Capone corruption at its finest. The president clearly learned his political lessons well when he was a community rabble-rouser in Chicago. It’s good to be his political buddy.

If Obamacare is so good, will save so much money and rescue America from health care disaster as the president stated so emphatically, why grant waivers of such benevolence to anyone, much less your close friends? Shouldn’t his union buddies be pounding on the door of the White House demanding to be the first in line to gobble up the entire gigantic Fedzillacare law?

How about it, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)? Why did you request, need or accept the waiver? As big cash supporters of the president during the campaign, the least you could do to show support for the guy and his Fedzillacare bill would be to demand to be first in line. Accepting a waiver to a bill you supported is telling.

With the president once again serving up his political head on a platter by granting waivers to Fedzillacare, let’s see how Republicans respond. Will they hammer the president relentlessly for this glowing example of hypocrisy or barely whimper?

GOP home-run hitter and Democratic dragonslayer, Rep. Louis Gohmert from Texas, isn’t letting this opportunity be wasted. He’s on the attack.

Mr. Gohmert argues these waivers amount to nothing more than “crony-care.” He further stated that “the administration realizes that this bill is a disaster and that’s why they’re letting their closest friends out from under the toughest parts.”

Mr. Gohmert is dead-on accurate that Fedzillacare is a disaster and everyone knows this except Fedzillacrats and bloodsucker Obama supporters who want something for nothing.

Polls also show a majority of the American people still don’t like or want European-style socialized medicine. Clear-thinking, freedom-addicted Americans know that a 2,000-page bill that no politician read, understands or can define with any clarity will ultimately end up costing way more than projected and provide fewer health care opportunities.

Just like every other thing that comes out of Washington, Fedzillacare is a bureaucratic nightmare that will create untold government agencies, bureaucratic reams of requirements, tax-gobbling duplicity, redundant forms and assorted other bureaucratic nonsense.

Fedzilla-controlled Medicare and Medicaid are already on life support and dying fast. You would have to be wearing a dunce hat to believe that Mr. Obama’s Fedzillacare is going to make nationalized health care more efficient and less costly.

Everything Fedzilla touches becomes more expensive, more burdensome and less efficient. It’s best to not trust anything that emanates from D.C.

Fedzillacare is government crack for numbskulls. Strangle it to death by defeating it. Do this now, GOP.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Mideastern behind-the-scenes extremists

2011-03-30T10:20:00Z

Beware of revolutions that rebuild the Islamic caliphate
By Ted Nugent

It’s no secret how the KGB was actively involved in bankrolling and furthering the radical student and hippie movements of the 1960s in hopes that stinky, stoned hippies and violent America-hating radicals like Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and dupes in the Weathermen, Students for a Democratic Society and others would topple America or cause it great harm. Why do you think they call it dope?

Just a few years after the 1960s hippies largely became extinct, a man named Ronald Reagan brought the Soviet Union to its knees, proving that communism, socialism and anti-Americans like Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn were no match for the strongest force ever developed by man: capitalism. Excellence has its rewards - never forget that.

Tragically, American colleges remain infested with leftover liberals who spout socialist and communist idiocy from their insulated, ivory towers. However, the majority of Americans find liberalism to be a bankrupt, brain-dead political ideology that destroys instead of builds and creates dependence instead of independence.

Real rebellion is cool so long as the rebels replace the current system with something better, such as that which the American Revolution achieved.

As of right now, no one knows what will be the result of the Mideast rebellions. No one knows - or is telling us - if Iran or the Muslim Brotherhood is behind the scenes bankrolling or fanning the flames of the Mideast rebellions to re-establish the Islamic caliphate.

Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi and other Mideast and African dictator punks deserve a bullet or a noose, but only if those fighting to overthrow these regimes want more freedom, free elections, support women rights, human rights, respect other religions and so many other proven quality-of-life issues that have somehow eluded that cesspool of mankind. If not, the world has supplanted one voodoo nut for another. That’s a zero-sum game.

Take Iran for example. While the shah was no saint, he was much better than the radical, freedom-hating regimes that have succeeded him since 1979.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Charlie Manson were probably separated at birth. The only significant difference between the two is that Mr. Ahmadinejadis working on developing a nuclear weapon and Charlie is behind bars tattooing himself with ink pens. Both are certifiable kooks.

The Obama administration is backing all of the Mideast rebellions. From Egypt to Libya, there’s not a word of caution from the Obama administration about these rebellions; not a word of caution about what the new political environment will be if the rebellions succeed. The president’s radical America-hating chums obviously continue to influence their community organizer.

Obama administration types are not just throwing caution to the wind by backing these rebellions. They are throwing the world into a potential hotbed of life-threatening extremism. That’s a dumb move.

Rebellions have leaders. Who are the leaders of the rebellions in Egypt, Libya and other places? What do they believe? What do they want to change and how will they do it? Are they anti-American or pro-American? Will they recognize Israel?

These are reasonable questions for which Americans deserve straightforward answers from our president and our Department of State. If Col. Gadhafi - like Hosni Mubarak of Egypt before him - must go, as Mr. Obama has stated, who will take his place?

It would be wise to be very cautious and suspicious of the rebellions in the Mideast. Too many violent rebellions in that part of the world have led to brutal regimes who maintain power through genocide, societal destruction and displacement.

The basis of American foreign policy should be to advance freedom and democracy at every opportunity. Those fighting for true freedom and democracy have the respect and admiration of all Americans who cherish freedom. They are not to be confused with the Muslim Brotherhood and their jihadist compatriots.

I’m just not at all convinced that those fighting to overthrow despots and tyrants will be any better, and will likely be much worse. Convince us otherwise, Mr. President.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: No U.S. strategic interest in Libya

2011-03-23T14:48:00Z

By Ted Nugent

Africa isn't called the Dark Continent for no reason. Africa has forever been a politi- cal nightmare full of overt corruption, tribal warfare, genocide, murderous regimes and brutal dictators.

There is no country in Africa that truly respects freedom or the rule of law. The majority of countries in Africa are in economic ruin because of political corruption and a history ugly with cruel despotism. That's why starvation and disease are rampant. AIDS is projected to kill as much as half the populations of some countries. Genocide is a way of life. There is little light in Africa.

The evil Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the vicious dictator of Libya, is killing Libyans who want to string him up and replace him.

In order to keep Col. Gadhafi from killing Libyan rebels, the United Nations has instituted a no-fly zone and is bombing Libya. Though the action is led by the French, who once wouldn't let us fly over their country to bomb Col. Gadhafi, it is the United States, as usual, that is - and will be - doing all the heavy military lifting.

For what? The president said America is "acting in the interest of the U.S." Please tell us, Mr. Obama: Just what are those interests that are so precious that America will put military lives in harm's way and spend tens of billions of dollars more that we don't have bombing Libya and enforcing a no-fly zone?

The president stated that we will not put ground forces in Libya. Air power alone probably will not stop Col. Gadhafi. If anything, bombing Libya probably will embolden him.

As of this writing, America has fired at least 120 missiles into Libya. Are we prepared to fire 1,120 missiles at about a million bucks a shot in order to topple Col. Gadhafi, to whom the United States granted a visa just a few years ago so he could threaten to live in a big tent while he attended the den of thieves meeting at the United Nations?

If precision-bombing Libya and destroying the country's limited air force fails to stop the colonel, what's next on the agenda, Mr. President? How long will you order our military to stick around off the coast of Libya, and at what financial burden? Will you reverse course and send in ground forces if bombing doesn't work? What is the message to the other African thugs and thugs in the Middle East if Col. Gadhafi isn't toppled?

If the real goal of the United Nations is to topple the Libyan leader, kill him and all his henchmen. Flatten the area of Tripoli where it is believed he is holed up with a human shield surrounding him. Kill all those people and get it over with. Implement total war for a week, and cockroach Gadhafi will be entombed in a pile of rubble.

Because we won't implement total warfare, we run a real risk that he will remain in power. Col. Gadhafi knows the key to his victory is to wait us out. He knows we can't afford to float our Navy off the coast of Libya and launch rockets against tactical targets forever. Most important, he knows the America people will soon begin to ask: What the heck are we over there for when we have no strategic interest and Libya does not pose a military threat to the United States?

Granted, a dead tyrant is a good tyrant, but there have been any number of murdering African thugs and punks who have deserved to be killed over the years, including Robert Taylor of Liberia, Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, Idi Amin of Uganda, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and others who have killed millions of Africans.

As I write this, hundreds of thousands of Africans have been killed and a couple of million more have been displaced in Darfur. Are we prepared to go in there and drop bombs and fire missiles until we get the results we want?

Africa is an international scab. Bono of the band U2 advocates that if we forgive debt African nations owe, peace and tranquillity will sprout up mystically. The real problem is murdering, corrupt thugs and punks like Col. Gadhafi. Once we swat one of these African cockroaches or intervene in their civil war, where do we stop?

America can't solve all the world's problems, nor should it try. We have enough of our own problems to address without getting involved in a Libyan civil war.

Spending national treasure by bombing Libya is not wise when we have no strategic interest in Libya and we are bankrupt. It would have been much cheaper for the CIA to arrange for the cockroach colonel's demise than to spend billions and billions of dollars that we don't have in hopes he is toppled. Whatever happened to that wonderful American ingenuity of improvise, adapt and overcome?

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Racism lives at Department of Injustice

2011-03-16T13:14:00Z

Holder’s thumb on cop test-score scale will endanger lives
By Ted Nugent

Flunking is the new norm at racist Eric H. Holder Jr.’s Department of Injustice. In yet another ugly, blatant and defining racist move, Mr. Holder is forcing the city ofDayton, Ohio, to lower the passing threshhold on the test for those wanting to be police officers because not enough black recruits passed the exam.

Instead of attracting the best and brightest to serve the public, racist Mr. Holder will now ensure that the good residents of Dayton will be protected by dunce cops who score the equivalent of a D or F on the entrance exam.

Entrance exam scores may also be lowered for firefighters so that more black applicants can be accepted.

What Mr. Holder clearly wants by forcing his racist substandards on the good citizens of Dayton is to ensure people he favors get a fair shake at becoming cops by lowering the standards to such a degree that there might as well not be any entrance exams.

Before long, the question “Can you tie your shoes?” will bedeemed racially insensitive.

Dayton residents had better hope Mr. Holder does not encourage members of the racist New Black Panther Party to move to Dayton and become police officers where they could then legally intimidate white citizens without fear of reprisal from Mr. Holder’s Department of Injustice. If the citizens complained, he could scold them and call them “racial cowards.”

Leaving aside that Mr. Holder’s Department of Injustice should stay the heck out of Dayton’s entrance exam standards (which were already pathetically low), the issue that should boil the blood of Dayton residents is that their tax dollars will pay the salaries of public employees who are functionally illiterate - the very bottom of the barrel.

So much for excellence, right, Eric the racist?

Public employees should be held to the highest of standards. I’m just a guitarslayer, but should we not expect - demand - that employees paid with tax dollars be the brightest instead of the dumbest?

Being a cop or a firefighter should not be a social experiment to provide jobs for people who are almost too dumb to breathe. These are professions that citizens rely on to save their lives, literally. Waiting for Mr. Holder’s idiots to show up can be a death sentence for citizens. These idiots will also put the lives of their fellow cops and firefighters at risk. It’s another whiz-bang bureaucrat lose-lose deal.

What Mr. Holder could not have imagined is that even the Dayton NAACP believes lowering the scores is wrong. Of course, it’s wrong and it demeans those other cops, especially those other black cops who earned their positions. The real message of Mr. Holder’s decision is that black citizens are too dumb to make it on their own. How soulless, how racist a position is that?

Standards for public employees should be raised from pathetically, dismally low standards to exemplary. We should demand tough, rigid tests that cull out the idiots and reward the best and brightest. Private companies have rigid employment standards and do their best to weed out poor performers. The standards for public employees should at least be the same.

Mr. Holder believes otherwise. He believes public employment is a social experiment to provide jobs to certain people and his wrong-headed, racist Dayton decision proves that.

Maybe President Obama will come to Dayton and have a beer with angry citizens and try and assuage their concerns. What the president should do is fire the racist punk Mr. Holder for a pattern of ugly racist statements and behavior.

Unfortunately, Mr. Holder passed Mr. Obama’s low, low standards.

Racism lives, and it lives in the Obama crony administration. How sad.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Outgunned is a choice

2011-03-09T11:33:00Z

Beanbags are fine for the playground but not for a border showdown
By Ted Nugent

Being a Border Patrol agent on our southern border has got to be a very difficult, harrowing job.

It is surely an even tougher job when our agents are told to launch “nonlethal” beanbags at armed, illegal intruders.

Rule No. 1: Never bring a beanbag to a gunfight.

Think of this: With an orgy of high-powered drug-gang violence just across our border that already has claimed roughly 35,000 lives, plus numerous reports of armed, illegal intruders crossing over the border and shooting at our police officers and committing other violent crimes against American citizens, some politically correct bureaucratic idiot directs our Border Patrol agents to launch beanbags at machine-gun-toting, violent invaders.

The result of this brain-dead, irresponsible mindset: My fellow Michiganiac, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, was shot dead by an armed illegal intruder on Dec. 14 in Arizona.

This policy, of course, is lunacy defined. Only a wild-eyed lunatic would force brave, law enforcement officers into dangerous situations without adequate firepower to stop danger in its tracks. These are the same uber-left-wing fools who sputter and scream how our law enforcement agents are “outgunned,” ignorantly blaming failed gun control laws while knowingly sending our warriors into battle with phenomenally inferior firepower. In fact, beanbags have no fire power, unless you are waging war on small kittens.

To add insult to the tragic death of Agent Terry,it now appears that certain bureaucrats within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed a known gun-running thug, whom they were investigating, to buy and transport the guns into Mexico that were used to kill Agent Terry.

Call me crazy, but I thought law enforcers would have learned their lesson by now. It seems like it was just yesterday that the Los Angeles Police Department found itself outgunned by a couple of bank-robbing punks armed with banned, fully automatic AK-47s and wearing body armor.

I’m just a guitar player, and I am never outgunned. Being outgunned is a choice, a foolish, suicidal choice, and everyone knows it.

It boggles the mind to try to comprehend someone showing up with a nonlethal beanbag gun when it is widely known that human traffickers and drug smugglers and other assorted subhuman debris are often heavily armed. Common sense reels in disbelief. Word has it that logic is now on the endangered species list.

I’m well aware some of you on the left have mastered the art of mind-boggling anti-logic and are desperately seeking to find some way to disagree with me.

Knowing that you live in the bizzaro world where logic is outlawed, let’s say for argument’s sake that you hear an intruder kicking down your front door in the middle of the night, and you have the choice between a 12-gauge shotgun and a fly swatter at your disposal to protect your family. Which are you going to grab?

Only Timothy Leary and Cass Sunstein fans would reach for the fly swatter. All you other liberals would turn into clear-thinking conservatives for at least a minute or so and splatter the intruder all over the living-room wall with your shotgun. Good for you.

Stay with me. So now let’s say America is your home, and you have armed bandits routinely coming into your home. Would you show up with a beanbag gun or an M4 rifle with state-of-the-art optics?

Case closed. Numbnuts lose again to a tsunami of common sense.

The way to stop this insanity before it becomes an even bigger national security problem is to issue a “shoot to kill” policy against all armed invaders.

Because I’m actually a docile, peaceful man who doesn’t want to see anyone hurt, I will compromise and agree to a policy of firing one round over the heads of armed intruders. If they do not immediately lay down their weapons and raise their hands in surrender, then shoot them four times, center mass. Problem solved.

Armed invaders always must be considered extremely dangerous. Superior firepower is the order of the day, not nonlethal beanbags. Let’s leave the beanbags to kindergarten classes.

Tragically, this is what we have come to expect from an administration that will not even refer to Muslim voodoo whackjobs who commit murder and mayhem against Americans while shouting “God Is Great” in Arabic as terrorists. How deep is the denial?

Liberalism is clearly a mental disorder and liberals are outgunned.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Dr. Nuge to the rescue

2011-03-02T14:59:00Z

Free-market medicine man takes his scalpel to Obamacare
By Ted Nugent

As ugly and foolish as it is, obesity isn’t the most deadly health issue in America. Neither is the insane choice to poison oneself with tobacco. Same goes for lack of exercise and an unhealthy diet. These prime symptoms of the brain-dead are all indications of just how berserk some people can be. We should all pray people will wake up and make responsible choices as soon as possible to make America stronger and healthier.

That being said, clearly the most crippling, dangerous and deadly health threat America faces today is Fedzilla’s bureaucratic, dirty, inept fingers in our health care.

Fedzilla has violated and continues to violate the most basic health care oath: First do no harm.

Since establishing Medicare in 1965, Fedzilla has set in motion the most unhealthy, destructive, burdensome and costly so-called health care program in the history of mankind. Thanks to this bungled and deadly experiment, Medicare is on its deathbed and will expire soon.

Don’t listen to the Fedzillacrats who will try to convince you that Medicare and Medicaid are healthy. They would be lying. These programs are dying. Instead of giving the patient the needed medicine, Fedzilla is injecting our health care program with much worse poison, such as Obamacare.

Medicare cannot be revived unless we either raise massive taxes on young American workers or reverse course now and privatize our health care. Those are our only choices. Do not believe otherwise.

Know this: Health care in America was much cheaper and far more efficient when Fedzilla didn’t have its unclean, infected hands in it.

We have the most expensive, bureaucratic health care nightmare in the history of the world. Medicare and its twin, Medicaid, are dying because they are on an unsustainable financial-suicide path. Even a third-grade kid flunking math can see this.

In addition to massive costs, Fedzilla’s programs have reams of regulations that require vast and expensive Fedzilla bureaucracies and agencies to manage.

How’s this for expensive: According to the Cato Institute, Medicare trustees estimate Congress would have to come up with $80 trillion and put this money in an interest-bearing account to cover future health care expenses.

Yes, that’s 80 trillion - more than the entire wealth of the world. To put it further in perspective, the annual gross national product of the United States is roughly $15 trillion.

The very survival of the nation is at stake. Our very unhealthy and expensive health care model requires emergency-room attention if the patient, America, is to survive.

First, Obamacare must be repealed or financially strangled. Any health care model or program that proposes that Fedzilla control more of our health care should be dead on arrival in Congress. Kill those proposed programs before they spread and multiply.

Second, we must create health care models and programs based on the free market. More free-market choices will drive down health care costs and make health care more affordable. More choices works in every other industry, and it will work with health care, too, if given the opportunity. Allow people to purchase health care across state lines and watch prices tumble as health care insurance companies scramble for your health insurance business.

Third, because almost half of our Medicare dollars are spent in the last months of life, we have to do something to control these costs. As much as I respect life, requiring taxpayers to continue to fund terminal patients is immoral. Should the families of such patients want to continue to keep them alive, they should find a way to pay for it.

Fourth, we need means testing. Similar to the case for Social Security reform, if a person - myself included - has amassed a certain amount of assets, he should be required to pay for his own health care.

Fifth, personal health care savings accounts funded over a lifetime would provide future retirees with a health care nest egg to draw upon. Funding one’s own health care - what a novel concept.

The bottom line is that our population is aging and aging quickly, which is requiring more taxpayer-subsidized health care that already is on the fast track to bankruptcy. In order to survive, America needs more health care choices, more freedom and more responsibility for our own health. This will drive down costs, not increase costs, which is the current suicidal, Fedzilla model.

America has a health care crisis. It is a crisis that was put in motion by Fedzilla in 1965 and is on a course to kill the very patients Medicare was supposed to help: Americans.

Health care lesson No. 1: Never surrender your freedom or personal responsibility to Fedzilla unless you have a death wish for America.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

Multicultural Rot in the Melting Pot

2011-03-02T14:55:00Z

By Ted Nugent

Europe is finally awakening from its self-imposed Rip Van Winkle deep slumber to discover that multiculturalism is actually cultural rot and ripping its countries apart.

From the United Kingdom to France to Spain to Germany, leaders or former leaders have decried multiculturalism as a poisonous experiment in their nations.

What's next? Will Europe discover the Earth is not flat?

You have to wonder how these leaders could have ever signed on to encouraging Muslims to lead separate lives and not assimilate in the first place. Pardon me, but even a venison-fueled guitar slayer knows that playing politically correct games like these always leads to death, destruction, and decay.

The brain-dead politically correct facade of multiculturalism was directed primarily at Muslims, and everyone knows it. European leaders were scared to be labeled as intolerant religious bigots by Muslims. Their fear was misplaced. They should have been vociferously condemning Muslims who wanted to be treated separately.

Instead of condemning Muslim extremists, Europe instead condemned a Danish cartoonist who poked fun at Muhammad. Free speech be damned. The German government censured an author for writing a popular book that contended Muslim immigrants were lowering the intelligence of Germany. Not to be outdone by the Europeans, the American media implied that those Americans who protested a mosque being built near Ground Zero in downtown Manhattan were bigoted and anti-Muslim.

And while Europe and America to some extent were embracing multiculturalism, Muslims were murdering Christians and burning down their churches in Muslim countries. (Let us not forget multiculturalism lesson No. 1: Islam is the religion of peace.)

As Europe imploded due to political correctness and doing its best to accommodate Muslims praying in the street and whatnot, many Muslims were, and still are, working hard to try and impose their religious/political customs, traditions, and values on these European nations and right here in America .

Instead of encouraging Muslims to assimilate and embrace European culture, tradition, norms, and values, European leaders buried their head in the sand and ignored the problem.

The bold, unfiltered truth is that some Muslims are not in the least bit interested in assimilating and embracing Western traditions, values and, democracy. Their goal is taking over and supplanting Islam as the mandatory religion and government. These Muslims do not believe in universal, basic human rights such as women's equality, freedom of speech, the right of others to practice their faiths, and the rule of law. The definition of Islam for these crazies is subjugation. For Muslim extremists and radicals, Islam is about totalitarianism and enslavement, not freedom.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France recognized the dire consequences that multiculturalism has had on France when he recently stated, "If you come to France, you accept to melt into a single community, which is the national community. And if you do not accept that, you cannot be welcome in France ."

Hear, hear.

British Prime Minister David Cameron recently said that multiculturalism is the cause of Muslim terrorism.

Whether or not Sarkozy, Cameron, and others actually get tough and do something to reverse the politically correct cultural suicide path their countries are on remains to be seen. One thing is clear, however. Now is their time to stand or fall. The culture war is on whether they like it or not.

If Europe really wants to get tough, its countries should outlaw Sharia law in all of its machinations. Public funds should be immediately cut off from Muslim groups who refuse to condemn Muslim extremism. Public condemnation by officials and others should be used against Muslims who preach separatism. The Muslim clerics who preach jihad or hatred should be jailed or expelled, and their mosques closed. Tougher immigration rules should be passed and enforced.

Muslims should be free to practice their faith, but not free to impose it on others. Democracy doesn't work that way. When in England, act like the English. That's the only respectful thing to do. Embrace that or leave.

Source: HumanEvents.com

NUGENT: When the going gets tough, Democrats run

2011-03-02T14:54:00Z

The longer they hide, the better for the GOP
By Ted Nugent

The Democrats‘ new playbook says to run away and hide when they don’t get their way. Good.

The one fundamental political truism in America is that Democrats always find a way to self-destruct. Good again.

Democratic legislators in Wisconsin and Indiana have run away so they don’t have to vote, represent their constituents or act like Americans. Other lemming Democrats surely will take their lead and follow them off the political cliff.

Perfect.

It’s hard to imagine our Founding Fathers finding the running-away behavior laudable or respectable, but I haven’t found anything yet that liberals believe that is in line with the philosophy and agenda of our Founding Fathers.

It’s delightful how these Democrats have run away from their elective jobs and hid. This juvenile, pro-union stunt has only tightened the political noose for Democrats in 2012. Hang ‘em high.

Democrats have yet to accept the glaring fact that there was a seismic shift in politics in November when voters tossed them and their bankrupt ideas out of office. They are ignoring the will of the people because, at their core, Democrats think people need to be not only governed, but controlled. Liberals believe ordinary Americans are too stupid to make important decisions on their own. Believe it.

Instead of respecting the voters’ desire for frugal fiscal policies that make abundant sense, Democrats in Wisconsin and Indiana have run away and tried to take their political ball with them. They are emboldened by teachers who call in sick and various other loudmouthed, pro-union hacks and stooges.

My plea to these Democrats is to remain on the run. The longer they stay away from their respective states and elective jobs, the better the opportunity for fiscally conservative Republicans in 2012 and the better the opportunity to fix America.

Just as it sank the presidential aspirations of Democratic poster boy Ted Kennedy when he ran away and hid for eight hours or so before reporting to the police that he had driven off a bridge with a female passenger, this stunt is going to bleed Democrats of support from the important middle-of-the-road voters.

This is the perfect political storm that can destroy Democrats, so long as Republicans play their cards right. The Republican move should be to say little or nothing other than how the Democrats have ran away from the will of the people. Enough said. Avalanches start small.

By embracing their newfound political activism of running away when things don’t go their way, the Democrats, including President Obama, have painted themselves into a corner. Realizing that union members are a significant base of their party, no Democrat can afford to condemn the legislators who have run away. No Democrat is going to turn on the labor unions. Al Capone and Jimmy Hoffa live.

Labor unions have long been tools for the Democratic Party. Labor unions donate tens of millions of dollars to the Democratic political machine during each election. Rather than drown separately, the labor unions and Democrats are lashed together and will drown together.

I feel all warm and tingly.

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin needs to stand his ground. He must remember why voters put him and the GOP in power. Stay the course, Mr. Walker. Do not cut a deal with Democrats and the labor unions. Do what is best for Wisconsin and set the example for other Republican governors to follow.

Terminally whacked as he is, at least Col. Whackjob Gadhafi has so far vowed to stay and fight to the end in Libya. He hasn’t run away yet from the mob of Libyans looking to lynch him, but maybe he hasn’t been following what is happening in Wisconsin and Indiana. I doubt he knows there are a Wisconsin and Indiana.

Americans intrinsically know that running away is a sign of weakness, and significant weakness is what we are beginning to see in the Democratic Party poppers who have chosen to flee.

To think some in the media declared the Republican Party dead just two short years ago when they were swept out of power in 2008. My, how times change quickly. The GOP can thank both the Tea Party and the self-destructing Democrats for their political resurrection. They better.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Sick days for the sick at heart

2011-02-24T11:03:00Z

Wisconsin’s teachers throw kids under the school bus
By Ted Nugent

Teachers across Wisconsin are calling in sick to protest the bill that would require them to pay half the cost of their pensions and roughly 13 percent of their health care coverage.

Can you say “spoiled brats”?

So many teachers in Milwaukee have called in sick to protest this widely supported bill that Milwaukee schools have shut down. The teachers should be fired or at least forced to sit in the corner and wear dunce hats and apologize for this juvenile stunt.

It is estimated the bill would save Wisconsin $300 million over the next two years, which would help alleviate the state’s $3.6 billion shortfall.

The alternative to not passing the bill is laying off 6,000 public employees. Wanting their fantasy cake of unaccountability and eating it too, the unions and their ignorant, brainwashed sheep are whining and protesting. So are some of the Democratic state legislators, who have fled Wisconsin and are hiding out so they don’t have to vote on the bill.

Those Democratic legislators are gutless and soulless chumps. Because the legislation isn’t breaking their way, they turn tail and run, thereby holding up a vote on the legislation. How pathetic, how juvenile, how so Democratic of them. Let us hope the good people of Wisconsin fire those Democratic punks at the next election just as they fired others in November.

It’s no surprise President Obama is speaking out and supporting the unions. Interestingly, because he spoke about education at length in his State of the Union address, isn’t it ironic that he has not vociferously criticized the teachers who are calling in sick and abandoning their duty to educate children? The president knows who butters his political bread - the unions. Tough luck, kids.

In case you haven’t been paying attention, the National Education Association (NEA) isn’t about what’s good for children, it is all about how much teachers can get away with.

This bill has nothing to do with union busting, as Mr. Obama claims. What you are witnessing is a state putting into action the will of the people as stated clearly on Nov. 2. It is simply trying to be financially prudent and responsible, something about which our spendthrift president and the Charlie Rangel gang obviously know nothing.

And now master shakedown con artist, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, has shown up and led the protesters in singing “We Shall Overcome.” When Mr. Jackson shows up anywhere to join hands with protesters, place your faith, hope and trust in those on the other side of the issue.

The truth is, like Wisconsin, many states, including Michigan, New Jersey, California and others, are in way over their financial heads and are drowning in debt, largely because of costly benefits paid to public employees. States that fail to rein in those unsustainable costs now will experience financial catastrophe in the not-so-distant future.

Folks, what is happening in Wisconsin is just the beginning. Other financially unstable states are going to go down this same path in short order. Some will have to make even more drastic cuts than Wisconsin. It is inevitable.

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin is displaying leadership by sticking to his guns on this critical fiscal issue. He is refusing to kick the can down the road for another governor to deal with. For that, he should be applauded by all responsible Americans who care deeply about runaway debt and soaring deficits. For his bold leadership, I nominate him for a Presidential Medal of Freedom, though I suspect he’s going to have to wait a few years to get one.

The jig is up. There is no more money. Wisconsin, a number of other states, many cities and the federal government are flat-out broke and in serious financial trouble.

What kind of lowlifes would call in sick when they are not? Look and see.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Hell just froze over

2011-02-24T11:00:00Z

The president met with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
By Ted Nugent

It’s amazing what getting “shellacked” in an election will do to a president. Instead of pandering to and embracing unions, condemning Wal-Mart and telling Joe the Plumber of the need to spread the wealth around, President Obama addressed the business community by speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The truth is that had the Democrats not gotten shellacked in November, the president would rather have had a root canal with a pair of vice grips and a wood chisel than to have spoken to the Chamber of Commerce.

The president knows he doesn’t understand business. He’s never owned a business, managed a business or, from what I can tell, even worked for a private business during his entire life. He knows zippo about how the free market operates and how onerous big-government regulations and high taxes can trample the economy.

All he knows about business is what he has read or what someone has told him. Based upon his previous anti-free-market actions and statements, whatever he was told or read was as wrongheaded as sitting through a sermon by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright without vomiting, having your head spin ‘round and ‘round and requiring an exorcism.

But at least he was cagey and smart enough to speak to the chamber, an assemblage of businessmen who don’t trust the president very much and believe he’s mostly wrong on all things business. Good for Mr. Obama.

Maybe.

Let’s hope and pray the president sees the light and honestly reaches out to the chamber, other business organizations and other businessmen instead of lecturing and blaming them when the bold and unvarnished truth is that the policies of Fedzilla had much more to do with our economic collapse than Wall Street bandits.

Let’s hope the president is a big enough man to understand that he and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis have much more to learn from the chamber than the chamber has to learn from them about how to expand the economy and put Americans back to work.

The president is finally saying many of the right things - there is too much government regulation, business taxes are too high, it’s important to let the free market grow the economy. His problem is that he doesn’t do anything about it except talk and periodically tour a handpicked company. That dog won’t hunt.

No doubt, the president is a very busy guy, what with all this fundamental change and what not, but if expanding the economy and creating good jobs matter to him as much as he currently says they do, he should make time for business leaders to meet with him on a weekly basis so real-world business discussions with real hands-on, experienced businessmen could occur and economic goals and objectives could be created and tracked to move America forward. That would be a grand step forward from appointing Van Jones as the green jobs czar, wouldn’t you say?

The president says he is open to other ideas. In addition to speaking to the Chamber of Commerce, the president ought to surf on over to the website of the Club for Growth (clubforgrowth.org) and read what these pro-business Americans suggest to get America moving again. These guys get it.

The Club for Growth has it bull’s-eye-right. The members wisely advocate reducing income tax rates, abolishing the current tax code and replacing it with a fair or flat tax, killing the death tax, limiting government spending, reforming Social Security and Medicare, expanding free trade, and other common-sense measures that would put Fedzilla on a strict diet while growing the economy.

Only a big-government, bureaucratic addict who believes Fedzilla knows how to grow the economy better than people who actually own and run businesses would disagree with Club for Growth‘s economic-freedom ideas.

We are expecting a lot from a guy who has no business experience. However, what we should be able to hope and pray for is that he can swallow his partisan political pride and start doing what is right for the nation. That is a tall order for a historically left-wing ideologue like the president. Therein lies the very sticky widget.

If the president has any serious aspirations for 2012, he knows that he and his party cannot cruise to victory by campaigning on four years of a lackluster and weak economy. He also knows that many Americans do not vote for the party or candidate but rather by what is - or is not - in their wallets.

The president has two fundamental choices: Expand the economy or pander to his nutty left-wing base. Something has to give. He’s not going to be able to have it both ways.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Mourning in America

2011-02-09T15:43:00Z

Obama is the polar opposite of Reagan
By Ted Nugent

President Obama has been trying to saddle up next to former President Ronald Reagan to gain political points with the American people. That’s going to put quite the strain on your mystical smoke-and-mirrors machine there, Barry.

Regardless that Mr. Obama claims he is studying the Reagan presidency, know that this is a political smoke screen to try to get Americans to believe he is a centrist. What you really need to know is that in his political heart, Mr. Obama holds Reagan in contempt.

Mr. Obama and other liberals despise everything Reagan stood for and believed in. Liberals do not think government is the problem and not the solution, as Reagan did. Liberals like Mr. Obama think more government is the solution to what ails America.

Because of his tax-cutting, pro-free-market, reform-minded ways, Reagan ushered in one of America’s longest-running economic booms. After a disastrous Carter administration, it truly was morning in America with his steady and resolute hand at the helm. There was a palpable feeling of confidence among Americans during Reagan‘s presidency. Americans were proud once again. How I yearn for those days.

Not so much with the Obama administration. Every poll I have read over the past year indicates that Americans are nervous, unsure and think - under the rookie community organizer - that our beloved country has lost its way. It reminds me exactly of how Americans felt during Jimmy Carter‘s wimpy tenure.

Main-street Americans do not believe America is respected by the international community; they shake their heads in disbelief that communist China is poised to surpass the U.S. economically and think Mr. Obama has it all wrong - from energy to spending. To be fair, we can’t lay all of our problems on his doorstep, but we can blame him for exacerbating them and creating new and tremendously expensive problems. Things are so bad that there are some Americans who think Mr. Obama is out to destroy America or at to least reduce the country to the equivalent of a Third World country. Sadly, it’s hard to argue with the flow of evidence.

With the exception of bloodsuckers, unions and Fedzillacrats, Americans don’t trust Mr. Obama. In fact, Americans have little trust and confidence that our bloated federal government can get anything right. This lack of trust and confidence by the American people in government and Mr. Obama is his and our biggest problem, and claiming he is studying the Reagan presidency is not going repair his image. The American people are smarter than that.

Once Americans have lost trust and confidence in their president, the president is only marking time. Mr. Carter and former President George H.W. Bush can vouch for that. It is exactly because of a lack of trust and confidence that Mr. Obama will soon join the ranks of other one-term presidents.

Mr. Obama‘s most fundamental mistake was believing his own hype and press - that America had given him a mandate to swing the country far to the left. That rookie mistake has been tremendously costly. Claiming to study Reagan is putting a Band-Aid on a gaping political wound.

Politics is as much about the intangibles as the tangibles. Americans need to feel and believe the president is doing what is right for the nation and that he has a vision. Americans need to internalize the vision of the president and make it their own. It is not happening.

Americans want to believe America’s best days are ahead of them. They want to leave America in better shape for their children. Americans believed this was possible under Reagan. They do not believe it with Mr. Obama. Instead of believing in morning in America, many Americans think a dark, cold and foreboding evening has settled in upon America.

Reagan was thus the polar opposite of Mr. Obama. He was a principled statesman who believed in the greatness of the American people and the free market. Mr. Obama is a left-wing ideologue who believes in the greatness of Fedzilla. This has placed him consistently out of step with the American people and will ensure he is a one-term president. Mr. Obama, you are no Ronald Reagan.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Social Security: Anti-social and insecure

2011-02-09T15:40:00Z

Sinking it now is best for America in the long run
By Ted Nugent

Americans have been used, strung along, ripped off, manipulated and frightened for decades by runaway gangs of power-mongering, deceptive politicians.

I give you Social Security. As usual, it is the exact opposite of what we have been told. This classic Ponzi scheme is anti-social and insecure.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt created Social Security 75 years ago. As with many other Fedzilla programs, Americans got suckered into believing Social Security was a healthy, wealthy and wise program.

Social Security is bloated, broke and busted. FDR’s New Deal turned out to be the Rip-off Deal.

There is an IOU for $2.5 trillion in the Social Security trust fund. Our elected bandits stole all the Social Security taxes collected over the years and spent it on who knows what.

The Congressional Budget Office recently stated that Social Security will pay out $45 billion more this year than what it takes in. Deficits such as this are projected until Social Security rolls over and goes completely belly-up 25 years from now.

The only way to truly reform Social Security is to sink it. Settling for anything less than the total destruction of this financial sinkhole would be perpetuating the problem and allowing Fedzilla to continue to pick the pockets of future generations of Americans.

We must have the guts and national resolve to remove the crushing tax burden of this Ponzi scheme from the backs of future Americans. Only Fedzilla and Bernard Madoff think robbing Peter to pay Paul is good business.

Eliminating Social Security isn’t our Sputnik moment. It’s our sink-the-Bismarck moment.

We can’t sink it today, but we can begin planning today how to sink it.

My proposal to sink the anti-Social Insecurity Bismarck is a plan that is very painful and arguably unfair, will take resolve and commitment, and will require a tremendous amount of sacrifice by all Americans.

First, we need to pass whatever law is needed to keep the Jesse James-like hands of Congress off the dollars collected from Social Security. No more stealing.

Second, we need to take the cap off of the Social Security tax. Currently, only the first $107,000 earned is taxed. We need to take the lid off and tax all income. We need the money. Yes, that will be a tax increase for some Americans. This is pain and real sacrifice.

Third, there must be means-testing. If a retired person or couple has more than a certain amount in assets, they will not receive Social Security or will receive limited benefits. This will be a huge sacrifice, but tough times require tough people who are willing to sacrifice for the future good of the nation.

Fourth, we need to raise the retirement age now. It is a fact that people are living longer. Retirees today will collect more from Social Security than what they paid in, while the pool of workers paying into Social Security is shrinking . That is an upside-down, unsustainable model. Shovel on more personal pain and sacrifice.

Fifth, people in the work force will be required to continue to pay into Social Security in order to pay for the masses of baby boomers retiring, but the people younger than 45 will not receive Social Security. We will have sunk the Bismarck by the time they would have reached the age to receive Social Security.

What people under the age of 45 will get in return for continuing to pay into Social Security that they will not receive are their 401(k) and IRAs completely tax-free when they retire.

My recommendation is a platform of pain and sacrifice, but it is for the long-term good of America.

The GOP should be telling young Americans that it is their responsibility to save and invest for their retirement and if they start saving today, they will amass a fortune over their careers. They should be told Social Security is a scam, a flat-out smoke-and-mirrors Ponzi scheme, pure and simple.

We can do it. Let’s sink the Bismarck. What say you, GOP?

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Do nothing, get nothing

2011-02-02T15:27:00Z

For America to be strong, we need to reward the good
By Ted Nugent

All good things come from effort. This is why any able-bodied person receiving welfare, unemployment or other financial assistance from Fedzilla, a state or county should do something to earn it.

Just as no responsible parent gives his child an allowance without expecting a certain number of chores to be completed in return, this same common-sense approach on a national scale would do wonders to bring America out of her malaise. There are millions of able-bodied Americans receiving financial assistance who can do something in return for the assistance being provided them by their fellow Americans.

One of life’s immutable and irrefutable truths is that giving people financial assistance without demanding something in return strips them of their pride, work ethic and soul. It’s a form of slavery, if you will. This poisonous policy ultimately destroys families, entire communities and, historically, entire societies. Giving someone something for nothing is analogous to rewarding bad behavior. Only idiots do that. And the French.

Over the past 50 years, we’ve created an entire subclass of Americans who literally know nothing other than receiving various forms of government financial assistance without having to do anything to earn it. It’s a big-time wrong approach unless the goal is to destroy these people and their communities. President Johnson’s Great Society didn’t turn out to be so great, after all.

Everywhere I go in America, I see things that could be fixed, spruced up, cleaned up or replaced. You would have to be blind not to see the same things in every community in America.

There is trash that needs to be picked up in city parks and all along highways nationwide, buildings that need to be painted, weeds that need to be pulled, snow that needs to be shoveled, lawns that need to be mowed, schools that need to be painted, fences that need to be fixed, sidewalks that need to be repaired, good charities that need basic labor, kids that need tutoring, etc. Maybe Jimmy Carter and Habitat for Humanity will teach them how to build a house. The work list is only limited by your imagination.

Under my brilliant, common-sense plan, if a person doesn’t put in a certain number of hours of work each week, he loses financial assistance for a month. When a person gets hungry enough, he will work. Being hungry and working for basic subsistence is the first step on the journey of rehabilitating pride and a work ethic. A dose of tough love is a highly effective motivator.

Being busy with a sense of purpose is the goal of those of us who understand what a real great society should be. Great societies are not created or sustained by having able-bodied people sitting at home, collecting a check for nothing while watching their giant-screen televisions, surfing the Internet or playing video games.

Helping people is not sending them a check without any expectation of effort. That’s how to destroy people. If you truly want to help people, incentivize them to earn their own way. That liberates them and turns them into producers instead of parasites. It’s a simple upgrade begging to be had.

I absolutely want to help people down on their luck, but I know that true help is giving people a hand up, not a handout. The ultimate goal is to create tough, smart people with that wonderful all-American, kick-ass attitude and work ethic. That’s what China fears the most.

Only squawkers, socialist punks and various bloodsuckers will find fault with the abundantly clear common-sense truism that all good things come from heart-and-soul effort. They should always be ignored. They are always the problem, never the solution.

At the end of the day, all red-blooded Americans must ask themselves if they have chosen to be in the asset column or the liability column. Our enemies are paying attention. I pray to God we are.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Obama slept through the election

2011-02-02T15:25:00Z

GOP needs to wake up an inattentive president
By Ted Nugent

I don’t put much stock in presidential State of the Union speeches. Last night’s speech by President Obama was no exception - flat and uninspiring, especially in comparison to his powerful Tucson speech.

State of the Union speeches are an opportunity for presidents to promote their agendas. The speeches are typically full of fluff and low on fiber. Mr. Obama‘s latest was like eating an artificially flavored air sandwich. Other than pundits, few Americans give State of the Union speeches any credence. By noon tomorrow, this lackluster speech will have fallen off the radar screen for everyone but the Beltway obsessive-compulsive disorder crowd.

The thrust of Mr. Obama‘s speech was the economy and job creation. He spoke about how the economy is growing again, how his policies are turning things around, how 1 million private-sector jobs were created in 2010. The problem? It’s bunk.

Spin it any way you want, but our economy remains sluggish, the dollar weak, the cost of food and fuel rising, our border porous, those green-energy jobs imaginary, the debt and deficit staggering, and the business community remains leery of Fedzilla’s heavy hand. The result: Millions of Americans are unemployed or underemployed, leading to hundreds of thousands of homes being repossessed.

Mr. Obama and the Democrats can’t be blamed for the entire economic malaise, but the decisions they have made in the last two years have made things much worse - as in $4 trillion in new spending worse. Our economy was already thrashing about in deep water when Mr. Obama joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, and Sen. Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, and came along and threw it a concrete block and called it a life preserver.

Mr. Obama spoke of bringing down business taxes and has launched a review of unnecessary regulations that are strangling businesses. Our business taxes should be reduced to the lowest in the world. As it pertains to identifying and eliminating unnecessary regulations, we would be wise to wait and review the findings of his new regulation-elimination initiative.

Mr. Obama spoke about new investment in clean-energy technology and other sectors. When you hear politicians speak of “new investments,” watch your wallet. New investment are code words for more borrowing and spending, which is exactly what is burying our economy and killing our future.

The cleanest energy is nuclear energy - not solar, wind or hydro. To meet our energy demands, nuclear energy is the way ahead. Nuke power is the safest, most efficient and cleanest energy source on the planet. The goal should be 200 new nuclear power plants in the next 10 years.

Mr. Obama is right about reforming education and raising educational expectations. What we don’t need to do is pour more money into the teacher-union-controlled public education system. America spends more on public education but get less results than any other nation in the history of the world. More tax money for education isn’t the answer.

Mr. Obama spoke about simplifying the tax code. He must have been reading my opinion articles. Burn the existing bureaucratic tax code and replace it with a flat or fair tax. That would be real reform.

And now he says he wants to reform Fedzilla, make government more accountable, more fiscally responsible. Yeah, right. And I’ll be wearing a pink tutu playing an accordion as the grand marshal at a gay rights parade any day now.

There is no argument that Mr. Obama is the most liberal president in the history of the nation. The hallmark of liberals is more control, more taxes and more spending. The future of America will not be bright with liberals in charge. Less government bureaucracy, less spending, less control and less borrowing is the way ahead. Get cracking, GOP.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Abort Fedzillacare

2011-01-26T11:33:00Z

Government has no business intruding into family health issues
By Ted Nugent

In celebrating the Supreme Court‘s 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, President Obama stated his support for the decision by declaring that government shouldn’t intercede in private family matters. Really?

If Mr. Obama is to be believed, then why does he want to force Fedzillacare down our throats? With all due respect, isn’t coercing people to buy into Fedzillacare directly interceding in private family health issues?

Alas, Mr. Obama‘s wrong again. Fedzilla is, in fact, interceding in the abortion industry by allocating our tax dollars to fund abortions. It must suck to be wrong so often.

Regardless ofyour opinion on abortion, if Mr. Obama actually believes his own spin, then no tax dollars should be used to fund abortion, promote abstinence or allow government to meddle in personal health issues in any way.

On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, he could have shown moral leadership by declaring that legally aborting 30 million (give or take a few million, but who is counting?) “masses of fetal tissue” (aka “a baby”) since 1973 is a dark, sad stain on the tapestry of America. But a statement such as that would have caused Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar to storm off the set of “The View” in anger and caused other liberals to boil over in more confused rage.

The president can’t afford that. He needs Ms. Goldberg, Ms. Behar and even Keith Olbermann, whose barely watched program was recently aborted by MSNBC. Quick, Mr. Olbermann, find a new liberal roost from which to crow. Mr. Obama needs you and the 40 or 50 viewers who will watch it.

The president desperately needs the pro-abortion crowd. He knows they constitute a core base of the Democratic Party, and that he can’t further alienate the extreme left wing who believe in providing shopping carts to the homeless. Even though half of all African-American pregnancies end in abortion, aborted masses of fetal tissue simply doesn’t matter when there is a re-election campaign to plan. Winning elections at all costs is what really counts.

At their core, liberals have few, if any, moral or ethical principles that matter. They desperately try to spin a good game about so-called reproductive rights, health care, education, crime, illegal immigration, etc., but what liberals really want is more power and control, a principle in line with the commie Three Stooges of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and the deceased Che Guevara.

Only 20 percent of Americans identify with liberal orthodoxy. When the spin clouds part and the truth shines on America about what these liberals really believe and advocate, the majority of Americans shake their heads in disbelief and go the other way. With apologies to Chris Matthews, fuzzy-headed liberals and their goofy agenda do not send tingles up the legs of ordinary Americans. Regular folks are just too dumb to get it. Right, Mr. Matthews?

Liberals have no real moral or ethical strength in their convictions, including support for abortion, and I can prove it. Wouldn’t it be fascinating for a media hack to ask any liberal, including Mr. Obama, if they are just absolutely giddy that their mother didn’t abort them? Even the most ardent pro-abortion, liberal moonbat must be ecstatic that they were not aborted. Knowing that, then why wouldn’t a pro-abortion individual, including Mr. Obama, also believe a “mass of fetal tissue” would also like a shot at life? Badda bing, badda boom, Barry baby.

There are many of us who want Fedzilla completely out of our health care, but we are being forced to adopt Fedzillacare rather than abort it. Those of us who want to abort Fedzillacare will get our day in the Supreme Court, too.

No politician or political party should be able to force Americans to adopt and pay for Fedzillacare when we want the constitutional right to abort it. Our health care is indeed a private and personal matter, Mr. Obama.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. daily

2011-01-19T14:52:00Z

The civil rights leader's lessons could make America a better place
By Ted Nugent

It has been said, and history shows, that societies and cultures are not murdered, but rather commit suicide. Have you noticed that?

As we celebrate the amazing life of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, we should give pause to reflect on his civil rights achievements and also reflect on how King would lead us to reverse our society and culture from committing suicide if he were still with us.

We spend a tremendous amount of time and energy talking about how to expand the economy and create more jobs. No doubt that is an important topic that deserves our focus.

But I doubt that expanding the economy, creating jobs and growing the middle class would be King's focus if he were alive today.

King would know and strive to point out that there are quality-of-life considerations much more important than just a strong economy.

King surely would tell us that it is impossible to create and sustain a vibrant economy without bright, talented and motivated young people. He would challenge and lead us to reverse the suicidal trend of so many of our young people dropping out of high school.

We can dream that King would tell us that we don't have an economic crisis but that we are enslaving our young people in a life of poverty and crime by allowing them to quit school.

In some American cities like my beloved hometown of Detroit, well over half the students do not graduate. Detroit has the worst graduation rate of any city in America. Abysmal dropout rates are not uncommon - they are standard in cities across America. This is cultural, societal, spiritual and economic suicide.

We can dream that just as he challenged us to rise above bigotry, King would lead marches on public schools and condemn them for caring more about teacher tenure and teacher unions than student graduation rates.

I believe that the good doctor surely would lecture parents that it is immoral, unjust and cowardly for them to allow their children to drop out of school. He would tell parents that education is the path to enlightenment and true liberation. He would tell parents how allowing their children to quit school is compromising the dreams of those who worked so hard and sacrificed so much to achieve civil rights. Being dumb is not a right; it's a chain and shackle.

King would say once again to both schools and parents: The time is always right to do the right thing.

In addition to challenging Americans to embrace education, I'm convinced King would have more than a few words to say about the state of the American family.

With roughly 70 percent of black youngsters and 40 percent of white youngsters being raised by single parents, we literally are jackhammering away at the foundation of what makes a strong and enduring society.

Let us dream that King would tell us that young people need both a mom and a dad and having so many children not living with both surely leads to disastrous results. The facts are irrefutable. Youngsters raised by single parents are more likely to get into drugs, drop out of school, get involved in crime and end up dead. We are committing societal suicide. America is better than eating its own.

These are two of the issues that I like to dream King would speak about: challenging us to change and leading us to a new promised land. Regrettably, they also are two critical issues that are given too little time, energy and focus by our politicians and media. Failing to lead is leading America to failure.

If we truly want to honor King, we must commit to doing better, not just talk about doing better. This will take commitment, sacrifice and sweat by parents, politicians, civic organizations, churches and neighbors. The question is, are we Americans up for the task?

We must remember and honor King not necessarily for what he did, but more importantly for what he believed and how he inspired others. King belongs to the ages, but his dream lives on.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Passion essential to American politics

2011-01-19T14:48:00Z

Don't let Tucson shooting sap our will to oppose liberalism
By Ted Nugent

In the wake of violence perpetrated by a Tucson lunatic, liberals and others who should know better are calling for political rhetoric to be toned down.

It's only those on the left who really want to tone down the political rhetoric - as in conservative rhetoric.

I say conservatives should turn up the rhetoric. When honestly identified, the hues and cries from the right are good for America, calls to get America back on track. Only those opposed to such an upgrade would find fault with such rhetoric.

Regardless of political stripes, all Americans should refuse to allow the actions of a psychotic mad dog to dictate how we conduct ourselves in the political arena, where political debate has always been spirited, hot and sometimes nasty.

Only softheaded, feel-good fantasizersfrom the cult of denial could believe that toning down the political rhetoric will somehow keep lunatics from doing loony things. Exhibit A: the sheriff of Pima County, Ariz.

Other liberal blowhards, such as Paul Krugman of the New York Times, blame conservative rhetoric for causing the Tucson monster's violence, even though there is less than zero evidence the monster listened to conservative talk radio.

The Tucson monster wasn't inspired by conservative ideology that he heard, read or watched anymore than he was encouraged to commit mayhem by reading Mr. Krugman's column, watching a Michael Moore movie, working out to a Jane Fonda video or humming Harry Belafonte songs.

If liberals truly wanted to tone down the rhetoric, they couldprove it by stopping the lying. But that won't happen. Mr. Krugman and other liberals know that if it weren't for a steady drumbeat of lies and deceit, the Democratic Party would cease to exist.

Let's be honest. Those on the left don't want to tone down political rhetoric. They only want to tone down conservative speech to make it more "fair."

The Democrats are wrong on everything from energy to health care to taxes. What they despise is having their agenda exposed, dissected and ridiculed. The truth hurts, and they know it, which is why, ultimately, they want to muzzle conservatives.

Never a group of politicos to let a crisis go to waste, liberals like Mr. Krugman are attempting to blame conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck for complicity in the murder and mayhem in Tucson - anything to take the spotlight off of them and their destructive policies and agenda.

Don't fall for it. It is yet another liberal ruse to deflect, obfuscate, blame and deny. That's the liberal modus operandi.

Conservatives on the radio, on television and in print need to turn up the heat on Democrats with wit, passion, ideas and facts. Conservatives should not fall for the liberal ruse of toning down the rhetoric by waving a white flag and promising to play nice.

Liberals and their Fedzilla policies have been severely weakened, as evidenced by their stinging defeat in November. Conservatives should capitalize on that victory and further destroy liberals by ad- vancing conservative values and ideas while aggressively pointing out why liberal ideas are dangerous and destructive to our republic.

In order to defeat liberals on the political-ideology battlefield, conservatives must be clear in purpose and then get after it by targeting (yes, I said targeting) and attacking Democratic nostrums that have weakened America. Expose, isolate and eliminate liberals and their fuzzy-headed policies. Use Saul Alinsky techniques against them.

Political battles are full of military metaphors. No one advocates violence as a means to destroy the political opposition. The only political violence I have seen occurs when dopey liberals throw pies at conservative speakers or try to shout them down.

Conservatives need to turn up the political rhetoric if they want to defeat the liberal agenda with a conservative agenda that is based on the Constitution, small government, lower taxes and much less spending.

Conservatives have liberals outnumbered and surrounded. Don't play nice with liberal snakes. Don't let them escape. Instead, do America a favor and crush liberalism.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Who let the wuss out?

2011-01-10T10:19:00Z

Fedzilla dependency has resulted in a nation of soft parents and kids
By Ted Nugent

Speaking about a National Football League game canceled because of a snowstorm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell stated that America has turned into a nation of "wusses."

That's a mighty bold statement from a Democrat whose party platform is to create wusses. If it weren't for dependent wusses that the Democratic Party creates and coddles, the party would be extinct.

Truth politics aside, I couldn't agree more with the governor. I have been yelling about this from American rooftops for decades. My mantra has been simple: Upgrade, America, or flounder on like the soulless sheep you are becoming. You have a president and Congress and a gaggle of wuss-loving czars. The wusses have it made. No spines allowed.

Too many Americans have become soft, complacent and apathetic and have a sense of crybaby entitlement. The good old American roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-the-job-done attitude has been going the way of the dodo for decades. We've all heard about the jobs Americans are not willing to do. Wusses.

Rugged individualism, that glorious, animal can-do spirit, perseverance and self-reliance are anachronisms for today's dependent, weak, wuss Americans.

Trying hard is just too hard for some Americans, who have been wussified into a state of dependency. Food stamps are for wusses, and the master wussy Democrats have seen to it. It's easier to be a lazy lump. The truth hurts. Only the guilty need feel guilty.

So many parents have failed miserably. Instead of instilling sacrifice, discipline, pride, hard work and motivation in our kids, too many parents coddle their children, trying to be their friends. Wuss parents raise wuss kids. The cycle remains unbroken.

Our public schools do not demand nearly enough from our kids. Our kids need more scholastic challenges, not fewer. However, some public schools have even gone so far as to implement "no failing" standards whether or not students do their homework. Feeling good isn't doing good. This is a proven recipe for terminal mediocrity. Bend over, America. The Chinese are coming.

Way too many of our kids can't read, talk, write or do basic arithmetic at their grade level. Far too many American kids drop out of school because they have been trained not to care. The public education system is the model for the wussification of America. Get your pretend diploma from Wussie U. and go nowhere.

Physical fitness is a sad joke. Our kids are the fattest, softest, slowest in the world and probably the most out of shape; statistics for their parents are worse. Forty percent of our youth are considered either overweight or obese. Fat is in; fit is out. Look around you if you doubt me. The curse of blubber in America is a reality.

Dependency abounds. Too many Americans think Fedzilla should provide them everything from housing to health care. And Fedzilla is trying its hardest to accommodate them while bankrupting America in the process and doing its best to rape the producers. Only an uneducated and unmotivated American wuss could possibly believe that a bloated Fedzilla knows what is best for him.

These wusses don't want to learn how to fish for themselves. They are addicted to Fedzilla's programs, which only serve to make them more dependent on Fedzilla. What say you, Mr. Rendell?

Lean is mean. Less is more. Weak is defeat.

Those Americans who seek to turn this ugly thing around know that tough love is the first dose of the anti-wuss antibiotic that needs to be instilled into America. Excuses and coddling deserve to be punished; trying hard should be rewarded.

Parents should turn off the television, computer games, video games and cell phones. These things make Americans, especially our kids, soft, uninspired, anti-social wusses.

Every kid in America should have at least 10 chores every day and do homework for a couple of hours every night at the kitchen table. Parents and teachers should act more like U.S. Marine Corps drill sergeants than coddling softies who are more worried about little Billy's and Suzy's feelings than they are about turning Billy and Suzy into unstoppable, motivated, hard, smart and confident Americans.

America has perfected the art of making wusses instead of hard-charging, freedom-addicted people like our forefathers. We are now wusses raising wusses, which is generational suicide. We are eating our young and liking it.

The way out of this is so simple, it's stupid. All it takes is some tough love and commitment by everyone in the social and cultural chain, many of whom are wusses themselves. They need to be weeded out and excommunicated.

America needs hard-charging warriors, not weak wusses.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Spirit of Santa alive and well in America

2011-01-04T11:56:00Z

We're a nation built on the essence of Christmas
By Ted Nugent

As my grandchildren and I cuddle together on Christmas Eve night and look out the window scanning the dark sky for Santa Claus, I will hug them and tell them that Santa Claus is as real as the snow silently falling to the ground outside. With great anticipation, we will sit close together and stare into the heavens searching for Santa Claus and his sleigh being pulled by flying reindeer. In my own grandfatherly way, I will tell them that Santa Claus will live forever in the hearts of those people who live their lives with compassion and love for others. That, I will tell them, is the spirit of Christmas and the spirit of Santa Claus.

Before Christmas Eve, I will take them shopping and find a U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots box stuffed full of toys for less fortunate kids. I will tell my grandchildren that Santa Claus put those toys in that box and that the hero warriors of the Marine Corps will deliver them for Santa Claus. Semper Fi.

We will stop and watch people drop their coins in the red buckets of the Salvation Army without any fanfare. I will tell them that Santa Claus lives in the hearts of those people, which is why they put their money in the Salvation Army buckets. God bless them.

I tell my grandchildren that hunters quietly go about providing hundreds of millions of hot meals of pure, healthy venison for the less fortunate all across America through the Hunters Feeding the Hungry program. I will tell them that sharing the annual bounty of God's miraculous creation with the less fortunate is as old as America and pure Christmas spirit.

In my own way, I will tell them that Americans donate millions and millions of dollars to various charities and organizations in hopes of providing a better life for someone else. I will tell them that it is because of the spirit of Santa Claus that they donate their money even when some can't really afford to give any money.

With sleeping, slobbering dogs sprawled at our feet by the fireplace, I will tell my grandkids that whenever a natural disaster happens somewhere around the world, Americans rush to the aid of those hurt, regardless of who they are or what those people believe. That's who Americans are.

I will tell them that far, far away there are Americans fighting evil people so that others can live free. I will tell them that they must keep these brave American military heroes and their families in their prayers each night. They are the best America has to offer. Blessed are the warriors of peace and freedom.

As we stare into the heavens waiting to spot Santa Claus, I will tell them of the time when some people knocked down some of our buildings, and that firefighters and police officers rushed up the stairs of those buildings to try to save people but rushed instead into the comforting hands of God. I will tell my grandkids that those firefighters and police officers who tried to save those people had the spirit of Santa Claus in their hearts.

With the fire crackling and the embers giving off a magical glow, I will make sure to tell them about the news stories I hear of unnamed, ordinary people doing extraordinary things for others. These wonderful, caring people, I will tell my grandkids, are Santa's helpers.

Their eyes will surely grow heavy searching for Santa Claus, and they will slowly drift off to sleep in my arms. I will carefully carry them to bed and tuck them beneath warm covers. Silent night. Sleep in heavenly peace.

Merry Christmas, America. Santa is alive and well in America.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

The American Dream

2011-01-04T11:52:00Z

by Ted Nugent

The Senate rightly rejected the NIGHTMARE Act. Maybe the midterm elections have teeth.

Known as the DREAM Act, this nightmare legislation was yet another dishonest left-wing anti-American immigration bill that would have provided a roadmap for citizenship for children of illegal immigrants, and then some.

The reality of the NIGHTMARE Act is that had it passed it would have opened the flood gates for even more unidentified Mexican and OTM invaders to illegally cross our border.

There are two fundamental realities with illegal immigration.

The first reality is that there are 20 million or more illegal aliens in America right now, the vast majority of whom don't commit crimes and are decent hard-working folks. Their tremendous work ethic and strong family values are commendable, if only they brought them here legally.

The second reality is that ordinary Americans know we shouldn't reward illegal behavior unless we want more of it. Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

The political reality is that both sides of the aisle benefit from illegal immigration.

I say damn the political torpedoes. America should launch the "Please Go Home" initiative for those 20 million or more illegals in America as soon as possible.

The "Please Go Home" initiative isn't jingoistic or racist as the real vicious racists will proclaim. It is fundamental, logical immigration common sense.

The GOP will disagree with my proposed initiative because they believe that, to win future elections, they need to attract Mexican-Americans to the GOP. The GOP undoubtedly believes my initiative will further alienate Mexican-Americans. The Democrats will despise the initiative because they benefit politically from these folks.

It's got to suck to be bought and paid for.

Political parties aside, ordinary Americans will agree with my initiative, even though they know it is tough medicine for both illegals and Americans.

If the vast number of illegal Mexicans in America pack their bags and head back home, there will surely be an economic impact. Prices for food and other services will probably go up. In an already tough economy, that will be a hard pill to swallow. We need to take our medicine anyway.

Some illegals in America want it both ways. They want all the benefits of America but want to maintain their personal and cultural ties to Mexico. That irritates ordinary Americans as much as the Department of Injustice suing the state of Arizona for securing the border.

Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration. If a Mexican wants to immigrate to American, he or she should go through the immigration process like any other foreigner. Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

Just as Mexico vigorously defends its southern border with Guatemala and has stringent immigration policies and enforcement practices, America should follow Mexico's lead and protect our southern border and stringently enforce our immigration laws. How about it, Department of Homeland Security?
Hey, Janet Napolitano, comprende?

America has immigration laws that both Mexicans and Americans should respect. The real reality is that the goal of those who advocate illegal immigration is to dismantle our immigration laws.Wrong move.

The NIGHTMARE Act was another attempt to legitimize illegal immigration. Fortunately, a wiser-than-usual Senate rejected it.

If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package. Remind Fedzilla at every opportunity that rewarding illegal behavior only attracts more of it.

Source: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40708

NUGENT: Extremely American

2011-01-04T11:51:00Z

Founders like Thomas Jefferson would be called radicals today
By Ted Nugent

When the political opposition has nothing of substance, it often resorts to labels. Nothing new there.

Those who hold conservative views are often labeled as "extremists" or "the far right." In an attempt to discredit their ideologies and arguments, conservatives often are referred to as bigots, racists and sexists by the opposition. That's because the opposition has nothing. Know it.

Tea Party members routinely are labeled as ignorant, naive, out of the mainstream, etc., when in reality, the opposition's tank of ideas is out of gas.

Like our Founding Fathers, I'm an extremist, and I wear my extremist label proudly. I buff it daily so that it shines extremely bright.

I extremely believe we have the God-given right and responsibility to defend ourselves; that big government is the problem, not the solution; that the care of your health is your responsibility, not mine; that capitalism is the greatest force of mankind on the planet. Pretty radical, extremist stuff, huh? No wonder I'm referred to as the Motor City Madman.

All my political heroes have been bold leaders, many of whom would be labeled as extremists by today's toxic, politically correct brain-dead standards.

Take Thomas Jefferson, for example. He was an incredibly bright, enlightened extremist whom all American schoolkids should study, extremely. Very few politicians on either side of the political aisle qualify to stand in Jefferson's extremist shadow. Maybe Ron Paul. He has some extremist views about Fedzilla. Rock on, Ron. Get even more extreme.

Imagine if Thomas Jefferson were alive today and wrote what he actually said about government in his day. The FBI surely would be monitoring him for his extremist views. The yammering ladies on "The View" would get their panties in a wad over Jefferson's extremism and storm off the set in protest. President Obama wouldn't have a beer with Jefferson.

Well over 200 years ago, Jefferson warned us of Fedzilla when he wrote, "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

You don't need to be a political scientist to wonder what Jefferson would have thought about Obamacare and Fedzilla's extremely ugly, irresponsible, orgiastic spending spree.

Jefferson didn't stop with his fortune-telling of Fedzilla, as he wrote: "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

That quote should be chiseled on the back of every chair in the U.S. House and Senate. After saying the Pledge of Allegiance before school starts (if that hasn't been banned yet by the ACLU) American kids should also recite that quote. That would be extremely wise.

Here's a real radical, extremist Jefferson quote: "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

Jefferson was a wild thing. He moves me.

Looking at the bloated Fedzilla as it exists today, Jefferson and our other Founding Fathers would call for a revolution. Jefferson wrote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Advocating revolution would get Jefferson charged with sedition or some other crime. Fedzilla would lock him up and label him a domestic terrorist. I extremely believe that.

If he were alive today, Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, would be labeled as an extremist. He would be castigated, maligned and pilloried for his opinions of Fedzilla. In the Obama America, Jefferson would not be revered; no monuments would be built in his honor.

What America desperately needs today is a man or woman who is as extreme and radical as Jefferson was. What we have is a crop of Fedzillacrats in Washington who have more in common with King George III than Thomas Jefferson.

Be thankful that our Founding Fathers were so extreme. God bless the political wild things. Wherefore art thou?

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: DOE must go

2010-12-15T11:06:00Z

Fedzilla agency failed its mission
By Ted Nugent

One has to wonder what end zone the Obama administration is running toward by shutting down oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico for the next seven years.

The oil spill in the Gulf was bad enough, but making decisions that only serve to strangle America and make us even more dependent on foreign oil is much worse. Under the rookie misdirection of President Obama, if Fedzilla were in charge of eye exams, the first thing they would do is stick us in the eye with a sharp stick.

One of the contributing factors for the oil spill was that Fedzilla mandated that oil companies drill in deep water where there is arguably more risk instead of the more pragmatic drilling in shallow water, thereby contributing to the cost of drilling and increasing the risk. Typical of Fedzilla. Make things more risky and more costly and then tell us its for our own good.

Admit it or not, America runs on oil - not green energy such as wind, solar or hydro. The sticky, oily fact is that America will be dependent on oil for many decades to come. Knowing that, it only makes sense that we drill where we can to make us energy independent. Our energy solution is not blowing in the wind. But somebody is.

This leads me to the Department of Energy (DOE), a Fedzilla agency that gets nothing done. The DOE is a self-licking ice cream cone that should be made extinct. Put that in your debt commission pipe and puff on it.

President Jimmy Carter established the DOE almost 40 years ago with the goal (I hope) of making America energy independent. The results? We are more dependent on foreign oil today than when the DOE was established. That comes as no surprise to me.

Steven Chu is the secretary of energy. He's an academic green-energy guy with no private-sector energy experience except possibly paying his energy bill. It would come as no shock to me if Secretary of Green Energy Chu views the oil companies as villains, despises nuclear energy and believes burning coal causes global warming and is akin to genocide.

The average American wouldn't know Mr. Chu if he knocked on their door and introduced himself as the secretary of green energy, even though the DOE has an annual budget of 23 billion tax dollars and employs 100,000 people. The average American has no clue what the DOE has been doing for decades and how many hundreds of billions of our tax dollars have been spent by the DOE. I bet the DOE is equally clueless.

I can't think of a singular real achievement of the DOE. Not one. Same goes for the Department of Education, Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor.

What I do know about energy is that we haven't built a nuclear reactor or an oil refinery since the DOE was established. Why? Because of massive Fedzilla red-tape regulations that serve to strangle real energy innovation and creation. Meanwhile, Europe has largely gone nuclear and many other countries are building nuclear power plants to supply their nations with affordable, clean and safe nuclear power. Not America. Our energy solution is to tilt at windmills. Amazing.

Here's an idea for you new GOP congressmen: Every Fedzilla department and agency should be required to inform the American public weekly about what they have done to advance or destroy America. Nothing complicated, just top-level facts such as the top three initiatives, their costs, what we should expect from these initiatives and when they will be complete. Make this your No. 1 agenda item.

For example, the DOE could have told us that oil drilling in the Gulf has been banned for the next seven years, how many new windmills were built, how many Americans rode their bicycles to work, how many tankers full of foreign oil we imported this week and how much that imported oil cost America.

We toss stacks and stacks of tax dollars at Fedzilla and by and large have no idea how our hard-earned money is spent and, more importantly, what we are getting for it - or not getting for it. The bureaucracy of Fedzilla is mind-numbing. From where I sit, it appears that Fedzilla is working against America, not for us. There is no accountability, no real transparency. Zippo.

Let's make the DOE extinct. It's running on empty.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: The time for kitty killing has come

2010-12-15T11:05:00Z

Feral cats threaten more than just mice
By Ted Nugent

New research from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln has arrived at the exact same conclusion that conservationists have known for decades: The way to control the feral cat population is to kill the cats.

Not surprisingly, the American Bird Conservancy and the Audubon Society agree with the university's research.

Let us hope the University of Nebraska didn't spend more than 10 bucks on this research. All its researchers would have had to do would have been to call any true conservation organization or me, and we could have choked the research department with all the data, facts and supporting information it would have needed to arrive at the inescapable, pragmatic, common-sense, scientifically based conclusion to kill feral cats.

There are no true conservationists who do not agree with whacking or blasting destructive, dangerous feral felines. There are fuzzy-headed fantasizers who claim to be conservationists but in reality are nothing more than denial-ridden cat lovers. They live comfortably in denial, where fantasy supplants common sense and facts.

The reality of the situation is that the feral cat population has exploded across the United States (except on my property) and in other countries as well, in large part because of irresponsible cat owners who dump their unwanted pets out in the country when Precious wears out his welcome in short order by killing every songbird and assorted wildlife by the millions. Estimates of the number of feral cats in the United States are well over 100 million. Strange, but not one of these destructive fur balls lives on my ranch.

The destruction feral cats have wrought on songbirds, other mammals and critters is catastrophic, no pun intended. Feral cats prey not only on songbirds but also on game birds, rabbits, squirrels, gophers, mice, shrews, voles and other critters that are food sources for wild predators such as foxes, birds of prey, coyotes and bobcats.

And what is the response from denial-land denizens? Trap, spay and neuter the feral cats (at who knows what expense) and then release them into the wild, where they can continue to wreak havoc on wildlife. These people truly must be suffering from a terminal case of cat-scratch fever.

America should adopt the approach of the people of Ascension Island. For six years, they battled the feral cat population, which, along with rats, had caused two species of birds to become extinct and another to be listed as globally threatened. Their battle paid off. On Nov. 26, 2006, they declared their island free of feral cats. Amazingly, they did this without my direct support and superior stealth.

What we have here is some empty-headed people who don't want to do what is necessary, but rather turn a blind eye to the problem or reach for the wrong solution because it makes them "feel good." Doing good makes me feel good, which is why I and hundreds of thousands of conservationists kill feral cats on sight or advocate killing them.

The answer is so simple it is stupid: Kill the feral cats on sight. Because of their breeding, we need to wipe out as many of these vermin as possible. No closed season on feral cats is the solution. Always has been, always will be on the Nugent farm, where I have instructed my family, friends, hunting buddies and casual passers-by to blast every feral cat they see.

We don't have a feral cat problem - feral cats have a Nugent problem.

Do songbirds a favor: Kill feral cats.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Consulting the Oracle of Omaha

2010-12-06T17:03:00Z

Warren Buffett might have some useful advice for Fedzilla
By Ted Nugent

The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, recently wrote an Op-Ed column in the New York Times in which he thanked and praised Uncle Sam for stepping in and preventing the economy from going over a cliff.

While I'm not privy to, nor do I fully understand just how dangerous the situation was that forced Uncle Sam (meaning you, the taxpayer) to step in and borrow, bail out and spend trillions to prop up the economy, what I do believe is that the root cause of our economic collapse was the Fedzillacrats in Washington who continually turn a blind eye to the financial black holes known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - both of which are managed by Fedzillacrats. Hey Peter, you might want to meet Paul.

Not only did Fedzilla turn a fatuous blind eye to the financial affairs of Fannie and Freddie, but it pressured banks to make home loans to people with no credit or poor credit or who couldn't possibly afford the home.

To that extent, for Mr. Buffett to thank Fedzilla for saving itself from its own bad policies and horrible mismanagement of Fannie and Freddie is analogous to a 1870s banker writing an Op-Ed column thanking the James Gang for not robbing his bank.

We shouldn't thank Fedzilla for keeping our economy from slipping into the abyss, but rather blame Fedzilla for putting us in this perilous position in the first place. Much more important than that, however, is demanding that the very dunderheaded policies, procedures and practices that pushed our economy to the brink of disaster are not continued or repeated. Insanity anyone?

They haven't been fundamentally changed. Fannie and Freddie remain financial sinkholes.

No doubt that the Oracle of Omaha is an investment guru, but instead of penning an Op-Ed thanking Fedzilla for saving itself from itself, it would have been much more enlightening if he had shared his thoughts on how Americans should and could dig ourselves out of our ever-deepening financial hole.

Economic reports indicate that the debt and deficit spending will increase trillions of dollars more for a number of years. Does the Oracle of Omaha think we tax, borrow and spend our way until happy days are here again?

Some economists think America is not far behind the financial train wreck known as Greece. I heard one economist say we have two years, and then all bets are off. Others, such as Sen. Judd Gregg, New Hampshire Republican, have made some harsh statements about our short-term economic future. What say you, Mr. Buffett?

Fedzilla is gobbling up a greater and greater percentage of our gross domestic product. One has to wonder if the tremendous growth of the federal government concerns Mr. Buffett.

For every three dollars Uncle Sam spends, one of those dollars is borrowed. Does Mr. Buffett think this is smart fiscal policy?

The highlights of the report from President Obama's debt commission were released recently. It would be fascinating to know what this other Parrot Head (the original being Jimmy Buffett) thinks about the commission's recommendations or what he would do to reduce our mounting debt or even if the Oracle of Omaha believes in debt and deficit spending.

Entitlement spending is the elephant in the room that no politician wants to address. One has to wonder what Mr. Buffett would do to reform Social Security and Medicare.

It's not just Fedzilla that is upside-down financially. California is broke, and Illinois is right behind California. Numerous cities, such as Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, have piled up dizzying amounts of debt. Even Mr. Buffett's fine city of Omaha has its financial problems, which have resulted in an effort to recall Omaha's mayor. Is it a fait accompli that massive property-tax increases and other tax hikes are right around the corner?

I'm not being flippant. I would truly like to hear how Mr. Buffett thinks we can solve our numerous financial woes - or even if we can solve them.

Mr. Buffett has forgotten more about the economy than I'll ever know. What I do know, however, from what I have read and basic economic common sense, is that our economic future is not rosy. Maybe I'm wrong.

Mr. Buffett meets periodically with Bono of the band U2 to discuss the various problems that plague Africa. Next time I come through Omaha, I'll buy Mr. Buffett a cup of coffee if he's willing to discuss America's economic problems with the Motor City Soul Man. I'll even show Mr. Buffet a couple of greasy Motown ukulele riffs for the other Parrot Head.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

Ethics Schmethics

2010-12-02T12:28:00Z

Never has any word been more bastardized than the hyper politically correct fear mongering of "ethics" in our hunting lifestyle. You can't watch a hunting show, read a hunting publication or hunting article, or listen to a so called hunting industry leader without hearing ethics this and ethics that repeated ad nauseum as if we were the most unethical element of society and had some serious explaining to do.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Nobody is questioning our ethics except the lunatic fringe within our ranks who are afraid of their own shadow or all out loonies who think venison is unethical. Ignore them.

When was the last time you heard ethics mentioned in NASCAR? NFL? Hollywood? NHL? MLB? Golf? Banking? Boating? Grocery industry? Auto industry? None of them ever mention it because there is no need to mention it. They are not afraid of their own shadows and have leadership and sophisticated representatives who know that they are ethical, are looked upon as ethical, and have absolutely no reason to ever bother defending their ethics.

I for one have never killed a game animal out of season, in violation of any laws nor committed an unethical or disrespectful act while hunting in my life. I conduct myself with a conscientious demand to do the right thing, and have found throughout life, that often, the right and ethical thing is in total contrast with the letter of the law.

Our world is so out of control with imbecilic, illogical, nonsensical rules, regulations and laws as to be laughable. America has more laws, regulations, rules and guidelines for every imaginable function and process than anywhere else in the world. I believe that most of these bureaucrat driven laws unto themselves, like the bureaucrats who forced them upon us, are in fact unethical.

My governor shoots coyotes. What does yours do? I am certain it is illegal to discharge a firearm in the Austin, Texas city limits, but when a dangerous vermin confronts a jogger and his dog, the right thing to do is shoot the coyote dead. I'd love to hear the braindead, feeble argument against that. And then do a drug test on the arguer. Funny stupid.

I have broke numerous laws in my life, and I am damn proud I did so, and under thoughtful, demanding conditions, I will do so again, I assure you.

For example, witnessing a tragic shooting accident many years ago, I broke the speed limit laws while transporting the injured individual to the nearest hospital at a high rate of speed, substantially beyond the posted speed limit. Was that unethical? Of course not. Life and death emergencies supersede arbitrary laws. Unless of course you are a clueless, irresponsible sheep and don't know the difference. My responsible, ethical decision saved the man's life. I did good.

I have on more than one occasion discovered wounded deer smashed by vehicles alongside hiways and roadways across America. In many of these instances, the thrashing, tortured animal was in the process of flopping its way back onto the traffic congested right of way while the deliriously inept civilians stood around gawking and whimpering, clueless as to what to do.

In each instance, I assessed the situation, created a safe environment, whipped out my 10mm and killed the deer, much to the shock and disbelief of the onlookers. By all intelligent considerations, I did the right thing. The law abiding folks were complicit in the development of a potentially unsafe, life threatening scenario. There are sheep, wolves and sheepdogs. I am a sheepdog.

Over my 62 years of maximizing my time beyond the pavement where the critters roam, I have seen it all. Often I have come upon fawns and other critters that were seriously injured or sick, and obviously suffering and helpless. Even though it was not open season on the animal, and I did not have an authorized tag for these suffering creatures, I nonetheless dispatched them in a responsible, humane way to end their unnecessary suffering. Against the law, but indisputably ethical. I would love to hear Plan B as perceived by some PC goon. To walk away and allow the animal to suffer would surely be unethical and heartless.

I will tell you what's unethical; Sunday hunting bans in 11 states are unethical.

Wasting gobs of tax dollars every year in numerous states by killing bears all year with bait and hounds by government hunters while forbidding we the people to hunt bears in the spring or with bait and hounds is not only unethical and antiuAmerican, its insane.

The bizarre practice of wasting more tax dollars hiring so called "sharpshooters" to slaughter deer and elk and other game in areas where we the people own the animals and ground they are found on but forbidden to hunt is berserk unethical.

A 77 year old law limiting migratory bird guns to three shells is unethical, illogical and nonsensical as it serves the single purpose of harassing hunters. There are baglimits based on scientific sustain yield harvest realities, not ammo consumption.

In states like MI and IA where they have many times more doves than they do pheasants, it is legal to hunt pheasants but not legal to hunt the more abundant and prolific doves. That is unethical and stupid.

To sit back and allow the overpopulation of wolves to destroy big game populations across the west and still lie that they are endangered is unethical, irresponsible and a crime against nature. The soulless bureaucrats that support such engineered waste are corrupt and unethical, and must be replaced ASAP.

To prosecute a rancher for killing a livestock destroying grizzly bear in self defense is unethical.

The enforcement of such laws is unethical and those wildlife biologists who know better but do nothing to right these wrongs are unethical.

They are sheep. Maybe even wolves.

As great an organization as they are, the Texas Parks and Wildlife's hypocritical law that says deer within a private high fenced property still belong to the state, even though the land owners have receipts for purchase of said deer, and yet still are forbidden to release them from the enclosure is all unethical and impossible to explain in logical terms. By all logic and sanity, you cannot have it both ways. Considering basic private property rights and trespass laws, there is no way the state should have any say whatsoever in managing animals on enclosed private property once the landowner has purchased them. And if the deer belong to the state, then surely a landowner can set them free back onto state ground and not control them in an enclosure. Ya think. Pick one.

Is it unethical to have your bow out of its case in MI, WI, PA, OH, IN, NY, MN, and other states? A bowcase is an ethical consideration to anyone? Is it unethical to lean your rifle against the tire of your truck? Of course not, but soulless bureaucrats and robotic game cops and thought challenged fellow hunters will try to tell you otherwise. These absurd laws are seriously hurting hunting, halting recruitment and causing attrition in our essential conservation lifestyle. Inexcusable. That's unethical.

I could go on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. These bad laws and the bureaucrats that make them have got to go ASAP.

We must all do our very best to obey all laws and regulations to the best of our abilities. But the real battlecry in the corrupt, power abusing Obama America today should be upgrade, logic, reason, common sense and accountability. God forbid huh.

An honest review of gamelaws and regulations is long overdue, and until we eliminate all such absurdity from our law books, there is no way we can possibly accomplish the goal of retention and recruitment into our beloved hunting lifestyle. The land mine field of confusing, arbitrary, unreasonable and counterproductive laws that have nothing to do with wildlife management or safety must be gutted and cleaned out, and the outdoors community, if honestly committed to recruitment and conservation, should be leading the charge and demanding it.

We all know that lying is a sin. But when the Nazis ask if there are any Jewish children hiding in our basement, I pray we would all know exactly what the ethical response should be, even from bureaucrats.

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NUGENT: Autumn colors look red, white and blue

2010-11-29T16:29:00Z

Blessings of the season are preserved by honorable warriors
By Ted Nugent

There is a very happy, exhausted black Labrador retriever at my feet. A romantic fire flickers in the stove in our little log cabin on a breathtaking Michigan swamp-forest ridge. With squadrons of flitting songbirds battling for position at the feeders, the rising sun through the leafless treetops was so fiery and stunning outside my east window just now that I just had to grab my video camera to capture such beauty, then snatch my laptop and write about it. The spirit is indeed wild.

I squint, furrow my brow and shake my head in dismay when I glance up to see the phenomenal, unreal image of my tattered American flag reflected in the western window, flapping and aglow within the flame-throwing sunrise of oranges, reds and pinks against the gunmetal grays and deep blues of an artful cloudy sky. At once, a formation of winging, honking geese soars across sky, flag and trees. I have never seen such a stirring conglomerate of meaningful imagery from a couch in my life. There are special effects and there are veryspecial effects. And I am especially affected.

When I first noticed this mesmerizing reflection of Old Glory in such a surreal setting, Fox News was interviewing Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta and his wife, Jennifer, about his receiving the Medal of Honor. This courageous U.S. warrior charged into a flurry of enemy gunfire to join his blood brother in the danger zone. Discovering his comrade had been wounded and was being dragged away by the evil jihadists, he charged harder, shot up the bad guys and retrieved his fellow soldier, bringing the mortally wounded hero back to his team, fulfilling his honorable warrior oath.

I sit here deeply moved by the heroism from such a warrior and by how he stated as a matter of fact that he is an average American military man. I have met and trained with many of them, and I believe Sgt. Giunta is correct. The average U.S. warrior is indeed courageous beyond compare and special beyond description. These warriors clearly are the best of the best.

You may not know it just yet, but this is a hunting story. This is the celebration of our American dream of historically unique freedom and liberty, how costly it is, and how best to use these precious gifts. I pursue life. I pursue my happiness. I am an American. I cannot help myself.

This is the first morning in 74 days that I did not go hunting. I didn't sleep in, but got up and at 'em according to my predator body clock and decided to stay in and catch up with some writings, interviews and e-mails and simply to relax.

And quite honestly, to rest my weary, nonstop hunting bones. That Gonzo the Wonder Lab is plum tuckered out, sprawled across the zebra rug by the fire, is a good indication of just how hard we have been at it for the past 2 1/2 months.

Following a brutally exhilarating and most gratifying tour of 63 ferocious rock 'n' roll concerts in 71 days, you would think a little rest was in order. Maybe?

I was raised to be the absolute best that I can be, to put my heart and soul into everything I do, to waste no time and to live life to the fullest every day. Nothing less is acceptable or tolerated. At the tender age of 62 years young, my energy level and passion for life grow with each passing year.

I spoke with U.S. Marine Sgt. John Blank yesterday at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, where this American military hero is recovering from the loss of both of his legs and near-loss of his left arm. He is my hunting buddy, but he also is my hero. That John and his family would go to the effort to get in touch with the old Detroit guitar player at such a traumatic time in their lives is inspiration enough for me never to give up and to cherish and celebrate each and every day with which God blesses me.

John, like all the amazing warriors of the U.S. military, knew darn well what he was volunteering for when he signed up to fight the war on terror. In spite of the threat of death and destruction, he and the others signed up anyway because it is who they are.

People have noticed that I am an extremist, a radical. Good call. I am extremely alive and celebrate this sacred, radical experiment in self-government that we call the American dream with every fiber of my being every day in every way. I believe that anything less is a waste of breath and disrespectful toward those who sacrificed so dearly to provide it.

So, as the sun rises and changes colors now, the songbirds increase their feeding, Gonzo snores and whimpers happily with dreams of incoming mallards, the deer on my game pole shine a little more and my incredible American dream of rock 'n' roll and hunting builds yet more spirit and attitude.

I do it, for warriors make it so.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: No debt commission omissions

2010-11-22T17:39:00Z

Overspending bureaucracies must feel the budget knife
By Ted Nugent

The full report from President Obama's debt commission has yet to be released, but some of the more significant recommendations of the commission are already being condemned by certain fellow bureaucrats and lobbyists who own some of Fedzilla's sacred cows.

It's time we slaughtered the Fedzilla sacred cows.

Before complaining that the commission's recommendations have not gone far enough or have gone too far, let's at least all agree that we have to start some place to address the nation's escalating debt and deficit spending. And that may be all we can agree on.

The commission has not gone far enough in the recommendations I have read. Far more belt-tightening is in order. We need to make the belt-tightening painful if we are going to climb out of this deep financial hole and save America.

The pandemic of fraud and mismanagement of entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare consume the vast majority of Fedzilla's budget. Playing around on the margins of these massive programs by raising the retirement age may help some, but what we need is to get elbow-deep in these programs and gut them.

First, some obviously bad news: Someday, we are all going to assume room temperature. Now even more bad news: Medicare pays and pays and pays to keep people alive as long as possible. I'm a big supporter of life, but not on the taxpayer's dime.

Roughly 50 percent of all Medicare costs are spent in a person's last six months of life. When a person is terminally ill or without hope of getting better, forcing taxpayers to keep them alive isn't fair. If the terminally ill individual or his family wants to keep him alive for as long as possible, then they should pay for it, not taxpayers. Adopting this proposal could save trillions of taxpayer dollars.

Last time I checked, churches have a few billion dollars worth of gold, silver, jewelry, art, real estate and other assets. Maybe they could use some of it for such compassionate causes. Maybe not.

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is right by calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme. We should put Social Security on a path to extinction. How about this: Anyone over 45 will receive Social Security. Anyone under 45 will not receive it, but they will be forced to continue paying into Social Security to pay for those over 45. What the under-45 crowd would receive would be tax-free individual retirement accounts and 401(k) retirement funds and they would be permitted to save as much for their retirement as they desire. This would phase out Social Security, which happens to be anti-social and insecure.

Fedzilla must be put on a strict diet. With the exception of the Defense Department, all federal departments, agencies and organizations should receive 6 1/2 percent less in their budgets for the next four years, thereby shrinking the size of Fedzilla by around a quarter soon. No bureaucratic squawking permitted.

Repeal Obamacare. We can't afford it, and nowhere in my dog-eared copy of the U.S. Constitution have I read that Fedzilla has the responsibility to provide for our health care. We can and should reform health care without having the world's largest and most inefficient bureaucracy - our federal government - take over one-sixth of the economy and then destroy it like it does to everything they get their miserable mitts on.

All earmarks should be made permanently illegal starting at noon today. Not tomorrow, today.

Along with massive spending cuts, tax cuts are essential to grow the economy. The more tax cuts, the better. And make them permanent, as in forever, except in times of war. I've never met a tax cut I didn't support.

We need to move to a fair tax that includes killing the death tax, which is the most immoral, ugly and unfair thing in all of Fedzilla. Everyone deserves to have flesh in the taxpaying game. To continue to expect that the top 10 percent of wage earners pay 75 percent of federal taxes is robbery and is ultimately doomed to fail.

Our current tax code should be torpedoed and sunk tomorrow and replaced with a much simpler fair tax or a flat tax, both of which are light years better than our current behemoth tax code that no one understands, including the Internal Revenue Service. The very first thing we need to do to reduce our debt is to overhaul our tax code to a fair or flat tax.

Balance the budget. And then balance it and check it again and again until ever taxpayer penny is accounted for.

America is in debt because Fedzilla has grown too large, is virtually unaccountable, grossly inefficient and maniacally borrows and blows too much money that we, the taxpayers, are on the hook to repay. Currently, the share of Fedzilla debt is $43,000 for every man, woman and child in America. And it continues to grow.

If we are going to climb out of this deep financial hole, a good place to start would be President Clinton's statement that "the era of big government is over." This time, however, we better mean it. The fate of America is at stake.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: The great Tea Party massacre

2010-11-05T20:49:00Z

GOP must remain vigilant in Fedzilla-friendly Washington
By Ted Nugent

To borrow a 1984 phrase from the Gipper, it's morning in America.

With the GOP sweeping the Fedzillacrats from the political battlefield last night, there is real hope once again for the shining city on a hill.

The message from sea to shining sea is wonderfully clear: Americans are fed up and angry with the big-government, central-planning, out-of-touch, fiscally irresponsible Fedzillacrats from both parties.

The Washington swamp was drained last night. There was a thorough housecleaning. Nancy Pelosi will no longer be speaker of the House. Many new faces with new ideas are thundering into the city. Good. That's healthy for our republic.

A historic, tectonic shift in American politics happened last night that caused a massive GOP landslide. The GOP picked up at least 61 seats in the House and at least six seats in the Senate. The Obama Socialism Express was derailed.

The political minutemen and -women known as the Tea Party and those other re-engaged, disgusted and angry Americans are responsible for this political earthquake. Once marginalized and made fun of by media pundits and discounted by out-of-touch politicians, the grass-roots Tea Party was an unstoppable political juggernaut in 2010.

Spearheaded by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, radio talk-show host Glenn Beck and others, ordinary Americans flocked to the Tea Party armed with a healthy disgust and deep suspicion of all things Washington-status-quo. The election of 2010 will go down in history as the Great Tea Party Massacre. The Founding Fathers would smile with pride at Sarah, Glenn and many other patriots.

Not only was a message sent to the president and the Fedzillacrats, but the Tea Party fired a broadside "less government, lower taxes" salvo at the GOP, too.

That message is this: Americans want much less spending and borrowing, more fiscal responsibility, lower taxes, fewer regulatory controls and a lot less ineffective and unaccountable Fedzilla. Most important, Americans want their message acted upon.

Working-hard Americans understand that we cannot be pulled from the financial quicksand we find ourselves in by giving Fedzillacrats more power and more of our paychecks. Instead of pulling us out of the quicksand, Washington Fedzillacrats will pour concrete on our heads and claim they are helping us. The way out of this deep hole is to get Washington out of the way.

This GOP landslide victory will not instantly make things better, but it's the first step in the right direction. Reversing the damage done to America by both Republicans and Democrats will not be easy, cheap or fast.

We have some very difficult decisions to make, and those decisions require our politicians, especially in the GOP, to have a bold and honest conversation with the American people about our condition and how to claw ourselves out of this deep and dark hole.

America could not afford to continue down the socialism path advocated by the president and his fellow Fedzillacrats in Congress. Regardless of the relentless political spin, the American people know in their guts that being in debt for trillions and trillions of dollars does not bode well for the future of America. They know that more borrowing and spending will not create long-lasting, good jobs.

The GOP must not make the same mistake that President Obama made in 2008, thinking he had received a mandate. Big mistake. What the GOP must do is lead from the front by embracing much less government and lowering taxes - that will put Americans back to work again. It worked for President Kennedy and President Reagan, and it can work now.

There is no time to hold grudges or enmity toward the Democrats. There is too much to be done. It may be morning in America, but the GOP must not burn any daylight singing requiems for the Democrats. Get cracking, GOP. It's now or never.

This election was historic, one for the ages. But that's not what's important. What matters is what the GOP does with this new power, and that remains to be seen. America will be watching closely.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: The free-market ballot

2010-11-05T15:52:00Z

Send the ivy-headed academics back to their ivory tower
By Ted Nugent

With unemployment hovering around 10 percent, job No. 1 should be putting America back to work.

As I have written before and as is now painfully obvious, President Obama has no hands-on experience as to how the private sector operates. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is equally clueless. Both could stand in a free-market sandstorm and not bat an eye. As far as I can tell, neither the president nor the vice president has ever owned or run a business.

Now you might think that because neither the president nor the vice president has real-world experience in the private sector, the president would appoint someone with practical experience who does understand what makes the economy tick and knows what will put America back to work. Someone like, say, the secretary of labor. Just a hunch.

Well, if you think Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis has the business experience, knowledge and expertise that neither the president nor vice president does, you are laboring under a false assumption. She is equally clueless - possibly more - than Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden, who has never met a foot he couldn't stick in his mouth.

You may have noticed that in all of the speeches on the economy that both the president and vice president have given, you haven't heard a peep from Ms. Solis. That's because she has nothing to say. Reason: she has zero - as in none whatsoever - experience in the private sector, according to her biography on the Department of Labor website.

Because Ms. Solis has no experience in creating a single job or running a business, you might like to think that maybe the deputy secretary of labor has a real-world clue so he could properly advise his bevy of bosses.

You would be wrong again. According to Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris' biography on the secretary of labor's website, it appears he, too, is clueless about the private sector. There is no mention of his business experience in running a company, generating profits, complying with the stacks of federal and state laws and requirements or ever having hired any employees.

None of this inspires any confidence in growing the economy and putting America back to work.

Lawyers, ivy-headed academics and professional Fedzillacrats run the Obama administration - business sense be damned.

Fedzillacrats believe rich people need to pay more of their fair share and need to spread their wealth around. What these numbnuts can't get through their shallow understanding of basic economics is that when you punish a producer, he produces less, which means less tax revenue for the government, less employment, less productivity and less quality of life. Bizarre.

Growing the economy requires slashing taxes even in times of high deficits and debt. This has worked any number of times in our nation's history, and it would work today if the Obama administration types truly cared about growing our economy and putting America back to work. But they don't care.

Growing the economy is not their goal. Their goal is to expand government, put more people under the enslaving weight of Fedzilla, punish the producers and take over even more of the economy of "we the people." This is a socialized recipe to kill off the private sector. Those who endorse this evil plan are dangerous and clearly anti-American. God help us all.

Growing a successful business and playing more than 6,000 brutal rockouts is tough business. Never trust a Fedzillacrat to do what an enterprising, industrious and terminally motivated person who is addicted to the free market can do. I get more accomplished before breakfast than any Fedzillacrat will get done all year. In fact, this column is being hammered out while I am sitting in a deer blind in the pre-dawn darkness waiting to ambush my dinner.

You have a choice today, America. You can vote to strangle yourself by voting for Fedzillacrats or free yourself and vote for the opposition, who still believe in the free market and American exceptionalism. It is a shame it has come to this. But it has.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Annual family hunt camp

2010-11-02T10:30:00Z

The purest of American traditions
By Ted Nugent

When all is said and done, quality of life is all about family. Dreams come and go, projects and business maneuvers when performed to the best of our ability become all-consuming, but even our most passionate endeavors are celebrated for how they provide for maximum family time. Or at least, they should be.

I should talk, for my maniac 50-year rock 'n' roll adventure has forced me to be on the road away from home and family more than most careers and professions, but in the final analysis, a nonstop six-month tour enables me to be home nonstop for the remaining six months, not just on weekends or after work for dinner as the majority of 9-to-5 jobs demand. There is a price to pay, but the rewards are well balanced. It is all about priorities.

Growing up in the beautiful state of Michigan blessed me with all the great elements of the post-World War II American dream. My memory bank glows with visions of family outings, time at the lake, fishing, hunting, shooting, picnics, ballgames, wonderful days at home doing things together in the yard, and a plethora of stirring emotions about good times in a great country.

But one memory dwarfs all others, as my primal instinct to connect with Mother Nature in the most pure, natural and profound way propelled me into the healing embrace of the wild, where my reasoning predator spirit was most alive.

Winter, spring and summer provided varying degrees of fun and adventure for the Nugent family, but as summertime morphed into the soul-stimulating fall solstice, a powerful force came over me from my earliest years of life, and I virtually could not get enough of compelling sacred time in the woods, swamps and wildlife habitat of my youth. I read Jack London's "Call of the Wild," but my own physics of spirituality was more impacting than any words could convey. I was hooked by my fifth birthday, and there has been no looking back.

My dad was a casual hunter, but like many hunters in the 1940s and '50s, he was touched by the hand of the great Fred Bear, who had influenced many American sporters to go into the fascinating world of ultradisciplined hunting with the bow and arrow. More and more sporters were intrigued by the return to this primitive and very demanding style of taking venison, and a fire was ignited deep in our souls to learn more about wildlife and how to better fit in with its awe-inspiring world.

As is the case in all 50 states and every Canadian province, opening day of deer season is a moment in time that calls our spirit to return to nature as conscientious participants, driven to show reverence for God's creation and amazing renewable wildlife resources by keeping them in the asset column of life through honest utility. Everybody knows, though some strangled by the denial of political correctness pretend otherwise, that hunting as the pure function of the annual harvest is scientifically and intellectually essential for a healthy environment. Hunters, fishers and trappers have always been the original and best environmentalists by virtue of our conservation resource stewardship. Venison is pure, and the hunt is pure. We who participate will never forget why Thanksgiving takes place in the fall. It is one of life's last, perfect, pure endeavors and responsibilities. We celebrate it with fire in our hearts.

Thirty million American families excitedly begin to turn the pages of the calendar many months before opening day so as to coordinate everyone's schedule for a rendezvous at deer camp. In Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New York, Minnesota and most Midwestern states, there is no rush-hour traffic to compare to the caravans heading into the North Country days before the opener. Entire geographical regions shut down from normal practices as whole families leave school and work to flood their traditional sacred hunting grounds for the big day. Truckloads of sporting gear and weaponry to outfit the world's armies are organized for this magical day of days, and the giddiness in the air is palpable.

Regional economies come to life and pivot on the annual migration, and most states celebrate an economic impact in the $2-billion-plus range each hunting season. America's No. 1 hunting state, my home state of Texas, is proud that hunting and fishing in the Lone Star state generate more than $6 billion in revenues every year. Hunting ranks in the top 1 percent of the nation's most powerful economic assets. Ban that, animal rights advocates. I don't think so.

My dad and uncles are gone now, and old Stan and Whitey are up there in the Big Hunt, too, with Fred Bear and all the blood brothers of yore. As many of my sons and daughters, brothers, sister and extended families as possible hustle to convene on our own slice of sacred grounds, where the spirit of the swamp is too intense to ignore.

We feel the presence of our dad and Uncle John, and a tangible bond is fortified again with laughter, grilling, storytelling, wood-gathering, target practice and the occasional heave-ho of beast-dragging. Our buck pole always produces sacred protein, and the stress of the modern world is absent every day at camp.

This timeless tradition is an enormous part of our lives and brings us much positive energy and happiness. Not everybody gets a deer, but everybody gets it.

And it is the essence of life to us all. Rugged individualism and genuine independence is alive and well in America at deer camps everywhere. Self-sufficiency is not a lost art, and the primal scream is alive and well.

Celebrate perfection, America. The deer need us and we need the deer.

You can't do this in France.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Obama's mojo is missing

2010-10-12T16:01:00Z

Reality sets in as economy stagnates further
By Ted Nugent

President Obama is desperately trying to recapture his political mojo. Recognizing that support for him and the Democrats is crumbling, the president has held rallies in Madison, Wis., and Philadelphia.

The air of excitement fueled by the golden-tongued orator is gone. Reality has set in among many of those who were swept up with Mr. Obama's "hope and change" smoke and mirrors.

The reality many of his early supporters are realizing is that there never really was anything there with the message or the messenger. Both are hot air and hollow bromides. Reality can be ugly and brutal. This is not the transparency Mr. Obama was talking about, but we'll take it.

Whatever political capital he had on Inauguration Day has evaporated. The tank is running on empty. Democratic candidates are running away from him and the programs he has championed. Political moderates are wishing they could take back their vote. The GOP smells blood in the water and is licking its political chops.

The only really strong base the president continues to enjoy is black Americans, who are suffering the worst economically and jobwise because they looked to Mr. Obama and others for their hope instead of themselves. Unemployment among black Americans is around 15 percent, while the overall unemployment rate is about 10 percent. Fifty percent of black teenagers are jobless. That's how a culture of safety nets operates. Know it.

Our anemic economy is a ball and chain on the Obama regime's deceptive efforts to reshape America into a Third World country by continuing to spread the wealth around and drag everyone down economically. The Obama regime's support for all things Fedzilla has caused the private sector to pull in its horns and wait out the Obama, Reid and Pelosi gang. The private sector is very distrustful of the president, and for very good reason.

But don't count out Mr. Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi just yet. They are cagey, cunning, crafty professional politicians who have finely tuned their Saul Alinsky bait-and-switch maneuvers and will do or say anything to save their political hides. It is all they live for.

Smart Americans won't be surprised if the president makes an announcement before the election that he is going to extend the George W. Bush tax cuts for all Americans, including those making more than $250,000. Though this will upset his ultra-liberal base, he will do it to try to prove to moderates that he is pro-business. Don't believe him. It will be more political smoke and mirrors, more doublespeak, more balderdash and more Illinois political deception for fools.

The president is not pro-business. Regardless of what he says, he doesn't know or truly believe the private sector is the engine that drives our economy and creates jobs. He has never owned a business or managed one and neither has anyone in his Cabinet or his closest staff. Mr. Obama wouldn't recognize Mr. Private Sector if he knocked on the president's door and introduced himself.

All you need to remember is Mr. Obama's takeover of America's health care from the private sector. He believes Fedzilla can manage and pay for America's health care more efficiently and more cost effectively than the private sector. No one with an ounce of sense believes it.

The list goes on and on of the president's support of all things Fedzilla. He has never seen a government program he did not support, and he believes Fedzilla can always do better than the private sector. He believes in force-feeding Fedzilla, the result of which is abusively taxing and gluttonously spending America deeper into the poorhouse. This is Fedzilla reality, and America is beginning to see it with all its anti-business yellow pus and warts.

This president is by far the most liberal, most inexperienced person ever to occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. He can try to talk his way out of this reality, but it is the bold and barren truth to anyone paying a lick of attention. And this truth is a primary cause of our sluggish economy and unemployment.

I'm not counting the president out. He knows he has to do something, say something - anything - to recapture his political mojo and keep the pending Democratic losses in Congress to a minimum.

What I'm counting on is Americans focusing on the ugly reality of our economic situation. If they do that, no amount of mojo can save Mr. Obama and the Fedzillacrats who have done so much to wreak havoc on America.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Clean house, America

2010-10-06T09:15:00Z

We the people must do what Fedzilla's zookeepers won't
By Ted Nugent

The primary and ridiculously obvious reason why America is trillions of dollars in debt, why just a small minority of Americans pay the vast amount of federal taxes while 50 percent pay no federal taxes, why the size of Fedzilla has dwarfed anything our Founding Fathers ever could have imagined, why our borders are insecure, why Americans do not trust politicians and why the U.S. economy is anemic is because of professional, corrupt Fedzillacrats who have rigged the system in their favor while fleecing the rest of America.

We have been suckered far too long into believing that only slick-talking lawyers and other professional doublespeakers are capable of being representatives and senators and running the country. Indeed, they have run the country - auguring it into a financial abyss.

The mood of the nation is sour. Angst is palpable, with runaway frustration and anger on Main Street USA and a sense that long-overdue change is coming. Many Americans have recognized that Fedzilla works against them, not for them. Welcome to the party.

Both the Democrats and the Republicans have been slow and resistant to accept that politics as usual isn't cutting it anymore with the bedrock producers of America. The status quo has always sucked, but it has reached a terminal vacuum.

The Democrats still don't get it. Pompous and arrogant Fedzillacrats such as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refuse to budge in their foundational belief that they know what is best for us. These socialists are the new slave masters and think feeding Fedzilla trillions more of our tax dollars is a wise and pragmatic policy. They are Fedzilla's zookeepers.

The Republicans were caught flat-footed by the Tea Party and had to be dragged kicking and screaming to this new political reality. My gut tells me some establishment, blue-blood Republicans still would rather be slugged in the kisser by a Mike Tyson uppercut than accept the Tea Party and its candidates. How dare we the people act like we the people?

So what is the response to the Tea Party by Fedzillacrats and their useful left-wingnuts in the media? Attempt to marginalize Tea Party candidates as being out-of-step with America, call them naive crackpots and demonize them for not being lifelong professional Fedzillacrats. Americans aren't buying the dung that the disappearing left-wing print media is shoveling.

Everyone knows there are high-brow media and political classes that look down their haughty noses with contempt at the "unrefined and unsophisticated" Tea Party candidates. While they snicker at Tea Party candidates, America burns because of the very "sophisticated, seasoned and well-intentioned" political punks these very media and political spinmiesters have endorsed for decades. Same old, same old death march.

That is what they want for America: more of the same. More unaccountable Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, more borrowing, more debt, more expensive programs, more buyouts, more abandonment of accountability.

Not the Americans I meet on a daily basis in airports, restaurants and gas stations. Those Americans are mad as hell and want true change in Washington. They know the only way they will achieve that is to send a new breed of politician to Capitol Hill. Let's send Mr. Smith to Washington with a crowbar of common sense and tell him to swing it often. It is a target-rich environment.

Bottom line is that Americans don't care if Tea Party candidates have ever been elected to anything. They don't care that Tea Party candidates have some skeletons in their closet. They don't care that Tea Party candidates don't have golden tongues. These things don't matter. Their rawness is exactly what makes them appealing.

Change is good for a republic. Too much power in the hands of too few for too long is a recipe for disaster. And a disaster is what we have on our hands. The only way out of this mess is new people with bold new ideas. Hell, they can't possibly screw up the country any worse than what the professional political punks and their establishment political parties have done for decades.

Over the next couple of years, we have some very difficult issues to discuss and even harder choices to make about the future of America. Let's start by agreeing that what we don't need is more of the same. When you are in a hole, quit digging.

Keep your political powder dry, America. Stay focused. Stay angry. Aim small, miss small. Clean house and clean it good this time.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: The Ted Pledge

2010-09-30T13:38:00Z

The GOP should swear allegiance to smaller government
By Ted Nugent

The Republican "Pledge to America" is a step in the right direction, but we should never settle for simply better. We always should demand much better. A return to excellence would be nice, wouldn't it?

Compared to the bloated, ineffective, wasteful, expensive, irresponsible and downright enslaving Fedzilla programs the Democrats recently have rammed down our throats and will continue to force on us if re-elected, the Republican pledge surely would move America in a new, positive direction.

What Republicans owe the American people is a hefty dose of plain-speaking, bold pragmatism that clearly articulates the GOP's vision for America. Even I, your humble Motown guitar slayer, remain steadfastly locked on the vision of our Founding Fathers and am prepared to ride to their rescue with the Ted Pledge. My crowbar of logic and truth does not gently weep.

GOP candidates and politicians should self-impose term limits and pledge to serve just two terms in the House or one term in the Senate and then leave Washington for good, never to return. Americans know that professional Fedzillacrats and lobbyists from both sides of the political aisle are the root cause of America's problems; they are not the solution.

Republicans should then call a news conference and burn the federal tax code on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol and then march right back into the Capitol and pass a Fair Tax. Until then, no taxes should be withheld from our paychecks. Americans should have to pay their taxes once a year so that they can see exactly how much of their income is swallowed up by Fedzilla. The GOP should pledge to move April 15, tax day, to the day before national elections in November. I assure you that would guarantee term limits.

The Republican leadership should pledge to implement GOP Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert's proposal to eliminate all federal taxes, including Social Security taxes, from the paychecks of Americans for one year. Mr. Gohmert's proposal would cause the American economy to roar back to life. Let's get bold and creative like Mr. Gohmert.

Republican politicians should pledge never to write or introduce a bill longer than our Constitution, which is roughly 5,000 words. If Congress critters can't write a bill in fewer than 5,000 words, they don't deserve to be in Congress. Period.

Republicans should pledge that they will invite businesspeople and free-market economists to go through each bill in detail and then report to the American public on how the bill will impact the free market before the vote on the bill is taken. The GOP should pledge to convene annually a group of businesspeople and free-market economists to recommend how Fedzilla can be gutted further.

For every new law passed, Republicans should pledge to eliminate 1,000 existing federal laws, regulations and requirements.

The GOP should pledge that it will never introduce, support or pass a law that punishes the producers and rewards bloodsuckers.

Using 2008 budget numbers, Republicans should pledge to reduce the size of Fedzilla by 25 percent during the next four years. Less government is always the best government. Dramatically reducing the size of government will pour gas on the embers of our economy and turn it into an inferno. Economic infernos are good.

The GOP should pledge to immediately stick a dagger in the heart of the death tax and all corporate taxes. This will free up untold trillions of dollars that can be used to get our economy roaring back to life and put Americans back to work.

Republicans should tell young Americans that Social Security is a Fedzilla financial Ponzi scheme and they will not receive a dime when they retire because Fedzillacrats have stolen all the money in the Social Security Trust Fund. The GOP should pledge to young workers that it will introduce legislation that will protect their IRAs and 401(k) investments from taxation when they retire.

The GOP should remind America that more options make for more affordable choices and that the free market has and still can provide this. As such, Obamacare and other Fedzilla programs that can and should be provided and managed by the private sector will be repealed. All federal welfare programs should be eliminated in the next five years. This will breed tough Americans. Tough is good. Soft is weak.

Republicans in name only (RINOs) should be purged from the GOP. RINOs are political punks who cannot be counted on. Get rid of them.

Pledge to Americans the GOP will pass legislation to ensure that federal employees will be paid what their private-sector counterparts earn and not one penny more. Except for the Department of Defense, a federal hiring freeze should be instituted for at least the next 10 years.

Republicans need to tell Americans that we've tried big government and it has been an abject failure. The only people who fail to understand this fundamental truism are power-hungry Fedzillacrats, bloodsuckers, socialists and idiots. They are anti-Americans. Do America a favor and send these punks packing.

Finally, the GOP should remind Americans at every opportunity that freedom is always better than tyranny and that smaller government is always better government.

What say you, GOP?

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Tea Party time is now

2010-09-27T09:16:00Z

If Republicans don't show up, they'll be excluded
By Ted Nugent

The Republican Party will make another strategic political blunder by not openly embracing the Tea Party and its candidates.

What the GOP pundits, elites and establishment had better realize real quick is that Republicans need the Tea Party more than the Tea Party needs Republicans.

Americans are not just frustrated with liberal Fedzillacrats who are addicted to all things big-government, like waste, unaccountability and enslavement. Americans who still cherish our Founding Fathers' vision also are disgusted with Republicans who purposefully strayed from their core values of limited government, responsible spending and lower taxes.

Conservatives, the historic base of the GOP, watched in despair over the past 20 years or so as Republicans turned away from them and treated them as political pariahs, excess baggage and people to be shunned. Big, ugly, dumb mistake.

Only since President Obama was elected has the GOP started waving its conservative banner again. Until this happened, many Americans couldn't tell the difference between Republicans and Democrats as both parties danced a jig with Fedzilla. As a hunting buddy of mine says, the Democrats are sprinting toward socialism, but sadly, the Republicans have been jogging toward socialism.

GOP strategists such as Karl Rove, other establishment wonks and Rockefeller Republicans may sip their martinis at parties and scoff at the hardworking, patriotic members of the Tea Party, but they are slitting their own political throats by discounting the growing numbers of grass-roots enthusiasts who are awakening to the fact that Washington has been working against them, not for them.

For the GOP to support liberal RINOs (Republicans in name only) over truly conservative Tea Party candidates shows just how out of touch the party is with conservatives. Establishment status-quo politics on both sides has been the problem, not the solution.

No longer will conservatives hold their noses and vote for the person with the R beside his name. Those days are past. Conservatives will support conservative candidates with their dollars and their votes and leave the RINO candidates in the dust unless the GOP stops jogging toward socialism and immediately reverses course.

The Tea Party is moving out and is attracting not only conservatives but also many moderates who are disgusted by how the two political parties have battered America with bad politics and insane programs and then have the gall to tell us it is for our own good. It has always been for their own political good, not the good of the American people.

Americans of all social, economic and political stripes now see a way to drain the Washington swamp of the cronyism, stupidity, entrenched incumbency, purposeful confusion and runaway corruption that has bankrupted America, ruined lives and destroyed small businesses and entire communities. The GOP establishment must have had blinders on not to see the grass-roots Tea Party storm brewing on the horizon.The message of the Tea Party is ringing loud and clear across America: We demand accountability, period.

There is a palpable feeling in the air that Americans can and will bring back the nation from the brink of disaster to which the Washington bureaucratic machines have brought us with numbnut Fedzillacrat policies and programs costing trillions of dollars. Only bloodsuckers, Fedzilla lemmings and idiots would endorse more of the same.

Moderates are key to political victory, but elections are won and lost on ideas, and after watching how central planners from both parties have done their best to strangle America for the past 50 years with scores of bad ideas, many moderates surely are willing to listen to a message of limited government, much less government spending, more accountability, lower taxes and more liberty. Send moderates the message that conservatism is the path to economic growth and jobs and that liberalism is economic suicide.

We can and will win, Mr. Rove. Apparently no one in the GOP got the voting-revolution message from Scott Brown's so-called impossible win in Massachusetts.

Wet behind the political ears as some Tea Party candidates may be, Mr. Rove, put some faith, hope and trust in them. It is exactly their political rawness and lack of political experience that appeals to Americans. Support those candidates. Stand with them. Energize those candidates and the people who elected them, and then watch in awe as, once again, ordinary Americans do extraordinary things.

Never count America out, Mr. Rove. The people are speaking. Listen to them. Learn from them. Now let's get it on about the business of restoring America and crushing Fedzilla.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Freedom versus Shariah

2010-09-24T16:39:00Z

Americans must choose because the systems can't coexist.

We've been told there are so-called moderate Muslims who deplore terrorism and that Islam has been hijacked by extremists.

If there are in fact moderate Muslims, they have been quiet as mosque mice regarding their views. For example, Americans don't know if moderate Muslims recognize Israel, what they think about women's rights, or if they believe the proposed New York City mosque should be moved to another location out of concern and sensitivity for the families of the victims of Sept. 11, 2001.

We also don't know if there are other freedom-loving and freedom-fighting Muslims who respect the rights of others to burn the Koran, draw cartoons of Muhammad in newspapers, hold marches to condemn Hamas and other terror organizations, write unflattering books about Islam, and vigorously support allowing people of other faiths to practice them in the city of Mecca, where all religions except Islam are currently outlawed.

If there are Muslims who hold these moderate beliefs, they are surely as rare as a Southern Baptist holding a Sunday morning church revival in Mecca.

Americans may not know much about Islam or its followers, but what we do know is that bloodthirsty terrorism is more often than not carried out by crazy-eyed, Muslim voodoo monsters screaming "God Is Great" while slaughtering innocent people. The Obama administration refuses to use the word "Islam" in describing these terrorists out of concern it will offend Muslims. I'm offended this is our nation's policy.

The Center for Security Policy assembled a "Team B" and just released a report that should give all of us, especially the Obama administration, reason to reverse course.

Composed of security experts from previous Republican and Democratic administrations, Team B urges the administration to reverse course on not referring to Muslim terrorists as "Islamist" out of fear of offending Muslims around the world.

The most bone-chilling finding by Team B is that America faces the threat of Islamic Shariah law slowing poisoning our legal system and ultimately destroying it. Shariah is the Islamic doctrine in which Allah rules over everything, including legal, political and military doctrine. Shariah is incompatible with a society of free and thinking people.

What the Obama administration and Muslims will not tell Americans is that the ultimate goal of Islam is to take over the world and replace representative, constitutional governments with Shariah. Under Shariah, freedom as we know it would be put to the Islamic sword.

What the free world faces is an insidious, violent movement that respects nothing but its own revolutionary ideology of world domination. This threat is not unlike communism, which President Reagan denounced at every opportunity.

Shariah should be banned in the United States and those Muslims and imams in America who advocate Shariah should be charged with sedition. Trying to overthrow our constitutional government through peaceful or violent means should never be tolerated.

I support reaching out to moderate Muslims, as Team B advocates. We need them to drive a wedge between the whacked-out voodoo Muslims and those who want to exist peacefully with others of different faiths. However, where are these moderate Muslims and what do they believe? Do they actually exist?

Shariah will only be allowed to poison our legal system and culture if we allow it. We should stand steadfast against it, outlaw it and make it known throughout the world that America stands with freedom and that we will not allow it to be compromised out of fear of upsetting Muslims or a false belief that we can coexist with a religious revolution whose goal is to destroy America.

We know the Obama administration will ignore the advice of Team B. The question is, what does the Republican Party or the Tea Party think of the report and what will they do with it?

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: A salute to Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, et al.

2010-09-08T16:19:00Z

Follow their lead and spread the word till Election Day

I joyfully bring you a glowing report as I wrap up my tour across America 2010, where nightly, all summer long, I have been privileged to meet with great, hardworking and hard-playing American families from every imaginable walk of life in 68 cities. I share with you a powerful, united message of unstoppable good will, decency, indefatigable, positive spirit and a herculean work ethic that is absolutely dedicated to bringing America back from this embarrassing brink of unaccountable upside-down government gone mad.

The heartbreak and frustration with Fedzilla refusing to respect "we the people," the anger at the runaway corruption and abuse of power from the top down, and the rude, soulless arrogance displayed by elected officials violating the fundamental pillars of the American Way are palpable and offensive on every level.

The most productive Americans speak the same language, and in each and every meeting, on every radio talk show, at every airport and restaurant, at charity events everywhere, I constantly hear the same admiration and respect for how well our pulse and spirit are represented and articulated by two great Americans every time they open their mouths.

The undying appreciation Americans have for Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin speaks volumes about the self-evident truth and logic that remains common and sensible across this great land.

On behalf of so many families with whom I am humbled to share a deep connection, I wish to thank and salute both Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin for speaking for us and representing the pragmatism that drives our quality of life.

Of course, I cannot fail also to salute and thank sincerely the mighty Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Neil Cavuto, Monica Crowley, Ann Coulter, Megyn Kelly, Dennis Miller, Mark Davis, Frank Beckmann, Michael Savage, the entire Fox News team and so many other conservative, sensible, courageous and reasonable voices all across this country.

The line drawn in the sand is far too obvious in these times, and when these conservative pundits speak out, they literally speak for the majority of Americans, or clearly at least the most productive, kindhearted Americans who have not lost contact with our heritage, our Founding Fathers, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule and the American Way.

It is overtly obvious that conservatives want an accountable, limited government to secure our borders, win the war against terror, have a victory strategy instead of an exit strategy, and take care of our heroes of the U.S. military. We conservatives still ask not what our country can do for us, but how we can do our absolute best for our country.

Meanwhile, the backward, so-called "progressives," embarrassed to label themselves liberals anymore, raise a cacophony on how they aren't willing to do jack squat for their country that they are ashamed of, but squawk an insane list of demands their government must do for them.

Safety nets, bailouts and artificial stimulus maneuvers are desperate measures for wimps and whiners and excuse makers, and therefore guarantee mediocrity at best, slovenliness and gluttony more often than not, intentionally crippling the hardest-working, most-productive American work force in the history of mankind. Fundamental change, indeed. Bizarro world, for sure.

I conduct daily interviews in city after city with brilliant historians, educated thinkers, clever leaders and thoughtful strategizers who give me real, defined hope, not for ambiguous smoke-and-mirrors change, but for intelligently articulated upgrades, with historical and current evidence to support such forward motion. There's a big difference between campaigning for change and real, positive and identified change, Mr. President.

November is right around the corner. Thank God, for the Obama tailspin cannot be sustained any longer. The vicious abuse of power and corruption must come to a screeching halt as soon as possible if we are to stop the well-orchestrated economic hemorrhaging and the further deterioration of our foreign policy nightmare.

So to my fellow conservatives, both those in the media and those on the not-so-mean streets of the greatest country on earth, I urge you to continue to turn up the heat, charge forth with increased vigor and confidence and spread the good word far and wide like never before. Engage, educate and recruit an increasing army of "we the people" Tea Party warriors, by convincing your families, co-workers, friends, neighbors, fellow churchgoers, your hunting buddies, your BBQ buddies, your bowling buddies, everybody, everywhere, every time, every day, we can and must take back America from the disconnected Fedzillacrats and bureaucrats, starting in November and continuing ever after.

As the great Glenn Beck says, combining faith, hope and charity with the return to the original priorities and principles that made America the "Shining City on the Hill" is the fastest and only way back. Godspeed, America.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: The Middle East's widdle Hitler

2010-09-01T09:31:00Z

We yawn while Iran goes nuclear
By Ted Nugent

There are a few dangerous things we can all agree on. For example, we surely can agree it's not wise to pet rabid dogs, commune with grizzly bears, swim in piranha-infested rivers or, of course, take a ride with me in a rental car.

We also ought to be able to agree that a nuclear Iran is as dangerous as a goose-stepping Hitler was in September 1939, when his Nazi devil machine invaded Poland and then crushed the rest of Europe.

If the world learned anything from World War II, it should be never to have a policy of appeasement with a diabolical lunatic. Appeasement, which is really failing to do what is right and necessary, is a proven dangerous policy that ultimately is always more costly than doing what must be done in the here and now.

I'm all for nuclear power, but it makes zero sense to allow nuclear power to be placed in the hands of certifiable nuts such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, quite possibly planet Earth's No. 1 certifiable dangerous nut.

There are numerous and varying estimates as to when Iran would be able to enrich enough uranium to make a nuclear weapon, but there is almost unanimous consensus that Iran will indeed try to make a nuclear weapon as soon as possible. The world can't let that happen. Sitting idly by and allowing weapons of mass destruction in the hands of religious kooks is crazier than the religious kook gaining access to weapons of mass destruction.

Based upon his numerous psychotic extermination statements about Israel, Mr. Ahmadinejad needs a strong dose of electroshock therapy, not his finger on a nuclear trigger. Other than the "blame America first" crowd and other leftist apologists, surely no one believes this international scab should ever have nuclear power.

Is there anyone who is not fried on LSD or is not an international terrorist supporter who seriously believes Iran will not try to develop a nuclear weapon?

So the question is: What does the world do about Iran trying to join the nuclear-weapons club within the next year or so? Will the world continue to bury its head in the sand and kick this nuclear can down the road, or do something meaningful now?

Reasonable people will vote to do something now. Unreasonable people will shuffle their feet, quote Rodney King and Green Day and make excuses about why the world shouldn't do anything. They are useless, dangerous idiots.

Sanctions are an important tool in our arsenal. Economic sanctions should be so tight that Iran has to have air smuggled into the country.

Iran's economy already is teetering on the edge. I say we give it a giant shove, push it off the cliff and into the abyss.

While the noose of economic sanctions is tightened even further around the throat of Iran, plans should be developed and implemented that make it very unhealthy to be an Iranian nuclear scientist. Let's leave that head-drilling task to the Israeli Mossad. How the Mossad does it is its business. And a fine business it is.

In the event that Hitler No. 2 launches a military strike against Israel because of the economic sanctions or for any other reason, let's hope our military has plans to destroy every critical power-generation station, its communication and electronics grids, key bridges and other critical infrastructure. Iran will need to be reduced to the pre-Stone Age. Let's make it so AA batteries don't even work in Iran.

Just as Germany and Japan needed to be reduced to rubble to get their minds right, Iran cannot be allowed, under any circumstances, to develop a nuclear weapon. The world is dangerous enough without having to contend with a voodoo kook who has stated he wants to wipe Israel off the map.

Hitler's Nazi death machine cost the world millions of innocent lives. Let's not make the same deadly mistake twice. Coiled rattlesnakes strike if you give them the chance. Shoot them first.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Happy fang and claw perfection, America

2010-09-01T09:26:00Z

Celebrate National Hunting and Fishing Day
By Ted Nugent

It is upon us, and there is not a damn thing anyone can do about it. Call me weird, but I do wintertime stuff each winter, springtime stuff each spring, summertime stuff each summer, and hallelujah, fall hunting season stuff every day of the fall hunting season. I cant help myself. I'm such a hopelessly organic nature boy. There really is a call of the wild, Martha, and I hear it loud and clear.

I hunt because I am a hunter. Clearly, such natural participation in God's miraculous creation is the last perfect, pure and positive environmental activity available to mankind. Balancing the annual wildlife explosion through respectful, sustainable yield utility is universally known to be the perfection that it is. Know it, cherish it, celebrate it and by all means, do it. Life is not meant to be a spectator sport, y'all.

Americas sporting families will celebrate National Hunting and Fishing Day on Sept. 25. Ever since President Nixon established the day back in 1972, families have celebrated this incredible hands-on conservation lifestyle as the most obvious renewable-resource management success story in the history of mankind. Although the hunting industry has failed miserably at effectively promoting this annual celebration, America's 60 million hunting, fishing and trapping families and all our friends know in our hearts and souls what an amazing lifestyle we share.

With more deer, elk, cougar, black bear, wild turkey, geese and other game than ever in recorded history, astonishingly, these are the ultimate good old days of hunting in North America.

Annually, we kill so many more deer and other big and small game each year that we continue through our Hunters for the Hungry program to donate more than 250 million supreme-quality meals of the healthiest, most nutritious and delicious organic protein available anywhere to soup kitchens and homeless shelters all across America. About 250 million every year, my friends. And most notably, without Fedzilla getting his greedy, unaccountable, corrupt and wasteful bureaucracies involved. If that's not a joy to celebrate, I don't know what is. Instances of E. coli and or salmonella? Zero, zilch, nada, none. We the hunting people get it. Perfect.

Wherever proven-science-based hunting management is implemented, thriving, balanced wildlife flourishes. Where the soulless maniacs and animal rights goons interfere, you have wildlife and humans slaughtered on the highways, people and livestock mauled and killed, commercial aircraft crashing and gazillions of tax dollars wasted on fantasy-driven damage control and cleanup.

We deal in living, breathing dynamic creatures, not Bambi and Boo Boo cartoons. Go figure.

Clearly, hunters stand on the good side of the line drawn in the sand. I couldn't be more proud.

Wildlife can only be one of two things - an asset or a liability. In every instance since sporters demanded the halt of the commercial slaughter of our precious wildlife in the early 1900s and created and financed the modern wildlife-management agencies, we have rehabilitated and safeguarded millions upon millions of acres of sacred grounds, not only to provide critical habitat for our beloved game species, but for untold species of nongame and endangered critters as well.

It is important to educate and remind every human being willing to listen that our quality of life -- that is, the quality of our air, soil and water -- come from the soul-cleansing wildlife habitat that every hunter, fisher and trapper monitors and pays dearly to provide. The vast majority of funds for such habitat and wildlife management comes from our licenses, permits and tags and purchases of hunting and fishing equipment. Every American who cherishes healthy wildlife owes a huge debt of gratitude to the hunters, fishers and trappers of America. Know it.

The Nugent family is giddy with excitement as we sharpen our arrows and sights in our firearms in anticipation of what we know will be the greatest hunting season of our lives. This honorable heritage is not only a perfect system by which we feed our sacred temples and those of our fellow Americans, but the incredible recreational opportunities do indeed re-create our spirit each fall and winter.

Celebrate Thanksgiving every day, my friends. If you are not a hunter, you really need to unleash that natural reasoning predator within and participate in this wonderful annual sport and lifestyle. It is there for everyone willing to dedicate themselves to be the best that they can be.

Me, I'm stocking up on ammo, arrows, garlic and butter. Happy hunting season 2010 to all my Spirit of the Wild blood brothers. Whack 'em and stack em, kill em and grill em. It's perfect.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Charging the mound over Clemens

2010-09-01T09:15:00Z

Congressrats aren't exactly honesty all-stars, either
By Ted Nugent

Fedzilla is taking former baseball pitcher Roger Clemens to federal court on charges that he lied to Congress regarding his previous sworn testimony about using steroids.

Before suing Arizona and launching an investigation against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Justice Department launched an investigation against Mr. Clemens when it thought he lied to Congress in 2008 regarding his use of performance-enhancing drugs when he was a big-time ace hurler in the major leagues.

If convicted of slinging bull hockey to Congress, Mr. Clemens could spend some time at a Fedzilla cross-bars hotel and pay a major-league fine. Who knows, maybe his cellmate will be Charlie Rangel.

Shake me, wake me and tell me this has been a maddening scream dream. Say it ain't so, Shoeless Joe.

Being that I'm just a humble, possessed, Motown-funky guitar player, Fedzilla investigating steroid use in Major League Baseball (MLB) deserves to be swatted like a drunk fly with a corked Louisville Slugger at Willie Nelson's annual Texas barbecue.

This investigation and prosecution is but another grotesque insult and waste of our hard-earned tax dollars. Here's an idea: How about leaving this to MLB, which is responsible for investigating cheating players? Instead of Congress investigating Mr. Clemens, I say MLB should put all-time hit leader Pete Rose in charge of the investigation. I've got 20 bucks that says Mr. Rose could get to the bottom of it faster than Congress.

By the time the investigation and trial of Mr. Clemens is signed, sealed and delivered, it will have cost taxpayers millions of dollars. It's no wonder America is broke and our Fedzilla gas pedal is stuck on stupid.

Hey, I'm not advocating that anyone hurl spitballs at Congress, but it's a much more serious crime for the clowns in Congress to burn our tax dollars by investigating steroid use in professional sports and then prosecute a former hurler for lying to them. Car 54, where are you?

Just this morning, while waiting in line to get my caffeine fix at Starbucks, I asked four other caffeine junkies standing in line with me if they thought their tax dollars should be used to investigate steroid use in professional sports. Three quickly replied with a resounding "no" while the other person, mouth agape, stared at me in disbelief and then said, "Are you kidding or are you for real?" One other junkie had the caffeine shakes so bad that he didn't comprehend the question. He clearly hadn't had his first cup of joe yet and obviously needed performance-enhancing caffeine. Nervous yet, Starbucks?

Call me certifiably crazy, but don't we have other, more pressing issues that should take up our congressrats' and federal law enforcers' time?

Here's one: How about our congressrats investigate why there is a big IOU in the Social Security vault and no cash? This is the largest heist in history. The message here is that if you want to be a legalized bank robber, get elected to Congress. We should erect a great big neon sign on top of the U.S. Capitol that says: "Steal here"!

How about our congressrats investigate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and be honest about who received campaign contributions and how much cash from these taxpayer-guaranteed slush funds and how Fedzilla's hands-off approach to managing them created our financial meltdown? Feel free to choke yourself in disgust.

How about our congressrats investigate which members of Congress have blatantly lied to taxpayers about any number of issues? We deserve names and places. I'll spring for the hot tar if you bring the feathers.

I still want to know how much it costs taxpayers for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to fly back and forth across the country in a military aircraft. Surely flying brooms are cheaper.

Congress should drop the charges against Mr. Clemens if he promises to go back to Texas and never poke fun at Congress. It does that well enough on its own. Case closed.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Muslim mosque-teers

2010-08-24T21:58:00Z

Rights aren't in question, but responsibilities are
By Ted Nugent

There are no words to express the outrage Americans would have expressed if the Japanese government had proposed to build a memorial to their fallen soldiers at Pearl Harbor immediately following World War II. We can only hope President Truman would have ordered our military to carpet-bomb and firebomb the Japanese again for being so rude and stupid.

Slice it any way you want, but the Muslim community is being tremendously rude and stupid for wanting to build a mosque so close to Ground Zero in New York City. Instead of using the $100 million for their proposed mosque, I recommend that the Muslims donate the cash to the U.S. military so we can build more smart bombs to kill more radical, voodoo Muslims. That would earn my respect and admiration.

Killing more Muslim terror punks would make the world a more peaceful place to live - and safer for more Muslims - and we all know Islam is the religion of peace.

Yeah, right.

Let's call a spade a spade here. If Islam is the religion of peace, then I'm a malnourished, tofu-eating anti-hunter.

That fact is that much of the world's terrorism is committed by Muslims in the name of Allah. These voodoo nut jobs and their voodoo religion believe that, according to the Koran, killing nonbelievers makes Allah happy.

Moreover, Muslim-run countries provide the funds and other support for this terrorism and indoctrinate their youth to hate all things Western.

Killing is good. Peace is bad. And we are supposed to believe Islam is a peaceful religion?

Islam is no more a peaceful religion than Jim Jones was a Christian prophet. Islam attracts violent maniacs stuck in the year 4, reduces women to third-class citizens, discriminates, persecutes and kills Christians and burns their churches; stones people for punishment; and believes in world domination. Saudi Arabia, a Muslim theocracy, goes so far as to outlaw all other religions other than Islam. Sounds like real nice, neighborly Islamic folks.

Sure, there are peaceful Muslims who abhor violence. Not all Muslims are religious whacks who deserve a bullet. But the statistics are alarming. Last November, Newsmax reported that Muslim imams preach jihad and extremism in 10 percent of the 2,000 mosques right here in the United States. The same article reported that according to a Pew Research Center poll, 25 percent of Muslims in America between the ages of 18 and 29 believed suicide bombings can be justified. Just keep telling yourself that Islam is the religion of peace.

The president was right when he stated that Americans enjoy the freedom to purchase private property and to worship as they choose. He was wrong, however, in not forcefully condemning the rude and insensitive Muslims who want to build the mosque so close to Ground Zero. Not only did our rookie president miss a pivotal and teachable moment, but he also missed a leadership opportunity in failing to condemn the Muslims who want to build the mosque near Ground Zero. This is classic "rub it in their face" 101.

Proposing to build a mosque so close to Ground Zero is an additional and intentional stick in the eye to the United States and, most egregiously, to the families of those who were murdered at the hands of Islamic killers. If the Muslims who want to build the mosque can't see and admit that, then they are truly blind to tolerance, understanding and decency - or they have another agenda that warrants increased surveillance by law enforcement.

Bottom line: I don't trust the proposed mosque to be a holy bastion of peace, understanding, tolerance and love of others. The mosque will attract extremists and radicals who will try to harm America. If you want to see how tolerant Muslims are, just have a bunch of Christians stand on the sidewalk in front of the mosque and hand out Christian literature.

The problem America faces is not radical Muslims. The problem is that America lacks fundamental leadership and common sense from our elected officials, who worship at the altar of political correctness. Instead of standing with the victims' families of Sept. 11, 2001, New York City politicians chose to cast their lot with Islam, the supposed religion of peace and harmony. Me, I am not singing that tune.

If additional American blood is spilled in the Big Apple, the politicians who supported this mosque will be as guilty as the Muslim voodoo kooks who love death and destruction in the name of Allah.

Like it or not, there is a line drawn in the sand. Which side do you stand on?

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Extermination crew to the rescue

2010-08-16T13:52:00Z

Time to fumigate the Washington pest haven
By Ted Nugent

As leftists gain confidence with their stranglehold on Congress, the media and the White House, it is getting easier all the time to identify their suicidal tendencies. Common-sense Americans are increasingly waking up to the Obama fan club that hates entrepreneurialism, capitalism and the American Dream of excellence. Listen to Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Howard Dean, Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Joy Behar or President Obama, et al. for but a few moments, if you can stomach them, and their mantra is nothing less than putridly anti-individualism, anti-independence, anti-productivity, anti-logic and anti-common sense. I'm surprised Hugo Chavez hasn't invited them to move in yet.

Thank God for the First Amendment, for the freedom to express oneself is the freedom to know where they stand, and the clear and present platform of the left is contrary to everything that made this country great.

I find it painfully disheartening that the United States of America voted for Barack Hussein Obama, the leftist community organizer, in a time following the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001. Would America have voted for a clueless, inexperienced man with an anti-American voting record with the name Adolf, Eichmann or Stalin following World War II? I think not.

It is unfathomable to me that such support exists for a man who was raised and abandoned by avowed Marxist parents, whose mentor was a self-avowed Marxist, who studied and preached Marxism and communism, who attended a radical, America-hating church led by a radical America-hating pastor, who had this radical, America-hating pastor baptize his children and marry him and his wife, who has appointed as czars a gang of flagrant communists, Marxists, socialists and America-hating, capitalism-hating, U.S. Constitution-hating radicals, who associated regularly with convicted homegrown terrorists and 1960s radicals and other such egregious violations. I ask, how can this be?

The left cannot get it right and has never gotten it right. Their war on poverty is a dismal failure, succeeding only in enslaving an entire subclass of hopeless whiners who think that bling-bling, dope and booze are the three food groups.

Their mindless shoveling of massive barges overflowing with cash at the American education system has produced the dumbest group of dropouts in the history of mankind who can neither read, write, talk, spell or groom themselves. Motor City Breakdown, anyone?

When you listen to their ravings about what the government must do for the poor and helpless among us, virtually guaranteeing poverty and helplessness forever, the corrupt, arrogant bureaucrats cannot fathom why anyone would want to know where the money will come from or where it will be spent. As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is so famous for saying, we don't need to know what is in the bill, just sign it and we might tell you later. Unbelievable.

Everyone knows that Charlie Rangel - like Tom Daschle, John Kerry and Tim Geithner, et al. - should be in jail, yet like so many of Mr. Obama's cronies, his known violations are being swept under the carpet by a viciously corrupt system that feeds upon itself and spits in the face of "we the people." The emperor has no clothes and he needs to be hung out to dry, ASAP.

All across America, the flagrant abuse of power, like what we are witnessing from the bureaucrats of Bell, Calif., is widespread, entrenched and pandemic. The vulgar superiority in government today is beyond the pale. The feds are so cocksure of their immunity that they are virtually unafraid to shove it into the faces of American families day in and day out.

Ultimately, this is good. Our Founding Fathers warned of such corruption, and it has come to be. The embarrassing naivete that has metastasized across America is now morphing into meaningful anger and boiling-point frustration. Sometimes, it takes a really stinky, nasty rat to move into our home before we admit we have a rat problem. Mr. Obama is the rat that freedom has been waiting for. The Tea Party exterminators have finally admitted to a dangerous rat problem.We are so very thankful that you thought you could just mosey into our living room and be so damned sure we wouldn't notice.

Well, we notice, Mr. President, and your time is up. We will pull the de-rat lever at the voting booth this November, and I pray to God in every election forever to be sure we stop all future rats before they get into our American house.

The good news for all you America-hating, communist-loving, social-justice engineers is that your dream is still available to you, but it is not here in America. You should go to those countries where there is no confounding U.S. Constitution, where the nanny state can treat everyone equally, no matter what level of effort you put forth, where the Lenin dream of sheeplike sub-existence is alive and well. I'm sure Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin or Osama bin Laden can find a place for your special talents and destructive ways.

Meanwhile, I'm with Glenn Beck and the Tea Party and hardworking, hard-playing Americans who still know that the American Dream is all about excellence and heart-and-soul effort. Where intelligent prioritization and a herculean work ethic can accomplish anything and everything you want. Where excuses are not tolerated, where rugged individualism and true independence is the core of the American Way. Where "can't" doesn't exist and miracles happen for those who believe and try.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Loco motion

2010-08-16T13:51:00Z

Common sense should wield the gavel
By Ted Nugent

This may not be the end, but I think I can see it from here. Ever so hesitatingly and oh so painfully, I hate to admit that I am beginning to wonder why Americans even bother to vote anymore on controversial issues. If the America-hating liberals, socialists and Marxists in charge don't like the outcome of a decision by "we the people," they either sue and get a black-robed, leftist federal judge to declare the results unconstitutional or they get the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to sue for them. Hey, if you can't beat us at the polls, take us to court or sue us in the bizarro world of the corrupt American anti-justice court system. Freedom for sale at what price?

The will of the American people is being whittled away in federal courthouses across America. Now it's the will of a federal judge or the threat of a costly lawsuit that charts the course for America. When liberals can't win at the polls, they simply tie up the results in court for years, thereby usurping the will of the American people. What Saul Alinsky rule for radicals does this devilish anti-American ploy fall under?

Federal Judge Susan Bolton erroneously waded into Arizona's new immigration law to put a stop to that state's move to implement its new, common-sense law. Oh, wait; it wasn't new, and it's not Arizona's law. It merely demands enforcement of existing law. Weird, that.

Federal case law, including a Supreme Court decision, runs counter to Judge Bolton's politically inspired decision.

Arizona should go about its business of implementing its new law and ignore Judge Bolton's activist, legally dumb and meritless decision. Other states should follow Arizona's lead and pass similar legislation.

Unlike the leftist spin emanating from Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and the tremendously stupid ruling by Judge Bolton, Arizona's law does not define U.S. citizenship. All it does is define what Arizona cops are to do when they apprehend someone who is not in the country legally.

When someone gets pulled over by a police officer or gets arrested, it is proper police procedure to ask for identification. No one of goodwill can possibly dispute that common-sense police procedure. And that's all Arizona's new law basically states.

So let me try to understand what the opponents of Arizona's law want: If a cop pulls someone over for speeding, the cops are not to ask for identification? Or if they do ask for identification and the speeder cannot produce identification or has identification from another country, the cop should turn a blind eye and send the speeder on his merry way? This, of course, is Three Stooges logic.

Let's break Arizona's law down a bit further so even legal dolts like Judge Bolton and Mr. Holder can understand it. Let's say I come to your town armed with an outrageous band of hard-core rock 'n' roll, over-the-top rhythm-and-blues maniacs. In order to get some of this sonic-outrage fun, you need to have a ticket to get in the door. Those who attempt to sneak into the concert, print fake tickets or foolishly bring the wrong ticket to the concert are tossed out by security. Only an out-of-touch Fedzillacrat could possibly find fault with this.

However, when it comes to Fedzilla, don't bet on common sense. In fact, I won't be surprised if common sense is found to be unconstitutional at some point by a leftist federal judge who cares more about politics than exercising judicial restraint and allowing the will of the people to carry the day.

And while Judge Bolton's blunder was making center stage in the media, the community of Fremont, Neb., backed away from enforcing its new, overtly common-sensical immigration ordinance after lawsuits against the ordinance were filed by, you guessed it, the ACLU and the Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund. Both said Fremont's ordinances were discriminatory and sought preliminary injunctions against Fremont, which would enforce the ban while the lawsuits flowed more slowly than frozen molasses through our lethargic legal system.

Alinsky would be proud. The Founding Fathers would weep. Davy Crockett would shoot somebody.

I support basic human rights. If an illegal person is here and is apprehended, he or she should be treated with basic human rights. But there is a big difference between being treated humanely and being given the same legal status as a U.S. citizen when you are not.

People in the United States illegally are not U.S. citizens and therefore are not due protection under the same laws as legal citizens. U.S. laws are passed for U.S. citizens, not people who are here illegally. This is Common Sense 101 and is why the overwhelming majority of Americans support Arizona's immigration law.

That this needs to be stated is an indictment of the increasing mindlessness of an increasing population of weird, illogical people. It's a damn shame, really.

America is slowly being remade into an image of the socialists' and Marxists' desires. This is being done by judges legislating from the bench and leftist organizations such as the ACLU firing lawsuit salvos against the American people and thereby usurping the will of the American people.

The president should write a book titled, say, "Dreams of My Father." Nah.

The Founding Fathers made a bad decision when they determined that federal judges should serve for life. Of course, they surely never thought some federal judges would care more about politics than interpreting law. No federal official should be appointed for life.

My hero, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat on a bus, thereby spitting in the face of racist and dumb laws. Good for her. That's the American spirit of defiance that guides my life. I recommend that Arizona follow Parks' trail and go about enforcing their new law anyway.

To do otherwise would be to embrace Judge Bolton's legally stupid and politically motivated decision.

Send a message, Arizona, and America will follow. Refuse to get out of your seat and sit at the back of the bus. Let's get it on.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Swamp rats along the Potomac

2010-08-09T09:00:00Z

Will we clean them out, or not?
By Ted Nugent

Instead of "draining the swamp" of corruption, as Nancy Pelosi promised Americans in 2006, under her tenure as speaker of the House, the congressional swamp has grown more putrid, more corrupt, and even more out-of-touch with ordinary Americans.

With abundant just cause, Americans can't stand the smell of the squawking, lethargic, spendthrift Fedzilla Congress run by Mrs. Pelosi. Coming in at a whopping 11 percent approval rating, according to Gallup, Americans have no faith, confidence or trust in the Pelosi-controlled Congress. There is good reason for this dismal approval rating.

Enter Congressrat Charlie Rangel who represents Harlem. Although he is presumed innocent until proven guilty, anyone can see that Congressrat Rangel is an unethical schmuck who is more deserving of a prison cell than a seat in Congress. The shadow of corruption has followed him around for years.

Congressrat Rangel has now been charged with 13 ethics violations. You may recall he stepped down from his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee, the committee that writes our tax laws, for not paying all of his taxes. One has to wonder if he shared tax cheat tips with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.

One of the 13 charges against Congressrat Rangel is that he failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in income and assets over the years. He will surely try to wrangle himself out of his swamp-infested tax mess but the evidence against him stinks like stagnant swamp water. He's the current poster child for congressional corruption.

President Obama, Mrs. Pelosi and other Democrats know Congressrat Rangel is a political liability that they don't need at the moment, as they are doing enough damage on their own to the Democratic Party with their socialistic policies. His ethics trial is set to start in September, which is just two months before the Democrat swamp-draining election in November.

However, Congressrat Rangel is not alone when it comes to being investigated and charged with unethical behavior. Democratic Congressrat Maxine Waters also faces ethics charges for purportedly helping a bank receive federal bailout money, a bank in which her husband had a financial stake. Surely, this is all just a big misunderstanding.

Just watch - the congressrats on both sides of the political aisle will circle the wagons and protect Congressrat Rangel. Regardless of the outcome of his trial, they will speak of all the good work he has done in Congress, how he works tirelessly to serve his constituents, how he's a patriot and loves America, etc. Not one of them will say that Congress is a better institution with Congressrat Rangel gone from it.

Not one of them will introduce legislation to state that congressrats found guilty of ethics violations will not receive a pension and be permanently banned from entering the Capitol. They won't even stand before a microphone and condemn him if he is found guilty. Their silence is condemnable and pathetic, yet they have the gall to condemn others in the business community and elsewhere. It's no wonder Americans have such a low opinion of these soulless clowns.

Major League Baseball has tougher ethics standards than Congress. All-time hit leader Pete Rose is banned from MLB for gambling on baseball games. Congressrats found guilty of ethics charges are often simply censured. Some consequence, huh? Scary stuff, huh?

Congressrat Rangel and others guilty of ethics violations and other criminal charges have no shame. They rarely apologize to the American people for being unethical and criminal political snakes. They deserve to be inducted into a Congressional Hall of Shame.

We deserve better than Congressrat Rangel, but we will get more of the same. He won't be the last rat to be elected to Congress or to face ethics charges. However, never forget that these people represent us. We have a choice and are ultimately in charge. We can either get more of the same or toss out the unethical punks and be more engaged and attentive in the future. Tea Party anyone?

The great political satirist Will Rogers once said that good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Knowing that, my recommendation is to never trust any of them.

Yes, the whole thing stinks. You can put perfume on the pig but its still Fedzilla. We send people to Washington to represent us and political machines on both sides of the aisle turn them into political cogs. And Fedzilla gets fatter, less accountable and even less effective.

Politics is a messy, ugly game. But when a congressrat gets caught cheating, there ought to be hell to pay. And that's the lesson of Congressrat Rangel. My prediction is that nothing of any substance will happen to him, thereby ensuring we get more of the same.

A thorough housecleaning is in order in America. Are we up to this critical task or not?

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Drunk on stupid

2010-08-04T16:04:00Z

Time for a sobering visit from American defiance
By Ted Nugent

In these tough and turbulent economic times, we need to look for small things we can be thankful for.

For example, I am thankful President Obama is not a lifeguard, as I believe he would toss concrete blocks to drowning swimmers instead of life preservers.

Why do I believe that? His economic policies are drowning our economy, leaving many Americans unemployed or underemployed, and he knows it.

Mr. Obama can squawk all he wants and blame everyone from President George W. Bush to Tea Partiers to Fox News, but our anemic economy is the result of his willingness to allow Fedzilla to gorge mindlessly on more and more grotesque spending and borrowing and to sign more blubber-infested bills that no one has read or knows how to implement or what the impact will be on the economy.

The evidence is glaring. The business community does not trust Mr. Obama. It doesn't trust his socialist economy-killing policies, his Wall Street reform sham that no one understands, his takeover of the health care system. Businessmen are very uneasy about his cap-and-tax proposal, green-energy scam and his plans to kill the Bush tax cuts early next year.

Business owners, entrepreneurs and investors know these wrongheaded economic polices are drowning the economy. So they are pulling in their financial horns and holding as much as $3 trillion on the sidelines instead of using that cash to invest in American businesses and innovation. Who can blame them?

And yet the president has the unmitigated gall to state that he believes it is the private sector that has always been America's source of job creation. Actions always speak louder than words, and this administration's actions are blatantly anti-business and therefore anti-American. Phenomenal.

Talk to any business owner. To the person, from small-business owners to chief executives of medium-sized and large businesses, not a single one of them has told me that Mr. Obama or the Democrats in the District of Clowns have been good for business. None of them trusts him. In fact, some have gone so far as to tell me they think Mr. Obama despises the private sector and actually wants to kill it.

You cannot fault business owners for not trusting Fedzilla when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke recently stated that the future of the economy is "unusually uncertain." On the other hand, representatives of the Obama administration such as Treasury secretary and, hopefully, reformed tax cheat Timothy F. Geithner, have stated that the economy is beginning to grow. Mixed messages such as these create maximum uncertainty in the private sector. Wrong approach. Yet another rookie mistake.

Isn't there a community that needs organizing somewhere out there where the president's custom skills could be put to better use?

It is patently stupid to raise taxes on the job creators during a sluggish economy, or at any time, really. These are the very people who need a tax cut if you are truly interested in getting the economy going again and putting people back to work. Of course, if you want to drown the economy and create more unemployment and more dependency on Fedzilla, all you need to do is punish the job creators by raising taxes on them and advocating more outrageous job-killing legislation. I give you the Democratic Party.

It is a fundamental economic principle that if you want less of something, tax it. Only an uneducated idiot with no practical private-sector experience or an avowed Marxist does not understand this. So which is it?

You want a good-paying job? If so, do not put your trust and faith in the resident Fedzillacrats in the District of Clowns. Their modus operandi is to create dependency and put America's economic future on very thin ice. Fedzilla is a job- and economy-killing enterprise. Besides socialists and dependent bloodsuckers, who could possibly fail to grasp this?

Could common sense really be all that uncommon among the American people? I think not. The American people know intrinsically that tax cuts lead to prosperity, as proved by the economic growth during the 1960s, thanks to President Kennedy, and during the 1980s, thanks to President Reagan, leading to 25 years of prosperity. As I recall, even President Clinton got bitten by the tax-cut bug.

Americans also know that simpler is always better. Instead of the world's thickest, most convoluted and confusing book ever devised by man (the U.S. tax code), Americans know that a flat tax and much less government spending is the way to go. More Fedzilla regulation, central-planning boondogglers and more agencies and armies of bureaucrats strangle the free market and inhibit economic growth.

The only people whom common sense seems to evade are the Fedzillacrats inside the District of Clowns' Beltway, who genuflect at the altar of a 2,000-plus-page health care bill, a Wall Street reform bill and a confusing and mountainous tax code that even the IRS does not understand. They are drunk on stupid.

Fedzilla is broken on almost all levels. Big government does not work. It is not accountable, responsible or dependable. And the polls indicate the overwhelming majority of Americans now embrace this most basic and universal truth.

If ever there was a time when hardworking, logical Americans needed to reach deep inside for that most important American trait of defiance, it is now. It is time to raise hell. Let productive Americans take back control and take back our country. That's how we can get America working again.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Dear Mexico …

2010-07-23T19:20:00Z

American dream is attainable for those who share our values
By Ted Nugent

Bienvenido. Welcome. As the November elections draw nearer, political campaigns most assuredly will heat up and become more tense and filled with rancor. As with any election, you have to dig for the truth.

Immigration is one of the key issues at the forefront of the campaigns. Just as it has done to the law passed in Arizona, the Democratic machine will work overtime once again to demonize conservatives and the Republican Party as jingoists, racists, anti-civil-rights, anti-immigration, anti-minority and even anti-Mexican. I know, as I previously have been the target of its vicious personal lying attacks and smear campaigns straight out of the playbook of Richard Andrew Cloward, Frances Fox Piven and Saul Alinsky. Soulless.

Such attacks, of course, could not be further from the truth, but telling the truth has never been a plank in the political platform of the Democratic Party. If Democrats ever told Americans the truth about what they truly believe, the Democratic Party would cease to exist by tomorrow.

Rest assured, just as the Democrats lie to Americans, they also will lie to you. They will claim on one hand that they are your liberators. They will say anything, make any promise to get your support. Yet on the other hand, what they won't tell you is that once they have garnered your support, they ultimately will work to enslave you and ruin your families with Fedzilla programs and dollars that will destroy you and your families, much like the corrupt, abusive Mexican government you risked your lives to escape.

If you doubt this, look at what the Democrats have done to black America over the past 50 years. What once was a proud, strong people now lies in ruin because of Fedzilla programs designed specifically to enslave and destroy instead of liberate and build. Amazingly, black Americans still overwhelming vote for Democrats. Be wise and learn from their mistakes.

Conservatives greatly respect the work ethic, family values, diversity and independent spirit of the Mexican people. We harbor no ill will toward anyone because of race, creed, color, sex or ethnicity. We value hard work and judge people on their character.

Conservatives want to see people of Mexican descent reach their full potential in America. We are not satisfied with seeing anyone remain on the bottom rung of the ladder of success. We believe that through hard work, sacrifice and commitment, the American dream remains vibrant and within the grasp of anyone willing to work hard and reach for it. We also believe in less government, lower taxes and more freedom. As President Reagan once said, government isn't the solution, it's the problem.

We believe in immigration reform, although we do not believe in granting amnesty to those who have violated our immigration laws to get to America. We understand why people want to come to America but do not believe granting amnesty is a smart move.

Conservatives believe there should be an easier and simpler process for Mexicans to work in America legally and be part of the American experience. We do not believe anyone should have to live in the shadows.

Just as in Mexico, American conservatives believe one of government's most important roles is securing our nation. We must know who is coming into America and believe all individuals desiring to enter America should be subject, at a minimum, to a health and criminal background check.

American conservatives believe in protecting our borders and legal immigration. Mexico has immigration laws and rightfully protects its southern border with Guatemala, and America also has a right and responsibility to protect its borders.

A common language is vital to achieving the American dream, and thus conservatives believe learning the English language is a core component of achieving the American dream. Failing to learn the English language inhibits your ability to climb the ladder of success.

Though we believe you should be proud of your heritage, conservatives also believe if you want to immigrate to America, you should embrace our values, traditions and history just as our great-grandparents did when they arrived at Ellis Island 100 or more years ago. We believe everyone who wants to harvest all the bounties of America should also be willing to fully embrace American heritage and customs and assimilate into America.

Because of the Obama administration's continued endorsement of wrongheaded economic policies, America is going through tough economic times. Unemployment is high, economic growth is stagnant, at best, and government spending and debt are out of control. These are not favorable economic conditions for Americans or anyone else wanting to work in America.

You have a choice. Embrace the political party that believes in enslavement or embrace the political party with policies that promote greater individual liberty and freedom. That's not just your choice, but the choice of Americans.

Ted Nugent is an unstoppable American rock 'n' roll, sporting and political activist icon. He is author of "Ted, White & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto" and "God, Guns and Rock 'N' Roll" (Regnery Publishing).

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

Let Me Know When You Get It

2010-07-20T19:01:00Z

By Ted Nugent

One has to jack up one's imagination to try to come up with dumber decisions from our flagrantly corrupt, out-of-control government than those occurring daily in America today.

Americans are tested more and more to convince ourselves that the rookie in chief, his Mao Tse-tung fan-club administration and gang of anti-American czars could possibly be that stupid or, horror of horrors, are in fact intentionally steering the good-ship America into the rocks.

How else to explain these developments:

• Appointing self avowed Marxists and Communists like Van Jones and Cass Sunstein et al. to be in charge of anything in America is clear and present treason from where I stand.

• Having your administration's communications director look to Mao Tse-tung for philosophical direction is phenomenally crazy.

• Surrounding yourself with America-hating radicals like Bill Ayers, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and SEIU union gangsters shows us who you are.

• Praising the bizarre cult of ACORN and turning a blind eye to their criminal activities is the act of a collaborator.

• Accelerating a maniacal spending orgy as unaccountable debt piles up at unprecedented rates is economic suicide by any sane soul's measure.

• Banning the development of America's energy resources as our enemies hold us hostage is aiding and abetting those enemies.

• Appointing a self-claimed hater of the free market with promises of redistributing wealth to be in charge of Medicare, Medicaid and America's new healthcare debacle is sabotage of the highest order.

• Suing Arizona for passing a law that simply enforces federal immigration laws while ignoring the criminal violations of sanctuary cities is the act of the enemy of the state, clearly siding with illegal invaders.

• Directing the Department of Justice to drop charges against Black Panther thugs caught on film breaking federal law is insubordination and dereliction of duty.

• Rudely alienating America's top allies shows just which side you are on.

• Bailing out wildly wealthy, criminally irresponsible bankers and crony mortgage outfits without the permission of taxpayers is mutiny.

• Appointing racists Supreme Court justices is anti-American.

• Condemning police officers and rhetorically siding with a friend while admitting not knowing the facts in a case is unpresidential.

• Increasing welfare to your constituency in the face of runaway corruption and abuse is soulless pandering.

• Offering amnesty to illegal invaders is obvious voter baiting.

• Directing NASA to reach out to Muslims is illogical rookie 101.

• Ignoring the development of nuclear capability by America's avowed No. 1 enemy is suicidal.

• Being praised by Russians and other Communists is an overt indicator that our enemies admire the direction of a weakening America.

• Increasing spending and taxes during an economic downturn is ignorant and dangerous.

• Tying the hands of America's military to fight the war on terror is wantonly asking for trouble and will increase terrorist strongholds and their capability to attack us again.

• Burdening small businesses with more taxes and regulations makes America weaker, increases unemployment, reduces America's productivity and strengthens our enemies.

That there are no patriots or statesmen in Congress blowing more whistles and raising more hell is more frightening than the violations of the President and his gang. With a soulless, unprofessional, grossly irresponsible lapdog media kow-towing to such egregious acts by the government which they are supposed to be watch-dogging, is as anti-American as it gets. That it has gotten this bad and this far without a meaningful response from anyone in government or the mainstream media is the worst-case scenario.

Thank God for Glenn Beck and Fox News. Thank God for Rush Limbaugh and much of talk radio. Thank God for the new Tea Party and Americans waking up to the inside job of Barak Hussein Obama and his evil destroyers of America.

November is varmint season, America. It is a target-rich environment. Vote the rats out. Clean house. Take America back.

Source: THEWESTSIDESTORY.NET

NUGENT: Department of Injustice

2010-07-19T14:37:00Z

Enforcing the law is a crime in Obamaworld
By Ted Nugent

With each passing day, common sense and the free market take a beating by big-government Marxists and the Mao Zedong fan club in the District of Clowns who believe feeding the bloated, ineffective Fedzilla is the right course for America. If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, he surely would call for an armed revolution.

Get this: Fedzilla is suing Arizona because Arizona is simply enforcing the very immigration laws that Fedzilla is responsible for but has basically refused to enforce for decades. Failure to secure our border has led to Mexico invading America.

Make no mistake, with 12 million to 20 million illegal Mexicans and others living in America, it is an invasion. This is the real controversy and travesty, not Arizona's law, as many in our Fedzilla-inbred media dishonestly misrepresent.

What is controversial is that Fedzilla is suing Arizona. Even with Fedzilla suing Arizona, numerous other states are considering passing laws just like Arizona's. Good. Do it now. My wish is to see Fedzilla sue 20 or 30 states. Come and get it.

Fedzilla is suing Arizona to show illegals in America that they have a friend in the District of Clowns. This, of course, is a sham. It is ultimately about getting their support and eventual votes and enslaving them by showering them with all kinds of Fedzilla pork-barrel programs, thereby stripping them of their work ethic and pride. Hey, it worked for many of my black fellow Americans, and we all know how well that has worked out.

It is also rather controversial that Eric H. Holder Jr.'s Department of Lack of Justice - the Fedzilla entity that dropped the charges against the overtly guilty New Black Panther voter-intimidation punks in Philadelphia - has filed a lawsuit against Arizona but has not done a damned thing to sue American cities that declare themselves "sanctuary cities" or to restrict our federal tax dollars from flowing to cities that openly thumb their noses at federal immigration laws and policies. The jury is not still out, as Mr. Holder is clearly an embarrassing, racist fraud.

Sanctuary cities are those cities, largely if not entirely run by liberal Democratic mayors and liberal city councils, that have rolled out the welcome mat for illegals. Sanctuary cities thumb their noses at federal immigration laws by telling their police officers not to check on the immigration status of people they arrest.

If further evidence is needed to believe mankind is in a state of devolution on the fast track to the new and improved Planet of the Apes, various liberal moonbats in California have criticized and threatened to boycott Arizona for passing its law. Ironically, while Arizona is trying to do something to curb illegal immigration, California cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and numerous others have declared themselves to be sanctuary cities. How high-brow-liberal of them.

Indeed, for every action there is an opposite reaction. California is going broke in part because of illegals living there. The cost to California taxpayers is staggering. Estimates are as high as $20 billion a year for Californians to provide health care, education and cages for hordes of violent illegals. Phenomenal.

I have my doubts about the Republican Party, but it could do much to restore my confidence in it if just one Republican congressman would write legislation to restrict all federal dollars from going to cities that declare themselves sanctuary cities. Let me help. Here's the bill I want someone with any common sense left in the District of Clowns to write:

"Those cities, towns or municipalities that declare themselves to be sanctuary cities or that implement sanctuary-cities-style policies shall be immediately ineligible to receive any tax dollars. This ineligibility shall be maintained for a period of one year from the date a city rescinds its sanctuary-city status or rescinds its sanctuary-city-style policies."

Suing a state for defending itself but doing nothing to cities breaking the law is a typical modus operandi of Fedzilla. I expected nothing less from the Fedzillacrats in the District of Clowns. What I want to hear shouted from the mountaintops is the Republican Party's immigration reform ideas. I'm waiting. But not for long. Stupid is bipartisan.

Ted Nugent is an unstoppable American rock 'n' roll, sporting and political activist icon. He is author of "Ted, White & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto" and "God, Guns and Rock 'N' Roll."

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Differences between Carter and Obama? None.

2010-07-14T19:29:00Z

We're still fighting the same old battle
By Ted Nugent

Other than the Georgia peanut farmer turned governor and now a Chicago community rabble rouser turned senator, there is little substantive political difference between President Barack Obama and President Jimmy Carter.

Both have stood on the throat of our economy and told us it was for our own good. Both believe Fedzilla knows what is best for Americans, not individuals making decisions in their own best interest.

Both believe in growing the size of the federal government, raising taxes and increasing spending beyond any conceivable reason.

Both believe in European-style socialism over free market capitalism.

Due to their bumbling, rookie ways, both quickly lost the respect of the international community and the confidence of the American people early in their administrations.

But will the GOP learn from what is old and new again? Will the GOP embrace true conservatism or stick with embracing their warped sense of limited government lip service in their feeble attempt to include the lunatic fringe into their irresponsible big tent?

I am encouraged by many of the candidates emerging for the November election. These candidates appear to be listening to ordinary Americans who are disgusted with the course the Obama administration has set for America. These hard-working Americans want change - real change. They have finally had enough.

My advice to these candidates is to look backward to gain their political ideologies. Go back to Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. In Mr. Goldwater's wonderful 1960 tome, "The Conscience of a Conservative," he writes on page 23: "It will come when Americans, in hundreds of communities throughout the nation, decide to put the man in office who is pledged to enforce the Constitution and restore the Republic. Who will proclaim in a campaign speech: 'I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' 'interests,' I shall reply that I was informed their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.' "

Those are the exact words conservatives want to hear from political candidates. Those words echo the sentiments of ordinary Americans who approach me on a daily basis and wonder aloud what the hell has happened to America.

I tell these disappointed and disgusted Americans that America got fat, indolent and lazy. We blindly entrusted Fedzilla with our wealth and watched Fedzilla consume it without producing much of anything except an appetite for more of our wealth. On our watch, we saw Fedzilla dramatically expand in growth and power. Due to our torpor, we did little to stop the Fedzilla juggernaut.

Apathy is the curse of free men everywhere, most inexcusably in the United States of America, for we should have known better.

Some Americans know little of freedom, only an enslavement to destructive entitlement programs. These Americans are ruined and pass their entitlement dependency onto their young, thereby increasing the size of the Fedzilla snowball as it lumbers downhill and grows larger and larger. And too few of us have done a damn thing to stop it.

Now is the time to stop it and dramatically reverse course. Now is the time for all good men and women to rise up and support those candidates who embrace much smaller government, much less spending, and much more personal responsibility.

We have a choice. We can continue to swan dive into the pool of bloodsucking dependency and ultimately inescapable bankruptcy, or we can go the other way and blaze a new political trail back to the American Way.

Let us never forget the prophetic words of Benjamin Franklin when he was asked by a lady what type of government the constitution would provide. Franklin stated, "A republic, if you can keep it."

Let us keep it. It is worth it.

Ted Nugent is an unstoppable American rock 'n' roll, sporting and political activist icon. He is author of "Ted, White & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto" and "God, Guns and Rock 'N' Roll."

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Let the big dogs run

2010-06-29T15:17:00Z

McChrystal found out what happens when you bark

As much as I dearly respect this great warrior, the good Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal forgot one of the fundamentals of leader- ship: The pace of the pack is set by the lead dog.

One has to seriously question the otherwise brilliant Gen. McChrystal's judgment to allow an antiwar, biased reporter from Rolling Stone magazine access to him and his staff for 30 days. I know for a fact that the bulk of writing in this traditionally goofy magazine is at the very best suspicious, more often than not simply hard-core left-wing propaganda.

Gen. McChrystal had to know the hack from Rolling Stone would portray him and his staff in a negative light. For Gen. McChrystal to believe otherwise would be analogous to me believing Rolling Stone magazine would give me or the National Rifle Association a fair shake. Not happening.

If Gen. McChrystal felt strongly about how the war was going, one way or another, he should have requested a private meeting with President Obama, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen and laid it out to them what specifically needed to be done to win the war. If they didn't agree with him, he should have offered his resignation. Who knows, maybe he did. What we do know is that he gave Rolling Stone magazine access to him and his staff. By any stretch of imaginative journalism, that was tremendously dumb.

After watching Gen. McChrystal in a "60 Minutes" interview a year or so ago, I had no doubt that he believed then that the Afghanistan war was a total klusterphunk in progress because of the community-organizer-in-chief, Mr. Obama, and the Mao Zedong fan club with whom he had surrounded himself.

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, Mr. Obama is, in fact, the commander in chief. Even as angry and frustrated as Gen. McChrystal surely was with the naive rules of engagement and the embarrassment of telegraphing to the enemy that we are packing up and leaving next July, throwing verbal spears in public at the Obama administration for its goofy Afghanistan war policies was just not right. He deserved to be fired.

Ultimately, Gen. McChrystal should publicly apologize to the military men and women who are left behind to carry out their duty in Afghanistan. He should tell them and their parents and loved ones that what he and his staff did negatively affected the good order and discipline of the military and there is never any excuse to undermine that while wearing the uniform. He should tell our warriors he is tremendously proud of them, that they should hold their heads high and continue to take the fight to America's enemies. He should then follow Gen. Douglas MacArthur's advice and fade away.

Maybe Gen. McChrystal believes he figuratively dived on a grenade in hopes the Rolling Stone explosion would ignite a much-needed deeper debate over the Afghanistan war. Maybe he just wanted out of Mr. Obama's klusterphunk. Maybe he had no clue what the writer was going to write.

Regardless, Gen. McChrystal and his entire staff were outmaneuvered by a hack from Rolling Stone. Simply amazing.

Gen. McChrystal doesn't need to appear on the Sunday-morning talk shows to further trash the commander in chief and his dopey war policies. He should leave that to others not wearing the uniform. He should instead be at the airport and quietly greet every flight of warriors returning home from Afghanistan.

When I think of the war in Afghanistan , I don't think of President Obama, our generals, the politicians, the wrongheaded war policies, the embarrassment of an exit strategy instead of a victory strategy, or the incessant yammering of clueless talking heads. I think of the young men and women at the true pointy end of the spear. I think of the guy with the rifle slung across his back, humping over hills, on constant alert and eating food the ACLU would probably sue our prisons over if we fed it to convicted killers.

We must put the care and concern of the warriors first in all that we do and say. They deserve our very best. I hope you never forget that the pace of the pack is set by the lead dog, Gen. Petraeus.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: Trample the weak, hurdle the dead

2010-06-25T19:35:00Z

Fiscal pragmatists gotta toss out Fedzilla in November
By Ted Nugent

No, really. I mean it. In a world of spineless, humorless political correctness, I suppose I could translate the title of my new love song and 2010 tour for the creatively challenged out there, and am certain it will make for some good reading. I like the line drawn in the sand. I don't want a big tent. That would mean I would welcome idiots and losers. Until they stop being idiots and losers, my tent is not open to them. We have an excellence detector installed in the entranceway of my tent. Mediocrity will get you thrown out. Know it.

One of my lifelong passions, businesses and hobbies is total musical head removal. I play American-made Gibson guitars, the most powerful guitars on the planet, and when in my greasy Motown hands, they can blow your head clean off. James Brown taught me that the best musical performance should be ferocious. I genuflect at the Godfather of Soul's altar nightly.

My band is the best in the world. The weak got trampled, the dead hurdled. It's how we got to yet another amazing rocking tour in 2010. Plan B is for the not-so-excellent, or dead.

I graduated from Funk University, and I've got the rock 'n' roll thing perfected. However, I am not a schooled economist, but I am an economic pragmatist. I do not believe the average American, of which I am one, requires an Ivy League economics degree to understand basic economic truisms.

One of the most fundamental economic truisms is that raising taxes and increasing government spending historically leads to economic calamities, while cutting taxes and slashing government spending generally ignites an economic firestorm. Amazingly enough, it does not appear to me that anyone in the Obama administration understands this most basic economic reality. That's scary, though predictable for central planning liberals like President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Having zero experience at operating a business of any kind, this is all too predictable.

Instead, the Obamacrats believe more government spending, higher taxes, more control over the private sector and more unsustainable mountains of debt is the right economic course to chart. This guitar-playing economic pragmatist believes their economic model is leading America down the path to economic disaster. Who doesn't?

Continuing down this economic disastrous road will lead to even higher unemployment, a falling stock market and rising inflation. And that's apparently where Mr. Obama is intent on taking the American economy. Welcome back, Misery Index.

The Bush tax cuts are set to expire at the end of this year, and there is no indication or hope that Mr. Obama will continue them. In fact, there is every indication he will let them expire, which will cause local, state and federal taxes to rise sharply next year.

Unless you believe sticking a sharp stick in your eye will improve your eyesight, no economic pragmatist can possibly believe that raising taxes during an already sluggish economy will improve the economy. Only bloodsuckers, dopers and socialist stooges believe higher taxes are good. They are nothing but economic parasites who live off the sweat and hard work of the producers. Mao Zedong would be proud.

If you believe we are in rough, choppy economic seas now, just wait a few more months. Things are going to get worse, possibly much worse under this rookie regime in the coming months.

The world is in the process of learning a painful economic lesson. That lesson is that liberals and their thirst for more government spending and control ultimately lead to economic collapse and despair. If the world - America included - does not make a very hard turn to fiscal responsibility and sanity, America will face the same fate as Greece in the not-too-distant future. If you do not believe America can suffer the same economic collapse as Greece, do a modicum of homework and study America's ratio of debt to gross domestic product. The news is not good, not good at all.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke recently said that current spending levels are unsustainable. Welcome to the party, Ben. The Congressional Budget Office and many others have been saying this for quite some time. The problem is the Fedzillacrats in Washington are not listening.

Surprise, surprise.

What the Republican Party needs to do is offer Americans specific policies and plans to get us out of this Carteresque economic morass. So far, I haven't heard a clear, resounding message.

Our economic condition is not all the fault of Mr. Obama and his Fedzilla cohorts. For too many years, the GOP embraced big government, too.

Fiscal conservatives like me have not forgotten Republicans' wayward fiscal ways, and I am looking desperately for indications that the GOP has learned its fiscal conservative lessons.

So now, economic reality sets in. We either tighten our fiscal belt until it hurts, slash entitlement spending, cut taxes across the board and dramatically reduce government spending or America goes broke.

That's not fear-mongering, folks. It is a reality born of economic pragmatism.

Come November, I'd highly recommend that America does like Uncle Ted: Trample the weak, hurdle the dead.

Ted Nugent is an unstoppable American rock 'n' roll, sporting and political activist icon. He is author of "Ted, White & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto" and "God, Guns and Rock 'N' Roll" (Regnery Publishing).

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

NUGENT: The Declaration of Defiance

2010-06-22T16:48:00Z

Get ready to toss out the Fedzillacrats in November

Defiance is the DNA of America. Every fiber of my being is overdosed on high-octane defiance. I often rise in the morning convinced that I am Rosa Parks with a loud guitar. It is beautiful.

From our forefathers tossing tea into the Boston Harbor over abusive taxes; to the brave defenders of the Alamo, who were outnumbered 25-to-1; to Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe, who answered the Nazi punks with "Nuts!" when he was asked to surrender at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, the DNA of America is rife with proud defiance.

We celebrate our freedom on Independence Day, but when you read Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, it could have easily been called the Declaration of Defiance.

What Jefferson and his fellow patriots John Adams and Benjamin Franklin wrote was a uniquely defiant document that not only listed their grievances defying King George's oppressive government but also was a declaration of out-and-out war against tyranny.

Our forefathers knew when they signed the Declaration that they were pledging their sacred honor, fortunes and, more than likely, their lives in hopes that we could live free. They knew their Declaration of Defiance would bring war against the world's most powerful, undefeated military. Our forefathers then fired a shot heard around the world.

America faces new challenges that once again require our steadfast defiance if we are to leave future generations of Americans with a more vibrant republic, more freedom and more liberty. That is the goal, right?

Those of us who truly care must stand in defiance of an out-of-control spending Fedzilla that clearly is intent on bankrupting America with an orgy of proven wasteful spending. The share of the national debt for each taxpayer is now more than $115,000, and it keeps climbing wildly every day. That's despicable and intolerable. Toss the Fedzillacrats out this coming November and all future Novembers. All of them.

We must stand in strong defiance of those who support amnesty to illegal invaders and virtually open up our borders, and we must instead stand arm in arm with Arizona and draw a line in the sand on the banks of the Rio Grande.

Law-and-order Americans must defy those who support turning violent, recidivistic punks loose from prison while advocating disarming the American public. The only good carjacker or rapist is a dead carjacker or rapist. Case closed. It's so simple only stupid people could find fault with that. A polite society is an armed society.

Americans must defy those who seek to enslave us to foreign energy when America can and must be energy-independent. We have the energy. What we lack is the leadership and the will.

We must defy those who, because of their fantasy-driven ideologies, seek to tear down America and reshape her in their warped cultural, social and political views. Clowns belong in the circus, not in charge of anything.

Americans must stand in defiance of Fedzilla taking over the world's premier health care system and smothering it with bureaucrats, lawyers, stacks of new requirements and more government agencies. If you enjoy standing in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles, you will adore Fedzilla Care.

We must stand in defiance of those who blame America first instead of promoting and believing in American exceptionalism. If you don't like it here, pack your trash and set sail for Mexico or Cuba, where all your wishes are already public policy. Mexico and Cuba put the fun in dysfunction.

Americans must defy those bureaucratic numbnuts and toxic bloodsuckers who believe more government is the answer to our problems. All clear-thinking and sober Americans know a drastically reduced Fedzilla is the solution.

We must stand in defiance of those Fedzillacrats who seek to reshape Wall Street without first cleaning up the root cause of the economic meltdown - Fedzilla's very own Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and the gaggle of power abusers run amok. We know who they are, and they need to be brought to justice.

Defy the sheeplike epidemic of apathy that has willingly opened the door to the Mao Zedong fan club in the White House.

Let your uniquely American defiant DNA rise to the surface. Join those organizations and support those individuals who most closely align their beliefs and ideologies with the dreams and aspirations of our forefathers. Raise your healthy voice in defiance.

Get angry. Get passionate. Get cracking. Take back America from the Fedzillacrats, who, if they get their way, ultimately will destroy the dreams of our forefathers. Slay Fedzilla at the ballot box. Do it for your grandchildren.

Live free or die. Throw some tea in the harbor. Remember the Alamo. Tell 'em "Nuts!"

Source: The Washington Times

Time to Go Nuclear

2010-06-21T20:26:00Z

As a conservationist, I have long understood that the condition of the air, soil and water is an important barometer by which we can measure our own health and priorities as a society and culture.

It was not too distant in our past that American rivers literally caught fire. Our cities were covered in smog from smoke stacks and automobiles that belched pollution.

Largely through American innovation, entrepreneurship and a national commitment to improve the environment, things have changed dramatically for the better. Our air is cleaner, water more pure.

And while cleaner air, soil and water continue to be the goal, I am also an energy pragmatist. Green energy—wind, solar and hydro—will not meet our tremendous energy demands today or tomorrow—possibly never.

The lifeblood of America continues to be petroleum and will be so for many years to come. That is an inescapable reality.

One of the reasons BP was drilling a mile under water in the Gulf is that they and other petroleum companies have been pushed further and further away from our energy rich coasts by so-called environmentalists and short-sighted politicians. We have vast energy riches off our coasts on the Outer Continental Shelf, the Gulf and off the coast of California—energy that is forbidden to be mined by the federal government.

This is maddening considering that, according to President Obama, we send a billion dollars a day to other countries to meet our energy demands when it is estimated by the Minerals and Management Service that there is 86 billion barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas on the Outer Continental Shelf alone.

Failing to harness this energy is bad policy, harms our ability to be energy independent, and continues to make America an energy addict to countries that don't like us all that much.

This does not mean America should not look for other forms of energy to quench our thirst for power. However, we must not rush to embrace alternative forms of energy without first doing due diligence.

Green energy may sound appealing and alluring, but the reality is much different. We currently get about 5% of our energy from wind, solar and hydro energy. There is little evidence to suggest this will dramatically increase in the coming years. This too is a reality.

As I outlined last year in my book Ted White and Blue-The Nugent Manifesto, what we should do is embrace nuclear power. It is the cleanest, safest and most efficient of all energy in the history of mankind, and yet the President rarely mentions it as a key pillar to satisfy our thirst for energy. Until he fully embraces and endorses nuclear energy, he will not be taken seriously by those of us who seek energy independence.

In his Oval Office address regarding the Gulf oil spill, the President stated he wants us to move forward with green energy and believes more government regulation over the oil companies is prudent. This policy will virtually guarantee outrageously higher, likely crippling energy costs across the board for American companies and citizens.

We should pause to remember that government regulations are the key reason America has not built a new oil refinery or nuclear power plant in over 30 years. This is a perfect example of government policies and regulations that strangles, stifles and retards progress.

As do most other conservatives, I support reasonable, pragmatic, and measurable government policy that is managed by even smarter and pragmatic regulators.

The problem is not that we don't have enough regulation, but rather that we have too much. America is drowning in stacks of regulations that are written by a multitude of bureaucrats in various federal, state and local agencies and departments. We should enforce our existing regulations before arguing for even more regulations and control.

We need a realistic energy vision, a target to shoot for. Similar to President Kennedy challenging us to put a man on the moon, I believe the goal should be for America to be completely energy independent in ten years. We can do this with the proper leadership, national commitment and if we have a realistic approach to meeting our energy demands.

Unleash the genius that is the American entrepreneurial, don't strangle it.

Source: TheWestSideStory.net

Remember the Alamo

2010-06-14T19:36:00Z

It's easy to understand why Mexico President Felipe Calderon spoke out against Arizona's new immigration law, if you follow the money.

Illegal immigrants in America send roughly $1 billion in untaxed U.S. dollars a month back to Mexico. Without this money, Mexico would collapse. Oh wait a minute, Mexico is collapsed, which is why Mexico is worse off than Detroit and that Mexicans want to get the hell out of Mexico.

What is ironic is that Mexico enforces the same basic immigration law on its Southern border with Guatemala as Arizona's new immigration law, which few in the Obama Administration have actually read, but are vehemently opposed to even though Arizona's immigration law is actually not as stringent as the federal government's immigration law which no one in Obama Administration wants to enforce.

The reason the Obama Administration does not want to enforce our immigration laws is that they want to make Democratic slaves (voters) of these illegal immigrants by granting them amnesty. When President Calderon addressed Congress and condemned Arizona's immigration law, the Democrats stood and applauded. Watching that ugly spectacle was a sad and embarrassing moment for America.

Unlike the Obama Administration and the Democrats in Congress, the majority of Americans support Arizona's new law and believe illegal immigration is a problem that will not be solved by granting millions of illegals undeserved legal status. Just like healthcare reform, the Obama Administration is once again grossly out-of-step with logic and the American people as it pertains to illegal immigration.

Reasonable people can debate what to do about immigration, but what is an undeniable truth is that illegal immigration is wreaking financial havoc on the American healthcare system, already bloated and wasteful social welfare programs and criminal justice systems in border states, and, as always, the American taxpayers are getting stuck with this very expensive bill.

Sticking American taxpayers with the bill for illegal immigration because Fedzilla (the federal government) does not want to enforce our immigration laws is condemnable and arrogant. Don't forget this when you enter the voting booth this November and forever more.

If we can put a man on the moon we can surely stop the invasion of illegal immigrants pouring across our porous border. What our federal government lacks is the political will to stop the invasion.

Make no mistake, we have been invaded by 10 million to 15 million illegals and we have virtually done nothing to stop it. And we are a supposedly a nation that believes in the rule of law? Yeah, and I play lead banjo in a Hee Haw documentary.

Just because there are people such as myself who believe we should enforce our immigration laws and who support Arizona's immigration law does not make us racists or jingoists as some racists and jingoists try to portray us to be. Attempting to smear someone as being racist when they are not is real and vicious racism on parade for everyone to witness.

I have no problem whatsoever with the Mexican people. My phenomenal bass player, Marco Mendoza, is Mexican. Like Marco and everyone who craves the American Dream, if I lived in Mexico I would do whatever I could to escape that Third World hell-hole to provide a better life for my family. But I'm not a Mexican. I'm an American.

What I take umbrage with are those who believe we should open our borders and virtually allow anyone in America. If you want more illegals in America, just provide the ones already here with legal status. Wrong approach.

Not only does illegal immigration tremendously impact our social services, but I also believe, and statistics prove, that our porous Southern border is an open invitation for any terrorist punk to walk into America carrying a chemical, biological or other weapon of mass destruction.

Fedzilla has one primary responsibility to the American people: Protect our borders and keep our people safe. So far, so bad. It is time for we the people to raise a new level of hell, demanding our government perform its duties and take whatever means necessary to stop the invasion. Fences, National Guard and orders to halt the law breakers. Now would be a good time.

Source: TheWestSideStory.net

NUGENT: Playing with fire in a packed theater

2010-06-14T09:14:00Z

… and there's nothing you can do about it

They say all politics is local. Well, I think the best, most effective politics is much more intimate than that. I believe the ultimate American politics begins and ends with oneself: All of us "we the people" maintaining control of things as a united voice of reason, goodwill and decency. I happen to know that's how it all began with some tough, defiant anti-big-government leaders known as our Founding Fathers.

I don't know about French politics or British politics, and I can't imagine you could call what goes on in the hellhole worlds of tyranny, dictatorships and Third World slave nations like Mexico, Iran and, for that matter, all of Africa and beyond. But here in this magnificent experiment in self-government, I am convinced that politics was supposed to be "we the people" raising nonstop hell with our elected officials as the driving force for all policy and decision-making from the grass roots up, not from the wannabe tyrant Nancy Pelosis down.

The embarrassing disconnect of an increasingly spoiled nation of freedom abusers has created a serious anti-American mess here, and I just thought the old guitar player could shine the spotlight of common sense on some ridiculously simple basics for y'all.

I couldn't sleep last night, though thoroughly exhausted from another day paying tribute to and raising money for my heroes: our courageous wounded warriors of the U.S. military and their families. It truly whoops my 61-year-old butt, but when I returned home from Sugarland, Texas, tonight, I felt incredibly fortified and satisfied that a huge "thank you" was delivered to the most deserving among us. Americans, especially Texans, continue to be generous to a fault when it comes time to provide all we can for those who sacrifice so much to provide the freedom fuel for our American dream. "We the people" will indeed take care of our own.

But the real thrust behind this column is that, again, at 61 years of age, following double knee surgery, I am so insanely giddy to kick off my 2010 Trample the Weak Hurdle the Dead Tour that my mind races with outrageously intense musical excitement. I cannot help myself.

Propelled by the incredible talents and energy of Mick Brown on drums and Greg Smith on bass guitar, my good old-fashioned American rhythm and blues/rock 'n' roll is more ferocious and fun than it has ever been, and that's really saying something. But let me share why.

When my early musical heroes offered me drugs and alcohol when I was a teenage musician, the discipline and guidance of my loving mom and dad fortified me to make the right choices, and I remained clean and sober through it all. No drugs, no alcohol, no tobacco, healthy food, mostly wild game in responsible quantities, and a thoughtful regimen of care for my sacred temple, mind, body, spirit and soul.

I can still dance and whoop it up better than anybody, jam on my guitars like an animal possessed and am more energized than ever before. It appears to be unnatural, but in fact, it is perfectly natural, considering the intelligent choices I have always made.

I could be hobbled and goofy from substance abuse, but I am not. I could be fat, soft and slow thanks to the new American sport of gluttony, but I am not. I rock off royally at this age because I chose to take care of myself and laugh in the face of the sheep who so foolishly bought into the lie of peer pressure.

My name is Ted Nugent, and I have no peers, thank you. And even if I did, I assure you that they would be incapable of putting any pressure on me. I supply all the pressure on myself that I need and can handle. Like me, my priorities rock.

My politics are about personal policymaking. Pragmatism drives my every day, and I vote for smart choices, logic, self-evident truth, accountability and simply doing the right thing. It used to be called "the American Way," and I will be damned if political correctness or the sheeping of America is going to knock me off my game. The throttling defiance of the original Americans is pounding through my veins 24/7/365, and it feels really good. Plus, it makes for some brutal rock 'n' roll, and real music lovers crave it like I do.

So as I write these columns for The Washington Times and various other publications and websites, I use the same logic that virtually guarantees me and my family, friends, band mates, crew, employees and pretty much everybody I know to demand of ourselves to be the very best that we can be. It is nothing new; it is nothing all that clever. But it is brutally honest, forthright and positive and creates an unstoppable force of good, and in my gravity-defying careers of choice, indescribable fun.

It is all there for the taking. But it must be earned, and sacrifices must be made. If America operated like this old, maniac guitar player, America would not be in debt; America would not be fat and soft; America would not be unemployed and dependent on foreign energy; and America wouldn't have allowed the Mao Zedong fan club into the White House. There would be no welfare, and I assure you, the Ted Nugent America would not have a border-invasion problem or still be looking for Osama bin Laden. The Ted Nugent America wouldn't let some Japanese guitar player kick her butt.

I met a fine, rock-solid, honor-student football jock in Illinois last hunting season. We talked about hunting and the great outdoors, killer rock 'n' roll and the American dream of being the best that you can be. When I told him my new tour was called Trample the Weak Hurdle the Dead, his eyes lit up, and he exclaimed that his football team had the same theme. We knew what it meant. We knew it wasn't violent. We both instinctively knew it meant refusing to hang around and wait for spineless wimps to try to make a decision and that we already had made our decision. We know that it is right, and we are trampling and hurdling to get the job done and win. Much like the world's bravest men when they charged up those inflamed stairways on Sept. 11, 2001, to try to save as many innocent lives as they could. There is no time to guess and procrastinate. There is only time to trample and hurdle.

If you think you can handle the soundtrack to the 2010 American battle cry, Mick, Greg and I will be attacking a stage somewhere in America all summer long. Come on, feel the noise, come celebrate outlandishly dangerous levels of positive energy. Come dance, America - like you mean it. No more pussyfooting, do you hear me? Trample and hurdle, for God's sake. Literally.

Source: WashingtonTimes.com

Cat Scratch Thiever

2010-05-07T18:58:00Z

Hey Napster, get your greasy paws off my intellectual property.

My younger brother Johnny and I rounded the corner of the vast parking lot outside the concert arena and immediately spotted the greasy hippie with the huge bag slung over his arm. Brothers Nuge looked at each other with a gleam in our rock 'n' roll eyes and stated in unison, like military commandos: "Bogie, 12 o'clock!"

We approached the young man at a steady gait, stepping past his three or four customers. Though I had my hair pulled back tight in a ponytail, he looked confused. Still, we figured he had to recognize me, given that he was selling Ted Nugent T-shirts at a sold-out Ted Nugent concert.

We surrounded him and told him that he could not sell shirts with my name and photograph on them. It was illegal, unfair and unacceptable. At this point Johnny and I yanked the canvas bag of merchandise and cash from his grasp and departed, returning backstage to hand out the cheap imported booty to friends, crew members and charities. I used some as rags to clean my guns.

We relentlessly repeated this across America for years, determined to stop the unjust bootleg merchandising of my copyrighted image. We ran into occasional resistance, but it never deterred me from taking what was rightfully mine. Even on ABC television I faced threats from some punk who thought he was dealing with just another pushover dope-smoking hippie band that he could rip off with impunity. Hell, I hunt grizzly bears with a bow and arrow. Bring it on, greaseballs!

I didn't need anyone to explain to me whether selling or giving away other people's products without their permission was the right thing to do. Common sense is alive and well in America if you're not stoned, drunk, greedy or just plain stupid. To think that anyone could even argue that Napster has the right to give away an artist's product is ridiculous.

Hey, I have a good idea! I'll just stand outside the local grocery store and offer its food free to the public. It doesn't matter if the owner took the risk, pays all the taxes and overhead, struggles with a bureaucratic land-mine field of regulations and laws, invests his warrior work ethic in bucketsful of sweat day after day, and basically busts his butt to provide a quality service and jobs for the community. Hell, no. I'll just make that decision for him, thank you, and give away his products and hard-earned money. Who does he think he is anyway?

The same applies to recording artists. We invest sweat and blood and millions of dollars creating musical products. It takes years of insane sacrifice and grueling tour schedules and intense effort. To think a third party should be allowed to give away our product for zero compensation is brain-dead and un-American.

The Recording Industry Association of America attributes a 39% drop in shipments of compact-disk singles in 1999 to this Internet downloading system. Full-length CD sales also dropped dramatically. In the short amount of time Napster has been in front of the courts, its users have grown from a few thousand to more than 50 million. Thank God common sense is still operating in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which recently ruled Napster must stop providing unauthorized music.

Artists--or grocers for that matter--who wish to give away their own merchandise or services as a promotional or marketing scheme can have at it. But on any legal or intellectual level, only that individual can legitimately make the decision. Artists and record companies already give away an enormous amount of free goods. No one outside that business circle should dare to do it for them and expect to get away with it.

Facing a runaway freight train of technology, we in the industry are moving to upgrade the quality of music delivery while also protecting copyrights, intellectual property rights and freedom of speech. With the book and motion-picture industries also susceptible to the sort of pirating Napster encourages, these communities will increasingly have to fight with us if they are to protect their futures.

There is no reason for allowing intellectual property to enrich lives without payment to the artist or business team. I'm just an ol' guitar player, but surely what is fair is fair. I'll leave the mind-boggling technology to the experts, but if I want bread, I'm going to pay the baker.

Source: WSJ.com

Arizona Has It Right

2010-04-27T14:40:00Z

In the absence of any real border enforcement by the federal government, Arizona rightfully took matters into their own hands and passed a law that whereby Arizona cops can demand to see immigration papers from people they stop.

Good for Arizona. Other states, especially border states, should follow their lead.

Arizona's new law makes it a crime to be in Arizona illegally. It's 2010, good morning America! Those people who can't produce documentation proving they are in the country legally can be jailed up to six months and fined $2,500.00.

Of course the pro-illegal immigration crowd is going berserk that Arizona has done such a common-sense thing. Democrats see any immigration reform measures that seek to protect our border as a threat to their future political base. You would have to be deaf, dumb and blind to not see that the grand plan of the Democrats is to entrap illegal immigrants by giving them legal status and then to enslave and destroy them with numerous federal hand-outs and programs.

Pro-illegal immigration advocates are protesting and yammering that this new law will lead to profiling. President Obama has weighed in and asked the Justice Department to review Arizona's new law to see if it is legal.

Unbelievably, while our borders are largely open and being over-run, the Obama Administration recently lectured Israel about expanding their communities just a few feet on land that is arguably theirs to expand upon.

While I applaud Arizona for its bold and brave new law, putting illegals in jail is the wrong move. That costs too much. I say Arizona shoul follow their own American hero, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County. Sheriff Arpaio keeps crooks in a large outdoor holding facility and makes them sleep in tents. Among other common sense things, he feeds them bologna sandwiches. I hope they are not fresh.

My good friend Sheriff Arpaio's common sense policies and practices drives the ACLU and the rest of the left-wing batty. He puts smiles on the faces of Americans who still believe that pragmatism and common sense should rule the day.

Indeed, something needs to be done about illegal immigration and the 12 million-15 million illegals who are already in America and causing a tremendous financial burden on states due to their abuse of the state's social services and criminal justice programs. Hospitals in California and other states have closed and jails and prisons in border states are upwards of 40% full of illegals.

The invasion roils on.

Hospitals and other social service agencies should follow Arizona's lead and require that those seeking services produce American citizenship papers. American taxpayers should not be required to pay for providing medical or any other services to people from another country. Making us do so is the ultimate definition of insanity.

What America shouldn't do is to continue to ignore protecting our borders. There is a growing sentiment that governors of border states should call out the National Guard to help secure our borders. Makes sense to me.

Both Republicans and Democrats have made immigration blunders in the past. We should learn from these mistakes and endeavor to not make the same mistakes again.

I support an open, frank and transparent debate on immigration. Let's lay all the cards on the table and hear from all sides. I say we start with a simple admonition from President Reagan: A nation without borders will soon cease to be a nation.

Good on Arizona. It is refreshing to see that common sense still rules the day somewhere.

Source: HumanEvents.com

A Magnum Minute with Ward Parker

2010-04-27T14:38:00Z

I went to church this morning.

The church I attended wasn't awash in religious rituals. My seat wasn't a polished wood pew and there were no hymnals or bibles at the church I attended. Nevertheless, the spirit of God enveloped me. I could feel His presence.

I go to church early this time of year. This Sunday morning was not all that different than other Sunday mornings. I was greeted by the pre-dawn moon and stars. Silent night. All is calm.

The moon lighted my way to my seat. As I sat quietly in the dark morning allowing the cold breeze to wash my face, the pink hint of a new day filled the sky. No artist could paint the canvas I witnessed this morning-or any other sunrise or sunset. It was as if God was gave me a front row seat to watch the rebirth of a new day. It was spectacular.

The steeples of my church are not straight. There no crosses atop them and they bend in the wind. But the steeples in my church still arch towards the sky, as if to pay homage to their creator. They are prettier than any man-made church steeple. I feel at home in their perch.

Though I was the only person in my church, the spirit of fellowship was strong. The choir was wonderful as usual. I was serenaded to any number of beautiful songs by the birds who signaled the arrival of dawn. I closed my eyes and let them sing their songs to me. I smiled. How Great Thou Art.

As the dawn's light opened my sanctuary to my tired, old eyes, I slowly and quietly turned my head to and fro to see what other of God's creatures was in my sanctuary. The gray body of a whitetail deer materialized out of the fog seventy yards in front of me and then disappeared back into the sanctuary. Squirrels chattered. The distant sound of ducks added to the splendor. I thanked God for being alive to witness the beauty of His creatures, both great and small.

Dead leaves quietly drifted to the forest floor. As I watched individual leaves fall and coat the forest floor with their beautiful shades of yellow, orange and red, I was literally watching God's natural cycle of the fall take place in front of me. If you haven't sat quietly in the woods and watched thousands of leaves fall lazily to the forest floor, you are missing one of God's most beautiful art shows. Go and watch this and you will thank Him for it.

Even amongst the beauty that surrounded me, my predator extinct was on full alert. That's natural, the way it is supposed to be during this season of harvest. As I slowly turned to see what was behind me, three does cautiously picked their way through the underbrush towards me. They sauntered directly under the tree I was sitting in. It wasn't time to kill. It was time to observe and learn. The time to kill and feed my family is coming soon.

Watching the deer amble by reminded me that I had a special invite to this beautiful sanctuary, which is their home and my Season Of Harvest Church. I can think clearly there, have conversations with God. In this church there is no clutter, no e-mail, no cell phone, no pagers, no one to steal my attention. I'm at peace there. I like to be alone there with just my thoughts and memories and rest and recharge my internal batteries.

In a mere few days, the woods will come alive with activity of buck deer. And I will be there in this sanctuary to bear witness to it-as I should be. To be somewhere else would be against who I am.

Something from deep inside me pulls me to Season of Harvest Church. If you listen closely, you hear the voice of God in the wind as it blows through leaves and the treetops. Enter quietly and be still and you'll be welcomed into the sanctuary where you will witness all the natural beauty God has created.

I love animals - they're delicious

2010-03-08T15:35:00Z

But when used for entertainment, beasts can and will kill

Animals give me life. I like to eat them, ride them, pet them, wear them, grow them, watch them, and know in my pure aboriginal predator heart and soul that the health and condition of the animals in our lives are direct indicators of our own quality of life. The wildlife on the sacred Nugent hunting grounds, like all across North America, is thriving, naturally wild and spectacular. Our three Labrador retrievers and stupid old cat are clearly the happiest pets on earth. I love animals, and they love me. Perfect.

And yes, Eloise, that is an American buffalo between my legs. Isn't he adorable? See the snot flying and enraged fire in the eyes? And the bison ain't bad looking, either.

Having made my spectacular rock 'n' roll stage entrance astride a wildly spirited one-ton South Dakota beast for a few hundred protein-infested concerts, no one knows better than I the dynamic of celebrating wild beasts in dramatic and outrageously entertaining ways. I agree with Jack Hannah and other professional critter handlers that wildlife education provided by zoos, circuses, commercial aquariums and various animal spectacles is appreciated best when it occurs on stage with crazed guitar players. I bet my audiences would concur.

With but a cursory review of my annual hunting, fishing and trapping calendar, the evidence is irrefutable that few men have spent more time with wild animals in their natural habitat that this old Motown rocker. The spirit of the mighty beasts fortify my belly and my soul.

My relationship with wild animals is as pure as it gets. I am a hunter, and surely there is no wiser use of renewable wildlife resources than killing them and grilling them. That's why there are more deer, turkey, black bears, cougars and other big game critters in America today than in recorded history. We manage them according to genuine, value-based utility. Go figure.

The only difference between me, and say, Steve Irwin, brain-dead hippie grizzly bear neighbors, religious voodoo rattlesnake witch doctors, homosexual Las Vegas lion huggers, and the Orca handlers at Sea World is that I am smarter and more respectful to the wonderful wildness of such creatures. I don't taunt, probe, prod or bother my wild animals in any way for your entertainment. And though I do hop aboard for a thrilling ride, I am not so stupid as to forget that my buffalo is, and always will be, a wild buffalo. You know, the kind that would just as soon trample you into a bloody puddle of snot and hair than look at you.

Admitting this truism is why I carried a 10mm handgun in my belt during those stage rides, just in case the beast decided to go buffalo on me. A quick 200-grain armor-piercing slug through the back of his head would have made the difference between a momentary increase in entertainment value and a few dozen or more trampled rock fans. I knew this, and I was prepared. I am such a radical pragmatist.

Remember the circus lion tamers of yore, a chair in one hand, a pistol in the other? Prudent and respectful during a time before dangerous animals somehow became cute. The Bambi curse is to defile the wildness of beasts. They are killer whales, not show whales. And don't tell me that grabbing alligators by the tail promotes conservation. Wise use? I think not. Shame on you.

If you want to manage elephants, lions, leopards, camels, stallions, bears or other such phenomenal wild animals, the very least you can do is to show a little respect for the wildness that attracts you to them by being prepared to neutralize the deadliness of that wildness when it erupts. Not if it erupts, when it erupts.

Not a year goes by without some sensational tragedy ruining human and animal lives by careless, disrespectful misuse of these majestic creatures. Either do it right or just put them on display, hands-off, so nobody gets hurt. It is about time that we cut out the selfish make-believe fun of animal abuse for our own desires, and show some respect. Either that, or we have one of two choices for the killer whales in captivity out there right now - Muktuk or sushi for the masses. Take your pick.

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Ted Nugent is an unstoppable American rock 'n' roll, sporting and political activist icon. His best-selling books, Ted, White & Blue: The Nugent Manifesto and God, Guns and Rock 'N' Roll (Regnery Publishing) are available at the Tednugent.com Store.

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Source: The Washington Times

Godbless The Children

2010-02-19T21:59:00Z

Braelyn is a beautiful eleven year old young lady and Nathanial is a fine, fourteen year old young man. Their smiles said it all. Under the glow of a burning Texas sun, they took turns carefully working the bolt of the lightweight Henry Repeating Arms .22 rifle. With the "aim small, miss small" mantra of a professional sniper, they zeroed in on the tiny bullseyes of the Caldwell targets and punched one ragged hole after another, shot after shot, celebrating the inescapable joys of our beloved marksmanship discipline. What we have here is the purest form of shooting fun known to mankind. One God given, US Constitutionally guaranteed individual right, coming up!

Kids and guns. Perfect indeed.

Make no mistake, in the world of logic, self evident truth, goodwill, decency and quality American family life, there are few activities that connect every age, lifestyle or walk of life so positively as the shooting sports in all their various forms. I don't care where you come from or how you live, when introduced to the ultimate good, clean family fun of plinking, there is not a man, woman or child that fails to get a serious rise out of a casual day of shooting. It is pure, natural and contagious when approached thoughtfully.

I suppose I could go into detail about the difference between conscientious, supervised shooting fun and the criminal curse of gangbanging and dangerous, irresponsible gunplay, but I won't. We will leave that for apologetic whiners and excuse makers of the spiritually challenged left. Adios, MoFo.

The Nugent family is certainly blessed to be welcomed into so many American families' lives via the requests by their children each year, every year for many, many years. That they even think of the ol' MotorCity Madman WhackMaster is a testimony to their connection to what I ultimately stand for, and their families' comfort level allowing me to take them in and teach them to hunt, fish, trap, shoot and explore the wilds is all the evidence I will ever need to know that I am on the right course. I shall carry on. In fact, I shall turn up the heat, thank you.

The greatest and bravest kids in the world make the trip out to our SpiritWild Ranch in central Texas each year. Many are very ill, and are helped out by the generous donations by Americans to charities like Hunt of A Lifetime, Wish Upon A Star, Dream Weavers, Safari Club International, Texas' own Legacy Outfitters, our own Ted Nugent Kamp for Kids and Freedom's Angels, and numerous other wonderful non-profit organizations.

Even though some soulless administrator at the Make A Wish Foundation created the heartless policy to not grant hunting wishes to terminally ill children, I work with them often too. But when the kids show up from that otherwise fine, loving organization, I take them hunting anyway. Improvise, adapt, defy and overcome-that's what I always say.

To witness the momentary escape from their pain and suffering as these very special young boys and girls enjoy archery, firearms, fishing and just stretching out in the wild, it surely cleanses and fortifies the soul. It is magic to all involved.

On this exciting adventure, Braelyn and Nate had, according to them, two of the most "funnest days of their lives" with us recently. They picked up on precision shooting and archery skills like fish to water. In fact it was hard to get them to put the guns and bows and arrows down at all in order to get to the serious business of mesquite grilled backstrap. Serious, serious stuff!

They were our guests through the Herculean efforts of another grand charity created by American Airlines right here in Texas, called the Snowball Express. They assist in helping the children of our heroic US Military warriors who have made the ultimate sacrifice by volunteering and dying for their country. The families of the US Warriors sacrifice much too, and the least we can do is to give back as much as humanly possible to show our deep appreciation for the incredible gift of freedom that is paid for by the blood of these warriors.

We are so very proud of Americans and Texans who just keep on giving and giving. When a child needs help, there is never a shortage of generosity in this great land.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled for such charity events, work and opportunities. Give all you can and do all you can. I promise you, nothing in life will bring you a more powerful sense of gratification and fulfillment than sharing our outdoors passions with the kids, anywhere, anytime, anyplace, anyhow. Do it.

God bless the children. God bless them all.

To find out more about these various charities bringing happiness to kids everywhere, go to the Involvement area of the website.

Never forget these warriors' gift to us

2009-05-24T18:20:00Z

Memorial Day is the most important American holiday in the Nugent household.

We know that without the sacrifices that underlie Memorial Day, there would be no Independence Day, no freedoms, no America. The entire world would be a much darker place - one of tyranny, slavery and oppression.

Memorial Day is our day to give thanks and remember those heroes who paid the ultimate sacrifice so that freedom's flame burns brightly. They are the very tip of freedom's lance. All good people owe them dearly.From Bunker Hill to the walls of the Alamo, to the farm fields at Gettysburg, to the beaches at Normandy, to the Afghanistan mountains and every other piece of hallowed ground where Americans have fought and died, Old Glory still proudly dances in the wind of freedom.

American warriors ensured that not only would we continue to be free but that America would continue to be a beacon of freedom for all the world.

Our enemies can knock down our buildings. But mortar, brick and steel do not America make.

What makes America is the irrepressible spirit and undying love of freedom.

It is the American warrior who is willing to fight and die to protect the God-given rights of all people.

On this Memorial Day I encourage each of you to spend a few moments and quietly offer a prayer of thanks to those who paid for your freedom with their lives.

The next time you have the chance, take your children and walk reverently through a military cemetery. Stop at each white cross. Read the names on the tombstones.

These are the names of freedom.

It is our duty as parents and citizens to ensure that our children and grandchildren know that freedom is not free, that it is paid for with the blood and lives of warriors.

To quote President Reagan: "We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so that we may always be free."

Memorial Day is the most important American holiday. May God eternally bless the American warrior.

Source: Waco Tribune

Us vs. pirates

2009-04-26T15:02:00Z

As one who was privileged and honored to train and hang out with the greatest warriors the world has ever known, it comes as no surprise that mighty U.S. Navy SEALS came through in the recent pirating of a U.S. Merchant Marine ship.

The best of the best saved the kidnapped captain, killed three bad guys and captured a fourth.

Those of us who cherish justice and good over evil salute the heroes of the American special ops and a commander in chief who gave the green light to do the right thing. God bless the warriors

But if common sense and logic were observed, this life-threatening damage control would not be necessary.

Ah, the adventurous captain's dream sailing the vast oceans of the world.

I've got this big, hypothetical old scow, sailing from port to port, loaded up with goods to deliver to buyers. I've been doing it for time immemorial. Captain Nuge, reporting for duty. The last Boy Scout lives.

A hypothetical voyage

My ship is sturdy and well maintained.

My crew is the best - tough, rugged, jacks of all trades.

As for me, as captain of my hypothetical ship, it is my duty to study conditions in all the geographical zones, and keep in constant touch with my government agencies so that I can avoid dangerous conditions, whether they be weather or otherwise.

For example, self defense being the most basic of human instincts, no individual, much less a ship cruising international waters in these uncertain times, would ever accept the irresponsible condition of unarmed helplessness.

So, as captain, I take steps to adequately protect myself, my crew, my cargo.

As other countries insanely emboldened pirates by paying their ransoms, we've all known it would just be a matter of time before these punk gangs would attack a ship sailing under the American flag.

We know that. Bring it.

Each man under my command has his own M16 and 2,000 rounds of ammo. Every third sailor is also equipped with a standard M37 grenade launcher attached to his M16 with a gross of grenades. And these boys are all American Sgt. York sniper marksmen, I assure you. We are not all Navy SEALs, but we try.

We have diligently trained to keep a 10-man rotating 24-hour red alert watch detail. Any vessel approaching within 1,000 yards will trigger an "all hands on deck" alarm and the firing of one 20-round burst. Then if it does not turn back, our ship will literally blow it out of the water.

Just as God gave us the individual right to bear arms to protect one's self, so my ship is protected. A flag flies under our American flag with a coiled yellow snake and the words, "Don't tread on me." Not only is it a cool phrase, we actually mean it.

I cannot fathom the soulless mind-set of choosing unarmed helplessness. It goes against the very pulse of mankind.

This is my life, this is my ship, this cargo is in my care. Helplessness invites and promotes evil to do as evil does. On my ship of life, just the opposite message resonates:

Keep your little terrorist dinghy at home, boys, or I will turn you into shark food. Bon voyage.

Source: Waco Tribune

Be defiant; fight for 10th Amendment

2009-03-15T14:09:00Z

You may have noticed I am a big fan of rugged individualism, self-reliance, individual freedoms, liberty, self-determination and defiance — heavy on the defiance.

These uniquely American characteristics course through our veins and pulse in our genes, gifts from our amazing, defiant forefathers.

They sailed across an unknown ocean, to an unknown land, to establish a country free of kings and tyrants.

In securing our freedom, they wrote a constitution that limited the power of the federal government.

They knew even back then that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Of the Bill of Rights, the 10th Amendment says this: Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved for the states, respectively, or to the people.

Now, I am no lawyer or windbag lawmaker. But I find those words easy to understand.

You need not be a constitutional scholar to know the 10th Amendment was written to limit the abusive growth of power by the federal government.

As Thomas Jefferson stated, “The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the federal government.”

The current gang of political punks, scoundrels and crooks in Washington, D.C., is not worthy to stand in Jefferson’s shadow.

In an attempt to weaken the roles and responsibilities of the states, Fedzilla has worked tirelessly over the years to destroy the 10th Amendment. Fed interlopers have argued that the Commerce Clause of the Constitution is more important and relevant than the 10th Amendment.

We have stood by as Fedzilla has grown exponentially and has become a repressive force in every facet of our lives.

But there is hope for the rights of states to determine their own destinies.

Texas, under the leadership of the good Gov. Rick Perry, is joining 16 other states that have already made their defiant, sovereign statement of autonomy, appropriately.

They have now evoked the 10th Amendment to put the brakes on Emperor Obama’s mob-like fiscal mandates, attempting to force states to accept the so-called stimulus money and thereby become slaves to Fedzilla control.

With unprecedented gluttony, Emperor Obama is bankrupting the future of our children and grandchildren.

Perry is doing the right thing. For of all the states, Texas must never allow itself to become a slave to Washington, D.C.

Instead, we Texans must chart our own economic destiny and recovery by refusing the stimulus money, freezing state spending, cutting state taxes across the board and offering tax incentives to existing and new businesses. Additionally, I urge the governor to immediately call a conference of Texas business leaders and request they develop a Texas economic road map for recovery. Let Texas lead the way.

Tell Emperor Obama not to mess with Texas. Don’t tread on me.

In the spirit of the brave defenders who gave birth to Texas by giving their lives at the Alamo, I say “Remember the 10th Amendment.”

Source: Waco Tribune

Here's how to solve the economic crisis

2009-03-01T19:33:00Z

In a crisis, hysterical people will squaller, “Do something.” Throwing a cinder block to a drowning person qualifies as “something” — the wrong something.

Alarmingly, our government is now tossing out cinder blocks to solve the financial crisis.

The result: America, already drowning in unsustainable mountains of debt, is proceeding to pile on more of the same.

The pork-stimulus bill that President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have cooked up will fail miserably at creating new jobs and reversing our economic kamikaze swan dive.

It is weighed down by irresponsible, ineffective, wasteful spending, which for Washington, D.C., spells S-T-A-T-U-S Q-U-O.

It is not just Obama who wants to feed the grossly obese Fedzilla. Former President George W. Bush fed Fedzilla mountains of our tax dollars, too. According to the Wall Street Journal, during Bush’s tenure America witnessed the largest expansion of Fedzilla spending since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society boondoggle.

Now Obama offers a menu of spending items that is the most irresponsible in history:

* Billions for Fedzilla’s railroad, Amtrak.

Shamtrack, I call it, is the little railroad that couldn’t make a profit.

It should be derailed.

* Millions more wasted on the global-warming scam of the century.

Here’s how we can save this cash: We agree the Earth warms and cools. We admit this is a naturally occurring cycle and there is nothing we can do about it. We admit Al Gore is a fraud and a global-warming Ponzi schemer. We take back both his Nobel Prize and documentary Oscar.

* Billions more wasted feeding Medicaid. Give me one week with some smart, savvy business people and we will come up with a private-sector, cost-effective, efficient health care program that does not include Fedzilla and its gluttonous, unaccountable tax-dollar bonfire.

* Billions to feed Fedzilla’s Department of Lack of Education.

We can save this cash by parents checking their children’s homework and unplugging computers and video games.

According to an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, only about 12 cents of every dollar in the pork-stimulus bill will create new jobs.

The way out of this mess is permanent tax cuts across the board. Find a tax and slash it at least in half. This will ignite the fuel of private industry and create new jobs to yank us out of the economic abyss in months, not years.

Along with tax cuts, Fedzilla’s spending should be slashed by 25 percent.

Imagine how the stock market would instantly respond to that bold, new approach.

Instead, the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress have thrown a concrete block to drowning Americans and called it a life preserver.

Source: Waco Tribune

A tip of my hat

2009-02-15T16:30:00Z

It all began innocently enough for a Yankee Motor City guitar player beckoning the spirit of the great, fire-breathing musical beasts of sweaty stages around the world.

I’d be in my best goin’-to-church primal-scream loincloth, sometimes just jeans and a raggedy old camouflaged sleeveless shirt.

Then one hell-raising night many years ago someone tossed a tattered old cowboy hat up onto the stage.

Truth be told, the rest is history. I believe I caught it mid-beat in midflight, yanked it tight onto my head, and danced a one-man, buckin’ bronco greasy two-step like no one ever before.

It turned out that the beat-up old sombrero came in handy. It kept my flying, sweat-drenched locks out of my eyes. And somehow that cowboy hat ended up going on tour with me from then on.

More cowboy hats started showing up. I began wearing them on and off the stage. Not only did they look cool, they had practical applications in my adventurous outdoors lifestyle.

There is, after all, a fun-loving, rough-and-tumble cowboy somewhere deep down inside all of us. By the time I moved to Texas, I fit right in.

Then I discovered that the ultimate American cowboy hat epicenter, and probably the ultimate cowboy hat guru, was right here in my new hometown of Waco. It seems that country-and-western music personalities and, of course, real honest-to-God, cow-punching hombres from around the country, consider Lenny Lawson their go-to hat master.

Some people were born to build bridges. Some were born to design spacecraft. Clearly Lenny was born to design and crease cowboy hats.

Central Texas retains that timeless spirit of the Wild West in many ways. The hands-on ranching lifestyle is alive and well in these parts.

Lenny has the hat end of things well under control. If you were ever inclined to find that perfect-shaped cowboy hat, this guy can get ’er done to perfection.

In his little Standard Hat Works shop at 1826 Circle Road in Waco, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, are row after row, rack after rack of cowboy hats of every color and description — straw, felt, cloth, canvas, work hats, fun hats, dress hats.

You don’t have to wait for the rodeo to come to town to don a cowboy hat. In fact, you don’t even have to own a horse.

Lenny can shape them to look cool or to just keep the sun off your face and neck.

I cannot imagine trying to deal with the ubiquitous Texas sunshine without my cowboy hat shielding my eyeballs.

I say if you’re going to be a full-on Texan, there’s nothing that says it more than a perfectly shaped cowboy hat.

Say it loud and proud. Time to Texas-up.

Source: Waco Tribune

Gitmo for Your Freedom Dollar

2009-02-11T20:32:00Z

Amazingly, President Bush said he wanted to close it. Now President Obama has signed an executive order to close it.

And I disagree with both of them. I say we keep Guantanamo Bay open.

I have been to Gitmo to visit with the US Marines running what I believe to be an essential institution for the pivotal security of a free world. The Marines I spoke with told me that they would never turn their backs on any of the dangerous terrorpunks held at Gitmo.

Job number one of the president is to keep the US safe. Make no mistake, Gitmo is home to some of the world's most violent subhuman rabid dog punks on the planet whose clear and stated life’s goal is to destroy America and all those who don’t follow Islam. These religious psychos, barbarians, killers and terrorists need to be kept in cages far away from America. Gitmo serves that purpose and serves it well.

I believed President Bush when he said Gitmo houses human debris who, if released, would do whatever they can to bring harm, death and destruction to America. These
vermin would cut your head off in a heartbeat if given the opportunity. Know this.

And what Bush said has been proven time and again. Too many of the more than 500 enemy combatants brought to Gitmo have already been released and more than 60 of them have gone back to the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan to kill Americans. About eighteen of them have been recaptured or killed. Thank you very much ACLU.

The only ones who remain are either proven vicious terrorist scum – the worst of the worst – or people who we can’t send back to where they were caught or to their homeland because no one will take them. Fine. Leave ‘em at Gitmo forever.

Some of the remaining vermin including the subhuman debris who planned the September 11th attacks and who want to die so that they can become martyrs. Only a fool would dare think about compromising the lockdown on these animals.

President Obama and Eric Holder, Obama's choice for Attorney General, are against the military commissions trying the remaining terrorpunks at Gitmo. Holder wants to kill those commissions and replace them with a process that provides the terrorpunks with more due process, probably in civilian courtts. Obama supports that belief and has suspended these commissions for 120 days, so far.

That’s ironic considering that while Holder was the number two guy at the Justice Department during the Clinton administration that he supported and lobbied in 1999 for the commutation of the sentences for 16 members of the FALN and another terrorist organization who had been convicted of bank robbery, possession of explosives and other crimes. This was done to help secure the Puerto Rican vote for Mrs. Clinton's senate campaign. With this kind of logic, do not be surprised if Holder lobbies for parole for Charlie Manson if his mindless followers promise to vote Democratic.

The Wall Street Journal reported on January 16 that CIA Director Hayden stated that making the CIA adhere to the Army Field Manual's interrogation techniques would limit the agency to a number of interrogation practices that al-Queda and the rest of the sumpunks know about and train their people to resist. Director Hayden further stated that half of critical intelligence gained on al Qaeda in 2006 came from fewer than 100 terrormaggots the CIA was holding. If waterboarding these vermin will help keep Americans safe, I’m all for it. And I’d bet you are, too.

In an interview with CNN's Larry King before he left office, President Bush stated there are very evil people in the world who want to bring harm to America. Let us hope President Obama was watching and took careful notes.

Let us hope President Obama listens to professional CIA officers instead of intelligence lightweight CIA Director Panetta. Let us hope President Obama gets a full briefing on the killers at Gitmo and determines that Gitmo is the best place for them. Let us hope President Obama continues with the lawful wiretapping program launched by President Bush to identify potential terrorpunks. Let us hope President Obama cares more about our security than some terrorpunk's so-called rights.

We should never give the Gitmo terror scumpunks what they want, not even death. We should also not cave into international and domestic hippy pressure to close Gitmo. We should only make decisions that are in the best interest of America.

I say we leave Guantanamo Bay open for business and put up a big sign at the entrance: Welcome to Gitmo: justice here is served cold.

Source: HumanEvents.com

Why gun sales are surging

2009-02-08T20:20:00Z

One sector of the American economy that is booming with the new administration is the absolute orgy of guns and ammunition sales, although I am certain President Barack Obama won't say anything about this positive economic news.

I read more than one report of the surge of civilian firepower sales when it appeared that Obama would be elected.

Reason: Freedom lovers do not trust Obama.

His choice of Eric Holder to be attorney general bolsters that distrust.

Like Obama, Holder is a gun-control zealot -typical of the loony, anti-freedom wing of the Democratic Party.

Do not believe the president's thinly veiled statements about supporting an individual's right to own guns. Rather, review these men's previous, career-long, freedom-restricting, gun-grabbing statements.

Holder consistently has supported gun bans and raising the age at which someone can purchase a weapon. He's supported registration and licensing, waiting periods, and his all-time favorite and the felon's dream: gun-free zones.

Losing in court

Last year Holder signed an amicus brief in support of the Washington, D.C., ban on all handguns and the use of a gun for self-defense in D.C. homes.

He stated that the Second Amendment wasn't meant for individuals but was only intended for government militias.

The Supreme Court found otherwise. It repealed DC's anti-freedom, pro-crime gun-control law. The Supreme Court voted for freedom. The good guys won.

Mysteriously, when Holder worked for President Bill Clinton and was in charge of the instant background check system, the system was routinely broken and off-line. Miraculously, when the Bush administration took over in 2001 the system rarely broke down. I smell a Fedzilla ratfink.

Truth is, what Holder really supports is more law-abiding citizens being victimized by recidivistic, violent punks on parole.

While he is personally protected by heavily armed law-enforcement officers, he does not believe you and I have a right to protect ourselves and our loved ones with a gun. He's a hypocrite.

Our founding fathers supported an individual's right to own guns. Unlike Obama and Holder, those vanguards of freedom understood that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness can not be achieved without being able to protect yourself and your loved ones from human scum who would deny you your fundamental God-given rights.

What our new president and his attorney general obviously want is control. Studying other gun-grabbing regimes of the past, they know the first thing that needs to be done to turn us from citizens to subjects is to disarm us.

My advice to American freedom lovers: Buy more guns and ammo, and join the National Rifle Association.

Kill This Porkosaurus

2009-02-03T15:52:00Z

I’m a hunter, and proud of it. Most of my best hours are spent in the field, sometimes chasing dangerous game. I’m on the track of one, a bigger more dangerous critter than I’ve ever hunted before: the Obama-Pelosi Porkosaurus.

The Porkosaurus is plenty dangerous by itself. It subsidizes unemployment by increasing unemployment benefits. And, as the man said, when you subsidize something you get more of it. It doesn’t spend anything -- not one thin dime -- on the one thing that economists say is guaranteed to stimulate the economy, defense spending. And its whole purpose is to feed Fedzilla and make it grow even bigger, swallowing our economy whole.

In a crisis, hysterical, wrongheaded, ignorant people will squall and holler to "do something." Reasonable people with a modicum of intellect know that throwing a cinder block to a drowning person qualifies as "something", but surely it is the wrong something.

Amazingly, some of these same reasonable people continue to look to Fedzilla to solve the financial crisis that this bloated beast created. Result: America is drowning in
unsustainable mountains of debt and deficits and threatening to do more of the same. President Obama and his Democratic cronies on Capital Hill want to pile on more debt and more deficits that will further destroy the US economy.

President Obama and Nancy Pelosi's trillion-dollar Porkosaurus bill will fail miserably at creating new jobs and reversing our economic kamikaze swan dive. The bill is weighed down by irresponsible, ineffective, wasteful spending which is the status quo in Washington DC.

It is not just President Obama who wants to feed the grossly obese Fedzilla. President Bush fed Fedzilla mountains of our tax dollars, too. According to the Wall Street Journal, during his tenure America witnessed the largest expansion of Fedzilla spending since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society boondoggle. Many of the Republican House and Senate members voted in support of expanding Fedzilla. They deserve to get tossed out of power.

But now President Obama is in charge of feeding Fedzilla and he has wasted no time in advocating a trillion-dollar pork dinner for The Beast. The menu of spending items is the most irresponsible pile of pork in the history of our country.

In a January 28 op-ed the Wall Street Journal did an outstanding job of identifying the waste in Pork-stimulus. The following are a couple of shameful examples.

There is one billion for Fedzilla's railroad, Amtrak. Shamtrack, as I call it, has not been profitable for decades, and probably never will be. The Shamtrack Xpress to financial hell should be derailed.

$400 million more of our tax dollars are scheduled to be wasted on the global-warming scam of the century. Here's how we save this cash: We agree the earth warms and cools. We admit that warming and cooling is a naturally occurring cycle that has to do with the sun and that there is nothing we can do about it. We admit Al Gore is a fraud and a global warming Ponzi-schemer. Then we take back Al's Grammy and documentary award.

$81 billion will be wasted on feeding Medicaid. Give me one week with some smart, savvy business people and we will come up with a private-sector, cost effective, efficient health care program that does not include Fedzilla and its gluttonous unaccountable tax dollar bonfire.

$66 billion is scheduled to be fed to Fedzilla's Department of Lack of Education. We can save this cash by parents just checking their child's homework and cutting the cords to computer and video games.

$83 billion more will be spent on providing earned income credit for people who do not pay taxes. I am all for earned income. No one gets a dime unless you earn it.

$54 billion is scheduled to be overtly wasted on Fedzilla programs that Fedzilla's very own Office of Management and Budget or the Government Accounting Office has labeled as "ineffective" and can not pass a financial audit. There is no accountability. None.

According to the Wall Street Journal, only about twelve cents of every dollar in the trillion-dollar Pork-stimulus will jump start the economy and create new jobs. I trust the WSJ much more than I do President Obama or Nancy Pelosi.

As I outlined in my book, TED WHITE & BLUE-The Nugent Manifesto, the way out of this economic mess is permanent tax cuts across the board. Find a tax and slash it at least in half. This will ignite the fuel of private industry and will instantly create new jobs and yank us out of the economic abyss in months, not years.

Along with tax cuts, Fedzilla spending should be slashed by 25 percent. Imagine how the stock market would instantly respond to that bold, new approach.

It is now up the Senate to do what is right for America and kill the Porkosaurus. I beg of them not to throw a concrete block to drowning Americans and call it a life preserver.

Source: Human Events

Louie Gohmert voice of sanity in face of insane government spending

2009-01-18T20:15:00Z

If the conservative movement is looking for a new standard-bearer, a new champion, I suggest Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert.

He's a new hero of mine, the kind of independent Texan who makes the Nugent family proud to be residents of the last best place in the last best place.

Unlike Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who wants to toss the second installment of the $350 billion taxpayer dollar bailout at Wall Street and hope that this massive wad of cash sticks and does something positive for the economy, Gohmert, a Tyler Republican, instead wants to give Americans a two-month tax holiday. He also advocates that taxpayers should pay no federal income taxes for 2008.

That's right, a two-month, $350 billion tax holiday and no income taxes for 2008.

This would be massive wads of your money staying in your pockets where it belongs, surely doing more for the sagging economy than using it to bail out Wall Street or the automotive industry.

I suggest a monument to Gohmert on the Capitol Mall for these great ideas.

Of course, Fedzilla enablers such as Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reject Gohmert's proposal because they believe government knows how to better spend your money than you do.

Gohmert understands that reducing the size of government is the key to an American economic revival. Federal income taxes, FICA, state income taxes, death taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, gas taxes, permit taxes, license taxes, registration taxes, hidden taxes, etc., are what is killing the American economy.

When the government takes half of what we earn, it is not surprising that Americans are not saving anything.

Tax cuts are always the answer to jump-starting the economy. It appears even President-elect Obama is beginning to see that simple economic truism.

Taxpayers are partially to blame for the financial mess created by Fedzilla. We have sat idly by and drank the bureaucratic Kool-Aid and slowly surrendered our financial independence to big-government bureaucrats.

We should have been snarling watchdogs of the bureaucrats with our tax dollars stuffed in their bloated wallets.

If Obama is the new political messiah to millions of Americans who do not know how the economy works or why tax cuts are always good for the economy, then Congressman Gohmert is a new superhero to millions of Americans. They want to return tax dollars to the people who earned them.

Thomas Jefferson said it best; "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

Ya think?

What America needs now more that ever is more elected officials like Gohmert. He understands that individuals and businesses are the engines that drive our economy, not a bloated, ineffective, lethargic, wasteful Fedzilla that destroys everything it touches.

More government bailouts and spending are not the answer. They are the problem.

Nugent for Drug Czar

2009-01-15T21:19:00Z

One of the most dangerous places on earth is our own 2,000 mile border with Mexico. Our southern border is a drug war zone, and we are losing the fight. Know it.

So dangerous is our border that Arizona Governor Napolitano has declared a state of emergency along the Arizona/Mexico border due to drug trafficking, shootouts and an increasing illegal immigration invasion.

Our Justice Department stated in April that Mexican drug cartels are the "largest threat to both citizens and law enforcement agencies in this country and now have gang members in nearly 200 U.S. cities." This in the big, bad, brave United States of America! How can this be? DOJ admits it, so now what?

There isn't a city in America that has not been scorched by drug-related violence.

In 2008, the Mexican drug cartels killed more than 4,000 people. Almost 500 Mexican police officers and soldiers have been murdered since January 2007. It is a nonstop orgy of vicious, violent crimes against law-abiding Americans living along that border and increasing acts of violence against our Border Patrol agents. This is unbelievable and totally unacceptable.

The drug cartels are extremely well financed and armed. They are as evil an adversary as the voodoo terrorist Taliban our soldiers face in Afghanistan.

President Obama has stated he will go after the cartels and increase efforts to combat gang-related crime. Good. But he had better be prepared to wage war with them with more than just soaring rhetoric.

I am aware there are prominent conservatives who make strong arguments in favor of legalizing drugs. Their argument is that legalizing drugs will take the crime out of drugs. Not only do I not believe that, but I have never been in favor of pouring gas on a blazing fire in hopes of extinguishing it, which is what I believe will happen if ever we are foolish enough to legalize drug use in America.

We have all the laws we need to fight drugs. What America needs is the will-power and a renewed warrior spirit to crush evil and evil doers.

We need a Drug Czar who will commit to the American people to stopping at least 50% of the illegal drugs flowing into the country within the first year of the Obama Administration. That's the kind of leadership America wants and deserves from its government.

Call me, President Obama. Hippies, dope heads, corrupt politicos and various other human debris hate me, which makes me the perfect man for the job.

As Drug Czar, I would charge our mayors and police departments to commit to fighting the drug gangs their top priority. Our inner cities will remain war zones until we commit to taking the trash out.

America needs to better arm our Border Patrol agents and we need more of them. The governors of the border states should call out the National Guard to assist the Border Patrol in securing the border. As Drug Czar, I would challenge them to do this today.

I would work with the Mexican government and other Central American nations to root out and arrest and/or kill the drug kingpins and their underlings. Working with the Columbian government a few years back, U.S. Special Forces filled Pablo Escobar full of bullet holes. Until assuming room temperature, Escobar was one of the world's richest
cocaine smugglers and controlled 80% of all the cocaine shipped into America.

I am not naïve enough to believe we can ever fully eradicate drugs. However, as America's Drug Czar, I would put a big hurt on the drug kingpins and consumers like they have never seen. Every American who smokes dope, manufactures, buys or sells meth or uses any illegal drugs is aiding and abetting the enemies of America. Case closed. This spiritual inbreeding and cannibalism must be identified, admitted to and stopped immediately. America can, and must do this. Good over evil. Next.

Source: Human Events

Detroit auto industry should solve own problems, not raid our money

2009-01-13T20:49:00Z

If the Fedzilla bureaucrats were in charge of the Titanic, they would have issued passengers buckets to bail out water on the sinking ocean liner instead of telling people to get into the life boats.

The analogy fits with Uncle Ted’s economic lesson for today: No business is too big to fail.

Mismanagement, poor forecasting and bad business deals can sink any business.

In my beloved hometown of Detroit, our historic automobile industry is in deep financial trouble due to these very self-inflicted, inescapable reasons. Choices were made, now prices will be paid.

Bailouts for banks, insurance companies and now the automobile industry is the wrong approach for a nation whose engine is the free market and capitalism.

Furthermore, America does not have a trillion dollars or more to bail out sinking businesses. We have to borrow that money from other nations, some of them our avowed enemies. Clever.

Not in Constitution

Paging through my dog-eared copy of the U.S. Constitution, I find no reference that even remotely states that the federal government is responsible for providing taxpayers’ cash to keep a business afloat.

Moreover, the genesis of our financial morass has to do with Fedzilla’s meddling in the housing sector — an absolute brain-dead law that forced banks to make high-risk loans to people with little or no credit .

Only Fedzilla can create a problem, then propose more absurd laws and meaningless regulations to keep the very problem it created from happening again.

What a scam.

Fedzilla is not ever to be trusted to make wise and judicious decisions regarding our tax dollars. There are literally thousands of examples of Fedzilla fraud, waste and mismanagement of our tax dollars.

America’s broke

America is not going broke. We are broke. Factor in the $10 trillion debt we have accumulated and the coming fiscal storm of our financial obligations for Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement programs and America owes $53 trillion that we do not have. That equates to about $175,000 for every man, woman and child in America.

Now Fedzilla wants to dig this hole a little deeper by bailing out who knows how many other industries and businesses that fall on hard times.

The retailer Circuit City is in financial trouble. Is it too big to fail? When does the bailout insanity end? Americans who have saved for their retirements have watched their savings shrink by 30 or 40 percent.

Not one of you would loan any of your personal money to Fedzilla because you know the idiots who run the government asylum in D.C. would probably waste it or lose it.

So, if you would not loan these idiots money, why should they be able to lend our money to businesses?

Stop Fedzilla from meddling in the free market and let capitalism solve free-market problems.

Source: Waco Tribune

My 2009 resolution revolution

2009-01-11T20:11:00Z

Toward upgrading ourselves, they're personal, national

With a salty, melancholy tear dripping from my overworked, bloodshot eyeballs, I bade a farewell to a most wonderful 2008.

Yes, 2008 - meaning Young Ted had been raising maximum hell and having the time of his life an amazing 60 years from its start.

Sixty. It's truly outrageous - the Defiant One carrying on with no signs of slowing down.

I had the most intense, enjoyable, pure animal rocking concert tour of my life. I enjoyed the kind of target-rich, protein-tsunami hunting season of which dreams are made. I had another New York Times best seller - Ted, White, and Blue.

My "Spirit of the Wild" was the No. 1-rated TV show on the Outdoor Channel again. I was inducted into the American Bowhunters Hall Of Fame alongside my many "mystical flight of the arrow" BloodBrother heroes.

Health, family, friends, happiness and dreams aglow with no end in sight. How possible? No mystery here. It's all so very simple. I work hard and give it all I've got each and every day. No excuses, no whining, no compromise, no cutting corners. I ask not what my country must do for me, but rather what I must do for my country.

For this new year, I think I will stick with my proven modus operandi of excellence - only bigger and better.

Upgrade: It's good for you. Pursuant, I will:

Work harder and smarter, maximize and prioritize to all new heights.
Eat even smarter, though my basic diet is exceptional.
Exercise a little more.
Give even more of my time to quality charities.
Increase my "we the people" activism to turn up the heat on politicians and bureaucrats across the land, demanding logic and accountability from corrupt government goons.
Continue to give away many National Rifle Association memberships to the deserving.
Teach and recruit more people into the world of shooting sports and our glorious outdoor hunting, fishing and trapping conservation lifestyle.
Give away many guns and much ammo to loving family and friends.
Buy another machine gun and pallets of ammo for myself, and shoot till I can't stand it anymore.
Plant more trees.
Encourage everyone to be more conservative and conscientious in their consumption to reduce the gluttonous waste exhibited by so many Americans.
Raise as much hell as I can to expose the dangerous, counterproductive lies of the global-warming fraud.
Eat more wild game.
Hug and kiss Mrs. Nugent more, if that's possible - and bring her flowers more often.
Shop locally and patronize more neighborhood small businesses.
Intensify efforts to get friends to quit smoking and eating dangerously.
Jam louder and more ferociously on my guitars as a musical prayer to create the ultimate soundtrack for the U.S. military heroes to finally wrap up this war on terror, which they are ready, willing and able to do if only the spineless, dysfunctional bureaucrats would just unleash them to do so.

I hereby resolve that overall, my gifted life in 2009 will be more intense and gratifying than ever before.

Israel's Path To Peace

2009-01-06T20:56:00Z

There comes a point when violence is clearly the only answer. Peace most often throughout history is achieved through the application of relentless and superior firepower. Now is such a time for Israel.

Israel must defeat utterly the rabid, voodoo vermin known as Hamas. After launching more than three thousand rockets and mortars into Israel within the last year, Israel has every right and obligation to destroy Hamas. No nation can be expected to tolerate such a bombardment.

Cease-fires and negotiations never last with terrorist scumpunks because evil, hateful terrorists do not want to live in peace: they worship violence and don’t see their opponents -- be it us or the Israelis -- as human beings. Hamas, Hizballah and other soulless people such as Iran's Ahmadinijad apply vicious religious voodoo logic by believing killing non-Muslims, especially Jews, pleases Allah. Never forget these voodoo killers have vowed the complete destruction of Israel.

The world should know that Hamas started this latest round of violence by launching missiles into Israel. A December 29 article in the New York Times reported that Hamas has fired over 10,000 rockets and mortars into Israel since 2001. Failing to destroy Hamas today will only embolden these cockroaches to launch even more rockets and mortars at Israel tomorrow.

Let us be honest: mankind will be much better off when Israel destroys Hamas' strongholds in Gaza and captures or kills all of the Hamas militants and those who support them. Like all cockroaches, the only good terrorist is a dead one.

Total warfare is the answer if Israel is committed to protecting its people and breaking the back of the Hamas terrorists and the network that supports them. Not the kind of Donald Rumsfeld "Shock & Awe-shucks" selective warfare, but rather the General Sherman "scorched earth" military policies that broke the back of the Confederacy during our Civil War.

Israel shouldn't stop its offensive until the Hamas terrorists are dead and those who support terrorism accept the fact that they’ve been defeated. Wipe them out. That would send a powerful message to other terrorist scumpunks, voodoo regimes, despots and tyrants; "Don't tread on me."

By intentionally sacrificing much of Gaza and as many of their voodoo stooges as possible, Hamas is hoping to unite the Arab world against Israel and start another all-out war. Not surprisingly, terrorist leaders from Iran and Hizballah support Hamas. Punks of a terrorist feather flock together and should be shot down like the toxic crows that they are.

As I write this, Israel has so far turned a deaf ear to international pressure from the white-flag-waving French to suspend their air assault on Hamas. Good. Listening to the French is rarely a good idea. And they’ve done just what they should by sending ground forces in to root out the Hamas networks, seize or destroy their arsenal of missiles and defeat them decisively.

One of the biggest problems Israel and America face is the fact that Hamas and other terrorist groups find safe havens among the terrorist nations. Khaled Meshaal, the head of Hamas, isn’t sticking his scrawny neck out in Gaza. He lives in comfort and safety in Damascus, Syria. Which means Israel can’t win in Gaza without going into Syria and taking out the terrorist networks there. Hamas isn’t alone in Syria: the biggest and most dangerous terrorist organization -- the Iranian-backed Hizballah -- is there, too.

In truth, Israel can’t win in Gaza: but it can win in Syria and Iran.

Peace remains the ultimate objective in the Middle East, but rabid dogs such as the militants who compose Hamas, Hezbollah and dangerous regimes such as Iran can not, must not be tolerated by civilized nations and and true peace-loving people. These voodoo-inspired terrorists must have no seat at the peace table because they do not respect peace.

Peace can sometimes only be achieved through superior firepower. The civilized world must completely support Israel in their efforts to exterminate Hamas and end its operations for good and all. What say you, Mr. President-elect? Whose side are you on?

Source: Human Events

Bailout Has Lemon Scent

2009-01-04T21:54:00Z

Want to bail out the auto industry? First consider these two rules for living:

* Never reward negative behavior unless you want more of it.

* Never throw good money after bad.

That should settle the debate. Taxpayers shouldn't bail out the automobile industry or any other industry.

There is constitutional authority for the decades of poor management decisions, forecasting and labor deals that have put GM, the nation's largest automobile maker, perilously close to going belly-up.

The $700 billion bailout Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is to be used only for bailing out financial institutions, not automobile companies skating on thin financial ice.

If he is a good and honest steward of taxpayer dollars, Treasury Secretary Paulson will deny the Big Three's request to be included in TARP.

Congress created a $25 billion loan program through the Department of Energy to help the Big Three. This loan program should be utilized by the Big Three instead of wanting to be included in TARP.

GM, Ford and Chrysler are sinking ships. With cash reserves dwindling, their only viable option is to try and stay afloat in these turbulent economic seas through bankruptcy.

It isn't a question of if GM will file for bankruptcy protection but, rather when. Bankruptcy will provide GM the necessary protection and some time to possibly turn a dying automotive dinosaur into a smaller, lithe, profitable company that is sized for its shrunken market share. "Possibly" being the operative word.

For their protection

Filing Chapter 11 protection protects GM from itself. Bankruptcy could free GM from costly labor contracts, provide them the opportunity to restructure hugely expensive pension programs and renegotiate health benefits. Other unprofitable assets could also be amputated.

Should GM emerge from the bankruptcy operating table with a heartbeat, odds are GM is never going to be the global automotive giant it once was. The automotive world is much more competitive than, say, 40 years ago when GM, Chrysler and Ford ruled the automotive world from my beloved Motor City.

While the UAW may believe GM, Ford and Chrysler are in business to provide automotive workers a salary and other costly benefits, the reality is that car companies are in business to make a profit.

The UAW's costly benefit demands over the years coupled with weak automotive management who historically caved into the UAW's demands put the automotive bolts to the shareholders and the Big Three on the path to possible extinction.

Contrary to Michael Moore's disingenuous and anti-free-market automotive movie Roger and Me , profit must drive all business decisions. Even a goofy guitar player knows that a business that fails to focus on profits and does not constantly look to the future ultimately is going out of business.

Those of us who have lived and worked in and around the Motor City have watched it slowly rust into oblivion over the past 25 years.

The decline of the Motor City should be used as a case study in every business school in America on how not to sink an industry and destroy a city in the process with denial-driven feelgood, liberal suicide policies.

Bailing out GM with billions of taxpayer dollars is the wrong approach. GM is not too big to fail. What GM may be is too unprofitable to stay in business.

Source: Waco Tribune

Happy Nuge Year

2008-12-31T20:58:00Z

With a salty, melancholy tear dripping from my overworked, bloodshot eyeballs, I bid a heartfelt farewell and emotional adios to a most wonderful 2008. 2008 mind you! Young Ted still raising maximum hell and having the time of his life all these amazing sixty years later. Sixty! God love that unstoppable, effervescent American Dream.

Truly outrageous if you dare to really think about it. Me, the Defiant One, carrying on with no signs of slowing down. This year, I had the most intense, enjoyable, pure animal rocking concert tour of my life. And on top of that was a target rich, protein-tsunami hunting season that dreams are made of. Another New York Times best seller.

Our “Spirit of the Wild” is the number one-rated TV show on Outdoor Channel again. Being inducted into the prestigious American Bowhunters Hall Of Fame right alongside my many “mystical flight of the arrow” BloodBrother heroes. Health, family, friends, happiness and dreams aglow with no end in sight. Wild as wild can get!

No mystery here. It is all so very simple, it's stupid. I work hard and give it all I got each and every day. No excuses, no whining, no compromise, no cutting corners. I ask not what my country must do for me, but rather what I must do for my country. Call me weird. The best or nothing, period. I think I will stick with my proven modus operandi of excellence for a throttling 2009. Only bigger and better.

That's right, I shall turn up the heat in 09. Upgrade; it is good for you. Work harder and smarter, maximize and prioritize everything to new heights. Though my basic diet is exceptional, I will eat smarter and exercise a little more. I am going to give even more of my time to quality charities. It is my New Year's revolution Resolution to increase my "we the people" activism to turn up the heat on politicians and bureaucrats across the land, demanding logic and accountability from corrupt government goons.

In 2009, my cockroach spotlight will burn like never before and my size 12 workboots will dance upon the scrambling vermin in a mash-stomp ballet of liberty and justice for all.

Now that’s an upgrade.

I will continue to give away many NRA memberships as gifts to the deserving. I will teach and recruit more new folks into the wonderful world of the American shooting sports and our glorious outdoor hunting, fishing and trapping conservation lifestyle. I will give away many guns and much ammo as gifts to loving family and friends. I will buy another machinegun and pallets of ammo for myself and shoot till I can't stand it anymore. I will wallow in hot brass.

I will plant more trees and encourage everyone I know to be more conservative and conscientious of their consumerism in order to reduce the gluttonous waste of so many Americans. I will raise as much hell as I can to expose the dangerous, counterproductive lies of the global warming fraud. I will eat more wild game.

I will hug and kiss Mrs. Nugent more, if that’s possible. I will bring her more flowers more often.

I will shop locally and patronize more neighborhood small businesses.

My efforts to get my friends to quit smoking and eating dangerously will intensify, because I love them.

I am going to jam louder and more ferociously on my guitars as a musical prayer to create the ultimate soundtrack for the US Military heroes to finally wrap up this war on terror, which they are ready, willing and able to do if only the spineless dysfunctional bureaucrats would just unleash them to do so.

I do hereby resolve that overall, my gifted life in 2009 will be more intense and gratifying than ever before. I remain in charge and shall make it happen. Anything less would be foolish.

Happy New Year America. Live it up. Go Wild. God bless America.

Source: Human Events

Merry Christmas from Uncle Ted

2008-12-25T21:01:00Z

Merry Christmas to all! The Nugents are doing fine, thank you. Enough about us.

This time of year always brings up the question from many youngsters to their parents asking if there really is a Santa Claus. The following is a little something I write for my grandchildren, but I hope it will help you explain to other kids, big and small, that Santa Claus is very real.

Santa Claus is an alive spirit -- something you can't necessarily see or touch -- but rather a loving, selfless, giving spirit that rests within the hearts and souls of good people everywhere.

You can see Santa Claus if you pay attention and look closely. Look inside a U.S. Marines Corps Toys for Tots truck, and you will find piles of new toys on their way to kids who might not otherwise receive anything for Christmas. Santa Claus put them there. U.S. Marines will deliver them.

Look at the grocery cart near the exit door at the grocery store that has a sign on it requesting a donation of food to the less fortunate. The cart will be full this time of year. The store will need to put our more carts as Christmas draws near. Santa Claus filled those carts with food.

Listen for the Salvation Army bell ringers who stand in front of stores ringing their bells. Watch people drop their hard earned money into Salvation Army buckets and go about their business. What you are seeing is Santa Claus in action.

Local newspapers, television and radio stations have programs to collect donations to help the less fortunate in your community. If so, watch the tally grow and grow to thousands and thousands of dollars. Santa Claus donated that money.

You will hear reports throughout the Christmas season on radio or read in newspapers about acts of kindness by strangers to help a neighbor in need. That stranger’s name is Santa Claus.

There are thousands and thousands of nameless people who donate money throughout the year to help defeat cancer and other health problems. They also have a name: Santa Claus.

Tons of gifts and millions of Christmas cards are being sent by anonymous Americans to our courageous U.S. Military heroes overseas. Santa Claus sent those gifts and cards to our brave men and women in uniform.

Companies all across America donate money and products to homeless shelters and other charities to help the less fortunate. Santa Claus is alive and well in those companies.

There are of millions of people who have the spirit of Santa Claus deep in their hearts, as they know that the true meaning of Christmas is about giving, not receiving. As we are preparing to celebrate Jesus' birthday, remember that He commanded us to love our neighbors as ourselves. With that simple request, the spirit of Santa Claus was born.

The Nugent family, like so many American families, don't necessarily wait for Christmas to give, but we do kick it up a notch or ten at this spiritual time of year. Burning inside us all is the drive to do good and give. The Christmas spirit is alive and well. Santa Clause is coming to town. Merry Christmas America, to one and all.

Source: Human Events

Santa Takes Many Forms

2008-12-21T18:51:00Z

Merry Christmas to all! The Nugents are doing fine, thank you. Enough about us.

This time of year always brings up the question from many youngsters to their parents asking if there really is a Santa Claus. The following is a little something I write for my grandchildren, but I hope it will help you explain to other kids, big and small, that Santa Claus is very real.

Santa Claus is an alive spirit — something you can't necessarily see or touch — but rather a loving, selfless, giving spirit that rests within the hearts and souls of good people everywhere.

You can see Santa Claus if you pay attention and look closely.

Look inside a U.S. Marines Corps Toys for Tots truck and you'll find piles of new toys on their way to kids who might not otherwise receive anything for Christmas. Santa Claus put them there. U.S. Marines will deliver them.

Look at the cart near the exit door at the grocery store that has a sign on it requesting a donation of food to the less fortunate. The cart will be full this time of year. The store will need to put out more carts as Christmas draws near. Santa Claus filled those carts with food.

Listen for the Salvation Army bell ringers who stand in front of stores ringing their bells. Watch people drop their hard-earned money into Salvation Army buckets and go about their business. What you are seeing is Santa Claus in action.

Local newspapers, television and radio stations have programs to collect donations to help the less fortunate in your community. If so, watch the tally grow and grow to thousands and thousands of dollars.

Santa Claus donated that money.

Acts of kindness

You will hear reports throughout the Christmas season on radio or read in newspapers about acts of kindness by strangers to help a neighbor in need. That stranger's name is Santa Claus.

You will hear reports throughout the Christmas season on radio or read in newspapers about acts of kindness by strangers to help a neighbor in need. That stranger's name is Santa Claus.

Thousands and thousands of nameless people donate money throughout the year to help defeat cancer and confront other health problems.

They also have a name: Santa Claus.

Tons of gifts and millions of Christmas cards are being sent by anonymous Americans to our courageous U.S. military heroes overseas. Santa Claus sent those gifts and cards to our brave men and women in uniform.

Companies all across America donate money and products to homeless shelters and other charities to help the less fortunate. Santa Claus is alive and well in those companies.

Those who have the spirit of Santa Claus deep in their hearts know that the true meaning of Christmas is about giving, not receiving.

As we prepare to celebrate Jesus' birthday, remember that He commanded us to love our neighbors as ourselves. With that simple request the spirit of Santa Claus was born.

The Nugents, like so many American families, don't necessarily wait for Christmas to give. But we do kick it up a notch or ten at this spiritual time of year.

Burning inside us all is the drive to do good and give. The Christmas spirit is alive and well. Santa Clause is coming to town. Merry Christmas, America, to one and all.

Traitor Tamm

2008-12-19T18:40:00Z

I’ve got a big problem with newspapers who put American lives at risk by publishing our nation’s secrets. But that’s nothing compared to what I think should be done to the people -- trusted people within our government -- who leak our secrets.

If I can borrow a little from by blood brother Willie Nelson, we should send ‘em all to their Maker and he’ll settle ‘em down.

Government employees entrusted with our national secrets are morally, ethically, logically and legally required to keep them secret. Those employees who intentionally leak national secrets should -- no, must -- be charged with a crime and prosecuted with the seriousness of the offense. It is a federal felony to knowingly compromise national secrets.

Those who leak or sell government secrets are traitors, pure and simple. What I’ve never been able to understand is why the Justice Department can’t get the best FBI people to find these guys and prosecute them. None of the leakers -- that’s right, not one of ‘em -- has been prosecuted in the last eight years despite some of the hugest leaks ever.

Now we know the name of one of the leakers.

Thomas "the Traitor" Tamm, a former Department of Justice lawyer, tipped off the New York Times about a secret government operation conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) to monitor and track potential terrorist maggots through their e-mail, phone calls and financial transactions. Traitor Tamm did this because, in his own words, "something didn't smell right" about it.

I am a huge fan of whistleblowers wherever they may blow, but in the war on terror, national security is Job One for anyone with a soul.

What does smell right is that Traitor Tamm is a federal felon who deserves to be charged by the Department of Justice for compromising national secrets, and he’s still walking the streets.

Instead of vigorously reporting through his chain of command and appropriate federal government whistleblower chain of what he thought was potentially an illegal operation, Traitor Tamm instead disclosed the sensitive terrorist program to the New York Times, an entity whose allegiance is already suspect.

In some recent interviews with Newsweek, Traitor Tamm stated "I thought this was something the other branches of the government and the public ought to know about so they could decide: Do they want this massive spying program to be taking place?"

Traitor Tamm had worked in a secret unit that oversees surveillance of terrorist and espionage punks. Working with this secret unit is where Traitor Tamm discovered the highly sensitive NSA operation of tracking terrorists and potential terrorists in America through eavesdropping on international phone calls and e-mails.

It was not that Traitor Tamm was just concerned that the secret operation may be illegal that he illegally leaked the operation to the New York Times. I also read that Traitor Tamm was angry at the Bush Justice Department for aggressively pursuing death penalty cases and for interrogation techniques that some believe constitute torture. Ideological differences aside, it is never justification to leak classified information about government operations.

Traitor Tamm is really no different than any other spy such as Aldrich Ames who compromised national secrets for cash and got a number of our spies killed. Traitor Tamm leaked classified information because he did not like the odor of the program. Regardless of rational, Traitor Tamm is as guilty as Aldrich Ames.

The United States can not possibly hope to defeat those monsters who want to kill us if we have government employees with access to classified information who run to the press every time they come across classified information or programs that they may not agree with. Their moral, ethical and possibly legal objections to classified programs is never reason to leak it to the press. For that very reason, people who compromise classified information -- for whatever reason -- should be vigorously prosecuted. Failing to prosecute them will send the wrong message to others with access to our most sensitive information.

I encourage whistle blowers at all levels. God only knows we need more of them to expose the wasteful, toxic underbelly of Fedzilla. However, leaking classified information is something altogether different. Compromising classified information can get Americans killed and aid and abet our enemies. That is the worst sort of crime, and those who commit it should be sent away for life.

We can debate whether or not the NSA's program was legal or not. What is not debatable is that Traitor Tamm leaked classified information and that is a felony.

Let us all hope and pray that Traitor Tamm's compromising of the NSA's secret program does not put America more at risk of a terrorist attack. And let’s hope that someone in the Justice Department gets off his behind and puts this guy in jail where he belongs.

Gun-Free Zone a Crime Unto Itself

2008-12-14T18:49:00Z

There is no bigger advocate for criminal control than me, so long as we do not go about manufacturing criminals out of otherwise law-abiding people.

Enter New York Giants player Plaxico Burress. He accidentally blew a hole in his leg with his Glock handgun while in a New York City nightclub. His list of crimes against responsible gun handling is too long to share with you here. He's a Numbnut of the Year award winner.

Ah, but this is even more idiotic: New York City is going to throw the Sullivan Gun Law book at Burress for merely having a handgun.

Only a select few people are given permits to carry a gun in the Big Apple. For this, Burress could get quite a few years at the Cross Bars Hotel.

Criminal thugs, of course, are not deterred from carrying guns by New York City's draconian gun laws. Mayor Blowhard Bloomberg and other Big Apple elected buffoons who forbid NYC citizens from defending themselves are complicit in turning innocent, law-abiding citizens into defenseless victims.

By review: Gun-free zones, are a murderer's dream zone.

With the recent Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, Burress' legal sharks should argue that New York City's restrictions violate the Second Amendment.

While the media spotlight has been on Burress, a little-reported story is more telling.

St. Louis Alderman Charles Quincy Troupe stated that people should indeed get guns and carry them in order to protect themselves, as cops clearly can't be everywhere. His point is undeniable.

Our Founding Fathers wrote extensively about a person's right and obligation to carry a gun for self-defense. To be unarmed and helpless is irresponsible. In the eyes of everyone I know, it is unforgivable.

The world watched in horror as terrorists in Mumbai, India, killed almost 200 people and wounded more than 300 others. The unarmed victims were slaughtered like defenseless sheep. It took Indian SWAT teams hours to even begin to respond and more than three days to finally wipe out the killers. I like bad guys wiped out before the carnage.

Attack coming soon

Terrorism and security experts all expect America to be hit again soon. While I salute President Bush, our intelligence agencies and lawmen who have prevented these monsters from attacking us for eight years, we all know such an event is not a matter of "if" but "when." Therefore, it is incumbent for our laws to allow us the means to protect ourselves from these terror monsters.

Imagine terrorists simultaneously attacking a number of hotels in Manhattan, or an event at Madison Square Garden or Central Park. As good as they are, it would take hours or days for the New York City's finest to kill or capture all of the terrorists.

Now try to imagine the same scenario if New York City residents were allowed to carry guns to protect themselves. At least they would have a fighting chance. Not today.

Thanks to its well-body-guarded mayor and other anti-freedom bureaucrats, New York City residents would be as helpless as the victims in Mumbai.

Prosecuting Burress and others for carrying a gun sends a message to terrorists: "Come to the Big Apple. We're defenseless."

Bankruptcy Now or Later?

2008-12-11T18:38:00Z

There are two key things to remember when considering bailing out the automobile industry.

First, never reward destructive behavior unless you want more of it. Second, never throw good money after bad.

Taxpayers should not be held accountable to bailout the automobile industry or any other industry for that matter. There is constitutional authority for the decades of poor management decisions, forecasting and labor deals that have put GM, the U.S.'s largest automobile maker, perilously close to going belly up.

That constitutional authority is the basic freedom everyone in America has: to succeed or fail on your own, and accept the consequences or the benefits.

The $700 billion bailout Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was to be used only for bailing out financial institutions, not automobile companies skating on thin financial ice. If he is a good and honest steward of taxpayer dollars, Treasury Secretary Paulson will deny the
Big Three's request to be included in TARP.

Congress created a $25 billion loan program through the Department of Energy to help the Big Three. This loan program should be utilized by the Big Three instead of wanting to be included in TARP.

GM, Ford and Chrysler are sinking ships. With cash reserves dwindling, their only viable option is to try and stay afloat in these turbulent economic seas is bankruptcy.

Truth be told, it is not a question of if GM will file for bankruptcy protection, but rather when. Bankruptcy will provide GM the necessary protection and some time to possibly turn a dying automotive dinosaur into a smaller, lithe, profitable company that is sized for its shrunken market share. "Possibly" being the operative word.

Filing Chapter 11 protection protects GM from itself. Bankruptcy could free GM from costly labor contracts, provide them the opportunity to restructure hugely expensive pension programs, and renegotiate health benefits. Other unprofitable assets could also be amputated. Bankruptcy puts all options on the operating table to try and stop the massive bleeding of cash.

Should GM emerge from the bankruptcy operating table with a heart beat, odds are GM is never going to be the global automotive giant it once was. The automotive world is much more competitive than, say, forty years ago when GM, Chrysler and Ford ruled the automotive world from my beloved Motor City.

While the UAW may believe GM, Ford and Chrysler are in business to provide automotive workers a salary and other costly benefits, the reality is that car companies are in business to make a profit. Period. Write that down.

The UAW's costly benefit demands over the years coupled with weak automotive management who historically caved into the UAW's demands put the automotive bolts, so to speak, to the shareholders and, to a certain degree, has put the Big Three on the path to possible extinction.

Contrary to Michael Moore's disingenuous and anti-free market automotive movie (Roger and Me), profit must drive all business decisions. Even a goofy guitar player knows that a business that fails to focus on profits and does not constantly look to the future to open up new markets, develop new products and upgrade services for a changing world, cutting costs, etc., is a business that is ultimately going out of business.

Those of us who have lived and worked in and around the Motor City have watched it slowly rust into oblivion over the last twenty-five years. The decline of the Motor City should be used as a case study in every business school in America on how not to sink an industry and destroy a city in the process with denial driven feelgood liberal suicide policies.

Bailing out GM with billions of taxpayer dollars is the wrong approach. GM is not too big to fail. What GM may be is too unprofitable to stay in business.

Less Government Is More Better

2008-12-08T18:34:00Z

If the conservative movement is looking for a new standard bearer, a new champion, I have a suggestion: Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas).

Congressman Gohmert is a new hero of mine. He is my kind of independent Texan and why the Nugent family are now proud residents of the last best place in the last best place.

Unlike Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who wants to toss the second installment of the $350 billion taxpayer dollar bailout at Wall Street and hope that this massive wad of cash sticks and does something positive for the economy, Congressman Gohmert instead wants to give Americans a two-month tax holiday for this upcoming January and February. This real American also advocates that taxpayers should pay no federal income taxes for 2008. This guy gives me hope.

I suggest we build a monument to Congressman Gohmert on the Capital Mall for just proposing these great ideas.

That's right, a two month, $350 billion tax holiday and no income taxes for January and February 2009. This would be massive wads of your money staying in your pockets where it belongs, surely doing more for the sagging economy than using it to bailout Wall Street or the automotive industry.

Of course Fedzilla bureaucrats such as Speaker Pelosi, Sen. Reid and others will fight Congressman Gohmert's proposal because they believe Fedzilla knows how to better spend your money than you do. This arrogant attitude by Fedzilla-addicted zombies is always the problem, never the solution.

Fedzilla rarely gets anything right. Need proof? Quick, name three specific things Fedzilla has spent your money on that you believe was a wise use of your tax dollars.

Congressman Gohmert understands that reducing the size of Fedzilla is the key to an American economic revival. Federal income taxes, FICA, state income taxes, death taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, gas taxes, permit taxes, license taxes, registration taxes, hidden taxes, etc etc etc are what is truly killing the American economy. When Fedzilla takes half of what we earn, it is not surprising that Americans are not saving anything.

Tax cuts are always the answer to jump-starting the economy. It appears even President-elect Obama is beginning to see that simple economic truism.

Taxpayers are partially to blame for the financial mess created by Fedzilla. We have sat idly by and drank the bureaucratic Kool-Aid brewed by Fedzilla and slowly surrendered our financial independence to big government bureaucrats. Shame on us. We should have been snarling watchdogs of the bureaucrats with our tax dollars stuffed in their bloated wallets instead of soulless, disconnected, apathetic accomplice lapdogs.

If President-elect Obama is the new political messiah to millions of Americans who do not know how the economy works or why tax cuts are always good for the economy, then Congressman Gohmert is a new superhero to millions of Americans who want to put Fedzilla on a diet and return the tax dollars to the people who earned them.

Thomas Jefferson said it best; "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

Ya think?

Congressman Gohmert's refreshing tax proposals is a breath of financial fresh air. I would like to hear more from Congressman Gohmert on how he would tackle our trillions of debt, privatizing and fixing Social Security and Medicare, and the rest of our foolish economic house of cards.

What America needs now more that ever is more elected officials like Congressman Gohmert who understand that individuals and businesses are the engine that drives our economy, not a bloated, ineffective, lethargic, wasteful Fedzilla who destroys everything it touches.

More government bailouts and spending is not the answer. It is the problem.

Go to www.TaxHolidayPlan.com to sign a petition supporting Gohmert's plan.

Combination of outdoors, beautiful woman intoxicating

2008-12-07T18:55:00Z

That last light of the day, when the beautiful ball of golden fire beneath the western horizon burns that magic shine on the world, is some of God's ultimate eye candy.

But viewed from a tall treestand in game country, it may very well be one of the most gorgeous moments in life.

Now, add to this inspiring setting, that same special light glimmering upon the flowing blond locks of a svelte young woman next to me. I am here to tell you that I am not sure I can control myself.

But viewed from a tall treestand in game country, it may very well be one of the most gorgeous moments in life.

Now, add to this inspiring setting, that same special light glimmering upon the flowing blond locks of a svelte young woman next to me. I am here to tell you that I am not sure I can control myself.

The final stimulating ingredient putting the whole deal over the top would be a bow and arrow in her hands. To this, I simply must look to the heavens and pray. Truly, I am not worthy.

This is how I know conclusively that God must love me madly, for I get to repeat this dream numerous times each fall and winter as the humble guide, servant/vidcam dude for the world's sexiest bowhunter: Mrs. Backstrap, my gorgeous wife, the queen of the forest, Shemane.

I'm lucky I can hold the camera steady and find the record button without falling out of the tree. Trouper that I am, I take a deep breath, review my responsibilities for our "Spirit of the Wild" TV show on Outdoor Channel, and do my best capturing it on video for the world to see. World, you owe me.

Fair game

Shemane has become one of the most professional, dedicated, deadly bowhunters I know.

She puts her heart and soul into learning all there is about wildlife, conservation and, ultimately, about the healthiest lifestyle and diet available to mankind.

As a hands-on environmentalist, she knows that killing deer is the perfect thing to do, and she is really good at it.

Having never touched a bow or gun in her life prior to our meeting back in 1988, she was nonetheless a gung-ho athlete and one smart cookie. She'd won medals and awards in swimming and ATV racing.

Though raised as a city kid, her love of the outdoors, boating, skiing, hiking and off-roading proved nearly as strong as her love for shopping and fashion.

It turned out that she was on a collision course with the last of the Mohicans, a strange character, some say a dangerous man from another time and place, the WhackMaster, the MotorCity MadMan, Uncle Ted, Rev. Theodocious Atrocious, LoudMan, Captain Backstrap.

Exercising his kindest manners, he would sweep her off her feet — some say she simply felt sorry for me — and lead her down the glorious path to spiritual redemption via the mystical flight of the arrow.

Say hallelujah.

Maybe Mrs. N wouldn't characterize the whole ordeal exactly like that. But once the initial shock wore off she indeed plunged full tilt into the world of bow hunting.

Baptized on a youth recurve bow, at a short-range 15 feet from a large Olympic-type bale target, she grasped killer archery form in a mere few minutes.

She now brings home the bacon nearly every time she hunts. She mentors kids and other women into the soul-cleansing outdoor lifestyle, and I am in love with her more now than ever.

She is doing God's work with the bow and arrow, and I thank Him every day for bringing my best hunting buddy into my life.

Kids Need Pets; Pets Need Kids

2008-11-30T18:03:00Z

Young Ted was about to pass out from out-of-control hysterical laughter. Duke, the dog of my childhood — big, strong, lovable, a black Labrador/retriever Weimaraner mix — was pulling me wildly in my Red Flyer wagon across the vacant field, bouncing dangerously over every bump and rock.

Fortunately, no damage was done during this adventurous outing of a boy and his dog.

It's one of so many memories still alive and making me smile more than 50 years later.

I look back at the many dogs in my life and know that my experiences with them have brought me much happiness.

Additionally, as a child I learned critical lessons about responsibilities properly caring for animals.

The same has applied to my kids. The fun factor with pets is extremely entertaining, but it is the list of required duties and chores — fresh water, good food and a warm, secure, dry shelter that really brings home critical lessons — that makes pet ownership a character-building experience.

Seeing someone's dog chained up day after day, week after week under a dead tree with no shade in rutted dirt, I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so uncaring and heartless.

Not a day goes by that we in my family fail to run and play with our dogs, giving them ample opportunity to stretch their legs and just be dogs.

Brushing and grooming them is a pleasant activity and actually keeps their coat and skin healthy. Everybody takes turns and the dogs love it.

Since all are gung ho hunting dogs, it is vital for them to remain in tip-top shape to be prepared for the rigors of our long hunting seasons.

Daily practice sessions of commands and retrieving sequences teach them obedience. This interaction assures also they'll be unlikely to get in trouble, lost or, worse, get into life-threatening situations with traffic or other dogs.

And again, the dogs get such a kick out of it all, as do we.

Caring for our dogs

A good quality vitamin routine is a solid idea too, especially if you have working dogs that are required to be physically active.

The same goes for flea and tick treatments, especially in Texas where bugs seem to come in clouds and waves.

A good quality flea powder along with cedar or pine chips and shavings will make the dog comfortable, stay a little cooler in the heat, and discourage ticks and creepy crawlers from hitching a ride.

Roomy kennels are always best with a concrete slab on a minimal angle for good water drainage. Adequate shade is imperative under the baking Texas sunshine year round, but an insulated dog house with good wind cutting design will be necessary when those winter temperatures begin to dip.

All this basic care is essential, but it is the time spent with our beloved pets that really brings it all home for us.

A genuine bonding takes place between pets and young owners who really put their hearts and souls into responsible pet ownership.

A youngster who is guided and taught this basic love becomes a better person. Kids and pets: a match made in heaven.

Source: Waco Tribune

Thanksgiving Every Day

2008-11-27T15:00:00Z

The terrible economy has taken its toll on a number of hard working Americans and their families. It is incumbent upon each of us to do what we can to assist our fellow citizens in getting back in the American Dream free market race.

My recommendation is that each of us identify an individual or family who is down on their luck and do whatever we can to pull them out of the economic ditch they have temporarily slid into.

With the Holiday Season upon us, Americans will be deluged with requests from any number of charities and agencies to help the poor. Mind you, I fully subscribe to Christ's admonition to help the poor, and like everybody I know, we will give and give and give. It is simply the American Way.

What I do not subscribe to, however, is helping those poor people who refuse to help themselves and who constantly look for a hand out instead of a hand up.

America has a chronic class of self-inflicted poor people. By and large, they are poor because they have made poor life choices. In too many cases, poor parents pass on their poor values and choices to their children. Poverty then becomes generational, a way of life. Trying to break the cycle of chronic poverty when Fedzilla does whatever it can to sustain it is analogous to trying to melt an iceberg with a match.

Through an out of control orgy of so-called government assistance programs over the past 50 years designed to eliminate poverty, the exact opposite has occurred. In all of its bureaucratic, bloated bufoonery, Fedzilla has exacerbated the problem of poverty instead of eliminating it. The very Fedzilla programs designed to help the disadvantaged instead stripped them of their work ethic, pride, family structures and wrecked their communities. Quite simply, Fedzilla destroyed their work ethic by rewarding irresponsibility and thereby encouraged the chronic class of poverty. Nice going.

Crime, drug use, high school drop out rates, single parent families, known destructive lifestyles, etc, is a plague that has enveloped our cities. I can not think of a social or cultural rot that can not be attributed to Fedzilla meddling.

No amount of charitable giving is going to reverse this decay. In fact, if we are truly interested in helping the chronically poor, we should immediately stop all local, state and federal funds and programs designed to help the poor. We should immediately reverse course and get Fedzilla out of their lives and communities.

Once Fedzilla is kicked out of their lives, family, churches, civic organizations and neighbors should offer a hand to help them out of the poverty hole. Fedzilla has only offered the chronic poor a shovel and encouraged them to dig their hole deeper.

I refuse to throw my hard earned money into the chronic poor abyss and "hope" it will "change" the condition of the chronic poor. I know better. I would get more from my money by setting twenty dollar bills on fire and having a marshmallow roast.

Instead, during the Holiday Season, the Nugent family will do whatever we can to help a family or two who is temporarily down on their luck but who wants to help themselves, their community and our country. We implore you to do the same. That is the American barn-raising spirit that built this country.

Happy Thanksgiving, America. May God bestow a special Thanksgiving blessing on America's military warriors and their families.

Source: HumanEvents.com

How Not To Help The Poor

2008-11-23T15:00:00Z

By Ted Nugent, Texas Wildman

The terrible economy has taken its toll on a number of hard-working Americans and their families. It is incumbent upon each of us to do what we can to assist our fellow citizens in getting back in the American Dream free-market race.

My recommendation is that each of us identify a family down on its luck and do whatever we can to pull that family out of the economic ditch into which it's temporarily slid.

With the holiday season upon us, Americans will be deluged with requests from any number of charities and agencies to help the poor. Mind you, I fully subscribe to Christ's admonition to help the poor, and like everybody I know, we will give and give and give. It is simply the American Way.

What I do not subscribe to is helping those who refuse to help themselves and who constantly look for a hand-out instead of a hand up.

America has a chronic class of self-inflicted poor people — poor because of poor life choices.

Generational poverty

In too many cases, parents pass on these poor values and choices to their children. Poverty then becomes generational, a way of life. Trying to break the cycle of chronic poverty when Fedzilla does whatever it can to sustain it is analogous to trying to melt an iceberg with a match.

An out-of-control orgy of so-called government assistance programs over the past 50 years has been touted as a means of eliminating poverty. The exact opposite has occurred.

In all of its bureaucratic, bloated buffoonery, Fedzilla has exacerbated the problem instead of eliminating it.

The very programs designed to help the disadvantaged instead have stripped them of their work ethic, pride and family structures, and wrecked their communities.

Fedzilla rewarded irresponsibility and encouraged the chronic class of poverty. Nice going.

Crime, drug use, high school dropout rates, single-parent families, destructive lifestyles — all add up to a plague enveloping our cities.

Cultural, social rot

I cannot think of a social or cultural rot that cannot be attributed to Fedzilla's meddling.

No amount of charitable giving is going to reverse this decay. In fact, if we are truly interested in helping the chronically poor, we should immediately stop all local, state and federal funds and programs designed to help the poor.

Once this happens, churches, civic organizations and neighbors should offer a hand to help them out of the poverty hole.
...Focus on families who want hand up, not hand-out

I refuse to throw my hard-earned money into the chronic poor abyss and "hope" it will "change" the condition of the chronic poor.

I know better.

Instead, during the holiday season, my family will do whatever we can to help a family or two temporarily down on its luck. But they must show they can and will help themselves, their community and our country.

We implore you to do the same. That is the barn-raising spirit that built this country.

Happy Thanksgiving, America. May God bestow a special Thanksgiving blessing on America's military warriors and their families.

Source: Waco Tribune

Obama-King of Fools

2008-11-13T20:47:00Z

It is a defining indicator that the embarrassing, self inflicted dumbing down of America is all but complete when people vote against their own self-interest.

I'll say it: it is obvious that many Americans are not very smart. Quite dumb, actually. To listen to the Sirius radio interview with Obama voters from Harlem mindlessly cheering on Obama as the interviewer attributes McCain's policies to the Democrats is pathetic and an inescapable indicator of the blind leading the blind. Not Godbless or goddam America! God help America.

Trying to explain how our economy works and why lowering taxes is always better for them and their country, than imposing higher taxes is an economic bridge too far for many of the Obama sheep. Unfortunately there is no "See Spot & the Economy Run" book for the hooked on phonics crowd. Many of these numbskulls can't balance a check book or spell "e-c-o-n-o-m-i-c-s" but they sure know who will give them stuff. The lie is impossible.

Expecting these idiots to have analyzed the tax positions of Obama and McCain and arrive at a decision that truly benefits them and America is wishful thinking. The reason is that they know zilch about how the economy operates and worse, don't care. Bama will take care of us. Four very scary things-a sow grizzly with cubs at closerange, a coiled rattlesnake in striking distance, me in a rental car in the left lane, and dunces with credit cards.

And indeed they are dunces, products of a tax burning, failed public education system. That is,
if they even bothered to complete high school. They don't read newspapers or books, and even if they did, I got twenty bucks that says they couldn't comprehend what they read. They are morons in the first degree. And clearly, they vote.

If and when President Obama attempts to impose his wrong-headed, punitive tax structure,
their stupidity is going to come back to thump them upside their vacuous heads with a very painful crowbar of reality. The economy works in strange and wondrous ways and has a unique way of severely punishing fools. Rare justice is a beautiful thing.

These dunderheads have no clue how the economic mess was largely caused by Democrats, including Obama. But Obama, recognizing how gullible, naïve and dumb many of his supporters are, drummed it into them that the economic mess was caused by President Bush and the Republicans and that he is going to give 95% of Americans a tax cut when 40% of Americans
don't even pay any federal taxes. Investing deception capital in the stupidity of his supporters was a very wise move on Obama's part. That is if you don't really care about anything except getting elected.

McCain had no marketable answer to Obama's charge because McCain knew that attempting to explain the economy to dumb people is impossible in 30 second commercials.

Fantasy driven clowns like the idea of believing they are getting something for nothing. What they receive, however, is always scraps from the economic table. They are too dumb to recognize this and thus condemn themselves to a pathetic life clinging to the lowest rungs of the economic ladder. Their stupidity sentences them to a life of poverty and despair.

The President Obama tax plan punishes the producers – the people who employ the majority of Americans. In Joe the Plumber terms, economic crap will quickly flow down hill and punish the employees. I mean former employees. The result of spreading the wealth around is spreading
unemployment around.

Conversely, the McCain economic plan was based on tax cuts, which spur the economy forward, create jobs, and raise the standard of living for everyone. Pretty simple stuff, unless you are a stooge, comfortable in your ignorance who is easily manipulated and believes someone owes you something, such as healthcare and a job.

Do yourself and America a favor. Stay in or go back to school. It's the economy, stupid.

Rino Season Is Now Open

2008-11-12T20:14:00Z

Like any entity that abandons basic quality control, political parties rot from within. It happened to the Democrats long ago, and now has become the case with the Republican Party, which has strayed from its conservative underpinnings.

There are really only four things I have a strong aversion to: unloaded guns, dull knives, banjos, and Republicans in Name Only (RINOs).

The Nugent family simply doesn't allow any of those things in our lives.

RINOs are Fedzilla punks who feign support for conservative principles only when it serves their political interest. RINOs are also known for their moderate positions such as supporting tax increases, federal “bailouts”, “comprehensive immigration reform”, advocating more counterproductive gun control that guarantee more innocent victims, opposing the death penalty, and growing and sustaining Fedzilla and all its toxic mongrels by going along with the liberals. RINOs have forgotten President Ronald Maximus Regan's admonition that government is the problem, not the solution.

RINOs reach across Fedzilla's aisle to cut deals and build consensus with the liberals. Consensus building means compromising values and cutting deals with the socialist prankster punksters whose goal it is to turn America into EuroAmerica.

Consensus building is for wimps and soulless people who stand for nothing. Compromise is not about being tolerant: these days, it’s about giving up conservative principles.

As the Republican Party begins to retool, rebuild and return to the "less government is best government" conservatism that makes America work, the first thing the GOP needs to do is to lock the RINOs out of the discussion. Heavily armed with an abundance of conservative attitude, my hunting buddies and I will provide security to ensure RINOs are kept downwind from the discussion. If allowed to participate, RINOs will continue to rot the Republican Party from within and diminish it in the eyes of the public. Enough is enough.

John McCain has been a RINO on campaign finance, immigration, global warming and other issues and look what happened to him. He had reached across the aisle so many times to cut deals with the liberals that he had to pick Governor Palin, a true conservative, to try and lure disenfranchised and disgusted conservatives back into the fold. Didn't work. Senator McCain was the wrong candidate at the right time. RINOs lose elections;
conservatives win them.

Should President-elect Obama implement his wrong-headed economic policies, our economy will continue to slide into the abyss and America's debt will continue to soar to unsustainable levels. Conservatives must hold the line at all costs and call out all RINOs who support President-elect Obama's economic kamikaze plan.

Make no mistake, conservative values and ideologies are embraced by Americans. The polls all indicate Americans are fed up with the Pelosi-led, do nothing congress, and do not support more government programs and control. Sounds to me like we have a conservative revolution brewing.

Conservative leaders and thinkers such as Newt Gingrich, Jed Babbin, Governor Jindal of Louisiana, Thomas Sowell, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Governor Sarah Palin and others need to turn up the heat and bring this less government, more individual freedom and strong national defense revolution to a boil. It is time.

My specialty is making Fedzilla punks squirm and turn into a puddle of sweat and drool. Therefore, in the spirit of famous butt kickers Generals Chesty Puller and George Patton, I say we launch an attack on all fronts. Uncle Ted hereby declares it is open season on RINOs. No bag limits or permits required. Conservative ideas, arguments and votes are the weapons we will use. Hunt them down and shine a blazing light on these RINO turncoat cockroaches. Zero in the "we the people" crosshairs of your voting assault weapon and aim for the RINO pumpstation. Double tap center mass. Whack em and stack em, track em and hack em, pack em and give em no slack. Let's do to the RINO beasts what we did to the passenger pigeon. Force out of the Republican Party out the subspecies known as RINOs.

We must not make the mistake of keeping the GOP tent so big that there’s room for RINOs. They are in the business of producing conservative defeats. Instead, join me in the new Conservative Revolution. Let's go out and win another one for the Gipper.

Happy Birthday, Marines

2008-11-10T21:02:00Z

From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, all across America and in Iraq, Afghanistan and wherever America is being defended, the world’s most exclusive gun club is the celebrating its 233 birthday today.

Born in a roughneck Philadelphia bar in 1775 on a dare to surpass standard warrior excellence, the United States Marines Corps has distinguished itself over its history as the finest military force the world has ever seen. Do not point the US Marines Corps at anything you do not wish conquer. They are the pointy end of America’s spear.

The Devil Dogs are always the first to the fight. Looking at their battle flags fluttering in the breeze reminds of their bravery and warrior ethos. Battle streamers honoring their bravery in battles such as Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Chosin Reservoir remind us of just a few of the famous battles they have fought and won.

Having spent time with Devil Dogs in Iraq and Afghanistan while on a USO Tour, it was abundantly clear that these men and women are the most determined, courteous and
courageous people I have ever had the privilege of sharing time with. To the person, they all expressed their gratitude for being on the frontlines of the war on terror with their fellow Marines. It truly humbled me to see that level of camaraderie and Blood Brotherhood dedication.

They not only fight for America, but for each other. This is the definition of 'espirit de corps".

I have visited with wounded Marines in hospitals. Regardless of the severity of their wounds, pain and suffering, they all expressed to me their utmost desire to return to the battlefield with their buddies to see the war won. This is the kind of sacrifice that leaves a lump in man’s throat. As I listened to them I couldn’t help but be so very thankful that America produces these young men and women of such character and determination.

When we get older, it’s natural to think about whether we’ve actually done something worthwhile. This is not the case for the leatherneck men and women of the mighty US Marine Corps. President Reagan said it best: “Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.”

I suspect if the Marines know one thing, it is that freedom is not free. There is a toll to be exacted and it is their blood, sweat, sacrifice and lives. As I type these vary words, there are leathernecks pushing ahead and killing Al Qaeda and Taliban voodoo monsters.

These leathernecks come from a long lineage of warriors who don’t know the meaning of quit. My hero, Colonel Lewis “Chesty” Puller summed it best when he said during the Korean War, “We're surrounded? Good, now we can kill the bastards in any direction."

Clearly, there is no finer friend, no worse enemy than the Marines. This was exemplified by Marine General James Mattis when he told Iraqi leaders, "I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you "mess" with me, I'll kill you all." My kind of man.

The US Marines are warriors. They are the few and the proud. Americans are the many and the blessed. So long as the Marines are with us the flame of freedom and liberty will burn brightly.

May God bless the United States Marines Corps. Happy 233rd birthday, Devil Dogs. Semper Fi. Godspeed my Blood Brothers. Carry on.

Source: Human Events

The Few, The Proud With Necks Of Leather, Laying It All On The Line

2008-11-09T20:59:00Z

From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, the world's largest gun club is celebrating its 233rd birthday this year.

Born in a roughneck Philadelphia bar in 1775 on a dare to surpass standard warrior excellence, the United States Marine Corps has distinguished itself over its history as the finest military force the world has ever witnessed.

Do not point the Marines at anything you do not wish to conquer. They are the pointy end of our military's lance.

The Devil Dogs are the first to the fight. Looking at their battle flags fluttering in the breeze reminds of their bravery and warrior ethos.

Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Peleiu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Chosin Reservoir - the stirring names mark the famous battles they have won.

I spent time with Devil Dogs in Iraq and Afghanistan while on a USO Tour. These men and women are the most determined, courteous and courageous people with whom I have ever had the privilege of sharing time.

Camaraderie

To the person, all expressed gratitude for being on the frontlines of the war on terror. It truly humbled me to see that level of camaraderie and BloodBrotherhood dedication.

They not only fight for America, but fight for each other - they put the Corps in "espirit de corps."

I have visited wounded Marines in hospitals. Regardless of the severity of their wounds, all expressed their utmost desire to return to the battlefield with their buddies to see the war won.

This is the kind of sacrifice that leaves a lump in a man's throat. Listening to them, I couldn't help but be so very thankful that America produces men and women of such character.

Some people spend a lifetime looking for meaning. This is not the case for the leatherneck men and women of the mighty U.S. Marines.

President Reagan said it best, "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."

I suspect if the Marines know one thing, it is that freedom is not free. There is a toll to be exacted and it is blood, sweat, sacrifice and lives.

Relentless

As I type these very words, leathernecks are pushing ahead and killing al-Qaida and Taliban voodoo monsters. These Marines come from a long lineage of warriors who don't know the meaning of quit.

My hero, Col. Lewis "Chesty" Puller, summed it up best when he said during the Korean War, "We're surrounded? Good, now we can kill the bastards in any direction."

Clearly, there is no finer friend, no worse enemy than the Marines. This was exemplified by Marine Gen. James Mattis when he told Iraqi leaders, "I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you 'mess' with me, I'll kill you all." My kind of man.

The U.S. Marines are warriors. They are the few and the proud. Americans are the many and the blessed. So long as the Marines are with us the flame of freedom and liberty will burn brightly.

May God bless the United States Marines Corps. Happy 233 birthday, Devil Dogs. Semper Fi. Godspeed my BloodBrothers. Carryon.

Today's the Day

2008-11-04T21:06:00Z

OK. This is it. The big day has arrived. Do or die. The moment of truth, the big Kahuna, where “we the people” of the one and only experiment in self-government in the history of humankind get to step up to the plate and give it our best shot as individual participants in this grand "American Dream" of independence and autonomy. Election Day has arrived, my fellow Americans, and it is now that we shall see just what we are made of. Pull the lever, take your shot. There is no take two.

I am as frustrated and disenfranchised as the next guy, terribly let down by both the Republicans and Democrats. Both parties are painfully guilty of corruption, deceit, irrational behavior and more often than not, the abandonment of what my neighbors and I still cling to as common sense. The current economic disaster America is struggling with is simply the proverbial tip of a cultural iceberg train wreck brought about by politicians negotiating on behalf of their own best interests instead of the citizens they are sworn to serve. The same goes for the education debacle, welfare outrage, the embarrassing, criminal unaccountable Fedzilla spending orgy, a court system off the rails, and a wasteland of entitlement programs guaranteed to break the bank. Literally. The Federal government is like social security; it is anti-social and insecure. Thanks for nothing.

Understandably, the people are wailing for change. But the way I see it, change as a concept can be very elusive, and, as always, change can be for the good or for much worse. Over many years, as Republicans acted more and more like liberal Democrats, that is, out of control doped-up hippies with a credit card and no boundaries, an unprecedented amount of our hard-earned tax dollars went unaccounted for propping up fantasy driven entitlement programs that furthered the suicidal so-called Great Society of LBJ. The Great Society turned out to be not so great. Like the FDR’s so-called New Deal, we the people once again got a raw deal, and we’re still paying for it. Through the nose and other not so comfortable orifices.

Positive, beneficial change would be for us to unite in order to stop the economical and social hemorrhaging. Unfortunately, the Democrats, led by their presidential candidate Barack Obama, has a different change in mind. According to every one of his speeches and political voting record as an Illinois senator, Obama actually wants to accelerate the irresponsible spending and reduce accountability to the people even more. According to the Obama supporters, the best way to bail out the sinking boat is to blow more holes in the bottom. That will let the water out, right? Wrong. But if it makes you feel good, by all means, blast away. Bon voyage, baby.

John McCain is no knight in shining armor, that’s for sure. It is true that the good Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has proven to be a bureaucrat-stomping, status quo-destroying political warrior in her short career, and everybody I know is genuinely moved by her defiance of the old guard politicos. She surely brings a much needed and greatly appreciated toughness to McCain’s candidacy, but she isn’t running for President.

The Nugent family has researched till we are red in the face. We have weighed all the information and evidence we can get our hands on, and we have decided that in the best interest of America, we are voting for John McCain.

We believe in our hearts and souls that he means what he says and that he is ready to make tougher decisions for the overall improvement of the conditions we face in these trying times. We believe equally strongly that Obama will only make things worse in his scramble to make people feel good instead of actually doing good. If his ideas sound too good to be true, it’s because they are.

America needs to make tough sacrifices right now. Obama’s socialist agenda plays into the hands of those who expect things to be made easy for them without the extra effort. It is not time to blow holes in the bottom of the boat. It’s time for all of us to bail like hell, together.

Source: Human Events

America Needs Real Change, Not Obama's Fantasy Drivel

2008-11-02T16:10:00Z

As Election Day arrives, I am frustrated and feeling as disenfranchised as the next guy, terribly let down by both the Republicans and Democrats.

Both parties are painfully guilty of corruption, deceit, irrational behavior and, more often than not, the abandonment of what my neighbors and I still cling to as common sense.

The current economic disaster is the proverbial tip of a cultural iceberg, a train wreck brought on by politicians negotiating on behalf of their own best interests instead of the citizens they are sworn to serve.

The same goes for the education debacle, the welfare outrage, the embarrassing, criminally unaccountable Fedzilla spending orgy.

The same goes for a court system off the rails, and a wasteland of entitlement programs guaranteed to break the bank.

The federal government is like Social Security: anti-social and insecure. Thanks for nothing.

Understandably, the people are wailing for change. But change as a concept can be very elusive. And it goes without saying that change can be for the good or for much worse.

Over many years, Republicans acted more and more like liberal Democrats - that is, out-of-control, doped-up hippies with a credit card and no boundaries.

They, both parties, spent unprecedented amounts of our hard-earned tax dollars propping up fantasy-driven entitlement programs that furthered the suicidal so-called Great Society of Lyndon Johnson.

The Great Society turned out to be not so great.

Like Roosevelt's so-called New Deal, we the people once again got a raw deal. We're still paying for it.

Beneficial change would be for Americans to unite to stop the economic and social hemorrhaging. Unfortunately, the Democrats, led by Barack Obama, have a different change in mind.

With every one of his speeches, as with every vote as a lawmaker in Illinois and Washington, he seeks to accelerate irresponsible spending, while reducing accountability to the people even more.

No more holes

Obama supporters think the best way to bail out the sinking boat is to blow more holes in the bottom. That will let the water out, right? Wrong. But if it makes you feel good, by all means, blast away. Bon voyage.

John McCain is no knight in shining armor, for sure. That said, in her short career, the good governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has proven to be a bureaucrat-stomping, status quo-destroying political warrior. Everybody I know is genuinely moved by her defiance of the old-guard politicos.

The Nugent family has researched until red in the face. We've weighed all the information and evidence we can get our hands on. In the best interests of America, we are voting for McCain and, of course, Palin.

He is ready to make tougher decisions for the overall improvement of the conditions we face in these trying times.

Obama will only make things worse in his scramble to make people feel good instead of actually doing good. If his ideas sound too good to be true, it's because they are.

It is not time to blow holes in the bottom of the boat. It's time for all of us to bail like hell, together.

Source: Waco Tribune Herald

Time to Close the Deal

2008-10-14T20:15:00Z

With Election Day now in sight, John McCain and Sarah Palin need to turn up the heat. Frustrated conservatives are waiting for some spirit and energy.

This race is far from over. In fact, these final three weeks are the most critical of the campaign.

What the McCain/Palin ticket needs to do is to genuinely address and capitalize on the tremendous level of disgust, distrust and dissatisfaction of the American people towards our government.

As I wrote in my new book “Ted, White and Blue,” a May 20, 2008 Rasmussen poll found that 62% of the American public support fewer government services and lower taxes. That’s because ordinary Americans believe what President Reagan believed: government is the problem, not the answer. Remind Americans of this, Senator McCain. The last debate next Wednesday night may be your last chance to connect because they need to see you as a bigger presence, a better choice right up, elbow-to-elbow with Obama.

Rank and file Americans know that more government meddling ultimately equals more problems. It always has and always will because government is not the social or cultural engine that drives America -- capitalism is. Remind us of this. Convince us that you believe it.

Remind the American public that America didn’t become great because of its government, but rather because of its people. America needs less government, not more. Say this, Senator McCain and Governor Palin, and say it often. Give us some authority. It would be presidential.

Focus on the economy. Tell the American people that the genesis of the financial quagmire we are in is a direct result of government meddling in the housing market which has led to this disastrous credit crunch. As a result, ordinary Americans who play by the rules are being hurt badly. Tell us this, Senator McCain. Tell us the federal government has no business in the home loan industry and that you will take our economy away from the Treasury Department bureaucrats and give it back to the bankers, stockbrokers and company leaders that have made our economy thrive since Alexander Hamilton served at Treasury.

Show us that you share our anger, show some passion. Tell the American public that you will do everything in your power to expose the lobbyists and elected officials who caused the problem, how they caused it and why they caused it. Tell us that you will launch an ethics and criminal investigation on the very people who caused this financial meltdown. Americans want accountability. Give it to us. That would be some welcome change.

We trust freedom, not government: we want our economy back. Yes, let’s punish the crooks and fix the blind government watchdogs. But then, for the sake of our childrens’ future, let’s give free market capitalism back to the capitalists.

Tell us how you believe in the power of the free market. Tell Americans that capitalism and the free market is the most powerful force on the planet, but that expansive government, more spending and higher taxes smothers entrepreneurship. Tell the American public that America cannot achieve success through more taxes and more government spending.

We need a leader that at least knows as much as we do. Borrow a page from Speaker of the House Gingrich and list ten things that your administration is going to accomplish. Turn that into a television commercial and run it over and over in the battleground states. Make a big speech on it in a contested state such as Ohio.

Be specific in the next debate, and tell the American people exactly how you are going to create jobs while cutting government spending. Tell the American public that you plan to cut government spending by 6.5 percent each of the first four years you are president for a real savings of 25 percent. Tell the American public the savings will be returned to us! Tell the American people the era of big government is over.

As you did in the recent debate, focus on nuclear energy. Our car companies are in the process of researching electrical cars. More nuclear power equals much, much more electricity, which equals cheaper energy. Remind them over and over again that nuclear energy is cheap, efficient, safe and clean. While our nuclear power plants are being built, “drill, baby, drill!”

Unleash Palin Power in the key battleground states of Florida, Ohio, Missouri and Pennsylvania. Socialists hate her with a passion. That means she’s good -- real good.

In these tumultuous and uncertain times, Americans are looking for a leader with not only a proven past but also one who has a solid vision for the future that does not include more government programs, more spending and more waste.

What say you, Senator McCain?

Source: Human Events

Caring For Pets Helps Set One On Right Path

2008-10-12T13:50:00Z

Back in the roaring Fifties, as a very young whippersnapper of an American Dreamer, I had Duke, a big old black Labrador mix.

Duke, my first dog, taught me the joys of pet ownership, real life cause and effect, the precious value of life and the critical responsibilities of caring properly for an animal.

We did everything together. Mom and Dad showed me how animals can't possibly have "rights." That is a uniquely human dynamic. But thoughtful, conscientious humans clearly have the duty to provide kind, humane treatment and conditions for their animals.

Aside from feeding Duke and seeing that he got plenty of daily exercise, it was my job to make sure his doghouse area and the yard were free of, shall we say, dog debris.

I was proud to be the super dooper pooper scooper. That meant my best friend would have a nice, tidy yard.

Caring for Duke was my primary chore growing up.

I raised my own children with this same sense of duty.

To this very day, I cannot imagine life without pets. They represent a huge quality-of-life component in the Nugent household.

I'm sure its the same for the millions of American families that own dogs, cats, horses, donkeys, burros, goats, llamas, alpacas, rats, mice, guinea pigs, snakes, skunks, weasels, ferrets and more.

One caveat: Making pets out of wild animals is asking for trouble, and I highly recommend against it.

As only dogs can smile

Right now, at my feet are three very happy, loving Labrador retrievers, tongues hanging out, panting, but smiling as only dogs can smile.

As I write this, the hounds and I just returned from our daily exploratory run at our China Spring ranch. We cherish our time in the wild together, letting it all hang out.

To see their sheer, exhilarating animal instincts come alive as they run and leap about, probing every bush and brush pile, flopping down up to their nostrils in the river, is to see nature at its finest. It's animal poetry in motion.

We make sure their kennels are spic and span and all their health considerations are monitored and serviced to the max.

Even though we are in Texas, we know the winter temperatures can get bitter. We add ample insulation to their sturdy dog houses each fall.

Daily brushings and tick dustings help keep them well-groomed and healthy.

The magical fall hunting season is beyond description at our house. These natural hunters about come out of their skin in anticipation of a mouthful of mallard and quail. Me, too.

To see them work their hearts out hunting for birds is truly one of life's greatest, most natural sights.

The mere hint of grabbing a shotgun causes them to do sumersaults of glee, knowing why God created them this way.

Go shopping for a nice pet. Teach the children how to provide for the animals. Watch them celebrate a perfect relationship.

The proper lessons of pet ownership will put kids on a True North path in life. They'll be more aware of cause and effect in a way that will benefit every decision-making juncture they experience.

c/o Waco Tribune-Herald

Anyone Who Wants to Abandon Accountablilty Must Have A Deathwish

2008-10-01T14:00:00Z

President Bush let Americans down last week and again Monday and Tuesday when he addressed the nation regarding our embarrassing financial mess.

When he had the opportunity to name the Fedzillacrats of both political parties responsible for the financial meltdown, he didn't do it. This isn't the man I voted for in 2000 or even 2004. He needs a testosterone injection.

Americans deserve to know by name the political scoundrels responsible for this financial quagmire, especially if President Bush wants us to embrace a near trillion dollar bail out.

We deserve to know exactly how this happened and have a right to know by name anyone that should be held accountable. President Bush didn't tell us that he supported any investigations to determine which Fedzillacrat is responsible for this mess and how it occurred. His speech was classic political hot air, and I for one am truly let down by the depth of abject soullessness in our disconnected government.

When he had the bully pulpit to provide us the information we have a right to know and he has an obligation to provide, he failed us.

President Bush is as responsible for this mess as any Fedzillacrat. While the president can truthfully claim that members of his administration warned members of congress of the pending economic meltdown of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, I don't recall President Bush mentioning the potential economic peril in one of his State of The Union addresses or any other presidential news conferences.

If President Bush thought Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and other financial institutions were on financial thin ice, he should have used his presidential bully pulpit and warned us on any number of occasions. He had numerous chances to tell us and he failed to do so. As we have learned, bad news doesn't get better with age.

President Bush didn't tell us that Fedzillacrats such as Democratic Senators Dodd and Schumer and others were paid stacks of campaign donations by lobbyists of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to keep them, our representatives and our employees, from holding these quasi government institutions accountable.

These Fedzillacrats actually got Congress to pass a law that required lending institutions to make home loans to unqualified recipients. President Bush didn't tell us that either.

President Bush didn't tell us that stacks of tainted lobbyist money and shyster Fedzillacrats has more to do with this financial crisis than the irresponsible and quite possibly crooked CEOs and other business officers of the financial firms. Baby Face Nelson is monitoring Al Capone for us. Great.

While he did say a few words about our outdated laws and regulations and said he was a free market supporter, he didn't say he believed that less Fedzilla meddling in the market was better for the long-term for our economy. He didn't say that Fedzilla has no business in the home loan industry, and it doesn't. That's what a free market champion would have said.

He didn't say he supported a wholesale ban on lobbyists for any financial institutions receiving our tax dollars to keep these troubled firms afloat. He should have. At a minimum, we deserve that.

He didn't say that all senior officers of the firms receiving bail out money would be fired and put under criminal investigation.

He didn't tell us that he was going to unleash the largest investigation in the history of the Justice Department to smoke out all the bandits that had anything to do with this. We deserve to see them put on trial and if found guilty, hauled off to jail. If our legal system can take the property of dope dealers, then we ought to be able to seize the financial assets of these bandits.

Americans have a right to know and should want to know which of our elected officials had anything to do with this mess and how much cash they received from lobbyists for turning a blind eye.

Washington DC stinks and is in worse condition than the financial industry. Fedzilla is a major source of all of our economic, social and cultural maladies. It stinks of cronyism, back handed political deals and corruption.

The Fedzillacrats deserve our scorn, contempt and anger. If any of them had an ounce of integrity they would resign and beg for forgiveness. Do your patriotic duty and vote them all out. They deserve it.

I want to know which Fedzillacrat is responsible and I want a solemn promise that these individuals will be held accountable. When I get that from the president, I will consider his bail out plan.

c/o HumanEvents.com

Tranquilizer dart needed for Fedzilla

2008-09-28T19:01:00Z

Some things I wish I heard from president

President Bush let Americans down when he addressed the nation regarding our embarrassing financial mess. When he had the opportunity to name the Fedzillacrats of both political parties responsible for the financial meltdown, he didn't do it.

The man has no spine.

Americans deserve to know by name the political scoundrels responsible for this financial quagmire, especially if President Bush wants us to embrace a near trillion-dollar bailout.

We deserve to know exactly how this happened and have a right to know by name anyone who should be held accountable. President Bush didn't tell us that he supported any investigations to determine which Fedzillacrat is responsible for this mess and how it occurred.

His speech was classic political hot air. I am truly let down by the depth of abject soullessness in our disconnected government.

When he had the bully pulpit Wednesday night to provide us the information we have a right to know and he has an obligation to provide, Bush failed us. The president is as responsible for this mess as any Fedzillacrat.

If Bush thought Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and other financial institutions were on financial thin ice, he should have used his presidential bully pulpit and warned us on any number of occasions.

He had countless chances to tell us. He failed to do so. As we have learned, bad news doesn't get better with age.

Bush didn't tell us that Fedzillacrats such as Democratic Sens. Chris Dodd and Charles Schumer and others were paid stacks of cash by lobbyists of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to keep our representatives from holding these quasi- government institutions accountable.

These Fedzillacrats actually made it government policy for lending institutions to make home loans to unqualified recipients. President Bush didn't tell us that, either.

Shysters in charge

Tainted lobbyist money and shyster Fedzillacrats have more to do with this financial crisis than the irresponsible and quite possibly crooked CEOs and other business officers of the financial firms. Baby Face Nelson is monitoring Al Capone for us. Great.

While Bush did say a few words about our outdated laws and regulations and said he was a free market supporter, he didn't say he believed that less Fedzilla meddling in the market was better for the long-term for our economy.

Fedzilla has no business in the home loan industry. That's what a free market champion would have said.

Bush didn't say that all senior officers of the firms receiving bailout money would be fired and put under criminal investigation.

He didn't tell us that he was going to unleash the largest investigation in the history of the Justice Department to smoke out all the bandits who had anything to do with this.

Put them on trial and, if found guilty, haul them off to jail. If our legal system can take the property of dope dealers, then we ought to be able to seize the financial assets of these bandits.

Americans have a right to know and should want to know which of our elected officials had anything to do with this mess and how much cash they received from lobbyists for turning a blind eye.

Fedzilla is a major source of all of our economic, social and cultural maladies.

I want a solemn promise that those individuals responsible for this mess will be held accountable. When I get that from the president, I will consider his bailout plan.

Kill 'Em & Grill 'Em

2008-09-24T15:28:00Z

There is a powerful, natural force in the fall air, and I, for one, cannot turn my back on it. I know the origin of "conservatism" and the pragmatic, rugged individualism logic that drives it and us.

As a conservationist, I believe in the wise use of our precious life-giving resources and
clearly understand man's critical responsibility to the stewardship of our wild ground and our wildlife.

I learned a long time ago that if I wanted to enjoy a fire at Christmas time, that I had to plant trees in the spring. Not to boast, but the Arbor Day Foundation even gave me, your humble Motor City Madman, a conservation award, and I'm just a guitar player. I wonder how many trees Sting or Dave Mathews planted last year.

I hunt, kill animals, start fires, and barbecue my families' daily sacred protein health food. I bait hooks, catch fish and then cook them in garlic and butter. That’s absolute perfection, just as God intended. Only a disconnected liberal cultist of denial could find fault with my perfect conservation lifestyle that is based on the sound science of biodiversity, sustain yield and responsible, renewable resources hands-on utility. Venison is the rocket fuel of the gods, and I celebrate it daily. It sure makes for some unstoppable fiery and sexy guitar noise.

President Nixon recognized the vital conservation role of hunters, fishermen and trappers when he established National Hunting and Fishing Day in 1972. This Saturday marks the 36th anniversary of National Hunting &Fishing Day, and it is party time at the Nugent camp.

Many Americans don't know that President Nixon even established a National Hunting &Fishing Day or that this Saturday marks its 36th anniversary.

Many people don’t know that outdoorsmen provide roughly 75% of all funds for state departments of natural resources for overall environmental management. Quality air, soil and water come from healthy wildlife habitat, and that has always been our mission statement.

Many don’t know that funds generated through hunting, fishing and trapping licenses, stamps and various other self-imposed fees are also used to protect non-game species, provide areas for bird watchers, and build trails for hikers. You're welcome.

Too many people don’t know that there are more turkey, elk, whitetail deer, geese, black bears and cougars in North America than at any time in our nation’s history. America’s wildlife management system is envied around the world for its overwhelming successes. Hunters, fishers and trappers demanded this, and we rejoice in our success.

You probably don’t know that hunting, fishing and trapping generates more than 30 billion dollars annually to the U.S. economy, 2.5 billion in annual federal tax revenues, 4.2 billion in state tax revenues each year and provides well over 593,000 jobs for Americans. Wildlife has to be counted in the asset column where it belongs, if you have a soul.

You probably don’t know that tens of millions of American families spend hundreds of
millions of hours in the great outdoors or that hunting is one of the safest recreational pursuits in America, with far fewer injuries or deaths per capita than skiing, football, cycling, swimming or boating.

You probably don’t know who Pope &Young were, never heard of Fred Bear, and don’t know what the acronyms DU, RMEF, NWTF, FNAWS, NSSF or SCI stands for, even though their conservation accomplishments are Herculean and deserve our respect.

You probably didn't know that hunters provide over 250 million meals each year to
the less fortunate by providing a portion of our game to homeless shelters through our non-bureaucratic, non-tax wasting, therefore very efficient Hunters for the Hungry programs. Our pleasure.

You probably never thought about the fact that not one teenage punk gangster has a hunting or fishing license in his pocket. Not one.

Some of you might not know that the 2nd Amendment has zero to do with hunting. The 2nd Amendment was not written by our Founding Fathers so I could go duck hunting. Only a fool would think so.

You don’t know these wonderful things because the outdoor community has not reached beyond the choir to educate anyone about the amazing success story of America’s conservation efforts, activities and programs. Damn shame. I do what I can.

The fault, of course, for such widespread ignorance lies at the feet of rank-and-file hunters and fishermen, our outdoor organizations, and the industries that support and benefit from our conservation lifestyle. With a hunting hating liberal media, it is nearly impossible to find a truthful article on hunting anywhere. Even so, for the most part, our hunting industry couldn't promote a blanket to a naked man in a blizzard. Sadly, Bubba lives, but I'm doing everything I can to beat him back into his cave where he belongs.

In this turbo-electrified, computerized, instant gratification world in which our children are immersed, the thrilling disciplines of hunting and fishing teaches patience, responsibility, humility, persistence and real cause and effect. There is no argument that these are the character traits that mold immature young people into mature, productive, conscientious adults. Look at me.

There are no politics in a deer blind. An omnisciently alert whitetail buck does not care if you are Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative.

It is good, however, to know that Gov. Palin is a real outdoors woman. She doesn't sling a shotgun over her shoulder once a year to mug for the camera in hopes of attracting votes from hunters and fishermen. She actually hunts caribou and fishes. This tuned in naturalist knows pure organic chow when she sees it. She’s the real deal.

This Saturday is National Hunting &Fishing Day. It is the day that signifies yet another glorious hunting season is upon us. It is perfect, and I am in, gung-ho, heart, mind, body, tooth, fang and claw, spirit and soul. Place your grilled venison orders here with me here. Happy hunting season 2008.

c/o HumanEvents.com

Hunters' payback to nature

2008-09-21T18:58:00Z

I can taste it in the air, the life-giving power that it is.

It's the power of nature, the power to heal man and itself.

During this explosive phenomenon, the natural fall season of harvest, we in the Nugent family are moved deep in our souls to celebrate Thanksgiving every step of the way.

Hallelujah and pass the sacred backstraps, baby.

'Tis the hunting season, and I am in with all I've got. Next Saturday I'll celebrate it with many on National Hunting and Fishing Day, declared 36 years ago by Richard Nixon.

Like trapping, hunting and fishing are integral to America culture, teamed as they are with our essential conservation responsibility.

Once necessary to survive, hunting and fishing now are two very popular forms of recreation, while keeping millions of American families connected to the land and its precious creatures.

Today roughly 20 million hunters and more than 50 million fishermen enjoy the outdoors and generate roughly $70 billion in revenue each year.

Perfection

Like all my friends, we Nugents hunt simply because we are hunters. It is perfect.

Thanks to hunters' dollars generated through licensing fees, habitat

stamp fees and direct involvement, America's wildlife and overall

conservation programs have never been more vibrant, healthy and strong. Our wildlife management system is envied around the world by all real conservationists.

The dollars hunters provide for state wildlife coffers provide

roughly 75 percent of all funds for state wildlife agencies. Considering that we hunters constitute only 12 percent of the population, we carry the vast majority of the financial

burden to ensure that America's wildlife, and its air, soil and water-cleansing habitat, is healthy and thriving.

How about a big, hearty and genuine thank you, America?

In addition to preserving and replenishing game animals, hunters' dollars provide habitat and research benefiting non-game species.

Wildlife photographers, artists, hikers, campers, bike riders, bird watchers and all outdoor enthusiasts ride on the financial coat tails of American hunters and fishermen.

The result? More turkey, geese, elk, black bear, cougars and whitetail deer than at any time in our nation's history. This phenomenal success story, intentionally ignored by the dominant media, is because hunters and fishermen care deeply and remain spiritually connected to our resource stewardship duties.

Down to a science

The sustain-yield science that we demand keeps wildlife and wild ground in the asset column.

American hunting and fishing families spend hundreds of millions of accident-free hours in the great outdoors. Hunting is one of the safest recreational activities in the world. And of course wild game meat is the healthiest food in the world.

Did I mention "perfect"?

Whitetail deer are everywhere. In fact, in most parts of the country, there are way too many of them. While many state wildlife departments have begun to correct this problem by increasing opportunities and by providing hunters more tags to kill does, we must do more.

Hunting seasons should be expanded. Other common-sense hunting opportunities must be implemented immediately based solely on science, never allowing selfish emotion to turn an asset into a liability as they have done with cougars in California and bears in New Jersey.

Can you believe that in 11 states and some Canadian provinces, Sunday hunting is illegal? These laws must be fought.

America's outdoorsmen and private landowners have created the most successful wildlife management system the world has ever known.

Happy hunting season, America. Good hunting and good luck. Celebrate the mighty Spirit of the Wild.

Liberalism is America's curse

2008-09-14T18:43:00Z

Feel-good mentality has brought nothing but grief to us

The 1960s marked the rise of hedonism - the "if it feels good, do it" generation.

A cursory review of what came afterward tells a haunting story.

Teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, school dropout rates, drug use, divorce, youth crime and other social maladies escalated.

We poisoned our culture and society when we began caring more about ourselves than the collective good of society at large. Values, mores and standards-the very things that make a just and civil society-were carelessly tossed aside in favor of reckless abandon.

There are consequences for actions, something liberals and the hippies carelessly ignored at America's peril.

No surprise, guys

Now we read about kids shooting up schools and malls. This shouldn't surprise anyone.

My suspicions are that this will get worse. More kids will die. One of the rock-solid, irrefutable reasons for my suspicion is that schools and shopping centers and the worst crime-infested cities are gun-free zones - another empty-headed liberal idea that has guaranteed more victims.

In those early days before gun bans went into effect, you could walk into a hardware store and buy any kind of gun and ammo you wanted.

Kids brought all kinds of guns and knives to school for after-school hunting, competition and casual recreational purposes. No problem.

School and shopping center shootings were unheard of.

The poisonous seeds of "feel good" denial took root in the Sixties, along with Dr. Spock's "hands-off" new age parenting.

The far left has given gave birth to every social and cultural malady plaguing America today.

Culpability for kids killing kids rests with liberals and their feel-good, dopey, brain-dead policies.

Now liberals want to "help" us some more with nationalized health care and a host of other idiotic and dangerous programs.

Health-care express

Nationalized health care will create unhealthy citizens. If you want unhealthy Americans, jump on the Obama health-care express. Then watch it jump the tracks like every other liberal train before it.

Like a bad apple, our culture is rotting from within from the exposure and adoption of these poisonous policies.

Liberals will claim they care about people, but you should judge them by what they have already done to American culture. More government control always makes a mess of things.

If one government program doesn't fix the problem, then surely three or four will.

It is time to shout from the mountaintop, "Don't tread on me!"

Obama pulls out his smoke and mirrors for "change," when in fact he wants more of the very meddling government that has ruined everything it has gotten its greedy, unaccountable hands on.

It is time to tell the liberals to take a hike. I for one have learned a lesson. I pray to God most of America has and we put an end to this demolition derby and wrest America from the hands of fantasy mongers who will tell you anything to make you feel good, then charge you up the ying yang to fix their mistakes.

Communal Safety Nets For All

2008-09-12T12:00:00Z

Welcome to the United Socialist States of America, where Fedzilla obligates our tax dollars to prop up businesses that make stupid or possibly even criminal fiscal decisions. It takes a village indeed.

In overt defiance of the U.S. Constitution, Mao Tse Fedzilla has pledged 200 billion of our tax dollars to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest and hopelessly bankrupt mortgage-finance companies in America.

These companies failed in part due to "flawed business models," according to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Ya think? They also failed because Fedzilla is bloated, ineffective and far too corrupt to have provided the necessary fiscal and management oversight.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government sponsored enterprises (GSE) but are owned by private shareholders. That's a screwy business model on its face, but what it essentially means is that when a GSE is about to go belly up, taxpayer dollars are there to bail them out.

Many people, going back from the Clinton Administration up through the Bush Administration, urged our do-nothing Congress to do something to provide oversight of these companies, but in typical fashion, Fedzilla sat on its hands with impunity.

Members of Congress were being bought off by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to look the other way and do nothing. According to an article on CNN.com by Allan Chernoff, these shyster companies paid 174 million dollars to lobbyists to keep our elected officials from doing anything to provide regulatory oversight. Quite simply, our elected officials were bought off. And the U.S. taxpayer gets screwed again. As recently departed Jerry Reed sang, "she got the gold mine, and I got the shaft."

Democrats like Charles Schumer and Chris Dodd led the charge to stonewall any efforts to provide oversight of these companies. Dodd is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and now wants more information about how this happened. What hyperbole, what political posturing, what a fraud, what a perfect, soulless politician. When he had the opportunity to act in the interest of the American people, he didn't. Case closed.

Now the solution is to prop these companies up with our tax dollars, and, magically, all the dirty money lobbying will be stopped. Yeah, and I'm going vegetarian and playing banjo in a country band.

The two guys who ran these companies have been fired, while reportedly walking away with millions stuffed in their pockets. They should be hounded by reporters for the remainder of their days just like the gangsters at Enron. And then forced to pay back every red cent.

People need to go to jail.

The Bush Administration should launch the most wide-sweeping FBI investigation in the history of the agency of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Leave no stone unturned, no scoundrel should escape scrutiny. If Fedzilla can investigate and prosecute the Enron Gang, they ought to do the same for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

We must demand the FBI, the GAO and other watchdog organizations to investigate our elected officials and government workers to determine their complicity in this financial train wreck. We deserve to know who did what or not, how much money their political campaigns received, and if any crimes were committed. Then prosecute to the full extent of the law.

Government officials entrusted with managing our tax money should be held to an even higher standard than business officers of private industries. I find it arrogant and condescending for our public officials to lecture private business leaders on shady business practices when the very people lecturing these individuals are horribly mismanaging our tax dollars. What hypocrites. What thieves.

The real blame for this financial fiasco rests with Fedzilla. The more power and control we surrender to Fedzilla, the more likely the taxpayer will be left to clean up these inexcusable messes.

Republican Sen. Jim Bunning is right by saying that propping up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with our tax dollars is taking the "free market out of the free market." He's also right by saying that Treasury Secretary Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake should resign. They ought to be fired and investigated, then prosecuted.

The goal should not be for tax payers to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but rather, that these two companies should be privatized as soon as possible.
The free market. What a concept. GSEs should be immediately abolished as in tomorrow.

Fedzilla remains a bloated, ineffective, stinking pig. And we have to pay for it. Again.

c/o HumanEvents.com

Obama pleads for nanny state

2008-09-07T14:42:00Z

By Ted Nugent

Dear Mr. Obama:

Sir, you confuse me. Those of us who conduct our lives based on logic, truth, good will, decency and the driven work ethic to be productive assets to our great country are trying very hard to figure you out.

I hear the words coming out of your mouth. I see the large crowds cheering you on. But for the life of me I cannot believe the contradictions and hypocrisy coming out of you and your supporters.

Your advertisements and campaign speeches claim that you believe in Americans who work hard and try to be the best that they can be to achieve their American dreams. Then you turn around and rave about how you apparently hate rich, successful people. For some strange reason you want to punish them with punitive taxes.

You wish to take those increased taxes and put them into proven wasteful bureaucracies, many of which reward able-bodied Americans who simply refuse to get a job.

Worse, our tax dollars too often go to purchase bling instead of the proper care of children.

How in God's name can you support such slavery to the nanny state?

America is $9 trillion in debt. Increasing the debt further saddles future generations of America with even more dangerous debt. I cannot see how this is moral, just or makes good economic sense.

Senator, you even support the outrageous, duplicitous taxing of families' after-tax savings upon the death of a family member.

Redistribution of wealth is out-and-out anti-American, and the essence of communism.

As for further taxing the wealthy, do you believe there is a ceiling on success? At what level are you prepared to "take those profits?"

In a recent commencement speech, you recommended the graduates consider the "collective" rather than the individual.

Are we to expect that you actually believe that a quality society can possibly exist without rugged individuals as the nucleus for productive, positive neighborhoods, creating a truly great society, not to be confused with the disastrous "Great Society" that rewards slovenly dependency?

Another thing: Most Americans believe that our spiritual lives define us. We also believe that your 20-plus years at the Chicago church of Rev. Jeremiah Wright define you. If so, that would make you a radical racist - an America-hating, white-hating, Louis Farrakhan-supporting extremist.

Do you really expect us to believe that you sat in the pews for 20 years and did not hear any radical, anti-American drivel come out of the mouth of Rev. Wright?

You are on record supporting restrictions on the God-given, U.S. Constitution-guaranteed right to keep and bear arms. Do you believe that we need to pay for your armed security detail? What makes your lives more worthy of protecting than ours?

There is so much more we want to find out about you, and we hope you come forward with every bit of critical information for full disclosure before this fall so we know exactly who you are and what you stand for.

The people of America are genuinely concerned about the nation's future. Surely you owe it to us if you believe you can lead us forward for a better, more secure American Dream.

I'm sure you would want to give your wife something to be proud of.

Sarah Palin Is My Girl

2008-09-04T12:00:00Z

With grave suspicion and reservations, I nonetheless rejoice that the fading embers of conservatism may have indeed caught fire once more. That fireball is Gov.Sarah Palin of Alaska, I pray the next Vice President of the United States. Now I know why I have seen no one with any guts in the Republican Party in so long: the governor of Alaska has them all. Her speech last night was clearly a grand slam out-of-the-park home run. America, we have liftoff!

By selecting Gov. Palin to be his running mate, Sen. McCain has finally electrified the conservative base -- the very base he desperately needs to defeat Sen.Obama in November. I, for one, am greatly relieved and inspired by her message, delivery, confidence, poise, class and grace.

To borrow a relative quote from Michelle Obama, with the selection of Gov. Palin, it's the first time in quite some time that I'm proud of the Republican Party.

Gov. Palin is a true outsider, a real maverick. She lacks Washington, D.C. political experience. That's good. No, that's excellent. It is her lack of D.C. political experience that is the refreshing outsider change America so desperately needs and wants.

Palin made it clear that she is like the rest of us, noting how Fedzilla is bloated, broken, ineffective, and wasteful. Our professional politicians no longer work for us, but instead represent K Street bandit lobbyists. These scoundrels deserve our scorn, anger and contempt, and, quite honestly, a big, old pink slip, and Sarah appears to be the tough leader we seek to get the job done.

The level of disgust and distrust across America is appalling and, I believe, unprecedented. A recent poll indicated the Nancy Pelosi-led Congress' approval rating is at an abysmal record low of nine percent. That it is even that high shows how clueless and disconnected the lunatic fringe is.

America needs more outsiders in Washington, D.C. now more than ever. We need more tough, standup hockey moms like Governor Sarah Palin. We need more ordinary Americans to springboard from small city councils to the halls of congress and beyond. We need welders, cops, teachers, ditch diggers, business people, construction workers, secretaries, auto mechanics, and guitar slingers to come to Washington, D.C. and replant the good old "We the People" tree.

Americans need to replace the professional politicians who have rigged and ruined the system to exclude ordinary citizens from participating in this experiment in self-government. My advice is to get angry and vote them all out. The professional punk politicians are the problem, not the solution.

We need fewer lawyers in Washington. Lawyers have created a masturbatory legal system by raping our justice system. It's refreshing to see that neither Sen. McCain nor Gov. Palin is a lawyer. This could be a good start back towards an experiment in self-government. Count me in.

We need fewer bureaucrats who accomplish nothing but sustaining and growing Fedzilla. Bureaucrats create reams of regulations, rules, and requirements that strangle innovation and punish producers. I expect Vice President Palin to lead the charge with a battering ram to smash in the bureaucratic doors that impede progress instead of enabling it. I had a bumper crop of crowbars this year. I'll donate them all to those willing to swing them.

It's wrong to suggest that just because Gov. Palin is not a career D.C. politician that she lacks the experience and intelligence to lead the nation. She clearly has more executive management experience than Sen. Obama, who has zero experience at running anything. He's not qualified to run an all-night donut shop, much less America.

Gov. Palin is an executive. The mark of an effective executive is to surround herself with bright, talented, capable professionals who share her vision to accurately represent the people they work for: Americans. Chief Executive Officers need to be visionary leaders, not tacticians who micromanage. Her experience demonstrates she is prepared to lead if necessary.

Gov. Palin represents real hope and change. In her case, hope and change are not simply hollow words. As a city councilwoman, mayor and governor, she has achieved tangible results. She exudes energy and passion, has the experience and the skills, and is ready for the job. I couldn't be more excited for America.

In addition to her executive experience, and based on unbiased, genuine research, Gov. Palin concludes that global warming is a fraud, supports drilling for oil in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge, hunts and fishes, and is a member of the National Rifle Association. What's not to like?

Those pundits and Fedzilla fanatics who proclaim Gov.Palin has no experience to run the country are the very punks who want to continue to feed Fedzilla. They advocate taking more of our paychecks, wasting more of hard earned money, and not being held accountable. I would like to buy these Fedzilla punks a one-way ticket on the express train to Hell.

President Reagan would surely be proud of Sen. McCain's choice of Gov. Palin to be his running mate. President Reagan's words so many years ago ring true once again: it's morning in America.

Last night, a political savior may have arrived. Ted Nugent at your service,Vice President-to-be Palin. I'm your biggest fan. Let's rock.

c/o HumanEvents.com

Rockbama Does Invesco

2008-08-29T14:36:00Z

By Ted Nugent

While Senator Obama was giving his acceptance speech at Invesco Field in Denver to tens of thousands of Fedzilla supporting numbskulls, I was busy pummeling musical fun gluttons at the New York State Fair with my R&B spirit-infested guitar as I've done over 6,000 times so far in my gravity-defying career.

My ace crew taped Senator Obama's speech so that I could watch it after I got off stage and now I'm slamming this out on my laptop. I won't go away. Write that down. Again.

Before I slice and dice the Obaminator's speech, let's get one thing clear. Though the Obaminator may be treated like a rockstar, he has much more in common with a one hit wonder, no talent pop star.

The Obaminator brought in Fedzilla musicians Sheryl Crowe and Stevie Wonder to electrify the throngs of Fedzilla supporters. Political ideologies aside, these gentlemen and their killer musicians are the real McCoy when it comes to music, and I salute them for that.

The title of rockstar is meaningless and petty, and typically indicative of a fashion-driven dope. Like those dedicated musicians still celebrating our honed craft 50 plus years later, it is the soul and genuine emotion and authority of the music of our black heroes like Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry that still lives on in my musical dreams that puts timeless integrity into every glowing guitar lick. Not the transparent symbolism of celebrity or rockstar sillyness. Go figure.

The musical Gods have indeed blessed me and I continue to create musical fire on the best tour of my life in 2008 by playing blistering rhythm and blues music to well over a billion people around the world, so far. Unlike the windjammer Obaminator, my music is black enough I have a talent that has been honed through sheer will power, sweat and persistence. That's the American Dream. I wouldn't dare let Fedzilla tamper with my dream.

The Obaminator will say anything, change any position, and obfuscate his socialist intentions and beliefs to get elected. I've never compromised or wavered on my musical vision. I only play music that singes the pure, aboriginal musical soul.

As I've written before on HUMAN EVENTS, in my cursory review of the history of presidential politics, the Obominator is the least qualified person in the history of America to run for president, and his speech proved it once again. With all the believability of a talking head beauty queen, no one buys it for a minute that he is going to save the children, end world poverty or bring peace to humankind.

Pure condescending fluff.

I wasn't expecting a detailed policy speech from the Obaminator; that's not the purpose of a presidential acceptance speech. The purpose was to electrify the Socialist Party, formerly known as the Democrat Party.

The Obaminator gave an over-the-top inspiring speech if you are a member of the
Fedzilla addicted, bloodsucker, anti-free market, European socialist cult of denial of America.

In the America facing a pandemic of self imposed obesity and gluttonous, irresponsible credit card debt, it is understandable how Obama's celebration of such behavior resonated.

If you're a rugged individualist, pro-free market, freedom loving, lower tax and less spending supporting capitalist, you had to shake your head in painful disbelief over how far left the Socialist Party has plummeted. President Kennedy, who supported lower taxes and stood up to the Commies in Cuba, would surely hang his head in shame and disbelief that this convention asks not what it can do for its country, but what its country must do for them. Shameful.

No one wants to be in the Iraq War, but the reality is that we are, and therefore, we must fight to win it. No timetable for withdrawal, total warfare should our military policy. Turning and running like we did in Mogadishu in 1993 under President Bubba Clinton's failed military policies emboldened the very enemies America is fighting today.

He covered all the liberal bases in the cloudy, vague terms we've become used to from his predecessors, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Boiling this down in the Tedfurnace, it's easy to get down to this. He favors gay marriage, he wants to renew the idiotic "assault weapons" ban, spend us into bankruptcy with socialized medicine and -- get this -- give the GI bill to people who serve their "communities."

Hey, pal: the GI Bill is for those who wore the uniform, not tye-died jeans and a dirty t-shirt.

Listening to the internationalist Obaminator speak made me shudder for the safety and security of America. It appears the Obaminator is more concerned about shoveling almost a trillion dollars of our tax dollars to the United Nations for world wastefare programs than he and Senator Biden are about defending America. Good grief.

The Obaminator spoke of Fedzilla taking over the nation's health care. He believes Fedzilla can do it better, cheaper, more effective and provide better health care than the free market. Only a bloated Michael Moore illiterate stooge could possibly believe this lie and risk putting the nation's health care under the care of Doctor Fedzilla. Assisted suicide is one thing; engineered suicide is beyond the pale.

The Obominator was right when he said that government can't solve all the problems. The federal government meddling creates social and cultural problems, ruins individuals, and destroys communities. I give you Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, which has been an abysmal failure to eradicate poverty.

Communities solve community problems. Families solve family problems. Individuals solve individual problems. Responsible people know that if you want to solve domestic problems, the first obstacle to remove from the equation is Fedzilla.

It was refreshing to hear that the Obominator wants to reduce the dependence on foreign energy. Welcome to the energy party, pal. Drill here and drill near is the near term answer. Long term energy solutions do not include wind, solar or biofuels. Nuclear energy is the key to energy independence. Nuke me.

The Obominator said he would cut taxes for 95% of Americans. Cutting taxes for everyone-businesses large and small and individual Americans-coupled with a dramatic cut in government spending is the key to long-term success. Lower taxes and less government spending is fuel in the tank of America. But if he's cutting taxes for 95% of Americans, he's going to raise taxes on those 5% who already pay the vast majority of the taxes that flow into Fedzilla. Which means they'll be better at finding ways to protect their money and Fedzilla will go deeper in debt.

The Obominator spoke of government meddling in health care, education and economy. None of these three key components to the American way of life can be maximized by central planning out of Washington DC. Less meddling by Fedzilla will reduce healthcare costs, improve education, and ignite an economic conflagration.

Let us pray for America that the Obaminator is a flash in the political pan. Once the American public realizes the only substance to his message is higher taxes and more government spending and that he has zero experience that qualifies him to be the leader of the free world, he will hopefully become a political footnote and we can then get back to the tough business of running the nation.

Senator Obama is not ready to lead anyone who isn't a trendy rock fan looking for symbolism over substance.

Memo to media: truth marketable

2008-08-24T18:38:00Z

Right-thinking views wouldn't draw such readership if they weren't right-on

Much to the chagrin of my liberal neighbors in Central Texas, the damn Yankee guitarboy from Detroit just keeps on raising Cain.

With pure, unstoppable, logic-driven defiance coursing through my veins and slamming through my fingertips, I am compelled to exercise my glowing, unstoppable "we the people" crowbar of truth in spite of the anti-Texan editorial policy running rampant in the newspapers across this otherwise Great Republic.

I keep looking, but for the life of me I cannot find any real Texans who agree with John Young. Go figure.

That I better and more accurately represent the Great Texas Spirit than my editors is tragic.

I shall carry on.

Since finally coming home to Texas, and after recoiling in shocking disbelief at the very un-Texas-like drivel I read in every major newspaper in the state, I decided a simple letter to the editor wasn't quite "we the people" enough for me.

It was time to insert the pulse of the best, most productive, real American Texan's point of view into the hometown newspaper.

I've been told that the online hits on my columns are more than one thousand times that of the liberal writers. Duh.

Of course, the lunatic fringe got its diapers all in a tizzy, questioning just who I thought I was barging in here like this, daring to express myself and defy the entrenched lefties. Clearly, I am far beyond the thinking stage, as if I need anyone's authorization or to qualify my credentials in order to flex my First Amendment-guaranteed, God-given rights.

Step aside, you pathetic little squawkersheep. There's a new sheriff in town, and he ain't backing down.

We're better shots

I'm from Detroit. It's not a murder capital because folks are more violent. We are just better damn shots. Get over it.

With all due respect to the socialist fantasies of my fellow writers and editors, and being the only author on the Trib staff with two New York Times best-sellers with an annual readership that dwarfs my "professional" comrades, little ol' humble me shall carry on, thank you, with more confidence and supported authority than my journalistic brethren. Guitar players just wanna have fun.

So as I bring in national and global media to conduct interviews, representing the most positive and productive of Texas and America, I will continue to celebrate and promote the self-evident truths that still inspire and guide the vast majority of good people everywhere. Get used to it.

We know that hunting, fishing and trapping are perfect.
We know that to keep and bear arms is an individual, God-given right.
We know that "keep" means "it's mine, you can't have it," and that "bear" means "I've got it right here on me."
We know what "shall not be infringed" means.
We know all too well that "gun-free zones" are a guaranteed recipe for disaster.
We know that the current system of over-taxation cripples entrepreneurs and small businesses while rewarding the most slovenly amongst us.
We know that upon the death of a loved family member, the government has no rational right to one red cent of our families' after-tax savings.
We know that the IRS is a joke.
We know that throwing money at our failed education system will make it worse.
We know that the current system of testing students is counterproductive to actually teaching them.
We know that violent criminals should never be let out of their cages.
We know that child predators should be put to death.
We know that you cannot live the American Dream without speaking English. Properly.
We know that generations of welfare brats are slaves to soulless policies.
We know that Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a racist.
We know that David Koresh was loony, but the government was guilty of criminal acts against its citizens in how its agents dealt with him.
We know that ethanol is a joke.
We know that Willie Nelson is stoned.
We know America is doomed if we don't secure our borders from illegal invaders.
We know that Hillary and Obama have made it clear they want to ruin America.
We don't know what the hell John McCain wants to do.
We know what "Don't Tread on Me" means.

God bless America and God bless Texas. Ted Nugent loves you.

No Whiners Allowed

2008-08-20T20:29:00Z

by Ted Nugent

There is no whining allowed in my world. I have no time or interest in suffering spineless whiners and complainers.

Even with my damaged rock and roll ears, I can detect the slightest trace of whining by family, friends, staff or business associates. By now, they know I don't whine and don't tolerate anyone who does. (The beautiful result of that is an automatic whine elimination system that prevails in TedLand.)

It would be easy for me to complain that the music industry is not fair or that I believe the industry is full of scoundrels and liars. Instead of wasting valuable time lamenting and complaining about these obstacles, my modus operandi has, and will continue to be, to play my guitar louder, sexier, more ferocious and more often. I simply won't go away. Life isn't fair, just or impartial. The road to success or victory is tough, demanding and obstructed with any number of moral and ethical hurdles. Sucker punches are legal. When you get hit from behind and knocked down, the mark of a mature, confident person is to spring back up, dusts himself off and get back in the arena. A winner does not complain.

The mark of an immature person is one who complains that something isn't fair because the ball didn't bounce his or her way. These people remind me of spoiled brats on the grade school playground who didn't get picked for the team. Tough.

If anyone has a legitimate right to complain, it would be Sen. McCain. The print and television media coverage is obviously biased in favor of Sen. Obama, yet you do not hear McCain complaining about it. He continues to march face-first into the howling political winds like an American buffalo on a mission. I like that.

When Obama received European adulation (as if he were the Second Coming), McCain did not complain but rather continued his steadfast campaign on American turf. The McCain campaign soldiers on with a determined spirit and is picking up momentum as evidenced by the polls.

When McCain scored a knockout over Senator Obama the other night at the Saddleback Church in Orange County by answering Reverend Warren's questions more confidently, clearly and decisively than the stumbling, obfuscating Obama, Obama's campaign accused the Straight Talk Express of cheating. Whiners.

There is no evidence -- none -- that McCain heard Obama's rambling and confusing answers prior to taking the stage and answering Reverend Warren's questions. The evidence is pretty plain: when thrashed soundly by a superior opponent, the Obama camp whined like school girls.

The Obama camp, recognizing that McCain answered the questions in a more straightforward, presidential tone than their guy, immediately began complaining that McCain must have cheated by listening to Obama fumble his answers time and time again. Obama appeared like the freshman senator that he is.

The bottom line is this: McCain appeared much more presidential than Obama. And there is a very valid reason for this: as a natural leader, McCain is a far better choice than Obama, who is the guy with the least amount of experience in the history of presidential campaigns.

When Obama does not have a teleprompter in front of him to deliver another hollow message of transparent, symbolic hope and change, his speech and answers to questions are disjointed and confusing. Watch him closely. He is not confident.

Are you, like me, wondering how a President Obama would fare politically against determined adversaries such as Iranian psychopath Ahmadinejad, North Korea's Littler Hitler, Kim Jong Il, or how he would navigate through political minefields such as the trade imbalance with China, Russian saber rattling which could lead to a new Cold War, etc.? Scary thought.

A President Obama would be immediately tested by both our friends and adversaries because they know he has zero experience and has never been thrown into the murky, underhanded, geopolitical arena where no one -- friend or foe -- plays fair.

Choosing a president is always a tough, demanding business, especially during tough and demanding times. Politics aside, we must always first look for certain character traits in our president: strong, resolute, determined, unshakable, and firm.

Obama displays none of these presidential character traits. I am concerned that, as our president, Obama would fold under the pressure of the job just like he folds and complains when the political campaign seas get a bit rough.

McCain is looking more presidential with each passing day. Strip away the hope and change slick veneer of Obama's campaign and he looks like any other windbag politician peddling a hollow message. No thanks. We need to rid American politics of whiners, not hire on more.

Uncle Ted's Bronco Evolution Revolution

2008-08-19T19:19:00Z

By Ted Nugent

BEER FOR MY HORSE, WHISKEY (RACE FUEL) FOR MY BRONCOS

Leave well enough alone? I (we) think not. As if anything on Monday can’t be improved upon at some point on Tuesday, at least in our ever creative, status quo busting, go for it, get r done, road less traveled American Dreamer minds that is. It’s the American way, and when you enter the mythical world of BroncoManiacs, look out for the wild-eyed wrenchboys, for to us, nothing is sacred, and if it is, we can fix (destroy) it. Talking about a work in progress!

Do you find yourself grabbing a fistful of Snap On tools, rolling up your sleeves and walking circles around and crawling under your mighty steed on a regular basis, admiring its beauty and mechanical brilliance, scrutinizing every nut and bolt, only to create a mental list of “must-do’s, ASAP”? I thought so. We are, you see, afterall, Bronco BloodBrothers, and we must never stop with our upgrade orgy of workhorse dreams. If it ain’t broke, fix it anyway, is what I always say. Then of course, in my case, I usually end up calling a professional mechanic to come bail me out and make the damn thing right again. Ah, but the greaseball adventure never ends, and as long as the Baja R&D department continues to explore and expand the uncharted territories of suspension, horsepower, drivetrain, wheel-travel, torque, fuel efficiency, aerodynamics, electrical, lighting, comfort and just plain handsome, we will never give up, will we. You can have my wrenches when you pry my cold, dead fingers from around them. Maybe.

As I slam this little ditty on my global roving laptop, I am on the set of Toby Keith’s newest movie, BEER FOR MY HORSES. To most casual onlookers, I suppose the stars of the project are Toby Keith, Rodney Carrington, Tom Skerritt (Top Gun), Cletus T. Judd, Willie Nelson, and dare I say, little ol MotorCity Bronco Madman me, as defiant, longhaired, uppity, bowhunting deputy sheriff, smartass Skunk Traver, with way too much firepower and a propensity to break rules and kill bad guys with flaming arrows. A lovable bastard if ever there were one.

It is surely a creative riot here on location in the wild beauty of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and once again I am so very blessed to be invited in as part of another wonderful outrageous project like this. With a cast and crew of more than 130 people on set, I must share with you all here at Bronco Driver magazine that there are at least 4 different Broncos in various scenes of the movie. We all know why, because the world loves Broncos nearly as much as we do. When it is time to choose a cool truck, invariably for a cool photo, movie, music video, outdoor television show, TV scene or ad campaign, we more often than not see the mighty Ford Bronco nearby. Cool is as cool does. OJ notwithstanding. So what else is new?

The key featured vehicle in the movie is in fact a highly customized 1994 Ford F350 beast nicknamed “Thunder”. As Rack’s (Toby Keith) personal pickemup truck, it is all beautifully painted a lovely sky blue with fancy, artistic white and silver lightning bolts, a gorgeous double scooped hood, tall, rugged 12” lift and 41” Super Swampers on glowing chrome wheels, chrome headers, sidepipes, lights, push-bars, grab-handles and rollbar, way more shiny chrome than I would ever allow on any of my trucks. However, in numerous scenes, Broncos do appear. The famous food caterer for the project even hauls his huge custom food trailer behind a well kept 1990 white Bronco, with just the right aftermarket suspension, tires, wheels, lighting and various goodies that we all know and love. Can’t hep ourselves!

In one scene, during a roll through a seedy Mexican villa, a dilapidated old sun-beaten ’79 Bronco makes its appearance in order to provide just the right rough and tumble atmosphere. I am surprised that a pre-78 bobtail or two weren’t brought in, since New Mexico is indeed an early Bronco state if ever there was one. We are not done filming yet and I am going to push the producers hard for this powerful, organic vehicular upgrade. All this stunning New Mexico off-road scenery without an early Bronco? I aint goin for it.

As I film this movie and prepare for turkey, bear and bass season, the world’s greatest rock-n-roll Funkbrother band, Mick Brown on thunderdrums and Greg “Motown” Smith on depth-charge bass are drooling and squirming in anticipation like the animals that they are for my 2008 gravity defying 46th year ultra-rocktour, (Good grief!!!) My own three precious Broncos are sitting patiently at home, eagerly awaiting my return to my sacred stomping grounds in Texas and Michigan. My little near-stock, black ‘66 half-cab is warm and cozy in the barn, always ready to work hard and play hard, and we shall get to her as soon as possible for some tender loving upgrade. But not too much. She’s still uncut!

After a complete frame-off rebuild wrench orgy, supervised by the masters at Jeff’s Bronco Graveyard, Summit Racing and Ford Motor Racing, my immaculate 1974 snowplow beast is indeed a thing to behold. We did it all, and we did it right.

Meanwhile, my famous Bill Stroppe 1980-1990 Zebra Bronco is in the Bronco loving hands of Stacey David and crew for a complete frame off reincarnation. Stacey has upgraded his GEARZ TV show to the SPEED channel, and the Nuge Zebra Bronco will rise like an angry, defiant Phoenix from the fires of FoMoCo hell. This project is titled the Nugent BushMaster Bronco, and thanks to Jon Clark and Karen Fogarty-Hamlin at Bushmaster Firearms International, we even have an adorable snakeskin Bushmaster .223 caliber assault rifle to go with Stacey’s amazing vision for this truck of mine. I’m sure you all are familiar with Stacey’s affection for Ford Broncos and his worldclass wrenchmaster mechanical genius on his Crazy Horse Bronco project, so we should all be prepared for a true state-of-the-art offroad masterpiece from sir David. Gentlemen, ignite your blowtorches!

I am turning 60 this year (did I mention Good Grief?) and though I truly wish I could have made the time in my over the top hectic schedule to adequately conduct these fascinating, very demanding, exciting, long term rebuilds myself, as the great philosopher Dirty Harry once said, “a good man knows his limitations.” With the year round production of our People’s Choice Award winning Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild TV show on Outdoor Channel, my nonstop rock-n-roll mayhem dreams all summer, our sold out Sunrize Safaris hunts each fall and winter, plus never ending charity work for children and our military heroes, the writing of my fourth book, magazine articles for more than 28 sporting publications, and a full on year round media blitzkrieg, I just couldn’t do justice to the comprehensiveness of these rebuilds the way I knew they had to be done. Not to mention I’m a lousy mechanic! But believe you me, the final vehicles are indeed my vision from a lifetime of the ultimate, perfect Bronco dreaming. Afterall, I was tutored by masters the likes of Mickey Thompson, Parnelli Jones, Bill Stroppe and Dick Cepek. It is much like my being mentored in my bowhunting life by the best of the best, masters like Fred Bear, Robin Hood, Geronimo and Cochise. I’ve been to the Great Spirit mountaintop my friends, and I aint coming down soon.

Suffice it to say that my old, beat up 1974 Bronco had been put through some hardcore, gungho abuse over many Michigan winters and extended annual venison hauling maneuvers in the extreme outback. And of course there was that episode with a very old white oak tree that refused to give an inch. With the help of Ace Michiganiac Mechanic Brian Daugherty in Grand Rapids, we started with a complete disassemble strip-down, knowing that the Midwest winters had eaten away at her to the core, but there was no way we were quite ready for the cancerous deterioration that we discovered.

The entire framework was rusted enough to seriously compromise the integrity of the basic vehicle, so we rolled up our sleeves a little further and went at it with a vengeance. A vengeance of love of course. Matkins Extreme Frames in Billings Montana came through with just what the good Bronco doctor ordered with a Stage II extreme frame, and we were in business once again. With Jeff and all my Bronco Graveyard BloodBrothers next door in Brighton Michigan, an all steel body and hardware and seals were installed to further bulletproof the beast. Proto Fab in Dewey, Arizona got us their famous front and rear Rock Solid Plate steel bumpers and custom winch mounts for the big bad Warn, plus their indestructible, yet handsome spare tire carrier. Also from Proto Fab came our ultra-tuff six point family style rollcage and front and rear shock hoops. Can’t live without em.

State of the art suspension upgrade came from Deaver Springs in Santa Anna California with their 5.5” Superflex front coils &11 leaf rear springs. Along with Jeff’s Bronco Graveyard’s front disc brake conversion, we fortified the Bronco stopping capabilities with Warren, Michigan’s Hydratech Braking Systems hydraulic booster system and lines.

All that stopping power is essential, for the Ford Motor Racing Team’s 302 crate motor can only be described as a thang-o-beauty, and tweaked to the max with a Holly carb, MSD distributor, ignition, coil, AGR Power Steering pump, K&N air filter system, she delivers nearly 400 spine tingling horses and a rather romantic, neck snapping torque ballet to drive the 33” BFG Mud Terrain radial cleats through some Michiganiac black goo swampFun! Bushwhacker Inc in Portland Oregon keeps the mud out of our face with their rugged, handsome Duraflex XL fender flares.

With a full array of retina singing KC DayLiter glow, plus a complete compliment of official Lake County Sheriff Department police lights and sirens, the 120 amp alternator, twin Optima batteries and complete Painless wiring harness from Summit Racing assures a complete journey to hell and back.

Of course none of this could be possible without solid welds with our Mittler Welding Supply friends from South Bend, Indiana. The Miller MIG 210 Welder, aluminum spoolgun, and our auto darkening All American Welding Mask made it all come together. Welding is clearly the sign of a real man. There is no life without eternal welds.

I have a soulbrother, BloodBrother by the name of Jim Lawson, who is my hunting land manager and all around ranchhand, deer trackin, goose pluckin, tree cuttin, chainsaw sharpenin, firewood splittin, guncleanin, hay plantin, fence fixin, guitar stringin, ultimate wrangler master of all trades. Big Jim supervised the entire project while I rocked my ass off around the world, and none of it could have been accomplished without him. It is said that a very lucky man will have one good hunting dog in life. Well, I am truly a very fortunate soul, for not only have I had six incredible gundogs so far in my life, I’ve also got Big Jim. Yes, he points and retrieves too. Love that man.