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Wednesday 08-13-2008 9:54am ET
Cheney 08?
With conservatives half heartedly supporting John McCain, mostly because they are deathly afraid of having a Marxist president, it's interesting to see how other candidates would do when included in polls. For example, if the election were today, who would you vote for---John McCain, Barack Obama, or Dick Cheney? Take the poll here.
Jon Voight
Glenn talked to a guy who, if it's not dead already, will have his career breath its final breath because of a recent column he wrote that said Barack Obama and the Democrats are using Marxist propaganda to usher in a new socialist era. Is there a blacklist in Hollywood for outed conservative actors? Hollywood is so open and accepting of different viewpoints and backgrounds---unless of course it's a conservative viewpoint. That's just evil. Academy Award winning actor Jon Voight spent some time on the radio program talking with Glenn about this and much more. Read the transcript here, Insiders listen here.
President of Georgia
A few months ago Glenn interviewed the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, mainly because he was so impressed at how he turned a wildly corrupt country around and made it successful. Now, Georgia finds itself the object of Russia's land grab obsession and is fighting for it's very existence. Why should you care about Georgia? Take a listen to what this amazing president had to say about why and how he turned things around and you will have the answer. Read the transcript here, Insiders listen here.
Arguments against Idiots
Today, the likely idiot is one of your overzealous conservative friends who doesn't want Obama to get elected. You've read the rumors circulating the internet: Obama's a Muslim! Obama won't say the pledge! Obama plays the Soviet national anthem in his shower! Here are the truths behind the man, the myth, the legend that is Barack Obama in today's edition of Arguments against Idiots.
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Russia's president orders a halt to its military action, but officials in Georgia say the attacks continue. And BP shuts down one of its 3 oil pipelines in Georgia. Glenn says the evil empire is back... and they're being fueled by oil. Watch tonight at 7 and 9 ET!
Newsletter clip
The Evil Empire Returns: Glenn explains why Russia's attack on Georgia is their latest attempt to regain superpower status. Check out today's newsletter clip of the day to watch the video.
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Wednesday 06-18-2008 7:33am ET
Obama slams Asians
Barack Obama appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel show and everyone was talking about how he said he'd put a basketball court in the White House while replacing the bowling alley. Glenn asks, can the guy at least win the election first before he starts re-decorating the place? Also, the part that the media missed, not surprisingly, was when he slammed Asians for being small. Of course, this is not an offensive comment---but if a conservative said something like this, even in jest, they would surely be crucified for it and deemed a hatemonger for the rest of their days. Other fun hypocrisy in this segment: Al Gore endorsing Obama despite Obama's admittance that several of his friends 'fly in' to play basketball with him. That doesn't sound very environmentally friendly. Read the transcript. (Insiders listen here).
Drill now!
Congressman John Peterson from Pennsylvania joined Glenn to rally people around his effort to start drilling the outer continental shelf. Shockingly, he's running into resistance from the left and from environmental groups. He is urging the United States to start getting into many other areas of energy, too---oil shale, coal to liquids, coal to gas, more nuclear---so that we can start easing the pressure on our mid-east oil suppliers and show them that we can produce more energy on our own. He is re-introducing the bill again as it goes for another round of votes. Read the transcript. (Insiders listen here).
Read the Congressman's piece detailing his plan for greater U.S. energy independence here.
Sign Newt Gingrich's petition to 'Drill here, drill now' here.
Find your representative to call here.
High gas prices...good?
It's coming. The left went from promising to ease the pain at the pump---to touting the positives of high gas prices. It's unbelievable but true. What possible good could come out of raising the price of gasoline? Apparently there are many reasons, which Glenn predicts will be the new rallying cry from the left---excuses for the high gas prices. From Barack Obama saying high gas prices are fine (but he doesn't want them to spike, just a slow climb) to the New York Times saying that the government should force the price of gas higher (and not let it go below $4 per gallon) because it's 'having the right effect'. Wow, is this America? Doesn't sound like it. Read the transcript. (Insiders listen here).
Read the agonizing New York Times op-ed piece in support of higher gas prices here.
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Tonight: Gas & oil prices are at unprecedented highs, utilities are up as much as 30%, and food prices will now face an even bigger hike because of the devastating flooding in the Midwest... Are we at the worst of the worst -- or is there more to come? Tonight, 7 and 9 ET.
Clip of the Day: Obama & the Christian Right: The Evangelical vote is up for grabs . . . and now Obama may appeal to people who disagree with his policy. Check out the newsletter clip of the day. | |
| | | | | Special Report: Progress and the American Founding
This essay is the first in a week-long series that contrasts the Founding Father's original intent with today's culture and politics. To read more on social progress and the Founders subscribe to Fusion magazine and read Glenn Beck's exclusive Voter's Guide. On sale now!
Progress and the American Founding
By Bradley C. S. Watson
The American Founders didn't much believe in "progress" if it meant movement away from the timeless principles they enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
They didn't want us to have the courage to change so much as the courage to live up to our principles. The change they wanted us to believe in was the gradual realization of these principles through generations of courage and sacrifice. For the Founders, there was always the danger that change could be in negative as well as positive directions.
As James Madison reminded Americans in the 49th of the Federalist Papers, constant appeals to the people that imply some defect in government would deprive the Constitution of that "veneration which time bestows on everything." Change or "progress" in politics is not always desirable because settled habits -- including love for one's country -- need to be inculcated if any regime is to survive the passions of the moment.
Nowadays, change and progress have become synonymous, and they almost always signify movement away from the Founders' Constitution.
The mantra of change is linked with the belief that the federal government exists to solve all our social problems and provide for all our needs, from health care to making our mortgage payments less burdensome. This linkage between change and national power was firmly established in the public mind during the Clinton years, but its origins go back to the late 19th century, when "Progressive" political thought came into its own. It reached its apotheosis in presidents such as Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who reconfigured the Founders' political categories to suit their purposes of expanding national power. But it continues on in Supreme Court decisions that insist on understanding the Constitution as a "living" document that lives primarily in the minds of judges, and changes according to the elite preferences of the day.
For our Founders, the government created by the Constitution was designed for the far more limited purpose of protecting our natural rights as proclaimed in the Declaration. These rights are natural in the sense they predate all government. They are the gifts of nature and nature's God. Because they predate government, government must be carefully structured and limited in its powers in order that they cannot readily be taken away.
Our natural rights are based on the self-evident truth that all men are created equal. Human equality in this limited political sense means that government must be by the informed consent of the governed. Because citizens are equal beings with their fellow citizens, they recognize that duties go along with rights, including especially the duty to preserve fellow citizens in their lives, liberty, and property.
As we "progress" toward ever more labyrinthine government policies and programs, informed consent gives way to the ever increasing demand to take from Peter to pay Paul, and manly assertiveness in protecting natural rights gives way to a culture of complaint and entitlement. No one in the Founding generation understood our natural equality to be a license to redistribute resources on the grand scale that so many candidates for public office now take for granted.
The greatest subsequent interpreter of America's founding principles, Abraham Lincoln, reminded us that as the Founding generation passed, we would be in constant danger of forgetting their accomplishments and sacrifices, and, with this forgetting, drift dangerously from our constitutional moorings. As he wrote in his 1838 Lyceum Address, "They were a fortress of strength; but, what invading foemen could never do, the silent artillery of time has done."
Calvin Coolidge, one of the last presidents to have a deep appreciation for the Founders, remarked in Philadelphia in 1926, "If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final."
Martin Luther King, Jr. also recognized the timelessness of America's Founding principles when he famously proclaimed in his "I Have a Dream" speech that "the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence" as a "promissory note to which every American was to fall heir."
At his best, Ronald Reagan also exemplified an appreciation for the Founders as he struggled mightily to spread the principles of America's Founding to peoples across the world. He did this as he also struggled to return the national government at home to something the Founders' might have recognized. He sought to build a bridge to the 18th century as a means of securing the 20th and 21st.
In the hurly burly of political campaigning, as candidates from both major parties now stumble over each other in the race to see who most embraces change, we are prone to forget, as Lincoln warned, the glory of what has been bequeathed us. We should perhaps take a moment to reflect on how much more salutary it would be for American voters if the candidates sought to remind them of the accomplishments of their Founders, rather than attempting to lead them pell-mell into an undefined future. As Lincoln said on the 110th anniversary of Washington's birth, "To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it."
Bradley C. S. Watson is the Philip M. McKenna Professor of American and Western Political Thought and Fellow in Politics and Culture at the Center for Political and Economic Thought, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA. His next book is Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence (American Ideals & Institutions) . | |
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Tuesday 06-17-2008 9:35am ET
Tim Russert
By now you've heard that legendary journalist Tim Russert passed away on Friday at the way too young age of 58. Today was Glenn's first chance to pay tribute to the toughness and fairness that marked Russert's career. Glenn loved Russert's work because Glenn would cheer when he was attacking the other guy---but yell at the TV when his guy was getting grilled. Glenn says Russert was one of the last in a dying breed 'journalists' . . . Read the full tribute here. (Insiders listen here).
Shale the answer?
With oil prices out of control, people are looking for solutions that would help ease the burden in the long term. One of those solutions is being presented by Congressman Chris Cannon from Utah, who says oil shale is the way to go. Shockingly, the environmentalists are up in arms about the idea---an idea that Cannon says could be up and running within a year. Read the transcript. (Insiders listen here).
Work Sucks
Glenn read an article about the changing face of the 'work' environment. It was all about how to create the perfect work place. Employees work any way they want. There is an unlimited amount of time off as long as work gets done. Sound like a good idea? Maybe if the employees consist of a bunch of self starters who like their job---but what if government employed that attitude? Glenn says no one would have a driver's license. Read the transcript. (Insiders listen here).
Beck's Babes
Glenn wrapped up the first leg of his summer tour Beck '08: Unelectable this weekend, and the fans were getting more and more out of control each step along the way. This stop featured a group of gals who called themselves 'Beck Babes' and they were featured on the latest edition of the Beck Tour Blog.
Compare, Contrast, Cry
How far have our country's politicians come since the days of the founding fathers? Pretty far---unfortunately in the wrong direction. Glenn & Co have compiled all of the viewpoints and beliefs of the founding fathers, the current candidates for president, and Karl Marx and other communists in the latest issue of Fusion Magazine. It's our voter's guide and it's on sale now. |
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Tonight: Gas prices hit another record, and now utilities are raising prices by as much as 30%! So which of the two candidates has what it takes to solve this problem? Will either come up with a moon-shot program to get America off of oil? Tonight, 7 and 9 ET.
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